Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?
Hi Bryan, On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 19:15, Bryan Phinney wrote: snip ... Just because a company pursues goals that are not in my best interests and seeks to limit my choices to those that make them money does not make them evil, that is simply reality. Every human will try to make things work out best for himself, even if that sometimes is at the expense of others. That is just plain old self-interest and survival instinct. And, for better or worse, companies are run by ordinary humans. That is a very measured attitude; however, most (all?) societies consider it in the common good to limit how far individuals or groups can pursue self-interest at the expense of others checks and balances, etc What worries me how MS seems able to ignore with impunity checks that are applied to others. Now, once our basic needs have been met, some of us my pursue our interests with more moderation than others, some may even be altruistic (if only for their own ego purposes) but I would not want to argue that someone wanting to make more money is necessarily evil. No,I don't know that anyone has said that so far. But the means, and the end result of allowing them to pursue it unchecked, may be considered extremely undesirable for society at large. snip That doesn't mean that I would not resist someone trying to force me to use a product that is not in my best interest, just that I don't take it personally. Well,of course that's a personal matter.Some people may have had more bruising experiences of this than you, perhaps, and might take it differently. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with a web site...
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 09:40, Aron Smith wrote: Crashed me On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 20:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: A friend of mine who uses Mozilla is having trouble with a web site: http://www.qx.net so I told him I'd try it out. Like him, I can access the main page, but clicking something like the DSL link immediately crashes Mozilla and Galeon hard. Konqueror works fine. This is with the stock versions under Mandrake version 9.1 - anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Odd. Had no trouble under 9.1 with either Galeon (1.3.5) or Dillo in accessing any of the links on the main page. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?
Hi Franki and Mac, On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 11:30, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:48:23 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: If we all tell ten people, and make them feel as strongly about it as we do, they will spread the word also. Are you kidding me? I gotta try to control myself to *not* talk about this with everyone I meet... ;-) Do you have a Consumers Association or similar body in the US that could get fired up about this? http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath I'm going to try to agitate the UK one. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?
Further to my last post .. Do you have a Consumers Association or similar body in the US that could get fired up about this? http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath I'm going to try to agitate the UK one. DougB I've written to the Consumers' Association in the UK, Which. Here's a copy of the letter - we'll see what happens. DougB [letter follows] Dear Which Campaigns, I have been a member of the Consumers' Association for many years and know how effective your campaigns can be on issues affecting consumers' rights and welfare. I want to alert you to some extremely dangerous, far-reaching, extensive, monopolistic developments, already well under way, that are greatly to the detriment of our interests in many fields and that desperately need determined opposition from consumer groups across Europe. The software giant, Microsoft, is pursuing a strategy on many fronts aimed at achieving a total stranglehold over all information traffic, whether in the home or the office, personal or public, leisure or business, forcing it out of the privacy of individually-owned PCs onto the internet in channels meant to be wholly controlled by, and accessible only by payment to, Microsoft. Microsoft is attempting to fetter mobile telecommunications and channel television to its home computer systems as a further part of this strategy. It is promoting pernicious legislation in the European Parliament intended to outlaw or prevent third-party alternatives to its software that might now, or in the future, offer competition. To the average man in the street this may all seem greatly exaggerated - something dreamt up by computer nerds. However,it *will* mean something to the man in the street when a businessman finds Microsoft can cut him off from access to his business until he pays more, or the home owner finds he can no longer use his computer and personal data, because Microsoft has decreed his software obsolete and can force expensive updates of software and hardware without his consent. The EULA (End User License Agreement) accompanying every bit of Microsoft software sets out Microsoft's entitlements explicitly in the small print and will be, indeed already is,a legal license for extortion without redress from the consumer. There is good documentation validating my assertions in a rather long article on http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath, particularly the section titled: Microsoft The Road Ahead. It gives a much better and more informed account of the situation than I have been able to do. Please visit this site. As regards the European legislation, I and a number of others who are greatly concerned have already written to our MEPs about it, and for your information I attach a copy of the letter sent to my MEP. The only effective defence of the public's interest we can see working in the long term is to promote Open Source, i.e largely non-proprietary, software, whose huge number of volunteer supporters and developers distributed internationally is not readily intimidated, bought out, or overwhelmed by the financial might wielded by the Microsoft giant.This is vital, because ultimately any third-party information technology, software or hardware, that is to survive in competition with the Microsoft monopolies will depend on having a viable alternative to the Windows system. We need to resist the blanket introduction of Microsoft systems into our public services, especially if accompanied by 'sweeteners' that are actually ties to long-term commitments.We need to bring pressure on many institutions, like banks, to stop imposing the Microsoft system as a condition of e-commerce, for example requiring the browser, Internet Explorer, when alternative browsers offer equally high levels of encryption and, particularly, when running on non-Windows systems, are far less worm- and virus-ridden. There are many other situations where consumers need to be vigilant against some insidious threat or other posed by Microsoft. There is a group of us, very alive to the situation; and we could alert you at an early stage when the need arises, if you would like us to do this Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Patenting of Software Code - MEP replies
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:50, Margot wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Apologies to the list for the Sturdy and ukipeast MEP posts - I hope there won't be any more! I don't know where they got the newbie mailing address from - can't see it anywhere on my posts to them. DougB Errr... didn't get them here Doug - are you sure they went to the newbie LIST, and didn't just end up in the newbie FOLDER on your own system, maybe following your filter rules? Glad to hear you're getting some replies from them though! Sigh of relief! I thought another six would be appearing :-) But how they got into the newbie Folder is a mystery. I could have sworn they were addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but in the Trash box they're not. On the other hand my filter rule looks for newbie in the subject line, but I can't find it in Patenting Software Code. It must be those magic mushrooms again! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User Drake
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 23:50, John wrote: I tried to add a new user to md 9.1 home computer. I used an upper case letter which md said I couldn't use. When I clicked ok on the notice, user drake locked up. I ending up rebooting. When trying to open user drake up after reboot, I get the message cannot lock user lib, file/etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist. Thanks for any help on this. john just delete /etc/ptmp and etc/gtmp and carry on. Irritating but of no significance, as far as I know from what people have reported on the list in the past. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re:Patenting of Software Code - MEP replies
Apologies to the list for the Sturdy and ukipeast MEP posts - I hope there won't be any more! I don't know where they got the newbie mailing address from - can't see it anywhere on my posts to them. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Patenting of Software Code
