Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze
Alle 02:52, domenica 3 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: perfetto.se pigio (sono gia in ambiente grafico con Win..Make..) su xinitrc mi parte in sovraposizione KDE...questo mi fa pensare che siamo sulla strada giusta! Ehm .. no, mi sa che abbiamo fatto un passo indietro :P; c'e' il rischio di rimanere ingabbiati nel circolo vizioso di scriptini (come dicevo) e qui come modifico lo script? Gli ho dato una sguardata ma mi rimanda (sempre che abbia capito bene) ad un altro file/script in un altar dir,che nn sono riuscito ad individuare. ecco ... in /etc/sysconfig un file di nome desktop ho provato a cambiare un po le cose tipo mettendo Windetc al posto di KDE e qui nn ha avuto nessu efetto Hai ben tre possibilita' di scelta: 1) recuperi in MDK control center il punto in cui viene scelto il WM e lo modifichi per usare wmaker [ma qui non mi ricordo proprio una mazza]; o 2) cerchi di seguire la selva di script che richiamano script che richiamano script che richiamano file di configurazione [diciamo che non ne vale la pena .. ]; oppure 3) crei un file nella tua $HOME di nome .xinitrc che avvia wmaker (cioe' contenga alla fine exec /usr/bin/wmaker) Il mio e' piu' elaborato, il problema e' che non so se si attaglia alla tua distribuzione .. Prova a vedere se funziona cosi' (altrimenti ti mando il testo che ho io) poi o provato a sostituire Kdm con Wind..etc,e qui si è piantato X No, le due alternative a kdm sono gdm e xdm (meglio lasciare quello che c'e') -- GNU/Linux * Slackware 8.1+9.0beta1 * LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 http://www.softwarelibero.it/progetti/eucd/analisi.shtml http://www.apogeonline.com/webzine/2002/10/30/01/200210300102 http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=41977 (Parola di Microsoft ...)
[newbie-it] installazione pacchetto gtk+-2.0.2
Cerco di installare il pacchetto in oggetto ma con ./configure alla fine ottengo: checking for X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h... no configure: error: pangoxft Pango backend found, but Xft not found anche se: [rootlocalhost gtk+-2.0.2]# locate XftFreetype.h /home/fulvio/pango-1.0.4/pango/mini-xft/MiniXftFreetype.h /home/fulvio/pango-1.0.5/pango/mini-xft/MiniXftFreetype.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h ed essendo: [rootlocalhost gtk+-2.0.2]# echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH /home/fulvio/gtk+-2.0.2/:/root/glib-2.0.6/:/home/fulvio/atk-1.0.3/:/home/fulvio/pango-1.0.4/ :/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/ Aiuto! Un saluto, Fulvio
Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze
Alle 13:00, domenica 3 novembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto...sempre che abbia capito bene!: Ehm .. no, mi sa che abbiamo fatto un passo indietro :P; c'e' il rischio di rimanere ingabbiati nel circolo vizioso di scriptini (come dicevo) e qui come modifico lo script? Gli ho dato una sguardata ma mi rimanda (sempre che abbia capito bene) ad un altro file/script in un altar dir,che nn sono riuscito ad individuare. ecco ... Come temevo! Hai ben tre possibilita' di scelta: 1) recuperi in MDK control center il punto in cui viene scelto il WM e lo modifichi per usare wmaker [ma qui non mi ricordo proprio una mazza]; o Trovato!!.ma qui c'è una cosa strana in stile Vimzowss!!! facio la modifica ma non ha alcun efetto..cambio KDE con Wmake allo startx c'è sempre KDE!!! che strano!! nn capisco! (non è che KDE sta cercando di emulare troppo l' ambiente desktop di winzow?) 2) cerchi di seguire la selva di script che richiamano script che richiamano script che richiamano file di configurazione [diciamo che non ne vale la pena .. ]; oppure Cosi divento pazzo! 3) crei un file nella tua $HOME di nome .xinitrc che avvia wmaker (cioe' contenga alla fine exec /usr/bin/wmaker) Il mio e' piu' elaborato, il problema e' che non so se si attaglia alla tua distribuzione .. Prova a vedere se funziona cosi' (altrimenti ti mando il testo che ho io) Uhmmm questa strada sembra interessante... che dovrei creare di preciso? ( sono un po tordo! [:-) devo inserire uno script? un semplice file di testo? qui inizzio ad uscire da cio che mi è piu familire. No, le due alternative a kdm sono gdm e xdm (meglio lasciare quello che c'e') A che servono questi parametri.sempre che siano parametri. Scusa se ti chiedo tutte ste cose.vorrei capirci un po di piu. Grazie Ciao , Tom poi o provato a sostituire Kdm con Wind..etc,e qui si è piantato X No, le due alternative a kdm sono gdm e xdm (meglio lasciare quello che c'e')
[newbie-it] Stampante
Salve a tutta la lista , ho installato oggi mandrake 9.0 , devo dire che è molto buona e quei fastidiosi bug che avevo sulla 8.1 non ci sono quindi devo dire che è molto buona . Però ho avuto un problema con la stampante , nel configurarla tramite drakconf mi ha dato molti problemi specialmente con cups , cioè non voleva saperne di funzionare e non capisco il perchè , allora ho impostato il tipo di stampa LPR/LPRng e in questo modo tutto funziona in modo corretto tranne che con gimp non stampa , con tutti gli altri programmi compreso openoffice la stampante funziona correttamente . Per il momento posso rimediare salvando l'immagine e stampare con un altro programma tipo kview. Qualcuno di voi ha avuto lo stesso problema oppure sa cosa ho sbagliato ? In attesa di risposta ringrazio. Ciao Lele __ Scarica il nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: con webcam, nuove faccine e tante altre novità. http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.messenger.yahoo.com/
[newbie-it] gogo
ciao a tutti sapete indicarmi un programma per rippare e codificare dei file da cd.wav=mp3 visto che con ripper e grip non riesco a combinare niente nel senso che mi compare un icona con il titolo del brano ma inascoltabile ...0byte!! inoltre sento parlare di gogo come encoder ma non rieco a trovarlo grazie a tutti mario
Re: [newbie-it] gogo
mario wrote: ciao a tutti sapete indicarmi un programma per rippare e codificare dei file da cd.wav=mp3 visto che con ripper e grip non riesco a combinare niente nel senso che mi compare un icona con il titolo del brano ma inascoltabile ...0byte!! inoltre sento parlare di gogo come encoder ma non rieco a trovarlo grazie a tutti mario Ciao Mario L'encoder di cui parli credo tu lo possa trovare qua: http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html Spero di esserti stato utile
Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze
Alle 20:27, domenica 3 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: 1) recuperi in MDK control center il punto in cui viene scelto il WM facio la modifica ma non ha alcun efetto..cambio KDE con Wmake allo startx c'è sempre KDE!!! Allora molto probabilmente questo funziona solo per il login grafico, pazienza. 3) crei un file nella tua $HOME di nome .xinitrc che avvia wmaker (cioe' contenga alla fine exec /usr/bin/wmaker) devo inserire uno script? un semplice file di testo? uno script di shell (e va reso eseguibile): --- #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/wmaker --- se non funziona correttamente (controlla per sicurezza la directory di wmaker) vuol dire che van messi anche altri dati (che poi ti passo ... _sempre che vadano bene_ ...) No, le due alternative a kdm sono gdm e xdm (meglio lasciare quello A che servono questi parametri.sempre che siano parametri. Brevemente: sono gestori del login grafico tradizionale: kdm e' nei pacchetti di kde, gdm e' nei pacchetti di gnome, xdm e' quello che funge in assenza dei precedenti. -- GNU/Linux * Slackware 8.1+9.0beta1 * LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 http://www.softwarelibero.it/progetti/eucd/analisi.shtml http://www.apogeonline.com/webzine/2002/10/30/01/200210300102 http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=41977 (Parola di Microsoft ...)
