[expert] Belkin 7010 PCMCIA wireless card support?
Hi All, Anyone know how I can get my Belkin F5D7010 wireless PCMCIA card to work in Linux? Thanks in advance, Sandeep Khanna Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mandrake source kernel
Search http://www.rpmfind.net for kernel-sources for the Mandrake distribution. --Sandeep Khanna Alex Fudio wrote: does anybody know where i can download the source code for the kernel for mandrake 9? thank you alex 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
[expert] Compiler options for AMD K6-II 533Mhz
Hi All, Question: What are the best compiler options for compiling software in general, Garnome in specific for my laptop which is a Compaq 12XL125 AMD K6-II 533 Mhz 192 Mb RAM 30Gb HDD ? Background I have always heard, beleived that Linux is much faster than Windows. I have been using Linux (first Redhat, currently Mandrake 9) with GNOME since past 2 years on my laptop. But, I have always found Windows 2000 on my other partition to be much faster (with similar applications like Mozilla, OpenOffice pre-loaded) than Linux. Altough, I agree that I have seen quite a noticeable difference between Gnome 1.4 and Gnome2. I also compiled Garnome (currently 0.18.3) but still didn't find it anywhere near to my Win2K installation. From various newsgroups I also got to know that Mandrake is currently a better if not the best optimised distribution for older AMD, Pentium based machines. Unfortunately, it didn't look like it. OpenOffice/StarOffice don't start in the first go due to low memory and eventually startup since they would have bumped off (swapped) the other programs and would be having parts of it in the cache. Thus, XXXOffice would startup eventually after one or two tries. This makes me question the Linux Memory Management. Mozilla as distributed with Mandrake was slow as hell to start, scroll longer web-pages, etc. The one that I downloaded and installed directly from mozilla.org was much much faster. Again, Looks like Mandrake's compiler options weren't good enough for me ! So, Before I switch to a distribution like Gentoo, I want to try to compile Garnome using compiler options specific for my processor this time. Thanks in advance, Sandeep Khanna Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] sound recording in Mandrake9 KDE3...anyone?
Hi All, I am trying to use artsrec and artscat to record and playback sound in KDE3, Mandrake 9. I could succesffully record and playback in GNOME using ESound and it's utilitiesesdrec and esdcat. In KDE artscat works but artsrec recorded files are completely silent. I have my mic (recording source) and Input Gain set to full using KMix. Anyone has any suggestions, ideas, comments? --Sandeep Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] StarOffice Quickstart for Gnome2?
Hi Everyone, Just downloaded my copy of StarOffice from MandrakeClub. Does anyone know of a GNOME2 quickstart applet/script for StarOffice or OpenOffice? I have already tried the ooqstart-gnome rpms and also tried to build it from source but was unsuccessfull. Anyone? --Sandeep Today's tip: Uninstall the default Mozilla installation in Mandrake9 (All the mozilla packages) and install Mozilla 1.1 from http://www.mozilla.org in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/ (same location as default Mandrake mozilla installation). Now, Try using it directly or from Galeon. You will be amazed at it's speed and smooth scrolling!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Digital camera advertisment
Hi, I added the following to my /etc/fstab since the Mandrake 8.2 days and it still works fine with MDK9 too. /mnt/digicam /mnt/digicam supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,--,user,umask=0,ro 0 0 I just plugin in my digicam and copy stuff from /mnt/digicam which is shown as a drive on my desktop. Hope this helps. --Sandeep tarvid wrote: On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:38 am, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Hello friends, I would like to buy a digital camera with usb conection; I would like to have it fully runing with my Mandrake 9.0 and gphoto2. But, I am very confused; lots a lots of cameras; someone are listed as mandrake 9.0 supported hardware; some more in the gPhoto2) supported cameras. Obviously the newest cameras are still not supported, particularly those with USB Mass-storage driver. Do you have experience in those digital cameras?, if the answer is yes, I would like to know your comments and experience; please!, help me to select one appropriate. Thanks so much in advance I hooked up an Olympus D-380 via USB and it popped up as a removable storage device. I didn't try very hard but Gphoto2 didn't easily connect to it. I could browse to the flash on the camera and download files with ease. Jim Tarvid 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] hostname
Hi, Try the file /etc/sysconfig/network Also, Most of the network related files in /etc/sysconfig/ can help you understand things a little better. --Sandeep Praedor Tempus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this question pops up periodically and I have asked it myself. How does one assign a hostname to their system without breaking it and so that it comes up every time one boots? I managed to get my laptop to be called lapdog.ravenhome.net but cannot recall how. My hosts file contains both 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 10.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.net This isn't enough, however. I somehow managed to get my xterm prompt to display the lapdog.ravenhome.net name as well but cannot recall how. Simply setting hostname desired hostname will break the current session and require a logout/login to get past it. It will also only last as long as the current session. If I reboot it will be back to localhost.localdomain. I want my desktop system to identify itself as something other than localhost.localdomain and I want it to do it with every bootup, login, etc. How do I do this? Ultimately, I will be setting up (hopefully) a local home network and I will require the desktop to be a particular name for this to work. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE928oW1i/6R1B/Yh0RAnlHAJ9Hr3g9Dxb8xNS2h6Dr5fmQwVqvZwCfWX1n 9ZdSjl56MhOgptmddXTZKlk= =BkT/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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
[expert] Samba nmbd daemon dies if network not connected !
