Re: [newbie-it] Spegnimento, congelamento, stand by.
apm nel bios non l'ho trovato; è un PC multiprocessore (2 Atlon 1700), quindi parte con linux smp. per quello che so (ho tutti i server senza supporto apm, quindi non ho mai provato a forzare ) supporto multiprocesore e apm non vanno d'accordo... tratto dalla ML [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... to quote Linux's Alan Cox on one thread over SMP vs APM problems and hacks that partially work under Linux: APM will never be SMP safe, the problem is at the BIOS level not Linux Ovvero che problemi avrebbe il Bios? Comunque mi sembra di non avere il supporto APM installato in Linux (da un messaggio di KAPM_)
Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus
Francesco Vinci wrote: Salve, Scusate se Linux e Mandrake li nomino solamente. Qualcuno di voi potrebbe inviarmi un e-mail con allegati alcuni file differenti (piccoli) dei quali è certo che non contengano virus? [snip] Non mi sento convinto ... [snip] Certo ... finche' continuerai ad adoperare Outlook ... :-( Ma non ti converrebbe gestire *totalmente* la posta sotto GNU/Linux? :-) Fine dei problemi. :-) Bye Giovanni ;-) P.S. ... in txt ... non html ;-) -- ~/~A \//Membro del FoLUG - http://folug.linux.it ~o) Red Hat GNU/Linux Powered --- Niente attrae le donne come un paio di jet privati. - Donald Trump
[newbie-it] connessione internet come utente comune
Ho installato recentemente sul mio computer Linux Mandrake 8.2, da un disco allegato ad una rivista, e non sono riuscito a trovare il modo di collegarmi ad internet, tramite linterfaccia grafica KDE, senza usare la password di root. Infatti, clickando sullicona internet dellinterfaccia stessa, mi viene chiesto dimmettere la suddetta pwd, come anche naturalmente accedendo al servizio dal centro di controllo. Qualcuno sa indicarmi un modo di collegarmi come utente normale, come era facilmente possibile nelle versioni 8.0 e 8.1? Inoltre, sempre con lultima distribuzione 8.2, comunque dia lordine di spegnimento al computer, da KDE o da riga di comando, ottengo sempre un riavvio ( al pari di quanto mi accadeva con la 8.1 e diversamente dalla 8.0 ); potete indicarmi un modo per spegnere senza dover staccare la spina dalimentazione? Ringraziando anticipatamente Di Blasi Rosario [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it]:Sat modem Netsystem
Salve a tutti. Qualcuno conosce come utilizzare il Sat Modem della Netsystem, con la Mandrake 8.2 o 9.0?(questa domanda posta al servizio clienti ha ricevuto come risposta che non esistono driver per Linux ).Grazie per l'aiuto. Ciao. ciao, esistono, li ho scaricati, ma sono in beta e per kernel fino alla 2.4.17, cioè vanno bene per mdk8.1. non ricordo dove li ho scaricati, ma se cerchi su www.google.it driver linux netsystem tra le pagine in italiano, tra i risultati hai le pagine di un forum della assitech (o qualcosa del genere), nei quali c'è il link al sito coi drivers che sono originali, cioè fatti dalla b2c2, produttore della scheda dvb ti copincollo il contenuto di readme.txt compreso nei drivers B2C2 DVB Software for Linux Version 1.0 Beta 22 March 22, 2002 Copyright (c) 2002 B2C2, Incorporated Note: The b2c2/driver directory contains driver modules for kernel versions. Instructions: Automatic installation: 1) Run install.sh from the top level directory. This will copy the B2C2 files to /usr/local/b2c2, and create a link to automatically load the driver on startup. 2) To start and stop the driver, run /usr/local/bin/b2c2 start and /usr/local/bin/b2c2 stop Manual installation 1) Change directory to b2c2/bin. 2) Run load_b2c2 script to load the B2C2 driver modules, passing in the kernel version id of the driver modules (see contents of b2c2/driver directory). Example: ./load_b2c2 2.4.2-2 Note: If the above script fails to load due to a kernel version mismatch problem, you can try running the script with an -f option. Example: ./load_b2c2 2.4.2-2 -f WARNING: incompatible modules can make your system unstable. Contact B2C2 if you need modules compiled for a different kernel version. 3) Edit run_b2settuner_sat.sh shell script to modify the command line parameters used to tune the tuner and to specify the data PID. 4) Run run_b2settuner_sat.sh. 5) Use a network monitoring utility such as gkrellm to observe the data on the B2C2 digital receiver card.