Re: [newbie-it] Audio e misteri
controlla che esistano /dev/dsp e /dev/mixer esistono proprietario mio utente gruppo audio (a cui mio utente appartiene) permessi 600 poi controlla che abbiano permessi 666 (o che tu appartenga ad un gruppo, es 'audio' che può scriverci, in questo caso vanno bene anche 660) [in questo caso, però, root dovrebbe poter accedere al dispositivo 'negato' all'utente ] poi controlla che il modulo della tua scheda audio sia stato caricato con lsmod 8139 carico e pronto! con lspci vedi il tipo di scheda, cerca quindi in modules.conf e in lib/modules/versione/kernel/drivers/audio un modulo con un nome simile al dispositivo che monti se hai i moduli questi vengono caricati, hai il dsp, hai i permessi di scriverci, allora controlla di non aver settato in modo eretico il tuo kde... CIOè in che senso eretico ;) bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete
workgroup = MSHOME netbios name = LINUXBOX se i nomi sono maiuscoli, controlla bene di scriverli allo stesso modo in hosts e in fase di mount I nomi sono ok! se fai ping LINUXBOX da win$ cosa ottieni? nn lo pingo! ma c'e' di +: in questi giorni ho continuato a fare prove su prove e ho anche reinstallato varie volte il SO provando vari livelli di sicurezza e alla fine di tutto ecco che cosa ho scoperto: 1 il livello di sicurezza nn influisce su questo problema. 2 se provo a cambiare il livello di sicurezza da centro di controllo di mdk il sistema si blocca e nn permette + di tornare al menu' di configurazione [Sicurezza] del centro di controllo. 3 in un solo modo la condivisione e samba funzionano e cioe' andando, sempre col centro di controllo alla configurazione del firewall e aggiungendo manualmente le porte137/tcp e 139/tcp alla voce [avanzate] e sempre qui ho potuto notare che la condivisione dell'accesso a internet (adsl speedtouch usb che x altro funziona) ha modificato l'abilitazione di tutti i servizi da me impostata in fase di installazione, in cosa di preciso nn lo so ma la casellina [abilita tutti] nn e' + spuntata bene, dopo avere abilitato appunto le suddette porte 137 e 139 e anche 1 (webmin), riavvio la macchina e: MIRACOLO! funziona samba ma MERDA! nn mi condivide + la connessione a internet. Inutile precisare che se riabilito la condivisione della connessione al primo samba restart dalle macchine wins nn navigo + in Tux... anche se lo vedo ( MI SA CHE BUTTO LA MDK, CHE ADESSO MI HA PROPRIO ROTTO I COGLIONI, E MI METTO A STUDIARE SERIAMENTE LA RED HAT CHE E' UN BEL PO' + STABILE. + vado avanti con linux e + mi sembra di nn capirci un cazzo! :((
[newbie-it] allarmi angosce
Mi e' arrivata una mail, che riportero' tra asterischi, che mi indica che una mia lettera e' non e' arrivata a destinazione. Ma io non conosco il destinatario... e in allegato c'e' un file di tipo *.exe. E' possibile che qualche virus, per convincermi ad aprire l'allegato, possa mandarmi un avviso del genere dove, attenzione, sarei io il mittente? *** Undeliverable mail--cellspacing Data: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:20:27 -0200 Da: postmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTMLHEAD/HEADBODY FONTThe following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:br br From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]br To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]br Subject: cellspacingbr The attachment is the original mail/FONT/BODY/HTML action.exe *** Oppure ho davvero mandato (a mia insaputa) quella mail, e dunque ho un virus? E se ho un virus, come l'ho beccato visto che da mesi ormai non uso piu' win$, e che non apro la posta da web? Oppure ho beccato l'unico virus sfigato che affligge linux? Insomma, devo preoccuparmi? Piangere e disperarmi? Oppure e' il solito trucco per polli, e mi sto affannando per nulla? -- Arwan
[newbie-it] raccolte
Innanzi tutto un grazie di cuore a Giorgio. Ho seguito il suo consiglio (non e' per fare pubblicita', ma merita davvero), ed ho comprato la raccolta dei primi quattro Linux Pratico: che dire, a parte il prezzo veramente modico (quattro riviste dell'anno scorso a 2,60 euro) gli argomenti trattati sono proprio quelli di base, dall'uso della shell all'archiviazine, dalla programmazione di operazioni ripetitive alla ricompilazione del kernel, dalla creazione di mp3 alla masterizzazione... insomma, e' una manna per chi ha bisogno - in italiano - di un po' di informazioni su cosa e come fare determinate operazioni con Linux. Il bello e' che magari la vostra attenzione e' rivolta a un solo argomento, pero' spulciando di qua e di la' la rivista mette la voglia di approfondire, di provare cose nuove, che si lasciavano in sospeso per un prossimo futuro (della serie: vorrei fare questo, ma dovro' aspettare di aver imparato a...), e scoprite come tutto rientra in un quadro globale molto piu' semplice da gestire di quanto non sembri ad un primo, superficiale sguardo, uno sguardo, insomma, da newbie. Se ne avete occasione, leggiucchiatevi qualche articolo. PS: gli articoli parlano di Linux in generale, per tutte le distribuzioni, ma hanno una buona attenzione agli utenti della MDK -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] indici e appunti
Alle 19:36, giovedì 31 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] indici e appunti, freefred hai scritto: On Wednesday 30 October 2002 9:41 pm, Arwan wrote about [newbie-it] indici e appunti: Per caso sapete se sugli appuntilinux c'e' un indice dei comandi, o uno analitico per ritrovare con facilita' gli argomenti? C'e' l'indice analitico, che uso in effetti quando cerco qualcosa di specifico. In che versione hai gli Appunti? Una vecchiotta (un anno e mezzo fa, se non ricordo male), ma probabilmente riesco a mettere la mani su una piu' recente. Perche' in versione html il link e' subito nell'home page. Ulp... non dirmi che sono diventata pazza e l'avevo sotto il naso... Per i comandi ho anche dei doc specifici che ho preso tempo fa. Se cerchi con google con comandi unix o unix commands ne trovi un po' di tuti i generi. Ottimo, grazie. Ne approfitto per un'altra domanda. Vorrei stampare parte delle pagine dei man di alcuni comandi, ma se lancio, per esempio: man cdrecord opzionicdrecord.txt il file di testo che ottengo e' piuttosto sporco. Come posso ovvaire il problema? Ci sono directory o file da cui recuparare le stesse info che mi da' il man, senza impazzire con formattazioni strane? -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] allarmi angosce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:13, domenica 3 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Mi e' arrivata una mail, che riportero' tra asterischi, che mi indica che una mia lettera e' non e' arrivata a destinazione. Ma io non conosco il destinatario... e in allegato c'e' un file di tipo *.exe. E' possibile che qualche virus, per convincermi ad aprire l'allegato, possa mandarmi un avviso del genere dove, attenzione, sarei io il mittente? [cut] Tranquilla, sono messaggi spediti da qualche virus di cui è affetto qualcuno che ha il tuo indirizzo di posta elettronica. Ogni tanto ne arriva qualcuno anche a me (al posto di [EMAIL PROTECTED] io ho [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Quando mi arrivarono la prima volta, allarmato, spedii un messaggio di chiarimenti al postmaster di Virgilio ma mi risposero che nonerano loro e che si trattava, appunto, di un virus. Ciao Sandro - -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - A.I.P. n° 2075 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 8.2 on PIII 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9xh86/ayi1TbZzlQRAnh7AKDIN1WKOyuB/a4NqMiM2ny1iP43egCfcA2a ram8zumkHXRIe6LQWBSFB+k= =/wAy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I keep getting error messages in the shutdown script for NMB Serices. I cannot find any references to NMB services, so unable to tackle the problem. What are NMB Serices and any ideas as to what I should do. John The startup / shutdown scripts of Mandrake are ill-minded anyway, so I always write my own. But I think NMB refers to the nmbd, which belongs to the Samba package. It's the nebios name service daemon as a counterpart to smbd. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Hiya! Brand new to Linux, and trying to install Mandrake 8.0 on an old Compaq Proliant Server (1500) with P166 and 128. Also new to SCSI, and this machine has tonnes of it. I managed to boot off the installation diskette, and got to the install of Linux, but was stopped when Linux could not find somewhere to load the OS onto. I have heard that installaing linux on these servers isn't easy. I used Compaqs Smart Start CD, and I think I got all that right. Maybe there is a command line way to get this to work? Thanks, Craig Wet Behind em Ears! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again
On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 1:15 pm, you wrote: I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' in my config for launching an external web browser. From what I understand, galeon launches the web browser, and '%s' adds the link you click on. Hope this works! Myself, am using Sylpheed claws version 0.8.5 I am using KMail and Mozilla 1 and wondered if I could use this launch facility, but can't find the place to add it. I have presumed that it should be in the KMail settings, but I'm not sure. I certainly can't find anywhere obvious in the configure pages. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [Fwd: Internet connection time]
---BeginMessage--- In SuSE KDE I was used to monitor the internet connection status with an icon from kinternet. This was helpfull as I have no flatrate and was using Dial-on-demand. Is there something equivalent in Mandrake's distribution. I really want to know, how long I am connected. Can somebody please help me. Regards HGM ---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 9:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 1:15 pm, you wrote: I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' in my config for launching an external web browser. From what I understand, galeon launches the web browser, and '%s' adds the link you click on. Hope this works! Myself, am using Sylpheed claws version 0.8.5 I am using KMail and Mozilla 1 and wondered if I could use this launch facility, but can't find the place to add it. I have presumed that it should be in the KMail settings, but I'm not sure. I certainly can't find anywhere obvious in the configure pages. Anne Kmail will by default launch konqueror. To change it KDEControlPanelFileBrowsingFileAssociations search for the entry for html and then add or move your browser of choice to the top of the list. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless
Patrick. Do you hear the 'beeps' when pcmcia service starts? Have a look in syslog (/var/log/syslog) for messages relating to pcmcia What do they say? Is this a laptop or a desktop with a pcmcia-pci adapter? What happens if you type pcic_probe in a root terminal window? derek On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 2:32 am, Patrick Griffin wrote: Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat You need to install the pcmcia_cs and wireless-tools RPMS from your CDs Then next time you reboot yor pcmcia sockets should be detected and become active. You will hear two beeps from your computer when the pcmcia slots are enabled. Two beeps of different tone means your oricoco card was detected OK. Two beeps of same tone means it was not. Go through the Mandrake Control Centre Networking wizard. It should have detected your card and installed the 'wvlan_cs' driver. In the wizard you can set the wireless parameters (encryption key rate etc) after you complete the wizard with OK, DO NOT exit the GUI with OK. A bug means that it will write your old configuration back again. You must exit the GUI with 'Cancel' Your card should now be working. If it is not it is most likely a problem with encryption key or essid (Note ASCII encryption keys have to be entered in the format s:key_name ) You can use the command 'iwconfig eth0' in a root terminal window to set up the wireless card by hand, and 'man iwconfig' will give you all the parameters. HTH derek --- - 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] [Fwd: Internet connection time]
you forgot to put in your message From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF THERE IS ONE, IT IS A UNDETECTED VIRUS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.. Black text on white background HTML Emails and replied with white text on white. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of hgm Sent: 03 November 2002 23:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] [Fwd: Internet connection time] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.410 / Virus Database: 231 - Release Date: 31/10/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.410 / Virus Database: 231 - Release Date: 31/10/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again
In reply to Len's mail, d.d. Sun, 3 Nov 2002 06:10:06 +: I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' galeon -n %s will open a URL in a new tab. :) Paul -- Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -G. K. Chesterton http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.3 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie]
could you be more specific. do you make partitions? did you call one of them swap / and what else did you do? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Craig Lister Sent: þà 03 ðåáîáø 2002 11:18þ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hiya! Brand new to Linux, and trying to install Mandrake 8.0 on an old Compaq Proliant Server (1500) with P166 and 128. Also new to SCSI, and this machine has tonnes of it. I managed to boot off the installation diskette, and got to the install of Linux, but was stopped when Linux could not find somewhere to load the OS onto. I have heard that installaing linux on these servers isn't easy. I used Compaqs Smart Start CD, and I think I got all that right. Maybe there is a command line way to get this to work? Thanks, Craig Wet Behind em Ears! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 10:49 am, you wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 9:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 1:15 pm, you wrote: I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' in my config for launching an external web browser. From what I understand, galeon launches the web browser, and '%s' adds the link you click on. Hope this works! Myself, am using Sylpheed claws version 0.8.5 I am using KMail and Mozilla 1 and wondered if I could use this launch facility, but can't find the place to add it. I have presumed that it should be in the KMail settings, but I'm not sure. I certainly can't find anywhere obvious in the configure pages. Anne Kmail will by default launch konqueror. To change it KDEControlPanelFileBrowsingFileAssociations search for the entry for html and then add or move your browser of choice to the top of the list. derek Unfortunateliy it doesn't work now. It did when I used 0.9.x as shipped, but hasn't worked with the new install. I think that having two versions installed may have caused the problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