Hi All, I am not sure if this is off-topic. I am not sure if this is normal in other Linux distributions or is it just the way Samba works. Out of the two Samba daemons (smbd nmbd) nmbd, responsible for making your computer visible and accessible in the Window Network neighborhood dies when no network is not connected or disconneted anytime. Mine is a laptop which I put in suspend mode, or occasionally remove the network cable while moving from one room to other. When I do this, the nmbd daemon dies and thus others cannot see or access my machine in Network neighborhood. This typical behaviour is not seen in laptops running Windows OS ? Can anybody shed any light on this. Is this just Mandrake specific problem or not? --Sandeep Khanna Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla Xft binaries anyone ???
Hi Everybody, Is it just me or is anybody else experiencing this too! A few days back I was concerned, but, now I am alarmed seeing that my mozilla on Mandrake 9.0 is slow as a snail in all aspects.browsing, scrolling, starting, etc. Last week we installed Redhat 8.0 on my friends laptop with the same configuration as mine. Mozilla on Redhat was blazing fast !!! I also used the pre-compiled binary (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2b/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.2b.tar.gz) from Mozilla.org and found that it was very very fast too! What is happening here? Anyone know of any other mozilla pre-compiled binary for Mandrake 9.0. I am also looking for some good Xft enabled binaries for Mozilla. Anyone?? I have tried Texstar's binary. But, it does not start and gives and error saying Illegal Hardware instruction !! --Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla in Mandrake 9 is SHLOWWW !!!!
Hi Everybody, Is it just me or is anybody else experiencing this too! A few days back I was concerned, but, now I am alarmed seeing that my mozilla on Mandrake 9.0 is slow as a snail in all aspects.browsing, scrolling, starting, etc. Last week we installed Redhat 8.0 on my friends laptop with the same configuration as mine. Mozilla on Redhat was blazing fast !!! I also used the pre-compiled binary (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2b/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.2b.tar.gz) from Mozilla.org and found that it was very very fast too! What is happening here? Anyone know of any other mozilla pre-compiled binary for Mandrake 9.0. I am also looking for some good Xft enabled binaries for Mozilla. Anyone?? --Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla Xft binaries anyone ???
Hi, nDiScReEt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 November 2002 2:28 pm, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Hi Everybody, Is it just me or is anybody else experiencing this too! A few days back I was concerned, but, now I am alarmed seeing that my mozilla on Mandrake 9.0 is slow as a snail in all aspects.browsing, scrolling, starting, etc. Last week we installed Redhat 8.0 on my friends laptop with the same configuration as mine. Mozilla on Redhat was blazing fast !!! I also used the pre-compiled binary (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2b/mozilla-i686-pc-li nux-gnu-1.2b.tar.gz) from Mozilla.org and found that it was very very fast too! What is happening here? Anyone know of any other mozilla pre-compiled binary for Mandrake 9.0. I am also looking for some good Xft enabled binaries for Mozilla. Anyone?? I have tried Texstar's binary. But, it does not start and gives and error saying Illegal Hardware instruction !! --Sandeep Chances are you need to clear your Cache. Once that is achieved, you should experience the same results as mentioned on your other friends' computers. Hey, Tried that. The performance is still the same. But, anyways, why should I keep on cleaning the cache all the time !! This is something mozilla should do on it's own self regularly. Internet Explorer does not behave like this if it's cache become big !! I feel that Mozilla on Mandrake 9.0 was compiled poorly with bad optimization flags or something seriously wrong is going around. The main thing is this is spoiling Mozilla's reputation badly as a BIG, BLOATED, SLOW browser. If Mozilla is out who else is there to stand the competiton against M$ I.E. ? --Sandeep - -- - Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated - Drew's Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes. - 2.4.19-19nds Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE91AzaxjybQmhmUgYRAp5QAJ49YJVZbUckWm7gs4jdch+9NaEOgwCfTq8v rngXtHC4E/gPPfmRNhDq+Pk= =ng/7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???
