Re: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete

2002-11-07 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 23:15, mercoledì 6 novembre 2002, Paolo Tomiato ha scritto: E proprio nella documentazione che devi cercare;scarica i file di esempio più recenti dalla rete (c'è un indirizzo proprio nella stessa - sez. configurazione standalone), e segui passo passo la spiegazja; ti darà un'idea di

Re: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete

2002-11-07 Thread Paolo Tomiato
Nessun problema, mi hai solo preso in un momento in cui facevo a pugni con un'installazione di FreeBSD (AAArghh!!); eccoora sono mooolto più calmo. Allora, se non l'hai già fatto, installa la documentazione di shorewall (da quanto ho visto non lo fa di default); la trovi a questo punto in

[newbie-it] nodem ADSL di tiscali

2002-11-07 Thread tom
Salve a tutti Ho intenzione di sottoscrivere il contratto con tiscali.ma non mi hanno saputo dare info riguardo il modem, unica notizie è che si tratti di un modem usb (grazie)! qualcuno sa di che modem si tratti e se funzia con il Pinux? grazie gia da ora Ciao , Tom

Re: [newbie-it] nodem ADSL di tiscali

2002-11-07 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 17:19, giovedì 7 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutti Ho intenzione di sottoscrivere il contratto con tiscali.ma non mi hanno saputo dare info riguardo il modem, unica notizie è che si tratti di un modem usb (grazie)! qualcuno sa di che modem si tratti e se funzia con il Pinux?

[newbie-it] Agfa Snapscan e25 (con mdk9.0)

2002-11-07 Thread Pollo
Ho appena installato la mdk9.0 e ho riscontrato un grosso problema con lo scanner in oggetto. Il dispositivo e su porta usb e viene riconosciuto correttamente. Come al solito ho modificato il file /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf mettendo il nome del dispositivo in questione (/dev/usb/scanner0) e il

Re: [newbie-it] Agfa Snapscan e25 (con mdk9.0)

2002-11-07 Thread Piero Piutti
On Thursday 07 November 2002 17:07, Pollo wrote: Ho appena installato la mdk9.0 e ho riscontrato un grosso problema con lo scanner in oggetto. Io ho lo stesso scanner ed ho avuto lo stesso problema. Io ho risolto in una maniera un pò arzigogolata (ma mi ci sono comunque divertito), poi ho

Re: [newbie-it] Conversione posta!

2002-11-07 Thread pigi
Posso, più o meno tranquillamente, convertire la posta da Outlook Express formati compatibili con Kmail o Express. Come hai fatto? io mi ci sto incasinando! ciao pigi

[newbie-it] scanner

2002-11-07 Thread stormymonday
Ciao a tutti Ho un problema con la configurazione dello scanner acer prisa620p da quanto ho letto essendo sulla porta parallela sono costretto ad applicare una patch al kernel. Quindi munito di tanta buona volontà mi sonodocumentato e sono arrivato al primo ostacolo e cioè nella directory

Re: [newbie-it] Conversione posta!

2002-11-07 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 21:45, giovedì 7 novembre 2002, pigi ha scritto: Posso, più o meno tranquillamente, convertire la posta da Outlook Express formati compatibili con Kmail o Express. Come hai fatto? Kmail, al suo interno, ha una ottima funzione di importazione e conversione (file - importa), quantomeno

[newbie] public_html

2002-11-07 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all, just installed mdk 7.2 on an old p133, and I'm having problems enabling public_html dir's. In mdk9 with apache 1.3.26 I just had to uncomment the lines IfModule mod_userdir.c UserDir public_html /IfModule in commonhttpd.conf and it works but in mdk7.2, using apache 1.3.14 the line

[newbie] Mount Point

2002-11-07 Thread Dennis Sue
Hello Folks. Wanting more space, and having screwed something up sufficently to warrant a reload, I decided to repartition my harddrive. It all went well, Except. I had a storage drive that I created at /storage. When I repartitioned, I didn't realize that I would have to create a mount