[newbie-it] Re: usb e digitali
Alle 20:52, venerdì 11 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ecco i due file. In bocca al lupo e buon lavoro! PS: ho visto ora che alcuni segni di punteggiature (- e ) sono stati convertiti in punti interrogativi, il tutto dovrebbe comunque esser chiaro. Ti ringrazzio...ora vedo che riesco a capire ( ho fatto francese.grandissimo limite;) credo che nei prossimi giorni ti chiedereo qualche chiarimento! grazie ancora. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] connessione internet come utente comune
Alle 22:27, domenica 13 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ho installato recentemente sul mio computer Linux Mandrake 8.2, da un disco allegato ad una rivista, e non sono riuscito a trovare il modo di collegarmi ad internet, tramite l'interfaccia grafica KDE, senza usare la password di root. Infatti, clickando sull'icona internet dell'interfaccia stessa, mi viene chiesto d'immettere la suddetta pwd, come anche naturalmente accedendo al servizio dal centro di controllo. Qualcuno sa indicarmi un modo di collegarmi come utente normale, come era facilmente possibile nelle versioni 8.0 e 8.1? Credo che dipenda livello di sicurezza che hai impostato al momento dell installazione..diminiusci questo e avrai la conessione libera da utente normale MDKcontrol center-sicurezza.etc etc distribuzione 8.2, comunque dia l'ordine di spegnimento al computer, da KDE o da riga di comando, ottengo sempre un riavvio Qui passo cmq hai provato con un alta che nn sia KDE? che ti dice la shell quando gli dai il comando? la sparo..magari dipende da file di configurazione di KDE! Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] anch'io porta USB (x HD portatile)
Alle 09:20, sabato 12 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] anch'io porta USB (x HD portatile), guido hai scritto: cos'e creargli il link per un device usb di cui parla Arwan ? Urgh... ero un po' a corto di termini tecnici... cmq per far partire la digitale ho fatto uso dell'usb-storage. Se gia' hai provato senza frutto, nun so... -- Arwan
[newbie-it] formattare
Saluti a tutti,ho due dischi fissi:C/windows+una partizioneD altro disco linux :MDK formattando windows,non è che perdo dei dati in linux ,per esempio Lilo come sempre un grazie mario
Re: [newbie-it] formattare
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:05, domenica 13 ottobre 2002, ba-rk ha scritto: Saluti a tutti,ho due dischi fissi:C/windows+una partizioneD altro disco linux :MDK formattando windows,non è che perdo dei dati in linux ,per esempio Lilo come sempre un grazie non perdi nulla lilo (o meglio una parte di questo) risiede nel MBR che non viene formattato. in ogni caso, prima di ogni intervento radicale sui dischi, è d'obbligo creare un disco di boot e fare il backup dei dati vitali mario bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9qU1mF/9fksDJ4y0RAjzcAKCyji0CKkOVO8yKHVgGG4YQNfiMSwCfeG6v 0ShEQ52nHSnNITwHO+J63CE= =LyGw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it]:Sat modem Netsystem
Salve a tutti. Qualcuno conosce come utilizzare il Sat Modem della Netsystem, con la Mandrake 8.2 o 9.0?(questa domanda posta al servizio clienti ha ricevuto come risposta che non esistono driver per Linux ).Grazie per l'aiuto. Ciao.
[newbie] Evolution
Some months ago, Evolution became slower and slower, every time I download messages from my accounts, the hard disk start to whirl and even if I manage to receive all mails, at the end, the task take 20 times than supposed... That's does only happen with Evolution (now 1.0.8, Mandrake 8.2, but even before with 1.0.5 on 8.1)... Any hint about what's wrong...? Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video card upgrade
I'd like to buy a new video card, keeping my current cpu and mainboard; I can also upgrade my K6 II 400 to a K6 II 533, anyway... GeForce 2 400mx and 3D Prophet (Kyro II) are sold at good prices near my home :) Do you think does it worth such kind of upgrade? I have little interest in 3D, I'm looking for good performance on 2D... Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB ethernet adapters
I have a client's machine on the bench right now that would make a fine little firewall but for the fact that it has no expansion slots and no LAN interface. USB is therefore the only option for LAN connectivity. I have a SMC 2206 USB/ETH adapter which I've used under windblows a few times to create a temporary network without needing to install cards. MDK9.0 doesn't recognize it and doesn't seem to have a driver on the list that looks like a fit. Anyone out there got a clue, or have a recommendation for one that works with linux? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:12:50 +0200 Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some months ago, Evolution became slower and slower, every time I download messages from my accounts, the hard disk start to whirl and even if I manage to receive all mails, at the end, the task take 20 times than supposed... That's does only happen with Evolution (now 1.0.8, Mandrake 8.2, but even before with 1.0.5 on 8.1)... Any hint about what's wrong...? As a first step, archive some of it off. Can't remember how as I changed client some time back. Evolution stores a lot of extra data with its emails (XML files and similar); I found that, when I moved to Sylpheed Claws, the saving in hard disk space was over 50 per cent. And SC is much faster ... Alastiar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reformat a spare partition
Brian Parish wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:09, John Richard Smith wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 23:09, John Richard Smith wrote: I want to change the file system on partition /dev/hda10 /mnt/ntfs-vol7 to /dev/hda10 /mnt/ext2-vol7 I'm perfectly confident about changing the necessary entries in fstab and creating the /mnt/ext2-vol7 directory. but I am not sure how to format /dev/hda10 to ext2 file system with a root shell command line, in mandrake. Can someone please explain the command. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkfs /dev/hda10 will do that for you. It defaults to ext2, so no other switches are required. You may like to man mkfs first to check whether there are other options you'd like to use. HTH Brian Thanks Brian, Fair enough. Just a further thought, since I am not repartitioning, merely changing the filesystem, nothing needs to be written to disk in regard to partition table. In otherwords, I suppose I am saying, knowledge of partition file systems is part of the OS , not part of the partition table ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's right. You are just reformatting, so the partition table remains unchanged. Brian Thaks, One further thought, What's the betting I need to remake the mandrake boot floppy. In the past , in my experience, you change anything to do with the partition table/file system and the old boot floppy won't work. Any thoughts, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:33:00 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and really won't care as long as it doesn't happen again.) I really wanted to discover the problem and fix it rather just a clean install, but, as someone else mentioned, not having printing is a show stopper. Good luck to everyone else still struggling with printing. I'm having same trouble with Stylus Photo 810 on USB; what happen, I only discovered using WWWCups, is that for some reason at a certain point the OS doesn't see the USB device anymore and stop printing... but the work is still qeued, and I have to delete that work; after that I stop and then start again printer and the printer could start new works... but then it stops again :D Previously parallel prto didn't work, also; but with M 8.2 now is all okay... For parallel port perhaps it was only a matter of upragde. Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}
