jeanrev

Hi all,

On mandrake 9.1 how can I call mozilla mail from the console ?

I don't know in which folder it is and I call the mozilla browser first and clic on the icon of the mail

this is a waste of time

thanks for your adequate answer

It's really usefull to know the console name of the different soft on the computer

thanks

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

",... in France there are a number of laptops with preloaded Linux,"

Living in France I would be very happy to get the address of the provider

thanks ...

thanks for the tip BVC...

Hi all,

The question is in the title :

howto open a file "named.rar" under Linux ?

Any tool for this task ?

I receivedit by mail thanks

Hard to believe but :

No one in the Linux community is apparently able to make a list (how short can it be) of the laptops manufacturers free from the Microsoft monopoly

and especially this Linux laptops site I consulted months ago

B)

It is high time for the Linux community to make a list of the laptops that can run Linux without Microsoft interfering !

I just bought a laptop to demonstrate Linux to the world and found the following :

http://fr.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi...R&ID=0000003703

since january I was asking for some advice on the french Alionet :

http://www.alionet.org/index.php?showtopic=1384&st=0

Alas I could not find the proper information at that time

We are helping Microsoft by not indicating the free laptops constructors

Hi,

Have you got any problem during the installation of MDK 10.0 ?

I haved mandrake 9.1 installed on my laptop Compaq Armada 100S and it's the best OS for that laptop

I had problems to install the new applications versions and stopped it

I never could install the mandrake 10.0 on this laptop or my other PC's

I have keyboard & mouse freezing stiff at any step during the installation or afterwards without any messages

so I went to suse & I am very happy with it

I wonder if I should try mandriva 10.1 ?

I would be happy to use again Mandriva which was my first Linux OS to operate safely

OO.org 1.1 is better & faster than OO.1.0

the question is still there : can I install OO.1.1 on MDK 9.1 without problems ?

In this case, should I uninstall OO.1.0 first ?

the last openoffice is more userfriendly than the first issue

carrefour doesn't sell them anymore

they were really basic machines and I noticed the linux computers are usually sold at a higher price than the others

Chris M : your address is OK but they only deliver in the UK

Compaq A rmada 100S under MDK 9.1, mylaptop informations :

[jean@localhost jean]$ lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8501 [Apollo MVP4] (rev 04)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8501 [Apollo MVP4 AGP]

00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)

00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)

00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10)

00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)

00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)

00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 20)

00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i7d (rev 5d)

[jean@localhost jean]$

[root@localhost jean]# uname -a

Linux localhost 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

I am just waiting for a new toshiba laptop delivered this coming week to try the (old now) MDK 1O.0

before I throw away the install disks

thanks

the problem is a steady freeze of mouse and keyboard at any time during the install process of mandrake 10.0

on my three computers (nothing special about them)

I tried more than one set of install C's to no avail..

i tried more than ten times with each

I just wonder why i seem to be the only one with install troubles on MDK ....

I have just reinstalled my ompaq laptop Armada 100S with MDK 9.1...

I have been working 2 years with the suse 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 with no install problems

thanks for your help

My laptop Compaq Armada 100S can only accept mandrake 9.1 installed

I have tried newer MDK versions without any success, also Suse, ubuntu, knoppix, Beatrix, mepis, aurox etc...

my question :

can I install a better version of openoffice ?

if Yes, How do I do it ? should I remove the OO 1.0 first ?

help please, I don't want to throw my laptop away with the 128 Mo RAM...

everything works fine

Since I bought a new PC 2 years ago

I was able to install Mandrake 9.1 then impossible to install MDK 10.+

It was a good idea to propose a new PC with mandrake for 299 euros but it should be better to point out another couple of PC's

one for the basic beginner, one for the family and one for the special purposes and games

this is the least Linux should do if we want to compete on fair grounds with MS

the majority of windows users, where I belong, is not able to choose a proper compatible Linux PC

I had to turn to suse 9.0 then 9.1 which accept my video card "ATI Radeon IGP 320 (M)"

but not completely so it remains a slight flickering of the screen

I will keep windows until I can find a ready made PC fully compatible with Linux

how long will it take for Linux to indicate the type of PC usable with Linux ?

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

thanks Steve,

i just found out the page where you can order a linux PC in France it's through Mandrake 's page :

http://store.mandrakesoft.com/index.php?cP...080dbb8c767dce2

thanks for the address

I cannot find any PC with mandrake on their site and just dropped a mail for confirmation that it will be available again in january

the Linux equiped PC isn't advertised on the PC pages :

http://www.carrefour-multimedia.com/data/f...?menu_id=1&ID=2

thanks

Hi all,

It would be nice to the newbie to know where to buy a PC which will fit Mandrake completely

there was an indication of a PC already installed with Mandrake

but I cannot remember the address

We would appreciate to know the details of the ideal hadware PC ready to buy

thanks for your attention

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

Hi all,

On linux mandrake

how can I register a sentence to be added to all my messages on a certain outgoing direction with Mozilla mail 1.6 ?

i cannot find the way to do it

thanks

yes I am using suse 9.1 and I don't know which procedure to follow to get the right player

what would you advise me to do in order to be able to play a DVD on my computer

with suse 9.1 on my main PC or with mandrake 9.1 on my laptop

thanks in advance

Hi all,

How can I play a DVD with mandrake 9.1 ?

I put the disk in the DVD reader but it doesn't work

I put it with windows 98SE on the same machine and it works immediatly

isn't there a provision in the last linux issues to allow the DVD's to be played without further configuration ?

thanks for your help

Moved from Hardware by Darkelve

thanks for this interesting comments on the saving processes

I think I will try to save /home and /etc and see how I can eventually reinstall my system safely

the difficulty with Linux isn't the way it works but the way the tutorials are designed

to start with a simple sudo example :

just write :

username ALL=ALL under the line where you find " root ALL=(ALL) ALL"

and your user has the root's rights during 5 minutes (by default)

find something simpler ?

if this doesn't work then you know there is a fault somewhere

it's a pity the "man:something" doesn't start with the simplest example you can find using the command

a lot more people could have acces to linux and be happy with it

thanks a lot it will help next time I use it

I'll take that the problem are solved and mark the thread solved - Artificial Intelligence

how come this old query didn't show up when I made a search for my old messages ?

I noticed it happened already a few time that a query was not found when I made a search with my name as the poster

have you got an answer to that question ?

thanks

thanks for your help

I stop trying to cope with it but I will start again after reading this new help

and let you know

to control your CD reader you can copy one of your Cd unto the hard disk & see if there is any read/write fault during the process

a combination of CD burning hardware & CD reading device is worth the check

I have had to remove my old Cd reader which was not reliable any more

Hi all,

to-day I started the failsafe branch of lilo's window just to check what would happens...

I ended up with a login on command line and i didn't know what I could do there

in the end I wanted to reboot but unluckily there was no response to shutdown -h now or halt

I had to do a killall to get out of there and I wonder :

1 what is this failsafe for ?

I tried google linux on failsafe & went deeper into perplexity on this unanswered question

thanks for your attention