RE: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?
Title: RE: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of rhein Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:21 AM To: liste newbie Subject: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux? Hello, I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copier) like HP, Lexmark or Canon. I checked on the boxes in the shop but nothing is mentioned about linux. Does any one on this list have any experience with it? Thank you Christophe I have an Epson CX5200 mfc and it works very well. I suspect that HP multi's will too, but check it out here: http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi You can pick the printer your interested in and find out if it works barely, perfectly, or not at all. HTH
RE: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
Title: RE: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Langsley T Russell
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:02 PM
To: MDK-LST
Subject: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
Hi all.
I bought a beautiful new Samsung 191T plus 19 inch TFT LCD monitor. It
has a resolution of 1280X1024 @75Hz. I'm running MDK 9.2. When I attach
the new monitor and reboot everything goes fine through the entire boot
process, then just as x starts to load (at least I think that's what's
happening) the screen goes black and I get a dialogue box saying
unusable signal. I don't see any way around this.
Is there some way to setup my system using my CRT monitor so that when I
attach my LCD monitor it will produce a usable signal? Or is there
some way with the LCD monitor connected to do some sort of configuration
of my system to make it usable? The monitor came with Linux setup
instructions but I'll admit I don't really understand them and if I
can't get a picture at all how can I configure anything?
Thanks for any insight you can provide
LTR }}:{(
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Put your CD1 into the drive and reboot, at the first screen choose F1 and then type in rescue, once the rescue screen comes up you should be able to change your screen resolution. Alternative is to put the CD1 in and at the first screen hit enter and then run through the upgrade side without choosing any new packages, when it gets to the end click on the button for your screen resolution and make sure it has found the correct monitor etc, if not change it. HTH
RE: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)
Title: RE: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Poogle Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish) I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent worked for me), md5sums checked o.k and then burnt them from the command line using cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject /home/(path snipped)/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Powerpack-CD1.i586.iso CD1 boots to press enter to install etc then gives a message could not uncompress second stage ramdisk, may be a hardware error or kernel bug After pause I get to the select keyboard, then accept licence, then partion, then to select packages to install now the error message no kernel available followed by a string of messages about /usr/bin/per;-install/pkgs.pm.185 and so on. At this point I can do nothing except power off. The problem appears to be caused when I burn the CDs, tried 4 times with different manufacturers (700mb) media, 2 CD-R 2 CD-RW and get the output below. (I have d/l CD1 iso again and get the same result) output from cdrecord - BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 615 of 693 MB written (fifo 1%) [buf 21%] 1.2x.cdrecord: Input/ output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 04 CE 31 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1.853s timeout 40s write track data: error after 644974592 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 1065.784s Average write speed 4.4x. Min drive buffer fill was 21% Fixating... Fixating time: 91.653s cdrecord: fifo had 10223 puts and 10160 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 5 times empty and 6943 times full, min fill was 0%. I see it says 615 of 693mb written but when I (in konqueror) go to /mnt, right click on cdrom and select properties it calculates it as 690.2mb -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Why do you have Burn-free set to OFF? It may be that due to read-write errors your disk is not error free but looks like it has all 690.2mb. Set Burn-Free on and try again ? Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Re: Ready for update?
Title: RE: [newbie] Re: Ready for update? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update? Ignore the past and you will fail Ignore the future and you have already failed. - Original Message - From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 22:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update? On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:11:13 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this thread is about to end I seem to have one more problem. I cannot find the package manager in KDE. What is its name? you mean ark? It's not a package manager in the sense I think you are using, it's an archive viewer. It can look inside RPMs and even install them IIRC. Someone else suggested that maybe I was looking for kpackage. Sounds right but it's not in KDE and neither is mandrake update but it is in gnome. So I used it from gnome, however gnome has problems but I developed a system that works for updates and currently have worked through bug fixes, and normal and working on security. Frankly mandrake update needs to be more robust. It needs too much management. MandrakeUpdate isn't specifically a KDE app but it can be run from a KDE environment (or a gnome, or ther environment too). OK at this point I'm assuming you've set an update source and a new source for 9.2 (you're trying to upgrade to 9.2, right?) To upgrade to 9.2 is really a three stage process, maybe a four step one. 1) use Easy urpmi and select a mirror site for main, contrib, plf, whatever else you like, and follow those directions. You should then have a number of command lines to cut/paste from your browser to your root konsole/terminal, executing these one command at a time. If successful, you will have synthesis/hdlists for each one of as many sites or branches you wish. It may be necessary to repeat one or more of these steps, if there is a connection problem. 2) Actually do the upgrade to 9.2: urpmi --auto-select 3) get coffee/other strong drink (that's why I said a four step process) Tried both coffee calls bathroom other makes me stupid. 4) urpmi kernel (auto-select does not upgrade the kernel. That has to be done separately). 5) (first shalt thou count to 5 ... 1 2 3 5 .. no wait, wrong grp) urpmi --auto-select --update (I think that's right, you want to install now just the updates for 9.2). I finished downloading the sources. What happened to the 39+ MB? They're probably hiding somewhere in /var/lib/urpmi. Thanks for your comments it does help. Hoyt In KDE it is in kdenetwork-kpackage as I recall. It is a seperate rpm in KDE 3.1. HTH
RE: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
Title: RE: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:22 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think if you turn off harddrake at boot then it will not look for new hardware. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] RC2 and networking
Title: RE: [newbie] RC2 and networking -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RC2 and networking Is there a trick to getting RC2 online? I have a cable modem, and a Netgear router between the modem and my PC...I set up networking the way I have on every version of mandrake since 8.0 came out (RC1 excepted - didn't bother trying to set that up during install, since I heard it didn't work), but it didn't happen - so I then tried setting it up from Control Center. Nothing. Anyone else having any problems? -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Check and see if shorewall is installed. If so uninstall it and try the connection again. It doesn't set up the permissions correctly and I have not been able to find the problem in scripts. So no shorewall. Reported it on bugzilla. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0
Title: RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Diane Arsenault Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Hi Simon - My HDD is Primary master, I have a Cd-ROM drive set as Secondary master, and a CD-RW set as Secondary Slave. Both CD's are on Auto. Diane P.S. I have checked the cables - all is well (Simon wrote the following to me): just a thought here if you go back to your bios menu... usually F1 wil take you to the IDE device list/settings screen you'll see something like this if you have a hard drive as master and cdrom as slave channel type start end blocks type 1 IDE 0001 8787 8787 block 2 - - - - AUTO seting AUTO on device 2 tells the bios to autodetect at bootup this solved to problem on my p133 server which wouldnt boot from cdrom - Original Message - From: Simon Prosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 5:23 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Dianne, You may need to go a step further and check your hardware connections. Specifically the ribbon cable from your IDE controller to the CD-rom drive itself. Check to see if this cable has come loose at all, if it has, then this could be your problem. From what you described in your previous post, sounds like your cd-rom failed during install, if you cables are secure, then you may have purchased a defective cd-rom drive. Good-luck, and welcome to the world of Linux! -Jonathan -Original Message- From: Diane Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already placed my Cd-ROM drive at the top of the boot priority list, but some reason I can't boot from it regardless. What now? Diane - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:55, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello everyone, I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) I created a 2 Gb primary Dos partition to install Win95 - all went well with that. Since I cannot boot from my CD-ROM drive (don't know why), I ran Win95, inserted Mandrake CD1in drive, get a setup screen offering several options (install, use floppy, etc). When I click on the Install Mandrake button, a message appears saying your computer will reboot ... installation will begin (or to that effect). When I clicked OK - nothing happened. SO ... I created a floppy, using the cdrom.img file, and tried that way. Everything was going fine, then my computer rebooted diring the program installation, and I get a message that it can't find the CD-ROM. Asks me which driver to try. (I have NO idea). If I randomly choose a driver to try (what the heck, aye), I get asked for kernel info. Well, now I'm just lost. I'm sure at least one of you newbies must have had a similar problem?? Would some kind sould please help me out? Diane Arsenault Hi Diane: Welcome to the list and to Linux. First of all, let's check if your computer can boot from CD. When you reboot your computer, usually the first screen gives you a message about hitting a key to enter setup (normally the key is F2 or Enter). After entering the BIOS setup, you will be presented options that you can set. Browse those options and tell us if you can find something like Drive order to boot from. If you can find it, select the CD as the first unit to boot from. Let's try this and then post what you have got. -- __ / \\ @ __ __ @ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / // cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com // pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com HTH -BEGIN PGP
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Mirrors Down?
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake Mirrors Down? That's all it is I'm sure. I did some updates late last night and it worked like a charm. The mirrors are closing now and then due to full capacities on the rc2 download. My $.02 Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Kelley Jernigan Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Mirrors Down? I hope that's all it is. On Tuesday 04 March 2003 08:09 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:46 pm, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Are the mirrors down? All of them fail when I try to do Mandrake Update. They worked yesterday. J. Kelley Jernigan --- They are probably just swamped with people downloading rc2 of 9.1.
RE: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2
Title: RE: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2 On Friday 21 February 2003 07:41 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: Don't seem to be able to find the Kill icon that I'm used to having copied to the panel so that I can easily zap frozen applications. How do I set this up under 9.1? I know that I can CTL/ALT?F1-6 logon and ps -aux 'pipe' less/more and then kill by trial and error. This seems too complex! TIA, Rob Rob, not sure about the 9.1 stuff, but normally you can: control alt escape and bring up the skull/deaths' head and zap whatever you want by clicking on it. I alway remove the kill icon from my 9 and 12 yr olds comps (do you need to ask why? grin) but still needed an easy way for me to stop things in case they had problems. Works fine here... :-) HTH's! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Look on the Kapplicationsmonitoring, don't know why they put it there but there it is. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails Dennis, What nic have you got? There seems to be problems with one or two nics at the moment. I have a realtek and to get to the internet I have to use a fixed ip. Which machine is it on, the firewall or one of the two behind it? Tony. -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:49 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails Does anyone know how to get internet connection with rc1? I have a firewall with static ip and two linux computers behind it. Installed 9.1rc1 and had a internet connection that went away within 5 minutes and have not been able to reestablish it. I know the Mandrake site says a proxy maybe but don't know how to configure that. Is there something in resolve config or somewhere like that I can make a connection work? Any help is appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ rc1 is on one of the machines behind the firewall. Might be a realtek NIC, I will check it later today. I did try a static ip and still no connection cause it won't change over from dhcp. Charles has posted a workaround to get a connection, I will try that later today also. Thanks for the input. Dennis M. application/ms-tnefWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] [Newbie] USB Compact Flash Memory Card Reader
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:02 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] [Newbie] USB Compact Flash Memory Card Reader = Has anyone found a useable Compact Flash Memory Card Reader/Writer that will work under Mandrake 9.0 or later? = Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 beta3 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 16:13:19 up 1 day, 14:13, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.04 -- Violence is molding. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ I am using a PNY compact flash Reader that works very well. You have to do a mount /dev/scd0 and then lookd for memory card in konqueror under /mnt partition. HTH Dennis M. application/ms-tnefWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question
Title: RE: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:59:30 -0800 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:59:30 -0800 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) HTML.. Dennis I am ashamed of you. Give yourself 30 lashes and no sex tonight (with anything) (-; Charles Ya know, if I could I would delete all MS from this computer. Only trouble is then I would get fired and thrown in jail to boot. Seems like at odd times and for unknown reasons Outlook decides to switch over to html by itself. I have turned it off and next thing it's back in there. And Billy calls linux a virus. Ha. Hopefully it is off again. Funny when I check format it says plain text. So let me know if it was me or the one I answered that had the html. grumblemumblegrumblesniff. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1
Title: RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mycal62 Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1 I have to say I agree with Miark it was very very effortless ! ;-) Ony ly had to remove one rpm which was already installed and everything went without a hitch. I really REALLY like kde3.1 ! thanks for the post Miark ! -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ° Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta 3 KDE 3.1 ; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Registered Linux User #248955 ° If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! As I posted earlier my experience was also the same. Effortless. However, every time I close konqueror as a browser or a file manager it crashes with a sig11. It is trying to save somewhere that won't allow it. Anyone else see this problem and have a solution? Dennis M. ( hope this isn't html).
