[newbie] Gyration cordless mouse/keyboard combo

2006-09-30 Thread James Hudspeth
I recently purchased a Gyration brand gyroscopic mouse and compact cordless keyboard combination. The mouse works wonderfully, but the keyboard functions marginally at best. Most frustratingly, the shift, control and alt keys don't work. The package suggests that in Windows and OS X that the

Re: [newbie] Mirrors changed again

2006-09-30 Thread JRH
On Friday 29 September 2006 20:14, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: medium updates uses an invalid list file:   mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method Aahh... That would explain why I am getting that answer myself Ron I'll give it a couple of days, and try and update my

[newbie] New RAM won't boot

2006-09-30 Thread stuart bell
Hi, I've just added ram to my Tosh Sat Pro laptop and now it won't boot up - screen blank. Lights are on and fan runs but no activity. Machine has 64Mb on board and I was running with one extra 128 in slot. Now have added another 128 in second slot. Tosh spec says max 320 so should be ok. OS is

Re: [newbie] New RAM won't boot

2006-09-30 Thread Paul
Lights are on and fan runs but no activity. Machine has 64Mb on board and I was running with one extra 128 in slot. Now have added another 128 in second slot. Tosh spec says max 320 so should be ok. OS is Mandriva One Perhaps you need to add an 'append' line to /etc/lilo.conf: append=mem=196M

Re: [newbie] New RAM won't boot

2006-09-30 Thread Ian
On Saturday 30 Sep 2006 11:32, stuart bell wrote: Hi, I've just added ram to my Tosh Sat Pro laptop and now it won't boot up - screen blank. Lights are on and fan runs but no activity. Machine has 64Mb on board and I was running with one extra 128 in slot. Now have added another 128 in

[newbie] Strange Death of Firefox

2006-09-30 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi folks, For no apparent reason, Firefox has ceased to be - it is an ex-browser. Trying to start from the command line, I get the following: Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting. Well, I haven't moved the bloody thing! Anybody seen it? Cheers, Graham -- Immorality: the

Re: [newbie] Strange Death of Firefox

2006-09-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:24:16 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, For no apparent reason, Firefox has ceased to be - it is an ex-browser. Trying to start from the command line, I get the following: Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting. Well, I haven't

Re: [newbie] Strange Death of Firefox

2006-09-30 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, For no apparent reason, Firefox has ceased to be - it is an ex-browser. Trying to start from the command line, I get the following: Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting. Well, I haven't moved the bloody thing! Anybody seen it? Cheers, Graham

Re: [newbie] Strange Death of Firefox

2006-09-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:31:43 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, For no apparent reason, Firefox has ceased to be - it is an ex-browser. Trying to start from the command line, I get the following: Cannot find mozilla runtime directory.

Re: [newbie] Strange Death of Firefox

2006-09-30 Thread Graham Watkins
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:31:43 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, For no apparent reason, Firefox has ceased to be - it is an ex-browser. Trying to start from the command line, I get the following: Cannot find mozilla

Re: [newbie] Strange Death of Firefox

2006-09-30 Thread Ian
On Saturday 30 Sep 2006 12:24, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, For no apparent reason, Firefox has ceased to be - it is an ex-browser. Trying to start from the command line, I get the following: Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting. Well, I haven't moved the bloody thing!

Re: [newbie] Strange Death of Firefox

2006-09-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:39:15 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as well considering there's nobody in here worth talking to today. sigh Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join

[newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
I reinstalled 2006 last week and udev does not mount sda and sdb when I plug in the camera and mp3 thingie. Any ideas? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Bill Spatz
On Sat September 30 2006 08:43 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I reinstalled 2006 last week and udev does not mount sda and sdb when I plug in the camera and mp3 thingie. Any ideas? Lee This may apply to Graham's problem also A couple of months back I had both of the same problems after

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Miark
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:43:28 -0400, Lee wrote: I reinstalled 2006 last week and udev does not mount sda and sdb when I plug in the camera and mp3 thingie. Any ideas? No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run:

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Russ Kepler
On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote: No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run: /etc/init.d/haldaemon: line 32: [: 6690: unary operator expected[ OK ] [FAILED] What's on line 32 of the file

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Miark
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote: No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run: /etc/init.d/haldaemon: line 32: [: 6690: unary operator

Re: [newbie] Mirrors changed again

2006-09-30 Thread John Wilson
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 13:14 -0600, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: It seems Mandriva is up to their usual tricks of changing the paths on the mirrors with no warning. I noticed it on Proxad when I started getting errors trying to update. It'll probably hit the other mirrors soon enough if it hasn't

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Sáb 30 Sep 2006 16:25, Miark escribió: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote: No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run: /etc/init.d/haldaemon:

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Russ Kepler
On Saturday 30 September 2006 01:25 pm, Miark wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote: No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run:

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Miark
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:44:23 -0300, Carlos wrote: El Sáb 30 Sep 2006 16:25, Miark escribió: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote: No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because, for some

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Miark
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:07:09 -0600, Russ wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 01:25 pm, Miark wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote: No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because,