RE: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0)
I'd still say check permissions as this happened to me once before and was a permissions problem. Check through permissions for /dev and also check the /etc/fstab for user permissions to mount etc. This could of course be something more involved, but let us look at the simple ones first. Arnab -- From: Darren King[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0) File: message.footer.txt I changed the permissions but that had no effect. I fixed it by setting the security level to medium, when it was at high. Anyone know of any problems with having my system using the medium security setting? Darren On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:14, Arnab_Ganguly wrote: They generally are able to without any problem on my machine running MDK 8,0. Please check the permissions for /dev/cdrom, /dev/hdd or whatever your cdrom is referred to. Arnab -- From: Darren King[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0) File: message.footer.txt How do I get users to be able to read cd-roms? I put the users I want to read the cd in the cdrom group and made cdrom the group owner of hdc. Still I get permission denied when I try to cd to /mnt/cdrom. Shouldn't users be able to read cdroms by default? Darren 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: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0)
permissions on /dev/hdc were root:cdrom, 640. The user was in the cdrom group, couln even cd into /mnt/cdrom. Mount options were: nosuid, noexec, user, nodev, noauto. any of this wrong? On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:59, Arnab_Ganguly wrote: I'd still say check permissions as this happened to me once before and was a permissions problem. Check through permissions for /dev and also check the /etc/fstab for user permissions to mount etc. This could of course be something more involved, but let us look at the simple ones first. Arnab -- From: Darren King[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0) File: message.footer.txt I changed the permissions but that had no effect. I fixed it by setting the security level to medium, when it was at high. Anyone know of any problems with having my system using the medium security setting? Darren On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:14, Arnab_Ganguly wrote: They generally are able to without any problem on my machine running MDK 8,0. Please check the permissions for /dev/cdrom, /dev/hdd or whatever your cdrom is referred to. Arnab -- From: Darren King[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0) File: message.footer.txt How do I get users to be able to read cd-roms? I put the users I want to read the cd in the cdrom group and made cdrom the group owner of hdc. Still I get permission denied when I try to cd to /mnt/cdrom. Shouldn't users be able to read cdroms by default? Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
ltiu wrote: My experience: 64 MB is minimum for Linux running X (with nothing else). Meaning, it will use up 64MB with kernel and X(KDE or GNOME) alone. If you use a lighter window manager, maybe your 64MB will go further. If you start other programs, like say Netscape or Koffice or a couple of bash x-terminal shells, then your machine will start swapping. I don't know if what you say is true, and if it is, there's really a regression in Linux performance. Before, it was possible to run Linux in a 16MB machine. Kernel using less than 4MB and X less than 4MB too. I can't imagine that kernel and X alone could use up to 64MB. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
ltiu wrote: A couple of more things. on the command line, type: free to see how much memory your Linux box uses. Better yet, you can use a GUI application called: xosview Hope thses helped. Nope, with those commands we can't see in what kind of memory a certain programme is running. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Jose M. Sanchez wrote: 64MB? Isn't that the MINIMUM size for a video graphics board nowadays... ;) Yes, but that's for zbuffering or whatever 3D rendering used by 3D chipsets. If you don't do 3D, 64 MB is a waste of money. But well, who can resist Unreal :) ? And those 64MB are on the graphics board, not the motherboard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0)
Darren King wrote: permissions on /dev/hdc were root:cdrom, 640. The user was in the cdrom group, couln even cd into /mnt/cdrom. Mount options were: nosuid, noexec, user, nodev, noauto. any of this wrong? could be. on my system, lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 nov 6 22:36 cdrom - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 oct 12 11:40 cdrom2 - scd0 brw-r- 1 root cdrom22, 0 apr 14 2001 hdc brw-rw 1 root cdwriter 11, 0 apr 14 2001 scd0 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 58972 apr 11 2001 /bin/mount drwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 0 nov 10 05:56 cdrom/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root cdrom 4096 oct 12 11:21 cdrom2/ hth. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. =+= 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: [expert] desktop icons
Open a terminal and type oaf-slay. If that doesn't work on the same terminal type nautilus. Hope that helps. alfredo Greg Sarsons wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> I've been using Gnome (Sawfish) and today my desktop icons disappeared.How do I get them back again.Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] desktop icons
If you're using Nautilus, go into preferences and make sure that Use Nautilus to draw the desktop is checked. I think it's in Preferences/Desktop and appearance or something and you need to set your preferences to at least intermediate. Then re-start gnome. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Sarsons Sent: 12 November 2001 05:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] desktop icons I've been using Gnome (Sawfish) and today my desktop icons disappeared. How do I get them back again. Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Eh, I was being facetious, hence the smiley. Sure I know you're facetious, but I'm afraid newbies would take it too seriously and thus acquired wrong knowledge, so I gave more explanations. Fong Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] radio program for linux
I was wondering what radio program to listen to music is available for linux.. Hope someone can point me in the right direction. Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] radio app for linux
I am wondering what there is for a radio app might be available for linux. Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Enough! What is wrong with linux and cdwriters?
On Friday 09 November 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: Here we go again! Just rebooted and tried to burn a CD. It failed - even though I am using supermount, it failed to mount the CDROM so it failed. I then tried again AFTER mounting the CD that I wanted to copy. No worky. The CDRW has a constant, blinking activity light and it is now impossible to remove the blank without rebooting. Upon trying to burn it again after mounting the CD with the image I wanted to burn, I get this message (in gcombust): praedor Praedor FWIW, I have set up all my ATAPI burners up according to the following mini-howto. Mandrake 8.1 does this for you if the drive was in the machine when you installed. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/stoddard.html My burner, a Creative 12x10x32 is master on second ide channel, slave is 40x ide reader. I turned off devfs, although I think it will work with it on. I don't use supermount. Machine is ASUS P5AB board, K62-450, 256 meg ram, burns fine at 10x cdrw and 12x cdr, usually need to hit detect scsi drive in gcombust before I burn or run cdrecord -scanbus. Hope this helps. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] problems with /mnt under kde (segfault)
Hi! When I try to open the /mnt dir under kde using any of the graphics file-tools (konqueror, XFMC, etc) the application closes, when I close X I can see the message that the application segfaulted... Someone have seen this?? By the way, in the prompt I can view /mnt. The problem happens either as user or as root. TIA orlando -- ,~~v~~,,~~v~~, ,'. .', ,'. .', === + ====== + === / ~ \ / ~ \ /\_m m_/\/\_m m_/\ .\ +--+ /. / ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! \ / +--+ \ `\m/ \m/' `\m/ \m/' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RAID
On Sunday 11 November 2001 08:12 am, Robert Boggs wrote: Anyone tried to use a hpt 370 controller setup as raid0? How difficult is this to do in 'Drake 8.1? Thanks RB It is not possible to use the so-called hardware RAID controller as RAID in 8.1 as the software to do so does not exist. There is a project for it, but it is still at least as efficient to use linux software RAID on the controller, because they are both software RAIDs and the linux version does give you the source. I am uncertain as to the status of the project now, but the drivers weren't ready at release time. If you already have a RAID under windows and want to dual-boot, you will be able to do so but neither will see the other's partitions. Civileme QA Team Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade
Just a shot in the dark, but try: rpm --rebuilddb It is actually a good command to run after you do a lot of rpm installs and/or uninstalls. Ciao, Enrico On Sunday 11 November 2001 18:29, you wrote: I did the 'upgrade' from 8.0 to 8.1. Now, any RPM command causes a segmentation fault, usually after it says 'D: getting list of mounted filesystems'. Wine also used to work, but it also gives me the segmentation fault error. I did a Google search and found nothing. Thanks in advance, Chuck -- Salvatore Enrico Indiogine Registered Linux user #217339 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
Title: RE: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? Sorry about answering this late (this is my work account). when I say runs well I mean it's fast in 3D and 2D and quite stable. I have Quake3 for Linux, Tux Racer, and a couple of other 3D games for linux and all of them run impressively. For me, after using Linux for only 2 years, seeing accellerated 3D is still impressive. I'm used to it under Windows (been playing 3D games since 97-98), and I still wish that a few pieces of hardware had 3D support under Linux (Rendition V2200, intel i740, S3 Savage4), but seeing Quake3 on my GeForce2MX is still amazing. -Original Message- From: Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; George Jones (IT); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? Hi, When you say that it 'runs well' does it mean smooth? I mean, enough frames per second? I guess you need to install the NVidia drivers, don't you? I ask this becuase I have the same Nvidia chip and I may try to install and configure all the stuff if you say its worth. You know, I am a bit freaked out by the 3 frames per second on the tuxracer (on the same machine allowing me to run Collin Mrae full speed at 1024x768x16k, on windows 98 , and a bit slower but still ok on w2000). Jose El Jueves 08 Noviembre 2001 20:35, George Jones (IT) escribió: I'm using a GeForce2 MX. It runs beautifully. The only 3D game I have for Linux is Quake3 and it runs well. I would assume Tribes 2 would work well since it does under Win98. Why does there appear to be a bit of Nvidia resentment? -Original Message- From: Expert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? With all the hubbub about video cards, which ones are the best for stability and speed? I currently use a pci S3Virge Dx, has not died yet thank goodness, but I don't have any idea on what to use if it does. Thanks
[expert] Old Riva Drivers
Hi all. I'm looking for the NVidia drievrs version 1.0, which have support for the Riva128 chipset . On the net, nothing yet... If anyone have a backup or link, plz send me! Thanx in advance Leonardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon