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 20:30, Dick Gevers wrote: --BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-- Hash: SHA1 Hi Douglas, all, snip It`s not useless to send, `cause the EP vote is just a sort of advice to the EU Commission - as I understand it - which has to decide yet how they handle the proposed law. So IMO the MEP`s still need reinforcing, if only to give them unbiased awareness of what is at stake. Personally I found Anne`s letter so very good that I didn`t change a word; just added a few lines of introduction in Dutch. snip Good, thanks. I've written to the 8 MEPs for the Eastern Region UK. Like you, I found Anne's letter excellent - mine is a straight crib with a few additions. I hope she doesn't mind [Letter follows] Maybe we could do with a min-TWiki to hone our arguments for future use! DougB ...I am writing to you as one of your constituents in the Eastern Region for the European Parliament. I understand that the McCarthy report on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions has passed its first reading in the European Parliament with some limited amendments, and is now awaiting its second reading. This legislation causes considerable alarm to me and many other consumers among the European public, whose interests we look to Parliament to protect; and I would ask you to consider the following: Software is written by individuals and groups of individuals. As authors they normally have and retain copyright (except, I presume, where they are working for a company who would then own the copyright). Existing laws are adequate to protect their copyright. Patent law was, I understand, intended to protect inventors, requiring that the object to be patented was an original idea. It is common knowledge that 'prior art' generally precludes such a patent being granted. It is difficult to see how writing computer code can be classed as an original idea. Logically, if software were to be patentable, then so could a book. It is a consideration that patents are expensive, create a great deal of administrative work, and are granted slowly and for a lengthy time period, while the life cycle of software is short. This can only stifle creative work. Worse, the legislation broadens the word invention to mean far more than the circumscribed definition it carries elsewhere, giving enormous scope for interfering with the development of software innovation by competitors. Moreover, the ability of any enterprise to patent what is merely a method of presentation, a method of training, or a 'look' of software is certainly not in the interest of the consumer. The passing of software patent legislation will naturally benefit big business and penalise the small and medium-size enterprise. The legislation has introduced imprecise terms that create fertile ground for legal argument and can only tilt the advantage still further towards big businesses with large financial resources. Small enterprises have limited possibilities of surviving in this environment. Certain large businesses in the field of operating systems desire to outlaw reverse engineering of their software. Since most hardware manufacturers are already tied in to them by agreements, this will give them an unchallengeable monopoly, because without reverse engineering it will be impossible for third party software and hardware drivers to be written if the originators are unwilling to co-operate. And they are usually not willing. Like many others, I have suffered from finding that drivers for my hardware were unavailable, since the manufacturer of the hardware did not choose to co-operate with writers of my chosen operating system. It would appear that the proposals for EU legislation would have serious implications for the General Public License. It is a matter of grave concern that individuals would be denied the right to decide the conditions under which their work is released. The GPL gives clear rights and responsibilities to users of the software concerned. The original author owns copyright, but this is essentially a model of co-operative working. If you are unfamiliar with the GPL, could I ask you to refer to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html ? I ask your help in defending our rights, as citizens of the European Union, to own our own work without hindrance, and to make our own decisions about the future of our work. Please protect us from the vested interests that seek to take away these rights. Can I please ask you to subject the legislation to the most critical scrutiny when it returns for a second reading to Parliament, and to ensure that it has strong safeguards for our interests, the European public?. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Patenting of Software Code
Hi Dick, John, Anne and all, On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:30, Dick Gevers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John and all others, On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:41:52 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Patenting of Software Code: I have had a reply from a MEP, as follows, Similarly, I had a reply from the assistant to Dutch liberal MEP Mrs. Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, reading inter alia (this is a rough translation from Dutch): Start translation ++ The European Parliament has voted 24/9 in plenary meeting on the report `Patentability of computer implemented inventions` snip Unfortunately I was still working on a letter to my MEPs when the vote was taken. Didn't get off my backside quickly enough, alas. Do you think there would be any point in writing to them now? If so, any ideas as to the best line to take? DougB P.S. Mine are East of Engalnd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List weirdness
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:30, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 03 Oct 2003 12:08 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Maybe sympa just doesn't like my face/name/colour/font. snip You sure you're using the same email address that you're subscribed under? Yep! I had a lot of grief over this when I first tried to get on the newbie list (because my ISP had been taken over by another ISP, which left me with an address something like [EMAIL PROTECTED]@YY.net), so *that* particular mistake has been drummed well and truly into my thick head. Duh! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: M J Pipkin mjpipkin@yebo.co.za Re: [newbie] Instant application shut down.
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:18, M J Pipkin wrote: This is unsolicited spam and an invasion of my privacy. Please send no further newbie communicationsand remove my name from your list. Bizarre. Don't know how that happened DougB Aaaah! Just seen everybody else's posts on the prat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List weirdness
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 23:35, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 2 2003 02:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip I've used it several time, but I send it as SET newbie NOMAIL Anne no need for capitalization. 'set newbie nomail' (w/o quotes) as the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will stop mail. I just used it over the last ten days. 'set newbie mail' starts it again snip Damn! I've tried capitalisation and no capitalisation before; neither worked. Maybe sympa just doesn't like my face/name/colour/font. But I'll keep plugging away, 'cos I'm off abroad again shortly. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Instant application shut down.
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 14:29, Smith Joe wrote: Hi All, I have noticed an oddity. When I start any of the OpenOffice applications as soon as the program is loaded it immediately shuts down again. What am I doing wrong? snip It may be that the path is wrong - how are you starting the applications, from the GUI menu or a console? Star Office did something similar on me if I loaded from the GUI menu, but ran OK if I called it from the command line. The reason was that the menu path went something like /usr/bin/swriter.. (say, for StarOffice Writer), but Star Office was actually in /home, so needed the path /home/dougb/staroffice6.0/swriter . If you use Menudrake in MCC, you can check the path in Properties of the particular application and change it as necessary. You'll need to find out where it actually resides first, of course. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List weirdness
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:49, mooney wrote: I, too, am getting weird responses to mails. snip Finally, I'm off on 2 weeks hols, and I can't seem to unsub from the site. snip Join the club. I've never found the 'set newbie nomail' work either. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FWIW - was: CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW
Hi, list. FWIW - just in case anybody else has a similar problem: CD-writer writes under Windows OK Writes to CD-RW with cdrecord (and GUIs based on cdrecord) but will *NOT*, absolutely *NOT*, write CD-Rs. DIAGNOSIS: If you have a reasonably modern, i.e. high-speed writer it may experience problems writing CD-Rs at *LOW* speed and fail with errors: OPC failed .Sense Code: Power calibration area error This doesn't happen with CD-RWs. SOLUTION: Change cdrecord speed=2(say) to ...speed=12 (for example) for CD-Rs. Many thanks to a lot of people, particularly John Richard Smith, who kept plugging and helped me plug, away at the problem to the end. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] clipboard integration with Mozilla
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:00, Lance Cummings wrote: Does this (not) work for anyone else? 1) Open your mail client (hopefully KMail so we can test this properly). 2) Copy the URL for the MS critic article to the clipboard. 3) Now open Mozilla and try to paste this clipboard item into the Mozilla address window. snip Not sure if you're only interested in one-off opening of e-mail URLs or in a regular switch to a default browser. If the latter, maybe there is an equivalent in KDE to the one in Gnome. My e-mail client (Evolution) defaults to Mozilla, but you can vary this by editing /home/user-name/.gnome/Gnome and changing the line containing default-show= . to default-show=your-preferred-browser-name %s. 'dillo' is very lightweight. I've found it particularly useful for quick checking of e-mail URLs without all the overhead of the heavy duty browsers on a dial-up line. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:55, John Richard Smith wrote: snip The test files were assembled with mkisofs along the lines you mention. They write out to the CD-RW OK. then write to disc tmp]$ cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject -ignsize /tmp.iso (where dev=0,0,0 is whatever it should be on your system, ie cdrecord -scanbus, and speed is whatever is appropiate for your device) snip I've used your cdrecord command - no joy.It's slightly different from the one I used (cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data /tmp.iso) There is a slight difference in the output at Sense Code: here - Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 whereas it was - Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 I wondered whether that might mean cdrecord's power settings for CD-Rs on the Sony CDwriter were incorrect, whereas they were satisfactory for writing CD-RWs. What do you think? DougB cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject -ignsize corrimage Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'SONY' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX175E2 ' Revision : 'S002' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 0 MB padsize: 312 KB Total size:0 MB (00:04.02) = 302 sectors Lout start:1 MB (00:06/02) = 302 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17) ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 22 Manufacturer: Ritek Co. Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 359546 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is ON. Turning BURN-Free off Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01:0 of0 MB written. Track 01: writing 312 KB of pad data. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 294912/614400 (300 sectors). cdrecord: Input/output error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 5.073s timeout 120s Trouble flushing the cache Writing time: 15.920s Average write speed 0.8x. Fixating... cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 40.434s timeout 480s cmd finished after 40.434s timeout 480s Fixating time: 40.438s cdrecord: fifo had 5 puts and 5 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100% The only difference. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:09, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Thanks, John. The driver is recognised alright with cdrecord -scanbus and I can do a dummy run satisfactorily with a CD-R disk in the drive, also cdrecord writes stuff out through the drive quite happily to a (Toshiba) CD-RW disk. I forgot to mention that the same CD-R disks can be written to (after cdrecord has refused) by the drive in Win'98 (bah!). snip OK, that is good, looks like you have a device. The blank discs write satisfactorily in windblows, so they are not really the problem. You say it can do a dummy write with the lazer turned off, but not an actual write, odd. Is there a size problem ? Maybe too much data to fit on the disc ? What are you writing , data or audio ? John Data. Sizewise: recently, only small amounts up to and around 1MB, just in order to test whether I could get the thing to work at all. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:18, Anne Wilson wrote: snip OTOH, I had been dutifully opening a console and using su to do maintenance jobs, but closing it to return to user. It was a year later before anyone actually mentioned that if you type 'exit' you don't need to close it :-) Anne Or Ctrl-D. Even quicker. Another Crtl-D closes the terminal if you want to. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip cdrecord: OPC failed I believe it is saying that the drive has failed. That could mean anything. Maybe the drive isn't set up right for cdrecord to work with it. or maybe the driver doesn't work with your make and model. First thing I would do is in a terminal, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cdrecord -scanbus, Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'Generic ' 'USB Storage-SMC ' '0090' Removable Disk scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-116 ' '1.22' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-48X9TE ' '1.0C' Removable CD-ROM To see what you have got in the way of recognised devices. John Thanks, John. The driver is recognised alright with cdrecord -scanbus and I can do a dummy run satisfactorily with a CD-R disk in the drive, also cdrecord writes stuff out through the drive quite happily to a (Toshiba) CD-RW disk. I forgot to mention that the same CD-R disks can be written to (after cdrecord has refused) by the drive in Win'98 (bah!). DougB P.S. cdrecord -scanbus output appended: Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX175E2 ' 'S002' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW
Hi, Can anyone help? I have been struggling with this problem for ages, RTFM etc. hasn't resolved it for me. MDK9.1. Using cdrecord on the CLI. My Sony CD-writer writes happily to a Toshiba CD-RW, multi-session ,etc. no problem; but I cannot write anything to a CD-R (I've tried Sony Supremas, Kodak Ultima 80, Packard Bell 1-32x). The messages I get are all minor variations on the following, and the commands minor variations on cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data image-name (burnfree ON,OFF; multi, no multi,etc) What the h**l is going on? DougB Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'SONY' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX175E2 ' Revision : 'S002' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 0 MB padsize: 312 KB Total size:0 MB (00:04.02) = 302 sectors Lout start:1 MB (00:06/02) = 302 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17) ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 22 Manufacturer: Ritek Co. Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 359546 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 3.693s timeout 60s cdrecord: OPC failed. Writing time:3.711s cdrecord: fifo had 5 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Upgrade from 9.0-9.1
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:44, David Anderson wrote: snip But what happens to web server pages, samba config, mail config, mySQL databases? That stuff SHOULD be upgraded without a hitch (they have for me) - but always make a backup of your configuration data and your databases prior to doing anything of that sort. stephen kuhn - owner == snip Don't know about a straight *upgrade* 9.0-9.1. FWIW, however,if you decide instead to go for a clean *installation* of 9.1,then 'tar' /home, save it elsewhere (e.g. on a windows partition) and you can copy it back to /home after the installation. You will find that your user settings are restored for any program held openly as a file in /home, e.g. evolution, but not those in hidden files, e.g. .galeon,.opera- so you will need to export things like bookmarks for them to external files before 'tar'ring. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tangled threads
Hi everybody, Can folks please behave a bit better in observing thread rules on the mailing list? It's now getting so that practically every thread is hijacked several times, and even without changing subject, is often crossed with something else. Using threads to follow a topic is getting to be a waste of timegrumble, grumble (g) Anne, help, you're good at chivvying people! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Funy business with newbie list
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:42, rikona wrote: Hello Douglas, Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 3:30:47 AM, you wrote: DB Can't remember now if the 'subscribe' messages did pay attention DB to capitalisation. I recently subscribed to the expert list, and 'subscribe' worked. Re-subscribed using capitalisation. Eric, thanks for intervening and getting me onto the list - I've received my first batch of expert posts. Wow! Would capitalisation have worked or not? DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Win'98 backup to tar
Back in April there was a thread on backing up Win XP by 'tar'ring it. Stephen advised deleting the swapfile (c:/pagesys). To do the same for backing up Win '98, what is the name of the Win '98 swapfile? Ta! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Funy business with newbie list
Anne, Many thanks for your continuing help. On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 22:09, Anne Wilson wrote: snip Hi, Douglas. Just a couple of ideas. First, I found from Todd that emails that have certain 'command' words in the subject line tend to be dropped. For instance, I posted one that started with 'Help me' and it dropped. At Todd's advice, I changed it to 'Assist me' and it went through. I don't know whether the inclusion of list commands in the body would have the same effect, though I think that is much less likely. Hmmm. Not sure whether I might have fallen foul of that or not. When you send the commands, capitalisation is important. The command words are in captical, such as SET newbie NOMAIL. It worked for me. Maybe the subscribe one has to be SUBSCRIBE newbie - it would make sense. Can't remember now if the 'subscribe' messages did pay attention to capitalisation. But the problem I had with 'nomail', a good while back, certainly occurred whether I capitalised or not. If none of this helps, you I'll try to get your message to the list, to see if anyone else has any ideas. Anne I'll keep beavering on and let you know what happens. DougB P.S. In your earlier post, you suggested contacting Todd Lyons. Can you let me know his address off-list? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Expert list
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 01:13, Michael Lothian wrote: 2) divert newbie posts to a Newbie folder. everything else comes into my Inbox, so I don't think I'm missing anything relevant. Beats me! What rule do you use to do this? Michael, I use Evolution. Spam.. Evolution =Tools= Filters =incoming = Filter rules = Add Rule name pharmacy. Add criterion. Execute actions: if any criteria are met change Sender to Subject. select contains .type in Viagra [for other give-away words, Add criterion, etc] Then Add action. change Move to folder to Delete. OK Diversion. [First create folder Newbie (or whatever) File = New = Folder= type name = where? in Local Folders]. Then as above.except that instead of Viagra, type newbie Add action Move to folder click here to select a folder browse to Newbie folder. OK. There are quite a lot of other possibilities too. Hope this is what you meant. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Expert list
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 13:52, Anne Wilson wrote: I presume that you tried using the link that is in the full headers of list mails? Yep! The only other thing I can suggest is that you mail Todd Lyons to see if he can help. Anne Thanks, Anne. I'll try mailing him DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Expert list
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:01, Eric Huff wrote: Follow-up - Still no joy, Sorry if you said this already: did you try doing it at the website? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 about half way down the page. Yes, with no effect. Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the edress you want sub'd? I have beed talking to someone at mdk about list issues, and could pass it to him. I'm not sure if he is the official contact, or just helping out, so i don't want to post his eddress here. eric I'd be very grateful if you would - I'm completely boxed in at the moment. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Expert list
