Re: [Re: [newbie] KDE]
"Neil P." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok maybe I have things messed up here I want to get from the Command prompt part of linux to that GUI. I get stuck at the command prompt and want to use the GUI that comes with linux mandrake. After I log in as root what commands do I type? Trystartx Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] HP-8100 CDR-RW
I have Mandrake-Linux 6.0 installed and have downloaded all the updates and have been able to format a floppy give it a file system transfer some files between Windows and Linux. I reconfigured my kernel to the AMD K6 processor. I have played around with the thing but I can't seem to mount my HP-8100 CDR-RW. The secondary master is a LG 32x CDROM and the secondary slave is the HP-8100. I can mount the master via the icon on the KDE desktop. The more I read the more confused I get. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. FIC VA503+ motherboard AMD K6-2/400mhz RIVIA TNT 16mb (PCI) Soundblaster AWE 64 WD 6.4gig HD LG 32x CDROM HP-8100 CDR-RW Windows 98SE Linux 2.2.9-27 When the Linux is starting up it lists the HP-8100 as hdd Complete newbie, Ed
Re: [newbie] Good AGP card
Aaron deRozario wrote: How many of G400 Max features are supported by the Xfree86 drivers? I know they have been talking about multi-headed support for dual monitors/cards for their next release, but do the current drivers support dual monitors? Does anyone know if either the current or future Xfree86 drivers for the G400 will allow dual monitor support so that I can view desktop 1 on monitor A and desktop 2 on monitor B? Likewise does anyone know how long before it will be possible to have 2 monitors, 2 keyboards and 2 mouse set up on a single Linux machine, allowing either 2 users to use the machine, or to allow 1 user to have simultaneous control over 2 desktops? There are already ways to do this without the desktop clutter of a pair of keyboards and mice! Using the virtual consoles, you can have quite a few separate login sessions going. Same for X. Both KDE and GNOME support the notion of virtual desktops, allowing you to switch from screen to screen quickly. If you'd prefer for the two graphical sessions to be for different users, something like "startx -- display :1" should work (not completely positive on that command line -- the concept does work). In a "low tech" way, you can always attach a terminal to the serial port and have users logon that way -- I've got a VT100 terminal on my desktop that I use quite frequently. Put in one of those multi-port serial cards and you could have quite a few of them attached to the machine. There are applications and uses of a computer that would benefit from both kinds of setup. And that's one of the things that REALLY drives me nuts when I'm using Windows at work -- I keep hitting Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a text terminal, only to find there isn't one! Trying to start another graphical session is the same way. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] strange messages
Manny Styles wrote: I'm not sure if this is just me, but as of today, I have been getting messages returned to me that appear to be going to the mailing list. I resent my messages just in case (so if you have seen my messages twice, forgive me). The subject line is "Messgae not deliverable", and it is from Administrator at ISC7 ... CC'ed to administrator(IEC2). Is anyone else having this problem? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html I haven't been getting any returned msg's but I am seeing a lot of doubles. Joseph Gardner
Re: [newbie] ppa
Steve Philp wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I have an Iomega Zip 100 parallel port zip drive connected to my system. When I used Mandrake 5.3, it was detected during installation, and was ready to be mounted when I first started the system. with 6.0, it was not detected, and would not mount until I used "modprobe ppa". Unfortunately, this does not completely fix the problem. I have to use modprobe everytime I start my linux system in order to mount my zip drive. Is there a way I can get around this, and/or have the ppa module load at boot? Sure, create a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules that contains: #! /bin/sh modprobe ppa Then set it to be executable: chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.modules And it'll be run auto-magically whenever you boot. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, What is the line#! /bin/shfor? I thought the "#" char. signified a comment to follow? Joe
Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!
