[newbie-it] colori menu xconfig
Salve, in sede di ricompilazione del kernel il primo comando che lancio è 'menu xconfig': purtroppo la finestra delle opzioni che appare è color panna con lettere nere e a malapena si riesce a capire se l'opzione è y, m o n. Sapete per caso come si fa a cambiare colore della finestra di selezione? Grazie -- --- Perfect Dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 8.1 P133 - 48 Mb Ram Incredibile! Posso fare altre cose con il PC mentre masterizzo!
Re: [newbie-it] colori menu xconfig
E' la mia prima installazione di Linux in assoluto. Ho la 8.1 in versione grafica e devo installare e configurare una scheda di rete Hamlet PCMCIA. Come faccio ad entrare nella configurazione del kernel da riga testuale
Re: [newbie-it] cdrom-cdrw
Alle 16:39, martedì 27 novembre 2001, hai scritto: cia mdk8.1 pIII 733MHz HD primary master CDRW secondary master CDrom secondary slave ho provato ad installare qualche pacchetto dai 3 cdrom di mdk 8.1, che non avevo installato all'inizio. tutto bene: mi trova i pacchetti che posso installare, li scelgo, controlla le dipendenze e mi dice di inserire il cdrom n°1, 2 o 3 (a seconda del pacchetto) nel cdrom2. e mi apre il cassettino del cdrom. non appena metto il cd richesto e chiuso il cassettino gli do ok...dopo 3 secondi di attesa mi riapre il cassettino e mi chiede nuovamente di mettere il cd rom...non riesce a vederlo! a questo punto idea geniale! lo prendo dal cd rom e lo metto nel masterizzatore, gli do oke mi installa il pacchetto richiesto, senza alcun problema...a parte il fatto che non riesco più a fargli aprire il masterizzatore se non riavviando il pc... perchè mi chiede di mettere il cd nel cdrom2 e mi apre il cassettino del lettore ma non riesce a vedere il cd? perchè se metto il cd nel masterizzatore (aprendolo a mano) mi fa l'installazione e non mi restituisce più il cd? forse fa confusione tra le due periferiche? grazie mille per le dritte salutatemi a bilgheiz osva fa la stessa cosa acnhe con me - mal comune mezzo gaudio -
Re: [newbie-it] scheda di rete hamlet (era: colori di xconfig))
E' la mia prima installazione di Linux in assoluto. Ho la 8.1 in versi one grafica e devo installare e configurare una scheda di rete Hamlet PCMC IA. Come faccio ad entrare nella configurazione del kernel da riga testual e Perché vuoi entrare nella configurazione del Kernel? A mio avviso, se hai fatto una installazione normale, non ne avrai alcun bisogno. A me (ho un portatile toshiba con una scheda di rete PCMCIA proprio della Hamlet) è bastato impostare kudzu in modo che si attivi al boot poi ho spento tutto, ho inserito la card nello slot PCMCIA, ho acceso il portatile e nella fase di boot mi ha riconosciuto e configurato tutto. Al termine di tutto ho ridisabilitato kudzu al boot (solo perché in passato mi ha dato qualche problema). Ciao Marco
Re: [newbie-it] scheda di rete hamlet (era: colori di xconfig))
Scusa la mia infinita ignoranza...ma cosa è kudzu???!! - Original Message - From: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] scheda di rete hamlet (era: colori di xconfig)) E' la mia prima installazione di Linux in assoluto. Ho la 8.1 in versi one grafica e devo installare e configurare una scheda di rete Hamlet PCMC IA. Come faccio ad entrare nella configurazione del kernel da riga testual e Perché vuoi entrare nella configurazione del Kernel? A mio avviso, se hai fatto una installazione normale, non ne avrai alcun bisogno. A me (ho un portatile toshiba con una scheda di rete PCMCIA proprio della Hamlet) è bastato impostare kudzu in modo che si attivi al boot poi ho spento tutto, ho inserito la card nello slot PCMCIA, ho acceso il portatile e nella fase di boot mi ha riconosciuto e configurato tutto. Al termine di tutto ho ridisabilitato kudzu al boot (solo perché in passato mi ha dato qualche problema). Ciao Marco
Re: [newbie-it] cdrom-cdrw
(CUT) ho provato ad installare qualche pacchetto dai 3 cdrom di mdk 8.1, c he non avevo installato all'inizio. tutto bene: mi trova i pacchetti che po sso installare, li scelgo, controlla le dipendenze e mi dice di inserire il cdrom n°1, 2 o 3 (a seconda del pacchetto) nel cdrom2. e mi apre il cassettino del cdrom. non appena metto il cd richesto e chiuso il cassettino gli do ok...dopo 3 secondi di attesa mi riapre il cassett ino e mi chiede nuovamente di mettere il cd rom...non riesce a vederlo! a questo punto idea geniale! lo prendo dal cd rom e lo metto nel masterizzato re, gli do oke mi installa il pacchetto richiesto, senza alcun probl ema...a parte il fatto che non riesco più a fargli aprire il masterizzatore se non riavviando il pc... perchè mi chiede di mettere il cd nel cdrom2 e m i apre il cassettino del lettore ma non riesce a vedere il cd? perchè se me tto il cd nel masterizzatore (aprendolo a mano) mi fa l'installazione e non mi restituisce più il cd? forse fa confusione tra le due periferiche? [CUT] fa la stessa cosa anche con me basta aprire un terminale e smontare (umount /mnt/cdrom) il cdrom prima di inserire il secondo cd poi, almeno a me, funzia tutto! ;-) Ciao Marco
[newbie-it] Partizioni linux e.... modem
Salve, mi sono appena iscritto a questa ML (non so nemmeno se sto procedendo bene per spedire queste mie righe...) Ho installato Mandrake 8.0!! Non ci capisco ancora molto ma... mi piace Ho notato che la partizione che le avevo assegnato (13 Giga su 19 del mio secondo HD) è così suddivisa: 3.5 Giga per la root ed il rimanente per l'utente. Domanda: I programmi dove vengono installati? Va bene così la suddivisione o devo aumentare lo spazio dedicato alla root? Un'altra cosa: questo collegamento è tramite Windows, dato che il mio è uno stramaledetto WinModem interno della Conexant Sto per acquistarne uno esterno: sono graditi suggerimenti per un modem compatibile con Linux !!! Mia configurazione: Pentium III processor GenuineIntel 1004MHz 512 RAM 2 Hard Disk: Generic Ide Disk Type47 e Generic Ide Disk Type80 da 20 Giga ciascuno Conexant SoftK56 Data, Fax, RTAD PCI Modem ESS Allegro-1 PCI AudioDrive Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead Masterizzatore Waitec Raptor Red Lettore _Nec DV-5700b Stampante HP 690C Ciaooo e grazie per la vostra pazienza!! Gigi
Re: [newbie-it] scheda di rete hamlet (era: colori di xconfig))
Kudzu è un demone, cioè un servizio che ha come compito quello di rilevare e configurare nuovo hardware. Da Mandrake Control Center vai in Sistema e poi in Servizi (vado a memoria, qui in ufficio ho solo win), scegli kudzu e seleziona Avvio al boot sempre che non sia già selezionato. Conferma ed esci. Ciao Marco
Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e.... modem
Il fatto è che non essendo riuscito a collegarmi (Linux mi dice sempre che il modem è occupato...) ho provato ad informarmi, e mi hanno riferito che il mio modem non va bene (per la verità mi crea qualche problema anche con la connessione Wind sotto Windows). Per quanto ho potuto capire dalla pagina http://www.linux-mandrake.com/it/fhard.php3 mi risulta che la colpa sia proprio del modem o no? (Non è che sia proprio un esperto) Comunque grazie mille. Ciaooo Gigi - Original Message - From: Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e modem On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Emma e Gigi wrote: Salve, mi sono appena iscritto a questa ML (non so nemmeno se sto procedendo bene per spedire queste mie righe...) Ho installato Mandrake 8.0!! Non ci capisco ancora molto ma... mi piace Ho notato che la partizione che le avevo assegnato (13 Giga su 19 del mio secondo HD) è così suddivisa: 3.5 Giga per la root ed il rimanente per l'utente. Domanda: I programmi dove vengono installati? Va bene così la suddivisione o devo aumentare lo spazio dedicato alla root? Un'altra cosa: questo collegamento è tramite Windows, dato che il mio è uno stramaledetto WinModem interno della Conexant Sto per acquistarne uno esterno: sono graditi suggerimenti per un modem compatibile con Linux !!! Mia configurazione: Pentium III processor GenuineIntel 1004MHz 512 RAM 2 Hard Disk: Generic Ide Disk Type47 e Generic Ide Disk Type80 da 20 Giga ciascuno Conexant SoftK56 Data, Fax, RTAD PCI Modem ESS Allegro-1 PCI AudioDrive Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead Masterizzatore Waitec Raptor Red Lettore _Nec DV-5700b Stampante HP 690C Ciaooo e grazie per la vostra pazienza!! Gigi Ciao, siete sicuri che il vostro modem non sia supportato? Non mi sembra che rientri nella tipologia dei connexant non supportati Date un occhiata al link che parte da www.linmodems.org E' in francese, se vi serve una mano fatemi sapere. Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] floppy e cdorm su 8.1 mandrake
Scusate, avevo anche io problemi con il floppy e ho ricevuto consigli da questa lista. Pensavo di aver risolto tutto, ma stasera mi sono accorto che il cdrom e il masterizzatore non venivano ne' letti, nè montati. Ho provato a rimettere il comando devfs=mount (l'originale) che avevo cambiato (devfs=nomount) tentando di far funzionare il floppy, ho lasciato solo il comando nobiospnp, ho fatto ripartire la macchina e tutto ha funzionato bene. Magari se qualcuno ha ancora problemi con il floppy provi a fare così: aggiunga alla riga append solo il comando nobiospnp. Fatemi sapere se ho imbroccato la soluzione o è stato solo un caso. Ma i problemi non sono finiti per me! Il lettore midi Kmidi non funziona e compare l'avviso di kde che mi dice che l'applicazione è andata in crash per un bug nel programma. Ho provato a usare sndconfig, sento solo il messaggio audio, mentre non viene lanciato il test midi. Anche da mandrake control center non sento il suono midi? cosa posso fare? Ultima domanda (pietà!), su windows e su atari ho usato Cubase come programma sequencer, c'è un equivalente su linux abbastanza funzionante? Ciao Mauro
[newbie-it] devfs
1) Come si possono fissare le modifiche, come proprietari e permessi, link, sui vari device? Post script Non riesco ancora ad avere il suono perche sndconfig che vede benissimo la mia scheda non trova isapnp che è installato, ma con lsmod non compare mai!!!