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 19:15, rikona wrote: Hello Douglas, snip I couldn't sign up via the web either - tried the email and it worked. I've had that happen in the past with the newbie list.But the e-mail doesn't work either, for the expert list for me. What kind of response are you getting? Are you using any email filters? The e-mail filters I use: 1) delete e-mails with subjects that are explicitly pornographic, selling pharmaceuticals or from credit companies 2) divert newbie posts to a Newbie folder. everything else comes into my Inbox, so I don't think I'm missing anything relevant. Beats me! DougB It might be that the reply email looks like spam to some filters because of the subject line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Expert list
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 12:59, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:42, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:49, Anne Wilson wrote: snip subscribe expert Anne Among the various combinations I tried, I think so, but I'll give it another go. Thanks, Anne Follow-up - Still no joy, DougB DougB Here are explicit instructions for the Mandrake Mailing Lists: http://thor.prohosting.com/~kilgoret/mandrake/ stephen kuhn - owner Thanks, Stephen. At least I got some laughs out of your site - that's more than anything else I've tried. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Expert list
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:49, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 3:53 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Did you try an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line just showing subscribe expert Anne Among the various combinations I tried, I think so, but I'll give it another go. Thanks, Anne DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resizing linux partitions
Thanks all, Anne, Brian and Derek. DougB On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 21:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 3:53 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, I recently re-installed 9.1 in order to change from ext3 to ReiserFS and took the opportunity to create a separate partition for /var. I underestimated the space needed for /var and am now getting warning messages on bootup about inadequate free space. What to do? Can I resize /var, taking space from /, say? Or have I got to re-install all over again? TIA for advice. DougB If your /var is getting filled up it may be because your logs are not being compressed by the nightly cron job at 4am. This in turn is likely because your computer is not switched on at 4am. The solution is to install the anacron RPM from your CDs. Any cron jobs not performed the previous night will then be run 15 mins after booting. Be prepared for your computer to go crazy the first time anacron runs :-) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:49, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:34 pm, Mathieu Frenette wrote: snip Please post a copy of your /etc/fstab file. For the record, I am pretty sure that Mandrake does not mount an ntfs partition using /mnt/windows, more like /mnt/win_c or something like that. snip FWIW ,on my laptop XP programs are NTSF and user data FAT32. MD9.0 mounts the NTFS as /mnt/nt and the FAT32 as /mnt/windows. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Resizing linux partitions
Hi, I recently re-installed 9.1 in order to change from ext3 to ReiserFS and took the opportunity to create a separate partition for /var. I underestimated the space needed for /var and am now getting warning messages on bootup about inadequate free space. What to do? Can I resize /var, taking space from /, say? Or have I got to re-install all over again? TIA for advice. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Expert list
Is there some secret sign,password or ceremony necessary in order to get on to the expert mailing list? I've tried repeatedly to subscribe, both through linux-mandrake.com and by e-mails to sympa, to ask for help with a problem not solved here. Never a request for confirmation, nor acknowledgement, nor post downloads. What gives? DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Beware!! - Re: [newbie] Re: Re: My details
details.pif is one of those ** infected attachments. DougB On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the attached file for details __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: OT - [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake - stupid newbie
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 06:13, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: snip ROTFLMAO! I'm very thick, and I haven't been able to find it in the jargon bible. What is ROTFLMAO? DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 20:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: Partitions can be shrunk. So can heads. Stephen, It was actually the first, rather than the second, I was interested in. But I haven't noticed the linux head-shrinking program in MD9.1 - where can I find it? In cooker? DougB Joe Hill uses it. Seems to work well enough. We need to ask him what commands he issues to resolve the issue. Naughty, naughty! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:15, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 06:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: Partitions can be shrunk. So can heads. Stephen, It was actually the first, rather than the second, I was interested in. But I haven't noticed the linux head-shrinking program in MD9.1 - where can I find it? In cooker? DougB Careful with the answer Stephen,(be sure to include a disclaimer) IANL, but Douglas is. G Disclaimer; This mail was not created using any Microsoft products, including, but not limited to; Fonts, OS, Office Suites, Virus Transport Agents, and Hardware. This mail was intended for the interest of anyone it was intended for. if this is not you, then why the heck are you reading this? UNDER PENALTY of LAW!!! Do not remove this tag. Watch it! I'm taking advice from SCO DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help! - can't create a boot floppy in 9.1
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 1:08 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 23:15, Derek Jennings wrote: snip snip I haven't been following this, so forgive me if this has been covered already. Has your fstab got 'user' in the floppy line, like this: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 (all on one line, of course If not, put the 'user' in (you will have to do this as root (use File Manager Super User Mode), save it, then do 'mount -a' in a root terminal. After that you should be able to make your boot floppy with DrakFloppy just as you wanted to. Anne Anne, Thanks again. I'll try that. later: tried it. Still won't write. DougB BTW, did you get my e-mail about CanoScanners? Was there anything relevant? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing
MD9.1. Two queries: Is it possible to convert ext3 to Reiser FS in place? If not and you had to convert by re-installing the system, would there be any way of transferring or copying an ext3 /home into the new Reiser system ? Can you shrink partitions in place? I'm wondering about creating separate partitions for /boot and /var. Could you give me advice about appropriate sizes for those mount points? TIA DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:08, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip TIA DougB What about putting this stuff in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that when you reboot, it fires it up from there? Thanks. I don't have the faintest idea how to do that (what lines of script, how to set it up to run, etc.). Can you help? TIA DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 02:03, Josenildo Marques wrote: snip ee more with the article. One has only to be _open_ to learn more. I am not sure about this, but I think what kind of prevents Linux from growing in desktop use is a hardware item: the modem. It's extremely unbelievably hard to find modems that are compatible to Linux. I would have 'converted' snip This is a very good point, mate; and in all actuality, I've chucked a wobbly before just because I couldn't either get a modem working, or couldn't get PPP up and running easily enough; what is needed is something NOT like the MCC, but a standalone wizard or some such that would not only detect most normal modems, but also the winmodems (or rather, have better support for the winmodems - like the HST/HSP - the Conexant chipsets) so that first time newbies can literally do a few clicks here and there and voila! be on the net - and yeah, I know that snip I agree, but I must say I've found configuring printers to print decently and getting CD-writers to work at all much more of a PITA, particularly when you compare the ease of doing it in Win$. It was a major reason driving me to hop from one distro of Linux to another and will keep me upgrading MD for some time to come, no doubt. Unfortunately I don't have a Stephen nearby to hold my handWhoops! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 23:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 00:03, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: However, all these problems may be particular to *MD9.1*, because with 9.0 I found that the SCSI card could be installed directly (without any need for editing files, etc) during the original installation of 9.0, so long as that was done in expert mode. An absolute bugger! :- Off to try Stephen's suggestions. DougB Did a clean installation of 9.1 find the card, or was this card added AFTER the 9.1 installation? Stephen, The card has been sitting in the PC since long before MD9.0 - which took it on board OK during Expert installation. 9.1 was a clean expert installation, re-formatting all the partitions except /home. But no sign of the card (and no way of searching for it in MCC= Hardware, as far as I could see). DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:08 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: I tried editing /etc/modules.conf manually (as also suggested by Dark Lord - many thanks), adding the following lines Doug, did you try doing what I suggested in my last reply? Using MCC to find your card and configure the module from there? Just curious as to the result! Ronald, Thanks again. I tried editing modules.conf (and also modules) as you suggested - but no effect. I wrote back some days ago but haven't seen it on the mailing list,so don't know what happened to it. Did you send another e-mail? I have tried MCC= Hardware= Harddrake, but there's no sign of anything relating to (genuine) SCSI. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't create bootdisk - was Noob help!