RE: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question
Title: RE: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:09:37 -0800 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya know, if I could I would delete all MS from this computer. Only trouble is then I would get fired and thrown in jail to boot. I'll send you a cake with a file in it. Charles -- A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain, The Disappearance of Literature - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-6mdk - Thanks Charles, I appreciate the offer, but I have heard stories about prison life, so will try to avoid it. Question, did these last two come thru as plain text like my M$2K outhouse says it was sent? Thanks, Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question
Title: RE: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Angus Auld Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] rpm --rebuild question Greetings, I would like to know if there is a command for rpm that will allow me to rebuild from a source rpm, but not have the resulting rpm package install. That is, when I am rebuilding as su. I have read, somewhere, that one should never rebuild from source as root, because if errors occur you can end up with a partial install of the binary. Anyone have any thoughts on this. I have mosly done all of my rebuilding as user, and have had good results. But, I just tried rebuilding texstars aquafusion-icons-0.5.0-2tex.src.rpm and rpm balked, saying it couldn't access /usr/src/rpm, and it exited the build. I want my rpms to build to ~/rpm. I have tried to RTFM about rpm, but find it thoroughly confusing. Any advice/help would be truly appreciated. Best regards to all. --Angus Angus, have you made sure that you have user write permissions to /usr/src/RPM and subdirectories? Make the write permissions for that directory accessable and you should be good to go. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads
Title: RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Deline Jr Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ISO Downloads I just downloaded Mandrake 9 ISO's from mirror.aca.oakland.edu The first image, Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso, after I burn it to a CD (Using Nero 5.5), does not boot, and I cannot see any files on it in windows as I can on the other two (Disc's 23). I am using Nero 5.5 with a Philips 8x4x32 CDRW Drive (CD4800 I think). I tried booting on my laptop's CD-ROM drive (QSR SDR-081 DVD ROM) and my desktop's (Creative DVD-ROM DVD1241E) to no avail. My computers are set in the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM first. Any suggestions? Besides downloading from another server? Thanx craig Sounds like an often made mistake, you copied the file and did not make an image from iso. Nero should have a tool that says make image from iso on the tool bar somewhere. I don't use Nero so may be wrong. Anybody else familiar with it? HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Adding Another Drive
Title: RE: [newbie] Adding Another Drive -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Dimitriu Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Adding Another Drive I just purchased a new hard drive for my Linux machine. How do I format it / get Linux to recognize it? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Actually if you are installing as a new primary master it should come up with the partitioning tool diskdrake early on in the installation. If you are going to use it as a slave or secondary master make sure the jumper is set for which one you want connect it to the ide cable and power and then power up the computer and go into diskdrake it should show up as hdc tab. Click on the tab and partition and format it format is one of the choices. Diskdrake should do a fine job. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] best cd burning application
Title: RE: [newbie] best cd burning application -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best cd burning application I use k3b exclusively, never toasted my system and is very Windoze like. Great tool.. Cheers Jason Me too, have it on two systems no problems with fstab. I like it as well as cdbakeoven. Dennis M.
RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's]
Title: RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's] Doug, your posts are coming through as attachments. Most folks don't like to open attachments on the list. At least I never do unless I am expecting it and know who it is from. Just a suggestion to help you get a wider range of answers for any of you questions. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Douglas B. Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 8:09 AM To: Beginners' Mailing List Subject: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's] -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel
Title: RE: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel On Friday 31 Jan 2003 7:37 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -- What you had to use mouse to mouse resuscitation? : ) Dennis M. Carefull, Dennis, you'll be accused of going OT ;) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 I've been accused of being OT (over the top) before, and can live with it.: ) Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install
Title: RE: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:53 am, robin wrote: iggy wrote: dear all, ***symptoms*** i recently installed 9.0 and have noticed that it is painfully slow. i'm very surprised as 8.2 ran like a bat out of hell. ***pertinate info*** msi mobo(i don't remember the model offhand), amd 1700+ cpu, 256 mb ram (unknown manufacturer), wd 40gb hard drive, sony 16x dvd, verbatim 40x,12x, 48x cdrw, d-link 10/100 network card and hub, g-force 2 64mb w/ tv out, sound blaster audigy mp3 sound card, (and i hope i didn't forget anything else! lol) ***specifics*** slow starting kde, slow starting each and every app, fast logging out, fast boot to graphical log in. any additional info you may need, please feal free to ask (i'm a n00b, so i may be RTFM on how to retreive that info!) as always, thanks to those volunteers and others whom take time to generously help out those of us with less experience. An obvious question, but have you checked to see what daemons are running (Mandrake Control Center-System-Services)? A couple of times I've clicked on a package I didn't actually need during installation, so then Mandrake obligingly started the appropriate demon. Some of these can be real resource-hoggers, fetchmail being one of the wrost offenders. Sir Robin thanks for the tip. i had noticed that when i rebooted (i dual boot with win98 for a few games i have) that the squid deamon was failing to stop normally. i attempted to stop the deamon through the services menu and it failed to stop also. i then uninstalled it. also, i noticed that mysql and postgresql were both installed. since i'm only interested in learing mysql (for now), i stopped the postgresql deamon and uninstalled it also. the innd deamon ran installed and running. since i'm not creating my own news server i stopped the deamon and removed the program. if anything i've done seems (or is) wrong, please feel free to let me know. thanks, again. -iggy One thing I found on my system, Gigabyte MB w/ Maxtor HD and Athlon 1800 cpu, was that if I had the bios set with HD detection on auto my whole system ran poorly, as in slow and glitchy. As soon as I did an detect hard drives in bios and then rebooted, we went into highgear and everything works well. I have no explanation since I don't know how the auto function works but, seems like it may be something to look at. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
Title: RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) Try opening MCC and then security and turn off the firewall by clicking on the square that says everything, no firewall, then apply and then try your internet connection again. If that solves the problem you should be able to turn the firewall on again and still get a connection. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Margot Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 8:15 pm, Margot wrote: I do use kppp - I'll try adding the ip addresses and get back to you. As for beating eurobell, I can't beat them and wish I'd never joined them! But never anticipated running Linux when I signed up with eurobell:-) Margot I've only half-followed this, so sorry if I'm making you repeat yourself. As I understand it, you appear to have a connection to your isp, but can't surf or collect email. Is that correct? If that's so, then kppp is set up ok. You then need to configure an account in a browser and email client. Which one do you want to use? One of us should be able to talk you through whichever you choose. Anne Anne, Thanks for your offer of help. I've put the text of my original message at the bottom of this reply so you can read it and see where I started from and those who have already seen it can stop scrolling before they get that far down. I can't surf, send or receive email, or access newsgroups. I've set up my account details in all the applications I can find - Kmail etc. - and I don't mind which I use for the moment... will probably develop a preference over time, but for now would be happy with anything I can get to work! I have followed ets suggestion - found gateway in kppp and changed it to 0.0.0.0, but still no luck. I have also added the DNS server IP addresses as instructed by Derek. Still getting the same error message host eurobell unknown. Unless Mandrake/Linux follows the Microsoft tradition of generating error messages that are completely unrelated to the actual problem, I assume the problem is something to do with host - but what? Would be grateful for any further suggestions. Margot Text of original message from 22/1/03: I'm a very newbie running Mandrake 9 and I can't get it to connect to the internet. My ISP is eurobell. I've set up the connection in MCC, and that bit seems to work OK - it dials, verifies my username and password, and is clocking up a penny a minute for the connection when I test it - but I can't get any further than that. I've tried setting up my details (username, password, server names as supplied by eurobell), but when I use the various applications to try to access www, usenet, email accounts I just get error messages - message wording varies depending on the application, but amounting to host eurobell unknown. I've checked the documentation on the machine and printed out several trees worth, but still can't crack this. The only documentation I found that seems relevant told me that the host name should be in the /etc/hosts file. This is what my /etc/hosts file contains: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.50 home No mention of eurobell in the file. Should I add something here and, if so, what? I've been reading this list for a couple of weeks and picked up some useful tips, but nobody seems to have exactly the same problem as me. Luckily I still have the old Win 98 machine running so I can access the mailing list - but it is annoying to have to unplug the modem and keep moving it from one machine to the other as they are in different rooms! I tried eurobell's tech support, but their first question was which version of Windows do you have? and the conversation went downhill from there. Can anyone help? TIA Margot Lawrence
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems 1/14/03 8:51:57 PM, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy, Carroll Grigsby do you _Like_ to be the bearer of ill tidings? I don't know if this is what I would call ill tidings or not. No I don't think I would call it good news but I am also not shure that it is bad news. Look at it this way, it could be a chance for Mandrake to get out of debt for 50 cents on the dollar maybe 10 cents on the dollar. Wouldent we all like to do that? Very similar stuff happened to Chrysler corperation in the 80s and look at them today. I have seen similar things happen to other small companys and then seen them come out of it smelling like a rose. This could be the best thing to happen to Mandrake in a long time or it could be a sighn of inpending doom. I woud not hazzard a guess eather way, only time will tell. Just my 2 cents worth Marc Everybody stay calm and move slowly toward the exits. Just kidding. See the link for more info http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/2131224 Also realize that Chapter 11 is for reorganization and protection from creditors who could make such demands that a company must close the door. Chapter 11 would give MandrakeSoft a chance to get in the clear and attain profitablility. But my bet is on an outside investor. Cheers Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
Title: RE: [newbie] Its official :-( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Its official :-( On Wednesday 15 January 2003 11:59 am, Jody Cleveland wrote: Mandrake has filed for bankruptcy... So, now what... The article says Chapter 11, so maybe they will be able to pull themselves out of this mess -- /\ Dark Lord \/ If I recall there have been several companies in the past to use chapter 11 to survive, gazillions actually, but Worldcomm and Chrysler to name a couple.
RE: [newbie] Miscellaneous (longish) ramblings: 9.1beta1, Mandrak esoft, and...