Hi Everybody, Does anyone know if there is quickstart/turbo feature in Mozilla for Linux just like in Windows? If yes, how do we use it? --Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???
Hi, Seth Zirin wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:04, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Does anyone know if there is quickstart/turbo feature in Mozilla for Linux just like in Windows? If yes, how do we use it? We wait patiently when we launch mozilla the first time after we login and then keep at least one mozilla window opened or minimized until we logout. For future reference, proper etiquette for this mailing list is to refrain from tampering with the Reply-To: header and to refrain from appending signatures that are longer than your message. Hey, I am sorry if my signature hurts your eyes. What did you say about tampering the reply-to: header? I never did any stunts with that. What are you talking about? Sandeep Seth 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] KDE3 takes long to load up !!!
Hi, Are you connected to your LAN OR local network OR internet while starting KDE or are you just starting the machine without any network interfaces attached to it? In any case, try appending your machine name at the end of the first line in /etc/hosts. For example a standard /etc/hosts provided with mandrake is as follows . sandeepksandeepk ~ $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost sandeepksandeepk ~ $ And, my machine name is sandeepk this is without the domainname. Since, the domainname is dynamically obtained via DHCP (especially for mobile laptops.I have one domainname in the office, one at home, one at school, ...) So, I just append my machine name sandeepk without the domainname at the end of . 127.0.0.1localhost..sandeepk So, now it looks like this sandeepksandeepk ~ $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhostsandeepk sandeepksandeepk ~ $ Without this, I have seen both KDE and GNOME having problems (slow, no login at all, etc) while logging in. Also, I have seen this problem only in Mandrake but, not in Redhat !!! Altough this may not be exactly what you wanted, but maybe one of the solutions to your problem. Hope this helps. Regards, Sandeep Roger Munoz wrote: hello I'm running mandrake 9.0 with kde3.0.4 on an IBM thinkpad T22.. When i load up kde it takes two minutes before the splash screen appears. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Thanks Roger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla slow on Mandrake 9 !!! but not on Redhat 8
Hi All, Yesterday, I installed Redhat 8.0 on my friends laptop which is pretty close in configuration to mine (AMD K6-II 550 Mhz, 192 Mb RAM, 12 Gb HDD) The most noticeable differences were 1. The fonts were by default awesome as against in a default Mandrake installation in which I had to tweak here and there for the nice fonts 2. Mozilla browser started in flat 6 seconds on his laptop and on mine it takes 12-14 seconds minimum. Also, The browser had a smooth scrolling effect when scrolling heavy hog pages like http://www.msn.com, http://home.netscape.com. 3. Their Install/Uninstall packages was kind of good for a complete newbie. Altough, rpm file listing was not present in that either (Wonder when Mandrake guys get it back, I really dig that feature) Apart from these, I found their... 1. GNOME terminal very sluggish and slow in just showing a listing of files (simple ll command) 2. MP3 support to completely missing. I had to externally install mpg123 and XMMS plugins 3. I had to separately install DVD rpms 4. No builtin NTFS support for the Windows 2000 partition. I had to install the NTFS module from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ 5. Altough, My friends iPod (Windows version) was shown as recognized at /dev/sda2 (in /var/log/messages) we had to manually mount it on a new mount point (mkdir /mnt/ipod mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod) and add the entry in /etc/fstab . I beleive in Mandrake it would be automagically available on the desktop, maybe ! 6. There was no default Samba browser OR Network neighbourhood application like gnomba or Linneighborhood already installed. But, I remembered that Nautilus too was mentioned to do the job. So, Nautilus did finally let me browse the network but, passwords for a machine once entered could not be entered again. Atleast it worked, but, in mandrake Nautilus just hangs forever to display the username, password dialog. Hope this helps anyone and hope we can have a faster, better Mozilla for Mandrake too ! Regards, Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.....Open Office Quickstart?
Hi All, Does anybody know of Open Office Quickstart for Mandrake 9. I know there are quite a few RPMs floating around but, they worked fine in Mandrake 8.2. Else, Open Office is a big turn down . Big, bloated, slow, crashy!!! Sandeep Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9......Mozilla Quickstart?
Hi, Does anybody know of Mozilla quickstart in Linux. Or there is no such thing !!! Well, this feature is there in M$ Windows and not in Linux I thought it is an Open Source project originating in the Open Source World, so shouldn't it be having good killer features in Linux atleast ! Especially when, the main place Linux is lacking good speed is the web browsing experience with the big lizard 'Mozilla' and Office Suite like Open Office or KOffice (all of them damn slow !!!) Sandeep Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9......Mozilla Quickstart?