Hi all, Sorry to keep coming back on this. I tried drakfloppy --testing on the CLI and got the following message: Is gtk2-perl missing Gtk2::Text::insert? Call trace: Gtk2::_Object::Autoload () called from /usr/sbin/drakfloppy:311 main::build_it() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk2.pm:849 (eval)() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/ughk2.pm:849 ugtk2::main() called from /usr/bin/drakfloppy:192 This time something was written to the floppy disk at last - a file called ldlinux.sys. Viewed with Kate, this has SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 LDLINUX SYS.. then a lot of binary stuff ¤ Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin boot could not find kernel image invalid or corrupt kernel image It appears your computer uses a 286 or lower CPU You cannot run Linux unless you have a 386 or higher CPU ipt kernel image. It appears your computer uses a 286 or lower CPU You cannot run Linux unless you have a 386 or higher CPU in your machine. If you get this message in error, hold down the Ctrl key while booting, and I will take your word for it. It appears your computer has less than 512K of low (DOS) RAM. Linux needs at least this amount to boot.If you get this message in error, hold down the Ctrl key while booting, and I will take your word for it. Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg Missing parameter in syslinux.cfg Could not find ramdisk image: Not enough memory to load specified kernel Kernel transfer failure. Cannot load a ramdisk with an old kernel image :attempted DOS system call COMBOOT image too large. Invalid or corrupt boot sector image. A20 gate not responding! Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue ready. Loading .. aborted SYSLINUXCFGinitrd=apdetifokbdiprlaimkesef1f2f3f4f5f6f7f8f9f0..binary... linux auto BOOT_IMAGE= Needless to say, the CPU and RAM messages are codswallop; but does this give any indications as to why the wretched system won't create a bootdisk? All help gratefully welcome! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 22:40, Dale Starr wrote: snip ### Start Message ### Your filesystem appears to be shutdown uncleanly Press Y within 4 seconds to force file system integrity check #So I press 'y' /dev/hda5: /lost+found not found. CREATED /dev/hda5: Optimizind Directories: 16350 48487 63105 79467 94847 111234 126216 126813 141986 (continues) /dev/hda5: * REBOOT LINUX * /dev/hda5: 63815/52416 files (0.3% non contiguous), 158268/504031 blocks Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N) (beware you can lose data) ### END Message ### snip Dale, I have a PITA intermittent error on bootup which causes the monitor to go into irrecoverable standby before Xstartup. The only way I can get out of it is to re-boot, when I get : Your filesystem appears, etc. I press Y and usually it goes through checking and putting all the filesystems to right and then runs normally. (The filesystem is ext3). I *have* had exactly the same message as you once... **REBOOT LINUX** I re-booted straight away and the re-boot went back to the usual Your filesystem appears but then carried on and corrected whatever needed correcting and ran normally. However, what appears to happen is that the journalling system reverts you to a previous state of the system (??the last one that worked - don't know).As far as I can tell there don't seem to be any fragments or rubbish laying around that need clearing up manually. Hope this helps. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:59, Ronald J. Hall wrote: snip Doug, have you tried a google search with something like linux name/model of your card problems (or installation) Might bring in some info/links/refs. Ronald, No. I'll give it a go. Thanks DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help! - can't create a boot floppy in 9.1
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 23:15, Derek Jennings wrote: snip Have you have disabled supermount? How do I do this? If supermount is disabled then your floppy has to be manually mounted and unmounted. If you remove the floppy without unmounting it then the files you write to the floppy will still be in the cache in memory. (Linux uses memory cache whenever possible and only writes to the physical media when it is necessary) The command 'sync' will cause all files in cache to be written out to the media. A umount command will also cause the cache to be written out. Haven't tried 'sync' here, but it won't let me 'umount' If supermount is enabled the floppy should be written as soon as you issue the copy command. There doesn't seem to be a 'copy' command in the MCC=Boot= Drakfloppy procedure, just 'build the disk'. Or am I missing something? derek Many thanks DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:40, ed tharp wrote: snip line in the image section for linux - error message duplicate append lines. Re-booted just the same. No sign of SCSI card. only one append line per boot stanza but options can be 'stacked'. Ed, How do you do that? TIA DougB snip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:32, Sharrea wrote: snip I have an Adaptec scsi card for my Microtek E6 scanner which is not presently being used with my current MDK9.0. It took me _weeks_ to find information on setting it up with Mandrake - MDK 8.1 at the time. Anyway, here's the website that provided the information: http://www.mir.com/mtek/ava-hints.html At the time I added the following line to /etc/modules.conf: options aha152x aha152x=0x140,9 Aha! I wondered how to get the parameters in and in /etc/lilo.conf append=aha152x=0x140,9 with 140 being the base I/O address (140h) and 9 being the IRQ which I set manually in BIOS. So perhaps you need to edit your lilo.conf. HTH. I'll try that and see how it fares. Many thanks also for the URL, DougB Sharrea Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:00, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:40, ed tharp wrote: snip snip here is part of my lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only each stanza starts with image= the append lines have options stack by including and separating by a single blank space, so if I wanted to include NOAPIC to the smp stanza it would look like this before I rerun /sbin/lilo, which I would do before I rebooted, but after editing image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC read-only so the only change would have been from this; append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off to this; append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC this would not have effected any other choices in my lilo menu, just when I start selecting the entry corresponding to the label. so for my self, I might even cut and past so I had a lilo that gave me the option smp-noapic (bad Idea, don't really try it, SMP, is multi procesor and needs apic) by adding a 'stanza' for smp-noapic so that lilo.conf looked like this image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp-noapic root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC read-only hope that helps Ed, Thanks. I'll give it a go. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
Ed and Ronald, On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:00, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip single blank space, so if I wanted to include NOAPIC to the smp stanza it would look like this before I rerun /sbin/lilo, which I would do before I rebooted, but after editing image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC read-only so the only change would have been from this; append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off to this; append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off NOAPIC snip Ronald, Thanks for the advice - I googled linux Adaptec/AHA1520, problems and installation. Problems referred to kernel problems around 1998, Installation gave essentially the same information as the Mandrake Twiki SCSI entry, so unfortunately, no further forward. Ed, Thanks for the help. I added the aha152x bit onto the append in my linux* stanza. /sbin/lilo accepted it without objecting this time. But on bootup, no sign of the fscking SCSI card. Any more suggestions? DougB BTW, I thought I might take the problem to the expert list as well: I've tried to subscribe through the support list and the mailing list via [EMAIL PROTECTED], but have had no acknowledgement whatever. Are they not accepting new subscribers, or is there some problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CF card
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:25, Frankie wrote: Come on stephen, be realistic,, Every time you try to mount your wife you end up with a floppy instead... :-) rgds snip That was a brilliant set of repartees! :-)) I'm still chuckling DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help! - can't create a boot floppy in 9.1