How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette - Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working! A, I've got it working. Real audio player G2 sounds great with linux. I had to download and install Netscape 4.61 and alter the files according to the instructions on real audio's web site. Now real player works as a plug-in to netscape. I guess you have to just keep plugging away to eventually figure it out. I still have a couple of more projects to go before I'm completely over to linux but I'm getting there. Next project is getting my cd-burner working in linux. I'd like to copy the files I've downloaded for linux 4.61 and real player G2 to a cd. Can anyone point me in the right direction here. Thanks, Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB Message not deliverableA, I've got it working. Real audio sounds great with linux. I had to download and install Netscape 4.61 and alter the files according to the instructions on real audio's web site. Now real player works as a plug-in to netscape. I guess you have to just keep plugging away to eventually figure it out. I still have a couple of more projects to go before I'm completely over to linux but I'm getting there. Next project is getting my cd-burner working in linux. I'd like to copy the files I've downloaded for linux 4.61 and real player G2 to a cd. Can anyone point me in the right direction here. Thanks, Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
Re: [newbie] What OS do I select for RealPlayer at www.real.com?
Well of course I know how to do it but you just yelled at me last time I tried to help you. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: [newbie] What OS do I select for RealPlayer at www.real.com? When I go to www.real .com I try to download the real player. It asks which OS I am using. I do not see Mandrake there. I see RedHat 5.2. That's not supposed to be compatible with Mandrake 6. I thought RedHat 6.0 was the only compatible platform to Mandrake 6.0. I installed the RedHat 5.2 version at it doesn't' launch or start up. Anyone gone to this web site to see the other options? What the heck to I do? Postman.
Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote: I am still looking for a copy of RealAudio G2. What specific version and what specific web site??? Is it in RPM format? The only version I saw close to it on www.real.com was one for Redhat 5.2. I downloaded and installed it and it wouldn't even start up. Postman Try this: http://www.real.com/products/player/downloadrealplayer.html?wp=d10899src=q1_netscape_11ang=en Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette Jeanette, Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and helper? What I meant was that now when I'm browsing with netscape and click on a real audio button (the ones that say listen here) it will automatically bring up real audio and start playing. I hope I haven't caused any confusion. Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!
Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette - Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working! A, I've got it working. Real audio player G2 sounds great with linux. I had to download and install Netscape 4.61 and alter the files according to the instructions on real audio's web site. Now real player works as a plug-in to netscape. I guess you have to just keep plugging away to eventually figure it out. I still have a couple of more projects to go before I'm completely over to linux but I'm getting there. Next project is getting my cd-burner working in linux. I'd like to copy the files I've downloaded for linux 4.61 and real player G2 to a cd. Can anyone point me in the right direction here. Thanks, Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB Message not deliverableA, I've got it working. Real audio sounds great with linux. I had to download and install Netscape 4.61 and alter the files according to the instructions on real audio's web site. Now real player works as a plug-in to netscape. I guess you have to just keep plugging away to eventually figure it out. I still have a couple of more projects to go before I'm completely over to linux but I'm getting there. Next project is getting my cd-burner working in linux. I'd like to copy the files I've downloaded for linux 4.61 and real player G2 to a cd. Can anyone point me in the right direction here. Thanks, Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB All I can do is get it to open RealPlayer--doesn't play anything! I have to "save as" place in a directory, click open file on G2 and browse to file to get it to play. Anything easier would be a great help to hear! John
Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III
Rick Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote: > I am still looking for a copy of RealAudio G2. What specific version and what > specific web site??? Is it in RPM format? The only version I saw close to it > on www.real.com was one for Redhat 5.2. I downloaded and installed it and it > wouldn't even start up. > > Postman Try this: http://www.real.com/products/player/downloadrealplayer.html?wp=d10899src=q1_netscape_11ang=en > > Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB I noticed Real has switched back to the 5.0 Player again John
Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!