Hello everyone, Hoping someone can shed some light on this problem. I recently upgraded (from Cooker) to Mozilla 0.9.5, and the latest Galeon as well. Along the way, I als ohad to upgrade libpng from version 2 to 3. Everything seemed to go well, I was able to meet all dependencies with a minimum of hassle, and libpng upgraded just fine. BUT ... now, neither Mozilla not Galeon are able to renger .png images! If I look in /usr/lib/, I can see both libpng2 and libpng3: libpng.so.2 - libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.3 - libpng.so.3.1.2.0* libpng.so.3.1.2.0* I assume this is correct, because there are still many apps on my mostly-stock 8.1 system that require libpng2. I renamed the old libpng2 libraries, and made links with the same name to libpng3, but that did not seem to work. In fact, Galeon would not even launch! So, I named the libpng2 libraries back. At this point, I am at a loss, not knowing enough about how shared libraries work, and especially using different library versions. Any help? Dave -- Life is a series of rude awakenings. -- R.V. Winkle msg44187/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
I finally got around to installing the nvidia drivers this weekend. I thought it might be difficult, but I just grabbed the two src.rpms and did an 'rpm --rebuild' followed by an 'rpm -ivh' for each and a vi on the X config file (as per the nvidia instructions) and it worked without a single hitch. on my LM8.1 K6-2 (400MHz) GeForce2 MX 32MB (£40), glxgears is up from 30fps, in its default window, to 875fps (up from 7 to 126fps full screen). Tuxracer is up from 1 frame every 5-10 seconds to what looks like full speed video with no jurking at all. Very smooth - I was very impressed. I think my GPU must outpower my CPU ;-) Install those drivers and I think you'll be very happy too. Nick. -Original Message- From: Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; George Jones (IT); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? Hi, When you say that it 'runs well' does it mean smooth? I mean, enough frames per second? I guess you need to install the NVidia drivers, don't you? I ask this becuase I have the same Nvidia chip and I may try to install and configure all the stuff if you say its worth. You know, I am a bit freaked out by the 3 frames per second on the tuxracer (on the same machine allowing me to run Collin Mrae full speed at 1024x768x16k, on windows 98 , and a bit slower but still ok on w2000). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
You have a point. It depends on your WM too. 64MB mem usage was on my desktop with KDE or GNOME. I have a laptop with 20MB RAM running kernel 2.2.19 and X but I use ICEWM and it all fits within 20MB. KDE and GNOME are monsters. My experience. On Monday 12 November 2001 01:45, you wrote: ltiu wrote: My experience: 64 MB is minimum for Linux running X (with nothing else). Meaning, it will use up 64MB with kernel and X(KDE or GNOME) alone. If you use a lighter window manager, maybe your 64MB will go further. If you start other programs, like say Netscape or Koffice or a couple of bash x-terminal shells, then your machine will start swapping. I don't know if what you say is true, and if it is, there's really a regression in Linux performance. Before, it was possible to run Linux in a 16MB machine. Kernel using less than 4MB and X less than 4MB too. I can't imagine that kernel and X alone could use up to 64MB. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
Title: RE: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? Just to let you guys know - installing the nvidia drivers from an rpm isn't totally necessary. -Original Message- From: Nick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? I finally got around to installing the nvidia drivers this weekend. I thought it might be difficult, but I just grabbed the two src.rpms and did an 'rpm --rebuild' followed by an 'rpm -ivh' for each and a vi on the X config file (as per the nvidia instructions) and it worked without a single hitch. on my LM8.1 K6-2 (400MHz) GeForce2 MX 32MB (£40), glxgears is up from 30fps, in its default window, to 875fps (up from 7 to 126fps full screen). Tuxracer is up from 1 frame every 5-10 seconds to what looks like full speed video with no jurking at all. Very smooth - I was very impressed. I think my GPU must outpower my CPU ;-) Install those drivers and I think you'll be very happy too. Nick. -Original Message- From: Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; George Jones (IT); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? Hi, When you say that it 'runs well' does it mean smooth? I mean, enough frames per second? I guess you need to install the NVidia drivers, don't you? I ask this becuase I have the same Nvidia chip and I may try to install and configure all the stuff if you say its worth. You know, I am a bit freaked out by the 3 frames per second on the tuxracer (on the same machine allowing me to run Collin Mrae full speed at 1024x768x16k, on windows 98 , and a bit slower but still ok on w2000).
[expert] Using SMB shared printer from LM 8.1
I am having trouble using a printer connected to my w2k machine from my lm 8.1 machine. I used the printerdrake and selected SAMBA printer and all the other screens. It says it has configured the printer right but when I try to print a test page nothing happens I can see the printer using smbclient program as shared from my W2K box. Am I missing something? Thanks, -nak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
Oh, OK. Hmmm, sounds like a good open source project. On Monday 12 November 2001 01:46, you wrote: ltiu wrote: A couple of more things. on the command line, type: free to see how much memory your Linux box uses. Better yet, you can use a GUI application called: xosview Hope thses helped. Nope, with those commands we can't see in what kind of memory a certain programme is running. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
At 10:45 AM 11/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: ltiu wrote: My experience: 64 MB is minimum for Linux running X (with nothing else). Meaning, it will use up 64MB with kernel and X(KDE or GNOME) alone. If you use a lighter window manager, maybe your 64MB will go further. If you start other programs, like say Netscape or Koffice or a couple of bash x-terminal shells, then your machine will start swapping. I don't know if what you say is true, and if it is, there's really a regression in Linux performance. Before, it was possible to run Linux in a 16MB machine. Kernel using less than 4MB and X less than 4MB too. I can't imagine that kernel and X alone could use up to 64MB. We had Mandrake 7.0 for i486 running on 2 486/66's with 8 MB ram. There are, of course, linux's that will run on much less--heck there is even a linux replacement / add on for the PalmOS. And, if I remember correctly, some team got linux running on a wristwatch. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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-- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- ---BeginMessage--- Jose M. Sanchez wrote: 64MB? Isn't that the MINIMUM size for a video graphics board nowadays... ;) | |You say all as if 64M is a lot of RAM. Yes, I must tell you |that X will eat that much RAM for breakfast but so will most |other current OS's running some kind of GUI crap | Jose, such trenchent wit... I love it, and, yes, in today's world of graphic intensive games and apps, you need at least that amount on the video card alone. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- ---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
Your milaege will vary. My desktop computer has 448MB RAM now and I do not need or even have a swap partition anymore. In fact, I've never used up all the RAM with whatever I'm doing. On Monday 12 November 2001 08:19, you wrote: At 10:45 AM 11/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: ltiu wrote: My experience: 64 MB is minimum for Linux running X (with nothing else). Meaning, it will use up 64MB with kernel and X(KDE or GNOME) alone. If you use a lighter window manager, maybe your 64MB will go further. If you start other programs, like say Netscape or Koffice or a couple of bash x-terminal shells, then your machine will start swapping. I don't know if what you say is true, and if it is, there's really a regression in Linux performance. Before, it was possible to run Linux in a 16MB machine. Kernel using less than 4MB and X less than 4MB too. I can't imagine that kernel and X alone could use up to 64MB. We had Mandrake 7.0 for i486 running on 2 486/66's with 8 MB ram. There are, of course, linux's that will run on much less--heck there is even a linux replacement / add on for the PalmOS. And, if I remember correctly, some team got linux running on a wristwatch. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
Agreed, but what is your point? Installing from the rpms is easy (on rpm based systems) and the nvidia drivers provide much better 3D performance than the nv driver. Sure, you can use tar balls, but what is the advantage? The rpm install takes care of backing up the old mesa libs so that the nvidia rpms can be removed easily. George Jones (IT) wrote: Just to let you guys know - installing the nvidia drivers from an rpm isn't totally necessary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wine
Harold Hartley wrote: I was wondering if anyone on this list could point me to more info about how to get a windows app ( a ham radio program winaprs) to work under wine.. The winaprs has all its own files so I don't need to worry about any windows system files.. Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com try the linux-hams mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 73 -- Richard Bown Ericsson Microwave Systems AB SE-431 84 Mölndal e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +46 31 74 72422 mobile +46 7098 72422 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
On Monday 12 November 2001 17:13, you wrote: Oh, OK. Hmmm, sounds like a good open source project. Hey, what about TOP ? Good hunting Harm Bathoorn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wine
On Monday 12 November 2001 11:40 am, you wrote: Harold Hartley wrote: I was wondering if anyone on this list could point me to more info about how to get a windows app ( a ham radio program winaprs) to work under wine.. The winaprs has all its own files so I don't need to worry about any windows system files.. Do you need help with: compiling wine? installing wine? configuring wine? installing the Windows app? (And, which distro/version of Linux? Which build of wine?) Almost all of this is covered in the wine docs installed with wine or available at www. winehq.com. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
Nick: Thanks for explaining to me why there has been all of the traffic about nvidia drivers on both this list and the newbie list. Gotta check out some of the local stores... Regards, Carroll Nick Thompson wrote: I finally got around to installing the nvidia drivers this weekend. I thought it might be difficult, but I just grabbed the two src.rpms and did an 'rpm --rebuild' followed by an 'rpm -ivh' for each and a vi on the X config file (as per the nvidia instructions) and it worked without a single hitch. on my LM8.1 K6-2 (400MHz) GeForce2 MX 32MB (£40), glxgears is up from 30fps, in its default window, to 875fps (up from 7 to 126fps full screen). Tuxracer is up from 1 frame every 5-10 seconds to what looks like full speed video with no jurking at all. Very smooth - I was very impressed. I think my GPU must outpower my CPU ;-) Install those drivers and I think you'll be very happy too. Nick. -Original Message- From: Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; George Jones (IT); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux? Hi, When you say that it 'runs well' does it mean smooth? I mean, enough frames per second? I guess you need to install the NVidia drivers, don't you? I ask this becuase I have the same Nvidia chip and I may try to install and configure all the stuff if you say its worth. You know, I am a bit freaked out by the 3 frames per second on the tuxracer (on the same machine allowing me to run Collin Mrae full speed at 1024x768x16k, on windows 98 , and a bit slower but still ok on w2000). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Samba XP
