[newbie] Pronto Help:Seg Faults - new_font

2000-07-01 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
Got pronto instald. Had to dwnld install all the Perl Modules. No problems there. But when I go to run pronto I get this err msg: new_font is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Font at /usr/local/bin/pronto line 5158. Segmentation Fault However, if start pronto like this: 'pronto -subject' it will

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] More on my SCSI hd problems]]

2000-06-19 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
Thought of this, and did look around Seagate's web site, but didn't see anything. If anyone knows of a util for this, please let me know. Thanks. Ty Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Jun 2000, Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: I did a text install, and it simply bombed shortly after trying

Re: [Re: [newbie] More on my SCSI hd problems]

2000-06-12 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Jun 2000, Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: I did a text install, and it simply bombed shortly after trying to detect the hd's. I jumped thru the consoles, and found that it's having scsi parity err's. What I don't understand is why. This hd, while an older type

Re: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?]

2000-06-10 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
Digital Wokan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn .iso's to CD-R for a few people. I might do 1

[newbie] More on my SCSI hd problems

2000-06-10 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
I did a text install, and it simply bombed shortly after trying to detect the hd's. I jumped thru the consoles, and found that it's having scsi parity err's. What I don't understand is why. This hd, while an older type is 'new' in that I am the first person to ever use it. It will install

Re[2]: [newbie] XFree86 v4.0

2000-06-05 Per discussione tymanthius
Is this an online magazine that I can go and read. I prefer to read from online. Thanks, Bambi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is an Online mag (www.linux-mag.com) but they way they encourage you to buy the print version is by having the web version 2 months behind. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C.

Re[2]: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-30 Per discussione tymanthius
Just out of curiosity - IDE or SCSI? I don't remember seeing you specifing anywhere (but I missed the begining of this thread). charles, it's an oemmer for sure and when i called panasonic they said it was too new for the drivers to be on their website. My source(computer123) promised

[newbie] Any insight about when 7.1 will be final?

2000-05-21 Per discussione tymanthius
I'm planning to do a massive restructuring when 7.1 finalizes, but I'd like to wait until then. Anyone have any ideas about when that will be? Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

Re[2]: [newbie] GOBACK

2000-05-07 Per discussione tymanthius
What really worries me about GB is it might break linux by re-arranging the bytes on the drive. Try it and see. :) I have 2 PC's that run only winders and one that has winders 2k installed (2.1 GB won't run on it). GB works great on the Windows 98 machines - I'm thankful for it. :) Ty C.

Re: [newbie] Downgrade?

2000-05-01 Per discussione tymanthius
One of the 'cheats' I use for that situation is to make a simlink of the lib it's looking for. Like this: You need lib.something.so.1, but you have lib.something.so.3 and the program gets mad. Make a symlink named lib.something.so.1 that points to so.3 :) Works well for self compiled licq

Re: [newbie] GATEWAY ONLY INSTALLS WINMODEMS ON THEIR SYSTEMS

2000-04-26 Per discussione tymanthius
Nothing new about that. Most, if not all, of the major manufacturers install WinModems, or worse, HCF modems. It's a $$$ thing. ;) Later. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

Re: RE: Forw: [newbie] What driver for the Adaptec ASW B626

2000-04-24 Per discussione tymanthius
On mbrd termination. I checked the jumpers a cpl of times. It's that it just won't see the scsi card. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

Re[2]: Forw: [newbie] What driver for the Adaptec ASW B626

2000-04-23 Per discussione tymanthius
Most rpms are i386 rpms - so if I can get the onbrd scsi recognized, I'll be good. :) I'll drop a couple scsi hd's in it, and some nic's and it will be my firewall/inet gateway. :) Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

Forw: [newbie] What driver for the Adaptec ASW B626

2000-04-22 Per discussione tymanthius
Sent this a while back, but no luck. Any find out yet? Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 5 Mar 2000 02:23:09 Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com [216.71.84.35] by nmcst153 via mtad (2.6) with ESMTP id