Rick Murphy wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette Jeanette, Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and helper? What I meant was that now when I'm browsing with netscape and click on a real audio button (the ones that say listen here) it will automatically bring up real audio and start playing. I hope I haven't caused any confusion. Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB Mine will bring it up but not play. 8^ ( JC
Re: [newbie] strange messages
Same here. Havent noticed and Returned msgs but getting many repeat msgs. At 07:13 AM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I'm not sure if this is just me, but as of today, I have been getting messages returned to me that appear to be going to the mailing list. I resent my messages just in case (so if you have seen my messages twice, forgive me). The subject line is "Messgae not deliverable", and it is from Administrator at ISC7 ... CC'ed to administrator(IEC2). Is anyone else having this problem? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html I haven't been getting any returned msg's but I am seeing a lot of doubles. Joseph Gardner
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP3 problems ... now sound in general
-Original Message- From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manny, I have a card just like yours (Aztech Snd Galaxy 16). I could never get it to play nice with Linux so I removed it and put it in another PC. Mine had a jumper to set the card to use the EEPROM settings for the card, which I assumed was to turn off PnP. I tried this and saw no change. I probably tried every jumper setting and sndconfig setting combination possible and it would not work. I put in a used Creative Sound Blaster 16 and in a minute had it working under Mandrake 5.3. If you ever get it working let me know how as I am sick of playing with it. By the way the old Panasonic CD drive I had attached to the card gave up the ghost. Brian "My God, it's full of penguins!" -Original Message- From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I use sndconfig, it tells me that it does not detect a PnP or PCI card, so I enter the I/O and IRQs myself. I never bother with the jumpers at all. On another note, my original CD-ROM drive dies before I ever did my first install of Mandrake, but I have since replaced it with one that does not attach to the soundcard except for the one wire for sound (which I had to juryrig). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I also manually set all the I/Os and IRQs, but to no avail. It seemed like I had the right settings several times but I never did hear Linus talking.I also tried the trick of bumping the mixer volume up with "aumix" command from the command line. Didn't have any effect. I replaced the CD w/ an Atapi compliant one and had no problem there either. Brian
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I found out the hard way that my network card is not supported with Linux Mandrake. I have a D-Link DE-220 PCT, has anyone seen support for this? I'm unable to download Mandrake because I have a cable modem and it relies on the network card. Help would be appreciated! Thanks! -Kyle "Orange" Spahn
Re: [newbie] Re:Netscape Files
Did anyone got SB Live to work under Mandrake kernel ? Thanks.
[newbie] Printer Help!!!
I am still trying to find out how to get the printer icon on my KDE desktop to work. I know you have to drag/ drop the text icon onto the printer icon. My problem is that i can't get the lpr command which is linked to the printer icon to work on my computer. I can print by opening the klpq window and drag/drop the text icon onto the open window. This is cumbersome. My printer is a HP Officejet 500. Thanx, SA P.S. I am sending this message again, because yesterday I kept getting returns on all messages I sent to this list with a message a saying undeliverable. I apologize in advance for any repeats I post but I still need help on these matters and I don't know if anyone else saw my posts. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] NMB
I configured the samba.conf files. The problem seems to lie with the fact that NMB fails at boot. This is an integral part of samba so that I can see my computer through "Network Neighborhood", or at least I'm told. I don't know why NMB fails at boot. I installed the SAMBA package when I installed Mandrake 6.0. There is another linux box on our network that can be seen and it was installed with Redhat 6.0. But I don't believe this is the problem because my linux box couldn't be seen when I had redhat 6.0 installed. Maybe there is something I didn't compile in the Kernel? SA From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NMB Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:57:00 -0400 Sean Armstrong wrote: I am trying to get my computer to talk with the network with SMB. I was told that I need NMB also. On startup, SMB loads fine but NMB fails. Is there something in the kernel i need to install and if so, can i reconfigure that part of my kernel without having to recompile the whole kernel. You probably just need to configure the Samba configuration files. Check in /usr/doc/samba-version for more information. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
[newbie] strange messages (and question)
I got a returned message on my post... By the way, I'm just wondering. What's exactly the difference between KDE (or GNOME) and X-Windows. Or is KDE just a GUI for X-Windows? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] strange messages Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 06:32:23 -0400 Same here. Havent noticed and Returned msgs but getting many repeat msgs. At 07:13 AM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I'm not sure if this is just me, but as of today, I have been getting messages returned to me that appear to be going to the mailing list. I resent my messages just in case (so if you have seen my messages twice, forgive me). The subject line is "Messgae not deliverable", and it is from Administrator at ISC7 ... CC'ed to administrator(IEC2). Is anyone else having this problem? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html I haven't been getting any returned msg's but I am seeing a lot of doubles. Joseph Gardner ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
[newbie] ESS1370 install problems
I have successfully installed Mandrake Linux 6.0 with no problems, however I can not get sound to work at all. Trying to install the ESS1370 (for my SB PCI 128) module with "insmod es1370" gives me a "device busy" error stating that irq 10 is in use - or something similar! However my sound card under Windows anyhow uses irq 5, is there any way to specify this? Could anyone give me step-by-step instructions on how to get sound working for the es1370 device? Thanks in advance. Paul Cooper - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I can't think of a clever, intelligent or humorous sig - guess that means I'll just have to steal one!"