Smiley wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:33:00 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and really won't care as long as it doesn't happen again.) I really wanted to discover the problem and fix it rather just a clean install, but, as someone else mentioned, not having printing is a show stopper. Good luck to everyone else still struggling with printing. I'm having same trouble with Stylus Photo 810 on USB; what happen, I only discovered using WWWCups, is that for some reason at a certain point the OS doesn't see the USB device anymore and stop printing... but the work is still qeued, and I have to delete that work; after that I stop and then start again printer and the printer could start new works... but then it stops again :D Previously parallel prto didn't work, also; but with M 8.2 now is all okay... For parallel port perhaps it was only a matter of upragde. Smiley My usb printer is often falling out of USB hub view, so reluctantly I have to reboot for mandrake to find it again which annoys me. There ought to be a command that would tell the OS to redetect it again, to save time and effort. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake kernels and Gateway Athlon PCs (Kadoka motherboard)
Does anyone have the answer to this? Am I on the right list? Andy snip Mandrake - Motherboard question There is a long known problem with Mandrake 2.4.x kernels in all 8.x dists and the Kadoka motherboard found in Gateway Athlon machines: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=937lang=en Basically the box just hangs on INIT 2.78 The fix was to revert to the 2.2.x kernel, which is obviously not ideal in terms of modern device driver requirements, or building from a stock kernel which I did, but which looses some of the niceties of the Mandrake kernels (e.g. patching supermount into a stock kernel is non-trivial for newbies such as myself). Has this been fixed in dist 9.0? /snip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:15:05 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a first step, archive some of it off. Can't remember how as I changed client some time back. I did it. Both :) Evolution stores a lot of extra data with its emails (XML files and similar); I found that, when I moved to Sylpheed Claws, the saving in hard disk space was over 50 per cent. And SC is much faster ... I'm also using Sylpheed (like I'm doing just now for *this* list ;), but for my needs I found both client have something good and something less good... Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reformat a spare partition
Brian Parish wrote: Thanks, One further thought, What's the betting I need to remake the mandrake boot floppy. In the past , in my experience, you change anything to do with the partition table/file system and the old boot floppy won't work. Any thoughts, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shouldn't be an issue here as you are not changing the numbering of any partitions. If this is just a data partition, I can't see how the boot floppy config would be impacted. Brian You are correct, all is done and dusted and went smoothly, I now have a hda10 which is mounted nicely as /mnt/ext2-vol7, and the old boot floppy still works. Just cor clarity's sake I include:- [root@localhost root]# mkfs -v /dev/hda10 mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) /dev/hda10 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here! [root@localhost root]# umount /mnt/ntfs-vol7 [root@localhost root]# mkfs -v /dev/hda10 mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 641280 inodes, 1281175 blocks 64058 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 40 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16032 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 37 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. [root@localhost root]# and what is more I didn't even need to remount either,though I had the new fstab in place before I did this.so it must of read the fstab file as it did all this. Clever , hey, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] canon bjc610 printer
Hello, I have tried every possible thing I can find, read, and install to get this supported printer working. The best I have yet to achieve is garbage character printout, and even that isn't consistent. I am tired of editing, searching, reading, installing, removing, and looking. I've had enough of this nonsense. I am tired of spending countless hours, frustrated that little, just simply works, and ready to put windows on this #$% thing just so I can use my printer. Oh, and my unsupported digital camara ( which is an entirely different issue ). Does anyone have, or know of a driver that I can install simply to make this #$^ thing operate correctly ? Because I am at my wits end, and starting to see why Microsoft controls 90+% of the desktop. I am running Mandrake 8.2 KDE2 ( Gnome doesn't work either, but Gnome does operate the cdr, KDE does not, why not ? I know not ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer
I have not been following this thread, but anytime someone has difficulty with printer drivers it is worth giving TurboPrint a try (apologies if it has already been suggested) http://www.turboprint.de/english.html Turbo print is not free and so cannot be bundled with Mandrake. It is however 'no cost' for personal use. For certain printers it will give substantially better print quality than the 'free' (as in freedom) drivers. For others it is little different. Your printer is listed as supported by Turboprint. HTH http://www.turboprint.de/english.html (BTW: If your printer manufacturer would write drivers for Linux like they do for Windows, then you would not have this difficulty) derek On Sunday 13 Oct 2002 5:03 pm, Dennis Sue wrote: Hello, I have tried every possible thing I can find, read, and install to get this supported printer working. The best I have yet to achieve is garbage character printout, and even that isn't consistent. I am tired of editing, searching, reading, installing, removing, and looking. I've had enough of this nonsense. I am tired of spending countless hours, frustrated that little, just simply works, and ready to put windows on this #$% thing just so I can use my printer. Oh, and my unsupported digital camara ( which is an entirely different issue ). Does anyone have, or know of a driver that I can install simply to make this #$^ thing operate correctly ? Because I am at my wits end, and starting to see why Microsoft controls 90+% of the desktop. I am running Mandrake 8.2 KDE2 ( Gnome doesn't work either, but Gnome does operate the cdr, KDE does not, why not ? I know not ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: canon bjc610 printer
