[expert] Problem with 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade
I did an upgrade (used mdk club bittorrent DL of the 3-disk powerpack CDs), and everything appeared to work properly until the point where lilo gets configured. At that point lilo had a problem. So I did a reboot (since I couldn't get out of the install) using rescue. I was completely suprised when I saw that no kernel was installed to my /boot partition. In fact none of the kernel rpms had been installed! So I manually installed the kernel, kernel docs and kernel source, along with the NVIDIA rpms. However when I did rpm -ivh on the kernel, at the end of the install, there was an error stating that lilo configuration could not be done, and to check the lilo.conf file for errors. I could find nothing wrong with the lilo.conf file and attempted to simply configure with lilo -v. I am now getting this message when I run lilo -v: Reading boot sector from /dev/sdd5 PART_NOWRITE: READ:: Input-output error Does anyone know what is causing this? I had no problems with 9.1 before attempting the upgrade. Thanks George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Avery business cards
** Reply to message from Jonathan Dlouhy on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 12:34:10 -0700 Jonathan, Both OpenOffice and StarOffice have templates for preparing and printing those business cards. George Is there a program or a way to use a word processor to print business cards using Avery cards? There are 10 cards/sheet and each card is 2 x 31/2. Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Saturday, June 07, 2003 03:29 PM Things are more like they are now then they ever were before. --Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Suddenly Can't boot into Mandrake 8.2
I'm suddenly getting the following error messages (which prevent a good boot into 8.2) and have no idea what to to do solve the problem: Loading default keymap: /etc/rc.sysinit : /dev/tty0: No such file or directory Activating swap partitions: SWAPON: Cannot STAT /dev/sdd3: No such file or directory SWAPON: Cannot STAT /dev/hda6: No such file or directory Checking filesystems fsck.ext2 /dev/sdd1 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. No such file or directory when trying to open /dev/sdd1. I've reformatted both swap partitions. I've also reformatted the /boot partition and recopied the appripriate files, etc. onto it, but still get the same errors!!! What am I doing wrong? Help with resolving this will greatly be appreciated! Reply via email will be OK!! George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 and Wordperfect 8
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:46:47 -0700, Dennis Myhand wrote: Does anyone know where I can download WP8 for Linux? Dennis, Go to the link shown below: ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/wp8/download.htm George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM 8.2 KDE3 konqueror load puzzle
See the remarks generated after an attempt to load konqueror (shown below). Anybody have an idea what these mean? George [george@CC185270-B george]$ /opt/kde3/bin/konqueror -profile superuser Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. QObject::connect: No such signal KDockArea::docked() QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'view widget') ***ShowHidePage KDirWatch: /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file. Use addFile! ***ShowHidePage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 8.2 Jpilot - Problem
I upgraded from 8.2 Cooker to 8.2 final. Jpilot was working properly before the upgrade. Now, when attempting to run it as a user, Jpilot ends with segmentation fault, and displays no other error. However when run as root, Jpilot loads properly. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks! George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:03:57 -0800, J. Craig Woods wrote: George, your fstab lines for mounting cdrom, cdrom2 (and floppy, although you say it is working) look suspicious. They are in fact telling the os to mount none, and this seems to be the error msg you are getting too (smart errror msg: it is telling us exactly what the problem is). The fstab lines should read /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount all-the-options-presently-in-your-lines. (notice that none has be replaced with /mnt/cdrom and none should be replaced with /mntcdrom2 and /mnt/floppy in the next two fstab lines too. Then reboot and mtab should reflect these values too.) Can you see the logic? Give this a go, and let me know if we have surmounted the supermount issue. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Well, I made the changes and rebooted. Still get the same error message, just replace none with /mnt/whatever! George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 08:03:06 -0800, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: hi george if you want to use supermount, you might as well use supermount to modify the /etc/fstab for you. # supermount -i enable the above command would help you correct the entries on /etc/fstab. hth dianne Thanks Dianne! Unfortunately, in this case, it was invoking supermount (3/15/02 version) which created the bad fstab entries to begin with! I don't know why that occurred. However I manually changed the contents of FSTAB. What I have now noticed, however is that the errors occur only when I click on the desktop icons for the CDs as user (the desktop icons appear to work when logged in as root). Creating new icons as user seems to make no difference. However, if I simply open konqueror and click on /mnt/cdrom, etc., after inserting a CD, konqueror correctly displays the contents of the CD. So it appears that supermount itself is working correctly. George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem SOLVED
I don't know what happed. But after several reboots, I decided to delete all desktop icons for removable devices and then recreate them as user. Now each one of them works as it should! Go figure Thanks everyone for your help. George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem