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 1:08 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Supermount is enabled/disabled in Mandrake Control CentreMount Points. I do not recommend disabling supermount because mounting/unmounting becomes a pain. Right! If supermount is enabled then the umount command will not work, but 'sync' will still cause any outstanding data to be written to the floppy. I see. Thanks for the advice.later: tried sync. Still doesn't write. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:54, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 07:35, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, This is a re-post - I hope someone has some ideas. In a PCI/ATAPI/IDE/USB system, how do I get a SCSI card recognised at boot-up? snip I can get the SCSI card recognised *after* the system is up and running by using modprobe. Then my SCSI device turns up as Host: scsi1, chan:0; id:2; lun:0. But I lose the SCSI card when I power down. It's very frustrating - any suggestions? Thanks, DougB Have you tried to manually edit the /etc/modules.conf and add the necessary modules there? That way it would be perm...and you can try to do a depmod -a Stephen, Thanks. I tried editing /etc/modules.conf manually (as also suggested by Dark Lord - many thanks), adding the following lines probeall scsi_hostadapter aha152x alias scsi1 aha152x (but without any parameters - I don't know where they would come or whether it matters. Does it?) and also /etc/modules adding another line scsi_hostadapter (and also tried variations on this - scsi_hostadapter1, etc.) then depmod -a. Didn't do a thing :-((. If I put the probeall scsi_hostadapter aha152x alias scsi1 aha152x in modules.conf *ahead* of probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci on re-booting I found the ...aha152x.. had been overwritten by usb-storage... What do you suggest? TIA DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! - SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 23:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: snip Did you check to see if everything was inserted into /etc/modules or modules.conf? Did yo do a depmod -a as root after inserting what you needed? Just a few thoughts there. These lines are in /etc/modules with my Adaptec 2930: scsi_hostadapter and this is in /etc/modules.conf: probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias scsi0 aic7xxx Dark Lord - Alas! No joy :-(( my modules is the same as yours mod.conf has the lines: probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci Trials: 1) after installing SCSI manually, depmod -a Re-boot - SCSI card lost nothing got put into modules or modules.conf 2) I added a line probeall scsi_hostadapter aha152x alias scsi1 aha152x (note:scsi1 because my ATAPI-IDE CD-writer is assigned to scsi0) to modules.conf and a second line scsi_hostadapter to modules then, after modprobe to install SCSI depmod -a re-booted again no joy :-(( SCSI card lost the mod.conf line aha152x had been overwritten probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage ide-scsi 3) in mods.conf I changed ...hostadapter usb-... to hostadapter0... and hostadapter aha152x... to hostadapter1... and made appropriate changes in mods. modprobe to install SCSI depmod -a Re-boot. Still no joy :-((( No SCSI card. Mods. conf not changed Where do I go from here? Any help gratefully received! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using other CDs
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 16:23, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2003 09:38 am, Pierre Dagenais wrote: Please re-read Anne's post. You've hijacked a hijacked thread. I'm not familiar with Eudora, but I'll bet it allows you to create a new message with a _new_ subject line that is somewhat more descriptive of your question. -- cmg Or try Evolution DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]Konqueror Crashes on changing Viewing Mode
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 23:11, Aron Smith wrote: snip product they put out it is amazing. Hope they will soon be in a position to hire again and take some of the load off of those guys. *** Hey it's my first linux played around with a few others but.. this one works Got to where I always go buy the commerical distro then give my old one to someone wanting to learn linux. Ditto - and hope it helps to spread the word. I'm looking forward to 9.2 when it's ready for the likes of the inexperienced like me. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aiuto !!
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:07, JoeHill wrote: Meglio di tutto, cominciate da principio, accendete la macchina col disco Mandrake 9.1 'Instal CD1' gia montato. Poi seguite gli istruzioni dell'installazione Easy Instal - deve andare bene tutto senza difficolta ed il Windows 98 deve rimanere accessibile come prima. Una cosa importante! - la divisione del HD (il 'partitioning'). Scegliete keep existing partitions, poi permettete il 'formatting' di /, di /boot e di /var(se li avete) ma *NON* /home. Cosi dovete poter rimpiazzare il tutto del Mandrake 8.2, ritenendo solamente i documenti personali intoccati. Puo darsi che dopo ci siano piccole difficolta, qualche programma non funzionera perfettamente perche la sua configurazione sara cambiata, ma queste saranno piccolezze da risolvere piu tardi. Il Joe si scusa per le barzellette delle prime risposte,e vi prega di scrivere ancora nel caso che incontrate nuovi problemi. Ciao, DougB Your best bet is to boot your computer from the Mandrake 9.1 install CD and follow the easy install process, really. It's *should* be that simple. Mandrake, as you may have discovered when you installed 8.2, will not hurt your 98 install, and in fact will coexist quite peacefully. One thing to take into account is the partitioning. At that stage of the 9.1 install I would suggest choosing keep existing partitions, then format *only* the system partition(s), *not* your /home partition, that way all your personal documents in your /home will be left untouched. There may be some minor issues with config files in your home dir being incompatible with newer software, but those issues can be easily dealt with and will not hurt your system in any way. I hope you did not take our bit of fun as mocking *you*, it was just us being goofy, and we really hope you will write back soon if you need any more assistance. Translate away! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91?
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:25, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 10:50 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: John Also Epson Perfection 1240U DougB I know I'm nagging, but PLEASE add it to the TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=HardwareCompatibility It's in everyone's interest to build a good database Anne __ Will do. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aiuto !!
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:07, JoeHill wrote: On 18 Jul 2003 10:49:30 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: snip I did post a brief outline below, it should at least get him started. snip It would have helped if I'd read your reply properly. Covered with confusion and apologies!!! Many thanks, DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aiuto !!
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 16:20, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:59:27 +0200 (CEST) stefano macchiavelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Help me please! snip I hope you did not take our bit of fun as mocking *you*, it was just us being goofy, and we really hope you will write back soon if you need any more assistance. Joe Sorry! didn't mean to criticise, just wanted to provoke a relevant reply from someone. Thanks for your reply, but before I try to translate, could you go through the steps he needs in order to remove 8.2, which he seems to need? TIA, DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aiuto !!
Ciao Stefano, Proveremo a trovare qualche aiuto, se continuate a seguire questo filo del mailing list. Mi aiuterebbe sapere fino a che punto capite l'inglese - bene ma senza poter scriverlo, abbastanza bene ma mancando certe parole tecniche, o quasi niente? DougB Hi everybody, I'm Stefano and I'm writing from Bologna. Some time ago I installed MD 8.2 but right from the beginning I've had problems with the floppy and CDROM. Every time I try to access them, up pops a panel saying I don't have access. The How-Tos I've consulted say that it's a real nuisance [if I understand correctly - DB]. So I've decided to uninstall 8.2 and try to install 9.1 to see if that will change something. I need to know what I should do, step by step, to uninstall 8.2. I have 2 hard disks on my machine, one with Win 98, the other with Mandrake. On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:59, stefano macchiavelli wrote: Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Stefano e vi srivo da Bologna. Ho installato snip Help me please! Grazie Stefano Macchiavelli, Bologna __ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/ __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91?
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 21:23, John Richard Smith wrote: snip To that end my epson perfection 2400 phot is excellent. John Also Epson Perfection 1240U DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aiuto !!
Here's the translation - I'll do my best to translate any *useful* replies DougB Hi everybody, I'm Stefano and I'm writing from Bologna. Some time ago I installed MD 8.2 but right from the beginning I've had problems with the floppy and CDROM. Every time I try to access them, up pops a panel saying I don't have access. The How-Tos I've consulted say that it's a real nuisance [if I understand correctly - DB]. So I've decided to uninstall 8.2 and try to install 9.1 to see if that will change something. I need to know what I should do, step by step, to uninstall 8.2. I have 2 hard disks on my machine, one with Win 98, the other with Mandrake. Help me please! Thanks. Any non-facetious suggestions? DougB On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:59, stefano macchiavelli wrote: Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Stefano e vi srivo da Bologna. Ho installato snip Help me please! Grazie Stefano Macchiavelli, Bologna __ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/ __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's Todd Lyons when I need him? and NEW E-MAILLIST....