[newbie-it] MuLinux
Egregi tutti, un saluto a Voi. Non so come ma ci sono riuscito! Alcune settimane fa, su consiglio di LukenShiro, ho scaricato MuLinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ una minuscola ma interessante versione del nostro sistema operativo installabile anche e direttamente da un'unica partizione DOS. Dopo essermi studiato le scarne e contraddittorie informazioni allegate ai file prelevati, concernenti l'installazione di MuLinux da una partizione dos ed avendo superato il problema di come trasferire un file .tgz di 1828 K sul notebook senza connessione LAN e senza cd-rom, mi sono tuffato nell'installazione sul vecchio laptop. Ho sudato freddo (soprattutto per il mio inglese scolastico) ma ora, anche se ancora da configurare, ho una mini versione di Linux utilizzabile anche sul laptop. Vengo al dunque... Una volta loggato mi ritrovo al prompt di MuLinux, che in questo caso è /# da qui mi si apre un universo quasi sconfinato (dico quasi perché ho letto che in MuLinux alcuni comandi sono stati eliminati per ragioni spazio). Non sorridete se vi vengo a chiedere da dove posso prelevare qualcosa di assimilabile a veri e propri esercizi per cominciare a lavorare anche tramite la bash, ammesso che tali esercizi esistano. Un grazie già da ora. Giovanni.
Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e.... modem
Emma e Gigi hanno scritto: Salve, mi sono appena iscritto a questa ML dato che il mio è uno stramaledetto WinModem interno della Conexant Sto per acquistarne uno esterno: sono graditi suggerimenti per un modem compatibile con Linux !!! Ciaooo e grazie per la vostra pazienza!! Gigi Ciao ragazzi, io anche sotto Linux sto usando un U.S. Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem, ed anche in quest'ambiente non mi ha procurato il benché minimo problema. E' solo un esempio... Ciao ;-)) Giovanni.
Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e.... modem
Per quanto riguarda la partizione: ho cancellato e reinstallato Mandrake. Al momento di scegliere dove reinstallare Mandrake, mi ha segnalato l'esistenza della vecchia partizione creata precedentemente. Chiaramente ho scelto questa ed è proprio allora che mi è apparsa una finestra con le due suddivisioni che ho menzionato. Io ho capito che in una poneva l'utente root (mi chiedeva espressamente se volevo aumentare lo spazio dedicato) e nell'altra UTENTE con relativo nome. Io ho pensato di aumentare lo spazio root, dato che li vengono installati i programmi (la scritta diceva proprio così!). MODEM: Vuoi dire che tutti i seriali esterni vanno bene? Scusate se sono troppo lungo (il fatto è che non ne so.) Cia Gigi - Original Message - From: brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni linux e modem Emma e Gigi ha scritto: Salve, mi sono appena iscritto a questa ML Benvenuto :)) Ho notato che la partizione che le avevo assegnato (13 Giga su 19 del mio secondo HD) è così suddivisa: 3.5 Giga per la root ed il rimanente per l'utente. Quindi hai destinato piu` di una partizione a Linux... Per partizione dell'utente intendi /home? Ad ogni modo, io farei il contrario: 3.5Gb per l'utente, il resto per la root (non /root, ma / ), dove vengono installati i programmi (anzi, sotto /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin) Sto per acquistarne uno esterno: sono graditi suggerimenti per un modem compatibile con Linux !!! Seriale, esterno. Cosi` non dovresti avere problemi. Se invece vuoi passare un po' di tempo a 'giocare' con le configurazioni puoi buttarti sull'usb ;-) Mia configurazione: Complimenti, e` un computerone (qui e` PII@26696+4.3Gb) :)) -- Ciao brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] installazione xine divx 4.02
La 0.9.5 l'ho scaricata ma non ho ancora provato a compilarla. Quella che sono riuscito ad installare io era la 0.9.4. Puoi provare a ri-scompattare il file: magari tar non ti ha estratto tutto quello che ti serviva... Ciao. Steo. ho provato a installare le librerie 0.9.5. operazioni compiute: tar configure make a questo punto in compilazione comincia a dare msg strani che allego alla mail. risultato le librerie non vengono installate! qualcuno ci capisce qualcosa? -- make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/liblpcm' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/liblpcm' Making install in libw32dll make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll' Making install in wine make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll/wine' make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll/wine' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll/wine' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll/wine' Making install in DirectShow make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll/DirectShow' make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll/DirectShow' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll/DirectShow' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll/DirectShow' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll' make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll' /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins /bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c xineplug_decode_w32dll.la /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_decode_w32dll.la /usr/bin/install -c .libs/xineplug_decode_w32dll.so /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_decode_w32dll.so /usr/bin/install -c .libs/xineplug_decode_w32dll.lai /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_decode_w32dll.la PATH=$PATH:/sbin ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins -- Libraries have been installed in: /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR' flag during linking and do at least one of the following: - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during execution - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable during linking - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf' See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages. -- make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libw32dll' Making install in libmad make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libmad' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ferris/xine-lib-0.9.5/src/libmad' /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins /bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c xineplug_decode_mad.la /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_decode_mad.la /usr/bin/install -c .libs/xineplug_decode_mad.so /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_decode_mad.so /usr/bin/install -c .libs/xineplug_decode_mad.lai /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_decode_mad.la PATH=$PATH:/sbin ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins -- Libraries have been installed in: /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR' flag during linking and do at least one of the following: - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during execution - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable during linking - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf' See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
RE: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: KDE is part of the stock LM8.1 release. Yep, I did know that. This is the first time I left it out. If you haven't installed it you'll probably also be missing other tools you'll need to get your system to run properly. This may be why you are having such difficulty. If you haven't done a FULL installation all bets are off. Even then the installer omits about 50% of the RPM's. Mandrake should make that clear. As it is I always use expert mode to ensure that home and data partitions are preserved and to try and ensure that all needed RPMs are installed - always miss a few though. On the last but one reinstall the script got into a loop which did not allow a graceful exit (no hdlists found, after the partitioning stage) then lost the partition table. No disk when I tried to reinstall again. 17 Gbs lost, including hundreds of digital photos collected over the last two years and six months programming. Am now running from the secondary disk, which is a lot smaller, hence the need to streamline the system. This system will only boot from floppy as well because the default disk is invisible. LM8.1 relies on having KDE around like it or not. I.E. the KDE Control Center sets up the Alsa-CTRL files used by the bootup scripts, etc. Reluctant to reinstall. Maybe a piecemeal installation of KDE applications? And would KDE Control Center resolve the access/permissions issue? Thanks once again Jose for taking the trouble to reply. -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SRPMS
Hi, Maybe someone can explain what are the SRPMS? I usually install programs from a .tar.bz2 file, using the 'configure, make, make install' sequence. What should I do with the other files that I find the SRPM? (Especially the SPEC files, and the patches). What is the advantage of using these instead of the plain .tar.bz2 files? Thanks, Moshe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] install newbie
i'll try that- i forgot about pico- i use it remotely on my server ( brain like a seive) I tried startx as this is what i thought it was- however i may have done start x thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skidley Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 00:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] install newbie On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, caspar kennerdale wrote: I just installed 8.1 on a linux partition (my computer also has win 2k on it) I have two questions- fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want? where do I change it- i've looked in the boot folder and have found a message documsnt but it cant be edited. Also how do I start xwindows or navigate through the installed software. When mandrake opens i give my user and p word on the cpomand line. I can navigate through the folder but most of ot seems to be system files. Thanks in advance For your lilo question, open /etc/lilo.conf with an editor like pico or joe thats easy as you seem to be real new. eg, pico /etc/lilo.conf (as root) Within the first few lines you'll see an option: timeout=50, this is in milliseconds, You can change it to 300 for 30 secs or whatever you want. Save the edited file andthen at command line type lilo and enter to rerun lilo and update it. To start X at the command line type startx. You can use other commands for different desktops but for a start just type startx. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
Matt, Considering that Wild Bill and the Redmond Bunch just called open source (ala Free) software Unamerican, I doubt that they would ever put their browser on my beloved desktop (it would find it's way pretty quickly to the /dev/null directory!). Gimme a chance to break outa the fog I've been in for years with MS products and really see what my system is able to do (for far less $$!). (Just my $.02). Steve Weltman...By the way, MSIE really isn't that much better (if at all) or any faster than any of the other browsers that are in Linux already. Why go there? On Tuesday 27 November 2001 08:49 am, Matt Greer wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2001 01:25 pm, you wrote: I have seen screen shots of people running this on linux and was wondering where I could find it. Any and all help would be appreciated. Are you sure it wasn't the Unix version? IE was made available for some flavors of Unix, but not Linux. The IE for Unix is also old and out of date. The day MS supported Linux, you'd know about it. It'd be enormous news. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 17:33, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Whoa, sorry, I was a bit tired. I actually meant iptables, I read your message as iptables, not chains. You should check to make sure iptables is installed. I've now installed iptables (as well as ipchains). Bastille now complains: about to run through config file ... iptables v1.2.4: invalid TCP port/service 'linuxconf' specified. ... which is similar to the second problem I had with ipchains mentioned in a prior post. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)
Matt Greer wrote: At the moment I just open a different browser on different desktops (including Lynx) for the hell of it. Deffinitly UN-productive:) Al least let there be a bad one among them so I can kick one out:( Oh there is, Netscape still comes with Mandrake. Yeah, but even Netscape's getting better these days. I think Microsoft should sue them for unfair competitive practices. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SRPMS
SRPMS are Source RPM's. RPM's are Red Hat package Manager installs. Mandrake, is an RPM based distro so you can use RPM's to install things instead of compiling from source as you have been. Enter man rpm into your terminal to learn more. Once you have gotten the basic commands down check out rpmfind.net and search for new software to install. On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 03:09 AM, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, Maybe someone can explain what are the SRPMS? I usually install programs from a .tar.bz2 file, using the 'configure, make, make install' sequence. What should I do with the other files that I find the SRPM? (Especially the SPEC files, and the patches). What is the advantage of using these instead of the plain .tar.bz2 files? Thanks, Moshe 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] SRPMS
Source RPM's are used to create the final distribution rpm's for software. The spec files and patches are all applied against the base distribution. The software is included this way so that changes can be easily isolated against a base. However you should -NOT- be dealing with any of this. RPM does all the work for you! To create a final installable software RPM from a Source (SRPM) merely grab the source rpm and issue a command such as this... rpm --rebuild Software.src.rpm If everything goes ok, RPM will unpack the SRPM, apply the patches and updates configure and compile everything. It leaves the resulting files in /usr/src/RPMS/RPMS/ix86 and /usr/src/RPMS/RPMS/noarch/. You can then rpm -Uvh Software.ix86.rpm to install the newly compiled software. Simple eh? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of |Moshe Kaminsky |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:10 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] SRPMS | | |Hi, | |Maybe someone can explain what are the SRPMS? I usually |install programs from a .tar.bz2 file, using the 'configure, |make, make install' sequence. What should I do with the other |files that I find the SRPM? |(Especially the SPEC files, and the patches). What is the |advantage of using these instead of the plain .tar.bz2 files? | |Thanks, |Moshe | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ssl not working after updating apache
Hi! The ssl of my LM8.1 was working fine not until I updated the apache to 1.3.22-1-1.mdk Can anyone here tell me what's wrong with this update? TIA Jhun Bacala New City Commercial Corporation MIS-Dept. Davao Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gimp print trouble
try replacing the print command in printer setup with 'qtcups' (without quotes) That worked for me. Derek On Wednesday 28 November 2001 05:48, you wrote: Anybody know why printing would work in ee, mozilla, and command line, but not the gimp? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wassup with the texstar files, then?