I did an upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 to a Cooker 8.2 and recently to the final 8.2. While the supermount is working with the floppy drive, as a user I get the following error when I try to read either of my CD-R or CD-RW drives: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom2 mount failed My FSTAB and MTAB entries are shown below: FSTAB * /dev/sdd2 / reiserfs notail 1 1 /dev/sdd1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none/mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro,nosuid,codepage=850,nodev,exec 0 0 none/mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd1,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro,nosuid,codepage=850,nodev,exec 0 0 none/mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,rw,nosuid,exec,codepage=850,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/syjet vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,rw,nosuid,user,exec,noauto,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /usr/linuxdata reiserfs exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 /dev/sda1 /usr/os2boot ntfs user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1 /dev/sdc1 /usr/os2data ntfs user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1 /dev/sdd3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 MTAB * /dev/sdd2 / reiserfs rw,notail 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd1,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,nosuid,nodev,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850,unhide 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /usr/linuxdata reiserfs rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, let me know. George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WordPerfect 8 Install on MDK 8.1
I'd suggest that you do a search on RPMfind and get the following 2 Mandrake RPMs: libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk.i586.rpm Good luck! George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: [newbie] WordPerfect Install in LM8
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:51:46 -0700 , Marcia Walker wrote: Marcia, The libc5-1.0-2.i386 src.rpm will have to be compiled first, before you can install it. Instead, I'd suggest that you get the following 2 Mandrake RPMs from any Mandrake Cooker site: libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk.i586.rpm Once downloaded, you can install them from a terminal window (either as ROOT or SU) with the following command: rpm -Uvh package name [Enter] Or, if you open File Manager in superuser mode, and go to the directory in which you downloaded the RPM files, you can install them by right-clicking on the appropriate RPM file name, and then selecting open with, and then selecting either the Software Installer or the Package Manager. Once you have those two packages installed, you'll have no further problems with the Word Perfect installation. Good Luck! George Dear All, I have been trying to get my WordPerfect installed for days. I had the demo installed and working great in LM 7.2. Now that I have LM 8 I am trying to install the WordPerfect CD I bought from Linux system Labs. I downloaded the libc5-1.0-2.i386 src.rpm but have not figured out how to install this. I have read everything in the Newbie archives about these and studied all of my books but nothing has worked yet. How does one install the libc5-1.0-2.i386 source rpm? After that is installed then how do I install the WordPerfect ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 Adobe Acrobat Reader
** Reply to message from Andrew Lister [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 22 May 2001 14:28:58 +1000 (EST) Andrew, I get the following (notice the difference in the libc.so.6): ldd -v /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40021000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2000) Version information: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so: libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) = /lib/libc.so.6 libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) = /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6: ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1.1) = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2.3) = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2) = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 george *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes What package could have been MISSING from the L-M 8.0 installation that might be causing this? I doubt that there are any packages missing (as you only need acrobat and netscape). Try doing an ldd: % ldd /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40024000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2000) should be what you get. Also make sure you are using the version of netscape (probably a script in /usr/X11R6/bin) is the correct one. Other than that there's very little other help I can give you. Andrew -- Andrew ListerDeutsche Bank, AustraliaPh: +61 2 9258 2404
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 Adobe Acrobat Reader
** Reply to message from Andrew Lister [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 21 May 2001 09:59:24 +1000 (EST) Andrew, I tried your file with the same result (segfault). I also re-downloaded and re-installed Acrobat with the same result. In desperation, I found an RPM distribution on RPMfind and installed that (no unsatisfied dependancy errors), but STILL get a segfault. What package could have been MISSING from the L-M 8.0 installation that might be causing this? George [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I already have it in usr/lib/netscape/plugins with read/execute attributes set for non-root users any other ideas? If you do Help-About Plug-ins, what do you see? I get nppdf.so File name: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/pdf Portable Document Formatpdf Yes SAME THING Also, what output do you get from 'file /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so' A segfault! George Hmmm. Not good. What is the size of the file? -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 112256 May 10 08:54 nppdf.so* * -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 112256 May 5 20:44 nppdf.so* ** I might try sending you my copy (which actually came from a SuSE distro). A. -- Andrew ListerDeutsche Bank, AustraliaPh: +61 2 9258 2404 - Your program is sick! Shoot it and put it out of its memory.