Hi, Sevatio wrote: I've seen quickstarts of many kinds in Windoze, but out of curiosity: How much resources does a quickstart consume? Doesn't it preload parts of the application therefore unnecessarily using up resources? Why not just start it from an icon? With RAM so cheap and sop plenty, I don't think that should be a problem. Why do people still want to go back to Windows?? One of the reasons being, good User Interface principlesHourglass cursor when a program is loading, quick Browser opening, quick spreadsheet opening...etc Linux is known to be fast, but, applications like Mozilla, Open Office put shame on it's great reputation. I am sure this must not be anyone's intention and there must be ways to tackle this. One of them being loading portions of software during login or startup. --Sandeep Sandeep Khanna wrote: Hi, Does anybody know of Mozilla quickstart in Linux. Or there is no such thing !!! Well, this feature is there in M$ Windows and not in Linux I thought it is an Open Source project originating in the Open Source World, so shouldn't it be having good killer features in Linux atleast ! Especially when, the main place Linux is lacking good speed is the web browsing experience with the big lizard 'Mozilla' and Office Suite like Open Office or KOffice (all of them damn slow !!!) Sandeep Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9......Mozilla Quickstart?
Hi All, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: personally, i wouldn't/don't want countless programs loading automatically and unnecessarily, and this all begs the question - which programs are to do this own their own? if mozilla nad openoffice, why not every single program loaded on every available storage medium? That's your choice. After all Linux is all about your choice, isn't it? unless each program has a definable option to let me decide which ones to pre-load, i'd much rather keep my RAM (however much or little i may have) free to do with as i choose, not as every program i choose to keep decides. for openoffice, i leave it up for as long as i forsee needing to use it - sometimes hours or days if i do constant updates to something. otherwise i can afford to wait until it comes up, doing other tasks in the meantime. I do agree with you about varying usage patterns among people and that's why all such quickstart options are put as OPTIONS and not built-ins !!! You can turn it on or off, your choice. But, Not having one is pretty bad. Not everyone loves to wait all their life for a program to load. Abd, Besides it's these things (End user experience, responsiveness of apps) which are considered by critics when comparing products. And, Finally once again ... Does anyone know of any quickstart products for Mozilla and OpenOffice for Mandrake 9.0 or not? Sandeep Khanna preloading has its place and definite benefits, but it may well not be suitable for all; don't try to make it so. --- Original Message --- From: Sandeep Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 9..Mozilla Quickstart? Hi, Sevatio wrote: I've seen quickstarts of many kinds in Windoze, but out of curiosity: How much resources does a quickstart consume? Doesn't it preload parts of the application therefore unnecessarily using up resources? Why not just start it from an icon? With RAM so cheap and sop plenty, I don't think that should be a problem. Why do people still want to go back to Windows?? One of the reasons being, good User Interface principlesHourglass cursor when a program is loading, quick Browser opening, quick spreadsheet opening...etc Linux is known to be fast, but, applications like Mozilla, Open Office put shame on it's great reputation. I am sure this must not be anyone's intention and there must be ways to tackle this. One of them being loading portions of software during login or startup. --Sandeep Sandeep Khanna wrote: Hi, Does anybody know of Mozilla quickstart in Linux. Or there is no such thing !!! Well, this feature is there in M$ Windows and not in Linux I thought it is an Open Source project originating in the Open Source World, so shouldn't it be having good killer features in Linux atleast ! Especially when, the main place Linux is lacking good speed is the web browsing experience with the big lizard 'Mozilla' and Office Suite like Open Office or KOffice (all of them damn slow !!!) Sandeep Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Rescue disk
Hi Ritesh, Well, with Linux you can never be left all alone in the dark ;) 1. Yes, You can use your Installation CD-I to boot into your current installation by choosing Repair existing setup. And, then once you are booted in your current installation by the Installation CD, you can setup lilo (This is something you will have to read somewhere else...sorry) -- OR -- Be carefull with this second step. If you are not very sure about or don't know what it means, please do not attempt it. 2. Search google.com for Ranish Partition Manager (my favourite), locate, download, copy (no install or such thing required) on to a bootable Windows 98 floppy(can be non-bootable toobut, this way you don't have to change disks ;) ). Boot using a bootable floppy, start Ranish Partition Manager (RPM). It will show you your HDD partitions. Right on the first (topmost entry), the MBR, using the relevant keys (space/enter/Pgp/PgDown.some of theseI don't recall exactly) change it to a Boot manager. See it's dumb demo. And, once it is done exit saving the Master Boot Record (MBR). After booting you will see RPM's bootmanager (very minimilastic text) and select the relevant partition (Linux OR windows) to boot into it. That's it :) Have fun, Sandeep Khanna - Original Message - From: Ritesh Ahya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:10 pm Subject: [expert] Rescue disk Hi everybody, I have a problem if anybody can help me. I have dual boot linux and win98. win98 in first partition and rest is my linux. at the time of installing linux, i installed lilo in a boot floppy so i can run my linux only when i have a floppy that has lilo. now i have lost floppy. I still have linux in my system, but i don't konw how to boot my system with linux. Is there any help ?. i still have linux installation cd, can it help me for anything ? Can anybody help with this please ? Ritesh 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