Title: RE: [newbie] Miscellaneous (longish) ramblings: 9.1beta1, Mandrakesoft, and... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Miscellaneous (longish) ramblings: 9.1beta1, Mandrakesoft, and... On January 12, 2003 05:26 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: snip Not ranting at you Jerry, just ranting. Random snips to follow. :-) mine mounts the beta 2 as ext2 just fine, not sure why you're having that problem... as for lilo if, when you install, at the very first screen you press F1 for more options and at boot: put expert, you get more options. you can write the lilo for beta1 on the first sector of the boot partition (/dev/hda8 on mine) I was already installing as expert Jerry; but thanks, 'cause the advice may be beneficial to someone else. I managed to get the beta installed. Three times in fact. The trouble is the incompatibility in the file system versions. What works with 9.0 won't work with 9.1 beta1 and vice versa. Every partition on my hard drives that Mandrake has been allowed to utilize were all formatted XFS for more months (pre 8.2 release) than I care to recall since that worked the best with my hardware environment. The only exceptions to that were /boot and / (root) on hda since the install of 9.0 required a bit of fiddling to be bootable and usable on my machine. While I'll do almost anything to make a distribution I'm interested in trying/buying work I; *will not ever lose my personal data because of programmer's/developer's choices to change things to fit their pet projects or test their theories.* Period, final, no fscking discussion. This ain't Microsloth. I don't have to do things their way, and I won't. I previously posted the hardware list. The oldest hard drive is about 14 months. Mandrake doesn't touch that one or the next oldest. The two it is are less than a year of age. The rest of the hardware (bar the RAM which is all less than a year old) is circa December 1999. If that's too old to suit Mandrake they can keep the damned distribution. I've never liked the color of a certain hat either. again i think this is in the expert install option I reiterate that I *was* in expert mode. I got no choice and still couldn't make a boot disk at the command line after install or from Mandrake Control Center. file not found X configuration is done on the Summary screen. Where it gives you the resolution (mine defaulted to 1024x768) press that button. My first install didn't configure X right automatically so I re-installed with Upgrade, didn't install any packages, and ran the X configuration Not on any of the three installs I managed to complete or the one 'upgrade' that broke it completely just before I did the disk recovery. The graphics adapter and the monitor were identified properly and the display was set (supposedly but with strange inconsistencies) at the 1024x768 that I usually use anyway. The point was that I wouldn't have been able to continue since the option to change settings/configure X wasn't offered. Software manager, add software CD-1 not enabled. B**T it is too! urpmi at the command line CD-1 not enabled. Add sources, command line and MCC, errors (didn't save them) see Ya! I too had this problem. I went to MCC, Software Management Select Sources and removed / re-added the cdrom and it worked fine I had to remove and re-add the freakin' *install disk?* Yeah.that makes _so_ much sense, beta or not. The ISO was mounted as a loopback on hdb on the previous second partition. beta1 couldn't access it. Still is in fact. While I have lots of disk space it's my disk space. Since the kernel can't use XFS what happens when those (like myself) that took advice on this list and tested that file system and chose it because they found it the most suited to their hardware? Especially those that only have one hard drive to work with? Can't do an upgrade can we? Won't install on XFS partitions so have to reformat so then; _what's the difference between that and a total re-install that loses all your settings and configuration, personalization, and data?_ There's a LOT of stuff missing as far as packages go... I couldn't build ANYTHING new to add to it, I agree, but this being a 1 CD beta I imagine they're probably looking for feedback on installation and basic operation. There's nothing missing at all Jerry, all one _should_ have to do after a beta install is add cooker sources and install the rest of the packages. I couldn't force it to let me go that route. That's not the point. Install is broken in many ways. The basic operation stinks: scrolling is jerky and inconsistent, sound card identified but no way to adjust volume which it seems is at zero by default, harddrake didn't work, the kernel chosen is an utter piece of dung that eats every
RE: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use
Title: RE: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sharrea Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use Hi all OT I know, but I can't figure out what type of Cat 5 UTP cable (and possibly adapters) I am supposed to use with this 5-port switching hub I picked up at the auction. The hub manual says: quote Fast Ethernet Ports These ports require Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable. These ports can be used to connect to individual workstations, servers or other Ethernet devices. The attached station must be within 100 meters of the 10/100 Switching Hub, and a straight-through cable must be used when connecting a single-address device or a crossover cable when connecting a multi-address device such as a 100Base-TX repeater. When connecting a workstation or a server, a standard 100BASE-TX adapter must be installed. /quote I have 3 PCs that I want to network with one being used solely as a firewall with ipcop. Each PC has a NIC. I connect to the internet via a dialup modem. My theory so far: 1. Connect external dialup modem to firewall machine which will provide internet access to the other 2 machines. 2. Connect each of the 3 machines to the hub with (?) cat 5 utp cable and (?) adapters. Could someone please enlighten this thick newbie as to which cable and adapters (if any) I should use? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today All you need is a plain cat5 cable not a cat5 crossover cable most computer stores carry them. They look round, come in different colors and have what looks like a telephone plug end on both ends. Plug into the ethernet card on the computer and the other end into the switch. Your above theory should work. If you have problems connect the modem to the uplink position on the switch and both NICs on the firewall into the switch. Sounds dumb but it was the only way I could get a cable modem to work. There should be no adapters needed just the cable. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Update is stuck on one lame mirror
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake Update is stuck on one lame mirror -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Update is stuck on one lame mirror Somehow, after I selected a mirror to use for Mandrake Update, it is now the ONLY mirror I can get.. and more than half the time I can't download files because it says it can't resolve host. How to I reconfigure rpmdrake to look for another host?? And why isn't this a selection onr rpmdrake when I right click? Thanks for any help. james James, if you open Mandrake Control Center and choose the Software option you will see a icon for updating mirrors. They have separated the install-uninstall-mirrorselection into separate interfaces. You can add another mirror there or delete one. I am not real fond of it but it works. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW
Title: RE: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:40 AM To: NewbieMandrake-List Subject: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW Take note: LM91 beta 1 is now out on some mirrors. Now is the time to start testing YOUR hardware and configurations. It's a prime opportunity for you to make 9.1 friendly to your own personal hardware, and in so doing a real world killer distro. Please read the following repost from Sascha Noyes concerning https://qa.mandrakesoft.com -Forwarded Message- From: Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital Date: 22 Dec 2002 07:17:50 -0500 On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 12:35 am, Joseph Braddock wrote: Jerry, Maybe you would be willing to contribute some of your time to improve Mandrake's stability. There were numerous beta and release candidates for Mandrake 9.0. If you are having stability issues, the time to have them fixed is prior to the release being official. When Mandrake 9.1 is in beta and release candidate status, maybe you can download a copy (or buy one from cheapbytes) and submit the problems you've been experiencing to the development team. This is by no means an effort to slam you, it's simply that if we want the distro to work flawlessly and support all kinds of hardware combinations, then the more who join the testing effort the better. snip Mandrake have made a huge step forward with bugzilla in the last week or two. I would suggest to everyone who has an interest in the stability/excellence of 9.1 to make an account at https://qa.mandrakesoft.com. The feature that would be most useful to newbies is voting for bugs. If you are too intimidated in posting a new bug or comment on an exitant bug (which you shouldn't be), you can simply search for all unconfirmed bugs, and if you are experiencing them as well, you can vote for them. After two votes, a bug is marked new, and the more votes a bug receives, the more attention it will get (and face it that is what you need for 'your' bug in the beta process). The process to see unconfirmed bugs is to click Query existing bug reports, and then change the status field to unconfirmed and just do a search without any other parameters. Good luck, Sascha Noyes
RE: [newbie] error during packages installation
Title: RE: [newbie] error during packages installation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ivette brusselmans Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] error during packages installation Yes, tried this, no result. slocate man-pages neither. only slocate man gives results snip installed security updates. It went fine till cups-common had to be installed. Then a X window appeared telling me there was an error during packages installation: file /usr/share/man/fr/man1/backend.1.bz2 from install of cups-common-1.1.1.-1.1mdk conflicts with file from package man-pages-fr-0.9.5-9mdk and more or less thirty other conflicting files, all from cups-common-1.1.18-1.1mdk and all conflicting with file from package man-pages-fr-0.9.5-9mdk. Tried to find this package man-pages-fr-0.9.5-9mdk to delete it because I don't need french and I just installed it for fun with four other languages, but to no avail. any ideas? How can I get rid of french, get it completely out of my system? Hope it's only the french version that gives me problems, because I also installed spanish and italian. Thanks Did you try from a console and su by typing slocate man-pages-fr* ? see if that picks it up. HTH Dennis M. _ Ok, try from a su console whereis man-pages-fr-0.9.5-9 and then which man-pages-fr-0.9.5-9 and see if one of those queries doesn't get it's location for you. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW
Title: RE: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW OK, so what mirrors are showing 9.1 cooker? It is up on the Mandrake Download Mirror sites now. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] which server to use?
Title: RE: [newbie] which server to use? I have been running the Mandrake9.0 with Apache advanced extranet server on a machine in my office for about a year now and have had no problems, it doesn't take a lot of hits (70+-) a week but it isn't a really fast machine either. Just a cobled together AMDK6II 266 on a SOYO mb and 128mb ram. Anyway, depending on your needs my recommendation would be the Mandrake Apache that comes with 9.0 cause it is so easy to set up and it is secure as any others and more so than some. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jody Cleveland Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:13 AM To: Mandrake (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] which server to use? Hello all, I know this list may be a bit biased for this question, but I'll ask anyway. I love Mandrake for my desktop. But, which Linux is the best for a web server? Thanks for any and all input. -Jody Cleveland Winnefox Library System Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] IBM Deskstar news
Title: RE: [newbie] IBM Deskstar news -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of et Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstar news you gotta love the Hitachi's new five-layer patented Pixie Dust media. I wonder if the Pixie Dust works the same in the Northern Hemisphere as it does in the Southern Hemisphere, or does it require a Pixie Dust Adaptor On Wednesday 08 January 2003 09:38 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Guys and gals...From Tom's Hardware: -- Hitachi Takes over Management of IBM storage disk technology As we reported previously, Hitachi assumed management responsibility for IBM's hard disk drive storage technology on Monday. In a press release issued today, the new entity, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, announced plans to squeeze four gigabytes of data onto the existing 1-inch Microdrive, the world's smallest hard disk drive. The new 4GB version of the Microdrive will rely on ultra-miniaturized components, including a new read-write head that is one-half the size of its previous version and yields a 40% decrease in the height at which the head travels above the disk platter. The Femto Slider Head is the next generation of head slider technology. This new technology is reported to be so miniaturized that it is comparable in size to a single grain of table salt. The tracks per inch of the Microdrive's areal density have been increased to more than sixty billion bits of data per square inch, according to Hitachi. The areal density of the 4GB Microdrive is made possible by using Hitachi's new five-layer patented Pixie Dust media technology. Another significant technical achievement is an increased data transfer rate reported to be a 50% improvement from the earlier version of the Microdrive. Snip rest of marketing blah Hitachi had the first 10,000 rpm drive, if memory serves me correctly. --LX IBM must have licensed or sold the patent to Hitachi for the pixie dust technology cause if I remember correctly, about a year ago, IBM was touting this breakthrough in harddrive technology. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Java - lost it
Title: RE: [newbie] Java - lost it Did you upgrade or do a fresh install. One of the features with 9.0 was supposed to be it's ability to upgrade over an older OS but I don't think that it works consistantly and may be you are better off with a clean install? Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:56 AM To: Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Java - lost it On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:57, erylon hines wrote: On Thursday 02 January 2003 12:44 pm, you wrote: My installation is also from the discs and uninstalling and re-installing didn't work for me. Mozilla and Galeon crash when encountering applets; Konqueror doesn't crash, but the applet freezes when it's 29% loaded; Netscape still refuses to even acknowledge that java is loaded. Where to next?? Rich There is a fairly high probablility that you have two java's installed, and a bad link to the *.so going (or, maybe no link at all). Note that this must be a link to the javaplugin_oji.so, copying the *.so to the /usr/lib/netscape/plugins directory will NOT work--same for mozilla. MozillaHelpAbout plug-ins shows the java that you have installed?? (should be the Sun version) #java -version returns what? (Kaffee should be o.k., but you can uninstall it using the package manager and re-make your path to the Sun version as a last resort--since this is only for web browsers that shouldn't be necessary). I'm trying to determine just what mods the rpm installer made to your directories and links. Everyone else reading this--I recommend that you use the version from Blackdown if you must have a JVM because it is a bzipped tarball and not a *.bin or rpm. If you use tarballs you can have more control of the install. Installing java ain't really hard--honest. 1. Download the bz2 tarball and put it in /usr/local then cd to /usr/local 2. Unpack it with the command tar -xvvIf name_of_tarball (note that is an eye not an ell -- a directory /usr/local/java_version_directory will be created) 3. ln -s /usr/local/java_version_directory/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla plugins 4. Repeat for netscape (note to use the proper plugin directory--moz and netscape are different) I don't use Galeon--you are on your own for that If you must have a real JVM for some 3rd party program (not very likely, but possible) remove Kaffee from your system. 1. open /etc/profile with your favorite editor 2. Add the line: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java_version_directory/bin (this sets the variable PATH to the previous PATH and adds the new line to it) 3. Add the line: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java_version_directory 4. Reload /etc/profile If none of this works for you, I've exhausted my suggestions, but I assure you, it has worked for me. Well, I've exhausted all of my possibilities, none of the java installs will work, Sun or Blackdown or Netscape. I've also noticed that Konqueror file manager crashes sometimes when I click on a Mozilla directory. There's something very wrong with my installation. Strangely, another computer that I upgraded (this one was a fresh install) works perfectly! Thanks to everyone for all of their efforts. Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Router/firwall
Do you have the client computer set for internet connection as a static IP address? I have not been able to get my firewall/router to work properly without setting the client machines to dhcp. Look in MCC and internet connection, if it is set as static change to dhcp and see if you can get out. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of TomSent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 10:48 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Router/firwall I am trying to setup a router/firewall. Installed the nic set eth0 to the 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 set eth1 to the ISP static IP address and mask. Connected the computers . I can ping anything from the Mandrake 9.0 box. I can ping both nics in the Mandrake box from the client I can ping the mandrake box eth1 from an outside computer but I cannot get outside the from the client in the network. I cannot ping the ISP's gateway or anthing else outside the eth1 nic. What have a done wrong? Thanks
RE: [newbie] Apache, PHP and SSI
Title: RE: [newbie] Apache, PHP and SSI
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Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Apache, PHP and SSI
Thanks for the answer!
I don't know what i've done but my apache server now only display 'Access
Forbidden' messages. Do you, or anyone, knows how to fix this?
And, someone has an alternative for dreamweaver? All the linux WYSIWYG html
editors i've found aren't good enough for me and i'm still stuck in windowze
because of dreamweaver.
You don't need to use !--#include file=file-- to do include cgi or
shtml, according to the PHP manual, you can use, virtual('filename'); (see
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.virtual.php for details).
To include php files you would use, include('filename'); (see
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php for details).
Hope this helps,
Jamie
BTW http://www.phpbuilder.com is a great forum for php.
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-Original Message-
From: - netmaniac - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 December 2002 15:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Apache, PHP and SSI
I have a mdk8.2 box with apache wich runs very well. Everything is working
fine but I can't get the !--#include file=file-- to work in the .PHP
files. The .shtml obviously works with these server side includes but I
want
to mix php coding with ssi in my pages. I've already tried the XBitHack but
it haven't worked.
Any Suggestion?
netmaniac
Don't know about the access problem, but have you tried Quanta+ for your web editing. With the Gimp
it does some really good work. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] remove me PLEASE!!!