Re: [newbie] portsentry2

2002-11-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday November 7 2002 04:11 am, Franki wrote: Anyone seen a mandrake rpm of portsentry around for mdk9 rgds Frank I've been able to use portsentry-1.1-3mdk.src.rpm on 9.0 and even 9.1 (current cooker). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Where does Grip store it's disc data base. I don't mean /home/.grip , which is a hidden config file. John ~/.cddb Thanks, Question, Is it possible that grip goes on the net passively, that is in

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:52:51PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks, Question, Is it possible that grip goes on the net passively, that is in the background , while you are on the net for some other reason, retrieves db and stores it, because until today, I don't consciously

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:07:17AM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:52:51PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks, Question, Is it possible that grip goes on the net passively, that is in the background , while you are on the net for some other reason, retrieves

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 2:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Where does Grip store it's disc data base. I don't mean /home/.grip , which is a hidden config file. John ~/.cddb Thanks, Question, Is it

[newbie] Window halts loading...

2002-11-07 Thread .oO -Francisco S. -Oo.
Hi guys, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.0 in my system,as a dual OS with Windows 98 SE, in the same hard drive, different partitions. The problem I'm having is that after I reboot my system directly from Mandrake and into Windows, it stops loading at the logo. I have to power off my

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Jennings
If you are losing connection to an IMAP client it is your IMAP server which has the issue not Postfix. Which IMAP server are you using? Does this happen at the same time every day? If so your IMAP server may have a cron job, or an entry in /etc/logrotate.d which is 'tidying up' every day and

[newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Gary Armstrong
Couple of questions from a true newbie: 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a particular need? 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm trying to demo argo(is there a better one?). The home page didn't appear to have an rpm. How do I know

Re: [newbie] Apache on Mandrake 8

2002-11-07 Thread Michael
i'm not sure about .26 but .23, .24 and .25 also have cookie handling bugs. I'm running 1.3.22 and I downloaded the source tarball from Apache.org and the install went fine. You can also go to Apachetoolbox and it will automatically load it all for you, although you do need to specify which

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Kenn Murrah
thanks, derek ... it occurs several times a day at seemingly random times ... i've looked in /var/log/ and i can't figure out where imap is writing ... is it messages? or mail? or somewhere else? also, i don't know how to determine which imap is running ... it installed by default with

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation - FIXED

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
Ah, yes it was Kaffe. I got rid of it and now it's running like a champ. Thanks, Terry! Miark On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:42:37 -0500 Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark, Have you checked to make sure that Kaffe wasn't installed as well, and that in your ~/.bash_profile, you have

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
Aaron, I used 1.4 and it works fine. Miark On 07 Nov 2002 15:18:33 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No but I got the same error maybe it can't use jre 1.4O. I haven't checked my path to see if jre has been added but that may also be worth investigating. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Michael
What I generally do is search Google groups. You can find just about anything you want there. You can also download the JRE package, there is a link for it on http://mozilla.org you can use http://www.rpmfind.net to find rpm's But then again, a quick search of Google groups would have found

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Marty Wedepohl
Try /var/log/syslog for imapd messages thanks, derek ... it occurs several times a day at seemingly random times ... i've looked in /var/log/ and i can't figure out where imap is writing ... is it messages? or mail? or somewhere else? also, i don't know how to determine which imap is

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Spencer
On November 7, 2002 08:17 am, Gary Armstrong wrote: Couple of questions from a true newbie: 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a particular need? Google and rpmfind.net are your best friends. 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Jennings
man imapd ought to tell you which imap you have installed. (Assuming imapd is the name of your daemon) Whichever one it is, it is pretty easy to change to a different one. I use Courier-imap which works pretty well for me. Another alternative is University of Washington imap, and there are a

[newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Marcia
Dear ALL, I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not done this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread Langsley T Russell
Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my current system. I have many documents there I would like to