Mike, Thanks for that courteous reply. It seems to me the mailing list just gets damaged, the way it was hijacked pretty well completely for a day, for an interminable bad-tempered spat, involving people who are normally among the most helpful contributors. I can understand the person who wrote he was unsubscribing; and I think any newly subscribed newbies coming in search of information and help must have been regretting they'd had anything to do with Linux Mandrake. I'd beg guys not to destroy the role of the Newbie Mailing List, which is one of the most valuable things about Mandrake, and to respect the OT - take squabbles elsewhere, before they start getting out of hand. There. That's my 2 pennys/cents/centimes worth :-) DougB On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:56, MWafkowski wrote: Doug - I wasn't joking...I was serious about taking this stuff to the OT list. One begins to think that the list is made up of all the loudmouths (like myself) and then other people chime in and say hello, I belong to this list for other reasons and you think, well, time to move it to where it belongs 8^) Peace, Mike Wafkowski - Original Message - From: Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beginners' Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Where's Todd Lyons when I need him? Good for you, Carroll! re: MRW - I'm with momma :-) DougB On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 02:11, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I joined this list several years ago because I needed all the help with Linux that I could get (still do), and this seemed like the best place to get it. I was right -- good advice, good people. As an unexpected bonus, I've made a lot of friends here, too. It's my belief that this list comes as close to being a genuine community as anything that I've seen on the web. I did NOT join this list to read great gobs of illiterate political ravings by otherwise very intelligent and likeable people who sadly seem to periodically lose all self control, indulging in the sort of shouting and name calling that would get any of my grandchildren an old-fashioned ass-chewing along with a good solid spanking. Look, if I want to read and discuss political matters, I know lots of places to go for that. If I want to listen to the kind of prattle that I've had to weigh through today, I can go down to the local jail and listen to the buffoons in the drunk tank. In short, as political analysts/proponents, you guys don't hack it. Cease and desist. Why the reference to Todd Lyons? Well, late last year one of these episodes broke out on the expert list. It got hot and heavy. Todd stepped in, and sent an off-list mail to all of those who had participated in the discussion that anyone who continued to post to the thread would be banished. End of discussion. FWIW, some of those guys have not been heard from since. On the good side, the various OT lists were formed in response to that action. And please don't tell me about filters -- why the hell should I have to do that to kill the drivel that other people are posting? (Nasty letter to follow.) -- cmg __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 04:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 7:25 pm, Lanman wrote: For those needing a work-around for bastille-firewall, I just wanted to update you. I'm beginning to sound like a stuck record - when you've finished, will you put it on the TWiki, please? Anne I second that! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's Todd Lyons when I need him?
Good for you, Carroll! re: MRW - I'm with momma :-) DougB On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 02:11, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I joined this list several years ago because I needed all the help with Linux that I could get (still do), and this seemed like the best place to get it. I was right -- good advice, good people. As an unexpected bonus, I've made a lot of friends here, too. It's my belief that this list comes as close to being a genuine community as anything that I've seen on the web. I did NOT join this list to read great gobs of illiterate political ravings by otherwise very intelligent and likeable people who sadly seem to periodically lose all self control, indulging in the sort of shouting and name calling that would get any of my grandchildren an old-fashioned ass-chewing along with a good solid spanking. Look, if I want to read and discuss political matters, I know lots of places to go for that. If I want to listen to the kind of prattle that I've had to weigh through today, I can go down to the local jail and listen to the buffoons in the drunk tank. In short, as political analysts/proponents, you guys don't hack it. Cease and desist. Why the reference to Todd Lyons? Well, late last year one of these episodes broke out on the expert list. It got hot and heavy. Todd stepped in, and sent an off-list mail to all of those who had participated in the discussion that anyone who continued to post to the thread would be banished. End of discussion. FWIW, some of those guys have not been heard from since. On the good side, the various OT lists were formed in response to that action. And please don't tell me about filters -- why the hell should I have to do that to kill the drivel that other people are posting? (Nasty letter to follow.) -- cmg __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Printer virus problem
I've had exactly the same problem with just a single Windows PC connected to 2 printers (both installed on the system) through a data switch. Print with the data switch switched to the wrong printer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Cancel the printing - no effect Delete the print job at the print manager - no effect. Power down the PC and re-boot - no effect if the printer was still on. Shut off the printer AND power down AND wait before re-booting - the printer re-starts spewing garbage until it's discharged its internal buffer. Gaaah! It would be nice if printers came with a 'Flush printer internal buffer' option. DougB On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:49, rikona wrote: Hello Stephen, Friday, June 27, 2003, 5:18:45 AM, you wrote: snip I had this problem on a Win-only local net, with an Epson printer. The symptoms were a short line on each page, and a huge number of pages. The data was transferred to the printer buffer and the only solution was to shut off the printer. If it was a large print job, there was still garbage remaining on the source computer too, and that had to be flushed as well, otherwise it would continue if the printer was restarted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel configuration
Noah, Please don't hijack threads to post a query - it makes things very confusing.The threads end up quite useless, as a random collection of messages . Thanks, DougB On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 06:44, Noah A Hicks wrote: When someone says to use the following parameters to configure a kernel, how can this be implemented in makemenuconfig? CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y Is this done by manually editing the configure script? Just trying to figure out a website with kernel confige info for my hardware. Thanks Noah __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Latest version of Opera/Mandrake?
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 05:38, Thomas Williams wrote: On Tuesday 24 June 2003 11:59 pm, rikona wrote: snip Yes, actually there's a version 7.11 available at http://www.opera.com. I can't really recommend it. I tried it and it worked great at first and then for some reason it has slowed way down to the point its a pain to use. snip I have it and use it occasionally as an alternative to Galeon, so far it's good. Just keeping my fingers crossed in view of what you say. DougB Tom Williams __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 00:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: snip There! - I knew we'd flush out a real historian eventually. Thanks for the correction. DougB The full quotation is: Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning. It comes from Hanns Johst's most famous play, Schlageter (first performed in April 1933, for Hitler's birthday) and occurs in Act 1, Scene 1. The character who says the line is called Thiemann. This is usually translated as Whenever I hear the word culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning! From the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations entry for Johst, Hanns (1890 - 1978) German playwright. HTH Kaj Haulrich (who happens to trust IBM). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
Never had much joy with LS120 drives - kept going out of alignment and then wouldn't read the 120MB disks or write to the floppies - Linux or Win. Ditched them after the second failure. DougB On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is certainly going to complicate trouble shooting a standalone home PC. -- cmg So a useful tool for your box would be a usb superfloppy. I think they are still available? Most modern bioses will boot from LS120 and zip, I think Anne Anne: Good point, and something that the laptop folks have learned to do. However, I still like the idea of a $10 floppy drive and a small stack of disks with various recovery tools on them. Floppies may be slow, and their limited capacity is a real pain, but they are simple, robust and nearly universal -- at least in the home/SOHO desktop realm. Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that they want to help Grampa. Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and #1 Son. -- cmg Know the feeling g I know they're not fashionable, but I wouldn't be without my LS120. It reads standard floppies as well as the 120MB disks, so it would still do what you want. Oops - I sound as though I work for Imation g Anne __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 06:25, Ian Trickett wrote: I very much doubt it http://www.browning.co.uk/ Ian Herman Goering said When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my Browning. Richard __ Me, too. Schmeissner ? or would that be an anachronism? DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:55, RichardA wrote: On 21 Jun 2003 10:21:39 +0100, Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:13, RichardA wrote: snip Sounds very useful, but I don't see how to do this in 1.3.3. Could you give me an idiot's guide? TIA DougB It was from the bookmark manager, bookmarks - 'add bookmark to', or right-clicking in the bookmarks tree, but I'm still on 1.2.5. See my reply to eric- if they really have taken these useful options out, it might be worth installing the older one. Richard Now seen your reply to Eric and his response - it's the same for me. A shame :( DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:13, RichardA wrote: snip .. bookmarking in Galeon. You can open a folder in tabs, save a bookmark directly into a subfolder, order them non-alphabetically, export them in three different formats... Sounds very useful, but I don't see how to do this in 1.3.3. Could you give me an idiot's guide? TIA DougB Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 02:22, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but I get concerned that any time the government gets involved One of my favourite quotes, I still have no idea where it came from: When I hear the word 'government', I reach for my gun. To be pedantically accurate, the original is When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my gun. by one of the Nazis. I think it was the Brownshirt leader, not Goebbels, and he used the actual name of a German gun - you historians can put me right. However, Tom's/Joe's quote/misquote is a better version, IMHO DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IMAP trouble (Evolution), OT Thunderbird