Re: [newbie] GUI is gone and so is my sanity

2000-04-20 Per discussione tymanthius
You mean you started playing w/ Linux BEFORE you went insane. That explains a lot. ;) Seriously tho - quick and dirty way to get to a gui: Log in at the Penguin prompt. You'll get another prompt type 'startx' w/o the quotes of course. You have probably changed your default run level

Re[2]: [newbie] SAMBA

2000-04-20 Per discussione tymanthius
Probably you don't have samba configured at all. check out www.mandrakeuser.org Tom has a great samba primer posted. Got everything but linux to window printing up on mine with that. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

[newbie] More X Stuff

2000-04-18 Per discussione tymanthius
Ok, I'm playing w/ X config stuff, and found a neat util that directly reads my settings from the monitor. But when I put the generated modelines into XF86Config it errors out when I start an x server saying the dotclodk is too high. So where in h**l do I change the maximum dotclock? I

Re: [newbie] printer and mouse questions

2000-04-16 Per discussione tymanthius
Does it work otherwise? Or is the whole thing kaput under linux? Just want to know, b/c I want one. I do wish all the buttons would work tho . . Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

[newbie] Gimp screen shots

2000-04-16 Per discussione tymanthius
I've been trying to take screenshots w/ gimp, but when I choose Xtrns | screenshot and then try to snap one, it doesn't open a new window like it's supposed to. Any idea what I'm not doing? Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

[newbie] More on Gimp Screen shots

2000-04-16 Per discussione tymanthius
On start up of gimp from an rxvt I get this: /usr/lib/gimp/1.0/plug-ins/xscanimage: GIMP support missing wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) xwd: Warning. Error in XWD-color-structure (flag)* xwd: Warning. Error in XWD-color-structure (flag)* On trying to get a screen shot I get: xwd:

Re: [newbie] samba printing problems

2000-04-14 Per discussione tymanthius
I'm having similar problems - almost identical symptoms. Here is something you can try, which might give you a place start. I can print text files this way, but I'm not able to print any other way $smbclient //server/printer -P smb print LocalTextFile If that gives you any ideas, PLEASE send

Re[3]: [newbie] Major crack/hack attack

2000-04-11 Per discussione tymanthius
I didn't really DO anything. I had samba setup pretty much as mandrakeuser.org has outlined, but I'm having problems printing. so in the process of trblshting the print problems I glanced at the samba logs. I noticed it there. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

[newbie] Epson 7xx

2000-04-09 Per discussione tymanthius
Try this web site - finally found it!! http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62112 Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

Re: [newbie] Masquerading

2000-04-08 Per discussione tymanthius
Try setting your gateway to your linux box's ip - that might work. Or if you have the gateway you isp assigns. I have a static ip and what I did was this: Linux Box: eth0: has my dsl settings - static ip assigned by isp eth1: static ip assigned by me :) My gateway on my linux box is isp

Re[2]: [newbie] Samba: Windows can't log into Linux shares

2000-04-08 Per discussione tymanthius
password error. I have no idea what to do. I've done the trblshooting steps from http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/DIAGNOSIS.html and can get thru to 9. When I run 'net use x: \\tymanthius\debsdir' it does ask for a psswd, but always tells me it's the wrong one. I am using ip

[newbie] Netscape 6

2000-04-07 Per discussione tymanthius
Did anyone else on the list notice that Netscape 6 is Mozilla 5? I knew the same ppl made them, but I didn't realize that Moz5 was beta testing for NS 6. Funny. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

[newbie] Trying to load a second nic module

2000-04-03 Per discussione tymanthius
I'm using the linksys Ether16 10BaseT card and thier website says it uses the ne driver. That's all well and good, but if I try 'insmod ne io=0x340' I get the following unresolved symbols: (I also get the error if I leave out the io= part) ei_open ethdev_init ei_interrupt NS8390_init