Thank you Derek, I am on my way there as I type this Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video card upgrade
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 09:12, Smiley wrote: I'd like to buy a new video card, keeping my current cpu and mainboard; I can also upgrade my K6 II 400 to a K6 II 533, anyway... GeForce 2 400mx and 3D Prophet (Kyro II) are sold at good prices near my home :) Do you think does it worth such kind of upgrade? I really don't think you'll see a difference in performance with so little processor power, but I don't have the numbers to prove it. i also think you'd be better off with more memory than a new K6. -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Oct 2002 3:52 pm, you wrote: Smiley wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:33:00 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and really won't care as long as it doesn't happen again.) I really wanted to discover the problem and fix it rather just a clean install, but, as someone else mentioned, not having printing is a show stopper. Good luck to everyone else still struggling with printing. I'm having same trouble with Stylus Photo 810 on USB; what happen, I only discovered using WWWCups, is that for some reason at a certain point the OS doesn't see the USB device anymore and stop printing... but the work is still qeued, and I have to delete that work; after that I stop and then start again printer and the printer could start new works... but then it stops again :D Previously parallel prto didn't work, also; but with M 8.2 now is all okay... For parallel port perhaps it was only a matter of upragde. Smiley My usb printer is often falling out of USB hub view, so reluctantly I have to reboot for mandrake to find it again which annoys me. There ought to be a command that would tell the OS to redetect it again, to save time and effort. John Just as a matter of interest - are these problems occurring on usb devices joined to the motherboard, to hubs, or both? Anne Well, I'm not entirely sure I understand the question. I have 8 USB ports , a bank of the usual 2 and a bank of 6, 2 are physically attatched to the mobo, ported to the rear, 6 are on a rack and cable plugged to the mobo, ported to the rear. As far as the usb hub is concerned they show up as 4 entries in the kde -info-USB devices, like so, USB OHCI Root Hub | Lexmark Z53 printer USB OHCI Root Hub USB OHCI Root Hub USB OHCI Root Hub every now and again the printer drops out of recognition and so I reboot which brings it back again, sometimes , modprobe usb-ohci in a root terminal works, sometimes it does not. This happens in M8.2 , and was the norm from first boot on M9.0 beta2 I never got any futher than that as far as the later betas are concerned. Basically USB detection of my usb printer is erratic. I suppose I should mention that the 8 usb ports on my msi mobo are both usb1 and usb2 , at least 4 of them can be usb2, I don't believe mandrake configures any of them usb2 though. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer
On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:18 pm, you wrote: I have not been following this thread, but anytime someone has difficulty with printer drivers it is worth giving TurboPrint a try (apologies if it has already been suggested) http://www.turboprint.de/english.html Turbo print is not free and so cannot be bundled with Mandrake. It is however 'no cost' for personal use. For certain printers it will give substantially better print quality than the 'free' (as in freedom) drivers. For others it is little different. Your printer is listed as supported by Turboprint. HTH http://www.turboprint.de/english.html (BTW: If your printer manufacturer would write drivers for Linux like they do for Windows, then you would not have this difficulty) derek Thank you again Derek, It worked like a charm. And in response to your BTW : You are absolutely correct. I realized that it isn't the fault of the O.S., But rather the manufacturer, This much I knew. That is why you have to hack, and edit, and search, And hope that some kind soul has written something for you ( especially when you don't know how to yourself ). Rant coming next : Personally, I think that is a bunch of B.S. Someone ought to write a page ( easily found, say Mandrake.com ) containing manufacturers that support, and do not support users. You could go there before buying something and see what kind of effort was / is made by said builder. Users could input their experiences as well. Have an e-mail link right there for people to fire off at, say Canon, with something like So I was in the store, mouth watering over your latest ( piece of whatever ). I went home, Brought up Crappyvendorswhosoldtheirsoulstomicrosoft .org, and saw that you don't give a rat's %% about my . How unfortunate that you don't think supporting users is in your best interest, Because Epson ( or whoever ) certainly does. Why they were more than willing to have my business, and were grateful for it. I appreciate that people generously give their time, and effort to write drivers for older products, and willingly share them. I do not think that people should have to continue doing so. I do not believe that Mandrake, or Red Hat, or any other distro should have to write drivers, or basically beg vendors for some help. So M.S. holds 90 % of the desktop, But 100 % of their victims are not going to buy product X from Manufacturer Y. ( I just had this conversation with HP two days ago, I don't know what anyone here thinks of HP, I seriously doubt I will be sending any of my money their way in the near future). Maybe start an advocacy of sorts. And when the day comes that builders write the Linux drivers along with the Windows drivers, ( because of popularity ) remember those companies that didn't bother to before it was popular to do so. I could continue, but I'm sure most have hit delete by now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OO program fonts
Any one know how to change the program fonts in Openoffice.org? I read how to do it somewhere a long time ago but I can't remember where. Presently the fonts look like they went through a blender. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.0 crashes at boot
