Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the

Re: [newbie] Connecting a video camera

2005-04-05 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 14:52, Auke Jan Kroon wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 10.0 on my aunt's computer (can be upgraded to 10.1 if necessary) and she bought a Sharp VL-Z1S video camera with DV/IEEE1394/Firewire output. I don't have a video camera, so my knowledge about this is close to

[newbie] Which Kernel For 10.1 ?

2005-03-23 Per discussione Peter Moscatt
I have recently installed MD 10.1 using the 3 download CDs. I now would like to update the kernel and see in the Updates that there are a number of options I can use. I guess the version I want to update is to 2.6 and see there a couple. Which one do I need to go for ? Pete

[newbie] KDevelop in 10.1

2005-03-23 Per discussione Peter Moscatt
I have just noticed that the download version of MD 10.1 dose not include KDevelop. Is this the case or can't I see for looking ? Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] MD 10.1 System Halt During Boot.

2005-03-22 Per discussione Peter Moscatt
Hi Mikkel, Installed and runs fine without the USB in place. I have conducted all the updates but still no luck booting with the USB mouse in place. For the time being I have placed a PS2 mouse to get me though until we can work out how to sort this one out. Pete On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 19:49

Re: [newbie] email problems

2005-02-24 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 08:32, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: By the way. What file precisely does kmail/konqueror say it cannot find? derek /var/temp/kdecache-rosemary\krun\0.427.0 The print is tiny in the box that comes up - but I think that's it. Rosemary I had this problem when

Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-12 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 05:13, John Rye wrote: Hi all, Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can only be described as an interesting discovery There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst several others:

[newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2004-12-29 Per discussione Peter
Hi Guys, Complete linux newbie here. I've just got past the installation of MDK 10.1 without too much trouble (on an AMD laptop, partition with WinXP), but my problems start when booting into linux. It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around

Re: [newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2004-12-29 Per discussione Peter
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around the web, I've found some other reports of this error [1] One solution I found[2] was to add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf

Re: [newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2004-12-29 Per discussione Peter
Peter wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around the web, I've found some other reports of this error [1] One solution I found[2] was to add the following line

Re: [newbie] Create device at boot SOLVED

2004-12-11 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 23:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: Thanks for the responses guys. However I have stumbled across the answer to my problem. In /etc/rc.d/rc.local mknod -m 666 /dev

[newbie] Create device at boot

2004-12-10 Per discussione Peter Watson
I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it does not exist After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a root terminal creates the device and that it works. mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 Now I would like the device to be created

Re: [newbie] Create device at boot

2004-12-10 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it does not exist After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a root terminal

[newbie] File tree organisation

2004-12-04 Per discussione Peter Watson
There was a post recently asking for information about the file tree structure. I've just stumbled across the 10.1 documentation on the mirrors and chapter 7 gives a good description of the structure for mandrakelinux Hope that helps someone. -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland

[newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM

2004-12-04 Per discussione Peter Watson
I have two icons on my desktop for CD-RW (/dev/hdc) and DVD-ROM (/dev/hdd). How can I get rid of them. If I right click on them there is no delete option. I'm trying to get back to the good old days when I mounted and unmounted removeable devices when I wanted to instead of having magicdev or

Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-02 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 22:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied

Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-02 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 10:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied

[newbie] xscreensaver

2004-12-02 Per discussione Peter Watson
My screensavers in KDE don't work! All the screensaver executables are there in /usr/X116R/lib/xscreensaver/ and if I click on one it runs fine in a window. However when a screensaver is supposed to start by itself I just get a blank screen. If I run xscreensaver-demo from a terminal it tells

[newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-01 Per discussione Peter Watson
Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same

Re: [newbie] Apache not starting?

2004-11-27 Per discussione Peter Davis
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 15:06 -0500, Peter Davis wrote: I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting. When I try to browse to "localhost", I just get a Google search page. Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. The system log say

[newbie] Apache not starting?

2004-11-26 Per discussione Peter Davis
I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting. When I try to browse to localhost, I just get a Google search page. Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. The system log says: Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/commonnhttpd.conf: Invalid command 'lfModule',

Re: [newbie] Apache not starting?

2004-11-26 Per discussione Peter Davis
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 27 November 2004 03:06 am, Peter Davis wrote: I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting. When I try to browse to "localhost", I just get a Google search page. Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. The system

[newbie] Buying a 10.1 set?