Hello Charlie, I have listed my mtab fstab files below and think they look ok. Also tryed changing to speeds 1 2 3.or 4 and used the 'v' but still get the report:- cdrecord : Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. You were certainly right about re-booting and getting the cdrecord -scanbus back on line. /etc/mtab file /dev/hdb5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 /etc/fstab file /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0 If you get too burdened with all of this please just say, but I am grateful to you more than you know. It's useful to have you at my side thrashing it out! Best wishes, Malcolm. On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 17:55, Charlie wrote: On Saturday 02 November 2002 08:49 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Dear Charlie, Hello Malcolm; (interspersed) It's getting worse! 'cdrecord -scanbus' seems to have lost the plot. I have copied the results as follows:- [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -V speed=0 dev=0,3,0 -eject /home/malcolm/mtdir-25oct02.raw That capital V is incorrect, it should be -v for verbose. Also 'speed=0' isn't going to do a thing you want. You'll have to change that to a value of 1,2,3 or4 to fit the capabilities of the Mitsumi. It actually won't burn anything at zero ya know. As far as writing a raw file from a mount directory goes I've never tried it. RAW is supposed to be one of the supported formats but I'll have to find what flags to use with it. I'll get back to you on that. Have you neglected your daily caffeine intake? speed=0??? ;) Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg3'. Cannot open SCSI driver. Because you gave it conflicting commands. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. Conflict because it's still trying to execute the previous command maybe? cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. [rootlocalhost malcolm]# ##What on earth is /dev/pg3, I have no /dev/pg files! Interesting question here. I'm on a research run looking for a reason for this. I'll let you know when I find something unless one of the people that _know_ what the devil they're about are willing to throw us a bone? It would help (probably) to check /etc/fstab to see whether it's recognized as a valid drive. Also check /etc/mtab (mount table) and /etc/lilo.conf. Maybe post those here? If you have posted them in the past sorry, I'll have to read through the whole thread again to be sure I don't duplicate previous efforts. It almost seems the scsi emulation module (or kernel driver, I can never remember which it is) isn't loading, or the cd-rw can't be mounted any longer; maybe because of of the conflicting command you used. If that's the case a reboot may take care of it. Or is it just displaying all of this 'cause you told it to burn at zero burn speed? If so it may be that simply logging out and back in may do it. Honest Malcolm, I ain't givin' you a hard time about that speed=0 thing! Much. :-) Before I reinstall Mandrake 9.0 to get back where I was, I am wondering if my file system which is ext3 may make a difference. Is that your system? I have /boot, and /root mounted ext3 but the rest of my drives and partitions are XFS. Shouldn't make a difference since ext3 is mostly journalling and a few other goodies tacked onto ext2 (linux native) anyway. I don't think it would make a difference anyway. I am grateful for your help, this is driving me crazy and pleased to recompense you for your trouble; after all I would have to pay with MandrakeExpert and this I will
[newbie] Boradcom Gigabit Netword card
Has anyone succeeded in configuring a Broadcom 5700 Gigabit card before? I realize that it's a new piece of hardware, but the drivers are out there. Asus supplies them on their M/B CD, and their available from Broadcom's web-site, but they haven't helped. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've read the documentation for it, and compiled a driver RPM from the source code, but can't set up the I/O and other settings. None of the forums I went to indicated what they might be, and I'm stumped. Also, there's a new (?) AC97 codec chip from Via that handles 6.1 audio which we can't get working (same motherboard as the Broadcom 5700). By the way, for your information, Asus motherboards which use a Chipset cooling fan should be closely watched. If that fan dies, the motherboard will not beep to warn you, or shutdown. The end result is a damaged BIOS, and in my case, one ATi Radeon 7200 had to be tossed out. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.
a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET On Friday 01 November 2002 05:06 pm, Charlie wrote: On Friday 01 November 2002 02:26 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 15:09, Charlie wrote: Hi all; This may actually be off topic but I figured someone else might need a chuckle too. http://www.schoolnet.na/pr/msftrelease.html I found it amusing but then I'm a sick puppy. :-) Charlie, You're right. It was funny! I especially liked the part about the MCSE paper tigers. ;) The M$ philanthropy sarcasm was especially amusing..hehehe L8r, LX Lyvim; Any occasion for a spanking (even verbally) of a drone from Microsoft is funny IMHO. :-) On a 'related note': The anti-trust trial drones on apparently. Judge CKK's full detailed decision will be announced 'after markets close today' but it seems whatever she's going to say was leaked anyway. If not why have M$ share prices been rising all day? sigh http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20021101_1434.html The talking heads on CNN have also said so in the past ten minutes. She approved most of the agreement between DOJ and MS is what I heard. Even the unsettling states proposed remedies didn't go far enough in my view. Whatever lapdogs Microsoft has bought (read politicians) should grab all they're able while they can; since from watching, and listening, it seems the world isn't going to put up with this crap much longer regardless what the 'powers that be' decide not to do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
Frank Mertens wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I keep getting error messages in the shutdown script for NMB Serices. I cannot find any references to NMB services, so unable to tackle the problem. What are NMB Serices and any ideas as to what I should do. John The startup / shutdown scripts of Mandrake are ill-minded anyway, so I always write my own. But I think NMB refers to the nmbd, which belongs to the Samba package. It's the nebios name service daemon as a counterpart to smbd. Frank Thanks Frank, That has given me something to go on. I visited MCC - services , and noted no samba listed, which isn't surprising because I didn''t install samba in the first place. There is something called SMB which is running on boot. Seems to me then that there is a piece of unwanted script in the shutdown script that is seeking to close nmbd when no such device exists. If this is so is it difficult to rewrite boot and shutdown scripts. I'm guessing that they are probably bash scripts set up in some file that is read at boot and shutdown and using a text editor with care one can write or rewite them , is that so ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 , two more problems
I have now had time to look around some more. I cannot see anything else that might require resetting that isn't already set to A4 page size, maybe I will come across something in passing. John Yes, everything I do, I print to A4 as it's standard throughout Europe and beyond but maybe one of my settings is set to letter without realising it.. I will check again today when I get a spare moment.But then as you say letter is larger than A4, but wait a minute, isn't letter wider but shorter than A4.I think so. John Joseph Braddock wrote: Might the Z53 driver be set for A4 paper instead of letter? A4 is slightly smaller than letter and may be the cause of your margins being off. That is of course, if you are trying to print to letter. Joeb On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 23:45:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake 9.0 I've been configuring printers all day. There are 4 possible drivers, I have 2 working quite well, 1 works but has a serious problem, the 4th not at all. The driver that works but has problems is:- Lexmark Z53 CUPS+GIMP-print-v4.2.2 using that difficult to use Adjust margins+offsetsof printed page programme, with settings, ML=1.0 ins. MB=0.5 ins. MT=0.5 ins. MR=0.5 ins X=10 Y=110 the page is centered right enough, but the headers and footers of any test page are cut off. I have in kde control center - system - printing manager image set at 100% of page, with margins T0.988 cm B0.988 cm L2.505 cm R0.988 cm I don't think these settings should chop the headers and footers off but something does when I use kword to send a test page to printer, and the same test page in the other 2 working drivers print fine, so it has to be either something to do with the driver itself or some setting in the spooling I haven't got right. This driver is worth getting set up as it worksquite well with Z53 printer in past experience. I've run out of ideas Help appreciated John -- -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET You're such a ray of sunshine :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The Gimp
I am feeling quite proficient now at the kind of adjustments I usually have to make to photos, but can't find a distort tool - you know, the sort where you can widen the top in relation to the bottom in order to correct perspective. I'm sure it must be there. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KHdRecord
I am using mdk 9. I wanted to compile KHdRecord. First it couldn't find QTDIR. I gave export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 Then while compiling I got this error -lpthread \ -L. -Llib/ -lhdrecord -lmp3lame -lvorbis -lvorbisenc -logg -lqt /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [KHdRecord] Error 1 How to go now? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Planning ahead
I'm expecting my pre-ordered disks any day now, and, in the light of problems others have had with hardware no longer working, at least out of the box, I have to make decisions. At the same time, I feel that I have a HDD catastrophe waiting to happen. Currently I have two 20Gb disks and a 4Gb installed. You can guess how old that one is (it has my /home on it), but the others are not so young either. I think the best solution for the moment is to keep win98 (I still have a couple of essential apps there), keep Mdk 8.2 and install Mdk 9.0 as well. It would not, I think, be sensible to put in a fourth disk, so I'm wondering whether to put the lot onto 1 large disk, or split the os's - perhaps win98 on a separate one? Any pros and cons? If I back up /etc /home /root and /var can I take it that I could find and restore any settings (including my mailboxes) that I may need? I presume that if I do this it would still be wise to install win98 first. Are there any problems about installing the two versions of Mdk after that? I know some of you do have more than one. Finally, if and when I get Mdk 9.0 as I want it, is it straightforward to get rid of 8.2 without risk to win98 and 9.0? I would guess that it is simply a matter of reformatting that partition and then re-running lilo. Am I right? Any more thoughts? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KHdRecord
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am using mdk 9. I wanted to compile KHdRecord. First it couldn't find QTDIR. I gave export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 Then while compiling I got this error -lpthread \ -L. -Llib/ -lhdrecord -lmp3lame -lvorbis -lvorbisenc -logg -lqt /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [KHdRecord] Error 1 How to go now? And I get , # make clean rm -rf *.o rm -rf *_object.c rm -rf *.bak rm -rf *~ rm -f libhdrecord.a rm -f *.wav rm -f *.mp3 rm -f *.ogg rm -f k rm -f KHdRecord rm -f KHdRecordRemote # make echo Environment variable QTDIR is not set Environment variable QTDIR is not set echo QTDIR must point to the QT development system QTDIR must point to the QT development system stop_compilation make: stop_compilation: Command not found make: *** [main.o] Error 127 but I have lame installed I suspect L.V.Gandhi does not, but my problem seems to be QTDIR is not set , so what qt directory do I need ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Planning ahead
Anne; Interesting situation! Your 4Gb HDD is currently holding your /home partition? Brave! Very Brave! That hard drive has to be 2 or 3 years PAST it's MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure), and it's holding your personal data? I'd like to suggest that you skip the new hard drive idea, unless you want a large drive for storage, and stick with the 2 20's. I'd reccommend setting up Windows 98 on the first drive, with ML8.2 nestled right in beside it. Using 5 Gigs for Win98, and 6 for 8.2, would leave you with roughly 8 or 9 Gigs for storage, and if you formatted the last partition using FAT32, both O/S's would have unlimited access to it. When you start the installs, make sure your 4 Gb drive is also connected, but change the Mount Point to something like /temp, and DO NOT format it. Later, you can drag 'n' drop all relevant files from your /temp/anne folder to the corresponding folder(s) on your Mandrake installs (yes,...both of them). When your 9.0 CD's arrive, install it on the second 20 Gig drive, again using 6 Gigs for the install, and the remainder for storage. If you store all your downloads, documents, graphics, etc., on the storage partitions, you should be able to re-install broken O/S's without fear of losing or compromising any important data. You should have No problem re-locating your Win98 My Documents folder to one of those storage partitions, simply by right-clicking the desktop folder Properties Move. After that, all documents will be automatically saved there, and recalled from there when re-opening them. Each version of Mandrake installed will write a new lilo.conf file, and should easily find all the other O/S's you have on the system. This will also allow you to quickly restore most anything simply by running the Expert Upgrade option in either Mandrake CD set that you have. Once your installs are finished, and you've copied your original /home folder contents from the 4 Gb drive, un-mount it from your system, make sure your fstab files are written properly, shutdown the system, and remove it. That way, you'll always have it available for emergencies, but it won't get any older, nor will it face potential damage from power failures. Occasionally, you can reconnect it and copy your /home data onto it for updated storage of critical information, then un-mount and store back on a shelf. Just a suggestion, but definitely safer than relying on that old hard drive. Lanman On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:16, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm expecting my pre-ordered disks any day now, and, in the light of problems others have had with hardware no longer working, at least out of the box, I have to make decisions. At the same time, I feel that I have a HDD catastrophe waiting to happen. Currently I have two 20Gb disks and a 4Gb installed. You can guess how old that one is (it has my /home on it), but the others are not so young either. I think the best solution for the moment is to keep win98 (I still have a couple of essential apps there), keep Mdk 8.2 and install Mdk 9.0 as well. It would not, I think, be sensible to put in a fourth disk, so I'm wondering whether to put the lot onto 1 large disk, or split the os's - perhaps win98 on a separate one? Any pros and cons? If I back up /etc /home /root and /var can I take it that I could find and restore any settings (including my mailboxes) that I may need? I presume that if I do this it would still be wise to install win98 first. Are there any problems about installing the two versions of Mdk after that? I know some of you do have more than one. Finally, if and when I get Mdk 9.0 as I want it, is it straightforward to get rid of 8.2 without risk to win98 and 9.0? I would guess that it is simply a matter of reformatting that partition and then re-running lilo. Am I right? Any more thoughts? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What do I do with the md5sums.90 file?