Hello everybody! I have an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU on a K7S5A motherboard with AMIBIOS, if that makes any difference. I install Mandrake 9.0 ok, but when I reboot and try to boot in Linux I get: Running DevFs daemon: [OK] Unmounting initrd: [OK] Configuting kernel parameters: [OK] And that's it - it freezes there. I get exactly the same when I try booting linux-nonfb, and when I try failsafe I get: modprobe: modprobe: Can't find module fb0 Unmounting initrd: [OK] Configuting kernel parameters: [OK] And it freezes again. I thought there may have been a glitch in the installation, so I tried it again - same results. I even get the X test working in the installation, so that shouldn't be it... I'm absolutely lost at what I should try next, so I'm open to any kind of suggestions! I tried looking through the mailing list archives on mandrake.com, but they're only available up to September, so if this has already been answered in October, please direct me to a more recent archive or copy/paste the reply in an e-mail. :) Thank you! Bogdan Mail scanat cu RAV Antivirus! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba Problem
On Sunday 13 October 2002 04:04 am, Robin Turner wrote: Rulon Holm wrote: I can't get samba to work ever since enabled internet connection sharing. I have a modem that connects to the internet. the other computer computer is running WindowsXP. Could someone help me. THx Can you give more details? Is it that you can't connect to the Windows box with smbclient, or the Windows box can't connect to your samba server? ?n the latter case, 90% of problems come from the Windows user not being logged on with a valid name and password, or the password not having been entered into smbpasswd. Sir Robin Both, but it was working before i turned on internet connection sharing thanks for taking the time to answer. -Ruggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OO program fonts
Title: RE: [newbie] OO program fonts Hi There, For your font rendering problem. I don't now what the Mandrake 9.0 stance is for xft2, fontconfig, and freetype. If these are installed, try some of the xft2 fonts in OpenOffice. Just as an example, take a look at this Redhat 8.0 screenshot for OpenOffice. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/screenshots/redhat80/snapshot12.jpg This is what can happen if they take some time to look at OpenOffice. -Original Message- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 14 October, 2002 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OO program fonts Noah Hicks wrote: Any one know how to change the program fonts in Openoffice.org? I read how to do it somewhere a long time ago but I can't remember where. Presently the fonts look like they went through a blender. Use spadmin to add/delete fonts. Use Options to choose the default fonts for text documents, and font substitution if required. BTW, font handling is much better in the latest verison - it will detect resident fonts automatically. Sir Robin
Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer
Good news about Turbo print working :-) I have never needed to use it myself because my printer is not supported :-( I do rather agree with your rant. My own printer is an HPDesket 720C which without my knowing when I bought it, is a 'winprinter' in that it requires the PC to directly manage the print heads. There are 'free' drivers which work OK for text, but are pretty awful for graphics, and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it apart from buy a new printer. (I will do that when the ink runs out, as a printer does not cost much more than a couple of ink cartridges) To be fair to HP they have seen the error of their ways, and no longer make 'winprinters' and now sponsor an opensource project for Linux drivers for their current and future printers.Since so many people come to Linux with a printer already in their posession it is really a matter of chance how well it is going to work. For anyone looking for a new printer I would suggest http://www.linuxprinting.org/ as a first stop. The site is run by Til Klamppeter (spelling?) who is a Mandrake employee, so Mandrake have a better than average chance of getting printer drivers right. derek SNIP Rant coming next : Personally, I think that is a bunch of B.S. Someone ought to write a page ( easily found, say Mandrake.com ) containing manufacturers that support, and do not support users. You could go there before buying something and see what kind of effort was / is made by said builder. Users could input their experiences as well. Have an e-mail link right there for people to fire off at, say Canon, with something like So I was in the store, mouth watering over your latest ( piece of whatever ). I went home, Brought up Crappyvendorswhosoldtheirsoulstomicrosoft .org, and saw that you don't give a rat's %% about my . How unfortunate that you don't think supporting users is in your best interest, Because Epson ( or whoever ) certainly does. Why they were more than willing to have my business, and were grateful for it. I appreciate that people generously give their time, and effort to write drivers for older products, and willingly share them. I do not think that people should have to continue doing so. I do not believe that Mandrake, or Red Hat, or any other distro should have to write drivers, or basically beg vendors for some help. So M.S. holds 90 % of the desktop, But 100 % of their victims are not going to buy product X from Manufacturer Y. ( I just had this conversation with HP two days ago, I don't know what anyone here thinks of HP, I seriously doubt I will be sending any of my money their way in the near future). Maybe start an advocacy of sorts. And when the day comes that builders write the Linux drivers along with the Windows drivers, ( because of popularity ) remember those companies that didn't bother to before it was popular to do so. I could continue, but I'm sure most have hit delete by now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution
On Sunday 13 October 2002 10:12 am, Smiley wrote: Some months ago, Evolution became slower and slower, every time I download messages from my accounts, the hard disk start to whirl and even if I manage to receive all mails, at the end, the task take 20 times than supposed... That's does only happen with Evolution (now 1.0.8, Mandrake 8.2, but even before with 1.0.5 on 8.1)... Any hint about what's wrong...? Smiley I'm running Mandrake 9 and like Kmail the best. I think it renders html mail better than Evolution and is fast. -- Brian Craft Registered Linux User # 210286 Linux Registered machine: 97873 Yahoo Instant Messenger ID: bcraft67 ICQ id: 129672292 AIM: linuxgeek67 Linux..the OS of Choice! After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Customizing GNOME panel in Mandrake 9
I am running Mandrake 9, but would like to make GNOME customized as if I was running Redhat 8. I am running the Bluecurve/Freecurve theme and managed to change the icon in the main gnome panel from the Mandrake logo to the redhat logo from Redhat 8. The only thing I'm having a problem with is finding where to change the working from Mandrake to something like Menu. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Brian Craft Registered Linux User # 210286 Linux Registered machine: 97873 Yahoo Instant Messenger ID: bcraft67 ICQ id: 129672292 AIM: linuxgeek67 Linux..the OS of Choice! After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compilation difficulties - installation problem?