OK, I've installed the Texstar KDE files, and i can see that things are a little faster. Not so much faster that my monitor is in danger of meltdown, but a little faster. Some of the files are also less bulky than the cooker versions. Could some kind soul please explain in word of 2 syllables or less what object-prelinking is and what it is good for? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Servers
I think you are right. I have not seen any facility for Samba to use Netbeui. But there is no need. Windows computers by default bind file sharing to both Netbeui and TCP/IP Is there a particular reason why it has to be Netbeui ? Derek On Wednesday 28 November 2001 03:11, you wrote: On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 20:32, Robert Boggs wrote: In windows I have a small network set up. I use netbeui, and I wish to do the same in linux using Samba, with netbeui. Can anyone tell me how to set these up. I really like the new Mandrake. I think I may go to it as my full time system. My wife, however cannot do this, as she is blind and has JAWS for windows, and there is not any GUI talkers for linux, that we know of. This is why I must set her systems up to access my box from Widows. I wish someone could make a system for linux that would talk in x and gnome and KDE. Please help. You may E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], if you wish. As far as I know, Samba only works with TCP/IP networks. I could be wrong. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to find Space on HD?
Hi All Might sound like a trivial question (and most prob is!)... but if on windows I want to know how big each partition is and how much space i have left and have used etc it's easy... how can I do this in linux... I installed LM8.1 and took the default partitioning (if memory serves it was a bit for swap and about 3GB for home and 15GB for the rest - 20GB hd)... I can see my file system fine.. but I want to know where I can store big files and when I am running out of space etc ... ta Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:46, A V Flinsch wrote: Tell me about it, but it is not the choice of browsers that I have a problem with, it is the 30 different window managers I have installed. One for each day of the month! And just how many text editors can one human being be expected to use? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
If you already had filesharing setup in windows then (as Derek suggests) samba will just work out of the box (if not goto control panelnetworksmake sure filesharing is ticked/installed... and make sure you have firewall settings on linux such that it doesn't stop it working. Again, Derek has a link to where there is help for this. As for Linux to windows filesharing (i.e. the other way round, cos samba doesn't do both to my knowledge), I use Komba2 to mount my Windows machines' files. If you have any probs setting these up then I might be able to help since I've only just done it myself and haven't quite had time (approx 1 month lol) to forget how I did it yet. :) Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Servers I think you are right. I have not seen any facility for Samba to use Netbeui. But there is no need. Windows computers by default bind file sharing to both Netbeui and TCP/IP Is there a particular reason why it has to be Netbeui ? Derek On Wednesday 28 November 2001 03:11, you wrote: On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 20:32, Robert Boggs wrote: In windows I have a small network set up. I use netbeui, and I wish to do the same in linux using Samba, with netbeui. Can anyone tell me how to set these up. I really like the new Mandrake. I think I may go to it as my full time system. My wife, however cannot do this, as she is blind and has JAWS for windows, and there is not any GUI talkers for linux, that we know of. This is why I must set her systems up to access my box from Widows. I wish someone could make a system for linux that would talk in x and gnome and KDE. Please help. You may E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], if you wish. As far as I know, Samba only works with TCP/IP networks. I could be wrong. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
if you read in linux, then the viri ain't your problem, if you are a M$ user, look for a file called setup.pif. On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:28, you wrote: Franki wrote: Hi all, Frank McKenna just sent the list the above virus/worm.. the email will try to automatically save the file and opens it in media player.. ok. so frank mckenna sent list a virus/worm. well, not really... virus/worm sent itself. frank did not send virus/worm intentionally, with malaise or malice. shit happens when you eat regularly. virus/worm happen when you use ms. when did this virus get sent? what was 'subject:'? if you are going to inform, please inform. tho from 'hate mail' sent to list, you should have informed frank off list. i have check thru all messages from this list for all messages sent by frank, and i have yet to find any indication of a virus. only attachments were mandrake's attached pack/service spam. even check norton antivirus for any quarantines and there were none. if this virus/worm got thru to my systems, i would like to clean it out. as i am sure anyone else using ms would like to do. one thing that i did note for sure. those who replied blasting frank and microsoft, do not seem to know how to cut out unneeded quotes. but that seems to be norm for this list. no, i do not like ms bs. have not liked it from first dos version he stoled from digital research. but, like others, i have to use it because of clients that have to use it. this is not a perfect world, nor is usa a perfect country. if it was, bg would still be in jail and we would all still be enjoying unix, cp/m, cdos, and drdos. frank, glad you were able to get your system cleaned up frank. i lost 2.5 months of work thanks to a trojan sent by ole. as a suggestion, for those having to use ms, drop ie and ole. use netscape or some other good msos browser and mail handler. install norton antivirus, or what ever, and keep it updated. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IE way OT now
yep, I am considering getting arrested then asking the judge if for my punishment I can offer to claen the highways for 25 dollars an hour, since I normally charge 85 dollars an hour for my time... and do it when and where _I_ feel like it, so _I_ can make sure the section of road deserves cleaning? by the way, I get a stuck mail when trying to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED], On Tuesday 27 November 2001 21:05, you wrote: thereby improving their market with a user who otherwise couldnt afford a computer at all. Sounds like a great marketing plan. Big penalty huh On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:19:50 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2001 16:52, you wrote: so complain to the DOJ they let ms give away a crap browser despite being guilty of abusing their monopoly don't you just know the settlement will allow the to offer discount pricing to poor schools, so a dis-advantaged school can get a OS worth about 12 dollars, at a discounted price of only 40 dollars, instead of 110.00 since MS was bad. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.1, supermount and samba sharing a floppy.
Hi all, One of the Pc's here, (the old ladies) doesn't have a floppy drive (its a network PC, Compaq 4000N) So I thought, no problem, I'd setup a network drive linked to the linux box's floppy (using Samba).. so she can just stick a floppy in that and save away. Anyway, then I realised that with supermount not working, I'd need to teach her how to mount and umount the floppy.. which is more pain then its worth... So I am trying to think of a way around that.. Is there anyway I can get supermount or similiar working? even if its just on the floppy then I can setup the floppy as a share in samba, and she can map it as a network drive, and just stick in a floppy and save.. any suggestions anyone? linux box details: mandrake 8.1 Powerpack. kernel 2.4.13-9mdk samba-2.2.1a-15mdk network allready up and working with samba and NAT over a 10/100 switch. Server: PentiumPro 200, 96M ram, 3 gig free hard disk. workstations: one with 98, one with 2000Pro rgds Frank PS, has Samba gotten anywhere with Active Directory yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1
I'm not exactly sure which RPM's need to be installed to get everything working. I know that prior to having installed all of the packages and THEN installing the missing RPM's from the CD's (the ones which DO NOT get installed by default) I could not get full sound blaster support. Out of curiosity I started pouring thru the sound source code and noticed that Midi support was a reality. This set me on the path of trying to find out how to get it to work. Having run across Mandrake interdependancies before... I.E. for proper diald operation make sure you install Linuxconf and all of it's modules as well, but only install the diald rpm AFTER you have PPP working via Linuxconf... (WHERE IS THIS DOCUMENTED!) ...I assumed that I would need the extra RPMs' I've helped a few others on the list. Most have done the full installation and then gone back and added the missing ALSA and AUXMIX rpm's. Once done, and following the requisites of letting Mandrake's Control center set things up, then using Kcontrol, auxmix, etc. EVERYTHING works... I have no trouble running XMMS while KDE event sounds play back thru the same card now. Midi works, all the SBLive extra inputs work, the Joystick works, etc. Originally my SBLive was no more than a wave sound card.. With the above it finally became full featured. One exception, Sound Fonts must be less than 32 megs in size... BTW: You've already invested more time than I did. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Len Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:04 AM |To: Jose M. Sanchez |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Harrison, Neil' |Subject: RE: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1 | | |On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | | KDE is part of the stock LM8.1 release. |Yep, I did know that. This is the first time I left it out. | | If you haven't installed it you'll probably also be missing other | tools you'll need to get your system to run properly. This |may be why | you are having such difficulty. If you haven't done a FULL | installation all bets are off. Even then the installer omits |about 50% | of the RPM's. |Mandrake should make that clear. As it is I always use expert |mode to ensure that home and data partitions are preserved and |to try and ensure that all needed RPMs are installed - always |miss a few though. On the last but one reinstall the script |got into a loop which did not allow a graceful exit (no |hdlists found, after the partitioning stage) then lost the |partition table. No disk when I tried to reinstall again. 17 |Gbs lost, including hundreds of digital photos collected over |the last two years and six months programming. Am now running |from the secondary disk, which is a lot smaller, hence the |need to streamline the system. This system will only boot from |floppy as well because the default disk is invisible. | | LM8.1 relies on having KDE around like it or not. | | I.E. the KDE Control Center sets up the Alsa-CTRL files used by the | bootup scripts, etc. |Reluctant to reinstall. Maybe a piecemeal installation of KDE |applications? And would KDE Control Center resolve the |access/permissions issue? | |Thanks once again Jose for taking the trouble to reply. |-- |Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
|-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Neil R Porter |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:51 AM |To: Linux Newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers | | |If you already had filesharing setup in windows then (as Derek |suggests) samba will just work out of the box (if not goto |control panelnetworksmake sure filesharing is |ticked/installed... and make sure you have firewall settings |on linux such that it doesn't stop it working. Again, Derek |has a link to where there is help for this. |As for Linux to windows filesharing (i.e. the other way round, cos samba |doesn't do both to my knowledge), I use Komba2 to mount my |Windows machines' files. | WHAT? Check out SMBClient and SMBMount... All Komba2 does is invoke these programs, which are part of Samba. I.E. smbclient -L \\Windowsmachine -U Validuser Where validuser is a username that you have used at least once at your Winblows box to log into the network. (this is important!). If you can do this Samba will let you utilize Winblows printers from Linux, even WinPrinters (read brain damaged printers)! Lisa/Reslisa let's Konqueror BROWSE Winblows shares as well. -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1
More drivel from me... From a prior post... -JMS --- SNIP - |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Oscar |Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:17 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] SB Live! - no midi devices in kde -SOLVED | | |Gracias de nuevo, Jose! |I don't know what of the steps I have followed is the real |fix... I have followed your indications and more: |- Remove all references to sound modules in /etc/modules.conf |- Reboot |- lsmod does not show any sound module. Ok. |- |But I did it before, and the midi devices weren't in KDE |control panel, |so... |I had an idea: In lilo.conf, I changed devfs=nomount to |devfs=mount |after upgrading kernel for security issues. Maybe this did the |trick (or |maybe the trick was to install all rpm's containing the string |alsa;-) |- | |And sfxload... | |Now the midi devices were in kde control center but no sound was |listened when playing any file. |I had another problem... I looked for info in |[EMAIL PROTECTED] and find a post |from you |(JMS) mentioning aumix. | |mmm... | |rpm -q aumix -- package is not installed | |:-P | |Then I installed aumix, set the volumes and TA-D! SB Live |is WORKING |GREAT NOW!! |Thanks! |óscar. | | |Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | |Alsa is started first, then sound during boot, at either init-3 or |init-5... | |-JMS | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
|-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Neil R Porter |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:51 AM |To: Linux Newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers | | |If you already had filesharing setup in windows then (as Derek |suggests) samba will just work out of the box (if not goto |control panelnetworksmake sure filesharing is |ticked/installed... and make sure you have firewall settings |on linux such that it doesn't stop it working. Again, Derek |has a link to where there is help for this. |As for Linux to windows filesharing (i.e. the other way round, cos samba |doesn't do both to my knowledge), I use Komba2 to mount my |Windows machines' files. | WHAT? Check out SMBClient and SMBMount... All Komba2 does is invoke these programs, which are part of Samba. nice gui though I.E. smbclient -L \\Windowsmachine -U Validuser Where validuser is a username that you have used at least once at your Winblows box to log into the network. (this is important!). If you can do this Samba will let you utilize Winblows printers from Linux, even WinPrinters (read brain damaged printers)! Lisa/Reslisa let's Konqueror BROWSE Winblows shares as well. As does Komba2... by default I think it puts the shares in /home/user/komba2/... so you can browse with konq. -JMS Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
|-Original Message- |From: Neil R Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:05 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: Linux Newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers | | | |-Original Message- |As does Komba2... by default I think it puts the shares in |/home/user/komba2/... so you can browse with konq. | | -JMS | |Neil | Lisa/Reslisa lets you browse the contents of the shares W/O mounting the volumes... You can see the files and folders, but you can't get to them until you mount them though. But I digress... -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error compiling NVIDIA kernel...