2004-11-26 Per discussione Peter Davis
I want all the Powerpack CDs, with all the associated software, etc. Where can I buy this? The only place I've seen it is on linux-mandrake.com, and the price is only listed in Euros. Is there someplace in the U.S. to get this? Thanks, -pd -- Peter Davis

Re: [newbie] Problem with kino and /raw/dev1394 UPDATE

2004-11-22 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Monday 22 Nov 2004 12:12, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2004 05:43 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I recently posted a question about a problem using kino in capture mode because I do not have a /dev/raw1394, as I had no replies I have been fiddling about and made some progress

[newbie] Problem with kino and /raw/dev1394 UPDATE

2004-11-21 Per discussione Peter Watson
I recently posted a question about a problem using kino in capture mode because I do not have a /dev/raw1394, as I had no replies I have been fiddling about and made some progress. Something I have done is causing my box to use devfs instead of udev, I'm not sure what. However using devfs

[newbie] Problem with kino and /dev/raw1394

2004-11-19 Per discussione Peter Watson
I'm trying to set up kino using 10.1 OE and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk but it won't go into capture mode and shows error message WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394! Under /dev there is no device

[newbie] fsck on boot

2004-11-18 Per discussione Peter Watson
Where do I set how often the HD's get fsck'd on boot. TIA -- Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Per discussione Peter Watson
For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie half of the time I am unable to connect to the internet with dialup and half I am not. I have disabled the

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 16:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 13:12, Peter Watson wrote: For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50

Re: [newbie] IMAP server?

2004-11-11 Per discussione Peter Davis
Stephen Khn wrote: On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 04:06, Peter Davis wrote: So after a month, I haven't had time to make much headway in getting an IMAP server set up. I'm starting to think I should just buy the Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack. It seems to come with Cyrus IMAP, and even

Re: [newbie] IMAP server?

2004-11-10 Per discussione Peter Davis
Peter Davis wrote: I've been using e-mail for over 2 decades, and even though I haven't saved everything, I have several Gb of mail stored up in various formats (basically MH or mbox). I continue to get hundreds of messages a day, and after killing the spam, I keep maybe half of what's left

Re: [newbie] Inet6 address

2004-10-16 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 09:27, Ronald Ip wrote: For more information, check out the IPv6 HOWTO to further understand how IPv6 works. Ronald. Will do Many Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Inet6 address

2004-10-12 Per discussione Peter Watson
The NIC in my MDK 10 box has an IP address of 10.0.0.1 which I set myself in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. However ifconfig shows that eth0 also has an inet6 address of fe80::205:5dff:fe74:e3d3/64. lo also has an inet6 address of ::1/128. None of the other boxes on my lan, Win 98,

RE: [newbie] Problem with detectingmodem, Scanmodem

2004-10-07 Per discussione Peter Watson
Mandrake 9.1 cannot detect my modem intel(r) 536EP V.92 I downloaded ScanModem, to detect what modem I have. After unpacking and addint +x permition when run from console ./ScanModem there is a massage: WARNING: lscpi not found - exiting Please install the package: pciutils How to install

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 10:57, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have got dozens of text files (which are the output of a simulation program) containing tables of numbers. I would like to convert them into a format readable by a spreadsheet program (OpenOffice Calc, for instance), so that

Re: [newbie] Apache2

2004-09-13 Per discussione Katinka Peter
On Monday 13 September 2004 06:19, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Do you realize that you just hijacked a thread? Probably not, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention. :) LX I`m really sorry for hijacking. I wasn`t aware I was doing it, I should have read the list etiquette first... Anyway,

[newbie] Apache2

2004-09-12 Per discussione Katinka Peter
Hi, I`ve downloaded the latest Apache version httpd-2.0.50, but when I try installing it with ./configure, I get the foloowing message: configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH [...] configure failed for srclib/apr. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Kathy

Re: [newbie] IMAP server?

2004-09-04 Per discussione Peter Davis
-- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Per discussione Peter Davis
explanations that a good book can offer. Unfortunately, I'm finding that my *n*x experience (DEC Ultrix, SGI Irix, etc.) is too far in the past, and too dissimilar to Mandrake, to be helping me much. Thanks, -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http

[newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Per discussione Peter Davis
I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have the patience for that anymore. I like the orderly

[newbie] Mandrake/WIndows file sharing, etc.