[expert] Mandrake 8 Adobe Acrobat Reader
Has anyone gotten the acrobat plugin (nppdf.so) to work with the Netscape 4.77 that is packaged with LM 8.0? I get a ...could not load the plug-in nppdf.so...error message. The acrobat reader itself will launch run fine as a helper application. George
Re: [expert] Word Perfect 8 Installation--SOLVED!
Thanks to Marcel Pol for providing a solution to my dilemna! The solution is posted below in the hope that it might assist someone else! George ** Reply to message from Marcel Pol [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 16 May 2001 19:21:01 +0200 Marcel, Thanks for the information! I had already gotten the latest cooker libc5 rpm, but didn't know about the requirement for the ld.so rpm as well. I was able to find a cooker package for ld.so as well on RPMFIND. It was the LACK of the ld.so package that was causing the installation problem. Thanks again! George On Tue, 15 May 2001 21:17:29 -0400 George Czerw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone successfully installed Corel Word Perfect 8 for linux under L-M 8.0? If so would you please explain how you did it? You need libc5 for that. That's an rpm that's not included in Mdk 8.0 as far as i know. You should be able to get it from mdk 7.2. You also need ld.so, which provides the file /lib/ld-linux.so.1. If you want you can grab the libc5 rpm from caldera from rpmfind.net, which does provide /lib/ld-linux.so.1. This way you only need one rpm. Greetings, Marcel Pol
[expert] Word Perfect 8 Installation
Has anyone successfully installed Corel Word Perfect 8 for linux under L-M 8.0? If so would you please explain how you did it? Thanks George
[expert] MandrakeForum Kaput?
Anyone have any information on the problem with the MandrakeForum web site? Haven't been able to access it since this past Monday. George
[expert] KDE 2.1 Final : Still 2 apps that won't run from desktop applink
Beginning with KDE 2.1 Beta 2, I have 2 applications that will NOT launch from any KDE applink or menu entry that I create, and I can't figure out why they won't launch, because if I enter the identical command line from inside a (bash) terminal window WILL launch either application. I had hoped that KDE 2.1 final would resolve this issue, but it has not. The first app is: Corel WordPerfect 8 , which normally launches by entering: /usr/share/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp The second app is: Polarbar Mailer, a java mailreader that I usually launch by running the following "executable" scriptfile (start_polarbar) which contains: #!/bin/bash # Script to start the PolarBar Mailer under Linux. The script accepts # as parameter 1 = $pbmdir the path to the polarbar install directory, # which defaults to the value of /usr/local/polarbar # as parameter 2 = $maildir the path $2 the path to the Mailer directory, # which defaults to $HOME/Mailer # as parameter 3 = $jdkdir the path to the version of the jdk to use. # which defaults to /usr/local/jdk118 # This allows multiple different code base versions installed in different # locations to be run under different jdks by passing parameters # Set permissions for writing config and POP files umask o-rwx # Set directory values if [ $1 ]; then pbmdir=$1 else pbmdir=/$HOME/polarbar fi if [ $2 ]; then maildir=$2 else maildir=$pbmdir/Mailer fi if [ $3 ]; then jdkdir=$3 else jdkdir=/usr/jdk118 fi # Export some variables needed by some JDKs # setexport PATH=$jdkdir/bin:$PATH export JAVA_HOME=$jdkdir/ # Change to installation directory cd $pbmdir # Run mailer setting "Mailer" directory to user's mail directory. java -nojit -classpath $pbmdir:$pbmdir/polarbar.jar:$pbmdir/hotjavabean.jar:$CLASSPATH org.polarbar.mailer -d $maildir # End of script Polarbar will NOT even launch from a KDE applink if I check the "Run in terminal" box! Does anyone have any idea as to what might be causing these problems, and what I might do to resolve them? I now have a forehead shaped indentation in the surface of my desk from continued head banging! George
[expert] L-M KDE2.1 Final - Install Dependency Problem
In attempting to install what I presume are the L-M KDE2.1 final RPMs (dated 3/2/01), which are posted in any mirror's: "/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde-2.1/" directory. I'm noticing that I'm getting 2 dependency errors: libkdefakes.so.0 is needed by quanta, kdeaddutils and koffice apmd is needed by kdeutils It seems to me that libkdefakes should have been included in the libarts2-2.1-2mdk.i586.rpm, but alas it was not! Was this an oversight? An updated apmd rpm is nowhere to be found. Anybody else either have this problem or have ideas for a solution? George
[expert] TCP/IP stalling in LM 7.2 -- HELP!!!