On Saturday 24 November 2001 08:27, you wrote: On Saturday 24 November 2001 16:50, you wrote: Install the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages first. They aren't by default . Then you'll be upaway:) Thanks, That's _EXACTLY_ the problem. When I went to install kernel-source using the software manager the package didn't show up under installable so I assumed it was. I actually had to go look for the source rpm on the mandrake install CDs...so something else is going wrong there ??? Anyway problem solvedboth components successfully recompiled and are being installed Joe For the archives: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Good luck Harm Bathoorn I'm getting the following error when I try to compile the latest version of the NVIDIA_kernel driver. In file included froThanks, That's _EXACTLY_ the problem. When I went to install kernel-source using the software manager the package didn't show up under installable so I assumed it was. I actually had to go look for the source rpm on the mandrake install CDs...so something else is going wrong there ??? Anyway problem solvedboth components successfully recompiled and are being installedm nv.c:50: /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers, /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an appropriate kernel-source ...using v3.0.2 of the gcc compiler Any help would be much appreciated Joe ps... where is the archive of these discussions kept..that's probably a good place to begin looing in the future --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error compiling NVIDIA kernel...
Problem with Realtek 8139(abc) lan card. My LAN is connected to a LAN (13 comps). everyone runs WINxx, but i decided to install MAndrake 80. There's a problem because while initializing system (loading modules) there's a problem with my card (eth0). I've fot 2 DNS, gateway ip and my ip. Is it enough to connect to the internet ? And where to put those ip's. If you counld answer on my mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] THX - Original Message - From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Error compiling NVIDIA kernel... On Saturday 24 November 2001 08:27, you wrote: On Saturday 24 November 2001 16:50, you wrote: Install the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages first. They aren't by default . Then you'll be upaway:) Thanks, That's _EXACTLY_ the problem. When I went to install kernel-source using the software manager the package didn't show up under installable so I assumed it was. I actually had to go look for the source rpm on the mandrake install CDs...so something else is going wrong there ??? Anyway problem solvedboth components successfully recompiled and are being installed Joe For the archives: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Good luck Harm Bathoorn I'm getting the following error when I try to compile the latest version of the NVIDIA_kernel driver. In file included froThanks, That's _EXACTLY_ the problem. When I went to install kernel-source using the software manager the package didn't show up under installable so I assumed it was. I actually had to go look for the source rpm on the mandrake install CDs...so something else is going wrong there ??? Anyway problem solvedboth components successfully recompiled and are being installedm nv.c:50: /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers, /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an appropriate kernel-source ...using v3.0.2 of the gcc compiler Any help would be much appreciated Joe ps... where is the archive of these discussions kept..that's probably a good place to begin looing in the future --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Tego nie znajdziesz w zadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Quake 3 problem solved...
Okay, if you recall my message about not being able to run Q3 after installing Mplayer, Aviplay, and Gkrellm, I decided to experiment a little bit. I had compiled Mplayer and Aviplay, so I removed the RPM's for Lm-sensors and Gkrellm... Reinstalled Q3 and it works fine... Anybody else have trouble with Gkrellm/lmsensors interfering with Quake 3? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
|-Original Message- |From: Neil R Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:05 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: Linux Newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers | | | |-Original Message- |As does Komba2... by default I think it puts the shares in |/home/user/komba2/... so you can browse with konq. | | -JMS | |Neil | Lisa/Reslisa lets you browse the contents of the shares W/O mounting the volumes... You can see the files and folders, but you can't get to them until you mount them though. oh But I digress... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cable modem setup
Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be much appreciated. /Cortney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install newbie
caspar kennerdale wrote: I just installed 8.1 on a linux partition (my computer also has win 2k on it) Congratulations on the Mandrake installation, my condolences on Windows. I have two questions- fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want? where do I change it- i've looked in the boot folder and have found a message documsnt but it cant be edited. Go to the Control Center - Boot Config - first section tells what you are using, pick configure. You should be able to set it there. Also how do I start xwindows or navigate through the installed software. The command is startx. When mandrake opens i give my user and p word on the cpomand line. I can navigate through the folder but most of ot seems to be system files. Thanks in advance Hope this helps ya! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup MySQL Data
There are a couple different methods for backing up information on a server. You can backup over smb, ftp (or nfs) to another PC on your local network, or you can backup to a different disk on the same PC or you can even backup to an 'offsite' location. Of course, you didn't need to send two copies of the same message to the list (in HTML no less) within 2 minutes. I'm sure most people got the first one. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:26 PM 11/28/2001 +0800, you wrote: Hi! I have configure MySQL in my Linux Server. How can I backup the data ... ? I don't have any Backup-Tape Device ... Can someone plase give me some information ? Best Regards, SKLIM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
do a 'df -h' which will tell you how large each partition is, how much you've used, how much is available for use, and what percent of the partition is being used. If any % is higher than about 75-80%, it's usually time to take a look to see where you can free up some room. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:34 AM 11/28/2001 -, Neil R Porter wrote: Hi All Might sound like a trivial question (and most prob is!)... but if on windows I want to know how big each partition is and how much space i have left and have used etc it's easy... how can I do this in linux... I installed LM8.1 and took the default partitioning (if memory serves it was a bit for swap and about 3GB for home and 15GB for the rest - 20GB hd)... I can see my file system fine.. but I want to know where I can store big files and when I am running out of space etc ... ta Neil 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
[newbie] Samba/NFS Newbie tip
While we are discussing samba today, here's a little tip for the newbies out there. (well it is a newbie list) This is particularly useful if you have used SWAT to set up your samba. if once you have samba working you open KDE Control Center Information Samba status you will (probably) be able to see any active samba shares, but see no information in the log or statistics tabs, and at the bottom of the exports tab you see a message Samba 2.2.1a Error: Unable to run showmount To fix it do this :- In your users .bash_profile change the line beginning PATH to PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/sbin This will make the error message go away after you next log in, and any active NFS shares will appear in the 'Exports' tab as well as the samba ones. If you have used SWAT to set up your Samba, then the default log file it creates will be /var/log/samba/log.username and there will be a different log for each windows users samba activity. To show a combined log in KDE samba status then configure SWAT to use the Log file /var/log/samba/log. and configure samba status to use the same file. By default SWAT sets the log level to 0 which is no logging. You have to select 'Advanced Options' in SWAT to see the field to change it. Slelect log level 1 for info of who is mounting samba shares, and log level 2 for information on each file accessed. Level 3 is for the severely paranoid. Once you have changed the log level, SWAT will then show that field in the 'Basic' view. You will now be able to view the log and statistics windows in KDE Samba status. Hope that has helped someone Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? Grant. Grant: You can buy the CD's from cheapbytes. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
Michael, et al: Just a tidbit of info (as in - suggestion), that I follow all the time. When installing Mandrake (for a workstation or stand-alone PC), on a large drive, I'd like to suggest that you break your /home partition into 2 partitions. Typically, DiskDrake will setup 3 partitions (ie; / , swap, and /home), but I suggest a fourth partition which can be used as an archive (read as storage) partition. I use it for ALL downloads, documents, RPM updates, and extra programs (ie; Gnapster, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Newer Mozilla builds, Java Runtime Environments, and Openoffice). That way, even if I decide to wipe the other three partitions and do a full install, all my extra programs and packages are still intact and ready to be re-installed. Then it's just a matter of telling my word-processor where to find My Documents on the /archive partition, and putting a shortcut on the desktop for everything I regularly use. As a matter of fact, once your desktop is fully configured the way you want it, you can also copy your /home/user folder over to the /archive partition as a backup copy. Whenever Mandrake releases a new version, I like to erase everything in /home as well as /, and swap partitions, and start fresh. But by saving the important stuff on the /archive partition, I save a lot of download time. Then all that I need to do is to update the files every once in a while. It also speeds up Mandrake Update since the RPM's , and description list is already on the hard drive. Just my 25 cents ! Lanman On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:21 am, you wrote: do a 'df -h' which will tell you how large each partition is, how much you've used, how much is available for use, and what percent of the partition is being used. If any % is higher than about 75-80%, it's usually time to take a look to see where you can free up some room. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XINE reccomendation: [was] mplayer error
I was able to install from the link but get the error when I try to play the DVDs: xine-panel: PLAY xine_play: xine open xine-ui version 0.9.5cvs, start pos = 0, start time = 0 (sec) xine: cannot find input plugin for this MRL can I know what is causing this ? thank you. /ethan Paul Rodrguez wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> I was able to get mplayer installed on my machine, from source, but Iwasn't all that impressed. Take a look at xine. Much better overall,nicer gui, better playback, etc. And much easier to install!I've had success installing using source rpm's fromhttp://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ on 8.1.These are daily rpm build from CVS, so you know they are current.-Paul RodrguezOn Sun, 2001-11-25 at 23:14, skidley wrote: I am trying to compile mplayer on mdk 8.1, I'm using gcc-3.0-3.0.2-1mdkfrom the cooker. I get this error when compiling:Dec.o DS_AudioDec.cppIn file included from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cwchar.h:43, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/fpos.h:40, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_iosfwd.h:41, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/stl_algobase.h:77, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_list.h:61, from /usr/include/g++-v3/list:31, from allocator.h:8, from outputpin.h:8, from DS_Filter.h:6, from DS_AudioDecoder.h:5, from DS_AudioDec.cpp:5:/usr/include/wchar.h: In function `long long int wcstoq(const wchar_t*, wchar_t**, int)':/usr/include/wchar.h:514: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to `const __gwchar_t*' for argument `1' to `long long int __wcstoll_internal(const __gwchar_t*, __gwchar_t**, int, int)'/usr/include/wchar.h: In function `long long unsigned int wcstouq(const wchar_t*, wchar_t**, int)':/usr/include/wchar.h:520: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to `const __gwchar_t*' for argument `1' to `long long unsigned int __wcstoull_internal(const __gwchar_t*, __gwchar_t**, int, int)'make[1]: *** [DS_AudioDec.o] Error 1I wonder has anyone else had similar errors and how to fix it. Do I needanother package or something? _Do You Yahoo!?Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