Title: Message I'm trying to set up Samba server as a domain controller. I also wanted to add some shares as netlogon etc... On the server, no problem. I managed to prepare the whole thing, added an account for the win XP machine. The problem is that I can't add the pc to become a member of the domain, nor can I see the shares. I always get a box to enter a pwd. Root doesn't work and I set the encryption for passwords to yes. Can someone guide me. Thanxs
RE: [expert] Samba XP
Title: Message http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba6.html -Original Message-From: Grouwels Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:07 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [expert] Samba XP I'm trying to set up Samba server as a domain controller. I also wanted to add some shares as netlogon etc... On the server, no problem. I managed to prepare the whole thing, added an account for the win XP machine. The problem is that I can't add the pc to become a member of the domain, nor can I see the shares. I always get a box to enter a pwd. Root doesn't work and I set the encryption for passwords to yes. Can someone guide me. Thanxs
RE: [expert] Samba XP
Title: Message The note refers to Samba 2.2.2, which was released last month. Mandrake 8.1 came with Samba 2.2.1a - you might want to update -the fixes for winXP are *very* recent. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Battista, JohnXSent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:15 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [expert] Samba XP http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba6.html -Original Message-From: Grouwels Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:07 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [expert] Samba XP I'm trying to set up Samba server as a domain controller. I also wanted to add some shares as netlogon etc... On the server, no problem. I managed to prepare the whole thing, added an account for the win XP machine. The problem is that I can't add the pc to become a member of the domain, nor can I see the shares. I always get a box to enter a pwd. Root doesn't work and I set the encryption for passwords to yes. Can someone guide me. Thanxs
Re: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 09:14, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but try: rpm --rebuilddb It is actually a good command to run after you do a lot of rpm installs and/or uninstalls. Ciao, Enrico That was the first thing I tried. Sorry that I forgot to mention it. After seeing the 'filesystem' thing, I tried to run diskdrake and it wouldn't run either. It read: modprobe: Can't locate module floppy Segmentation fault. In /var/log/messages, I noticed 'kernel BUG at super.c:274!' and 'invalid operand: It's a pet peeve of mine to just reinstall without finding the cause. I wonder if a kernel upgrade will do it? On Sunday 11 November 2001 18:29, you wrote: I did the 'upgrade' from 8.0 to 8.1. Now, any RPM command causes a segmentation fault, usually after it says 'D: getting list of mounted filesystems'. Wine also used to work, but it also gives me the segmentation fault error. I did a Google search and found nothing. Thanks in advance, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade
Ugh. I never upgrade anymore. The process is excrutiatingly slow. It is much faster to just install anew (leaving your /home and, perhaps, /usr/local alone - on their own partitions). I never really lose anything doing it this way and save a ton of time and pain. It also gives you the simple, convenient time to repartition your system. I usually find that after using the system for a while, my partitioning scheme could use some improvement and tinkering so by reinstalling I am easily able to do so then. Leave /usr/local and naturally, /home, in their own partitions so that upon installing (instead of upgrading) the next major version you choose) you can do so without losing personal or addon stuff like personal docs, games, etc. That isn't what you were asking but there it is...installing new instead of upgrading is the most pain-free, quickest, and least problematic way to go. praedor On Monday 12 November 2001 12:14, you wrote: On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 09:14, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but try: rpm --rebuilddb It is actually a good command to run after you do a lot of rpm installs and/or uninstalls. Ciao, Enrico That was the first thing I tried. Sorry that I forgot to mention it. After seeing the 'filesystem' thing, I tried to run diskdrake and it wouldn't run either. It read: modprobe: Can't locate module floppy Segmentation fault. In /var/log/messages, I noticed 'kernel BUG at super.c:274!' and 'invalid operand: It's a pet peeve of mine to just reinstall without finding the cause. I wonder if a kernel upgrade will do it? On Sunday 11 November 2001 18:29, you wrote: I did the 'upgrade' from 8.0 to 8.1. Now, any RPM command causes a segmentation fault, usually after it says 'D: getting list of mounted filesystems'. Wine also used to work, but it also gives me the segmentation fault error. I did a Google search and found nothing. Thanks in advance, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
Wow - I'm impressed. You flamed an entire list (in duplicate, might I add!) because you didn't get the answer you wanted from a free resource of volunteers. If you want answers that automagically appear at your command, might I suggest you contact the sales department of any of the companies out there who provide professional linux technical support? I fail to see what else you could possibly hope to accomplish (aside from asuaging your own ego) by this post. Have a nice, fire-retardent day :) Tricia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12:50:59 PM Monday, November 12, 2001 I have decided to go with ManDrake 8.0 instead of 8.1 because of the difficultly with it recognizing my cd/dvd drive or my floppy drive (Dell Inspiron 4000). I gave in and loaded 8.0 last night and it installed without a hitch. Thanks to all the experts on this subject I was finally able to realize that I needed to install 8.0 and not 8.1. Its funny if I had a question about installing AOL on LM I would get at least 10 replies back within a half hour. I guess this subject is just to tough a topic for the expert community I will try the newbie forum. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
On Monday 12 November 2001 20:27, you wrote: Wow - I'm impressed. You flamed an entire list (in duplicate, might I add!) because you didn't get the answer you wanted from a free resource of volunteers. If you want answers that automagically appear at your command, might I suggest you contact the sales department of any of the companies out there who provide professional linux technical support? I fail to see what else you could possibly hope to accomplish (aside from asuaging your own ego) by this post. Have a nice, fire-retardent day :) Tricia You needn't have stooped that low, utter SILENCE would have been enough. thanks anyway. It's what I wanted to write at first :) Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade
On Monday 12 November 2001 20:17, you wrote: Ugh. I never upgrade anymore. The process is excrutiatingly slow. It is much faster to just install anew (leaving your /home and, perhaps, /usr/local alone - on their own partitions). I never really lose anything doing it this way and save a ton of time and pain. It also gives you the simple, convenient time to repartition your system. I usually find that after using the system for a while, my partitioning scheme could use some improvement and tinkering so by reinstalling I am easily able to do so then. Leave /usr/local and naturally, /home, in their own partitions so that upon installing (instead of upgrading) the next major version you choose) you can do so without losing personal or addon stuff like personal docs, games, etc. That isn't what you were asking but there it is...installing new instead of upgrading is the most pain-free, quickest, and least problematic way to go. praedor I can only add that 'upgrade' is a very quick way to repair an existing installation which has been botched up badly. After checking the packages (of which none require upgrading of course) you can go through the rest of the routine :) It's not the way it should be, but it's faster than repairing all sorts of things You've never heard about. Especially if the box just has to work real pronto! Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
Yes, I realize responding at all was probably a bit juvenile. However, there is logic behind it. I haven't been on this list very long, and it seems like we get all too many of this type of post - basically You guys didn't solve my problem in the time frame I expected, therefore I feel the need to tell you how stupid you all are! What's the point? I was hoping to plant in poster's minds that (as this is a fairly high-traffic list), posts of that type really aren't necessary. Perhaps something to this effect could be added to the list's charter? Don't know if it would help, butsometimes SILENCE is beautiful, other times it can be interpreted as acceptance of behavior. Having said that, I now return this list to its regularly scheduled program of USEFUL POSTS! Tricia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:38:59 PM Monday, November 12, 2001 On Monday 12 November 2001 20:27, you wrote: Wow - I'm impressed. You flamed an entire list (in duplicate, might I add!) because you didn't get the answer you wanted from a free resource of volunteers. If you want answers that automagically appear at your command, might I suggest you contact the sales department of any of the companies out there who provide professional linux technical support? I fail to see what else you could possibly hope to accomplish (aside from asuaging your own ego) by this post. Have a nice, fire-retardent day :) Tricia You needn't have stooped that low, utter SILENCE would have been enough. thanks anyway. It's what I wanted to write at first :) Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS LM8.1 server, AIX client problems
Laurent CREPET wrote: Got some problems at work with an NFS server running on Linux (was kernel 2.2.18), and AIX NFS clients (4.2, 4.3.1 and 4.3.3). On AIX clients, we run as root: nfso -o nfs_use_reserved_ports=1 Then, we were able to mount the filesystems from our Linux box... I remember that we call our IBM support to have this information. Hope it helps... Laurent. Hey Dan, let us know if this works. I, for one, am very curious about your AIX situation. Working around the country, mainly on Solaris and AIX, I have had the occassion to mount directories from servers, such as Netware, UNIX, and NT, but have not seen much Linux on the professional scene as of yet I will let you know, and I will give soft-mount a try. This whole situation has gotten annoying :( Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tcpwrappers
now that in.telnetd is not used in later kernels I haven't heard about that ! the format of hosts.allow telnetd: xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx.xx.xx is an inet address is this the correct format ??? I would still use in.telnetd : 10.10.10.55 192.168.10. : allow in.telnetd : 136.159. : allow Yes, you can have multiple lines. However I no longer use Telnet, I use OpenSSH and SFTP (secure ftp). That would be my recommendation for you. Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] drive not ready for command isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339