[expert] Mandrake Documentation glitch
Hi All, I am not sure if this is the right list to send this. But, I would really appreciate if anyone could forward this to the right list meant specifically for Linux documentation, Mandrake in particular. I came across the following while reading the Mandrake Quick Server Setup documentation as supplied with Mandrake 9. I was reading about installing and configuring the postfix mail server. The first step is to check that the Postfix server is installed on your computer. If it is not, please use the *rpmdrake* application or type *urpmi apache* in a terminal to install it. It seems a copy and paste from the previous section of Apache was done pretty negligently !! From what I have seen and experienced so far, the most IMPORTANT thing Linux needs now is good DOCUMENTATION. Windows, Mac, all of them have excellent user documentation thus making the user feel at home and not lost. KDE has done a better job in this area with the question mark in the top right corner of almost every window like M$ Windows. GNOME still lacks good documentation support. I don't intend to start any arguments or flames on this. This is just in the common benefit of the Linux community. Cheers, --Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with DHCP client on Mandrake 9.0?
man dhcpcd Cheers, Sandeep Jim Dawson wrote: I recently upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 (actually a fresh install, I took the opportunity to replace my hard drive as well.) and ever since I have been having trouble with my computer 'forgetting' it's IP address. I haven't been able to confirm this (as I don't know where the appropriate logs are located) but it seems like the DHCP lease isn't being renewed. I have switched to a static IP address and it seems to be working OK (so far). Has anyone else run into this problem? If so, is there a fix for it? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Mandrake 9...Laptop Sleep.....System clock out of sync
Hi All, No, I am not using ACPI. Altough, that is what I would like to have. Unfortunately, the stock kernel supplied by Mandrake does not have the ACPI support compiled in. [rootsandeepk resume.d]# rpm -qil apm-scripts Name: apm-scripts Relocations: /usr Version : 0.1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 3mdk Build Date: Fri 22 Feb 2002 09:41:29 PM EST Install date: Sun 20 Oct 2002 06:40:32 PM EDT Build Host: bi.mandrakesoft.com Group : System/ServersSource RPM: apm-scripts-0.1-3mdk.src.rpm Size: 18884License: GPL Packager: Mandrake Linux Team http://www.mandrakeexpert.com Summary : Script launched by apm on suspend and resume Description : APM-Script is launched by apm on resume and suspend, it start or stop your network/sound etc... to make sure that everything work after hybernation of your computer. /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmd_proxy /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/10usb /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/1hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/2terminal-beep /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/3sound /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/4XFree /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/5pcmcia /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/6network /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/7clock /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/8anacron /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/9hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/1sound /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/2hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/3network /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/4pcmcia /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/5XFree /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/6unload-sound /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/7usb /etc/sysconfig/apmd /usr/share/doc/apm-scripts-0.1 /usr/share/doc/apm-scripts-0.1/ChangeLog [rootsandeepk resume.d]# Is it supposed to be that way or not? But, I found it funny that we have the clock script being executed while resume but, not similar thing while going to sleep !!! Can this be the reason ? Anyone please? --Sandeep Aaron Peters wrote: If apmd is running, the only thing I can think of is some issue with: /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/7clock which appears to be the script responsible for syncing back to the hardware clock. Maybe the exec bit is turned off? Once I installed this package, things worked for me from the get-go. . . On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 10:37, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Hi, Thanks for your quick response. Aaron Peters wrote: Sorry for the direct reply, but the mailing list refuses me for some reason. And I always feel the need to help out fellow 'Nova folks. . . System clock- You need the apm-scripts package. This happened to me too. This is what my system says sandeepksandeepk ~ $ rpm -qa | grep apm apm-scripts-0.1-3mdk apmd-3.0.2-1mdk sandeepksandeepk ~ $ What else do I need then? OpenOffice.org- This seems to be a GNOME problem, rather than something that can be fixed by any OOo settings. You might want to try a newer version of OOo/GNOME from contrib (if there is one). FWIW, I used GNOME and had the same issue, switched back to KDE and have no problems. Gnomba- didn't work for me either, used LinNeighborhood for a bit before switching back to KDE/komba2. Thanks for the help. I have started ignoring the OpenOffice errors and working with it the way it is. Yes, I used, use, would be using LinNeighbourhood until the Gnome guys come out with a stable Network browser in Nautilus (smb://). Would love to go back to KDE myself but, the speed disappoints me and I keep coming back to GNOME. I do appreciate and like both of them for Aaron -- Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake 9...Laptop Sleep.....System clock out ofsync