2004-08-26 Per discussione Peter Davis
I thought I sent this message this morning, but it doesn't seem to have shown up. I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get file sharing to work across systems. I

[newbie] Real newbie stuff

2004-08-25 Per discussione Peter Davis
trying to get sylpheed-claws, SpamAssassin, and various other things. 3) How come there's no link -s? All I can find is plain link. Is this a hard or soft link? Thanks. I'm sure there will be thousands more as I proceed. -pd -- Peter Davis

Re: [newbie] Real newbie stuff

2004-08-25 Per discussione Peter Davis
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:01, Derek Jennings wrote: From your MenuSystemConfigurationConfigureYourComputer Otherwise known as Mandrake control Centre or 'mcc ' from a terminal. Aha! Thanks very much. BTW: Could you read the page on mail list etiquette on the Wiki and then remove the

Re: [newbie] LG HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B

2004-07-19 Per discussione Peter Mann
Dale Kosan wrote: One person mentioned having trouble with this drive, any one else? I was thinking of purchasing one but do not want junk. Thanks in advance. I have had an LG GCE-8160B CD burner for 3 years, running under windoze98. So far, it has been problem-free. Don't buy an LG

[newbie] copying slides from PDF

2004-07-05 Per discussione Katinka Peter
Hi, could anyone tell me how to copy-paste entire slides/graphics from PDF to other documents, e.g. OpenOffice Writer? I`ve got Adobe, KPDF, XPDF and GhostView installed. When using the icon to select an entire slide in Adobe and selecting copy, I get the following message: There was an error

Re: [newbie] difficulty reconfiguring Kwallet under mdk 10.0

2004-06-23 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 03:41, g2 wrote: I am running Mandrake 10.0 Official. Somehow I accidentally set a password for the Kwallet, despite really not needing one. Now each time I start up kmail, the mail program I use regularly, I have to enter in the kwalltet password. I get a dialog box

[newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Per discussione Peter
Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

[newbie] Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 won't execute

2004-06-03 Per discussione Peter Mann
with me. Peter Mann Self-trust is the essence of heroism. It is the state of the soul at war, and its ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents. It is generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations

Re: [newbie] How to fix linmodem for 2.6 kernel

2004-05-23 Per discussione Katinka Peter
if anyone finds a better solution. Kat Peter, kernel compilation will NOT help!! Winmodem code comes with a pre-compiled component, that is NOT being updated.  The HaM chipests will NEVER be functional under Linux 2.6.3 code MarvS Many thanks for letting me know. I`ll get by using

Re: [newbie] KPPP: Kernel PPP support

2004-05-19 Per discussione Katinka Peter
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 01:16, et wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 01:55 am, Katinka Peter wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2004 09:26 am, Katinka Peter wrote: Since I`ve updated from 8.2 to 10.0 Official, I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I try to connect using KPPP

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-11 Per discussione Peter
bascule Thanks, This all works now like a dream. Peter On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 00:45, bascule wrote: to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Per discussione Peter
in BOTH users losing sound, is this because audio group needs the rw perms. ( I,m learning, honest I am!) Peter On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:29, bascule wrote: i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave started a second session, if you look in /etc/security

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Per discussione Peter
Derek, Yes it works fine if I log out, and log dominic in, but i *would* like to just switch session for him. If you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:29, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58

[newbie] Setting up a 2nd user

2004-05-10 Per discussione Peter
. Please help ( in simple terminology at the moment!) Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] newbie - help with gnomemeeting

2004-05-07 Per discussione Peter
, but it won't let me install) Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] KPPP: Kernel PPP support

2004-04-28 Per discussione Katinka Peter
Since I`ve updated from 8.2 to 10.0 Official, I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I try to connect using KPPP, the modem dials but then I get the following error message: pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status 4 (On man pppd, the explanation is: 4: The kernel does not support PPP,

Re: [newbie] KPPP: Kernel PPP support

2004-04-28 Per discussione Katinka Peter
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 09:26 am, Katinka Peter wrote: Since I`ve updated from 8.2 to 10.0 Official, I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I try to connect using KPPP, the modem dials but then I get the following error message: pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status 4

[newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN

2004-04-03 Per discussione Katinka Peter
As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not

Re: [newbie] AVI - MPG (VCDs)