[newbie] OSS install help

2002-11-07 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have been the one trying to get sound working with ALSA and it just has been no go, so now I am trying to get my commercial OSS working. I have LM9. OSS installs fine but whenever I try the soundtest it starts up for a few seconds and I hear it but then abrubtly stops and hangs

[newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

2002-11-07 Thread Kristjan
Hi can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files. thanks Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] X shutting down when in console

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Goldstein
Hiya! Strange things happen in my Linux installation No matter what WindowManager I use, whenever I dare go to the console via Alt+Ctrl+F1 (or 2, or 3...) my WM shuts down for some odd reason. Anyone have a clue whats going on? - Christian Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Anyone else tried Texstar's improved KDE fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Kristjan
What version of kde does that need. An I did run into a lot of problems trying to install that. I dont find the need to go updating my KDE. Kristjan On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:26:51 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:00 pm, PBone wrote: The last time I tried

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Thursday 07 November 2002 5:44 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear ALL, I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not done this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia The easiest way would be to use the precompiled rpms for

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Kenn Murrah
heck, engardelinux doesn't even install man ... (bash: man: command not found) ... but i have taken your suggestion that it might be related to logging and changed a couple of settings in logrotate.conf ... i'll wait a day or so and see if that makes a difference thanks again for the help.

[newbie] OT - Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip?

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip? http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-964310.html Extract The European Union awarded on Thursday a $249,000 (250,000 euro) contract to U.K.-based system-integrator Netproject to study the feasibility of moving the information systems of several member countries'

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Kenn Murrah
tried that ... no entries for syslog there i have mail, lastlog, messages, sudo, wtmp, etc. ... but no syslog .. --- Marty Wedepohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try /var/log/syslog for imapd messages thanks, derek ... it occurs several times a day at seemingly random times ...

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread meteor
Actually if it's a FAT partition you can even use your documents on the partition. I remember when I still had MS Windows Linux Mandrake always mounted the windows partition automatically at /mnt/windows. Frank. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 07 November 2002 09:17 am, Gary Armstrong wrote: Couple of questions from a true newbie: 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a particular need? Depends on the need Gary. While you really don't need to know the names of applications in order to

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread JM5379
i believe the easiest way will be (as root) to cp all the files from the windows mount to the desired directory, then chown user.group files in the new location. you may have to also modify the file permissions since they may all be r only, and only for the user. --- Original Message ---

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Damian
El Jue 07 Nov 2002 13:17, Gary Armstrong escribió: Couple of questions from a true newbie: 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a particular need? Well, you can always search google, and if that fails.. you ask here ;o) 2) In particular, I'm looking for

Re: [newbie] Permissions Problems?

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 5:36 pm, H. Carter Harris wrote: snipped all the good stuff I would like to tell you that I'm smart and I figured those lines out all by myself but I didn't; I copied them from one of the tutorials I have been reading (smile). Under the If you don't mind my asking,

Re: [newbie] OT - Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip?

2002-11-07 Thread meteor
To replace one monopoly by another isn't a solution. Best about Microsoft is perhaps, that it keeps up the dream to create a whole new OS to replace MS Windows by playing there own special role. Have you ever realized that there is a waste amount of OS out? E.g. BeOS, FreeBSD, AtheOS, to name only

Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 1:31 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi again, I have experienced occasional crashes (freezes) in KMail and OO from a new LM9 install. Everything went cleanly on install. Anyway my question is. Is there a way to restart the programs after a freeze? It seems

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Anthony Abby
Dear ALL, I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not done this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, It's really simple. One way is to download all the rpms that you want to upgrade (minus the *-devel-* stuff, unless you

Re: [newbie] OSS install help

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been the one trying to get sound working with ALSA and it just has been no go, so now I am trying to get my commercial OSS working. I have LM9. OSS installs fine but whenever I try the soundtest it starts up for a few seconds and I hear it but then abrubtly

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 2:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Where does Grip store it's disc data base. I don't mean /home/.grip , which is a hidden config file. John ~/.cddb Thanks,

[newbie] [OT] Maple 5.0 on mandrake 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread g. sanders
Has anyone out there been able to get this working? --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Window halts loading...