i had some trouble getting dhcp to work with att@home also, if you have a windows machine, get it running and find out your ip address. you should be able to just use that static address as mine never changed once in the year i had it. If your address does constantly change, you can purchase a static ip address from att for pretty cheap. mark On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:07, you wrote: Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be much appreciated. /Cortney -- 2:49pm up 1 day, 11:44, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.12, 0.04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
I love galeons tabbed browsing. It's a godsend when you end up at a page with 50 pop-ups On Wednesday 28 November 2001 16:14, you wrote: Ok, you guys convinced me. With all the nice talk about galeon I'll be giving that a try. I always have my work computer with windows and IE installed for testing my websites. Thanks - Original Message - From: Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer i agree, galeon is better than any browser to date, the only reason i have wine on my computer right now is for return to castle wolfenstein, but when the linux binaries come out in a week, bye bye wine On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:40, you wrote: I see no reason to run IE on Linux. Attempting to do so only continues to vindicate M$. There are many excelent browsers that run great on linux. There's no need to run M$ crapware on a good operating system. ric E Estes wrote: I have seen screen shots of people running this on linux and was wondering where I could find it. Any and all help would be appreciated. -- 5:49pm up 14:44, 3 users, load average: 2.03, 1.66, 1.24 --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- 2:52pm up 1 day, 11:48, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.10, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba/NFS Newbie tip
SNIP To show a combined log in KDE samba status then configure SWAT to use the Log file /var/log/samba/log. and configure samba status to use the same file. SNIP Just realised two things. 1/ You have to restart Samba before it will start logging to the new destination. 2/ By default your user does not have permission to enter the directory /var/log/samba so you must change the permissions appropriately You will now be able to view the log and statistics windows in KDE Samba status. Hope that has helped someone Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
Grant; a couple of tips here. First, if your downlad speeds are that slow, try a different FTP site. On cablemodem, I usually hit speeds over 100kbps., and so should you. If your download is slow, it's probably because your connected to an FTP site that is really busy. Second, when you do the KDE 2.2.2 upgrade, login using a different desktop environmant like Gnome, then open the Mandrake Control Center/Software Manager, and do the updates from there. If you download the updates and KEEP them on your hard drive, you can define the folder which holds the updates as a source location for the updates. That way you're not downloading them again. I just did the updates exactly as I described, and it's running perfectly (so far). Hope that helps? Lanman On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:35 am, you wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? Grant. Grant: You can buy the CD's from cheapbytes. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
First, make sure that you're running a DHCP Client and not a DHCP Server. A client goes looking for an IP, a server hands out IP's. But the IP you need is handed out by ATT@HOME not by your machine. Secondly, make sure you have the DNS numbers for ATT's DNS servers properly configured. Make sure that your firewall (if you have one) isn't blocking OUTGOING ports as well. That would prevent you from getting Internet access as well. That one costed me 5 days of hell! But only one time ! LOL! Third, open a root console, and try these commands,...ifconfig and ifup eth0 - without the quotes. ifconfig ought to give you the Ip assigned by your ISP (ATT@HOME). If there's an IP address associated with your eth0 network card, then your problem is elsewhere. Lanman On Wednesday 28 November 2001 03:50 am, you wrote: i had some trouble getting dhcp to work with att@home also, if you have a windows machine, get it running and find out your ip address. you should be able to just use that static address as mine never changed once in the year i had it. If your address does constantly change, you can purchase a static ip address from att for pretty cheap. mark On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:07, you wrote: Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be much appreciated. /Cortney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wassup with the texstar files, then?
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:09 pm, Michel Clasquin wrote: OK, I've installed the Texstar KDE files, and i can see that things are a little faster. Not so much faster that my monitor is in danger of meltdown, but a little faster. Some of the files are also less bulky than the cooker versions. Could some kind soul please explain in word of 2 syllables or less what object-prelinking is and what it is good for? No :) (2 syllables if you count the smilely) FWIW, I tried teachin myself C/C++ almost 10 years ago. I doubt I remember enough to write a 'hello world' program now, but then I progressed into learnin classes public and private, hierarchy, etc. Actually wrote some very useful COGO programs I used at work. C is object orientated programming (OOP) and functions, classes, includes, etc. are linked to the app at runtime. So simply put, objprelink'g speeds up runtime with a faster algorithm than is normally used before the start of the program begins, ie, main() [probly more descriptive than accurate] the real story is here http://www.research.att.com/~leonb/objprelink/ -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
Thanks to all who replied.. I only knew about du.. So df and kwikdisk were nice to find out about! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: 28 November 2001 14:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD? Neil R Porter wrote: Hi All Might sound like a trivial question (and most prob is!)... but if on windows I want to know how big each partition is and how much space i have left and have used etc it's easy... how can I do this in linux... I installed LM8.1 and took the default partitioning (if memory serves it was a bit for swap and about 3GB for home and 15GB for the rest - 20GB hd)... I can see my file system fine.. but I want to know where I can store big files and when I am running out of space etc ... ta Neil Hi Neil. No problem just do a du or df on the partition in question. For further use of these two commands, do a man du or man df. BTW, if you are using KDE, just right-clicking on a folder, and picking properties will calculate the size... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
Marcia, This would be in the FWIW department. I'm a newbie myself and don't pretend to understand the ins and outs of printing. I have a HP PSC 500 (all-in-one type printer) hung on my parallel port. It was configured and printing on LM 8.0. There were 3 drivers available for that printer in CUPS. I tested them all and setup a 'lp' and a 'lp1' using two of the choices. In the last month I did a 'clean' installation of LM 8.1, including updates of CUPS and CUPS drivers. I ran through the CUPS installation process in the installation menu (you can do this from within the Mandrake Control Center after the fact as well). I selected the printer using my preferred driver and did a test page. Everything was OK in terms of the test. However, from any application (and from a desktop drop) I was getting garbage out (symptoms the same as you described in your original note). I was stuck until I discovered that the the new version of cups-drivers had added another choice to the list. I chose it. All print tests were passed and, more importantly, it prints from any application. I have no idea why the old drivers no longer work. So my questions. Can you configure the printer and send it a test page? If so, consider trying all the available drivers for your printer (or similar printers) to see if you can get around the problem. Terry Smith Marcia wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your advice. It did not work for me although I may not have done everything correctly. Could you send me your exact steps? Did you use cups again or change the spooling? I am still quite the newbie in some areas. I installed lpr because it was not installed before. I wonder if I could just skip cups and use lpr or pdq instead. Would anyone be able to give me the steps for that? How do I change the spooling system from cups to lpr without reinstalling? I really do not want to do that again. I have heard that lpr for spooling has cleared up problems. Does anyone here have Epson Stylus Color that is printing fine in 8.1? If you do could you tell me what you did? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have no printing at all and my husband and I both need it desperately. He has not been fond of Linux anyway and I do not want to give him more reasons to not like it. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:34 pm, you wrote: snip Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking for quality. Then out of the blue it stopped working. Has anyone had a similar situation that they were able to fix? Thanks for any help. Yes, I've had similar experiences. The only way that I've been able to recover was to delete all instances of my printer and reinstall the printer drivers from scratch with PrinterDrake. I gave the printer a new name and used the new name. I know there must be a better way, but when you're desparate, anything that works... good luck! Linus 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] Cable modem setup
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:07 am, you wrote: Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be much appreciated. @home gave you an ID number. It's in the form of Cxxx-A. In windows this is the name of your computer (control panel - network - identity tab). In linux, set that as your host name, use dhcp, and your cable modem should fire right up. The easiest way to set the host name is to go into mandrake control center, then network-connection-configure. the only downside is your bash prompt will be [user@cxxx-a user]$, although there's surely ways to change that. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? I'm just about ready to give up on Mandrake. First time it agressively overwrote a windows dist, and this upgrade joke is even worse. For you, go RED HAT 7.2, as I have experience getting that working on a SIS board with all built-in SIS stuff. The only thing not working is accellerated video. My 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade lost half my prefs, now tries to mount a floppy twice upon bootup, and renamed all my groups from 'users' to numbers, which causes an error every time I bring up a terminal. Has *anybody* had ANY luck with this supposed upgrade? 30-35 packages failed to 'upgrade' without any explanation why, all on disk2. Yesterday I had a perfectly functioning M8.0 dist, with working Xv and Xine, today I have a crap M8.1 dist with holes, and Xine won't even run in Xv mode. I'm disgusted as well, is there a M$ mole on the upgrade team? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
Ed Tharp wrote: if you read in linux, then the viri ain't your problem, if you are a M$ user, look for a file called setup.pif. thank you, ed. i use both linux and ms, but do email in ms. i like early version, 4.07, of netscape, and it is not available for linux. would you know what date message was sent and 'subject:'? reason i ask, i would like to check back and see what happened and why i did not see it come into this system. i have ms os locked down and should have seen it come thru. i need to check back thru ms and linux logs to insure that i did not release it. neither i, nor any of my clients have had a problem, but i do want to know for sure. sending list a flame about a virus/worm without full info is almost as bad as sending virus. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
Hey Michael; Actually, I meant to send the email to the person to whom you were responding as well. Nice to see I'm not the only Common Sense person here! I imagine that most folks on the list are! After all, Linux is based on common sense (amongst other things) . Lanman On Wednesday 28 November 2001 10:55 am, you wrote: Lanman, Something that I already do. On the last system I set up, there are 3 hard drives, each of which has a specific use. Our 6.4 GB hda is used as the system drive (/, /usr, /tmp, /var, and swap), 20 GB hdb is used as /home, and 20 GB hdd is used as /backup. hdd and hdb are both using reiserfs, as we have 'intermittent' power outages which normally last longer than our UPS is rated for (at about 15-20 minutes). FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 486M 64M 397M 14% / /dev/hdd1 19G 2.6G 16G 14% /backup /dev/hdb1 19G 919M 18G 5% /home /dev/hda81003M 32k 952M 0% /tmp /dev/hda6 2.9G 1.9G 814M 71% /usr /dev/hda5 1.4G 159M 1.2G 11% /var Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, g wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: if you read in linux, then the viri ain't your problem, if you are a M$ user, look for a file called setup.pif. thank you, ed. i use both linux and ms, but do email in ms. i like early version, 4.07, of netscape, and it is not available for linux. I think it's the 4.08 netscape navigator that you use, and yes, it's available for linux too, as I use it now. just an FYI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] messin with PPPD and KPPP.