Dennis Myers wrote: The easiest way Then all you should have to do is type at the prompt md5sum Mandrake90* and it will spit out the comparison alpha numerics or say something like all sums are correct. I don't recall for sure. HTH dm, that is if he is working under linux. from message header, it appears that he may be of need to check under oos. ar, if running oos and need to do md5 checks, i would suggest that you log http://www.linuxiso.org. you will see a screen with various distribs, and to left side, you will note help windows. do not recall which, but there is a link to md5 check sum progs, from which you can chose linux, msdos, or windbreaks os. also, you will note links to some very help tips pages. hta. btw. http://www.linuxiso.org/ does not store files on site, but provides ftp links to other sites. if your files fail md5, try there links. they are fast, if you catch a slow link, break it, try again. you will rotate thru list of links. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Gimp
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 14:03:10 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am feeling quite proficient now at the kind of adjustments I usually have to make to photos, but can't find a distort tool - you know, the sort where you can widen the top in relation to the bottom in order to correct perspective. I'm sure it must be there. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Anne Anne, Right next to the crop tool, there's a tool whose icon looks like several boxes with an arrow pointing to the bottom-right corner. That's a tool for rotation, sheering, perspective. If you double-click that tool, you'll get a dialog for options. I think that's what you're looking for. Todd -- Todd Slater The current tune is Keb'Mo' - Come On Back School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency. (H.L. Mencken) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Gimp
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021103 08:11]: I am feeling quite proficient now at the kind of adjustments I usually have to make to photos, but can't find a distort tool - you know, the sort where you can widen the top in relation to the bottom in order to correct perspective. I'm sure it must be there. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Click on the Transform Tool, (when you hover over it, it says Rotation, Scaling, Shearing, Perspective). You may need to double-click to get the Transform Tool dialog box. Select Perspective, and click in your photo. You then see a grid over your image or layer. You can click and drag any of the 4 corner squares to adjust the grid to the perspective you would like. When you move those, a Perspective Transform dialog box opens, and you can click Transform to make the transformation. It will take a little experimentation to get what you want. Undo (Ctrl+Z) is your friend ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] a little evangelism
Just had to post this from my 19 year old son. He is fed up with WindowsMe and I have been walking him through the process of burning Mandrake cd's. -snip- p.s. please respond soon. I WANT A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM. (sorry but i get excited about this stuff too) -end snip One person at a time, we'll get the job done. ;-) - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.
On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET You're such a ray of sunshine :-) Anne Anne; He is that, isn't he? g Miark and ET; Pessimists may be correct more often but we optimists usually have more fun. :-) All; It's painfully obvious that the only thing that can be expected from this revolting situation is that Microsoft will continue to scratch the backs of their pet elected officials; and that those worthies will in turn join with the spin doctors in trying to make it seem there has been useful progress made in forcing MS to simulate the behavior of a good corporate citizen. Shortly thereafter MS will find a way to leverage their right to innovation (read marketing and creative lawyering) to squeeze more money out of the poor abused consumer for inferior software and technology. Smoke and mirrors deployed, shut up and pay. You know, Microsoft's standard way of doing business? I've always been aware of that. However; I'm also aware that those of us that are called advocates for Open Source still have a chance to win many of the small battles for the mind space that is the consumer market, and that any 'revolution' has to begin somewhere. Cost this week of being an Optimist has been twelve formerly blank CD-Rs, and a few hours of time. The reward to the revolution is the four new acquaintances we all have that we didn't last week. They may eventually be friends. :-) One tiny battle at a time people. It's easy to forget that whatever the decisions in the antitrust trial, people are still disgusted that the system is so rigged that entities such as Microsoft, and the directors of such entities, get treated differently than you or I or any private individual not a 'celebrity' would. When that disgust becomes advocacy for something else; and the corporation in question is punished by the consumer by losing even a portion of what they regard as their market, I consider it to be a good day. :-) Or a good week since I'll be hoping to make 3 new friends next week with three more assisted installs. I don't mind spending the time and disks at all. Later; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org ...Saure really turns out to be an adept at the difficult art of papryomancy, the ability to prophesy through contemplating the way people roll reefers - the shape, the licking pattern, the wrinkles and folds or absence thereof in the paper. You will soon be in love, sez Saure, see, this line here. It's long, isn't it? Does that mean -- Length is usually intensity. Not time. -- Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie Orientation
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:47 pm, H. Carter Harris wrote: I have an almost virgin install of ML8.2 running and I am trying to bring up some sever applications. So far the only one I have in a usable state is TightVNC and though I haven't tuned it the way I want it ... it is running nicely. I have the box on a private IP address and the router is using NAT to send VNC requests to the box. During the install, Apache, BIND, and PostFix and MySQL were installed with defaults and now I want to use them. To try to educate myself, I bought the O'Reilly books on Apache and BIND and have been working my way through them. I installed and have running M$ DNS (on a 2000 box), IIS (on a NT4 box), a mail server (not Exchange) so I have some experience with these type applications. Here is one problem I keep running into: I can't find stuff. For example, Webmin was also installed on this system (after the initial install) from the Mandrake CDs. I executed it when I was infront of computer so I think it is working. Then for documentation I go to the webmin site and they tell me the rpm installs this application in /usr/libexec/webmin. When I go there and try to list the files; there is no such folder. I want to configure webmin to run under apache. I locate the documentation for putting webmin in a virtual folder and the first sentence says: Create a new Apache virtual server with the document set to the directory where you installed Webmin. How do I find out where that was done? If there is more technical/detailed information on the Mandrake installation process, I would appreciate a link to that place. Thanks in advance, Carter. I understand your confusion. Documentation is often a major failing of Linux apps and distros. First Finding stuff - Applications do not have to be installed in the locations the authors defined. The webmin authors may have selected /usr/libexec/webmin as the install folder, but Mandrake has its own standard for where apps go, and so the packager will have compiled webmin to go somewhere else. To find where an application is there are two really useful tools. slocate and kpackage Slocate will find any file on the system for you. Install the slocate rpm, then in a root terminal type 'updated' After a few minutes you will have a database of every file on the system. To find a file type slocate filename kpackage (or similar apps) will tell you which files are in an RPM. Just select the RPM and look at the files list. Running Webmin Webmin does not need to run under Apache. It is a web server in its own right and is entirely independent of Apache. To run webmin just install the webmin RPM. Check the webmin service is running with Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. Then open a browser and type https://localhost:1 in the URL line (NOTE https NOT http) You will get a message saying a certificate is self certified. Accept it and log in as root to webmin. Postfix --- As for Postfix I have a howto on my homepage which may help you. Most of the material on there is not required for a simple mail server, but you will get the idea. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djennings/ HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Planning ahead
Anne; Never thought you were Daft, but I didn't know your experience level, so I thought I'd be specific, just to make sure that no important steps were missed. Lanman On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 3:03 pm, you wrote: Anne; Interesting situation! Your 4Gb HDD is currently holding your /home partition? Brave! Very Brave! That hard drive has to be 2 or 3 years PAST it's MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure), and it's holding your personal data? Hey, I'm not entirely daft :-) Most of my data is in fat32 partitions, with sort of working space plus my linux personal files in /home. I do have some backup of my linux partitions, though admittedly one is overdue. As for MTBFs, I've been amazed at the threads I've seen here - mine are Fujitsu and Maxtor (the little one's Fujitsu), and . I'd better not tempt fate. I'd like to suggest that you skip the new hard drive idea, unless you want a large drive for storage, and stick with the 2 20's. I'd reccommend setting up Windows 98 on the first drive, with ML8.2 nestled right in beside it. Using 5 Gigs for Win98, and 6 for 8.2, would leave you with roughly 8 or 9 Gigs for storage, and if you formatted the last partition using FAT32, both O/S's would have unlimited access to it. I'll dig out the invoices tonight and see how old ghd 20Gb disks are. That should give us a clue as to whether they're reasonably safe to use. When you start the installs, make sure your 4 Gb drive is also connected, but change the Mount Point to something like /temp, and DO NOT format it. Later, you can drag 'n' drop all relevant files from your /temp/anne folder to the corresponding folder(s) on your Mandrake installs (yes,...both of them). Currently my 20Gb drives are formatted in 4s, for compact storage. Some partitions are fairly full, but others almost empty. I think some hefty housekeeping before doing anything is called for. When your 9.0 CD's arrive, snip I've printed that out and will use it, subject to considerations above. Thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Dan LaBine President Maximum Lans [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 489-7825 6915 Fielding Ave. Suite # 228 Montreal, Quebec, H4V 1P4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bluefish Now Working Properly!!
