Re: [newbie] S3 Savage 2000 and XFree86 4.2.1 problems

2002-10-24 Per discussione shipahoy
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:49:15 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, shipahoy, what version of Savage do you have? I have the Savage 2000 w/ 64 MB RAM. When I used the 1.1.25t driver, my screen colors looked like someone took a garden rake to them and Xine takes a dump a moment

[newbie] kdm problem

2002-05-17 Per discussione shipahoy
Hi I did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.2, but without installing KDE2. I then installed KDE3. This went well, and KDE3 is great. My problem is that now I can't get into KDE3 from kdm. It takes me to IceWM instead. Now, gdm does take me to KDE3, and Xstart gives me the option of 11KDE which

Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux

2002-03-24 Per discussione shipahoy
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:48:47 -0500 sda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/index.html I don't think it's intended to be anything but well, Scribus. You're not kidding about being in the early stages - have you actually tried it? It's quite `rough', and if it's

Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux

2002-03-24 Per discussione shipahoy
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:00:37 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, anyone here used TeXmacs? It claims to be much better than LyX and totally WYSIWYG (if recent /. posts are anything to go by) but I'm skeptical. TeXmacs is very, very impressive, but it is aimed squarely at

Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux

2002-03-23 Per discussione shipahoy
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:48:02 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think Adobe (or any software house) will ever be convinced they can make $ out of Linux (hardware firms have woken up to the potential, but that's a qualitativey different situation). However, we will probably

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Major Display Bug

2002-03-22 Per discussione shipahoy
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:29:18 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get the driver for the ProSavage. It is not fully supported by XFree. In 8.1 it would not work at ALL on a number of boards. Civileme Presumably this is the latest 1.1.23t savage_drv.o from probo.com as recommended by

Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux

2002-03-22 Per discussione shipahoy
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:31:36 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, LyX is a bit of a brainteaser at first, because it's so different. However, for most purposes you only really need to learn a small subset of what is possible with the program (actually, the same goes for

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Major Display Bug

2002-03-21 Per discussione shipahoy
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:23:58 - Andy Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have exactly the same issue, Posted this on the forum earlier this week. http://mandrakeforum.com/comments.php?lang=ensid=2006pid=28120#28134 New comment for Mandrake Linux 8.2: Your first impressions story Re:

Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux

2002-03-21 Per discussione shipahoy
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:03:32 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did my MA dissertation on Word and spent so long setting up styles to do what I wanted, it would have been quicker to have formatted everything by hand (and this was something very, very simple - I just wanted decimal

[newbie] 8.2 Major Display Bug

2002-03-20 Per discussione shipahoy
Hi I installed Mandrake 8.2 in a fresh partition and am getting streaky, flickering lines across the screen. It worsens with heavy hard drive or user activity. This started during installation and continues after installation. I have tried various screen resolutions and colour depth settings,

[newbie] boot disk doesn't work

2002-01-16 Per discussione shipahoy
Hi My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one made on installation and any I make from Mandrake Control Centre. Trying to boot with them gives this error on boot: Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img The boot disk for my Redhat 7.1 partition works fine. I have AMD Duron

Re: [newbie] gnomeppp pppd daemon dies

2001-12-05 Per discussione shipahoy
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:31:52 -0500 Can some Gnome guru out there (I know you're on this list) PLEASE tell be what I have misconfigured, and why it's only a misconfiguration with Gnome ppp. lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: connection. I basically gave up on it and made kppp work..if ya get

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2001-11-01 Per discussione shipahoy
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:14:52 -0600 Gary Traffanstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for user experiences with Evolution. I'm wanting to switch to it from Kmail only because I like the way it does spell check. I've been using KMail since I first started using Linux and so I know

[newbie] port 6000

2001-10-31 Per discussione shipahoy
Hi I did a netstat and noticed that my machine is listening on port 6000. I think this is something to do with the Xserver, and it probably isn't necessary for it to be listening on a single user machine. Any idea how to turn this service off? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] libpng3 incompatibility

2001-10-25 Per discussione shipahoy
Hi I updated to libpng3 as a requirement for mozilla 0.9.5, but now abiword 0.9.4.1-1mdk fails because it wants libpng2. I get this error when running abiword from console: libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.12 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c

Re: [newbie] libpng3 incompatibility

2001-10-25 Per discussione shipahoy
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:07:10 -0500 Texstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmmm, when I installed the libpng3 rpm it left the libpng2 and libpng2-devel rpm installed on my computer. I haven't tried abiword 9.4.1-1 so I'll check into it. libpng.so.2 is still installed on my system. Running rpm -q

[newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Per discussione shipahoy
Hi I did a reinstall of mandrake 8.1 and have lost a setting somewhere. When I used to run Gmome apps like Pan and Sylpheed in KDE the window focus would follow the mouse, now I have to click in a frame to focus it. For example, in Sylpheed if the mouse is in the message view frame, and I

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Per discussione shipahoy
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 H McM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove a package called imwheel. That worked. Thanks. It makes you wonder why imwheel is there in the first place. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 8.1 install problem

2001-10-04 Per discussione shipahoy
a KM133A chipset with integrated onboard S3 SavagePro graphics? -- shipahoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com