Hi all, In an effort to start preparing to replace my one last winblows box, I am trying to get dialup working. I have tried the mandrake connection setting for it.. and I have dikked with it endlessly myself.. all to no avail. KPPP can do it just fine.. for some reason, once or twice a day, my script will work, from then on, it doesn't... the error I get is this: LCP: timeout getting Config-Requests then I get a not 8 bit clean message.. So, I trolled google.com/linux and found 10,000 pages on it,, looked at most of them, tried most of the options including: passive lcp-max-configure 60 crtscts nocpp as well as the normal options: lock noauth noipdefault usepeerdns (NOTE, I didn't use all the former options together, (for example, I didn't use lcp-max-connfigure with passive)) I tried changing the connect script in various ways, and some other stuff.. nothing I did worked.. Then I tried minicom, got to the ppp stage, then it seemed to lock up and I had to kill it. (I was trying to log out of minicom without resetting the modem, (usually ALT Q or CTRL AQ) but that didn't work either.. and yet kppp and my windows box work fine... So my question is this: How can I find out exactly what kppp did to get connected? that way I can use those settings to get my script happening. This is most annoying, I don't like using kppp, I usually make a bash file called dial, and another called hangup, and they just do: ifup ppp0 and ifdown ppp0 respectively, then I can tell my girlfriend to just use those (the box isn't usually in GUI, so kppp isn't really an option normally.) any suggestions would be most appreciated.. While I am seeing if a wise man is around, I am trying to use linuxconf to set this up it didn't work in MDK7.2, but who knows, maybe its different now.. regards frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] File transfer under komba2
Hi list I went to bed last night with a satisfied smile. mp3 files on the old windows box were transferring slow but sure to my 8.1 linux box. Whew When I got up 6.1 gig had transferred, leaving 4 gig behind, and the linux box was frozen with the monitor black. Windows box was laughing away, happy as a clam. System is smc router w/3 windows boxes and 1 linux box w/ 9 gig scsi hard drive and 60 gig ide (where the files were going.) On reboot there was no failure noted and everything works fine so far. Any idea why? Should I worry or just sweep up the odds and ends and not tell anyone? TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution RC2 problem
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 10:10, Jim Dawson wrote: I finally managed to get Evolution RC2 installed on my LM 8.1 system, but now the 'Contacts' and 'Mail' portions don't work, Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance. When I upgraded to Evo RC1, I found that I had to log out and log back in to get it working correctly. I may have even restarted the X server, but I don't remember for sure. Anyway, the problem seems to be with loading new shared libraries, and the fact that the older libs are loaded already when you install/upgrade Evolution, and the new libs won't be loaded until you log out and back in. Dave -- Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. -- Dave Sim, author of Cerebrus. msg82928/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] NVidia and Shutdown problem
I don't know if the two are related, but I installed the Nvidia rpm's from MandrakeUser then did XFdrake (all steps done from console with no X running). then did a Shutdown now so I can come back with a cold re-boot. BUT, the system wouldn't shut down all the way. I got a going to single user message, with a prompt that was sh or ssh 2.23 (I think) where I tried the Shutdown now again, but no luck.. back to that weird message and prompt. Finally issued a Ctrl-Alt-Delete... and system then Rebooted. Any reasons why this would occur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is This Badtrans ?
Someone (not on this list) sent me an e mail which I opened in kmail. It contained a lot of text which looks like code, a snip of the source is shown below, is it badtrans ? Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name=SETUP.DOC.scr Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: EA4DMGBP9p -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
Manuel Drake wrote: I think it's the 4.08 netscape navigator that you use, and yes, it's available for linux too, as I use it now. actually, i am using 4.06. or are you refering to what is avaiable for linux? not sure about version diffs between linux and ms, but there was a drastic change from 4.06 to 4.08. 4.06 messenger is in seperate windows, where 4.08 is all in one. which i do not care for and why i held with 4.06. i would like to look at 4.08 linux. where did you find it? just an FYI and just maybe what i am looking for. thanks. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, g wrote: Manuel Drake wrote: I think it's the 4.08 netscape navigator that you use, and yes, it's available for linux too, as I use it now. actually, i am using 4.06. or are you refering to what is avaiable for linux? I thought I was talking of both. not sure about version diffs between linux and ms, but there was a drastic change from 4.06 to 4.08. Hrmm, unsure, yes, nothing before 4.08 is findable for me. 4.06 messenger is in seperate windows, where 4.08 is all in one. which i do not care for and why i held with 4.06. Ah, messenger... no, never, bit of a security hole letting your browser know your email address. I use the standalone navigator ONLY. i would like to look at 4.08 linux. where did you find it? good question, I'll have to look around, but would start with download.com just an FYI and just maybe what i am looking for. thanks. hope so, good luck. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Is This Badtrans ?
yes, it probably is, badtrans has a number of different filenames that it can use... I think that the .scr extension is the predominant one. (I think there is a pif file as well, thats one of the other variations.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of poogle Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2001 4:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Is This Badtrans ? Someone (not on this list) sent me an e mail which I opened in kmail. It contained a lot of text which looks like code, a snip of the source is shown below, is it badtrans ? Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name=SETUP.DOC.scr Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: EA4DMGBP9p -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
Dear Linus, Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately I cannot even get a test page to print now. Test pages were printing for awhile but not anymore. It is very strange, because everything worked at first then just slowly stopped working. I do not know what else to do. I think I would like to use a whole different printing system at this point but I do not know how to switch at this point. I want to stay away from reinstalling if I can. Thanks for your help. I will continue to research and maybe will find an answer. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:08 pm, you wrote: Marcia, This would be in the FWIW department. I'm a newbie myself and don't pretend to understand the ins and outs of printing. I have a HP PSC 500 (all-in-one type printer) hung on my parallel port. It was configured and printing on LM 8.0. There were 3 drivers available for that printer in CUPS. I tested them all and setup a 'lp' and a 'lp1' using two of the choices. In the last month I did a 'clean' installation of LM 8.1, including updates of CUPS and CUPS drivers. I ran through the CUPS installation process in the installation menu (you can do this from within the Mandrake Control Center after the fact as well). I selected the printer using my preferred driver and did a test page. Everything was OK in terms of the test. However, from any application (and from a desktop drop) I was getting garbage out (symptoms the same as you described in your original note). I was stuck until I discovered that the the new version of cups-drivers had added another choice to the list. I chose it. All print tests were passed and, more importantly, it prints from any application. I have no idea why the old drivers no longer work. So my questions. Can you configure the printer and send it a test page? If so, consider trying all the available drivers for your printer (or similar printers) to see if you can get around the problem. Terry Smith Marcia wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your advice. It did not work for me although I may not have done everything correctly. Could you send me your exact steps? Did you use cups again or change the spooling? I am still quite the newbie in some areas. I installed lpr because it was not installed before. I wonder if I could just skip cups and use lpr or pdq instead. Would anyone be able to give me the steps for that? How do I change the spooling system from cups to lpr without reinstalling? I really do not want to do that again. I have heard that lpr for spooling has cleared up problems. Does anyone here have Epson Stylus Color that is printing fine in 8.1? If you do could you tell me what you did? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have no printing at all and my husband and I both need it desperately. He has not been fond of Linux anyway and I do not want to give him more reasons to not like it. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:34 pm, you wrote: snip Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking for quality. Then out of the blue it stopped working. Has anyone had a similar situation that they were able to fix? Thanks for any help. Yes, I've had similar experiences. The only way that I've been able to recover was to delete all instances of my printer and reinstall the printer drivers from scratch with PrinterDrake. I gave the printer a new name and used the new name. I know there must be a better way, but when you're desparate, anything that works... good luck! Linus 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] win32 badtrans worm.
Manuel Drake wrote: I thought I was talking of both. was not sure. why i asked. Hrmm, unsure, yes, nothing before 4.08 is findable for me. Ah, messenger... no, never, bit of a security hole letting your browser know your email address. interesting. would you please elabarate? i have a lot of nc email that i will need to maintain, and i plan to end up using mutt. good question, I'll have to look around, but would start with download.com i will go back thru my old distrib cds, rh4.0 and up, to see what is on them. several had netscape on them, but i do not recall what version. hope so, good luck. thank you. and thank you again for your responce. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 22:01, you wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately I cannot even get a test page to print now. Test pages were printing for awhile but not anymore. It is very strange, because everything worked at first then just slowly stopped working. I do not know what else to do. I think I would like to use a whole different printing system at this point but I do not know how to switch at this point. I want to stay away from reinstalling if I can. Thanks for your help. I will continue to research and maybe will find an answer. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Maybe, just maybe you should check if the printer hasn't given up on you. I.e. it's a (defective) hardware problem. These things do happen at the most unexpected moments! I remember having a Canon bjc2000 that just quit, the printer head died --so I bought a replacement -- the next day the powerunit (ac to dc) died:( I bought a bjc 2100 (never buy that!) an my initial woes were over. What I'm saying: Test all your hardware before you start messing with the software too much. You don't even want to know about when my little daughter's hamster gnawed through my mouse connection cable, and the state windblow$3.1 was left in before I figured that out. As a matter of fact I still keep that 48MB harddisk around as a souvenir:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] galeon
Thanks for the tip about the RedHat version of mozilla-0.9.6. Alas, I don't really have the time at work to install all the -devlop rpms and compile galeon from it's src.rpm. I tried the rh6 version of the ready-made rpm (installed along with mozilla) but it immediately hiccups: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: undefined symbol: _t24__default_alloc_template_2b1i0.free_list I guess they were serious about the g++ binary incompatibilities... Ah well, it'll have to wait till I have more time I guess. Thanks also to the other responses. On Monday 26 November 2001 04:27 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: I've been wanting to give galeon a try for a while but on my 8.1 box at home the version that came with the distro does little but crash. (People running 8.1 at work haven't had any problem with it; must be something different in the networking setup that galeon doesn't like). At work, I'm running 7.2 and can't upgrade for a little while yet. Does any know where I can get a somewhat recent rpm for this ancient version of Mandrake? Galeon depends on mozilla. You need to upgrade both at the same time. I recently did. I used Red Hat's mozilla-0.9.6-0 so I did'nt haft'a deal with libpng3 stuff. Then the rpm from Galeon, Name: galeon Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.0 Vendor: (none) Release : 1 Build Date: Fri 23 Nov 2001 04:51:52 PM EST Install date: (not installed) Build Host: localhost.localdomain Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: galeon-1.0-1.src.rpm Size: 5117879 License: GPL Packager: Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://galeon.sourceforge.net Moz 9.6 isn't an' improvement for me. Galeon is a 'not quite ready for prime time' browser IMO. Konq, even Mozilla is way better. __ Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Floppy drive question........
I did a fix to get myfloppy driveworking. NowI havejust one more questionabout it. When I click the floppy desktop icon I see the activitey light go on but only the first time I click it. If I click it agian with a different disk in there it just brings up the same files that were on the first disk.