2004-02-23 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Monday 23 Feb 2004 2:44 pm, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi guys, I have some video files in AVI format that I would like to convert to VCDs -- what *free* software is available for Mandrake to do this ?? Ta, Jamie Transcode and VCDImager HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your

[newbie] missing /boot/boot.b

2004-02-05 Per discussione Peter Watson
I am trying to make a bootable CD using mindi. However it complains that I have no /boot/boot.b and offers to use /boot/boot.0300 instead. I am sure that I used to have a file called /boot/boot.b and a line in /etc/lilo.conf install=/boot/boot.b but this has gone also. I do have the

[newbie] Kmail word wrap

2004-02-05 Per discussione Peter Watson
I've got this problem with Kmail. Word wrap is set at col 75 and in the composer window this works fine. But when I see my messages after they are delivered they are not wrapped at all. Anyone got ant ideas? Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] avi to svcd programs?

2004-01-29 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Thursday 29 Jan 2004 5:53 am, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:31:48 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found mencvcd, just trying it now with a DVD. A couple fits starts, but we'll see what the results give. Following up on my own post (/slap): Well, I

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-11 Per discussione Peter Simko
Yes, that's a pretty accurate description of what happened, except that I'm running 8.2. To restore the links I ran mknod disc b 3 0 in /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 and similar commands for the partitions. Then I linked them all back to /dev using ln -s path hda1, etc. That didn't work, and

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-11 Per discussione Peter Simko
2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-11 Per discussione Peter Simko
/some_name ext2 rw 0 0 I have one that looks like this: /dev/hda9 /backup ext2 defaults 1 2 On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:39 am, Peter Simko wrote: As requested: # /etc/mtab /dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm

Re: [newbie] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live (solved)

2004-01-10 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Saturday 10 Jan 2004 5:42 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 22:33, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: Ok, I did it ! Now I can play .midi and .kar files in Kmid. I just

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-10 Per discussione Peter Simko
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:31, E. Hines wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 07:30 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-09 Per discussione Peter Simko
et wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 02:05 am, Peter Simko wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side

[newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-08 Per discussione Peter Simko
I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-08 Per discussione Peter Simko
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration

[newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-03 Per discussione Peter Simko
I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it

Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video

2003-12-27 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 7:40 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. However a lot of water under the bridge since then and I'm in a new install of 9.2 for a while now and find

Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem

2003-11-27 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 3:22 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Wednesday 26 November 2003 7:09 pm, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mine does. Or at least Intel says it will. It's got the Intel 586EP chip set. I put a message on here, asking about getting mgetty to work, but haven't heard from anyone yet. But

Re: [newbie] Superuser

2003-11-22 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Saturday 22 Nov 2003 4:15 pm, Cenora wrote: Hello, I have just installed MDK9.2. How do I run a terminal under superuser mode, or the file manager under this mode? They just don appear on the menu. Thanks Thiago I don't know if this is the best solution, but I use ALT F2 then enter

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Question

2003-10-19 Per discussione Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 19:55, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Question home movies, I am helpless. But you can make vcds with those above programs and vcdimager. OK I'll bite... I've only done a few dvd rips to

Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-25 Per discussione Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SNIPOn Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority. But just to calm you down a bit : Those of you who live in democratic and free countries may think that it's a real

Re: [OT}Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-25 Per discussione Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 12:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 11:53 am, Peter Watson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SNIPOn Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted

Re: [OT}Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-25 Per discussione Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 15:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:04 pm, Peter Watson wrote: snip I'll stand if you will promise to vote for me, but realistically independents have zilch chance of being elected, unless

Re: [newbie] HDD enclosure

2003-09-08 Per discussione Peter Stokes
Hi Miark I have used 3 different USB 2 based subsystems similar to this and they all worked first time on 9.1. I have an issue about running at USB 2 speed which is a controller issue I think, but apart from that no problem with either ext2 or vfat32 file systems. Peter On Mon, 2003-09-08

Re: [newbie] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM

2003-09-02 Per discussione Peter Stokes
been cleared during relaying from the source? Also if you have two email accounts, try both of them to try to pin point the problem. Peter __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] step two: email...