I Think!! Thanks for the help. Seeing as I got two different suggestions for what should be in the Browser Command field, I figured I'd try one and if it didn't work I'd try the other. It was a tossup which to try first. So I used the printout that ended up on the top of the stack. That turned out to be /usr/bin/mozilla -openURL(%s). I'm kind of interested in what would happen if I used the other one suggested- /usr/bin/mozilla %s -but not enough to mess up the Bluefish view with Mozilla command again. Thanks to both of you for the help!! LTR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dog-slow networking
what is the network card in the desktop? Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX (RTL-8139/8139C). and have you tried swapping ports on your hub/switch??? Yes--no change. Thanks, Frank. Miark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Sunday, 3 November 2002 12:03 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Dog-slow networking I have four machines on my home network: a routing machine, and three boxes. When I download from the Internet to my laptop, it's as fast as my cable service: 180KB/sec. When I download to my desktop, it's 4.5KB/sec, and stalls frequently. I thought it was a fluke. So when I FTPed from the laptop to my desktop--yes, across my network--it's 4.5K and stall frequently. There's obviously something _seriously_ wrong with my desktop, but what could it be? Both it and my laptop are running 9.0. I tried rebooting, but it made no difference. Help! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dog-slow networking
have you swapped the cables around? On Sunday 03 November 2002 01:37 pm, Miark wrote: what is the network card in the desktop? Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX (RTL-8139/8139C). and have you tried swapping ports on your hub/switch??? Yes--no change. Thanks, Frank. Miark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Sunday, 3 November 2002 12:03 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Dog-slow networking I have four machines on my home network: a routing machine, and three boxes. When I download from the Internet to my laptop, it's as fast as my cable service: 180KB/sec. When I download to my desktop, it's 4.5KB/sec, and stalls frequently. I thought it was a fluke. So when I FTPed from the laptop to my desktop--yes, across my network--it's 4.5K and stall frequently. There's obviously something _seriously_ wrong with my desktop, but what could it be? Both it and my laptop are running 9.0. I tried rebooting, but it made no difference. Help! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions
On Sunday 03 November 2002 18:20, john drouhard wrote: I currently have Mandrake 9.0. It is installed on a 40 GB hard drive. I want to mess around with RedHat 8.0 a little. I was wondering how to set up my machine so I can boot into either Mandrake or Redhat. I also need to know how to install RedHat in addition to Mandrake. Do I have to reformat my partitions? Thanks for any help. -John Drouhard The easiest way is to install RedHat into a separate partition and boot it with a boot-floppy after installing it the way you normally would. It's a bit slower to boot but that way you get some time to decide whether you want to keep it i.e. install some other distrib or whatever:o) Be sure to create the needed partition first (''parted'' on floppies does a great job, especially if you need to resize) though. You can let RH and Mdk share the same swap, you won't be running them simultaneously. If you want to, you can add your RH partition/install using your existing lilo (or grub) in Mdk but you will have to create the specific init.rd for it to point to. To tackle that you will have to have RH already installed so that's for later:o) Good Luck, Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Planning ahead
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:37 pm, you wrote: Anne; Never thought you were Daft, but I didn't know your experience level, so I thought I'd be specific, just to make sure that no important steps were missed. Lanman No 'ffence taken, but I am guilty of having a machine that has grown like Topsy, and I guess I really should do something about it. Trouble is, I spend so much time fixing those d'ed windows machines for all my family friends :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bluefish Now Working Properly!!
On Sunday 03 November 2002 11:37, Langsley T Russell wrote: I Think!! Thanks for the help. Seeing as I got two different suggestions for what should be in the Browser Command field, I figured I'd try one and if it didn't work I'd try the other. It was a tossup which to try first. So I used the printout that ended up on the top of the stack. That turned out to be /usr/bin/mozilla -openURL(%s). I'm kind of interested in what would happen if I used the other one suggested- /usr/bin/mozilla %s -but not enough to mess up the Bluefish view with Mozilla command again. Thanks to both of you for the help!! LTR -- I blew mine also, came up with my solution by experimenting. The other suggestion may well be the default. Mine now opens multiple browsers on mulitple checks. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 17:06, Charlie wrote: Lyvim; Any occasion for a spanking (even verbally) of a drone from Microsoft is funny IMHO. :-) On a 'related note': The anti-trust trial drones on apparently. Judge CKK's full detailed decision will be announced 'after markets close today' but it seems whatever she's going to say was leaked anyway. If not why have M$ share prices been rising all day? sigh Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has perpetrated one of the greatest travesties of justice in history. Associated Press sent this piece out to almost everybody: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5408601%255E462,00.html The most disgusting part of that article: The decision eliminates the establishment of a technical committee to assess Microsoft's compliance with the agreement. In its place, a corporate compliance committee consisting of Microsoft board members will make sure Microsoft lives up to the deal, the judge said. So in addition to the fact that there will be no real penalties, and that the dissenting states' voices essentially will not be effective after all, what few penalties that actually exist will only be policed by M$ itself! These are the consequences of anti-competitive monopolistic business practices?? It is totally absurd! And a travesty of justice on the entire world. A total of NINE judges have agreed that M$ is a threat to the public interest, and this (Clintonian) judge CKK finally caved and told Microshaft what it wanted to hear. (And I haven't even brought up the nine states' objections.) From 1997 to 2000 this DOJ case was carried out under a Democratic administration; a total of three years under Clinton. More than enough time to resolve this case; no judicial decision should take more than two years. For that matter, no judicial decision should take more than one year; especially one of this importance. Note that the two judges that ruled against Microsoft, Stanley Sporkin in 1995 and Penfield Jackson five years later, were both Ronald Reagan appointees. Note also that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was a Clinton appointee to the bench. You can draw your own conclusions. The talking heads on CNN have also said so in the past ten minutes. She approved most of the agreement between DOJ and MS is what I heard. Even the unsettling states proposed remedies didn't go far enough in my view. Whatever lapdogs Microsoft has bought (read politicians) should grab all they're able while they can; since from watching, and listening, it seems the world isn't going to put up with this crap much longer regardless what the 'powers that be' decide not to do. You are certainly on the right track. It is the people themselves who are going to have to act, since Judge CKK has demonstrated she doesn't give a flying crap about the public at large. Which means that more Linux geeks MUST become politically aware and active. Before it's too late!! Otherwise, Microslop and it's democratic lapdogs will legislate Linux and the GPL out of existence. They've demonstrated that they have the power, and recently they've shown their intentions to do just that with their actions. FOR EXAMPLE, read the following: http://wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,55989,00.html A piece from that article: Earlier this week, three members of the House of Representatives, Adam Smith (D- Wash.), Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Jim Davis (D-Fla.), sent a note to 74 Democrats in Congress attacking Linux's GNU General Public License (GPL) as a threat to America's innovation and security. The Democrats also originated the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) and the (CBDTA) Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, and have allied with the entertainment industry and RIAA to eliminate peer to peer networks such as Napster. Those are the facts; again, you can draw your own conclusions. US peeps should keep those conclusions in mind when they vote this month. Informed voting at this point is imperitive to the future of Linux. Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Yow! Are you the self-frying president? Best Regards LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Properties, permissions
how would one change the Properties, permissions of a file in a KDE text window by changing from a home user to root user by logging on a root user with su password. From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF THERE IS ONE, IT might be A UNDETECTED VIRUS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.410 / Virus Database: 231 - Release Date: 31/10/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:16 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET You're such a ray of sunshine :-) Anne Anne; He is that, isn't he? g Miark and ET; Pessimists may be correct more often but we optimists usually have more fun. :-) All; snip I've always been aware of that. However; I'm also aware that those of us that are called advocates for Open Source still have a chance to win many of the small battles for the mind space that is the consumer market, and that any 'revolution' has to begin somewhere. Considering the amount of time I spend trying to sort out the problems with windows computers for friends and family, I've been considering what is really needed for an introduction to Linux. For many people, a clean install plus Open Office and any good web browser would be adequate (sometimes too many choices are counterproductive at first). I would think that there needs to be a web page set up similar to the one Mandrake gave us with their links, but linking to lists of hardware compatibility and documentation. Certainly no app should be on a beginner's machine if it doesn't have documentation available from Help. There is a need for a magazine (or part of one) that trully tackles beginners needs. Currently the series that run in our magazines need geeks to understand them. Something on the level of Computer Active, that introduces new topics slowly, giving the user time to get to grips with a new concept, and introducing choice when they are ready for it. Then of course there is a need for a simple installer, as fool-proof as Install Shield. I think Mandrake are working well towards that, but there is a need for all distros to use the same method (at the user level, whatever the programmers feel is needed under the bonnet). A distro like Mandrake has everything most users will ever need - but they have to be able to find it and install it. The truth is that Linux is scarey if you don't have someone to hold your hand - and you are much more likely to find a windows user to hand-hold than a linux one - so startup must be simpler. A certain level of computer literacy is required to use a list like this, valuable as it is. A salutory lesson, though, whilst on holiday - I met a couple who had bought a Dell computer with WinXP and Office XP installed. They say they have no manuals. I presume they are on a disk somewhere, but they simply don't know how to get them. They got a warning from Norton AV that their signature files were out of date, and thought that it meant they were infected. They had reached the point where they would happily pack it up and send it back, if they could. It seems that Windows can be just as scarey! As for me - my 14 year old grandson wanders in from time to time, and says things like 'Is Linux difficult, then?'. He is intelligent and will get there if I don't push. I'm thinking of putting OO for windows on his machine, on the pretext that it will make it easier for him to communicate with the M$O users as school (all my family were brought up on Lotus SmartSuite, but it is really long in the tooth now). Next step then would be The Gimp, because he is seriously interested in graphic work. By the time he is using them he should be ready to change :-) The front door isn't always the quickest way in Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dog-slow networking
Before I go on with my answers, I'd like to point out that DVD performance totally sucks under 9.0, and so does CD burning. I wonder if the pathetic network performance is related. Also, I have tried adding noapic to the appropriate place in lilo. On 03 Nov 2002 00:12:03 -0600 Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried... I dual-boot into XP (for games, of course) and when I did a FTP transfer from XP a minute ago, it worked normally. I'm guessing hardware is not the problem. ...what is the difference in the NICs used--10/100? All my machines use 10/100 NICs. ...using the best match in drivers for the NIC in the desktop machine? It's using the 8139too driver, which was chosen automagically during installation. If memory serves, that's what it was under 8.2 aswell. How would I determine if it's best? Route table? Huh? DNS service? I don't run BIND, if that's what you mean. Netmask? Gateway IP the same or both desktop and laptop? Desktop is 192.168.0.1; laptop is 192.168.0.2; router 192.168.0.7. All use a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Is your local network set up on the entire class C or is it subnetted? Not sure what that means. Are your base IP and your broadcast IP totally free or does one or the other share an IP with the router or a box? (no router or box on xxx.xxx.xxx.0 [presuming the subsnet begins with .0 and whatever IP you are using for broadcast])--and does the subnet mask match or did you use 255.255.255.0? desktop's ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 ONBOOT=yes laptop's ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.2 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 ONBOOT=yes Router's ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.7 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 ONBOOT=yes I never make anything .0 or .225, no. Did you accidently put two boxes on the same IP? I've done that in the past, but not this time ;-) I'll do the best I can to assist. Thanks much. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation
Derek: Thanks again for your reply and your encouragement! I'm now using Webmin under the VPN and it seems to work fine. I'm going to try to get some things going there this afternoon. I will be in the office again tomorrow and I'll load up the CD and install the rpms you recommend. Sounds like they will be a huge help. I am also looking at your website ... wonderful source of information ... thanks again for your great response. Carter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Properties, permissions
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:56 pm, you wrote: how would one change the Properties, permissions of a file in a KDE text window by changing from a home user to root user by logging on a root user with su password. The easy way is by using the graphics front-end. K(startup menu) . Applications File Tools File Manager (Super User Mode). Give the root password, navigate to the file in question, and look at Properties. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 02:24, Frank Mertens wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I keep getting error messages in the shutdown script for NMB Serices. I cannot find any references to NMB services, so unable to tackle the problem. What are NMB Serices and any ideas as to what I should do. John The startup / shutdown scripts of Mandrake are ill-minded anyway, so I always write my own. But I think NMB refers to the nmbd, which belongs to the Samba package. It's the nebios name service daemon as a counterpart to smbd. Frank If you installed the latest initscripts package from Mandrake Update that may be the problem. (initscripts-6.91-13.1mdk.i586.rpm) It has problems. The update advisory from Mandrake says it fixes some problems with some locales and corrects some issues with wireless link detection. Since I primarily use my Dell I4000 MDK9.0 wirelessly. I went ahead and installed it, even though I wasn't having any problems with my wireless link detection. Boy was that a mistake... I took me 6 hours to get my laptop back to the way it was before I installed the 'update'. I had to force remove the update and reinstall the original initscripts rpm (initscripts-6.91-10mdk.i586.rpm) Then had to bootup in maintenance mode three times to fix everything that broke when I removed the update. Here are some of the 'features' of the 'updated' initscripts-6.91-13.1mdk.i586.rpm that I experienced... YMMV. 1. NMB fails to start when booting. 2. SMB and NMB both fail to shutdown. 3. Wireless card is unable to detect a DHCP server on boot. If you are NOT in one of the affected locales and you are NOT having having any issues with wireless link detection, I would recommend you skip this update. Chuck, I am so glad I didn't then. Not only did I not install the undate until a few hours ago I didn't even have the slightest knowledge what NMB was about, actually all I wanted to do was to do something about the shutdaown error message I keep getting. I don't really know what to do if anything, I suppose I could just ignore it, but it irks me to see this M9.0 shutdown error message. I don't actually need wireless connection at all, or do I , doesn't that depend upon programmes like real player being installed. As you can see I'm still guessing what NMB is all about John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 18:20, john drouhard wrote: I currently have Mandrake 9.0. It is installed on a 40 GB hard drive. I want to mess around with RedHat 8.0 a little. I was wondering how to set up my machine so I can boot into either Mandrake or Redhat. I also need to know how to install RedHat in addition to Mandrake. Do I have to reformat my partitions? Thanks for any help. -John Drouhard The easiest way is to install RedHat into a separate partition and boot it with a boot-floppy after installing it the way you normally would. It's a bit slower to boot but that way you get some time to decide whether you want to keep it i.e. install some other distrib or whatever:o) Be sure to create the needed partition first (''parted'' on floppies does a great job, especially if you need to resize) though. You can let RH and Mdk share the same swap, you won't be running them simultaneously. If you want to, you can add your RH partition/install using your existing lilo (or grub) in Mdk but you will have to create the specific init.rd for it to point to. To tackle that you will have to have RH already installed so that's for later:o) Good Luck, Harm So what you are saying then is that if you install redhat on one partition then redhat installer will not automatically put it's init.rd file in a shared /boot partition , you will have to do that afterwards, because when I ever get around to doing a RH install I planned not to install RH lilo at all but then add a stanzas in mandrake lilo.conf to boot RH. My lilo sits in W2k MBR. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
SNIP As you can see I'm still guessing what NMB is all about John nmb is part of SAMBA. That smb process you have running is samba server. Failures in nmb when shutting down samba is common (I think when there are no windows machines connected to samba) It is nothing to worry about. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions
On Sunday 03 November 2002 20:52, John Richard Smith wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 18:20, john drouhard wrote: I currently have Mandrake 9.0. It is installed on a 40 GB hard drive. I want to mess around with RedHat 8.0 a little. I was wondering how to set up my machine so I can boot into either Mandrake or Redhat. I also need to know how to install RedHat in addition to Mandrake. Do I have to reformat my partitions? Thanks for any help. -John Drouhard The easiest way is to install RedHat into a separate partition and boot it with a boot-floppy after installing it the way you normally would. It's a bit slower to boot but that way you get some time to decide whether you want to keep it i.e. install some other distrib or whatever:o) Be sure to create the needed partition first (''parted'' on floppies does a great job, especially if you need to resize) though. You can let RH and Mdk share the same swap, you won't be running them simultaneously. If you want to, you can add your RH partition/install using your existing lilo (or grub) in Mdk but you will have to create the specific init.rd for it to point to. To tackle that you will have to have RH already installed so that's for later:o) Good Luck, Harm So what you are saying then is that if you install redhat on one partition then redhat installer will not automatically put it's init.rd file in a shared /boot partition , you will have to do that afterwards, because when I ever get around to doing a RH install I planned not to install RH lilo at all but then add a stanzas in mandrake lilo.conf to boot RH. My lilo sits in W2k MBR. John Yes, the initrd (or vmlinuz file) is specific for the kernel you want to run. Like you would install a different kernel i.e. win4lin or Nvidia. If the kernelversions are close enough the one might run the other with a lot of error messages, but what's the point. If you let RH install the bootloader you would have to make an extra Mdk entry and point it to the right init.rd. Then it would be a matter of taste which bootloader you prefer. Point is the RH loader will look for initrd images in the /boot directory on its own partition and so will Mdk. I've never tried a shared separate /boot partition though, so I don't know if that'll work. Certain is that you will then have to leave /boot untouched as RH will rewrite (if not reformat) that /boot partition. tricky! Maybe somebody else has some pointers on that:o) Good luck, Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Gimp
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:47:56 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Todd Jan. I had been using the right click, so didn't find it. OK, so what I need now is the ability to print reference sheets (equiv. contact prints). Do you know any software that easily does this? I'm using GQview for file browsing, but that doesn't seem to offer this. Anne man montage It's a command line program, part if ImageMagick. I find it easiest to put the images in a directory by themselves and run montage with my geometry settings, and instead of listing each file I just use *.jpg. HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. (George Bernard Shaw) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] clock help
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 15:31, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Uhm, I don't think the power line frequency has anything to do with timing in computers like PC's that use crystals for timing :) That is correct. 60 cycle ac is rectified and filtered to 12 and 5 volt DC current in the power supply; that is it's purpose. The motherboards have no exposure whatsoever to AC utility current (and would be destroyed if they did). Mobos source their clock signal from a quartz crystal IC, or in some cases electrical IC's generate clock signals without the help of a crystal; although I've been given to understand that the latter is not as accurate or stable a method. The clock case here in this thread is probably an instance of the hardware clock being set to GMT instead of LOCAL time. As David Rankin suggested. On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:59:46 -0500 Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like the system clock is set for 50Hz power line frequency, and you are using 60Hz power line. Bob l8r, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install repair help
I have an Internet Appliance (I-Opener) that I have hacked to work with an external hard drive. I'd like to dual boot Win98SE and Linux Mandrake on it. I installed the hard drive in another machine, and copied win98 setup files, and ran the mandrake installation up to the first reboot, and then took the drive out and placed it in my i-opener. I cannot boot into linux mandrake, it's giving me some kind of init not found error message. I've figured out how to use a program call Winux that uses loadlin and at least get into a text version of linux. I've tried to start kde from the command line, but it looks like I don't have any of the environment variables set. Is there any way to repair this from the console line? I'm thinking that maybe if I can get kde running, there might be some sort of user interface to help me repair it? The other issue is that since this is an internet appliance, I don't have a cd rom or floppy drive. Any suggestions on how to tackle this? Thanks, Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 8:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: So what you are saying then is that if you install redhat on one partition then redhat installer will not automatically put it's init.rd file in a shared /boot partition , you will have to do that afterwards, because when I ever get around to doing a RH install I planned not to install RH lilo at all but then add a stanzas in mandrake lilo.conf to boot RH. My lilo sits in W2k MBR. John Haven't used RH8.0 but (with 7.2 7.3) yes RH _will_ install into a /boot partn. Disclaimer: I AM NO EXPERT! This may not be the correct way to do it, its just how I do it. I think the shared /boot partn must be a PRIMARY partn for RH and I think ext2 fs would be a better bet than ext3 (you can always convert it to ext3 later). Sometimes RH didn't recognise the ext3 partns during installation (altho IIRC that was with 7.2 not 7.3). During the MDK installation when you create your partns there is an option of making the partn Primary. Just insert the 1st RH CD and follow the installation process thru. You can setup your partns during the RH installation using RH's Disk Druid (their equivalent to diskdrake) - that is if you already have a primary /boot partn. Don't format the MDK partns. WARNING If you get a warning when you get to the partitioning bit about not being able to read your boot table (or something like that) and all data will be lost, do not click OK because it does exactly that! It wipes everything! Unlike MDK's diskdrake that does not overwrite the boot table until you tell it to by clicking the final OK. So be warned. I clicked OK thinking it was like diskdrake and wouldn't overwrite anything until I said so wng... and it wasn't my pc either! In both RH7.2 RH7.3, even though I select Do not install a boot loader, it installs lilo anyway which overrides MDK's lilo. Altho RH overwrites MDK's MBR just edit /etc/lilo.conf in RH to ensure it includes MDK, run lilo and reboot to MDK (MDK will be in the RH boot menu when you boot). I found that I have uninstall lilo in MDK then reinstall it which overwrites the MBR - don't forget to edit MDK's /etc/lilo.conf to ensure it includes RH and rerun lilo. Just editing /etc/lilo.conf and re-running lilo without uninstalling reinstalling produces an error about the version being wrong - I figured thats because its RH's version in the MBR. Or you can just continue to use RH's lilo boot loader (reckon its pretty ugly ;) ). IIRC, Civileme said its to install RH before you install MDK but I always end up doing it the other way round because I already MDK installed and I don't want to reinstall MDK. Now, whenever I do a clean install (wipe entire hd), I make the /boot partn primary just in case I decide to install RH later. Make sure you backup your data before starting... but I'm sure you were going to anyway :) Good luck Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie Orientation
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:47, H. Carter Harris wrote: I have an almost virgin install of ML8.2 running and I am trying to bring up some sever applications. So far the only one I have in a usable state is TightVNC and though I haven't tuned it the way I want it ... it is running nicely. I have the box on a private IP address and the router is using NAT to send VNC requests to the box. During the install, Apache, BIND, and PostFix and MySQL were installed with defaults and now I want to use them. snip Here is one problem I keep running into: I can't find stuff. For example, Webmin was also installed on this system (after the initial install) from the Mandrake CDs. I executed it when I was infront of computer so I think it is working. Then for documentation I go to the webmin site and they tell me the rpm installs this application in /usr/libexec/webmin. When I go there and try to list the files; there is no such folder. I want to configure webmin to run under apache. I locate the documentation for putting webmin in a virtual folder and the first sentence says: Create a new Apache virtual server with the document set to the directory where you installed Webmin. How do I find out where that was done? presuming that slocate has also been installed at a root prompt: locate webmin you should get a list of every path that incudes 'webmin' if the only response is a new prompt,since you think webmin is installed already: type: updatedb wait for prompt, it could take a minutethen try: locate webmin again HTH -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] font problem in wine
I'm trying to run a couple of programs under wine but the fonts are screwed up. All characters just show up as squares. Anybody seen this before or know how to fix it? -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?
Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully, I can be forgiven for such a slight transgression... Thanks in advance, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?
I just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 about a week ago and am really loving the new version. Kudos to all who contributed to it. I didn't have any of the issues that I've seen from others on the list. I had to re-install my Nvidia drivers but other than that the only issues are relatively trivial. For instance, in 8.2, under Configuration-KDE-LookNFeel-Screensavers there were several different screensavers to choose from but in 9.0 all I see are Blank, Mandrake Slideshow, Tux, and random. Are the rest available on some package I haven't loaded yet? Thanks, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?
Title: RE: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT? Try Codeweavers' Crossover-plugin. It has direct support for quicktime. -Original Message- From: Carl J. Bauman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 04 November, 2002 10:39 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT? Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully, I can be forgiven for such a slight transgression... Thanks in advance, Carl
Re: [newbie] install repair help
On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:10, Rick Bailey wrote: I have an Internet Appliance (I-Opener) that I have hacked to work with an external hard drive. I'd like to dual boot Win98SE and Linux Mandrake on it. I installed the hard drive in another machine, and copied win98 setup files, and ran the mandrake installation up to the first reboot, and then took the drive out and placed it in my i-opener. I cannot boot into linux mandrake, it's giving me some kind of init not found error message. I've figured out how to use a program call Winux that uses loadlin and at least get into a text version of linux. I've tried to start kde from the command line, but it looks like I don't have any of the environment variables set. Is there any way to repair this from the console line? I'm thinking that maybe if I can get kde running, there might be some sort of user interface to help me repair it? The other issue is that since this is an internet appliance, I don't have a cd rom or floppy drive. Any suggestions on how to tackle this? Thanks, Rick Well if you're on the commandline in Mdk (init1 probably) just run lilo again by typing /sbin/lilo (not the quotes) and hitting enter. You'll see output that lilo is being reinstalled. Then reboot into Mdk. That's the usual way if an existing lilo got lost somewhere. If that doesn't work for you you'll have to be more specific about this hacked i-opener and how it boots...you might have to edit /etc/liloconf. Remeber to run /sbin/lilo to get your changes to work, just rebooting won't do the trick! Good luck, Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?
On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:38, Carl J. Bauman wrote: Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully, I can be forgiven for such a slight transgression... Thanks in advance, Carl crossover plugin handles that quite well. http://www.codeweavers.com is the adress. Good fun, Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Properties, permissions
On Sunday 03 November 2002 6:56 pm, Eric Richards wrote: how would one change the Properties, permissions of a file in a KDE text window by changing from a home user to root user by logging on a root user with su password. From Eric Each file has 3 sets of properties, owner,group and everyone else, with each set having the possibility of read, write and executable permissions eg, ls -l somefile might show; -rw-rw-r--1 robinwork 391 Oct 10 00:05 somefile The first (-) shows it is a normal file and not a directory(d) or link(l). The next 3, (rw-) relate to the owner, robin, and show that he can read and write to the file, but it is not an executable like a bash script. The middle 3, (rw-) relate to the group work and show that anyone who belongs to the work group can also read and write to this file. The last 3, (r--) relate to everyone else with access to the directory where this file is stored and shows that they can only read this file but are not able to write to it. Each of the values of read,write and executable can also be represented respectively by the numbers, 4,2 and 1 (or 0 if the value is not set) which can be added up to represent a shorthand version of the properties (I think its called an octal number). eg -rw-rw-r-- is equal to 664 (that is 4+2+0,4+2+0,4+0+0) or -rwxr-xr-x is equal to 755 (that is 4+2+1,4+0+1,4+0+1) or -rw-r--r-- is equal to 644 (that is 4+2+0,4+0+0,4+0+0) or -rwxrwxrwx is equal to 777 (that is 4+2+1,4+2+1,4+2+1) Usually dangerous! If you want to change the properties of a file that you own you can do so with the chmod command; eg, chmod 644 somefile would change its properties to -rw-r--r-- or perhaps if you were writing a bash script just for yourself; chmod 700 somefile would equal -rwx-- giving you read,write and executable properties with no one else having access to it(except root of course) If you want to change the ownership of a file then use the chown command; eg, chown bob somefile would make bob the new owner of somefile. You will probably need to be root to do this. If you want to change which group a file belongs to then use the chgrp command eg, chgrp games somefile would make it part of the games group. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?
On Sunday 03 November 2002 9:52 pm, Carl J. Bauman wrote: I just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 about a week ago and am really loving the new version. Kudos to all who contributed to it. I didn't have any of the issues that I've seen from others on the list. I had to re-install my Nvidia drivers but other than that the only issues are relatively trivial. For instance, in 8.2, under Configuration-KDE-LookNFeel-Screensavers there were several different screensavers to choose from but in 9.0 all I see are Blank, Mandrake Slideshow, Tux, and random. Are the rest available on some package I haven't loaded yet? Thanks, Carl If you're into screensavers then you really want to install xscreensaver plus the gl bits of it too and then put a link in the .kde/Autostart folder to start it automatically when you startup kde; ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver ~/.kde/Autostart/xscreensaver You can then configure the programme by running xscreensaver-demo I think you'll be impressed! Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] best way to find things out
Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there were a tool I could run and enter file permissions into a search box, and get a list of matching pages. I remember there used to be something called the Linux Documentation Project. I'm sure they must still be working on it, but even years ago there were more Howto's than you could shake a stick at. I kind of expected there to be a really cool downloadable manual by now. Maybe it's out there and I just haven't found it yet. I get the impression that the Mandrake people are holding out for some bucks, figuring people who won't pay for the OS might pay for the docs. That's fine if that's what they want to do, but there must be a mother lode of vanilla linux info out there somewhere. The stuff I downloaded from the Mandrake site was OK but a little disorganized and obviously incomplete. Could someone maybe give a road map as to where the Good Documentation is, and how to get it installed on one's machine? Or could some of you give some of your own tips on how you look things up? It can't all be word of mouth. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best way to find things out
Tim Werner wrote: Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there were a tool I could run and enter file permissions into a search box, and get a list of matching pages. I remember there used to be something called the Linux Documentation Project. I'm sure they must still be working on it, but even years ago there were more Howto's than you could shake a stick at. I kind of expected there to be a really cool downloadable manual by now. Maybe it's out there and I just haven't found it yet. I get the impression that the Mandrake people are holding out for some bucks, figuring people who won't pay for the OS might pay for the docs. That's fine if that's what they want to do, but there must be a mother lode of vanilla linux info out there somewhere. The stuff I downloaded from the Mandrake site was OK but a little disorganized and obviously incomplete. Could someone maybe give a road map as to where the Good Documentation is, and how to get it installed on one's machine? Or could some of you give some of your own tips on how you look things up? It can't all be word of mouth. go to: http://www.google.com/linux enter: file permissions which returns quite a few relevent hits. -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best way to find things out
Google Linux Documentation Project (with quotes)lots of entries On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 17:17, Tim Werner wrote: Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there were a tool I could run and enter file permissions into a search box, and get a list of matching pages. I remember there used to be something called the Linux Documentation Project. I'm sure they must still be working on it, but even years ago there were more Howto's than you could shake a stick at. I kind of expected there to be a really cool downloadable manual by now. Maybe it's out there and I just haven't found it yet. I get the impression that the Mandrake people are holding out for some bucks, figuring people who won't pay for the OS might pay for the docs. That's fine if that's what they want to do, but there must be a mother lode of vanilla linux info out there somewhere. The stuff I downloaded from the Mandrake site was OK but a little disorganized and obviously incomplete. Could someone maybe give a road map as to where the Good Documentation is, and how to get it installed on one's machine? Or could some of you give some of your own tips on how you look things up? It can't all be word of mouth. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off
I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them from ConfigureKDEPower ControlEnergy. After succesfully ripping the DVD I tried to re-enable Power Saving but no luck, the screen never blanks. A bit of digging showed that when trying to re-enable the menu's command kcmshell energy puts rubbish in file ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc, I have edited this to be the same as /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc ie == [DisplayEnergy] displayEnergySaving=true displayPowerOff=45 displayStandby=15 displaySuspend=30 = but still no screen blanking. The other apparent fault is that ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is completely blank ie 0kb and I don't know what it should contain. If anyone can give me any pointers onthis problem or post the contents of their ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc I would be very grateful. Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.