Re: [newbie] galeon
Tobias over on the expert list posted this recently http://www.mail-archive.com/expert%40linux-mandrake.com/msg45156.html for all those who want to use the cooker rpms of mozilla with their mandrake 8.1, i've rebuild the source rpm. you can find them here: http://rpm.digitalprojects.com. they work just fine with the galeon 1.0 rpm from http://galeon.sourceforge.net. both display pngs as expected. have fun! I've tried it out it works fine. If you have already tried to instal libpng3 then you must remove it first, and then reinstall libpng2 even though it says it is already present. The command is rpm -i --replacepkgs libpng2 blah blah Tobias' Mozilla and the Galeon from sourceforge seem to work OK at least on my 8.1, and no compiling necessary. Derek On Wednesday 28 November 2001 23:04, you wrote: Thanks for the tip about the RedHat version of mozilla-0.9.6. Alas, I don't really have the time at work to install all the -devlop rpms and compile galeon from it's src.rpm. I tried the rh6 version of the ready-made rpm (installed along with mozilla) but it immediately hiccups: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: undefined symbol: _t24__default_alloc_template_2b1i0.free_list I guess they were serious about the g++ binary incompatibilities... Ah well, it'll have to wait till I have more time I guess. Thanks also to the other responses. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] Servers
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 06:55:58 -0500, Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip WHAT? Check out SMBClient and SMBMount... All Komba2 does is invoke these programs, which are part of Samba. I.E. smbclient -L \\Windowsmachine -U Validuser Where validuser is a username that you have used at least once at your Winblows box to log into the network. (this is important!). If you can do this Samba will let you utilize Winblows printers from Linux, even WinPrinters (read brain damaged printers)! Lisa/Reslisa let's Konqueror BROWSE Winblows shares as well. -JMS hi, any tips on configuring LISA? the document that it came with is too cryptic and ,even if I followed all the instruction, the LISA tab in the configuration still displays the 'not yet configured' message. ill look into komba since I dont use konqueror much (I use xwc). ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error compiling NVIDIA kernel...
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:22:42 -0800, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 November 2001 08:27, you wrote: On Saturday 24 November 2001 16:50, you wrote: Install the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages first. They aren't by default . Then you'll be upaway:) Thanks, That's _EXACTLY_ the problem. When I went to install kernel-source using the software manager the package didn't show up under installable so I assumed it was. I actually had to go look for the source rpm on the mandrake install CDs...so something else is going wrong there ??? snip hi, somebody said that the tree view in rpmdrake does not show all packages as not to overwhelm the new user. some packages are 'hidden' and only the more 'useful' files are shown in the treelist. i think this was implemented in 8.1 and there was a couple of post in the mandrakeforum about it. you can always try the other tab so all rpms are viewable (or try the search..) just my 2 cents. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:53 am, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: Many good valid points snipped here 2) Elitist? Being elitist does not necessarily mean a negative trait, its just most people associate elitism with snobbishness and arrogance. I dont think this list is elitist (negatively meant as you may have intended) as I found this as one of the most helpful list that I ever registered in. Somebody even said that this is almost as good as commercial technical support (although that doesnt mean squat as techsupp is legendary for 'unsupportiveness' ;-). Experienced users may have an 'elitist' air in hem but that comes with the part of being experienced. For me elitist means special and the mere fact that these people have an idea on how to solve my problems mean they are more special than me (im just an ordinary guy but i am special in my own way ;-). and here again Mr. Diaz, I appreciate your thoughtful response, and I agree this is for the most part a very helpful list. I was simply trying to make the point that some people on this list are so anxious for an oppertunity to bash windows that they overlook the pertinent questions of newbies. I realize that they are not bashing the person, just windows, but my point is, what help is that to the newbie with a question they need an answer for? In the string of posts I was referring to, of the dozen or so replies to the original post, only Shane offered any hint of a solution. I'm just saying that this can be intimidating, especially for someone struggling with the nuances of an unfamiliar OS. I myself am a rank newbie, and I believe Linux to be the best OS out there, and I hope to eventually ditch MS products entirely. Perhaps I reacted a bit strongly, I just found some of the responses a little unneccessary. My response was triggered largely by my concern that some potential Linux converts will be alienated by this negitivism, and resign themselves to a life under MS. Again, thanks for an intelligent and well taken response. :~) Flotcho Registered Linux user # 224563 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Batchfile in Windows to check mail on linux mail server
I have a linux mail server on my network that is checking mail over a dialup link once an hour. I'd like to setup a batchfile that I could run on another windows computer when I want to check mail on the linux server in addition to the once an hour check. While I can set this up pretty easily in Linux, I have no idea how to do it in Windows. Is there a series of commands I can issue from windows to do this automagically? It really needs to be a file so my wife can run it without trying to get into the server. Thanks, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dying connection
Hello! I have noticed that my internet connection dies after a (relatively long) timeout when I don't use it. I have an ADSL router, and it is supposed to allow 24 h /24 connection time, so I guess the timeout might be internal (I mean, depending on the OS). I don't care too much for my home connection, but if I want to install a server... Is there a setting somewhere? Can there be another reason causing my network connection to shutdown? By the way, yesterday I wanted to restart the network from the internet setup GUI, but it didn't work. I found no better solution than reboot. Thanks for any hint! Pascal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
That was just the name that was attached to that one mail in question. as I understand it, it can take a number of names from the hard drive of the person who sent it to you really why , if you have a box that can run Mdk, and you do have MDK, would you run the risk? it seems to me so much more ...shall we say intelligent to use the OS that is NOT vulnerable. don't take it as a flame, or as directed to you personallly (unless the shoe fits) when some of the folks who know better, get frustrated at those who refuse to know better, especially since it costs everyone for the crap MS push down the consumers throat. if you don't think the chewing up of bandwidth by M$ propagated worms costs folks that don't use M$ products, ask your ISP for a rebate, since you don't spread worms as a linux user. (who NEVER signs in as root, when a network interface is up) or ask a PSInet stock holder. On Wednesday 28 November 2001 13:22, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: if you read in linux, then the viri ain't your problem, if you are a M$ user, look for a file called setup.pif. thank you, ed. i use both linux and ms, but do email in ms. i like early version, 4.07, of netscape, and it is not available for linux. would you know what date message was sent and 'subject:'? reason i ask, i would like to check back and see what happened and why i did not see it come into this system. i have ms os locked down and should have seen it come thru. i need to check back thru ms and linux logs to insure that i did not release it. neither i, nor any of my clients have had a problem, but i do want to know for sure. sending list a flame about a virus/worm without full info is almost as bad as sending virus. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux
On November 27, 2001 04:48 am, Franki wrote: you have a small flaw in your logic... No, I don't. There was no Logic in the first place, I told you that snip And while we're at it the day Linux starts acting completely like Windows is the same day I have to defragment my ReiserFS partition after I do a virus scan because my firewalling software didn't work. /snip ...Was hyperbole, a calculated exaggeration. I have not been applying any logic anywhere, I've just been relating that *my experience* with Linux has not been all that difficult,... No logic necessary as I've only been drawing on my experiences. If you're looking for a fight, go somewhere else, I'm entitled to my opinion. Richie whenever any company releases a product that does something better, it gets adopted by others because it is better. when a company release something that sucks.. it doesn't usually get adopted, (unless there are marketing reasons or blackmail behind it..) Winblows knicked ideas from Mac, they knicked stuff from bsd.. they knicked lots of stuff I think... why? because it did the job easier and simplier then what they had at the time, (assuming they had something.) linux then knicked stuff from M$,, like KDE's layout and format... why? because it was easier to understand, and the majority of people already understand it. nobody is suggesting that linux should knick crap like BSOD's or fat32 or adopt its usability in reiserfs or anything.. but there is nothing wrong with copying the functionality of useful stuff..stuff that makes things more efficient (there is that word again.) when ABS for cars came out, wow, what a reaction, but it was patented worldwide, once it expired, it got installed into most new mid to high end cars,, why? because it saved lives..(you can equate that to increased efficiency if you like, I have always found that I work better when I'm alive.) who cares who invented it? Don't let hate for M$ blind you, the only area where M$ has superiority over linux is its simplicity... even most linux diehards are not blind to that... but things are getting closer.. why? because we can take the best of their ideas, (or ideas that they have knicked) and leave the dross with winblows.. and slowly linux is doing just that.. rgds Frank PS, you don't need an application to install windows apps, you find an install.exe file, and you dbl click on it.. and then answer questions.. thats it... rpmdrake is good and a huge step up from compiling at a console, but its still lagging behind just starting a setup.exe file... for better or worse, I think that is one of the main reasons that even experianced windows users don't like linux (and most of us started as experianced windows users.) -Original Message- From: Richie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2001 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux Sorry, my message wan't pointed directly at you,,, On November 25, 2001 10:33 am, Franki wrote: Firstly, I wasn't talking about me.. I was refering to people unfamiliar with the proceedure.. That's the point I was trying to make, it's the lack of familiarity, not a problem inherent to Linuxes (... or Linuxi?) I have always managed to get things going.. but I know a shitload of people that haven't been able to. snip ..Wow, what a lazy bunch of buggers! /snip First, the 'hunting for libraries' complaint is moot: I have yet to look any further than my own LM install disks for libraries-- LM is probably better than many distros out there as they actually provide you with more than one install CD and all the stuff they offer has been compiled for a Mandrake system so it's going to work. snip like I said, not my problem, but you don't have to install them in windows,, (their method sux, with overwriting and such, but it does make it more or less dead easy.) /snip ...I'll stand by installations on Linux being different and not difficult and when you're installing RPMs through RPMDrake, dependencies are installed in the same go anyway so what's the big deal? Second, no one says you *have* to install the latest kernel and it isn't even necessary unless you're adding brand new hardware that didn't exist six months ago-- how many of you out there are installing kernels just because it has a higher number? snip What about the recommended kernel upgrades, there have always been some in the last few mdk versions.. sometimes more then one,, (ie 7.2) 8 has had a security kernel upgrade, and mandrake 8.1 has one now too. (to address the recent ptrace bug and others..) /snip OK, valid-- but that's two critical updates over hundreds of unwarranted kernel version updates (unwarranted for the average user...) By-and-by the install process is standard-- using RPMs is easy enough and for the odd times when I
Re: [newbie] Floppy drive question........