During install of LM 8.1 or RH7.2, not DemoLinux 3::: Unfortuantely, after the initial setup/ welcome screen using the boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, the setup said that it couldn't find an installation CD in the CD-ROM. The error message is as follows: I can't access a Mandrake-Linux Installation disk in your CDROM Drive. By looking in the setup log I also saw some of these messages: 4ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting, Oh well 4hdb: Status timed-out 4hdb: DMA Disabled 4hdb: drive not ready for command 4isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339 and other stuff like this If you guys don't know of any solutions off the top of your heads then I guess I'll see if we can get it up and runing at the Installfest. Thanks. / He has a DFI motherboard with Award BIOS. bios version is current. CD rom is primary slave, HD is primary master This problem also occurs when using RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1 We tried two copies of the installmedia, so the disk wasn't bad. Demo Linux boots just fine off of the CD-Rom. / I built the computer myself and currently I have Win 98 and Win 2K on two seperate primary partitions. Then I used PartitionMagic 5.0 to create a Linux partition. Anyway, the CD-ROM is bootable, but since I was having trouble with just booting off the CD-ROM I tried it again with a bootdisk. I think that I'm using the cdrom.img file if that is what you mean by the image file - the actual CD is from MandrakeSoft. Also, windows has no trouble booting from the CD-ROM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi doesn't run from script
i have a little script that i run every now and then as follows: #!/bin/bash #this runs rsync to update the local copy of cooker rsync -avL --delete --delete-after fr2.rpmfind.net::linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/ /mandrake/cooker/ /dev/null 2 /dev/null #this updates urpmi database urpmi.update localcooker /dev/null 2 /dev/null the problem is that the last line works fine if pasted into a console, and the first line clearly works since i can see both the name of the script and rsync listed in ksysguard, however, urpmi never runs when running the script, i'm probably going to kick myself when i find out what i'm missing but i just can't work out what's wrong since the same urpmi line does work when run manually help gratefully received :-) bascule p.s. anyone wishing to confirm whether i need both --delete options to only delete old files 'after' syncing them-please feel free, the man pages for rsync weren't clear on this point Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] radio program for linux
HH I was wondering what radio program to listen to music is available for linux.. HH Hope someone can point me in the right direction. HH Harold Many come with MDK 8.1 , radiofm , etc. but I personally like gnomeradio Onur Kucuk _ 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
[expert] Mouse (ps2) problems with 8.1
Hello Unfortunately I lost the discussion about ps2 mice with LM 8.1. I finally decided to upgrade (not really - new installation is the proper term - upgrade is so slow that I gave in) one of my LM 8.0. I noticed that LM 8.1 doesn't like ps2 mice at all (I have no such problems with Lm 8.0). Problems: a) if I don't move the mouse during the very first install step LM 8.1 won't recognize. I had to start install from scratch in order to get the mouse working. b) First boot - no mouse despite LM 8.1 has recognized it during install. c) Second boot - mouse is working. However once I left an user session the mouse was gone again. Does anyone know of a fix for that annoying behavior? Many thanks Eduardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Samba XP
Try using smbpasswd -a username to add the user to the smb users. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mouse (ps2) problems with 8.1
Title: RE: [expert] Mouse (ps2) problems with 8.1 Hi There, I've had a similar problem. The installation of 8.1 went through smoothly, detected the mouse etc. Upon first boot up the mouse dies under the Linux console (X works fine). The mouse 'cursor' stays at the top of the screen and won't move from there, and moving it wreaks havoc on the prompt. To fix this problem, run the mouse configuration program (mouseconfig I think) and it should get your mouse working again. Although it seems like it is only a temporary fix. By the way, what is the manufacturer of your mouse. I've got an A4TECH PS/2 wheel mouse, if this is similar to yours it might help. Good Luck. Craig -Original Message- From: emammendes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mouse (ps2) problems with 8.1 Hello Unfortunately I lost the discussion about ps2 mice with LM 8.1. I finally decided to upgrade (not really - new installation is the proper term - upgrade is so slow that I gave in) one of my LM 8.0. I noticed that LM 8.1 doesn't like ps2 mice at all (I have no such problems with Lm 8.0). Problems: a) if I don't move the mouse during the very first install step LM 8.1 won't recognize. I had to start install from scratch in order to get the mouse working. b) First boot - no mouse despite LM 8.1 has recognized it during install. c) Second boot - mouse is working. However once I left an user session the mouse was gone again. Does anyone know of a fix for that annoying behavior? Many thanks Eduardo
RE: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
Heh, The point wasn't taken though. It's sorta silly to try to put the blame on Linux for regressing. Yeah he can run command line Linux in 64 megs (even 32 after installation). If he really wants to do this, he should have been looking for one of the super light distros, instead of LM8.1. BTW: I had to look up trenchant. Good word. :) -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of J. Craig Woods |Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:09 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain |programme/data resides? | | |Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | | 64MB? | | Isn't that the MINIMUM size for a video graphics board nowadays... ;) | | | | |You say all as if 64M is a lot of RAM. Yes, I must tell |you that X | |will eat that much RAM for breakfast but so will most other current | |OS's running some kind of GUI crap | | | |Jose, such trenchent wit... | |I love it, and, yes, in today's world of graphic intensive |games and apps, you need at least that amount on the video card alone. | |-- |J. Craig Woods |UNIX/NT SA | |-Art is the illusion of spontaneity- | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Old Riva Drivers
www.nvidia.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leonardo T. de Carvalho Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Old Riva Drivers Hi all. I'm looking for the NVidia drievrs version 1.0, which have support for the Riva128 chipset . On the net, nothing yet... If anyone have a backup or link, plz send me! Thanx in advance Leonardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
When swapping starts is because not all programs fit on main memory (RAM) so they are going and comming back from seconday memory (disk) all the time, as their turn to get executed comes and goes. Process memory mapping WILL change WHILE you are looking at it, a bit like trying to measure the position and speed of the electron. I guess that the kernel could say 'position 1h of the virtual memory is now mapped into RAM at x or disk at block y, but that may change so even while you are looking at it. For example, when you do the system call to ask the kernel an kernel interruption occurs and changes memory mapping of the process you are looking at, it goes to RAM, suddenly while you are looking at that info another interruption puts it back on disk, === you are looking at a process sleeping on disk while you think its on RAM cause the monitor program last saw it there whats the point? (unless, of course, the monitor gets updated everytime a change is done... but updating may produce more changes, another interrupt may occur... and back again in the same problem...) The thing is, if you have 64MB and you are running 128 MB in apps simultaneously (all with the same priority) maths say they should be 50% time on disk and 50% on RAM. Correct me if I said something wrong. Jose El Lunes 12 Noviembre 2001 13:11, Seak, Teng-Fong escribió: Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Eh, I was being facetious, hence the smiley. Sure I know you're facetious, but I'm afraid newbies would take it too seriously and thus acquired wrong knowledge, so I gave more explanations. Fong Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone had a chance to get the gaming edition. November 9 has passed and I haven't heard anything on the net about its official release. Has anyone seen it running, or has anyone used the WineX extensions for the games. I've heard rumours circulating around the web that WIneX outperforms DirectX with the same game/program. Is this true and is there any proof to back this up. And if any of you have tried it what are your experiences. Let me know. Thanks. I have tried winex, and for the games that work it really out performs windows (OpenGL ones anyway, i havent tried directx games). I cant do any real comparisons as i dont have access to any windows boxen any more. Counterstrike rocks under linux by the way - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE78FRtXCpWOla2mCcRAja0AKDFgffwyl9/bg6TrGZTIAxllQnojgCgzZG4 ziNPQV63ehVyKcZ7/dhr+4A= =av85 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Using SMB shared printer from LM 8.1
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 07:57, you wrote: I am having trouble using a printer connected to my w2k machine from my lm 8.1 machine. I used the printerdrake and selected SAMBA printer and all the other screens. It says it has configured the printer right but when I try to print a test page nothing happens I can see the printer using smbclient program as shared from my W2K box. Am I missing something? Thanks, -nak What happens if you access the printer with another tool - KUPS for example? This has been a successful fix for people here before. -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:40, you wrote: Check the personalisation settings in kcontrol centre, and make sure kmail is the preffered client. Tom, bin there, tryed that! It is set, and still no go. The funny thing is, it switches to kmail, but doesn't open a new mail message stumped -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script
On Monday 12 November 2001 20:59 pm, bascule wrote: i have a little script that i run every now and then as follows: #!/bin/bash #this runs rsync to update the local copy of cooker rsync -avL --delete --delete-after fr2.rpmfind.net::linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/ /mandrake/cooker/ /dev/null 2 /dev/null #this updates urpmi database urpmi.update localcooker /dev/null 2 /dev/null the problem is that the last line works fine if pasted into a console, and the first line clearly works since i can see both the name of the script and rsync listed in ksysguard, however, urpmi never runs when running the script, i'm probably going to kick myself when i find out what i'm missing but i just can't work out what's wrong since the same urpmi line does work when run manually help gratefully received :-) bascule p.s. anyone wishing to confirm whether i need both --delete options to only delete old files 'after' syncing them-please feel free, the man pages for rsync weren't clear on this point - Have you tried exec?, I haven't used it with urpmi but sometimes it seems to make commands in a script work Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mouse (ps2) problems with 8.1