You can get off the mail list by going back to the web page you used to join it http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott MiddlemissSent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:35 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] remove me PLEASE!!! To damn many messages... Fills my box up and I can't run an effective business... Scott Earl Middlemiss ~~ Respect Freedom By Securing It For All ~~ From: Paul Dimitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] trouble getting PHP to work ... Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:26:44 -0800 (PST) What version of Apache are you running? PHP has an issue w/ installing on Apache 2.0 and above. When you type "make", did you look closely for any errors? One of many known errors may pop up when compiling. Paul --- Kenn Murrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: well, i've never had to do that manually before, but I did go into the commonhttpd.conf file and add those lines ... actually, they were already there but commented, so I uncommented them and restarted, but with no change in the result ... (i should also point out that on previous installatiions, I've used mandrake 8.1 non-server edition, but I don't know if that's really relevant) any other ideas? thanks, kenn --- Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:44:26AM -0800, Kenn Murrah wrote: Greetings ... I know I've done this a dozen time before, but today I'm having trouble installing PHP on my Mandrake Linux Server 8.2 ... I've installed php, mod_php, php-mysql, and php-gd, but my php-encoded web pages still refuse to work (i.e., they display the php code) ... what am i doing wrong here? any and all help appreciated. thanks, Do you have it set up in your commonhttpd.conf? i.e., AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*
RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office) Hi, After an amazing 12-hours (!) download on my slow connection, I finally got my hands on the new StarOffice RPMs. I downloaded the following ones: 1) staroffice-common-6.0-5mdk.i586.rpm 2) staroffice-en-6.0-5mdk.i586.rpm 3) adabas_en-6.0-1mdk.i586.rpm I understand that the first one is a common module, the second one a language-dependent module, and the third one a database. Now, in what order should I install these? Is there any special syntax or would a rpm -ivh nameofthepackage.rpm do? Last but not least, I have OpenOffice 1 installed and running on my computer (Mandrake 9). Is the installation of the related StarOffice going to cause me any problems, or can they both run side by side without any problems. And I suppose that any StarOffice installation has to be done as root right? Thanks for your help. I don't have access to any Mandrake CDs and my connection being slow, crashing my system would be a major problem so I rather be just a little paranoid and ask for your advice. Many thanks! Andrei I would do it thus, put them all in one file folder in your /home directory called star or something like that. then from a console do su and root password and then type cd /star and at the next prompt type urpmi *.rpm and it will install all three or list unresolved dependencies. The urpmi prog will decide the order of install. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Digital cameras
Title: RE: [newbie] Digital cameras Well, that explains it. Hey Anne, if you want I think I can get one at the local Best Buy. A PNY like I have is around $32 US And I can ship to you no problem. Course with the Christmas season shipping might be slow. Or you could order direct from Best Buy, I think. Not sure what their shipping policy is for overseas. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Digital cameras On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 7:17 pm, s wrote: On Tuesday 17 December 2002 1:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, it needs to know the partition, try mount /dev/sda2 or /dev/sdb1 and see if it pops up. HTH device /dev/sdb1 does not exist - similar for sda2. Anne, if I may jump in here. I'm sorry Ive lost the start of this thread, tho I read it, I seem to have forgotten what model of fuji did you say this was? Does it have that new XD media storage? They say that only came out a couple months ago and it is decribed as a new format. Too new for linux possibly. And I'm not all too sure it's not proprietory. I need to find some info on it... Anyway, if that's the case, they do have a reader that has slots for it and regular smart media that may well be worth the 30 or 40 bucks it probably costs. well anyway, just curious what model of camera and what kind of media it uses. hth thanks, -s Grrooaann - it's S304, and yes it is xD memory. I've been seeking a smartmedia reader that works with linux, and the only models I have found recommended are a PNY and a Sandisk. I can't find anyone here (UK) selling the PNY, and no-one in the US seems to want to ship it here. I spoke direct to Sandisk Europe to find about that particular model that a list-member had used successfully. He said it was available and he would put the Euro Sales Manager on to me - he said they didn't have a model by that name. I guess I'll just have to try their own reader. At least, if that doesn't work with linux yet (on the dX card) I may have the chance to use it with my old camera and the smartmedia cards. Meanwhile, I suppose a weekly google is the best chance of hearing if there's any progress under linux? Anne
RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office) Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the opportunity, that's it. My silver membership was a way to say thanks to Mandrake for their fantastic work - not a way of getting StarOffice. Actually, I am very impressed and happy with OpenOffice already and I could live for it for a while. But, hey, since I could I wanted to try it out - see how similar/different they really are. Anyaway, is urpmi.removemedia safe in case I want to get rid of it? It will not remove dependencies used by my OpenOffice? Cheers, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 For removal it would be urpme note the e instead of i. But no guarantees on removing other things you might want or need. I should list all packages it will remove and ask is this ok? If you say no it stops. Dennis M. If you have them in the same directory by themselves, you can just cd to that directory and type urpmi * (as root, no quotes). They won't interfere with OpenOffice at all and to be honest, I can't see any great advantage to StarOffice. Though, presumably, you are a silver club member as well, so you might as well have them! David _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
RE: [newbie] Digital cameras
Title: RE: [newbie] Digital cameras -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Digital cameras On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 7:55 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Well, that explains it. Hey Anne, if you want I think I can get one at the local Best Buy. A PNY like I have is around $32 US And I can ship to you no problem. Course with the Christmas season shipping might be slow. Or you could order direct from Best Buy, I think. Not sure what their shipping policy is for overseas. HTH Dennis M. That's kind, Dennis. Let's leave it until after Christmas. I can download my pics onto my grandson's windows box and the network them across for the present. I'll think about the options for combined readers that I mentioned to s (combined xD and smartmedia or xDto DF adapter), then see what seems best bet. If the concensus is that neither are a good bet, I'll carry on as I am for now with this camera, hoping that we'll soon get support. At that point, though, I will ask you again about getting hold of one. May I contact you off-list if we get to that? Thanks Anne Sure, no problem, the address listed with this mail or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy Holidays.
RE: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
Title: RE: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Malcolm Candlish Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:57 PM To: Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device. Alex, I had no idea that the reader cdrom which is my hdc should be emulating a scsi device as does my cdrwrom on hdd. However, I tried to repeat line 12 but quoting hdc in my /etc/lilo.conf and in running it claimed 'line 13 unsupported by lilo'. I knocked out append and other encumbrance's, but still the same response. May I thank you for your interest and for your kind reply. Malcolm Candlish. The file details of my Mandrake 9.0 system are as follows:- /etc/fstab /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,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 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 /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda vga=normal default=Mandrake prompt timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk label=Mandrake root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows [root@localhost malcolm]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4804TE ' '2.6C' Removable CD-ROM 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) *scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) * 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) 'SCANNER ' ' ' 'V101 ' Scanner 1,7,0 107) * [root@localhost malcolm]# On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 21:19, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 10 December 2002 02:54 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello all, Has anyone experienced a problem with XCDROAST on Mandrake 9.0 because I cannot get it to recognise my CD Reader either Primary or Secondary. Under CD Writer Config I have Mitsumi CR-4804TE which is correct. But under CD Reader both Primary Secondary are given the same Mitsumi Writer instead of the correct Teac CD Rom. Are there any XCDRoast files I can manipulate? Has any one else had this problem? sounds like your reader is not under ide-scsi look in /etc/lilo.conf for a line with hd?=ide-scsi and make sure that both the cdrom and cdwriter are listed, then lilo and reboot. -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Malcom, do you mean that you added hdc=ide-scsi right after where it says hdd=ide-scsi? the added hdc should be seperated with a space and within the mark. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Missing sda
Title: RE: [newbie] Missing sda -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Missing sda My initial install of 9.0 was pretty near perfect, and supermount worked flawlessly. Shame I had to mess it up. The problems started when I tried to get my smartcardreader working. The upshot was that sda disappeared totally. I have tried running HardDrake but it just doesn't seem to see the LS120 drive, which was at install identified correctly and mounted as none /mnt/LS120 supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Has anyone any idea how I can get the system to find this device again? Anne Kinda sounds like an IRQ conflict. Do you have PNP OS set to no in your bios? Take a look at your IRQs and see if there are ones with more than one device using the irq. If usb and /dev/sda are both trying to use the same irq that could be the problem. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake
Wait, if your hard drive is hda then it has to be the master on ide1 so your cdrom can not be set as master also, you would have to set it as slave, your HP could be set master if there is no other hard drive on the ide2 bus. Have you tried setting the jumpers on the CD and DVD drives to slave? HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Rayborn Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake Yes, I can boot into Mandrake after installing from FTP, but my CD-ROM drives still do not work. I haven't tried any manual nudging (mostly because I have no idea what to try). My drive hookup is as follows: MBFastrack33 (onboard UltraDMA 133): /dev/hda (works fine, even with UDMA mode) Onboard IDE: DVD-ROM as master Onboard IDE2: HP 9100i as master Anything on the onboard IDE doesn't work... --Alexander -Original Message- From: Nikunj Bansal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake Are you able to boot into Mandrake normally after the install is completed? I worry because my existing Mandrake installation is also not booting up presumably because it does not seem to recognize the hard disk plugged into the IDE slots on board. application/ms-tnefWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] First suspect - me
Title: RE: [newbie] First suspect - me -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 6:18 pm, mike wrote: Franki wrote: as a result of this, I think mdk7.2 is still their best ever release.. anyone else agree with me?? rgds Frank I agree wholeheartedly ! I have stuck with 8.0 only for the newer kde, however I really liked 7.2 as well. 8.2 was ok, but I can't get a number of things working in 9.0 to save my life. and the supermount issue is a big one for me, though I have used linux ever since RH 5.2. I only use Mandrake now and will stick with it, but I'd also like to see many of the features of older versions remain, instead of being forced to upgrade hardware, etc. just my 2 cents It's funny, after all the problems I had read I expected huge problems with my 9.0 installation, particularly with supermount and USB printer, scanner, LS120 drive. I have had none of those problems. I went to a good deal of trouble to ensure that I could have 8.2 working in case 9.0 was no good for me. Now I think I wasted my time. In fact I can't believe how many things gave me grief in 8.2 that are just fine in 9.0 - except that AisleRiot frequently bombs out on me at lunchtime, and KAddressBook is knackered, which you can't blame Mandrake for. Ah well - nothing's perfect. But this one nearly is. Anne I agree with Anne, I tweak and prod and fiddle with things and the 9.0 just keeps chuggin. I used to break 8.2 on a monthly basis with all my fooling around. I have no problems with supermount and have been able to use my flash card reader as a hardtype drive. Now I am looking at changing the webserver over to 9.0 also. And so the YMMV seems to be a truism in all areas of computing. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] flash
Title: RE: [newbie] flash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexa Pongracz Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] flash Hi I went to Macromedia, the instructions said to save the installer to my desktop, which I did, then it says, unpackage the file...the reading I'm doing says that there could be some sort of unzip utility to run file ends in tar.gz macromedias instructions are clear if I knwe what I was doing I guess On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:19, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 11:08, Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, It's me with the functioning, on line system. I am curious as to if there is a plug in for flash that I could download? Does flash work on linux? Alexa Right here: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash_Language=English Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Alexa, the file is in a tar zip format. you can upackage it by going into a console and navigating to the folder that the installer is in. Do a change directory command like: cd Documents . Then at the prompt type tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz and hit enter. The file will unzip and place its pacakages. Then you should install as per the instructions in the readme file or on the web page. HTH
RE: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS
Title: RE: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS http://ksensors.sourceforge.net/ chose the redhat rpm and installed with kpackage. works fine using setup from su. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:06 AM To: Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS Where did you guys get ksensors from anyway?? urpmi ksensors didn't work, so i went and got the srpm for the latest at sourceforge and tried to rebuild it.. got a rpmb directory not found message... a heads up in the right direction would be great.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS Pilagá wrote: El Dom 17 Nov 2002 18:58, John Richard Smith escribió: I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one, would like to see both intergrated into MCC. John Hola, John. I have changed gkrellm by ksensors. With ksensors you can dock in KDE panel the sensors that you really need, and you don't need a magnifier to see what is going there. Suerte. Yes the initial gkreallm gui is so tiny it's unreadable, but in fact it is fully reconfigurable to any size and shape you desire . Yes it takes more horsepower to display gui, but the ease with which it is possible to cover the changes in resource usage as different things happen is very helpful in understanding resource use, and in adition there is additional info in the gkreallm gui display than lm_sensors displays on it's own. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] USB in LM9
Title: RE: [newbie] USB in LM9 Works great for me. Scanner, camera, flashcard reader, all working out of the box. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marcia Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] USB in LM9 Dear All, In USB working in LM9 yet? Thanks, Marcia
RE: [newbie] Way, way of topic
Title: RE: [newbie] Way, way of topic -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic On Wednesday November 6 2002 05:41 am, Silent Bob wrote: My Mandrake freezes without warning shortly after reboot. But this one is a hardware problem. I tested the harddrive in other machine. Booting into X, or to level 3 ? Booting into X it could be a video problem. Configure to boot to level 3 till you get things sorted out. Does anyone know what is the normal operating temperature for AMD duron 1300. Mine is running at 59C and I think that over heating could be the problem. Although I have a cooler with 2 fans witch is for AMD processors up to 1,5 Ghz Most AMD proccesors have a failure temp of ~90 to 95C internal core. If 59C is from bios it's pretty much useless, the system has just booted and the cpu is under low load. Your cpu heats very rapidly as soon as you begin to boot into an OS. If it's from lm_sensors, it's comin from a probe (thermistor) that either reads one of the cpu's pins, or is in contact with the die. From a pin is slightly better, but in either case the reported temp is 10 to 20C less than the actual internal core temp. So 59C could mean a core temp closer to 79C, but probly ~low 70C's. Anyway, it's too high. You want to see reported probe temps of 45 to 55C under 100% cpu load, 40 to 50C is better. Your cooler is probly fine, but do you have it mounted with a thermal pad or grease? Grease is much better, specially over time. Your case temps maybe too high to let the cooler do it's job. Take the case cover off and point a table fan directly into the box aimed at the cpu and chipset heatsinks. Does the problem go away? If it doesn't, next likely culprits are marginal power supply (is yours AMD approved?), or marginal motherboard/ram (they work together, equally important). Try testing with memtest86, the rpm is on your CD's. It'll create a lilo (or grub) option to boot 'memtest86-xx'. Let it run overnight. You should see -0- errors. Your question is not off topic. IMO, most problems reported on this list have a basis in hardware and configuration, while Mandrake gets blamed. At least you've yourself pointed in a good direction, as hardware problems should always be checked and eliminated first ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Also make very sure that the heat sink ledge is oriented correctly. If the heat sink is turned around then it may not be making contact with the cpu core and overheating is very fast. It can be put on incorrectly. HTH, Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille
Title: RE: [newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille So far Paul I can not get Bastille to run in 9.0, not even the latest and greatest, compiles to the end then says 9.0 is not currently supported. So Shorewall or IPCOP are your current choices. Shorewall is in there so that is the one I would try first. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Rodriguez Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 9:39 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille If I upgrade my Mandrake box from 8.2 to 9.0 what steps should I take to integrate these 2 firewalls. Since I am currently running Bastille, can I turn of bastille and turn on shorewall? Absent the hardening features, will this present me a good firewall? Will turning off bastille, and the changes it makes to iptables have any effect on shorewall? Thank you. - Paul
RE: [newbie] test... ignore as OT, is list working?