I'm getting the dreaded configure -- installation problem -- C compiler cannot create executables. message. Upon further inspection, there seems to be a misconfiguration, and I get a few error messages from gcc. ib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' These used to pop up when compiling parts of KDE and now pop up when compiling a simple C program. I was never able to fix these - thought only maybe a reinstall would be the solution -- which I eventually did. I also noticed some issues with libstdc++ and missing files; I created symlinks for them in /usr/lib. Now what is wrong? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba Problem
On Sunday 13 Oct 2002 2:00 pm, Rulon Holm wrote: I can't get samba to work ever since enabled internet connection sharing. I have a modem that connects to the internet. the other computer computer is running WindowsXP. Could someone help me. THx Firstly, I am NO expert on networking stuff! Hell, it took me 5 days to get ICS, Samba, NFS and a decent firewall working correctly. Heh, when I finally did get everything going I quickly backed up the /etc dir! If you're using MDK9.0 then I think its something to do with shorewall (firewall). Enabling ICS installs shorewall. I read numerous accounts of people with network problems in MDK9.0. I have only a small lan (2 PCs) and connect to the net via dialup modem. I fiddled with so many config files that I don't know what I actually did (if anything) to fix it. Couldn't figure out how to configure shorewall (even after reading the docs ; ) and belive me, I tried) so I downloaded and installed guarddog and used that to allow services for my lan. Trouble is, shorewall had setup iptables and I think guarddog just adds to what is already running in iptables so effectively I have both shorewall and guarddog running. If I stop both and start either one, there's always something that won't work so I guess I haven't configured guarddog properly yet. Once you have configured everything you could try stopping all relative services (ie. smb, named, dhcpd, shorewall, portmap, nfs, nfslock, etc) and take the network down (ifdown ethX), then restart them. In which case, I'd first start the firewall then bring the network back up (ifup ethX). Then start named, dhcpd, etc. One thing I noticed was that either dhcp or shorewall (can't remember which) was working with the wrong network address. My network is 192.168.0.0 but one of them kept using 192.168.1.0. Oh, and another thing I read somewhere at MandrakeForum is that it is IMPERATIVE to configure your network BEFORE enabling ICS otherwise you run into problems. So I reinstalled and configured the network (as usual) during installation and once the system was running I added the IP address for PC#2 in /etc/hosts and enabled ICS - WRNGG! It seems that configuring your network during installation isn't enough and that you must use MCC Network Internet Connection and then enable ICS via MCC Network Internet Connection Sharing. AND I had to use manual configuration and expert NOT auto configuration. AND I found that adding my ISPs first DNS Server address in there worked. Like I said, I'm no expert but I had big hassles getting it sorted and got rather confused in the process. If this isn't your problem, I'm sorry for wasting bandwith. Hopefully it might help someone. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nvidia drivers
Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through
the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything.
The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives only
refer to drivers in the Mandrake Club site.
\begin{irrelevance} And no, I am not going to join the Mandrake Club - I
feel I put enough back into the OS movement by answering questions,
writing documentation etc., and if I ever become financially solvent,
I'd rather give my support by a straight donation or buying shares,
rather than paying for closed-source stuff which I either don't need or
should be freely available. \end{irrelevance}
So, does anyone know where I can get 9.0 drivers, or whether 8.2 drivers
can be made to work with the 2419-16 kernel?
Thanks,
Sir Robin
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Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
Robin, You can find the drivers in: A) The mandrake Club download mirrors B) ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/ -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] libvgagl?
Hello, what package provides libvgagl? I am (still) installing from 9.0 and had this working before in 8.1 (mplayer). I am rebuilding mplayer and came across this library not being there. I looked in rpmdrake for files matching libvga* and nothing came up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video card upgrade
At 04:12 PM 10/13/2002 +0200, you wrote: I'd like to buy a new video card, keeping my current cpu and mainboard; I can also upgrade my K6 II 400 to a K6 II 533, anyway... GeForce 2 400mx and 3D Prophet (Kyro II) are sold at good prices near my home :) Do you think does it worth such kind of upgrade? I have little interest in 3D, I'm looking for good performance on 2D... Smiley IMHO stick with nvidia stuff Kyro has had problems... for some it works fine tho... One person this list ordered a few of them. He's happy. Just my 2 cents --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}
Linus Drouhard wrote: I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and really won't care as long as it doesn't happen again.) I really wanted to discover the problem and fix it rather just a clean install, but, as someone else mentioned, not having printing is a show stopper. Good luck to everyone else still struggling with printing. On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:04 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote: Wrongo! I thought I had it solved as I got a test page. That was all I got. Everything else gets stuck in queue with usb port busy error. Any ideas at all? I'm just about to dust off my 8.2 disks. It's a shame too, as there's a lot to like in 9.0. Linus On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:37 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed. Apparently I turned off too many. I restarted the ones that I had stoppled and printerdrake started and ran just fine. Thanks for all the suggestions. On Saturday 05 October 2002 11:00 am, Chris Edwards wrote: Visit http://www.linuxprinting.org They probably have a solution for you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Linus, I have the same problem. The instal actually detected my printer and printed a test page, but haven't worked since. I tried deleting the printer, but then I couldn't get printerdrake to work. Any help I can get on how to properly add and configure my printer is appreciated. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to the USB port. Mike K. --- Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have an Espon Stylus 777 that was working fine until a couple of days ago. I recently installed Mandrake 9.0. I think that the printer worked under 9.0, but I'm not sure It worked great under 8.2 and it still works fine with Windows (as much as I hate to admit it). Anyway, I'm getting the following message in CUPS administration Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds... Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 Printerdrake cannot see the printer at all. KDE Control panel printer configuration utility can see the printer, but still can't print. I get the same error. I tried PrinterDrake from command line. It gave me the error... [root@localhost linus]# printerdrake cupsd (pid 1496) is running... WARNING: pinging broadcast address WARNING: pinging broadcast address rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded WARNING: pinging broadcast address ...could not find printer. the module parport is loaded, but why does that matter as I'm using a USB printer. Any help, insights, or just plain sympathy is welcomed. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Linus, I am very happy for you that the reinstalling helped you, however it did not make a difference for me. I decided that the only way for me to get printing now was to hook up my printer as a parallel and that worked. My Hp 940c as parallel does work fine. My scanner only works with LM if it is hooked up as usb and so it will not work now. I decided to reinstall with the usb mouse instead of the ps/2 mouse and Mandrake 9 could not detect it so there is definitely a usb problem with 9 and my system. 8.2 did excellently with usb. I may go back to 8.2 or try another distro. Yes, for a small moment during an emotional relapse I considered Windows XP of all things but quickly came back to my senses. By the way, during reinstall of LM9 I accidently lost my choice of win95 which I had already installed. I forgot how to get it back without erasing LM. What did one do again to get lilo to boot windows again? Thanks for the help. I hope some work arounds or fixes are presented soon for this usb problem because I really do want to stay with Linux. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Sunday 13 October 2002 05:55 pm, Robin Turner wrote:
Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through
the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything.