Title: RE: [expert] Mouse (ps2) problems with 8.1 Hi ya I have got a Compaq mouse (I don't know the exact brand but I am almost sure that Compaq went for the cheapest mouse). In my case the mouse only "disappears" when I log out and it won'twork again ... I definitely need a fix that solves that once and all. Many thanks Eduardo - Original Message - From: Craig Williamson (ENZ) To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:56 PM Subject: RE: [expert] Mouse (ps2) problems with 8.1 Hi There, I've had a similar problem. The installation of 8.1 went through smoothly, detected the mouse etc. Upon first boot up the mouse dies under the Linux console (X works fine). The mouse 'cursor' stays at the top of the screen and won't move from there, and moving it wreaks havoc on the prompt. To fix this problem, run the mouse configuration program (mouseconfig I think) and it should get your mouse working again. Although it seems like it is only a temporary fix. By the way, what is the manufacturer of your mouse. I've got an A4TECH PS/2 wheel mouse, if this is similar to yours it might help. Good Luck. Craig -Original Message- From: emammendes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mouse (ps2) problems with 8.1 Hello Unfortunately I lost the discussion about ps2 mice with LM 8.1. I finally decided to upgrade (not really - new installation is the proper term - upgrade is so slow that I gave in) one of my LM 8.0. I noticed that LM 8.1 doesn't like ps2 mice at all (I have no such problems with Lm 8.0). Problems: a) if I don't move the mouse during the very first install step LM 8.1 won't recognize. I had to start install from scratch in order to get the mouse working. b) First boot - no mouse despite LM 8.1 has recognized it during install. c) Second boot - mouse is working. However once I left an user session the mouse was gone again. Does anyone know of a fix for that annoying behavior? Many thanks Eduardo
Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:33, John Haywood wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:40, you wrote: Check the personalisation settings in kcontrol centre, and make sure kmail is the preffered client. Tom, bin there, tryed that! It is set, and still no go. The funny thing is, it switches to kmail, but doesn't open a new mail message stumped Try clearing the setting. It will default to kmail, and should pass the correct parameters. t -- PGP key : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
Dnia pon 12. listopad 2001 18:33, napisa?e?: Nick: Thanks for explaining to me why there has been all of the traffic about nvidia drivers on both this list and the newbie list. Gotta check out some of the local stores... Well i dont now if i have good understand, butt someone has tell You to buy NVidia? No! As You now NVidia is giving binary drivers. It means that only nvidia can track and remove bugs, make new versions of that drivers. It is realy bad! Look - for example rivafb. If You use that framebuffer console and nvidia drivers then after every ctrl-alt-Fx your desktop looks like sh***, if You be able to see it ;) And - there is NO framebuffer support in kernel for geforces XXX. U will must use text-console. Look on radeon - radeonfb - it is and works. DRI/DRM - works, and is developeded, bugtracked by people from all over the world. Let me show You some MPlayer manual fragments! : I 2.2.1.2.3. nVidia cards nVidia isn't a very good choice under Linux.. You'll have to use the binary nVidia driver, available at nVidia's website. The standard X driver doesn't support XVideo for these cards, due to nVidia's closed sources/specifications. II Q: OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...). A: Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage) It's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit. It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these. it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit. III Q: I have an nVidia XYZ card, and when I click on the GUI's diplay window to toggle displaying the GUI panel, a black square appears where I clicked. I have the newest driver. A: Yes, nvidia corrected a previous bug (above), and implemented a new one. Let's congratule them. etc. etc. ;))) So, better buy Radeon. NVidia works butt you just cant now how long and how good. That is my opinion. Regards Gniazdowski. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:50, you wrote: Hello everyone, Hoping someone can shed some light on this problem. I recently upgraded (from Cooker) to Mozilla 0.9.5, and the latest Galeon as well. Along the way, I als ohad to upgrade libpng from version 2 to 3. Everything seemed to go well, I was able to meet all dependencies with a minimum of hassle, and libpng upgraded just fine. BUT ... now, neither Mozilla not Galeon are able to renger .png images! If I look in /usr/lib/, I can see both libpng2 and libpng3: libpng.so.2 - libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.3 - libpng.so.3.1.2.0* libpng.so.3.1.2.0* I assume this is correct, because there are still many apps on my mostly-stock 8.1 system that require libpng2. I renamed the old libpng2 libraries, and made links with the same name to libpng3, but that did not seem to work. In fact, Galeon would not even launch! So, I named the libpng2 libraries back. At this point, I am at a loss, not knowing enough about how shared libraries work, and especially using different library versions. Any help? Dave Welcome to the world of Cooker! What you actually have to do in the case of the libpng2 - libpng3 shift (and many other major library upgrades, too), is to rebuild *all* of the libpng2-dependent apps against the new libraries. Often, this can be accomplished by simply downloading the src.rpm and issuing an rpm -bb command, but it can get a lot trickier hth -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB Live Synth?
Hi Jose, It works great. Follow my enclosed directions... Thanks, Jose, I'm now at the point where KControl lists MIDI sequencers. I wonder why Mandrake mis-installed when I installed 8.1? So far, in LM I have things working that didn't work in SuSE, and things *not* working that worked in SuSE. ;-) Anyway, so I have the synth ready to go it looks like, and I run sfxload and tried to load the sound font that is in /etc/midi . However, then if I try to run playmidi it gives me this error: % /suse/home/uninet/www/warpspeed.mid Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details please see the file COPYING. playmidi: No playback device found. KMid gets similar results, only on the first try it doesn't give any kind of error, just no sound. If I try to play the song a second time, then KMid complains about some other app using the sequencer. Here is what lsmod has to say about sound: snd-synth-emu10k1 4432 0 (autoclean) snd-synth-emux 26784 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emu10k1] snd-seq-midi-emul 4944 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] snd-seq-virmidi 8304 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] snd-seq-midi3552 0 (autoclean) snd-seq-oss28944 0 snd-seq-midi-event 3216 0 [snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq41856 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18624 1 snd-pcm-plugin 15792 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4800 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-emu10k12368 1 snd-emu10k122320 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-card-emu10k1] snd-pcm31616 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 8528 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10048 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1] snd-emux-mem1776 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-emu10k1] snd-ac97-codec 25056 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-mixer 24544 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec] snd-seq-device 3984 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-synth-emux snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd35248 1 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-emux-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device] soundcore 4208 9 [snd] -- Thanks for your help! -Tim -- - Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm Free/Open Source Web Tools:http://www.uninetsolutions.com Christian Portal and Search Tool:http://www.faithtree.com == Christian Web Services Since 1996 == Registered Linux User #82130 Registered Linux Machines #34002 102889 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0)
Often times the permissions on /dev/cdrom are irrelevant. You will notice that /dev/cdrom is a link (on my box it is linked to /dev/hdd), you must also repair the permissions on this (just this weekend I had this problem, for some reason an obscure user owned /dev/hdd, after giving it back to root and fixing the permissions, all was well). mg On Monday 12 November 2001 02:50, Darren King wrote: I changed the permissions but that had no effect. I fixed it by setting the security level to medium, when it was at high. Anyone know of any problems with having my system using the medium security setting? Darren On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:14, Arnab_Ganguly wrote: They generally are able to without any problem on my machine running MDK 8,0. Please check the permissions for /dev/cdrom, /dev/hdd or whatever your cdrom is referred to. Arnab -- From: Darren King[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0) File: message.footer.txt How do I get users to be able to read cd-roms? I put the users I want to read the cd in the cdrom group and made cdrom the group owner of hdc. Still I get permission denied when I try to cd to /mnt/cdrom. Shouldn't users be able to read cdroms by default? Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 Nov 2001 11:33 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:40, you wrote: Check the personalisation settings in kcontrol centre, and make sure kmail is the preffered client. Tom, bin there, tryed that! It is set, and still no go. The funny thing is, it switches to kmail, but doesn't open a new mail message Cant help then im afraid, it works for me. When i get issues like this, i tend just to delete everything i can from ~/.kde/ and only leave important files like kmailrc, calender file etc. Its a last resort and a dirty way of doing it, but it has fixed strange problems fro me before. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE78GPcXCpWOla2mCcRAudxAJ95v9VooAuDRWLHRzrrxSsQIM22IQCgp6lo UPfJMYhy7rgwRvcVfv085M4= =EkTv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB Live Synth?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 Nov 2001 11:58 pm, you wrote: Hi Jose, It works great. Follow my enclosed directions... Thanks, Jose, I'm now at the point where KControl lists MIDI sequencers. I wonder why Mandrake mis-installed when I installed 8.1? So far, in LM I have things working that didn't work in SuSE, and things *not* working that worked in SuSE. ;-) Anyway, so I have the synth ready to go it looks like, and I run sfxload and tried to load the sound font that is in /etc/midi . However, then if I try to run playmidi it gives me this error: % /suse/home/uninet/www/warpspeed.mid Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details please see the file COPYING. playmidi: No playback device found. KMid gets similar results, only on the first try it doesn't give any kind of error, just no sound. If I try to play the song a second time, then KMid complains about some other app using the sequencer. I have been following this also, and i too am having exactly the same problem. I have always used timidity in the past, but native midi support will make nethack kick arse. I have devfs switched off, so is it possibly a matter of creating the correct device entries (although /dev/sequencer is there already) and if so how? - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE78GYEXCpWOla2mCcRAlgNAJ9x7+s3feALBkylNg7LHNo40bx5/gCdE+V8 /N9bU5E6b4VWMXJ32/lv0bk= =lFFQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mouse Wheel?