2002-11-07 Thread James R. McKenzie
Have yoy tried doing an over-istall of Win98se. The Install routine shouldn't mess with your X stuff and might fix the boot-hang-thing. I don't know anything about laptops (don't have one) but in my desktop stuff that usually fixed a host of problems. Anything from Outlook Express not working

Re: [newbie] OSS install help

2002-11-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:51:44 -0600 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I have been the one trying to get sound working with ALSA and it just has been no go, so now I am trying to get my commercial OSS working. I have LM9. OSS installs fine but whenever I try the soundtest it starts

Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories

2002-11-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:15 pm, you wrote: I was wondering about /tmp directories and the directories and files they contain. Is it necessary or a good idea to delete these once in a while? Any other stuff that needs deleting? I like to keep things clean ;-) TIA's for any thoughts.

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron
Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny thing is when I checked my .bashrc it had no path info. In MD 9.0 is this stored somewhere else or what??? what should I put in my .bashrc do I need a JAVAHOME or something like it, I vaguely remember with an earlier dist I

Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

2002-11-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:52 pm, you wrote: Hi can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files. thanks Kristjan Mencoder, part of Mplayer will do a single pass to extract audio only. I believe the command line syntax is: mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Terry Sheltra
Aaron, The file that contains the path isn't the ~/.bashrc .. it's the ~/.bash_profile file. Add the path to the java executable, and you should be all set. Terry Aaron wrote: Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny thing is when I checked my .bashrc it had

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
I have the following in my PATH: /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin and the following env variable: JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01 Miark On 08 Nov 2002 01:29:50 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny thing is when I checked my

[newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable? Happen to know when an update will come out? - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor)
Hi Linux Gurus, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop. I have a Logitech Corded Optical Wheel Mouse attached to the laptop through USB port. The mouse is not at all working. I am absolutely clueless. Please help me out how to configure the mouse. Thanks for your help in

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote: ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable? Happen to know when an update will come out? - Paul What exactly do you mean by unstable? Does it crash often? Hang? -- Fri Nov 8 09:20:00 EST 2002

Re: [newbie] Adding music in ERoaster

2002-11-07 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 5:02 am, Miark wrote: I'm trying to burn an audio CD with ERoaster. When I bring up the dialog to add ogg or mp3 files, they just won't get get into the list. Any ideas? Miark Hi Miark, I had the same problem and fixed it by recompiling the source. Can't

Re: [newbie] Window halts loading...

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 07:27, James R. McKenzie wrote: Have yoy tried doing an over-istall of Win98se. The Install routine shouldn't mess with your X stuff and might fix the boot-hang-thing. I don't know anything about laptops (don't have one) but in my desktop stuff that usually fixed a host

Re: [newbie] X shutting down when in console

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:56, Christian Goldstein wrote: Hiya! Strange things happen in my Linux installation No matter what WindowManager I use, whenever I dare go to the console via Alt+Ctrl+F1 (or 2, or 3...) my WM shuts down for some odd reason. Anyone have a clue whats going

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:39, Langsley T Russell wrote: Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 03:17, Gary Armstrong wrote: Couple of questions from a true newbie: 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a particular need? If you KNOW your need, you can check through heaps of different linux archives... http://sourceforge.net

Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:19, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote: Hi Linux Gurus, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop. I have a Logitech Corded Optical Wheel Mouse attached to the laptop through USB port. The mouse is not at all working. I am absolutely clueless.