The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives only
refer to drivers in the Mandrake Club site.
\begin{irrelevance} And no, I am not going to join the Mandrake Club - I
feel I put enough back into the OS movement by answering questions,
writing documentation etc., and if I ever become financially solvent,
I'd rather give my support by a straight donation or buying shares,
rather than paying for closed-source stuff which I either don't need or
should be freely available. \end{irrelevance}
So, does anyone know where I can get 9.0 drivers, or whether 8.2 drivers
can be made to work with the 2419-16 kernel?
Thanks,
Sir Robin
Sir Robin, the .src files work very well with 9.0. I installed the two glx and
NVIDIA kernel and then ran UT2003 game and it runs like a champ. Nvidia
splash screen pops up when it is supposed to and everything is hunkydory. The
latest source when I did it was the ones with 3123 in the file name. HTH
--
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Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:22, Marcia wrote: By the way, during reinstall of LM9 I accidently lost my choice of win95 which I had already installed. I forgot how to get it back without erasing LM. What did one do again to get lilo to boot windows again? Thanks, Marcia Marcia, You need a stanza for win$ in your /etc/lilo.conf Here's an excerpt from mine: other=/dev/hda1 label=windoze table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux After adding that, type the command lilo (as root without the quotes). Done! You'll need to edit lilo.conf as root too, or it won't let you save the new version. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM9 sound
Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great when I play a CD, but I cannot get the mp3 players to work yet. Some system sounds work. This is my /etc/modules.conf. cat /etc/modules.conf probeall scsi_hostadapter ppa ide-scsi alias eth0 tulip alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 probeall usb-interface usb-uhci above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss What do I need to change or add to get all of my sound devices especially my mp3 players and midi? Thanks for the help. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9 sound
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:14, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great when I play a CD, but I cannot get the mp3 players to work yet. Some system sounds work. This is my /etc/modules.conf. cat /etc/modules.conf probeall scsi_hostadapter ppa ide-scsi alias eth0 tulip alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 probeall usb-interface usb-uhci above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss What do I need to change or add to get all of my sound devices especially my mp3 players and midi? Thanks for the help. Marcia Marcia, Are you using XMMS for mp3's? If so, the following should (might) work with your config: - set XMMS to use the aRts driver for output (right click on XMMS options preferences choose the output plugin) - ensure that the aRts server is starting on KDE startup (Configuration KDE Sound Sound server from your KDE menu) That should be all that's required, but then YMMV seems to be MOST true when anything to do with sound is attempted with linux. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9 sound
Marcia writes: Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great I wonder why the mp3 players (have you tried mpg123, for a common denominator player) would not do sound while the cd players would. I haven't tried the cd players in Mandrake 9, but I have tried a few of its MP3 players. Xmms works fine, but noatun does not run, and kaboodle just sits there. In fact, the konqueror embedded play mode just sits there, doesn't get past 0:0 on the time display. This worked in 8.1 even with the upgraded KDE. I don't have AC97 (well I probably do, but it's disabled on the motherboard) and I use Soundblaster Live (emu10k1). One headscratcher this weekend - I had to make sure to enable sound in Mandrake Control Center. It's not something that is obvious, and you have to click on Settings under the Soujnd module, and somewhere in there is a list of values to fill in. Enable should be set to 1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9 sound
El Lun 14 Oct 2002 01:49, dfox escribió: Marcia writes: Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great I wonder why the mp3 players (have you tried mpg123, for a common denominator player) would not do sound while the cd players would. I haven't tried the cd players in Mandrake 9, but I have tried a few of its I may be wrong, but AFAIK: This is because Linux uses the little cable that goes from CDROM to soundcard to play audio CD's. (this means no messing with drivers or anything. the CD is played in a standalone mode on the CDROM, and the sound is sent right into the sound card's internal sound input.) Now, for playing MP3, it is a completely different story, since the MP3 audio is data that has to be read, processed, and sent thru the system bus to be played by the soundcard. This requires a working configuration (drivers for the soundcard being the main issue). -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9 sound
Looks like a VIA 82cxxx motherboard. Check my Website for information about a bug in the 2.4 kernel series's bug in ac97_codec.c and how to fix it. On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 21:14, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great when I play a CD, but I cannot get the mp3 players to work yet. Some system sounds work. This is my /etc/modules.conf. cat /etc/modules.conf probeall scsi_hostadapter ppa ide-scsi alias eth0 tulip alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 probeall usb-interface usb-uhci above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss What do I need to change or add to get all of my sound devices especially my mp3 players and midi? Thanks for the help. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mdk9 rpm problems.