Hi again, I'm sorry to keep asking questions, but I'm just trying to get everything working. :-\ I'm happy to see that XFDrake setup my mouse wheel, but there is something curiously different about the way my wheel works in LM than it did in SuSE. In SuSE, if I would take my pointer and hover over a list, it would scroll what ever box that would be. For instance in KMail I could scroll (using the wheel), not only the message box, but also the message list box. Is there anyway to similarly configure this in Mandrake? I've been examining my SuSE config files to figure out how they did this, but I haven't found anything yet... Thanks, Tim -- - Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm Free/Open Source Web Tools:http://www.uninetsolutions.com Christian Portal and Search Tool:http://www.faithtree.com == Christian Web Services Since 1996 == Registered Linux User #82130 Registered Linux Machines #34002 102889 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] SB Live Synth?
Several things are happening... |-Original Message- |From: Timothy R. Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:58 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] SB Live Synth? | | |Hi Jose, | It works great. | | Follow my enclosed directions... | | | Thanks, Jose, I'm now at the point where KControl lists MIDI |sequencers. I |wonder why Mandrake mis-installed when I installed 8.1? So |far, in LM I have |things working that didn't work in SuSE, and things *not* |working that worked |in SuSE. ;-) | Anyway, so I have the synth ready to go it looks like, and I |run sfxload |and tried to load the sound font that is in /etc/midi . NOPE! That's not a good soundfont. I get no sound output when I attempt to use this font. It is probably formatted for the software synth player and not for the SBLive. Download a collection font from the http://thesoundsite.ismi.net/ link. |However, then if I |try to run playmidi it gives me this error: | | % /suse/home/uninet/www/warpspeed.mid | Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 |by Takashi Iwai | This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. | For details please see the file COPYING. | playmidi: No playback device found. | Playmidi doesn't know how to use the new SBLive Sequencer device, so this is normal, I get the same thing... | KMid gets similar results, only on the first try it doesn't |give any kind |of error, just no sound. It might or might not be working at this point. Did you turn the volume all the way up in AUX mix for the synth and all other outputs? (Of course you'll need a real sound font...) Try starting Kmid from a terminal so you can see it's error messages. Also try double clicking on the .MID file within Konqueror. You should initially try using a smaller GM/GS sound font until you get everything working. Make sure you are using a complete collection sound font as well. Some files only have a single instrument, etc. |If I try to play the song a second |time, then KMid |complains about some other app using the sequencer. | | It sounds like the original Kmid process never terminated... | Here is what lsmod has to say about sound: | | |snd-synth-emu10k1 4432 0 (autoclean) |snd-synth-emux 26784 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emu10k1] |snd-seq-midi-emul 4944 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] |snd-seq-virmidi 8304 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] |snd-seq-midi3552 0 (autoclean) |snd-seq-oss28944 0 |snd-seq-midi-event 3216 0 [snd-seq-virmidi |snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] |snd-seq41856 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi |snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] |snd-pcm-oss18624 1 |snd-pcm-plugin 15792 0 [snd-pcm-oss] |snd-mixer-oss 4800 0 [snd-pcm-oss] |snd-card-emu10k12368 1 |snd-emu10k122320 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-card-emu10k1] |snd-pcm31616 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin |snd-emu10k1] |snd-timer 8528 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] |snd-rawmidi10048 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1] |snd-emux-mem1776 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-emu10k1] |snd-ac97-codec 25056 0 [snd-emu10k1] |snd-mixer 24544 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 |snd-ac97-codec] |snd-seq-device 3984 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-synth-emux |snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] |snd35248 1 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi |snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss |snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 |snd-pcm snd-timer |snd-rawmidi snd-emux-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device] |soundcore 4208 9 [snd] |-- | | | Thanks for your help! | | -Tim | |-- -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:47, you wrote: Try clearing the setting. It will default to kmail, and should pass the correct parameters. That worked! Ta for that!! -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon
Doing a forced rpm install of cooker nautilus* got some of my icons back, but there are still problems. What application (or module) is actually responsible for drawing png's on the desktop so I can target that? BillK On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 07:51, John Haywood wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:50, you wrote: Hello everyone, Hoping someone can shed some light on this problem. I recently upgraded (from Cooker) to Mozilla 0.9.5, and the latest Galeon as well. Along the way, I als ohad to upgrade libpng from version 2 to 3. Everything seemed to go well, I was able to meet all dependencies with a minimum of hassle, and libpng upgraded just fine. BUT ... now, neither Mozilla not Galeon are able to renger .png images! If I look in /usr/lib/, I can see both libpng2 and libpng3: libpng.so.2 - libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.3 - libpng.so.3.1.2.0* libpng.so.3.1.2.0* I assume this is correct, because there are still many apps on my mostly-stock 8.1 system that require libpng2. I renamed the old libpng2 libraries, and made links with the same name to libpng3, but that did not seem to work. In fact, Galeon would not even launch! So, I named the libpng2 libraries back. At this point, I am at a loss, not knowing enough about how shared libraries work, and especially using different library versions. Any help? Dave Welcome to the world of Cooker! What you actually have to do in the case of the libpng2 - libpng3 shift (and many other major library upgrades, too), is to rebuild *all* of the libpng2-dependent apps against the new libraries. Often, this can be accomplished by simply downloading the src.rpm and issuing an rpm -bb command, but it can get a lot trickier hth -- john in syd This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1005609371): Part (pos=2771): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=4405): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-103180 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-103180 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] webcam under 8.1
I'm having some trouble trying to get a webcam working. It is a Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000 which is supposed to be supported by the Phillips USB webcam drivers. What I've tried is to load videodev modprobe -v videodev and then load pwc modprobe -v size=sif fps=15 I don't get any errors on these. When I try to load any software it can't find the device. ie there is no /dev/video So I create a one with mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 /proc/devices shows a character device at 81 .. video_capture tried to just make a /dev/video as well. Yet I still get the same error /dev/video: No such device when I use gqcam just to make sure I've check to make sure pwd and videodev are loaded using modprobe ... both are loaded. Any suggestions? Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB Live Synth?
Hi Jose, NOPE! That's not a good soundfont. I get no sound output when I attempt to use this font. It is probably formatted for the software synth player and Ohhh! Thanks Jose! I grabbed my 8 meg GM sound font that I had used previously (that came with the card), and everything works fine! Now if only 8.2 would just include a working sound font, and properly setup the soundcard (including doing a post-install sfxload soundfont... in the modules.conf), it would be perfect. ;-) Thanks so much Jose, I'm really happy to have MIDI working again. :-D -Tim -- -- Timothy R. Butler | Universal Networks | http://www.uninet.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12495932 AIM: Uninettm Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz == Christian Web Services Since 1996 == Registered Linux User #82130 Reg. Linux Machines #34002 102889 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition
Go to the transgaming website and register (pay $5.00) and vote for a game to support and also download the WineX rpm. I voted for Halo, even though it isn't out yet (soon) and wont be available for PCs until late next year (it is initially intended for the Xcrotch windoze thingy. Anyway, I suspect that it is going to be the major game next year unless someone has an unsuspected rabbit up their sleeve. Anyway, I downloaded winex and installed it and couldn't get it to work. Codeweavers wine is, by FAR the easiest and cleanest wine installation available. The winex system installs a .transgaming directory in your home directory and gives you an apparently broken config file to go with it. It creates a c_win directory under the .transgaming directory which is set to be the windows directory for winex. It contains some winex dlls. It doesn't appear to work as installed. All I get is a message that C:\windows couldn't be opened. Hah! It is the .transgaming/windows directory created by winex with ownership and perms correct for the home directory/user yet it isn't accessible to winex (?!) I tried editing it a bit but nothing worked. I am going to try one more time and give it the CORRECT config file that codeweaver produces. Hopefully that will fix its brokenness. On Monday 12 November 2001 03:59 pm, you wrote: Has anyone had a chance to get the gaming edition. November 9 has passed and I haven't heard anything on the net about its official release. Has anyone seen it running, or has anyone used the WineX extensions for the games. I've heard rumours circulating around the web that WIneX outperforms DirectX with the same game/program. Is this true and is there any proof to back this up. And if any of you have tried it what are your experiences. Let me know. Thanks. I have tried winex, and for the games that work it really out performs windows (OpenGL ones anyway, i havent tried directx games). I cant do any real comparisons as i dont have access to any windows boxen any more. Counterstrike rocks under linux by the way Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOSEMU and other DOS emulators...do they play demos???