Title: RE: [newbie] test... ignore as OT, is list working? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ET Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] test... ignore as OT, is list working? I am now the one who is not recieving anything from any mandrake list, and i know Earthlink has been screwing with the mailservers, I am wondering if this gets thru, or has e-link decided that Mandrake is a spammer and is filtering them. if anyone on e-link sees this and will e-mail me off list to let me know. thanks ET Not just you, must be Mandrake mailserver having problems. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders
Title: RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders Actually the commercial cycle is fairly rapid for Mandrake. Once the final code is set in the testing phase they have to go to production. Printing and pressing CDs in large quantities, getting the components to the fulfillment contractor and packaging, takes more than just a few days. So, Mandrakes policy has been to release the final to the mirrors as soon as the code is locked down and start the manufacturing process at that point. 4 to 6 week lag. Other Software companies experience the same time lag, it just isn't apparent cause they don't release the code for free download. My $.02 Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barran, Richard Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:35 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders Shame really that Mandrake has not got a grip on the commercial side of things. I want them to succeed, yet the delay between 9.0's release and its availability on CD is not impressive. I know *I'm* getting frustrated *reading* about 9.0 day after day on this list! :-) Why wait? Download the iso's and burn them. Voila, you're running Mandrake 9. Then you can wait on your boxed version. Anthony Not everyone has (or wants) a broadband connection. In fact, I feel quite safe in saying that only a *small minority* of PCs worldwide are connected in that way :-) or indeed should ever be; for sending emails and occasional browsing a 56k connection is plenty enough! Richard *** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.com ***
RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders
Title: RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 10:25 pm, you wrote: has they been shipped? anyone got theirs? No, and I haven't heard anything from Mdk either Anne Note at Mandrakestore says they ship end of October-first of November. They should be going out the door as we type. : ) Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?
Title: RE: [newbie] Why file privileges changing? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing? i've seen the same problem. no answer, but i'm thinking it's one of the deamons associated with security levels/permissions/authorizations. possibly msec, since it does run a cron job if installed and running. check ps ax | grep msec as root to verify. --- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Katherine Richmond) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing? No, all we have to do is wait about 30 - 45 minutes and it changes back to drwxr-xr-x (automatically?) Kathy --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you started and stopped ftp or any service that uses that directory recently? Hi Everyone, What would be causing the file privileges for group and world to change on a directory? For example, the security on /home/ftp_data changed from drwxrwxrwx to drwxr-xr-x even though no one did a chmod (or anything else) to that directory. Here are the steps that were taken for this directory. Note: We need write privileges for world since we are FTP'ing some data into this file from a CGI script. 1. Log on as root 2. cd /home 3. chmod 777 ftp_data 4. ls -l shows: drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Oct 17 10:07 ftp_data/ 5. Ran the CGI script that ftp's data into ftp_data. 6. After CGI script finishes, did ls -l ftp_data -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4281 Oct 18 14:20 31789_372474.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4281 Oct 17 09:37 34389_372474.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4281 Oct 17 10:07 85592_372474.dat 7. Then did ls -l from /home directory drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Oct 18 14:20 ftp_data/ So, at this point we are able to see that we allowed rwx to all, were able run a CGI script that wrote data into the ftp_data directory, and then showed that the ftp_data directory did not change it's privileges after the CGI script had finished. 7. About 30 minutes later, did another ls -l from /home and got the following: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 18 14:20 ftp_data/ which shows that group and world have their write privileges turned off. Note: We did not log off from root during this time. We do not have any cron jobs running, so we cannot think of any reason why the security on this directory keeps changing. As an FYI, we have another server running where we had made this same exact security change on /home/ftp_data, and it has never changed it's settings. Thank you, Kathy --- end of quote --- I saw this on the list before, and it was due to security set to high or at least above standard. Could be the problem. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] No sound in LM9
Title: RE: [newbie] No sound in LM9 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound in LM9 Good Grief people. Why are you upgrading to 9.0 when you have 8.2 and it works (unless you really want to deal with a new distro's issues)? New releases always have problems (8.0 probably had the least of the new ones), and IMO are really NOT for use on my primary machine. In a month or two it might be ready. Mandrake tends to the cutting edge more than any other commercial distro--Mandrake was first with supermount, first with JFS, first to include CUPS, etc... Don't be naiive and think that your system is immune to a new distro's problems because the last distro worked. If you only have one computer, my advice is to wait and see what transpires before rushing to install anything that is newly released. I think you underestimate Mandrake and their ability to learn from past errors. While it's true that earlier releases initially had problems, 9.0 has undergone very extensive testing, including three betas, and two or three RCs. And instead of pushing to release bugware on the initial release date of Sept. 13, they chose to put it off until they could hammer out as many bugs as possible. And since it's release a couple weeks ago, how many updates have been made available? I've seen two, maybe three. Don't get me wrong; I'm sure not everything is perfect. But I'm perfectly confident that installing 9.0 on a primary machine is not the Armageddon you describe. Miark I have to agree with Miark, I have installed on two machines and have friends who have installed on three more and have no reported problems at all. One of my machines didn't want to use xmms, but I solved that in a couple of minutes of investigation. 9.0 seems to be the cleanest release yet, I have usb, compactflash reader cdwriters, internet through lan, printer all detected and running smooth as silk. There must be some hardware settings or inconsistancies in the bios or other settings that make the difference. I have set up my machine with a /obj partition that I copy all important files to and then wipe everything else including /home to get a basically clean install. I can then copy the files from /obj back to /home and if there is a fundemental problem in one of those files I know right away which one. 9.0 is better and faster to install than Windows XP. Just my $.02. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Universal solid state card readers
Title: RE: [newbie] Universal solid state card readers Just to be sure, have you tried going into konqueror file manager and navigating to /mnt to see if it is showing up there? that is how I accessed my reader. Also I had to su to root and type in mount /dev/sda1 to read anything on the card. I umount when done. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Universal solid state card readers This has to be worth a try - if I can get it. Are Circuit City selling on-line? Anne On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 2:00 pm, you wrote: Anne, The one I purchased was the Sandisk ImageMate Flash Memory Card Combo Reader (part # SDDR7707) from Circuit City. It costs $29.99 US. Like I said, I can get both of them to work separately, but not in conjunction, but other than that, it works just fine for me. Terry Anne Wilson wrote: I'd given up hope on this. Please tell me what model, and where you bought it? I haven't been able to source one at all. For the moment I've got the camera working on gPhoto - adequate, but slow. Anne On Tuesday 08 Oct 2002 2:41 pm, you wrote: Anne, Sorry about the extremely late reply to your question about this, but I did purchase one of those SmartMedia/Compact Flash readers, and I have been able to use both of them just fine. The only thing I can't do is read from both at once, or copy back and forth between them. Which, for me, is no problem at all, since I have no need to. Other than that, it works like a charm. Hope that helps some. Terry Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 12 Sep 2002 9:37 pm, you wrote: I was told before I bought my SmartMedia-only reader that the multi-readers don't work well in Linux, if at all. I was looking at one in particular that read SmartMedia, IBM microdrives, and FlashCards, and the tech people at the company told me that their Linux gurus couldn't get it to work in Linux. YMMV. I have a CF/SM reader, and there appears to be no way of getting it to work, so I decided to try to get a single SM reader. The only ones I could see mentioned as working with Linux were on the Sandisk website. The link to direct sales didn't work, so I tried a couple of the vendors listed. They did not answer my email. Yesterday, after nearly 2 weeks I got a reply from Sandisk saying quote At this time we only have CompactFlash and MMC/SD readers that work on Linux endquote So now I have to wonder whether I can get my Camedia working on gPhoto (it's serial linked) or whether I would have more success with a new USB camera. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] nvidia + mdk9.0
Title: RE: [newbie] nvidia + mdk9.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sharrea Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nvidia + mdk9.0 Hi All Has anyone tried the nvidia drivers for mdk9.0 from MandrakeClub - the new ones that just came out yesterday? I can't get them to work but I'm wondering if its just me. The docs say the file /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkenterprise/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver must exist but its not there. Also in /dev there's supposed to be nvidia0, nvidia1, nvidia2, nvidia3, etc but there was only nvidia0 and nvidiactl. The error message is (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! then something about screens found but no usuable config. lsmod showed NVdriver was loaded. I did a modprobe on NVdriver and rebooted several times too. Simply uninstallling the rpms and changing the XF86Config-4 file back to nv gave me a working X server again. I tried choosing different monitor and resolution settings but that didn't help (generally 1024x768 16bit). I had the nvidia drivers working with 8.1 no problemo. I'll try the NvAGP option in the morning but right now its late and I'd better get some shut-eye. Any help/advice much appreciated. Sharrea PS. GeForce2 GTS Pro 64MB on Athlon 1GHz with Soltek SL-75KAV mobo -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Check to see that you have the kernel-sources installed. They don't install by default and that has been a hangup on using Nvidia drivers in the past. HTH
RE: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade
Title: RE: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade On Tuesday October 1 2002 06:16 am, Kristjan Klementi wrote: So... I wanted to replace my old small HD with new and fast 40G harddrive in my old box that is from year 99. As suspected the new HD was not recognised by bios. Tec support suggested to do the BIOS Upgrade as it should do the job. My only question is how to do that ? The instructions I have, talk about a DOS bootdisk. Well I am 100% windows free and need to do that under Linux. You can d/l dos bootdisks at http://www.bootdisk.com/ Hunt around for one that comes as an image file and use Linux to 'dd' it to a floppy. If you find some that are (Win).zip files, unzip-5.50-2mdk or KDE's archiver can probly handle em. If you find some that are (Win) self-extracting archives, wine can do it. 'Least the newest one can, wine-20020804-3mdk. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Some motherboards have a jumper that you need to move to short out the last bios settings and then put back on its original position to set the default bios back in place. On mine I jumper pins 2 and 3 to short jp5 and then set back on pins 1 and 2 to reset bios (as an example) Soyo MB. The new hard drive then gets recognized? Just a thought. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
Title: RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO Sorry, missed that part of the thread. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Damian G Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO I timed OO and it opened in 20 secs. Using 900mhz Duron and a 40gig 7200rpm uhm we were talking about old ( i.e. Pentium 233 ) machines.. :o) Maxtor hd. Not super fast but not any worse than MSword. Oh, this is on 9.0rc1. ML 9.0 seems to be faster than 8.2 anyhoo, just an impression but it does feel faster. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems?
RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
Title: RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO I found it here: Looks like 7.0 anyhoo, ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/ HTH, Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Gilbert Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO THANKS EVERYBODY who responded to this question, BUT... I still have some significant problems... (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only. (2) HOW can I install it from a 3.5 floppy? This is my only choice. Please HELP!