Hi All, Hee heereplying to myself..funny. Just found out that a variable $CLOCK_SYNC needs to be available in the Environment for the APM suspend and wakeup to work properly and not mess-up the system time. Just doing a... export CLOCK_SYNC= at the root prompt gave good results. I was wondering which package was responsible for doing the needfull while installation on my computer !! I don't want to do a make-shift job by sticking it into /etc/profile just for the heck of it without knowing who the culprit is now. --Sandeep Sandeep Khanna wrote: Hi All, No, I am not using ACPI. Altough, that is what I would like to have. Unfortunately, the stock kernel supplied by Mandrake does not have the ACPI support compiled in. [rootsandeepk resume.d]# rpm -qil apm-scripts Name: apm-scripts Relocations: /usr Version : 0.1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 3mdk Build Date: Fri 22 Feb 2002 09:41:29 PM EST Install date: Sun 20 Oct 2002 06:40:32 PM EDT Build Host: bi.mandrakesoft.com Group : System/ServersSource RPM: apm-scripts-0.1-3mdk.src.rpm Size: 18884License: GPL Packager: Mandrake Linux Team http://www.mandrakeexpert.com Summary : Script launched by apm on suspend and resume Description : APM-Script is launched by apm on resume and suspend, it start or stop your network/sound etc... to make sure that everything work after hybernation of your computer. /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmd_proxy /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/10usb /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/1hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/2terminal-beep /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/3sound /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/4XFree /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/5pcmcia /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/6network /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/7clock /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/8anacron /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/9hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/1sound /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/2hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/3network /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/4pcmcia /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/5XFree /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/6unload-sound /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/7usb /etc/sysconfig/apmd /usr/share/doc/apm-scripts-0.1 /usr/share/doc/apm-scripts-0.1/ChangeLog [rootsandeepk resume.d]# Is it supposed to be that way or not? But, I found it funny that we have the clock script being executed while resume but, not similar thing while going to sleep !!! Can this be the reason ? Anyone please? --Sandeep Aaron Peters wrote: If apmd is running, the only thing I can think of is some issue with: /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/7clock which appears to be the script responsible for syncing back to the hardware clock. Maybe the exec bit is turned off? Once I installed this package, things worked for me from the get-go. . . On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 10:37, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Hi, Thanks for your quick response. Aaron Peters wrote: Sorry for the direct reply, but the mailing list refuses me for some reason. And I always feel the need to help out fellow 'Nova folks. . . System clock- You need the apm-scripts package. This happened to me too. This is what my system says sandeepksandeepk ~ $ rpm -qa | grep apm apm-scripts-0.1-3mdk apmd-3.0.2-1mdk sandeepksandeepk ~ $ What else do I need then? OpenOffice.org- This seems to be a GNOME problem, rather than something that can be fixed by any OOo settings. You might want to try a newer version of OOo/GNOME from contrib (if there is one). FWIW, I used GNOME and had the same issue, switched back to KDE and have no problems. Gnomba- didn't work for me either, used LinNeighborhood for a bit before switching back to KDE/komba2. Thanks for the help. I have started ignoring the OpenOffice errors and working with it the way it is. Yes, I used, use, would be using LinNeighbourhood until the Gnome guys come out with a stable Network browser in Nautilus (smb://). Would love to go back to KDE myself but, the speed disappoints me and I keep coming back to GNOME. I do appreciate and like both of them for Aaron -- Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem
Hi All, ET wrote: On Saturday 19 October 2002 02:25 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:56:25 -0400 Sandeep Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any of the Software Install, Software Uninstall after starting the Control Center, it won't ask passwords for them too !!! what security level did you start with? why? I just checked in the Control Center and my security level is Standard. Why should they? I think the designers have made a perfectly reasonable assumption that, if user A is logged in and has opened the MCC (or embedded applications) once after being asked for the root password, if A is still logged in the same person is sitting behind the computer and shouldn't have to enter the root password again on opening the MCC. A 'more secure' installation would force the root password to be entered at every possible point it could be entered, and time any shell out logged in as root for too long, but would also be irritating to use. Alastair and I am willing to bet that the sudo does still time out, just not as fast as it used to, give it a day, and then try. and if you want, I bet a higher msec rateing will make it more secure until it is so tight it squeeks when root walks. I just confirmed after keeping my computer overnight. It is indeed a feature of Mandrake to time out the root Authentication. Mandrake Control Center asked me for my root password in the morning after having left the laptop on all night. Thanks for everyone's help. --Sandeep Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....OpenOffice keeps on closing !!!