All I can say is that I have been using VMware Express with excellent results, but I have not tried demos. Since VMware is a virtual machine it might do what you want. You can download a 30 day trial for free. The Express I think is 40$, worth every cents for me, maybe not for everyone. Thanks. Gerard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 09 November 2001 11:41, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: Hi! Does anybody know if (and, if := yes, how) can I play demos under DOSEMU or any other DOS emulators? Some older demos required a clean boot (some even needed a boot without himem.sys) without any memory managers like emm386 or qemm386. TIA orlando ps: for all the poor souls that don't know what a demo is, look at http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/ IMHO a demo is the finest in the art of coding... Look for Final Reality II and remember that all what you'll watch is being done real-time and that around '93 the average joe machine was a 386, 40MHz... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Gerard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?
I use to have dual boot. Since I installed VMware, it's been bye-bye dual boot. I still boot some Windows sessions, but under VMware they are supervised by my running Linux. The only thing I have not tried seriously under VMware are certain games, specially those that provide their own video drivers (instead of using directx for example). Using Star Office, I have gradually moved away from MS-Office. All new documents I create as SO documents. Old MO documents get converted as I revise them. I can not say that I will be entirely rid of MS, but with VMware, it doesn't mess up my system anymore and I have real file system security. Thanks. Gerard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:55, ltiu wrote: Informal survey. How many people in this email list are actually using Linux exclusively for their desktop computing needs? When I say exclusively, I mean you don't just play with Linux and then reboot to another OS to do real work, but actually do everything with Linux. ltiu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Gerard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:13, Quintin Holmberg wrote: chuck, did the kernel portion of the upgrade complete correctly. i have seen the module kind of error you mention before after a rpm kernel upgrade. what i found was that the modules did not get put into the new kernel named directory thus causing all modules to fail to load on startup. you can find out by looking in /etc/conf/modules/kernel version number and see if there are any modules there. if this is the problem, my solution was to rerun the kernel rpm. as rpm is not working for you, this is obviously not an option currently. try reverting back to the previous kernel first so the old modules will be loaded. -- Well, many of the modules for the old kernel wouldn't load, but the RPM of the new kernel worked and RPM works when booting the new kernel. Nothing bad in /var/log/messages, so it looks like I'm set. Thanks alot for the advice, you saved me a dreaded (not as dreaded as some OS's where you have to reboot 10 times) install. Now just a little work with WINE and (in)SANE, and I'll be running Windowless computers. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:51, John Haywood wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:50, you wrote: Hello everyone, Hoping someone can shed some light on this problem. I recently upgraded (from Cooker) to Mozilla 0.9.5, and the latest Galeon as well. Along the way, I als ohad to upgrade libpng from version 2 to 3. Everything seemed to go well, I was able to meet all dependencies with a minimum of hassle, and libpng upgraded just fine. BUT ... now, neither Mozilla not Galeon are able to renger .png images! If I look in /usr/lib/, I can see both libpng2 and libpng3: libpng.so.2 - libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.3 - libpng.so.3.1.2.0* libpng.so.3.1.2.0* I assume this is correct, because there are still many apps on my mostly-stock 8.1 system that require libpng2. I renamed the old libpng2 libraries, and made links with the same name to libpng3, but that did not seem to work. In fact, Galeon would not even launch! So, I named the libpng2 libraries back. At this point, I am at a loss, not knowing enough about how shared libraries work, and especially using different library versions. Any help? Dave Welcome to the world of Cooker! What you actually have to do in the case of the libpng2 - libpng3 shift (and many other major library upgrades, too), is to rebuild *all* of the libpng2-dependent apps against the new libraries. Often, this can be accomplished by simply downloading the src.rpm and issuing an rpm -bb command, but it can get a lot trickier Call me crazy (or more likely, ignorant), but what you are saying makes no sense to me. Mozilla 0.9.5 and Galeon (both from Cooker) required the libpng3 (from Cooker) in the first place! They shouldn't need to be recompiled. And I have had no problems with other apps using the older library, since both libraries currently exist on my system. What I am thinking is that somehow Mozilla/Galeon are loading the wrong version of libpng, and thus are not able to properly render .png images. Is there any way I can confirm if this is the case, or is there something I am missing? Dave -- Chemist who falls in acid is absorbed in work. msg44244/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [expert] Samba XP
There are certain servers I always install from source every time a new version comes out: bind apache and Samba. I have a system for upgrading source code. I prefix everything to its name-version. For example when I run the configure script for the source code, I do: ./configure --prefix=/usr/samba-2.2.2 plus more options of course for samba. Then when make install runs, it will install the WHOLE server into its own tree. Then I edit the /etc/init.d/samba init script and change it so it points to the new version. Jut my 2c On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Rony Shapiro wrote: MessageThe note refers to Samba 2.2.2, which was released last month. Mandrake 8.1 came with Samba 2.2.1a - you might want to update -the fixes for winXP are *very* recent. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Battista, JohnX Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] Samba XP http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba6.html -Original Message- From: Grouwels Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Samba XP I'm trying to set up Samba server as a domain controller. I also wanted to add some shares as netlogon etc... On the server, no problem. I managed to prepare the whole thing, added an account for the win XP machine. The problem is that I can't add the pc to become a member of the domain, nor can I see the shares. I always get a box to enter a pwd. Root doesn't work and I set the encryption for passwords to yes. Can someone guide me. Thanxs -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake FirstTime
It's not a big deal, but I was curious, did anyone else have a problem that seems to prevent Mandrake FirstTime from accepting any input in the text boxes it has? I think it might be because there isn't any WM open when it starts. I was just curious if this was just me, or if it was some kind of little bug. Thanks, Tim -- -- Timothy R. Butler | Universal Networks | http://www.uninet.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12495932 AIM: Uninettm Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz == Christian Web Services Since 1996 == Registered Linux User #82130 Reg. Linux Machines #34002 102889 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
I would just like to add that some of the users of this list live in different time zones, so it is wishfulll thinking to expect a reply right away. I am not sure about this but i suppose AOL is predominantly used in the USA. that could be the reason for your prompt reply. and David we are all users just like you. if you post a question and we too have had a similar problem and have solved it, only then can we reply. and to be honest i have never seen a DVD drive yet nor the floppy drive you mentioned. so don't expect a quick reply as soon as you post. that too on some hardware which is not too generic. Thank You, Regards, mario Carroll Grigsby wrote: Dodd, David J wrote: I have decided to go with ManDrake 8.0 instead of 8.1 because of the difficultly with it recognizing my cd/dvd drive or my floppy drive (Dell Inspiron 4000). I gave in and loaded 8.0 last night and it installed without a hitch. Thanks to all the experts on this subject I was finally able to realize that I needed to install 8.0 and not 8.1. Its funny if I had a question about installing AOL on LM I would get at least 10 replies back within a half hour. I guess this subject is just to tough a topic for the expert community I will try the newbie forum. David: Since AOL requires their customized version of IE, it can't be accessed directly from Linux. There was a short discussion on the newbie list a few weeks ago about running AOL under Wine or other emulator. (Talk about kludges. Oh well...) If you wish to pursue this further, search the newbie archives for AOL. A Google search didn't turn up much of anything other than (1) a lot of articles about accessing AIM from Linux, and (2) some rumors that that were circulating sometime in 2000 to the effect that AOL was thinking about granting access to Linux users. Nothing ever came of it -- I expect that the Time Warner crowd and their obsession with the bottom line had a lot to do with the decision, as in Why spend a pile of money making our system accessible to a bunch of open-sourcing, trouble-making, anti-American hackers? Or, perhaps a cooler head spoke up, pointing out that there is some animosity amongst many Linuxers towards the sanitized and controlled world of AOL; most of us want the whole internet, and the ability to access it on our own terms. We don't need no stinking training wheels. As to the other postings pointing out that flaming a whole news group is Not a Very Good Idea (TM), and that expecting an instant barrage of responses from a group of other users is likewise over the top, that's the way that it is here -- sometimes you get a great answer within a few minutes, sometimes you never get one. And, sometimes you get blown off. In this case, you pretty much got what you asked for. Lay off the caffeine. Carroll 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: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