RE: [newbie] [Newbie] SNF ... again... NIC configuration
Title: RE: [newbie] [Newbie] SNF ... again... NIC configuration -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] [Newbie] SNF ... again... NIC configuration At 09:01 AM 9/2/2002 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 couple of messages didn't seem to go. but they will as soon as i send so you will all get multiples... On Friday 30 August 2002 3:51 pm, FemmeFatale did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: anyone got any place i can look for how to enable a NIC on an SNF box NOT on a network atm? errr, plug in a monitor and log in? Tried that. Did fine. I want to login ON the network tho. That failed for some odd reason. Maybe i need to reboot the network? Cause the LAN didn't pick it up as far as I could tell. was weird. I'll give it another shot. Thx shane, as always you're so (un)helpful :) --- Femme Femme, I have noticed a problem in 8.2 that I can not login to the SNF machine if the computer I am using is set up to run dhcp. Change to static and I can log on to the SNF but not onto the internet. This appears to have been solved in 9.0beta4, not sure, but try using Mandrake Control CenterNetworkconnection and changing to static on the machine your using. Hope this makes sense to you. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] how to setup Mandrake to be a Router
Title: RE: [newbie] how to setup Mandrake to be a Router I think he is talking about the Mandrake Control Center wich is on the KDE desktop, not the one in the Kpanel pop up. In console mode it is drakconf, I think. Not at my Linux computer now so can't check it. HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to setup Mandrake to be a Router Miark wrote: In KDE (and I guess Gnome) 1) Click Control Center. 2) Click Network Internet. 3) Click Connection Sharing. 4) Configure away! Miark, What version of Mandrake are you using? In my installation of Mandrake 8.2 I don't have a Network Internet tab (or whatever) under Control Center, and I can't find Connection Sharing anywhere under Control Center. Randy Kramer
RE: [newbie] oops, konq security
Title: RE: [newbie] oops, konq security I'll take that bet, I bet yes. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] oops, konq security Wanna bet whether KDE or M$ comes out with a fix first :-) Miark shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25935.html still more proof that while linux may be 1000 times more secure than windows, nothing is perfect.
RE: [newbie] somewhat OT: putting my server box on the Internet
Title: RE: [newbie] somewhat OT: putting my server box on the Internet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kenn Murrah Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] somewhat OT: putting my server box on the Internet in order to serve your web pages to the world, using Apache I presume, you should have a static IP address from your ISP. When you have that then you can tell the box that is the server that that is it's address and the world will beat a path to your door. No,no, that's a better mouse trap. Anyway, If you are on cable or dsl and have it up 24/7 be sure to configure a firewall and masquerading if it applies. HTH Dennis M. yes, but don't i need to tell the world that www.mydomain.com goes to my box at xxx.xx.xx.xxx ??? __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Sorry, I forgot to mention that part of it. Your ISP must point the name, www.mydomain.com to the IP address You choose if you have more than one to designate. You can't quite totally host your own site, you need the ISP set up to point at the Name. Contact them and they should be able to set it in a 24 hour period. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Civilme petition.
Me Too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Civilme petition. I'll sign. -Original Message- From: frankie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Civilme petition. anyone fancy starting a Save Civilme petition Seems a big shame that the guy who fronts to the users more then any other Mandrake employee is gettting kicked.. Nuts for mandrake really.. since Civilme and Vincent are the two main reasons these mailing lists are held in such high esteem. And these mailing lists are what got Mandrake where they are now... (the good stuff I mean.) He is the face (figuratively speaking) that most of associate to mandrake.. I don't even know the CEO's name, and I don't really want to since he probably doesn't write code. :-) (and he is probably just a Suit.) Lets face it, with Linux it's the knowledge we value, and for that Civilme is valuable indeed. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tek1 Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 - DON'T LEAVE US??? you will be truly missed civileme. you have provided the user community with so much help and been pivitol in the acceptance of mandrake as one of the best linux distributions. it's mandrakesoft's loss to let you go, but hopefully they can bring you back quickly, as soon as things improve for them. regardless of what happens, i'm certain that great opportunities await you. again, thank you for all your wonderful assistance. On Monday 29 July 2002 06:09 pm, you wrote: --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My involvement with the fixing process is becoming distant as I struggle to complete a few more testing tools before my lay-off is effective. (two days hence). Civileme -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ application/ms-tnef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Civilme petition.
Title: RE: [newbie] Civilme petition. OK, but at least you know that you are appreciated and nobody takes your help and advice for granted. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Civilme petition. frankie wrote: anyone fancy starting a Save Civilme petition Seems a big shame that the guy who fronts to the users more then any other Mandrake employee is gettting kicked.. Nuts for mandrake really.. since Civilme and Vincent are the two main reasons these mailing lists are held in such high esteem. And these mailing lists are what got Mandrake where they are now... (the good stuff I mean.) He is the face (figuratively speaking) that most of associate to mandrake.. I don't even know the CEO's name, and I don't really want to since he probably doesn't write code. :-) (and he is probably just a Suit.) Lets face it, with Linux it's the knowledge we value, and for that Civilme is valuable indeed. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tek1 Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 - DON'T LEAVE US??? you will be truly missed civileme. you have provided the user community with so much help and been pivitol in the acceptance of mandrake as one of the best linux distributions. it's mandrakesoft's loss to let you go, but hopefully they can bring you back quickly, as soon as things improve for them. regardless of what happens, i'm certain that great opportunities await you. again, thank you for all your wonderful assistance. On Monday 29 July 2002 06:09 pm, you wrote: --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My involvement with the fixing process is becoming distant as I struggle to complete a few more testing tools before my lay-off is effective. (two days hence). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Don't do that. That post to the list was inadvertant. I meant it as a private reply on 9.0 I was on this list and on the expert list with more than 1000 posts before I was ever a mandrakesoft employee, and I have no plans to leave or diminish my activities. Civileme
RE: [newbie] Problems Installing New Vid Card
Title: RE: [newbie] Problems Installing New Vid Card -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Metamorphysical Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems Installing New Vid Card Ok, I have given up. I have reformatted and reinstalled mandrake 8.2 The Geforce card is too new to be installed at the reinstall. now how do I install the rpms? Simple as possible please. I am stupid. Sincerely, STUPID! Sorry, by definition anyone who is intelligent enough to migrate to Mandrake-Linux can not be stupid, therefore you are not stupid. Now, the easiest way to install the RPMs is: 1. open konqueror by clicking on the home icon on your desk top. 2. find the downloaded rpms files 3. copy both files to a new folder 4. open a terminal and type su and then the root password without the quotes. 5. type cd folderwiththenvidiafile.name 6. type urpmi *.rpm without the quotes 7. the rpms will be installed or dependencies will be listed. 8. open a text editor, I like gedit. Navigate to /etc/x11/xf86config-4 and then do the changes as mandated i.e. add Load glx and change nv to nvidia as indicated by the instructions from the Nvidia site below : http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-2960/README.txt If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver (such as the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver), then all you need to do is find the relevant Device section and replace the line: Driver nv (or Driver vesa) with Driver nvidia In the Module section, make sure you have: Load glx You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore if they exist. There are also numerous options that can be added to the XF86Config file to fine-tune the NVIDIA XFree86 driver. Please see Appendix D for a complete list of these options.
RE: [newbie] Connection Sharing - best hardware
Title: RE: [newbie] Connection Sharing - best hardware -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Azrael Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Connection Sharing - best hardware Running Mdk8.2 and want to set up connection sharing so I can use adsl from laptop via my desktop. Laptop is running windows98. Wondering what hardware would be best to get for the linux desktop. eg: would http://web6.scan.co.uk/Products/Info.asp?WPID=1791 be suitable? Any other advice? -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Hi, the nic card looks good, actually I have a full spread of NICs on my LAN from the $9.95 cheapo to a best of breed 3com, so linux will use just about any decent card. The thing that you will need to get the network to function is a hub or switch or a crossover cable to connect the two computers. Just thought I would mention these since you didn't say what you had.HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Web Page
Title: RE: [newbie] Web Page -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of robert macdonald Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Web Page Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage creating software there is for linux other than cgi? Thanks much _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com The best is Quanta+ found in your 8.x CDs or Screem or for a fee CoffeeCup. I like Quanta best. Used it to get my web pages all W3C compliant. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] sound problems
Title: RE: [newbie] sound problems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound problems john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed up with my aureal card. I have everything I can think of. I have a vortex 2 (au8830). I have installed the CVS drivers from Sourceforge, and the install did not find my aureal card. I had to manually make the driver as an au8830. It didn't work after I installed these. When I try to use ALSA, it can't open /dev/dsp becasue of an invalid argument. I need any help I can get. John Drouhard P.S. I do have a VIA mobo and an nvidia card, but I tried the extra things to change. Thanks for any help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com If you have a Dell version of that card, it will never work with the standard drivers and Dell does not supply linux drivers for it. Aureal has been out of business for a while, and the drivers from sourceforge are just a source wrapper to the old binary, secret driver Aureal supplied, which is why it is increasingly difficult to maintain. In order to make it work you have to compile it as a kernel module. This is coverewd in Chapter 14 of the Mandrake Reference Guide, but not in any detail. It is the same as kernel compilation except you just make deps then make modules make modules install... If you can get it to work, the sound is as nice as any other sound card, but of course you have placed an unknown black box into your system, in a position to run privileged and talk directly to the kernel. Personally, I would never use it (the card) because binary-only drivers give me a chill down the spine. Civileme Speaking of which, are there any suggestions for a video card that works as well as an nvidia chipset card, but using open source drivers. I have wasted a few bucks on an Nvidia card and with the new kernel 2.4.18-8.1 I can't get it to work on the d/l'd drivers. It works ok with the drivers that come in ML8.2 but no tuxracer. No way to figure out (for me at least)why so now I am looking for a better vidio card. Better as in opensource. Thanks, Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another insallation (8.1 to 8.2) Now SO 6.0 seemed to be running okay, but when I try to save a file I get this notice: StarOffice 6.0 Error saving the document Untitled1: Wrong parameters The operation was startted under an invalid parameter. Also, trying to run setup. it starts to load, and the icon hourglass runs, and then it also disappears. An help will be greatly appreciated. Bob Bob, if you know where the main files are for star office, and I suspect they are in /usr/local, go there and check permissions on the /usr/local/soffice file (or whatever it is called). If you don't know, do a slocate, or locate or whereis or
RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWOSent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:10 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another insallation (8.1 to 8.2) Now SO 6.0 seemed to be running okay, but when I try to save a file I get this notice: StarOffice 6.0 Error saving the document Untitled1: Wrong parameters The operation was startted under an invalid parameter. Also, trying to run setup. it starts to load, and the icon hourglass runs, and then it also disappears. An help will be greatly appreciated. Bob Bob, if you know where the main files are for star office, and I suspect they are in /usr/local, go there and check permissions on the /usr/local/soffice file (or whatever it is called). If you don't know, do a slocate, or locate or whereis or[oops didn't finish) to find the file and check the permissions. The above seems to have gone out as HTML, can someone confirm. I am having a devil of a time figuring out how to get outlook to stop sending in HTML. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems
Title: RE: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Mendizabal Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems Hello listers, just joined, just installed and hopefully won't get too many RTFM responses: On init these show as failed and its taking a long time to boot up. 1-2 min eth0 eth1 Now I believe these to be my ethernet cards. Any reason why they would be failing? Also I cant get my DSL to work either. I know the 2 are related but where to start to find the answer? Mandrake 8.2 DL version 10G partition 1Gig swap Dell 8200 128MB ram ethernet cards: Kingston EtherRx KNE111TX PCI Fast Ethernet CNet PRO200WL PCI Fast Ethernet (is there anyway to know which is which IE; eth0, eth1?) 1 partridge 1 peartree Steve Mendizabal Multimedia Engineer Are you using ML8.1 or 8.2, if so it would appear that the ethernet cards are not initialized. Try from a command line ifup eth0 and ifup eth1 and see if there are any messages kicked back. You may need to go to the Mandrake control panel and select the internet connection and connection sharing and then run the wizard to set up the network and internet connections.HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] perl modules
Title: RE: [newbie] perl modules -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of L.V.Gandhi Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] perl modules I wanted to install YoSucker for getting yahoo mails. It needs the following perl modules and some are missing in my system as shown below [lvgandhi@localhost utils]$ ./CheckModules Module IO::Socket: Found. Module IO::Socket::SSL: Missing. Module MIME::Base64: Found. Module Term::ReadKey: Missing. Module Digest::MD5: Found. I am using mdk 8.2. Where the missing modules lies(which rpms to install?) -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Looks like probably mod_perl_ssl or something like that. I can't check it cause I am not at the linux computer. but do a search in package manager for mod and see what shows up. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] xcdroast help
Title: RE: [newbie] xcdroast help -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jure Repinc Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 1:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] xcdroast help PBone wrote: I also had lots of problems getting cd burning in M 8.2. I found k3b (a kde burner) problem free. I think you just have to login as root first to set things like path for temporary path and which burner and reader to use and things like that. After that you can just try using your burner from normal user account. -- Live long and prosper! Also check in userdrake and make sure you have the cdrw set to be allowed in your user name. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networki ng
Title: RE: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networking -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Tu Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networking Hi, I'm new to Linux and I love its potential. Anyway, my questions are about establishing a dialup connection to my ISP with Mandrake 8.2. 1. I have a Dell Latitude notebook with a 3com mini-PCI modem (and ethernet, in fact). According to Dell techs, this is a hardware modem, but I couldn't find the model number in the hardware lists. The following is the relevant part of cat /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 16, function 1: Communication controller: PCI device 10b7:1007 (3Com Corporation) (rev 16). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=5. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3ffd400 [0xf3ffd4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3ffd000 [0xf3ffd07f]. So, is this really a hardware modem? 2. If so, how do I test that /dev/modem is set up right? I've read about kppp or minicom, but I can't find these utilities on my system. 3. During install, Mandrake asked for my ISP's phone number, etc. But now, I cannot see any files in /etc/ppp/peers. For system administration, is there a text/console equivalent to the GUI dial-up setup? Of course, there's always the several config files, but I was looking for a shortcut :-) Thanks. Alan Can't answer the question on whether it is a hardware modem, but for text config you can use wvdial. It is quick and seems very stable. The other alternative I use is the Internet connection icon on the KDE desktop. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2
Title: RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Pearce Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SNF 7.2 Hi Guys Girls, I have just downloaded the Mandrake Singal Network Firewall 7.2 could anyone tell me where I could get some documentation for this OS . I intend to use it for a Internet Cafe to share the ADSL connection and act as a proxy to minimize outgoing bandwidth. a poke in the right direction would be appreciated . I have looked on the Mandrake site but I could not find anything specific to SNF. If anyone has any experience (good or bad) with SNF ,that info would also be much appreciated. cheers and thanks in advance. Jason SNF documentation can be obtained by starting here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3. I have had a problem getting into the firewall machine once it is installed. I can't figure out if telnet needs to be used or what, but I can't connect to the LAN with it or from a LAN machine I can't ping the firewall machine. So something is missing in my connection. If you install and it works please post if you had to do anything like activate an additional package or something. Thanks Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] SNF access
Title: RE: [newbie] SNF access Sorry, windows 2000 did it again. It doesn't seem to retain the plain text setting from boot up to boot up. My appologies for the html. Dennis m.(small m cause I feel a bit small for making this mistake again.HeHe) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:20 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] SNF access Hi all, it's me again. I have now determined that the problem with Single Network firewall is it is not talking to the LAN. I can not ping the SNF machine and It Cannot ping the other boxes. So the question is what editor does SNF use so I can look at say, Hosts.allowed or Hosts? It has to be something simple and/or stupid that I have done in the config to make it a destination unreachable. I have it listed in Hosts and Hosts.allowed on the other computers. Oh, it detects the 3Com nic and the netgear nic just fine. The light on the nics are on as well as the lights on the hub so juice is flowing. I can't see the forrest for the trees, any help is appreciated. Dennis M.