Interesting note, Anne. Thanks. Two comments, both I suppose related to Linux Format magazine.. First, of the linux serial publications (although there are a number of 'Linux for Dummies' type books around), Linux Format is pretty accessible to the new user. Second, this month's issue (November) has a review of a new distro, Homebase, which fits nearly exactly your ideal system. It's a linux distro for newbies, apparently installs seamlessly, and uses a consistent browser interface (Mozilla-based). It's a free download (www.oeone.com). You can also, for $19.95 US/yr, have a subscription service that allows you to backup your files on their servers, store configuration files, and more generally synchronize your machine with your space on the server. You can also access your 'desktop' from anywhere simply by logging in to your server Homebase. Check out the review. I have three boxes at home, all dual boots with Windows and various flavors of linux (Mandrake, RedHat, Gentoo). One box is for the kids who basically spend some time playing games on the internet or doing research for school. They care not a whit about operating systems but just want to sit down and browse around. I believe Homebase will be ideal for them and will try it shortly (soon as I get my firewall box setup properly!). Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 14:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:16 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET You're such a ray of sunshine :-) Anne Anne; He is that, isn't he? g Miark and ET; Pessimists may be correct more often but we optimists usually have more fun. :-) All; snip I've always been aware of that. However; I'm also aware that those of us that are called advocates for Open Source still have a chance to win many of the small battles for the mind space that is the consumer market, and that any 'revolution' has to begin somewhere. Considering the amount of time I spend trying to sort out the problems with windows computers for friends and family, I've been considering what is really needed for an introduction to Linux. For many people, a clean install plus Open Office and any good web browser would be adequate (sometimes too many choices are counterproductive at first). I would think that there needs to be a web page set up similar to the one Mandrake gave us with their links, but linking to lists of hardware compatibility and documentation. Certainly no app should be on a beginner's machine if it doesn't have documentation available from Help. There is a need for a magazine (or part of one) that trully tackles beginners needs. Currently the series that run in our magazines need geeks to understand them. Something on the level of Computer Active, that introduces new topics slowly, giving the user time to get to grips with a new concept, and introducing choice when they are ready for it. Then of course there is a need for a simple installer, as fool-proof as Install Shield. I think Mandrake are working well towards that, but there is a need for all distros to use the same method (at the user level, whatever the programmers feel is needed under the bonnet). A distro like Mandrake has everything most users will ever need - but they have to be able to find it and install it. The truth is that Linux is scarey if you don't have someone to hold your hand - and you are much more likely to find a windows user to hand-hold than a linux one - so startup must be simpler. A certain level of computer literacy is required to use a list like this, valuable as it is. A salutory lesson, though, whilst on holiday - I met a couple who had bought a Dell computer with WinXP and Office XP installed. They say they have no manuals. I presume they are on a disk somewhere, but they simply don't know how to get them. They got a warning from Norton AV that their signature files were out of date, and thought that it meant they were infected. They had reached the point where they would happily pack it up and send it back, if they could. It seems that Windows can be just as scarey! As for me - my 14 year old grandson wanders in from time to time, and says things like 'Is Linux difficult, then?'. He is intelligent and will get there if I don't push. I'm thinking of putting OO for windows on his machine, on the pretext that it will make it easier for him to communicate with the M$O users as school (all my family were brought up on Lotus SmartSuite, but it is really long in the tooth now). Next step then would be The Gimp, because he is seriously interested in graphic work. By the time he is using them he should be ready to change :-) The front door
Re: [newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?
Try xscreensaver (ver 4.0.5 is current I believe). I believe it's part of the gnome desktop. It's also part of the Xfce windowing environment or you can get it from www.jwz.org/xscreensaver. A great set of totally creative screensavers. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 16:52, Carl J. Bauman wrote: I just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 about a week ago and am really loving the new version. Kudos to all who contributed to it. I didn't have any of the issues that I've seen from others on the list. I had to re-install my Nvidia drivers but other than that the only issues are relatively trivial. For instance, in 8.2, under Configuration-KDE-LookNFeel-Screensavers there were several different screensavers to choose from but in 9.0 all I see are Blank, Mandrake Slideshow, Tux, and random. Are the rest available on some package I haven't loaded yet? Thanks, Carl 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] best way to find things out
You know, just as I was hitting the send button I thought of that myself. :-) Must admit http://www.tldp.org/ looks pretty good. I think I might buy the CD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Erik Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best way to find things out Google Linux Documentation Project (with quotes)lots of entries - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off
Peter Watson wrote: I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them from ConfigureKDEPower ControlEnergy. After succesfully ripping the DVD I tried to re-enable Power Saving but no luck, the screen never blanks. A bit of digging showed that when trying to re-enable the menu's command kcmshell energy puts rubbish in file ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc, I have edited this to be the same as /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc ie == [DisplayEnergy] displayEnergySaving=true displayPowerOff=45 displayStandby=15 displaySuspend=30 = but still no screen blanking. The other apparent fault is that ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is completely blank ie 0kb and I don't know what it should contain. If anyone can give me any pointers onthis problem or post the contents of their ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc I would be very grateful. Regards Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland ### Hi Pete, my ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is 0kb also. My /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc is the same as yours. However, ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc contains only the following: [X11] exportKDEColors=false My power management seems to be working OK. I'm using KDE 3 on LM 9.0 as well. Hope this helps. --Angus How do you destroy a righteous person? Give him or her one follower! --ancient Cherokee saying (fr. Earth Medicine by Jamie Sams) *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best way to find things out
I like this. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best way to find things out [...] http://www.google.com/linux [...] - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dual Boot? Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 08:05:10 + From: yaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I set up dual booting between Mandrake 9.0 and Windows XP? --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xscreensaver
After reading the suggestion to run xscreensaver, I remembered I had installed it quite awhile ago. I brought it up and went to configure it again (I like Nose Guy) anyway, when restarting after the configuration I had the below show up. Not sure what it means so any help would be appreciated. xscreensaver: 20:36:43: xscreensaver-gl-helper did not report a GL visual! xscreensaver: 20:36:44: initialization of Kerberos passwords failed. xscreensaver: 20:36:44: running on display :0.0 (1 screen). xscreensaver: 20:36:44: vendor is Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.2.0, patch level 9mdk), 4020. xscreensaver: 20:36:44: useful extensions: xscreensaver: 20:36:44: MIT Screen-Saver xscreensaver: 20:36:44: Shared Memory xscreensaver: 20:36:44: Double-Buffering xscreensaver: 20:36:44: Power Management xscreensaver: 20:36:44: GLX xscreensaver: 20:36:44: XF86 Video-Mode xscreensaver: 20:36:44: screen 0 non-colormapped depths: 24. xscreensaver: 20:36:44: not using server's lame MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension. xscreensaver: 20:36:44: consulting /proc/interrupts for keyboard activity. xscreensaver: 20:36:44: 0: visual 0x21 (TrueColor, depth: 24, cmap: default) xscreensaver: 20:36:44: 0: saver window is 0x381. xscreensaver: 20:36:44: selecting events on extant windows... done. xscreensaver: 20:36:44: awaiting idleness. xscreensaver: 20:37:16: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW received xscreensaver: 20:37:16: 0: for window 0x1e00027 (kmail / toplevel) xscreensaver: 20:37:30: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW received xscreensaver: 20:37:30: 0: for window 0x2ea (konsole / toplevel) -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 http://counter.li.org 8:37pm up 13 days, 4:18, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.26, 0.17 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What do I do with the md5sums.90 file?
Dennis Myers wrote: The easiest way Then all you should have to do is type at the prompt md5sum Mandrake90* and it will spit out the comparison alpha numerics or say something like all sums are correct. I don't recall for sure. HTH dm, that is if he is working under linux. from message header, it appears that he may be of need to check under oos. ar, if running oos and need to do md5 checks, i would suggest that you log http://www.linuxiso.org. you will see a screen with various distribs, and to left side, you will note help windows. do not recall which, but there is a link to md5 check sum progs, from which you can chose linux, msdos, or windbreaks os. also, you will note links to some very help tips pages. hta. btw. http://www.linuxiso.org/ does not store files on site, but provides ftp links to other sites. if your files fail md5, try there links. they are fast, if you catch a slow link, break it, try again. you will rotate thru list of links. peace out. If it's an md5sum checker for windows or dos that's needed, I've used this one w/winxp. It's easy to use and did the job: http://www.md5summer.org/download.html Best regards. --Angus How do you destroy a righteous person? Give him or her one follower! --ancient Cherokee saying (fr. Earth Medicine by Jamie Sams) *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux book in normal english
A friend and I have been discussing linux in general and Mandrake in particular. below is part of a email that I received from him. Can anyone suggest some good reading material for this guy? Thanks all Marc Personaly I have always found that working with it while I am learning works best for me . On computers and about anything elese for that matter. But maybe that is just me I seem to learn in kinda a different way than most people. That's usually true for me to, but in this case, don't want to upset my applecart with regarding the things I use everyday... If I had a third computer to play and learn on, that'd be different. And remember learning enough to run my own is not enough, I want to be able to work on others as well. So a lot of playing and futzing is required. And I'm the kinda guy thats gotta have a gestalt. I need to build a construct in my head of how this thing works and where all the switches and buttons are just like I have with Winblows. Right now, I'm just learning the terminology. And the tutuorials I'm finding so far are all geek speek. They use one set of technical terms to explain another... it's a circle. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /mnt problem
Hi, Just installed LM9 on a Dell Inspiron 8000. Nice and easy but a few little annoyances. I'll deal with them one at a time. In Konqueror, whenever I click on /mnt in the sidebar, Konq freezes and has to be 'killed'. Anyone with this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installation with laplink...
thanks to Franki, I will install 7.0 version on my laptop!! it only has 16mb RAM. could anyone help me figure out how to transfer the installation file onto the laptop hard drive via laplink? that is all I have, aside from 1.2 gb hardrive installed with windows 3.1 and Dos and 7.0 Mandrake CD... thanks, Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com