I just did a fresh Mandrake 7.2 install, which went rather smoothly (I thought), until I rebooted, logged in, and tried to do anything on the net. I have a cable hookup with static IP addressing. NIC is a CompaQ, Netelligent PCI 10/100 using the tlan driver. I am noticing that it takes almost 1 minute to retrieve a single e-mail message, and that when trying to load WEB pages or DL files, that the DL rate starts at about 3.5 Kbps but within seconds dramatically drops to perhaps 250 bps and then goes into a stall, and just sits there. This is not a Netscape only phenomenon, it occurs regardless of browser and e-mail/news package used. Right now I am totally stumped because I find NO I/O address or IRQ conflicts with any installed hardware, and have checked and rechecked my TCP/IP configuration only to find no errors there. I can shut down Linux, reboot the same box into OS/2 Warp4, and immediately get on the net and see DL speeds in excess of 200 Kbps. I did NOT have this problem using Mandrake 7.0-2 on this box and could (reluctantly) restore from tape, but I would prefer to get 7.2 running smoothly. If anyone can provide me with some insight into what I should be looking for and where, I'd appreciate it. I'd really like to get this straightened out, but I'm totally lost! George ...surfing with Warp4 for now...
Re: [expert]
350870381** Reply to message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:25:02 -0700 Matt, I'm using 7.0-2 and have been successfully using Jpilot and Kpilot with my Palm V. Of the two, I personally prefer Jpilot. Never tried Gpilot. Goto: http://jpilot.linuxave.net/ and download the latest Jpilot and the appropriate documentation. Read the requirements page! You'll need the latest pilot-link if it's not already in 7.1 I use a baud rate of 115200, and had to create a /dev/pilot character device and then symlink it to /dev/ttyS1. But all of this is explained in the docs. George Hi, I'm having a hard time getting my Palm III to HotSync with Mandrake. I'm running the following: - Mandrake 7.1 Developer install, security medium - Helix Gnome 1.2 - Whatever versions of pilot-link, gpilotd and gpilot are installed by default (I'm at work) - Palm OS 3.1.1 I've set the permissions on /dev/ttyS1 to chmod 666 and I am able to download pictures from my digital camera without problem on that port. Using the PIlot Applet, I am walked thru a setup where I set the baud to 9600, select ttyS1 and indicate that I ahve synced the Pilot before (which I have done under Windows many times). Hit the HotSync button as directed and eventually the PIlot times out. I have tried disabling the timeout on the Pilot and let it go for 10 minutes w/o success. Thinking the gpilot software might be hosed, I have also tried using the pilot-xfer /dev/ttyS1 -i foo.prc and the same things has occured - namely nothing. Any help is appreciated - since I made the commitment to GnuCash a while ago, the Pilot is the only thing that keeps my using that othter OS. Matt
Re: [expert] hello?
** Reply to message from Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:38:09 -0600 (MDT) VINCE!!! LOOK at the REPLY-TO and X-LOOP headers on your original message (below): Something is definitely screwed up. When I unconsciously replied to your message by clicking on reply, I got a bounce! George *** X-DateReceived: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:47:17 -0400 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from h7.mail.home.com ([24.0.95.42]) by mail.rdc2.pa.home.com(InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTPid [EMAIL PROTECTED]for [EMAIL PROTECTED];Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:46:27 -0700 Received: from mx6-rwc.mail.home.com (mx6-rwc.mail.home.com [24.0.95.35])by h7.mail.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA22819for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com [216.71.84.35])by mx6-rwc.mail.home.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA11094for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA14456for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:46:22 -0500 Received: from mail.nucleus.com (mail.nucleus.com [207.34.93.23]) bymandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA07695 for[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:38:39 -0500 Received: from devel.danen.net (unverified [209.115.163.66]) bymail.nucleus.com (Vircom SMTPRS 4.2.181) with ESMTP id[EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED];Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:38:39 -0600 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:38:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: Linux@Mandrake X-Loop: Linux@Mandrake X-Sequence: 398 Precedence: list X-Validation-BY: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] hello? Hello? Haven't gotten any mail in 2 days? Is everyone still alive? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
Re: [expert] Palm pilot
** Reply to message from Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 26 May 2000 21:09:40 +1000 (EST) Wayne, you can e-mail me directly I'll try to help (but for the fact that I just realized I left the Palm at the office). I've got my Palm V running with both kpilot and jpilot. I like jpilot much better. George
Re: [expert] OT: Linux Newbie
** Reply to message from Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 18 May 2000 17:27:02 -0500 PJ, Well stated! Bravo and thank-you. George
Re: [expert] add 2nd HDD and Colorado 350?