[newbie] SNF start up
Title: SNF start up Hi all, wondering if anyone has used Single Network Firewall? I have installed it on a K6-II 266mhz computer, an old gateway desktop case and 400mb harddrive. the install went fine but now I don't have a clue as to how it starts. When you boot it up with a monitor still connected it boots to the login prompt. I assume it is not started. The nearly 300 page manual does not indicate that you have to start it and then unplug monitor and keyboard or if you somehow start it when you access via the https://192.xxx.xxx.xxx:port# So I need a little help just getting into it to configure my cable modem setup. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem
Title: RE: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem Cox supplied a software package fot connecting a Surfer Or Toshiba Cable Modem here in Tucson. Simple installation! - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem Does anyone use Cox cable and have a LAN set up? How hard is it to set up and where did you start the learning process? I'm going to switch over to Cox and hoping it is not rocket science. Any help is appriciated. TIA Dennis M. Thanks, I'll wait and see what they show up with. Sorry about the html again folks, my workstation here uses outlook and it seems to change back to html periodically. I never know when or why. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Mandrake randomly locks me out of /home
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake randomly locks me out of /home -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake randomly locks me out of /home Michael wrote: Mike Oliver wrote: [Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18] Every now and then, without warning and a propos of nothing, the permissions on my /home directory suddenly change to drwx--. I've learned to keep a root console open on my desktop so I can quickly change it back, and this is actually workable, but obviously not ideal. Has this happened to anyone else, or does anyone know what might be going on? A couple of other pieces of information: (1) I have the security level set to higher (2) /home is mounted from its own partition. the relevant entry in /etc/fstab is /dev/hdb8 /home ext2 defaults 1 1 Thanks for any help. Mike, Assuming you are using 8.2. Read this http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/prog-msec.html It's the online documentation for msec (Mandrake Security). Particulaly note 12.3.1 (umask in the table) and 12.3.1.1 - to paraphrase these umask for level 4 and 5 is set to 077 Translation - This octal number is applied every night at around 4AM to all users file permissions. The result is as you have noticed. If you feel up to it look at Customising your m-sec (read 12.4) otherwise as root just change it to level 3 (man msec). Level 3 is the highest recommended level for a home computer as it is a good compromise between tight security and ease of use. BTW This online document is one of the manuals that the purchasers of the box set recieved. HTH Michael DOH, I just re-read, it's not the files, it's the directory perrmissions. michael hides head behind monitor and hopes no-one else has spotted his fly is undone Sorry i didn't help. But it was a good explanation wasn't it %-) Michael -- Actually, my goal is to have a sandwich named after me. Looks like a symptom of having the security level set to high. Drop it back one level, medium and all should stay set for permissions. High is used on servers that only root or admin would get into. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
Title: RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove? What ms considers to be illegal is the following: I buy a machine with preinstalled windows I uninstall windows and install a real os I sell/give the version of windows that came with the machine to someone else What ms wants is that when I sell or give away the machine, I must also hand the original version of windows to whoever gets the machine also. That makes more sense, but not much more. Winblows, even on pre-installed computers, costs something, and that cost is passed on to the final consumer. So despite its cost being buried in a sticker price, you pay for Winsux on a pre-installed computer. In my way of thinking, if I pay for it, I have the right to sell it-- even separately, if I choose. Miark I too agree. If I buy a car and drive it till it is rust, I can remove engine transmission, seats and what ever else is salvageable and sell them individually. They were part of an integral package to begin with, but I still can sell off the pieces. Heck, I could sell of the pieces two days after I bought it brand new, and put some other engine in it. What makes Windows so special? M$ is as arrogant as any company ever in existance. My $.02 Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] operation of sensord
Title: RE: [newbie] operation of sensord -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of L.V.Gandhi Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] operation of sensord I have installed lm-sensor rpm from mdk 8.2 cds. I want to know how to configure it. Any pointer or doc will be appreciated. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Hi, easy to do. Just go to a root console and type in sensors-detect then it will go through an interactive configuration and at the end it will tell you where to edit some /etc/xxx files. If you use gnome or kde as a desktop you can install gkrellm as a visual monitor. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Searching New Archives
Title: RE: [newbie] Searching New Archives -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 6:23 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Searching New Archives A month or so ago there was a thread here with some reply advising where you could look up a board from the FCC Number. I just got given a Pentium S 100Mhz box as a plaything and want to find out what i can about it first. I could learn about servers. etc by getting my normal box to talk with it. I found the new archives on the mandrake site but how do i do a content search on them for fcc. The search panel given is for the whole site but Zip is the result. I ain't opening all the threads one by one. Do i have to Google instead. That would be a shame when i know it came up. Besides what about the next thing i want to check back on. TIA Michael -- FEELINGS are cascading over me!!! Michael, here is the FCC search site: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ very useful for all sorts of unknown id info. HTH
RE: [newbie] Any email clients that work with M$ mail server?
Title: RE: [newbie] Any email clients that work with M$ mail server? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Burrows, Scott Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Spicer, William Subject: [newbie] Any email clients that work with M$ mail server? Hi all, I am envisioning converting our company to Linux but I need an Outlook like client that works with MS mail server. Why? To convince management to do this we must first convert individual desktops, after that we can go after the mail servers. So is there a mail client like MS Outlook for Linux? It must be able to work with currently existing MS mail servers on our LAN. I have MD 8.2. Thanks in Advance! Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support perotsystems(tm) Office: 407 804-3208 Pager: 407-400-0197 Fax: 407-804-3340 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a look at Ximian Evolution, it has a bit of the look and feel of Outlook. Don't know why it wouldn't work with MS mail servers, maybe someone with experience can jump in here. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Question about a Linux box in an Windows Domain
Title: RE: [newbie] Question about a Linux box in an Windows Domain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Question about a Linux box in an Windows Domain If I have a Windows domain and want to add a linux box, do I need to have Samba installed on it. I have a small network at home and am going to add the Linux box I built to it. Network config is Router | Hub | -- | | | | | Domain PC1 PC2 PC3 Linux ControllerBox The Domain Controller is Providing DNS, DHCP. The Router does NAT translations. My question is do I need Samba to install on the domain? Can I just plug in and then configure proper settings like a static IP, and DNS server IP, Gateway IP, etc... Thanks Mike Hi Mike, my experience has shown that if all you want to do is connect to the internet then you don't need samba. But, if you want the linux box to see shares on the windows boxes and share some files or partitions of it's own with the windows boxes, then yes you need samba. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp
Title: RE: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerard van Winssen Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:16 AM To: Mandrake-Newbie Subject: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp Hi, I installed MDK 8.2 on a compter of a bussiness partner of me who wanted to get rid of virusses yesterday. (Yeah, anonther one!! hèhè ;-)) They have an isdn terminal adapter Elsa tango 1000, wich is an external, serial device. As far as I understand this TA should be configured as a normal analog modem in for instance Kppp, am I right? Next question is; when dialling in, there must be a '0' dialled first to get on the external phone network followed by the rest of the phonenumber of the ISP. How do I configure this in Kppp?? TIA -- Gerard van Winssen Error: Keyboard not connected Hit any key to continue As per previous answer if one , (without the quotes) doesn't give enough pause for the connection to come up, you can do two or three, each , is a fixed amount of time (can't remember if it is .5 seconds or what) so just make a string of them long enough to get the dial tone and then your dial-in number. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Crashes unlimited
Title: RE: [newbie] Crashes unlimited -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Baka Attila Tamás Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Crashes unlimited The bug is probably with the southbridge chip on your motherboard. Too bad you have an AMD CPU :-( The same thing happened to a friend of mine. There is a patch for this somewhere on the net I think. 8.2 works fine with Intel... BAT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of B.O. Jone Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Crashes unlimited Hi, I wound up here after wondering around in search of a miracle hand over my ailing Mandrake. 8.2 certainly laid a good foundation for linux future development ahead of all other distros. But I have one cripling problem on my system: crashes everywhere. Crashes come during bootup at various points--Loading..., Starting..., etc., but always at a different point. Crashes also come in routine file read/write operations after clicking on a loaded file folder with the Home icon. I have an impression that the new kernel 2.4x, on which 8.x is based, is not yet settled down, especially in file-r/w functions. One clear signal of crash is to see the hd pilot light lit up without blinking. When a crash happens, there is no remedy but to switch off the power and start over. The key presses like ctl-alt-bs/del and Xkill do not function. My question: Is there a way to tweak the kernel (or my machine) settings to smooth over my system--amd k6 300mhz mmx, 130mb ram, read3d starfighter vid card 16mb? Or any other remedy, bettern than waiting for the next version to come out. thanx a mil. ben 8.2 works very well with AMD processors also. The southbridge bug was way over blown IMHO. I have 3 computers running 8.1 and 8.2 no problem. I have to agree with previous post, it sounds like a RAM problem, especially since it occurs at differing times during boot. Check the RAM and let the list know how that turned out. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!