RE: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor)
Hi Steve , how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from browser.. Could you please tell me what steps i have to do.. Thanks in advance. Ram -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:stephen.kuhn;gmx.net] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:53 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs

2002-11-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:31 am, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi again, I have experienced occasional crashes (freezes) in KMail and OO from a new LM9 install. Everything went cleanly on install. Anyway my question is. Is there a way to restart the programs after a freeze? It

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 07 November 2002 05:39 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical

RE: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:56, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote: Hi Steve , how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from browser.. Could you please tell me what steps i have to do.. Thanks in advance. Ram Mate, here's something a quick solution: Boot

[newbie] Radeon 9000, xwindows and Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Marty McFly
I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my computer, which has a Radeon 9000 agp card in it. During the install, when the installer came to the point of configuring the video settings, that process failed with some error message, something like invalid configuration. I tried to select Radeon several

Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
On Friday 08 Nov 2002 12:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:56, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote: Hi Steve , how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from browser.. Could you please tell me what steps i have to do.. Thanks in

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
It crashes several times during use. (of the just disappears variety) This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth between them. - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote: ANybody else notice that Galeon

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Also, with the new version, it no longer will take me to the .com address of a site that I type in. For example, if I type in mandrake it does not take me to mandrake.com. Know how to fix this? - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I hadn't thought of that, Sephen. I assumed since I upgraded from a system with sawfish, sawfish would remain. I see no option in any of the gnome menus to change window manager, or anything that mentions metacity. There is a sawfish folder, though. How do I find out which wm i am using? -

Re: [newbie] mdk 9 with tamil

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
A related question... (not an answer, unfortunately) Is it possible to switch on-the-fly from roman letters to devanagari when writing a file in openoffice (or any other word processor)? Is it just a question of switching fonts usually? - Paul On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:15, L.V.Gandhi wrote:

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:57, Paul Rodriguez wrote: It crashes several times during use. (of the just disappears variety) This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth between them. - Paul Does the same thing happen when you're using Galeon in a different WM or desktop?

[newbie] Another breakthrough for Linux!

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
Not exactly OT, Mandrake now comes pre-installed in New Zealand! Yet another breakthrough for Linux. From http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/0611226mode=thread : Vik Olliver writes Here in New Zealand, the area's major Australia/NZ electronics retailer Dick Smiths

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:03, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I hadn't thought of that, Sephen. I assumed since I upgraded from a system with sawfish, sawfish would remain. I see no option in any of the gnome menus to change window manager, or anything that mentions metacity. There is a sawfish

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Grr.. I've been selling stuff on ebay and it crashes ALL the time. - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 18:57, Paul Rodriguez wrote: It crashes several times during use. (of the just disappears variety) This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth between them. - Paul

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:22, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Grr.. I've been selling stuff on ebay and it crashes ALL the time. - Paul Maybe that's a FEATURE and not a BUG? (grin) Have you tried the galeon-config-tool in the previous messages? -- Fri Nov 8 11:30:00 EST 2002

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Any way to check which wm is running, though? - P On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:03, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I hadn't thought of that, Sephen. I assumed since I upgraded from a system with sawfish, sawfish would remain. I see no option in any of

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
You can also delete the .galeon directory from your home directory which will cause Galeon to have to reconfigure itself for you... I wanted to try this from the beginning, but am not sure what file needs to stay to keep the bookmarks. I'll try the other commands first. tHnaks. - paul

[newbie] TOTAL MESS! [was: switching video cads (what do i need to do?)]

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Yikes! I took out my ATI card and put in the nvidia card. Would not startx at all. Kudzu did not recognize the change. I then ran xfdrake, told it I was using a generic Nvidia Geforce4. Wouldn't startx. I downloaded the nvidia drivers, installed them, edited my XFree config file, and voilá!

[newbie] .NET under Linux ?

2002-11-07 Thread Jester DEV
I heard a while back that C# was going to be ported to linux. Or atleast the .NET framework. Anyone have some links with info? Searching brings up nothing... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:36, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Any way to check which wm is running, though? - P What about opening up a term and typing: pstree -nal | more or ps -aux ...that should show you what's running...(or gtop - if you have that) -- Fri Nov 8 11:45:01 EST 2002

Re: [newbie] Another breakthrough for Linux!