** Reply to message from "David G. Thiessen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:23:21 -0400 i picked up a Colorado 350 and a Western Digital 540MB HDD. i would like to add these to my box, but, I can find no info for how to hook up the Colorado Drive. If you have a "Multi-floppy" drive cable with an unused connector (presuming that you only have one FDD in your box), you can just plug it in, and if the drive has jumpers, set them to show that the drive is the 2nd in the chain! If you don't have a multi-drive cable, they're pretty common and inexpensive. As far as using it with Linux, well I can't say that I have any experience in that area. I use all SCSI devices. George
Re: [expert] libreadline.so.4.1 - Where is it?
** Reply to message from Andrew George [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:59:09 +1000 Actually I ran into the same problem after finding a newer copy of J-pilot as a tarball on the j-pilot wesite, I installed that. I never got around to finding out where libreadline.so.4.1 hides but I've been synching my Palm V happily for over a month now :) Andrew After drawing many blanks from rpmfind, freshmeat, etc., I stumbled on it while doing some searches on Lycos for other things. Anyway, the link's below: ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/in stimage/usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.1 Now does anyone know if this replaces 4.0 and whether I have to redo the other symlinks to 4.0? George
Re: [expert] libreadline.so.4.1 - Where is it?
** Reply to message from George Czerw [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:36:56 -0400 The expenditure of some additional time along with some more, self-inflicted education finds the following in cooker, dated 4/20: readline-4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm readline-devel-4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm Bear with me guys, I've only been tinkering with linux for about 8 weeks... George
[expert] libreadline.so.4.1 - Where is it?
Hi, I'm interested in installing j-pilot and the companion pilot-link in order to sync my PalmV with my PC running Linux-Mandrake 7.0-2. However, when looking at the Cooker RPMs, I find the following unsatisfied dependencies: libreadline.so.4.1 L-M 7.0-2 has libreadline.so.4.0 installed. Anyone have any idea where I can find 4.1? So far, I haven't had any luck. Thanks, George
Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of
** Reply to message from "Fabrice SERVANT" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:34:33 PDT am wandering if you use Plugger3.2 as a general plugin. If you do so, I think it is buggy. Answer me so we can contact the Plugger man. bye bye fabricio Fabricio, I have plugger 3.2 installed. No luck with *.png files! George
Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of
** Reply to message from Charles Curley [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:20:32 -0600 Odd. I checked; 4.61 does not use a plugin to display pngs. Oddly enough, my mime type is set to "unknown: prompt user". Perhaps there is a bug in 4.6.1 that displays pngs in spite of the mime type, which was fixed in 4.7x, and all you need to do is set the mime type to have netscape display it? Then again, maybe not. I set the mime type to display with an external program (xv "%s"), then back to "unknown". Now if I right click on a .png embedded in a web page, it wants to ask me instead of just displaying it. I don't recall if that worked before I started mucking with the preferences. Drat. But it does display correctly in a web page. I have noticed that 4.61 is defective in that does not correctly handle transparent backgrounds. On 4.61, it makes the background black. Perhaps your test file has a transparent background and 4.72 has a worse failure? Currently, my 4.72 is as configured follows: Description: PNG Image MIME Type: image/x-png Suffixes: png Plug In: Plugger 3.2is checked. When I switch from plug-in: Plugger 3.2 to application: /usr/X11R6/bin/xv %s NOTHING HAPPENS! Not even an error! From the command line, /usr/X11R^/bin/xv gets the xv splash screen to appear. George
Re: [expert] PNG Netscape problem solved (for me anyway)
** Reply to message from Gary Bunker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:19:37 -0500 (CDT) I went into Netscape's preferences, and erased the PNG MIME types completely. After I restarted Netscape, the PNGs that gave me fits before work. It's all a miracle, and it makes no sense unless Plugger took control of files that it is actually incapable of displaying. Wow, it worked! I went into applications and DELETED the entry for PNG Image. Then saved the settings. When I got back to the main window and reloaded the page with the *.PNG file, it came right up on the screen! Didn't even have to reboot. Strange...guess I'll try doing that if any other plug-ins fail to work! George
Re: [expert] Any linux user on PPPoE
** Reply to message from Orlando Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:44:55 -0400 For PPPoE information, you can check out information at the following site: http://www.suse.de/~bk/PPPoE-project.html There are apparently several PPPoE clients available... George
Re: [expert] time/date
