Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Eric Jackson
. I don't know much about this. I'm just passing along information. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] version for p3

2006-10-28 Thread Eric Jackson
for Mandriva. Incidentally, the problems I had on my desktop PC are gone now that I've installed 2007. Eric Jackson Registered Linux Mangler #001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall Mandriva

2006-05-22 Thread Eric Jackson
. Some are better than others at recognizing my hardware but linux does work for lots of people worldwide. Eric Jackson But thanks to all the *helpful* suggestions sympatico .. yeah .. right .. just like gw On 5/21/06, Heikki Pesonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/20/06, SigSolutions, Inc

Re: [newbie] 2006 Home Icon Not Working

2005-10-16 Thread eric jackson
Paul wrote: eric jackson wrote: I've got a small problem with my 2006 desktop. When I click on the Home icon Amarok starts. There must be a way to tell the icon to start Konqueror instead. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. possibly the Amarok icon is hiding under the home icon

Re: [newbie] 2006 Home Icon Not Working

2005-10-16 Thread eric jackson
a directory at all. I can choose a directory from the left panel. Eric Jackson Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] 2006 Home Icon Not Working

2005-10-16 Thread eric jackson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Oct 2005 14:23, eric jackson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 14:28, Paul wrote: Alternatively, right-click on the icon change the properties. On the Application tab, command: kfmclient openProfile filemanagement Where do I find

Re: [newbie] xorg problem (solved)

2005-10-14 Thread eric jackson
Travis Crook wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:55:11 -0400 eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 13 Oct 2005 17:10, eric jackson wrote: snip I did another fresh install and things were still the same. As it turns out, although Mandriva recognized my monitor

Re: [newbie] xorg problem (solved)

2005-10-14 Thread eric jackson
Rick Kunath wrote: eric jackson wrote: As it turns out, although Mandriva recognized my monitor and ATI graphics card, it seems to have picked the wrong driver as a default. I was getting an error telling me to change something. There aren't many options to change so I selected another

Re: [newbie] xorg problem (solved)

2005-10-14 Thread eric jackson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 13 Oct 2005 19:55, eric jackson wrote: I did another fresh install and things were still the same. As it turns out, although Mandriva recognized my monitor and ATI graphics card, it seems to have picked the wrong driver as a default. I was getting an error

[newbie] xorg problem

2005-10-13 Thread eric jackson
Hi, I upgraded to 2006 the other day and, to make a long story short, I shut down my computer improperly which caused me to get a ton of hard drive errors. I did a fresh install today but I can't get things working right. When I did the original install I got it to boot and start KDE. Now

Re: [newbie] xorg problem (solved)

2005-10-13 Thread eric jackson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 13 Oct 2005 17:10, eric jackson wrote: I did a fresh install today but I can't get things working right. When I did the original install I got it to boot and start KDE. Now that I've done a new install it boots to to a command line. If I tell it to startx

[newbie] blogging

2005-07-13 Thread eric jackson
for preparing and posting my blog? Thank you. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2005-06-18 Thread eric jackson
it, and it should go again. You'll need to be root of course. I believe its LOCK and/or RPMLOCK (or both?) Try this. rm /var/lib/urpmi.LOCK and rm /var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK Eric Jackson Also, after, I'd recommend rebuilding your rpm database with: rpm --rebuilddb Do a man on rpm in case

Re: [newbie] 2005 Club KDE version updates

2005-06-10 Thread eric jackson
Tom wrote: eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed the new club release of 2005 LE with KDE 3.4 I realized as I installed it that it's called a cooker version. My question is how do I update it? Should I use cooker sources or the regular 2005 LE sources? Eric Jackson I suspected

[newbie] 2005 Club KDE version updates

2005-06-09 Thread eric jackson
Hi, I just installed the new club release of 2005 LE with KDE 3.4 I realized as I installed it that it's called a cooker version. My question is how do I update it? Should I use cooker sources or the regular 2005 LE sources? Eric Jackson

Re: [newbie] Tv card problems

2005-05-27 Thread Eric Jackson
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2005 06:55, Eric Jackson wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2005 03:15, Eric Jackson wrote: Hi, I'm still trying occasionally to get my tv card working under linux. Besides for my scanner not being supported I can do just about

[newbie] Tv card problems

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Jackson
or directory v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory no video grabber device available I've seen statements that say something about you have to load some modules first. What modules do I have to load and how do I do that? I have a WinTV USB card. Thanks for your help Eric Jackson

Re: [newbie] Tv card problems

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Jackson
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2005 03:15, Eric Jackson wrote: Hi, I'm still trying occasionally to get my tv card working under linux. Besides for my scanner not being supported I can do just about everything else I need to do using Mandriva 2005. I have to use Windows to get my

Re: [newbie] Bios Upgrade

2005-05-05 Thread eric jackson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: eric jackson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: eric jackson wrote: I bought a 250 G hard drive but my computer only recognizes 139 megs. There is a bios upgrade available from Gateway for my computer but it's a Windows program. I've never run Wine or Crossover Office

Re: [newbie] Bios Upgrade

2005-05-05 Thread eric jackson
the first few times I tried. The progress bar didn't move. After several tries I saw the progress bar move. Thanks for the information. Eric Jackson Mikkel Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Bios Upgrade

2005-05-04 Thread eric jackson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: eric jackson wrote: I bought a 250 G hard drive but my computer only recognizes 139 megs. There is a bios upgrade available from Gateway for my computer but it's a Windows program. I've never run Wine or Crossover Office so I don't know anything about them. Do you think

Re: [newbie] Bios Upgrade

2005-05-04 Thread eric jackson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: eric jackson wrote: I bought a 250 G hard drive but my computer only recognizes 139 megs. There is a bios upgrade available from Gateway for my computer but it's a Windows program. I've never run Wine or Crossover Office so I don't know anything about them

Re: [newbie] RPMdrake looking for installation DVD in CD drive

2005-05-04 Thread eric jackson
Ron King wrote: I have a cd burner identified as /dev/hdc, or /mnt/cdrom. I have a new dvd burner at /dev/hdd, or /mnt/cdrom2. I installed 10.2/SE from a dvd. But, whenever I try to add new software using rpmdrake, it asks for the media to be in hdc (or cdrom, I forget which). That happened

[newbie] Bios Upgrade

2005-05-02 Thread eric jackson
I bought a 250 G hard drive but my computer only recognizes 139 megs. There is a bios upgrade available from Gateway for my computer but it's a Windows program. I've never run Wine or Crossover Office so I don't know anything about them. Do you think it would be both possible to upgrade the