you aren't unmounting the first disk before removing it, you need to do this, right click on the icon and choose 'unmount' (in kde anyway) bascule On Thursday 29 Nov 2001 2:51 am, you wrote: I did a fix to get my floppy drive working. Now I have just one more question about it. When I click the floppy desktop icon I see the activitey light go on but only the first time I click it. If I click it agian with a different disk in there it just brings up the same files that were on the first disk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LAN and eth0 loading
The problem is that my eth card doesnt want to load while starting linux M8.0. How to fix it ? DAMN! som errors i dont understand. - Original Message - From: Anuerin G.Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Servers On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 06:55:58 -0500, Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip WHAT? Check out SMBClient and SMBMount... All Komba2 does is invoke these programs, which are part of Samba. I.E. smbclient -L \\Windowsmachine -U Validuser Where validuser is a username that you have used at least once at your Winblows box to log into the network. (this is important!). If you can do this Samba will let you utilize Winblows printers from Linux, even WinPrinters (read brain damaged printers)! Lisa/Reslisa let's Konqueror BROWSE Winblows shares as well. -JMS hi, any tips on configuring LISA? the document that it came with is too cryptic and ,even if I followed all the instruction, the LISA tab in the configuration still displays the 'not yet configured' message. ill look into komba since I dont use konqueror much (I use xwc). ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Tego nie znajdziesz w zadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LAN and eth0 loading
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:51, you wrote: The problem is that my eth card doesnt want to load while starting linux M8.0. How to fix it ? DAMN! som errors i dont understand. Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Have you tried the command ifup eth0 or eth1 wichever your card is? if that gets an error message then try insmod 1839rtl or again what ever module your card would be. You should be able to see it from the Mandrake Control Center Hardware and then ethernet or network card. HTH -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LAN and eth0 loading
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:51, you wrote: The problem is that my eth card doesnt want to load while starting linux M8.0. How to fix it ? DAMN! som errors i dont understand. - Original Message - I forgot to mention that you can look in your /etc/modules.conf file to see if you see a line that says alias eth0 8139too or something similar for your ethernet card. (w/o the quotes of course) . Hope I'm not going over trampled ground. HTH -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 04:20, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:13:18 +1100, pesarif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:45, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:33:48 -0500, Paúl Mancheno H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... i want to save a html page, but when I did it with Konqueror... it only saved the text, and i need the images... I mean i need the page like in the internet but off-line... How do I do that with konqueror or any app?? Konqueror can save pages to a WAR file, which is simply a tarball with the entire page (including graphics) inside. This is good because everything is in one file, but bad because only Konq can read it without having to manually unpack it. Please tell me where this option is in Konqueror. Thanks, pesarif In Konqueror: Tools - Archive Web Page. I'm using KDE 2.2. My Tools menu only has Run Command..., Open Terminal... and Find file What am I doing wrong? Please help! pesarif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] a good help to mandrake 8.0
Fellows!I piss on MS and i wont buy any netter, faster, more stable, cheaper system. OVER ! I WANT LINUX !!! But I'm green socan you tell me (Give) an address where i could download tutorial or getting started to Mandrake8 ?Better in Polish - if not EnglishRemember: The MS stategy is to sell fast, much and (primo) earn as much as it is possible. Have a nice new year!(with no MS) Tego nie znajdziesz w ¿adnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ]
Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page
upgrade to 2.2.2 On Thursday 29 November 2001 09:15, you wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 04:20, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:13:18 +1100, pesarif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:45, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:33:48 -0500, Paúl Mancheno H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... i want to save a html page, but when I did it with Konqueror... it only saved the text, and i need the images... I mean i need the page like in the internet but off-line... How do I do that with konqueror or any app?? Konqueror can save pages to a WAR file, which is simply a tarball with the entire page (including graphics) inside. This is good because everything is in one file, but bad because only Konq can read it without having to manually unpack it. Please tell me where this option is in Konqueror. Thanks, pesarif In Konqueror: Tools - Archive Web Page. I'm using KDE 2.2. My Tools menu only has Run Command..., Open Terminal... and Find file What am I doing wrong? Please help! pesarif -- 4:04am up 2 days, 59 min, 3 users, load average: 1.10, 0.64, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a good help to mandrake 8.0
www.linuxdocs.org has a bunch of good faqs for the newbie mark On Thursday 29 November 2001 10:02, you wrote: Fellows! I piss on MS and i wont buy any netter, faster, more stable, cheaper system. OVER ! I WANT LINUX !!! But I'm green socan you tell me (Give) an address where i could download tutorial or getting started to Mandrake8 ? Better in Polish - if not English Remember: The MS stategy is to sell fast, much and (primo) earn as much as it is possible. Have a nice new year! (with no MS) -- Tego nie znajdziesz w adnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] -- 4:07am up 2 days, 1:02, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.47, 0.26 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help, XP uptime is greater than my linux
Help! I'm tired of this computer freezeing! My XP box never freezes, my Mandrake box freezes multiple times a day. I know mandrake is better than this. I am pretty new to linux and don't know where to start checking, but somthing has to be done, I can't rely on this linux box anymore. I was thinking it was the eth1 but now I'm not sure. Here is my system info: HP Pavilion 8655c 318mb Ram Genuine Intel P3 (coppermine) 535 Mhz Intel 810 82810E Graphics Creative Labs SBLive Eth0 Linksys LNE100TX Eth1 Linksys LNE100TX Anything else? Please someone who has a clue help me get this worked out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printing with a HP PSC750 via USB
Hey group, I am using an HP all-in-one thng...Prints, copies, scans (well, sort of), connected via USB, and was detected at my original install correctly. I am not able to print to this device ever, but I really want to get rid of MS on this system if I can. Can someone help me on this? I believe that I have the correct drivers (CUPS-o-matic script, HPIJS, ghostscript, foomatic, and even the usb), but I would like to know who else out here has a printer that is using the USB interface and is successful with it. At the moment, its a fantastically expensive paperweight, so I'd like to use it before the inkjets dry up and blow away! =) Well, TIA!! Steve Weltman from LA, CA _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
Marcia, hang in there. Printing can be (is) often frustration. I don't pretend to know all of the answers. I'm just a newbie that has struggled through this a couple of times. I just know what worked for me. I have an Epson Stylus 777 (good quality printer, but very expensive cartridges). Here's what I recall about getting my printer to work when it quit (or gave me reams of ASCII garbage that I couldn't turn off). I use CUPS, and have the best luck using the WWW version of QTCUps administration. I deleted all printers from my system with the admin tool. I then reinstalled the CUPS printer driver and gave the printer an altogether new name. You can give the printer any name you want, but I think you should not use a command such as lpr as a printer name. Don't know if that's bad, but I didn't do it. I used Printer, KDEPrinter, among others. Anyway, I don't know if that was necessary either. That's just what I did. Reinstall the printer driver. You should be able to get a test page at this point. Select the appropriate resolution (mine will almost not work with the default setting of 180 x 180 (or whatever it is) but works MUCH better at 360 x 360). If this works, you should be able to select this new printer from your applications. I don't know about XPP and what it might be doing. I sometimes use XPP and it appears to use the same driver that I installed for CUPS. Maybe someone else can explain that. Good luck! On Wednesday 28 November 2001 03:01 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately I cannot even get a test page to print now. Test pages were printing for awhile but not anymore. It is very strange, because everything worked at first then just slowly stopped working. I do not know what else to do. I think I would like to use a whole different printing system at this point but I do not know how to switch at this point. I want to stay away from reinstalling if I can. Thanks for your help. I will continue to research and maybe will find an answer. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:08 pm, you wrote: Marcia, This would be in the FWIW department. I'm a newbie myself and don't pretend to understand the ins and outs of printing. I have a HP PSC 500 (all-in-one type printer) hung on my parallel port. It was configured and printing on LM 8.0. There were 3 drivers available for that printer in CUPS. I tested them all and setup a 'lp' and a 'lp1' using two of the choices. In the last month I did a 'clean' installation of LM 8.1, including updates of CUPS and CUPS drivers. I ran through the CUPS installation process in the installation menu (you can do this from within the Mandrake Control Center after the fact as well). I selected the printer using my preferred driver and did a test page. Everything was OK in terms of the test. However, from any application (and from a desktop drop) I was getting garbage out (symptoms the same as you described in your original note). I was stuck until I discovered that the the new version of cups-drivers had added another choice to the list. I chose it. All print tests were passed and, more importantly, it prints from any application. I have no idea why the old drivers no longer work. So my questions. Can you configure the printer and send it a test page? If so, consider trying all the available drivers for your printer (or similar printers) to see if you can get around the problem. Terry Smith Marcia wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your advice. It did not work for me although I may not have done everything correctly. Could you send me your exact steps? Did you use cups again or change the spooling? I am still quite the newbie in some areas. I installed lpr because it was not installed before. I wonder if I could just skip cups and use lpr or pdq instead. Would anyone be able to give me the steps for that? How do I change the spooling system from cups to lpr without reinstalling? I really do not want to do that again. I have heard that lpr for spooling has cleared up problems. Does anyone here have Epson Stylus Color that is printing fine in 8.1? If you do could you tell me what you did? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have no printing at all and my husband and I both need it desperately. He has not been fond of Linux anyway and I do not want to give him more reasons to not like it. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:34 pm, you wrote: snip Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking for
Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.
I had this trouble some time ago as well (can't remember what version of Bastille, and iptables I was running). I any case, I was advised, that to get rid of that message, i can get rid of linuxconf from the list of services that Bastille audits. I don't know much about the issue, and can't find the message in the archives. But I think the point was, unless you are concerned with someone with physical access to the system making changes via linuxconf, you don't need linuxconf auditing. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 15:47, Charles Darcy wrote: On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 16:02, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Is ipchains installed? Ok, I installed ipchains, which fixed the first problem, but Bastille now complains: ... about to run through config file. /sbin/ipchains: invalid port/service 'linuxconf' specified. I have linuxconf installed, if that's what is being referred to, but otherwise the message is a mystery to me. =_1006933768-1851-5465 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 22:01, you wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately I cannot even get a test page to print now. Test pages were printing for awhile but not anymore. It is very strange, because everything worked at first then just slowly stopped working. I do not know what else to do. I think I would like to use a whole different printing system at this point but I do not know how to switch at this point. I want to stay away from reinstalling if I can. Thanks for your help. I will continue to research and maybe will find an answer. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Maybe, just maybe you should check if the printer hasn't given up on you. I.e. it's a (defective) hardware problem. These things do happen at the most unexpected moments! I remember having a Canon bjc2000 that just quit, the printer head died --so I bought a replacement -- the next day the powerunit (ac to dc) died:( I bought a bjc 2100 (never buy that!) an my initial woes were over. What I'm saying: Test all your hardware before you start messing with the software too much. You don't even want to know about when my little daughter's hamster gnawed through my mouse connection cable, and the state windblow$3.1 was left in before I figured that out. As a matter of fact I still keep that 48MB harddisk around as a souvenir:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Regarding Canon BJC 2100 and BJC 2000 I actually work for Canon and I use at home a BJC2100 why do you say never buy that? It works for that little printing that I do at home fine for over a year now . Christian Posratschnig Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Searching for Image Browser
You can also try CompuPic.. but it's commercial software.. you can download a trial version of the Pro or Standard: http://www.photodex.com/products/index.html (Linux and Windoze versions) At 09:01 PM 11/27/01 -0500, you wrote: GQview, included in most Gnome installs is a very fast and useful image browser. You can set it to view thumbnails as well. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 13:21, Jim Dawson wrote: I am looking for an image browser, i.e. a program to display a thumbnail image of every .jpg/.gif/.bmp/.png/etc file in a directory. Konqeror has a image preview mode, but it leaves a little to be desired. Ximian Gnome included one that was pretty good, but I don't remember what it is called. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy drive question........
Yep, I'm a dummy. Thanksit's been really bothering me. - Original Message - From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy drive question you aren't unmounting the first disk before removing it, you need to do this, right click on the icon and choose 'unmount' (in kde anyway) bascule On Thursday 29 Nov 2001 2:51 am, you wrote: I did a fix to get my floppy drive working. Now I have just one more question about it. When I click the floppy desktop icon I see the activitey light go on but only the first time I click it. If I click it agian with a different disk in there it just brings up the same files that were on the first disk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