Re: RE: [newbie] FTP Sites

2000-04-03 Per discussione tymanthius
Or, if you know a friend with a high speed connection (cable/DSL) and a burner, do that. But dwnlding yourself over a 56k connection will take forever. In an secondary note: If you let Gateway know that you installed Linux, all your free phone support is gone. Trust me . . . O}:)

Re: [newbie] Trying to load a second nic module

2000-04-03 Per discussione tymanthius
I thought I had tried everything at this point, but I was wrong (nothing unusual in that). I went into conf.modules and added this line: options ne irq=3 io=0x340 And, viola!, it works. Now to see if the winders machines will work . . . The ultimate bad software title: Microsoft Works.

Re[2]: [newbie] Returned Mail?

2000-03-28 Per discussione tymanthius
that does explain some stuff. But I just got 'bounce' notice for message that made it to the list. More list gremlins. :( I think we all have gotten this mail over the past few days. SPAM I guess Sharon Pfeiffer wrote: Me too! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

[newbie] Using my Linux box to route dsl to it and 2 Windows machines

2000-03-27 Per discussione tymanthius
My isp has an easy way - pay them $3 more per computer and get a static ip for them, just add a hub to my existing setup. I'd like to get around that $6 a month, and be prepared for when I have to move out of my DSL area. Can anyone point me in the direction I need to look for information on

Re: [newbie] ANNOUNCEMENT: change in mailing lists policy

2000-03-19 Per discussione tymanthius
Bet this will curtail some of the html stuff too - that tends to be big. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

Re: [newbie] 3com NIC install and then xDSL setup

2000-03-15 Per discussione tymanthius
I've got USWaste DSL thru datawest. I would suggest getting a static IP. It's just a bit easier. As for gcc - you just need to install the gcc rpms from the mandrake disk. do an ls gcc* in the /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS dir and you should find them (with CD in of course). Ty C. Mixon F.T.C.

Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 2000

2000-03-15 Per discussione tymanthius
First: Please use plain old ascii mail. Thanks I boot just fine w/ lilo (well, most of the time) with win2k. Most likely what you need to do is try setting the linear mode on (I had to). Then run /sbin/lilo again. That SHOULD rewrite the boot sector of /dev/hda. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C.

[newbie] More ethernet/sound problems

2000-03-14 Per discussione tymanthius
Ok, I made a mistake - I booted to Windows 2k. Now sound is out again. Windows uses irq 9 for my ethenet card (tulip driver). According to /proc/pci irq 9 belongs to my eth card. But I can find no way to pass that info to tulip. If I try insmod tulip irq=9 it tells me that is not a valid

Re: RE: [newbie] Crystal Chipset NetGear irq(?) conflict

2000-03-13 Per discussione tymanthius
Actually, what I did was simpler. I remembered that after a format the system has sound, but as it locks in the install if I try to set up the network I skip that part. So I then boot to linux, and have sound. I then set up the network and no sound.. My solution was simple - take the eth0

[newbie] Crystal Chipset NetGear irq(?) conflict

2000-03-12 Per discussione tymanthius
Finally figured out the root of my sound problem. Apparently my Netgear PCI (jumperless) NIC and my Crystal Sound onboard sound card use the same irq/DMA/IO. I reformated last night, used sndconfig to set my sound at diff irq/dma/io's. Then turned on the nic. Had sound and internet.

Re: [newbie] Can someone PLEASE do a ls -l /usr/bin/esd for me

2000-03-12 Per discussione tymanthius
Anyone who has Mandrake 7, and mpg123 works could you please do a ls -l /usr/bin/esd for me and show me the output? Im not sure what permissions I should have on this file. -rwxrw root audio is what I have Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)

2000-03-12 Per discussione tymanthius
That's a windows thing - it puts something there. I don't remember how to get around it except maybe part. magic. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

[newbie] How do I tell if a process is working, or its just sitting there?