2003-09-02 Per discussione Peter Stokes
requirement, but you can stop includes and display as source. Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] laptop install problems

2003-08-24 Per discussione Peter Meyns
will mine. Here it is due to 64 MB RAM along with a 200 MHz processor... ;-) -- Cheers Peter Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Winamp currently playing: Barbara Thompson - O My Love, How Long Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] how to burn *.bin

2003-08-14 Per discussione Peter Meyns
Hello Paul, on Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:41:15 +0300GMT (07.08.03, 18:41 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : As you've top-posted I'll follow suit, hope it doesn't get too confusing. Top posting is always confusing... ;-( -- Cheers Peter Experience is that marvelous thing

RE: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-14 Per discussione Peter Jones
C'mmon guys, Fosters, Tooheys, Rickards - pour it down the drain and use the containers for ballasting. STEINLAGER - the real drink !! Lanman - I STILL haven't touched that email server - it just works ! Cheers Peter Guess I'll understand it when they stop saying that Foster's is Australian

Re: [newbie] kde and konqueror

2003-07-31 Per discussione Peter Meyns
have set the font color to white, thus producing white text on white background? -- Cheers Peter ' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kde and konqueror

2003-07-31 Per discussione Peter Meyns
Hello linux, on Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:29:02 +0200GMT (31.07.03, 14:29 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Zitat von Peter Meyns: Just an idea: can it be that you have set the font color to white, thus producing white text on white background? defenatly not. i downloaded

[newbie] PCMCIA doesn't start after reinstall

2003-07-31 Per discussione Peter Pankonin
Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] ds: no socket drivers loaded! unloading Kernel Card Services Any ideas? Thanks. -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible Registered Linux User 246938 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA doesn't start after reinstall

2003-07-31 Per discussione Peter Pankonin
On July 31, 2003 03:54 pm, Peter Pankonin wrote: Hey all, Well, never did figure out why my pcmcia services were going haywire (see [newbie] Runaway pcmcia services -- above). So I thought I would try to reinstall, but now PCMCIA doesn't start at all. I'm not sure if this is the error

[newbie] Runaway pcmcia services

2003-07-30 Per discussione Peter Pankonin
longer to start. I imagine it's doing the above in the background. Any ideas as to how I can fix this? Thanks. -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible Registered Linux User 246938 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91? - Decision Made!!

2003-07-21 Per discussione Peter Stokes
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 09:58, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi My old parallel port scanner is a no no with MDK according to all the docs I have read and I did try it without success. So on to buying a new one. I have USB 2 interface and have heard that USB scanners work well with xsane etc

[newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91?

2003-07-16 Per discussione Peter Stokes
as most/all of the scanners do not have linux compatible notices on the box (some day this may happen). Thanks Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Kernel error

2003-07-15 Per discussione Peter Meyns
ideas? I'm using Mandrake 9.1 installed without changing the defaults, KDE version is 3.1. -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed and GPG

2003-07-10 Per discussione Peter Meyns
user specific: ~/home/yournamehere/.sylpheed Thank you Stephen, I found them. Not that I could do very much with them right now, but it is good to get a bit of understanding how Linux handles the files. -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Sylpheed and GPG

2003-07-09 Per discussione Peter Meyns
program at that - store its system files (I haven't changed any defaults yet)? TIA -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]

2003-07-09 Per discussione Peter Meyns
on Mandrake 9.1, until now without success... -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Setting Library Paths ?

2003-07-09 Per discussione Peter Moscatt
-09 at 14:13, Peter Moscatt wrote: I have just installed an application (mysql++) which has placed a number of header files in: /usr/include/sqlplus To allow the system to access these headers directly, do I need to append the PATH variable or is there another enviromental variable

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed and GPG

2003-07-09 Per discussione Peter Meyns
puts its files! I see, it's the developer's choice, and so can be anywhere. OK. *S* Thanks for your input - I'll keep on learning! :o) -- Cheers Peter There are two infinite things, the universe and human stupidity, but I'm not quite sure about the universe yet. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955

Re: [newbie] firewall question

2003-07-08 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 00:41, Chris wrote: I've setup firestarter and when I ran the test at www.grc.com all my ports show closed except for 21, 23, and 80. I would think that these should be at least closed. Anyone using firestarter know of how to do this? Thanks Chris I'm running

Re[2]: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]

2003-07-08 Per discussione Peter Meyns
myself. *S* -- Cheers Peter Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Winamp currently playing: Kula Shaker - Govinda Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux

2003-07-06 Per discussione Peter Meyns
... ;) -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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