Hi, Thanks for your suggestion. But, I don't think it is that way. Firstly, I do not have any OpenOffice instances running/open initially. Secondly, If we do have an instance of OpenOffice running then it is designed so as to use that as a server process thus speeding up the loading of any other OpenOffice component. So, If you have OpenOffice Math open, and you try to open OpenOffice Writer...then it would just load faster rather than just trying to open OpenOffice Writer on it's own. Thanks again, --Sandeep Jan Wilson wrote: * Sandeep Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021018 14:37]: My laptop has Mandrake 9 installed. Whenever I start OpenOffice, the first time it inevitably closes down after a short glimpse of it. But, after persistently trying it 3-4 times it finally shows up !! Also, If I completely delete the ~/.openoffice directory then it starts just fine even the first time !!! Any hints, helps, suggestions? I teach classes using OpenOffice.org every day, and this happens every once in a while. What it usually means is there is already a process running which you have lost, and it won't allow you to start a new one. Open a terminal and type: ps -u $USER | grep soffice You should see something like this: 5642 ?00:00:28 soffice.bin 5666 ?00:00:00 soffice.bin 5667 ?00:00:00 soffice.bin 5668 ?00:00:00 soffice.bin 5684 ?00:00:00 soffice.bin 5685 ?00:00:00 soffice.bin Try killing the first one, like this: kill 5642 That should kill the running process, and then you can start OpenOffice as usual. It might be worth writing a script to do this, with a name like killoffice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem
Hi All, If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any of the Software Install, Software Uninstall after starting the Control Center, it won't ask passwords for them too !!! Something is seriously wrong with this release !! So many bugs, so many mistakes.How did they release it so soon --Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I kind of understand what you are saying here. It does make sense. And, Yes, I saw the root being logged out at the shell prompt after a certain period of inactivity. So, Does that mean, this same principle is also applied to the Mandrake Control Center? meaning, I open the Mandrake Control Center in the night and close it. And, leave the computer as it is throughout the night. I try to open Mandrake Control centrer in the morning and it would ask me for the root password ! Would it? --Sandeep Alastair Scott wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:56:25 -0400 Sandeep Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any of the Software Install, Software Uninstall after starting the Control Center, it won't ask passwords for them too !!! Why should they? I think the designers have made a perfectly reasonable assumption that, if user A is logged in and has opened the MCC (or embedded applications) once after being asked for the root password, if A is still logged in the same person is sitting behind the computer and shouldn't have to enter the root password again on opening the MCC. A 'more secure' installation would force the root password to be entered at every possible point it could be entered, and time any shell out logged in as root for too long, but would also be irritating to use. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem
Wow, That was very quick. I am enjoying being on this list. Another person (Alastair Scott) also mentioned something similar. I had a little doubt/hint about it myself but, wasn't surte until you guys are also confirming my doubt. Hope it is the way we think it is. I am going to experiment with it to be sure. By the way, does anybody know the time period that we all seem to be mentioning here ! --Sandeep Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Sandeep Khanna wrote: If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any of the Software Install, Software Uninstall after starting the Control Center, it won't ask passwords for them too !!! Something is seriously wrong with this release !! So many bugs, so many mistakes.How did they release it so soon Calm down. You obviously haven't investigated very thoroughly. It's not true that it NEVER asks you for the root password again. Instead, the root password remains good for a given number of minutes, THEN if you start MCC again you have to login as root again. This is in fact one of the most bug-free releases I've seen, especially for an x.0 release. You don't need to get hysterical. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem
Sorry, Just keep forgetting to select Options-Format-Plain Text Only in Mozilla Mail --Sandeep Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday October 19 2002 02:20 pm, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Note: This is a HTML message. For security reasons, only the raw HTML code is shown. If you trust the sender of this message then you can activate formatted HTML display for this message by clicking here. This is Kmail's 1.4.7 warning (KDE 3.1) !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head title/title /head body Wow,br br That was very quick. I am enjoying being on this list.br br Another person (Alastair Scott) also mentioned something similar. I had a little doubt/hint about it myself but, wasn't surte until you guys are also confirming my doubt. Hope it is the way we think it is. I am going to experiment with it to be sure. By the way, does anybody know the time period that we all seem to be mentioning here !br I believe IIRC it's 5 minutes Please don't use HTML, you were requested not to in the 'welcome message' when you joined the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Laptop sleep...system clock crazy
Hi, My laptop Compaq 12XL125 AMD K6-II 533 Mhz 192Mb RAM has Mandrake 9.0 (Dolphin) installed on it. Whenever I put it in sleep, after waking up the system clock is all messed up. Anyone, any suggestions, any help? Regards, Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9, mouse drag select problem
Hi All, My laptop has Mandrake 9 installed. After a few hours, I cannot drag and select anything anywhere...Nautilus, desktop, files, scroller, etc. Altough, I can click and double-click but, cannot drag and select !! The problem is solved when I restart the X-Server. Do I have to logout and restart X all the time Regards, Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9....No Shares in Gnomba
Hi All, My laptop has Mandrake 9 installed. I thought I would give Gnomba a chance instead of LinNeighbourhood this time. But, Gnomba after asking me for Username and password for any machine and successfully authenticating, does not show the shares for that machine in the tree !!! Also, If I select to rescan...sometimes It won't show any machines.Gnomba sucks ! Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9....OpenOffice keeps on closing !!!