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 23:01, Todd Slater wrote: snip It's not quite ready for prime-time for one simple reason: it can't pass URL's to a browser, so you can't just click a link in your email and have it open in your browser of choice. For me that makes it unusable. snip Todd Odd! I use Evo in just that way since Evo 1.2.7. When I migrated to MD9.1 my browser for Evo 1.3.3 was set by the system to Mozilla rather than my preferred Galeon. Corrected that using a tip from one of Stephen's always (well, nearly always!) useful mails. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
FWIW, when you add a bookmark from a Web page in Opera (7.11) the 'Add' takes you straight to the list of folders where you might want to put it. (Quite a nice, fast browser, IMHO). DougB On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:09, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Charlie wrote: snip A way of adding bookmarks in Mozilla that I have found to be easier is to: -press F9 to open the sidebar -select the Bookmarks tab (will then be selected the next time you open the sidebar) -arrange the bookmarks by alpabetical orer by clicking Name until satisfied (this only needs to be done the first time you manage your bookmarks in this manner) -scroll down to the folder in which you would like to place the bookmark -drag the icon to the left of the URL in the address bar straight to the folder -press F9 to close the sidebar (or leave it open) It is much easier to access the bookmarks in this way than it to use the Bookmarks menu in the main window because of the alphabetical sorting. Scroll down to what you want...click on the folder to open it...click on the bookmark itself to go to the web page. I don't know if this works in Galeon. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:02, Technoslick wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:52, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip NOTE: In Galeon 1.3.3 they are placed in 'New Bookmarks' instead Beg to differ, Doug. I'm running Galeon 1.3.3 and they surely go to the unassigned section of the list, under no folders. Have you make an adjustment in the settings to cause yours to do this? It's been like this for as long as I can remember, as it is in Mozilla, too. T T, Mystified - I agree,earlier versions of Galeon I've run did exactly as you say. However, Gal 1.3.3 installed itself when I installed MD 9.1 (standard mode) and without any tweaking on my part puts things in 'New Bookmarks' - oh well,sorry if I've caused any confusion! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS ?
Ralph, I'd recommend using Partition Magic to carry out all your manipulations on XP. Follow the preparatory steps recommended by PM. Then use PM to shrink the space allocated to XP. If your user data are on a separate virtual drive, convert that to FAT32. Install MD in the free space and install lilo as your bootloader. You can then look at your NTFS partition and write to your FAT32 partition in Linux and dual-boot into Linux or XP. Good luck! DougB On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 21:34, Ralph Bagwell wrote: My effort to install Mandrake 9.1 on a PC that has Windows XP already installed has stopped at the partitioning phase twice . I now recall a comment somewhere that Linux doesn't like NTFS systems - Can I install on this XP machine that is using NTFS? If not can I use Partition Magic and create a FAT 32 partition and go from there? I'm on hold !! Thanks Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux-friendly ISPs revisited - OT?
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:27, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 5:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Thank you, Doug. I shall start screaming at Tiscali. May I quote your post? Anne Anne, Sure thing. Sock it to them! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux-friendly ISPs revisited - OT?
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:27, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 5:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Thank you, Doug. I shall start screaming at Tiscali. May I quote your post? Anne Anne, Sure thing. Sock it to them! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to use wine?
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use wine to run MS word on MDK linux for my job. Can it be possible? If so, after installing wine, how sould I install MS word please? Regards, Kishi __ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 You can go here to get advice on using Wine http://frankscorner.org/ But if you want the easiest least pain method of using MSOffice, then spend a bit of money and buy Codeweavers Office. It is a version of Wine optimised for Office applications with a very nice installer, and support if you have problems. http://www.codeweavers.com/home/ derek The version of Wine that comes included with Mdk 9.0 runs only a crippled version of MS Word - you may not find it adequate. Probably Codeweavers paid software is much better. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 21:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip setup a special partition for that. You can always backup your /home partition to the Windows partition if any trouble comes. snip Excellent idea - I'll try that when I set about installing 9.1 - it sounds as though quite a lot of people are having grief with it at the moment. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do you change Regional settings?
John, Thanks! It turned out to be a problem with the Lindrivers for the Winmodem. There is a Country configuration option for Italy for the driver - which didn't solve the problem. However, if this fails, the driver FAQs recommend adding the modem command ATX3 (disabling Wait for dialling tone before dialling on KPPP is equivalent); and this has worked fine. DougB On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:24, ajx wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Sony laptop, dual boot XP/Mdk 9.0 - Gnome, winmodem working OK as linmodem in the UK. Now I'm in Italy, I have set up an account on KPPP with an Italian ISP (works fine on Win$). With KPPP - Querying the modem - OK. Connect - I hear the dialling tone of the Italian phoneline quite clearly, but after an interval KPPP reports NO DIALTONE. It may be that you need a new modem, specific to Italy. Someone who came here from S. Africa had the same problem - but it was cured by a modem bought in France. John _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do you change Regional settings?
John, Thanks! It turned out to be a problem with the Lindrivers for the Winmodem. There is a Country configuration option for Italy for the driver - which didn't solve the problem. However, if this fails, the driver FAQs recommend adding the modem command ATX3 (disabling Wait for dialling tone before dialling on KPPP is equivalent); and this has worked fine. DougB On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:24, ajx wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Sony laptop, dual boot XP/Mdk 9.0 - Gnome, winmodem working OK as linmodem in the UK. Now I'm in Italy, I have set up an account on KPPP with an Italian ISP (works fine on Win$). With KPPP - Querying the modem - OK. Connect - I hear the dialling tone of the Italian phoneline quite clearly, but after an interval KPPP reports NO DIALTONE. It may be that you need a new modem, specific to Italy. Someone who came here from S. Africa had the same problem - but it was cured by a modem bought in France. John _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd
snip On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 21:54, Peter Watson wrote: In XCDRoast 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings''HD Settings' which will contain your ISO image 2)click 'create CD', click 'master tracks', select files you want to include in right hand window (File/Directory View) click 'add' and files appear in left hand window (session view) 3)click 'create session/image' tab, click 'master to image file' (this is in the directory you set up in 1) 4)click 'write tracks' (at side), click 'write tracks' (at bottom) Eh Voila, note you may also need to look through all the myriad of other options along the way to be sure they are ok, eg things like rockridge or joliet. I've had problems with XCDroast,trying to copy data files. Following all those steps (disabling all the rockridge, joliet options except the one recommended for backup CDs) I was able to write out OK only on one occasion. Ever since then, everything goes fine until the actual burning, when it terminates prematurely, having written for about 0.06s.Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I try single or multi-session, CD-R or CD-RW. Any ideas? (Sorry I can't give the exact error message - I don't have that PC here; it's about 700 miles away) DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