2000-03-12 Per discussione tymanthius
I'm trying to burn Audio cd's using a neat little program called mp3burn. It's not the best in the world, but if I can get it to work it will be great. Right now tho, I can't even tell if it is working. It started a bunch of subprocesses, then just sits there. So how can I tell if it's

[newbie] Sound wierdness

2000-03-06 Per discussione tymanthius
I had sound earlier. I booted into Win2k. Rebooted to Linux and added a FAT32 partition. Now I don't have sound. Any ideas? Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713

[newbie] What driver for the Adaptec ASW B626

2000-03-05 Per discussione tymanthius
I recently found an old 386 Unisys PC that I'm trying to install Red Hat 6.1 on. It has the Adaptec ASW B626 SCSI card on the motherboard. None of the RH drivers will load, and the hd is scsi as well as the apple cdrom I scavanged. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Ty C. Mixon F.T.C.

Re[2]: [newbie] VIRUS... If it got you....

2000-03-03 Per discussione tymanthius
I also saw one at work (I do telephone tech support) 2 days ago: Boot to windows and you get a message that reads something like this: Kanga ANTI-Ko$oft says "Not Today" And you get no further. I have no idea how it's transmited, but thought the dual booters would like the info. Ty C. Mixon

Re[2]: [newbie] just re-install windows...over it

2000-02-28 Per discussione tymanthius
Except that the mbr is fine as he is getting the Win98 boot menu. just put in a win98 boot disk and run fdisk /mbr and that will rewrite the maste rboot record for windows 98. Alot easier than reinstalling windows. Mark - Original Message - From: "Kit" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: [newbie] just re-install windows...over it

2000-02-28 Per discussione tymanthius
Why'd you spend 5 hours? If installing over the top doesn't work, just format the hd and reload. DO NOT DO THIS!! I just did that and spent 5 hours on the phone with Bynar systems trying to fix it - Original Message - From: Kit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Linux [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Windows Protection?

2000-02-27 Per discussione tymanthius
Your mom's probably going to kill you. It sounds like you corrupted windows pretty good. Ever backed up anything before? If you can get into safe mode, do that and back up any and all DATA (not programs) you have. Then you'll probably have to reformat the hd. It sounds as though you

Re[2]: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error

2000-02-27 Per discussione tymanthius
Sam, Can you get a copy of DOS on a floppy? If so then boot the floppy and at the A:/ prompt, type in 'fdisk' . When you get into this program you are presented with a number of options... 1,2,3,4, choose option 4 and look at what partitions you have on your hard drive (Win98 is

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]]

1999-09-27 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
he install screens, you will see one that gives you a choice of "Install" or "Update". When you get there, choose "Update". (could be "Upgrade"). This will not wipe out your existing stuff, and will still replace the existing version with the newer one. Hope all this

Archives Complaint: WAS: Re: [RE: [newbie] Ears don't work]

1999-09-27 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
I've tried searching the Archives before, and, well, it ain't to user friendly. If what you want isn't in the subject line, you're lost. Is there a better method out there? I dunno myself, never looked. Ty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This stuff is in the archives as it's been covered _MANY_

Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]

1999-09-26 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
at least reduce the depth of trouble I get myself into. There is a Readme file and a INSTALL file. Read 'em both. They may help. Good luck, Ernie Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: Ok, I downloaded all the packages from 6.1. I then went thru and tried to install them all using kpackage. Some, no matter wha

[newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system

1999-09-25 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
Ok, I downloaded all the packages from 6.1. I then went thru and tried to install them all using kpackage. Some, no matter what I did, would always give me unsatisfied depends - even tho I JUST installed those depends! So I reboot, thinking that will wake up kpackage - Instead I get "Can't

Re: [Re: [newbie] UPS and developing countries...]

1999-09-07 Per discussione Tymanthius Rune Speak
This reply is to John - go get educated man! That is just about the most pompous post I've read!! People with opinions like that are the reason other countries can't stand Average Joe America! Do you think EVERY country is like Japan/Canada/Australia(sp)? More or less comparable to the US?