Going by all the issues on 8,1, I'd expect a Bugfix release 8,2 soon! I am sticking to 8,0. Cheers, Arnab -- From: Mario Michael da Costa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-( File: message.footer.txt I would just like to add that some of the users of this list live in different time zones, so it is wishfulll thinking to expect a reply right away. I am not sure about this but i suppose AOL is predominantly used in the USA. that could be the reason for your prompt reply. and David we are all users just like you. if you post a question and we too have had a similar problem and have solved it, only then can we reply. and to be honest i have never seen a DVD drive yet nor the floppy drive you mentioned. so don't expect a quick reply as soon as you post. that too on some hardware which is not too generic. Thank You, Regards, mario Carroll Grigsby wrote: Dodd, David J wrote: I have decided to go with ManDrake 8.0 instead of 8.1 because of the difficultly with it recognizing my cd/dvd drive or my floppy drive (Dell Inspiron 4000). I gave in and loaded 8.0 last night and it installed without a hitch. Thanks to all the experts on this subject I was finally able to realize that I needed to install 8.0 and not 8.1. Its funny if I had a question about installing AOL on LM I would get at least 10 replies back within a half hour. I guess this subject is just to tough a topic for the expert community I will try the newbie forum. David: Since AOL requires their customized version of IE, it can't be accessed directly from Linux. There was a short discussion on the newbie list a few weeks ago about running AOL under Wine or other emulator. (Talk about kludges. Oh well...) If you wish to pursue this further, search the newbie archives for AOL. A Google search didn't turn up much of anything other than (1) a lot of articles about accessing AIM from Linux, and (2) some rumors that that were circulating sometime in 2000 to the effect that AOL was thinking about granting access to Linux users. Nothing ever came of it -- I expect that the Time Warner crowd and their obsession with the bottom line had a lot to do with the decision, as in Why spend a pile of money making our system accessible to a bunch of open-sourcing, trouble-making, anti-American hackers? Or, perhaps a cooler head spoke up, pointing out that there is some animosity amongst many Linuxers towards the sanitized and controlled world of AOL; most of us want the whole internet, and the ability to access it on our own terms. We don't need no stinking training wheels. As to the other postings pointing out that flaming a whole news group is Not a Very Good Idea (TM), and that expecting an instant barrage of responses from a group of other users is likewise over the top, that's the way that it is here -- sometimes you get a great answer within a few minutes, sometimes you never get one. And, sometimes you get blown off. In this case, you pretty much got what you asked for. Lay off the caffeine. Carroll 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: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
Hey D. Dodd. Did you get any answers from the newbie forum. If you could be so kind as to enlighten us experts on how your problem got fixed. That way, we can help the next one like you that comes along. Thanks. On Monday 12 November 2001 10:50, you wrote: I have decided to go with ManDrake 8.0 instead of 8.1 because of the difficultly with it recognizing my cd/dvd drive or my floppy drive (Dell Inspiron 4000). I gave in and loaded 8.0 last night and it installed without a hitch. Thanks to all the experts on this subject I was finally able to realize that I needed to install 8.0 and not 8.1. Its funny if I had a question about installing AOL on LM I would get at least 10 replies back within a half hour. I guess this subject is just to tough a topic for the expert community I will try the newbie forum. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cd label creator
Hey all, I've been playing around with the different front-ends for cd burning and I was wondering if there were any projects out there to create cd labels that you put on the disc itself? I've found that I can print decent covers that go in the jewel case, but I'd like to find something that lets me use my stomper. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tcpwrappers
Daniel Woods wrote: now that in.telnetd is not used in later kernels I haven't heard about that ! the format of hosts.allow telnetd: xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx.xx.xx is an inet address is this the correct format ??? I would still use in.telnetd : 10.10.10.55 192.168.10. : allow in.telnetd : 136.159. : allow Yes, you can have multiple lines. However I no longer use Telnet, I use OpenSSH and SFTP (secure ftp). That would be my recommendation for you. Thanks... Dan. Hi Dan,, thanks for the reply I originally tried in.telnetd and from the syslog that failed, so I tried telnetd thats also failing... If I could use ssh I would do, but it wont go thru the telnet proxy server here.. I 'll try erasing the file altogether and rewriting it, it would'nt be the first time a non displayed control character had got in.. Thanks Richard Richard Bown Ericsson Microwave Systems AB SE-431 84 Mölndal e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +46 31 74 72422 mobile +46 7098 72422 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
I have decided to go with ManDrake 8.0 instead of 8.1 because of the difficultly with it recognizing my cd/dvd drive or my floppy drive (Dell Inspiron 4000). I gave in and loaded 8.0 last night and it installed without a hitch. Thanks to all the experts on this subject I was finally able to realize that I needed to install 8.0 and not 8.1. Its funny if I had a question about installing AOL on LM I would get at least 10 replies back within a half hour. I guess this subject is just to tough a topic for the expert community I will try the newbie forum. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
Dodd, David J wrote: I have decided to go with ManDrake 8.0 instead of 8.1 because of the difficultly with it recognizing my cd/dvd drive or my floppy drive (Dell Inspiron 4000). I gave in and loaded 8.0 last night and it installed without a hitch. Thanks to all the experts on this subject I was finally able to realize that I needed to install 8.0 and not 8.1. Its funny if I had a question about installing AOL on LM I would get at least 10 replies back within a half hour. I guess this subject is just to tough a topic for the expert community I will try the newbie forum. David: Since AOL requires their customized version of IE, it can't be accessed directly from Linux. There was a short discussion on the newbie list a few weeks ago about running AOL under Wine or other emulator. (Talk about kludges. Oh well...) If you wish to pursue this further, search the newbie archives for AOL. A Google search didn't turn up much of anything other than (1) a lot of articles about accessing AIM from Linux, and (2) some rumors that that were circulating sometime in 2000 to the effect that AOL was thinking about granting access to Linux users. Nothing ever came of it -- I expect that the Time Warner crowd and their obsession with the bottom line had a lot to do with the decision, as in Why spend a pile of money making our system accessible to a bunch of open-sourcing, trouble-making, anti-American hackers? Or, perhaps a cooler head spoke up, pointing out that there is some animosity amongst many Linuxers towards the sanitized and controlled world of AOL; most of us want the whole internet, and the ability to access it on our own terms. We don't need no stinking training wheels. As to the other postings pointing out that flaming a whole news group is Not a Very Good Idea (TM), and that expecting an instant barrage of responses from a group of other users is likewise over the top, that's the way that it is here -- sometimes you get a great answer within a few minutes, sometimes you never get one. And, sometimes you get blown off. In this case, you pretty much got what you asked for. Lay off the caffeine. Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition
Title: Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition Hi There, Has anyone had a chance to get the gaming edition. November 9 has passed and I haven't heard anything on the net about its official release. Has anyone seen it running, or has anyone used the WineX extensions for the games. I've heard rumours circulating around the web that WIneX outperforms DirectX with the same game/program. Is this true and is there any proof to back this up. And if any of you have tried it what are your experiences. Let me know. Thanks. Craig
RE: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(
See, I believe this is what David is trying to say. Carol, don't you get it? He doesn't use AOL, he was using that as a example. He was just asking a very basic question about his laptop. The thought of people like you that are using AOL on a Linux box saddens me to death. I am glad you were able to write a short book on the subject of how to use or install AOL. ;0) Someone has a lot of time on her hands. Seems AOL is so easy to use, no wonder its number #1. -Original Message- From: Carroll Grigsby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 22:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-( Dodd, David J wrote: I have decided to go with ManDrake 8.0 instead of 8.1 because of the difficultly with it recognizing my cd/dvd drive or my floppy drive (Dell Inspiron 4000). I gave in and loaded 8.0 last night and it installed without a hitch. Thanks to all the experts on this subject I was finally able to realize that I needed to install 8.0 and not 8.1. Its funny if I had a question about installing AOL on LM I would get at least 10 replies back within a half hour. I guess this subject is just to tough a topic for the expert community I will try the newbie forum. David: Since AOL requires their customized version of IE, it can't be accessed directly from Linux. There was a short discussion on the newbie list a few weeks ago about running AOL under Wine or other emulator. (Talk about kludges. Oh well...) If you wish to pursue this further, search the newbie archives for AOL. A Google search didn't turn up much of anything other than (1) a lot of articles about accessing AIM from Linux, and (2) some rumors that that were circulating sometime in 2000 to the effect that AOL was thinking about granting access to Linux users. Nothing ever came of it -- I expect that the Time Warner crowd and their obsession with the bottom line had a lot to do with the decision, as in Why spend a pile of money making our system accessible to a bunch of open-sourcing, trouble-making, anti-American hackers? Or, perhaps a cooler head spoke up, pointing out that there is some animosity amongst many Linuxers towards the sanitized and controlled world of AOL; most of us want the whole internet, and the ability to access it on our own terms. We don't need no stinking training wheels. As to the other postings pointing out that flaming a whole news group is Not a Very Good Idea (TM), and that expecting an instant barrage of responses from a group of other users is likewise over the top, that's the way that it is here -- sometimes you get a great answer within a few minutes, sometimes you never get one. And, sometimes you get blown off. In this case, you pretty much got what you asked for. Lay off the caffeine. Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