** Reply to message from Lane Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03 Apr 2000 17:49:40 EDT Lester, since you're in the states, goto: http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/nts.htm And pick one from the NIST "server address" list! They all work George Civileme said: "rdate -s (yourfavoritetimeserver); hwclock --systohc" (without What is a good choice for "yourfavoritetimeserver"? Please give the full URL or whatever goes in the linuxconf field. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] fonts
** Reply to message from Pat Mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 03 Apr 2000 21:05:46 -0400 I know this subject has been covered, but I can't find the the old email. Running Mandrake 6.1 and looking for a way to improve the poor Netscape fonts. If someone could point me to the solution I would appreciate it. Thanks Pat Pat, goto the URL below: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cbrowse2.html#Larger George
Re: [expert] Mail programs
** Reply to message from Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 1 Apr 2000 16:05:19 +1000 Wayne, One of the best mailers out there, is the pure-java Polarbar Mailer, which is an ongoing, follow-up developmental project to improve the java Postroad Mailer, which was originally designed and distributed by Innoval. While not "open source", per se, interested individuals are invited to participate in the ongoing development project, but the program is "free" for use by the computer community. And it works very well! I've been involved with the project and the software from day one, and have been using it as my primary mailer in both Linux and OS/2. Check out www.polarbar.org for details! George I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a good GUI mail client. At the mo I am using kmail under Gnome and am looking for something a little more !)attractive, 2)functional. I have tried Mahogany, Eucalyptus, XFMail, XCMail, postilion, tkrat, and just about every other one out there. I either cannot get it to work or it is confusing and cumbersome and was wondering who is using what and what they think of it. I would love to get a good GUI client for my machine but most are either in development still or have other problems. Does Corel WP2000 come with a mail client? Or what would others suggest is a good stable way to send, receive and catalog emails? Wayne *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University *** ***
Re: [expert] Read-Write Access to OS/2 HPFS Partitions
** Reply to message from "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:42:46 -0500 Are you specifying all the mount options? Does it specify ro in the fstab entry, perhaps? -- Brian, thanks for the reply. No, the fstab entries are shown below: /dev/sda1/ /usr/os2boot hpfs user,etc,dev,suid,rw,noauto,conv=binary,uid=501,gid=503,umask=0 1 1 /dev/sdb1/ /usr/os2data hpfs user,etc,dev,suid,rw,noauto,conv=binary,uid=501,gid=503,umask=0 1 1 George *** On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherently | supports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Can | anyone confirm or deny that Mandrake implemented this "feature"? | | I'm using the LM 7.0-2 version (kernel 2.2.14-15mdk), and have no | trouble mounting and reading from the OS/2 HPFS partitions, but so | far have not been able to "write" to them, either as root or anyone | else! I keep getting an error message telling me that the file | system is a "read-only" file system. | | Has anyone else had success in this area? | | George -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. Are you specifying all the mount options? Does it specify ro in the fstab entry, perhaps? On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherently | supports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Can | anyone confirm or deny that Mandrake implemented this "feature"? | | I'm using the LM 7.0-2 version (kernel 2.2.14-15mdk), and have no | trouble mounting and reading from the OS/2 HPFS partitions, but so | far have not been able to "write" to them, either as root or anyone | else! I keep getting an error message telling me that the file | system is a "read-only" file system. | | Has anyone else had success in this area? | | George -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. Are you specifying all the mount options? Does it specify ro in the fstab entry, perhaps? On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherently | supports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Can | anyone confirm or deny that Mandrake implemented this "feature"? | | I'm using the LM 7.0-2 version (kernel 2.2.14-15mdk), and have no | trouble mounting and reading from the OS/2 HPFS partitions, but so | far have not been able to "write" to them, either as root or anyone | else! I keep getting an error message telling me that the file | system is a "read-only" file system. | | Has anyone else had success in this area? | | George -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] Read-Write Access to OS/2 HPFS Partitions
Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherently supports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Can anyone confirm or deny that Mandrake implemented this "feature"? I'm using the LM 7.0-2 version (kernel 2.2.14-15mdk), and have no trouble mounting and reading from the OS/2 HPFS partitions, but so far have not been able to "write" to them, either as root or anyone else! I keep getting an error message telling me that the file system is a "read-only" file system. Has anyone else had success in this area? George