Hi All, My laptop has Mandrake 9 installed. Whenever I start OpenOffice, the first time it inevitably closes down after a short glimpse of it. But, after persistently trying it 3-4 times it finally shows up !! Also, If I completely delete the ~/.openoffice directory then it starts just fine even the first time !!! Any hints, helps, suggestions? --Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 RC2 problems
Hey, Thanks a lot for answering my question. Didn't think anyone would answer it after this long. Yes, I had already figured out the relevant things a couple of days back and had it working. Thanks anyways. Altough, The upgrade is working fine over the past 2 weeks. But, I still feel that a complete fresh install is always the best way to go. Maybe it's just pyschological !! 1. My laptop Compaq 12XL125 (30 Gb HDD, 192 Mb RAM with 8 Mb shared Video RAM) has the trident i7/DSTN graphics card. I always found that in Windows my laptop runs super smooth with the graphics but, in Linux it is pretty slow and draggy. Why?? According to XFree86, the "trident" driver is accelerated. But, it sure doesn't feel like it. My current resolution is 1024x768 with 16 bpp which gives bearable system (GUI) performance for now. I also found that on desktops or laptops with dedicated Graphics cards, Linux was super-duper fast !!! This is driving me crazy and I am thinking of buying a new laptop now. 2. Also, the laptop never shuts down completely !! it shuts down for a moment and the Hard disk starts up instantly without starting the computer. I have to manually shut the laptop. Looks like some Power management problem. Any tips, suggestions, tweaks? Regards, Sandeep Khanna Gnome User Bill Shirley wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sandeep Khanna Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 RC2 problems Hi, I just upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to Mandrake 9.0 RC2. 1. Mandrake Control Center [root@sandeepk sandeepk]# mcc gdk-pixbuf library is not available at /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk.pm line 762. [root@sandeepk sandeepk] 2. rpmdrake [root@sandeepk sandeepk]# rpmdrake Base class package "URPM" is empty. (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first.) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm line 5 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/rpmdrake.pm line 26. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/rpmdrake.pm line 26. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 40. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 40. [root@sandeepk sandeepk]# Did you get this fixed? You need to install (with "rpm -Uvh" ): perl-URPM urpmi rpmdrake Hope this help, Bill Shirley Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (106) (Cell) 1-267-253-6808 Quote of the day: Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. --Joan Chittister Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I get help? 8-??
http://mobilix.org/mylaptops.html
--Sandeep
Joan Tur wrote:
Hallo!
As I haven't received any answer about my problem installing MDK into a Compaq
Presario 905 I am wondering if you know any other mailing list or web site
where I could find help.
Thanks in advance.
Es Dissabte 21 Setembre 2002 22:30, en Joan Tur va escriure:
Hallo!
A friend's Compaq Presario 905 is having the following problem while trying
to boot from CD (tested with 8.2, 9rc2 and 9rc3):
...
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 80
PCI: no IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0. Please try using
pci=biosirq
...
Partition check:
hda: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
...
I've tryed booting "linux pci=biosirq" with no luck. He hasn't got the
option in bios to assingn irqs manually.
Last: we've found that booting "linux ide=nodma" reaches the following step
("Enabling PCMCIA extension cards"). Then it shows the following:
Bank 3: b400083b at 01fc0003b0
Kernel panic: Unable to continue.
As it's got 256Mb ram and the video card is 32Mb we've added "mem=224M" and
"mem=223M" to boot parameters with no luck.
HELP! He's going back to windowss...
Thanks in advance ;)
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