Hi guys, After proclaiming my mdk9 install to be a success, I find myself kinda embarrased. I tried to install an app with urpmi appname and it didn't work. Then I tried to fire up MandrakeUpdate,,, same result.. it displays please wait finding available packages and that message never disapears. (been up for 36 hours now.) Then I tried rpm --rebuilddb no good, just sits there doing nothing. even a query like: rpm -qa | grep kde just sits there... ditto with installing: urpmi gkrellm has just sat there doing nothing for 12 hours. and I can't find anything interesting in syslog about it... anyone know whats going on??? rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 rpm problems.
El Lun 14 Oct 2002 03:19, Franki escribió: Hi guys, After proclaiming my mdk9 install to be a success, I find myself kinda embarrased. I tried to install an app with urpmi appname and it didn't work. Then I tried to fire up MandrakeUpdate,,, same result.. it displays please wait finding available packages and that message never disapears. (been up for 36 hours now.) Then I tried rpm --rebuilddb no good, just sits there doing nothing. even a query like: rpm -qa | grep kde just sits there... ditto with installing: urpmi gkrellm has just sat there doing nothing for 12 hours. and I can't find anything interesting in syslog about it... anyone know whats going on??? Fire up your favourite process manager, check for any runaway rpm process, or any other kind of loose program that may be using the RPM database. ( Hint: dead/hung mandrake control center instances appear as perl instances.) HTH -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] mdk9 rpm problems.
nope,, nothing happening... only perl is miniserv.pl (webmin) couldn't find anything chewing up ram or CPU time... nothing with running rpm or urpm* either. So I restarted, and it seems to be rebuilding the db fine now.. (lots of HD activity now, as opposed to none before..and also showing up in top.) no idea why its working now though... go figure.. I don't like restarting a box for reasons I can't explain. rgds franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Damian Sent: Monday, 14 October 2002 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mdk9 rpm problems. El Lun 14 Oct 2002 03:19, Franki escribió: Hi guys, After proclaiming my mdk9 install to be a success, I find myself kinda embarrased. I tried to install an app with urpmi appname and it didn't work. Then I tried to fire up MandrakeUpdate,,, same result.. it displays please wait finding available packages and that message never disapears. (been up for 36 hours now.) Then I tried rpm --rebuilddb no good, just sits there doing nothing. even a query like: rpm -qa | grep kde just sits there... ditto with installing: urpmi gkrellm has just sat there doing nothing for 12 hours. and I can't find anything interesting in syslog about it... anyone know whats going on??? Fire up your favourite process manager, check for any runaway rpm process, or any other kind of loose program that may be using the RPM database. ( Hint: dead/hung mandrake control center instances appear as perl instances.) HTH -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org bug
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:38, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:08:43 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Bug On my Windows versions oo.o 1.0 1.0.1 the buttons on the toolbar usually load degraded, in other words the image for the button is distorted. Has anyone heard of this before. I am running it on w98 and a nVidia Vanta graphic board. /my bug Linux version is great. Please point me anywhere. First of all, download and install the latest Win98 driver for that card if you don't have it already. Then, if that makes no difference, try newsgroups or mailing lists for nVidia products (eg alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia): the problem is very unlikely to be with OOo. I've seen this sort of problem before with ATI cards and earlier versions of Windows; it was invariably fixed by a driver update. Strangely, it is _always_ toolbar buttons that appear corrupt; never any other widgets. Alastair Interesting. I have the windows section on this computer isolated from the net and upgrade as little as possible as too many upgrades invariably break one or two legacy apps i am running. Currently the only app on there that is broken is SFC... go figure. But i will give this a go, after all the worst that can happen is i have to reinstall Windows again. Are you involved in the OOo project Alastair? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound in LM9
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:46:31 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you underestimate Mandrake and their ability to learn from past errors. While it's true that earlier releases initially had problems, 9.0 has undergone very extensive testing, including three betas, and two or three RCs. And instead of pushing to release bugware on the initial release date of Sept. 13, they chose to put it off until they could hammer out as many bugs as possible. And since it's release a couple weeks ago, how many updates have been made available? I've seen two, maybe three. Don't get me wrong; I'm sure not everything is perfect. But I'm perfectly confident that installing 9.0 on a primary machine is not the Armageddon you describe. And, also, the number of possible hardware combinations is to all effects and purposes infinite; no practical, or even possible, number of beta testers could possibly test any more than an infinitesimal area of the hardware space. The miracle, given the amount of cooperation there generally is from hardware vendors*, is that it works at all! Just to add my 2 pence worth, I have one machine on which paid work is done, ran all betas and release clients (and was a poor beta tester because it's an 18-month-old machine and largely just worked) and am now doing a cooker update every Saturday. Why? Because, by inspection, Mandrakesoft can be trusted to keep things working for what I do. I would never dare replace large chunks of anybody else's operating system each week on a sole machine ;) Alastair * I've just acquired an old Dell laptop (CPi D266XT) with a semi-ruined installation of Windows 95 and want to replace it with Mandrake once I've put 128MB of memory in. I came across a very abrupt statement somewhere from Neomagic (graphics chipset vendors) stating that no drivers would be produced for Linux and there would be no release whatsoever of information to third parties. The miracle is ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windblows
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:38:30 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: damn Shane... thx for the info... I hate this... So few OSes... and so little time now :| Sigh whatever happened to Diversity in the Marketshare ? Geez. I think it had the same problem as other non-Microsoft operating systems - the difficulty of keeping up with hardware support - but was closed source so didn't have a large pool of people who knew enough either to write a driver or tell someone else who could write one that a driver was needed. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