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:20, Sharrea wrote: Not exactly OT, Mandrake now comes pre-installed in New Zealand! Yet another breakthrough for Linux. From http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/0611226mode=thread : Vik Olliver writes Here in New Zealand, the area's major

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Anthony Abby
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: shouldn't that cd be bootable itself? Yes, generally unless his hardware doesn't support it, or unless he actually burned the .iso file to the cd itself. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:43, Sharrea wrote: I think mouseconfig is for RH, in MDK its called mousedrake and you need to su to root which means in a terminal type: su enter enter_root_password enter now you can run mousedrake, just type mousedrake enter Sharrea -- Help Microsoft

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:44, Anthony Abby wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: shouldn't that cd be bootable itself? Yes, generally unless his hardware doesn't support it, or unless he actually burned the .iso file to the cd itself. Anthony The CD MIGHT be a

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
I guess, I forget to think like a tech. Sorry. Anyways good luck with 9.0 I enjoy it at work as my desktop system very much. KDE 3 rocks On 07 Nov 2002 20:44:53 -0500 Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: shouldn't that cd be

RE: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Werner
I ran the dosutils/rawwrite.exe program to create my boot floppy under windows. When you run that program, you have to point to the images/cdrom.img file to create the floppy. Is that what you did? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 10:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: These are _real_ cheap generic CDR's from OfficeMax, $11 for a 50 spindle. I can always write successfully to 'em a 8x (max for my burner). I suspect 'Indicated writing power: 5' (below) doesn't refer to max writing speed as (IRRC)

[newbie] usb external modems

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] networking advice

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have 4 PCs. 3 on dual boot with linux and windows(98 or me)and one win98se. one has built in 8139 lan card. How should I go for networking these? 1)what is the optimum ways if I have to include a few more PCs. Dual boot ones can be made only linux ones. 2)what should I get in hardware? 3)How to

[newbie] Connecting to Internet

2002-11-07 Thread Antonio R.
Hi everybody: I’ve just installed Mandrake Linux on my computer and it looks really cool, but I don’t know how to connect to the internet, and my IP doesn’t give help to linux users and the worst problem is that I use my computer as the server of my house and there are two other computers

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
On Friday 08 Nov 2002 11:11 am, Paul Rodriguez wrote: ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable? Happen to know when an update will come out? Sounds like you _may_ have a package missing... but I wouldn't have a clue which one...? I use galeon ALL the time and haven't had a

Re: [newbie] usb external modems

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:50, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? I've gotten several WinModems to work under linux - it's just a matter of finding out the chipset and finding the proper source code to compile (which can be

[newbie] OT - bit of a laugh

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
This, from a RH Ask Shadowman website (http://www.redhat.com/advice/ask_shadowman.html), made me laugh: Senthil K hung out with some drunken sailors and heckled: i thot linux was some [Expletive deleted] alternative to windows. but after using it for more than a [Expletive deleted] year, linux

Re: [newbie] networking advice

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:50, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have 4 PCs. 3 on dual boot with linux and windows(98 or me)and one win98se. one has built in 8139 lan card. How should I go for networking these? 1)what is the optimum ways if I have to include a few more PCs. Dual boot ones can be made only

Re: [newbie] Connecting to Internet

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:21, Antonio R. wrote: Hi everybody: I’ve just installed Mandrake Linux on my computer and it looks really cool, but I don’t know how to connect to the internet, and my IP doesn’t give help to linux users and the worst problem is that I use my computer as the server

Re: [newbie] OT - bit of a laugh

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 13:34, Sharrea wrote: This, from a RH Ask Shadowman website (http://www.redhat.com/advice/ask_shadowman.html), made me laugh: Senthil K hung out with some drunken sailors and heckled: i thot linux was some [Expletive deleted] alternative to windows. but after using

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