Title: RE: [newbie] I'm Locked Out! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of sda Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out! On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:53:48AM -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Alrighty. A wise man once told me that griping the griper was unproductive. To that wise man, I now offer my apologies, and the offering that this exchange is in no way an attempt to disrespect his advice. Obviously you don't listen then... I've been taking note of this exchange for some time now, and since I feel like I've pretty well grokked it, I'm going to lay down my wooden nickel's worth. Since it's a free country and a list-of-liberty and all. Oh I bet you have - since I dusted you last time, want to take a poke now eh? My first observation is that, Steve, you're an asshole. You love to wallow in your own mental feces. I don't know what your personal problems are, but this list and the female members are not your psychologic dumping ground. Hey I might be an asshole, but I'm not a stupid one like you appear to come across as... Now if you've got something like this to say to any female on the list, ( being as concerned about bandwidth as you are )my second observation is that you have the option to go private. You did not do this. Now where I come from, if you walk up to somebody's girlfriend or wife and say something like what you've said below to them, you end up with a black eye and checking out the taste of the local dirt. But of course you're not going to go private with shit like you've said below, are you? Because your true aim is not to correct what you propagandize as OT's or bandwidth transgressions. Your true aim is to hurt and embarrass Femme to maximum effect; everything else is just a shield or an excuse. Lack of a private exchange is irrefutable evidence, since a private exchange in your case would have been setting an example for OT's or bandwidth transgressions. No some things need to be said, and I've received quite a bit of encouragement from others on this list who found many of her posts inappropriate for a technical forum. I just don't care for the cutesy aspect of a young woman flirting on an adult list. I have several friends in law enforcement and one with the horsemen [RCMP]. Over time they've remarked when investigating cybercrime, specifically older men caught seducing young girls online, that often these men thought they were talking to women considerably older. These seem policemen mentioned that one of the problems they have to deal with is that women often chat like young teenage girls online - vis-a-vis some of the exchanges I've seen on this list with unowho. I just wish to put an end to some of this nonsense, women shouldn't flirt with strange men in real life, so why should it be considered proper in an online forum, especially one like this one? Something I hope you fellas consider before thinking you're defending a damsel in distress. Methinks she has probably a few issues to deal with and finding them here is NOT appropriate. I'll tell you this though; if this list was a party or a get together and we were all together in person, I know for a fact that you would not have been as courageous as you've been below with your female target. You may be an asshole, but you're not stupid. No I'm not stupid and but I realize you like to jump to conclusions - whatever floats yer boat. Swim on. -- -^- -^- ? ? Steve ^ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' ` I would suggest that it is time to let this thread die. There are enough other things to address than this type of thing. If you don't like the way some one posts or participates put a filter on. Length of time on the list has little to do with how a post is made. I have been on the list for about 2years now, I find that it is community and that for the most part it is made up of people trying to help others or looking for help. I've been both and I don,t mind adding a little humor to my posts (some might say very little humor). Tongue in cheek is ok too. So folks let's just let it lay for now. Thanks. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] damn mailservers...
Title: RE: [newbie] damn mailservers... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:30 AM To: Newbie List Subject: [newbie] damn mailservers... ...actually it's not the software as it is me. still have a lot to learn. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.2 - 11:05am up 18:51, 2 users, load average: 0.73, 0.60, 0.42 So say we all, so say we all. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Update help please
Title: RE: [newbie] Update help please -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Update help please Hello I am the one who started this post and after getting some feedback here are my thoughts: First off I would like to thank everyone for their help,one of the strengths of linux is the friendly support from other users. Now the not so good. I have been using Debian for a year and after getting a new hard drive I thought I would give Mandrake a try as I heard alot of good things about it. The install was easy, setup all my hardware (even my Logitech web cam) and runs very smooth. Everything was going good then I tried to update to 8.2 and wanted to know if I can update it over the net. My the net and not cd? I have a cable modem so downloading is not a big deal and I do not have a cd burner so making ISO disks all the time will not work.The answers that I have seen so far about updating have to do about a fresh install. To me this seems like alot of work to keep your system updated.The other way is to update individual packages until the whole system is updated, again seems like alot of work. In Debian all I have to do is 'apt-get update' and the system is updated for me. No need for boot disks or reinstalling the whole system. This is not meant to be a knock against Mandrake, I think for the most part it is very good,but for people with no linux experience updating it will prove a challenge. Once again I thank all those who have replied to my question. Brian Just an opinion. Do a fresh install, not an upgrade. If you have a separate /home dir partition, don't re-format it during the install and you might probly be OK ;) A better method is to save a copy of your current /home dir, and just move back into the new 8.2 /home dir things like personal files and directories, and trusted app config and storage files, eg, like /Mail for Kmail. Checking for any problems as you do so. My two main reasons for this are you should be backing up at least /home on a regular basis anyhow, and some stale old 8.1 config files may cause unexpected or unwanted results runnin on a newer release. Generally application files will be OK, it's the system config files which may present unfortunate situations. Takes just a few minutes longer, but think of it as spring cleaning, and quality assurance ;) Well, actually there's other reasons. Any software apps not shipped with the distro probly have newer versions available. So d/l the new one and install it rather than tryin to save the older one. FWIW, I always install the new distro into one big '/', but I keep a storage partition (/stor ;) in which I regularly keep a bakup copy of /home. Last but not least, if you use closed source proprietary (ie, non free as in speech) applications or drivers, install them last. There's good reasons besides being closed source they're not included in the distro. By their nature, they can't be supported or checked for compatibility and security. So if ya just have to have 'em, it's your responsibility to check that they don't cause conflicts or other problems. Actually if you go into the Mandrake Package Manager, one of the choices at the top is Mandrake update. If you click on that the program will go to the network and your selected mirror and determine which packages are available for updating what is installed on your computer. This works fine for most cases and could work for what you want to do although I have not tried it that way. Dependencies should be automatically detected and added to the list. Do not use it to upgrade a kernel, however cause that can and will often, trash your current kernel and mess you up bigtime. If need be do the kernel with urpmi kernel-4.x.x.i586.rpm etc and that will install next to the existing kernel. Then add the new kernel to lilo and then do the upgrade. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
Title: RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:31 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 I've got an ATAPI ZIP drive installed in my Linux-Mandrake system (running on a Celeron 533, 256 megs memory), and it's not working (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel and harddrake reports it as hdd). The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are good. I've got the following in my /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 When I enter mount /mnt/zip with a known-good ZIP disk in the drive, I get the following: root.drewvogel:/etc$ mount /mnt/zip mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device Dmesg reports it as there: hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive I'm not sure how to proceed. Can someone help? Hi, take a look at your /etc/mtab, what does that say for the zip drive? Let us know, this is nudging at my memory, seems like I have the answer in my log at home. I'll check tonight if you don't have a solution by then. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
Title: Message -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:28 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Myers, Dennis R NWOSubject: RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 Here is my /etc/mtab... I've got no experience with it, so I'm attaching the whole file... /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0none /proc proc rw 0 0devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0/dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0/dev/hdb1 /var ext2 rw 0 0/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0automount(pid1179) /misc autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=1179,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0automount(pid1207) /net autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=1207,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0[Myers, Dennis R NWO] Ok, the problem I see is that there is no entry inmtab for the hdd device. Mtab is mounttable. Again I am not at home, and using a M$ computer so I can't give you the entry, but if someone on the list will jump in here and provide a line. I think that you need to add an entry in lilo append line also. Have you tried going to harddrake and seeing if the zip shows up there, if so, is the configuration bar active at thebottom of the screen.If it iscan you do a configuration from there? I will check the entry for mtab and a zip device when Ican get to my home office computer, assuming we don't have some help from the list by then. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?
Title: RE: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use? I've got a LiteOn LTR-12101B IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot burn to the CD... There was a CD reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool from the command line. I'd also like the burner to work from within X, but my main concern is that it burns from the command line, since the machine is primarily a server. HardDrake 0.9.3 reports the burner under CD-ROMS as Unknown LITE-ON LTR-12101B (the Unknown is for the Vendor), Device /dev/hdc, with a Bus Type of ATAPI/IDE. My /etc/fstab entry for the CD is: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 ...but I don't know for sure if that's right for the burner. It was what was in there when the previous CD reader was installed. So, what I've been trying to do is to use Mondo/Mindi to create a test CD image (saved as an iso file), which I would then like to burn to the CD burner using CDRECORD (the tool specified by Mondo/Mindi). I don't know what command line parameters to pass to CDRECORD... Can someone help by telling me if my /etc/fstab entry is correct, and the command line parameters to use to make the CD burner operate from the command line? Thanks in advance... This has been a frustrating problem! -drew Drew, the fstab entry is showing ro for read only, and should be rw IIRC. Also go to your lilo config and add at append line hdc=ide-scsi That should link the cdrw to the scsi emulation. Run /sbin/lilo from command line and then I think you have to reboot. That should then allow you to burn.
RE: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script
Title: RE: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren Post Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 6:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script I'm trying to install a program I downloaded (faxview, as mentioned on Freshmeat). The download was a whopping 92 K shell script named faxview-2.0b. While in the directory containing the download, I su'ed to root and gave the command: faxview-2.0b and recived the error message bash: faxview-2.0b: command not found What am I doing wrong? And recommendations for fax frontends gladly accepted. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Warren, try ./faxview-2.0b at the prompt and see if that doesn't get it going. Also Hylafax should be on the CDs and have a decent front end. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] laptop -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] laptop does anyone know a good place to buy older/used laptops online? and any recommendations as to what to get? i am only looking for a pent II or equiv, and it has to run mandrake 8.1 (shocked aren't you?) but othere than that i am open to suggestions? recommended brands, resellers, refurbs, etc. thanks! snip -- Take a look at these folks. I haven't bought from them but prices seem reasonable and the equipment is tested most of the time according to what they post. http://www.computersurplusoutlet.com/?AID=1155796=298624 HTH, Dennis M
RE: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish
Title: RE: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, cervix couch wrote: %_ I've been having a problem in Linux and I have no idea where to look for the culprit. My problem is that, periodically, while I'm online (and only when I'm online), the system will get extremely sluggish to the point where I usually have to power down and reboot. When this happens, there are sounds like there's a lot of hard disk activity going on and it never stops. I've tried unplugging the modem, but it doesn't do any good. Does anyone know why this happens? THRASHING!!! You need more RAM Linux is trying to run swapping everything back and forth to the hard drive -- Gerald Waugh Or if you didn't set it up on initial install, you need to add a swap partition at least equal to or twice the ram amount that you have, oops here comes a debate on the size of swap needed. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Hex dump at startup
Title: RE: [newbie] Hex dump at startup -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Moye Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hex dump at startup Greetings, I have a Gateway 200mhz 256 MB RAM, with 2 hard drives. The master ide drive is with Win 2000. The slave drive has Mandrake 8.1. The CD ROM is an ide. Setup ran fine. (several times in fact). Lilo dual boot seems fine. I get a GUI lilo screen, and if I pick Windows, then Win2000 loads just fine. If I pick Linux or failsafe, it begins to start just fine, uncompresses OK and starts to boot the kernel. But then I get a hex dump to the screen, in the format of [C01073e7] and this continues indefinitely. Same with GRUB. I looked in the archive and someone reported the same issue and was given the following answer: At the boot menu press F1 and at the boot prompt enter: linux nobiospnp. After you have successfully booted edit your lilo.conf with the nobiospnp append and then rerun lilo. That should take care of your problem Please allow me to be dense. What boot menu? At the boot menu that has Linux, failsafe, Windows? My F1 key does nothing in lilo or grub. I have also tried the F1 at startup time to get to the system setup and changed the pnp settings. No joy. I have a feeling that I am missing something real basic here. Any suggestions? I suppose that I am paying for the First go install success that occurred with 7.2 on another machine (IBM) two years ago. Thanks in advance, -- Tom Moye [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Vermont USA _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Tom, stick the first CD in the drive, boot from that cd and when that first screen pops up, press F1 and then you can type in the linux nobiospnp and hit enter. HTH
RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
Title: RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul_Vortex Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... Walnut Creek (bay area) California here and bar hoping would _not_ be a good idea. can see a bunch of rowdy linux geeks in one bar? ;-) LoL... ever hear of Pigdog? Being a Sanfranciscan and all. PV. Nebraska Cornhusker here, but not fanatical about it. Been all over the world so I know there is life outside of the midwest. Ha! Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] Konqueror 2.2.1 Javascript problems
Title: RE: [newbie] Konqueror 2.2.1 Javascript problems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Cochrane (MC) Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Konqueror 2.2.1 Javascript problems I'm using the Konqueror web browser from the Mandrake 8.1 installation (KDE 2.2.1) and have several sites on the WWW that won't work when the Javascript option in Konqueror is on. One of those is my bank from which I do my on-line bill paying. Netscape works OK on those sites but I'd like to fix Konqueror -- if a fix is available. Is it? Thanks! Mike (Sorry if this re-send is a duplicate. I sent it first 32 hours ago and it has yet to appear on the list. I think I misaddressed the first send.) your earlier post did show up but don't see any answers. Here is my solution to the problem. I downloaded Sun's jre-1.3.1 Java Runtime Environment script and opened it in my /home/dennis directory then in Konquerorconfigure konquerorbrowser at the bottom where it typically just shows java I click on the browse button and navigate to the location in my home directory and click there to link it to the konqueror browser. This way if I do an update or anything like that I still have the file cause I don't reformat or overwrite /home. Just my way of doing it but it works. HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] SBLive question
Title: RE: [newbie] SBLive question Heather, have a look in userdrake and see if your user is still showing audio as a group. If not edit and add audio and hopefully that will fix it. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Heather Reed Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive question - Original Message - From: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive question Hi Heather, I have had this very problem, and have figured out how to fix it. In my /etc/modules.conf file, there is an entry that says something like: alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 To fix the problem with my computer and my SBLive card, I commented out that line (put a # in front of it), and added the following to the /etc/modules file: sound-slot-0 emu10k1 Hi Terry - I tried your fix, but it didn't make a diffeence. I have a weird situation in which I get system sounds as root, and can play CDs as a user, but get no system sounds as a user. The sound was working fine until yesterday, when it simply stopped producing system sounds when I log on as a specific user :-((( DOH Heather