Re: [newbie] Network Card Support
Hi Kyle! Download Mandrake? I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but that card definetley is supported as an NE 2000 compatible in Mandrake 6.0. During setup for a LAN, it should be auto-detected as such. Just choose the dynamic host protocol and you're all set. You'll need to configure the Proxy Server settings in Netscape, etc. to connect. - Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 1:40 AM Subject: [newbie] Network Card Support I found out the hard way that my network card is not supported with Linux Mandrake. I have a D-Link DE-220 PCT, has anyone seen support for this? I'm unable to download Mandrake because I have a cable modem and it relies on the network card. Help would be appreciated! Thanks! -Kyle "Orange" Spahn Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com/ E-Mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ # - 22966915
[newbie] How to install drivers for network card
I have an Intel Etherexpress pro 10 card on my system. Mandrake installed properly, but failed to recognize the card (it is supported and worked under Redhat 4.3). How do I tell Mandrake what type of card I have? netcfg does not provide a way to define card type.. I am lost. Please help. Thanks Javed
[newbie] Memory not found
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing. Is there some bug in the 2.2whatever kernel that it can't use the other 192 Mb? Is there some initialization file I need to change? I intend to use this PC as a serious number-crunching workstation so I'd really like to use all the ram I paid for. Thanks...Greg Hackman
[newbie] WindowMaker freezes in certain situations (fwd)
I sent this yesterday morning, but never saw it come through the list. I apologize if anyone receives this twice. Since I sent the first message, my inital problem is back: WindowMaker is again trying to load multiple panels and loads mulitple gmc windows at startup, even after I close those windows and save the session. Am I doing something wrong? Where are these things coming from? It worked fine through several restarts of X yesterday, but first thing this morning, the problem is back. Thanks- -Aan original message Hi- I've started to play with Gnome/WindowMaker in the last few days (Enlightenment was cool, but wow, resource-intensive). In the process of configuring my desktop, I inadvertently loaded multiple instances of gmc and panel. Subsequently, whenever I started WindowMaker, gmc and panel would try to load extra copies -- making for an unaesthetic experience because I had to cancel the extras each time and cancel the error messages alerting me to the presence of a second panel. No matter what I did, I could not get those extra instances to not load up when starting X. So my first question is, what did I do wrong and how might I have fixed it? What I ended up doing is replacing ~/GNUstep/Defaults/* with unmodified files from another account, and correcting a few path arguments in 'WindowMaker'. That seems to have partly worked, at least in the sense that extra instances of panel and gmc are not loading at startup now. However, I know that probably isn't the preferred solution; is there a way to tell WindowMaker to absolutely return to default settings? Second, since making that file switch, running certain commands in the "Run program" dialog seems to freeze up WM. Programs that I would expect to run in a terminal window, like telnet or ftp, when I try to enter them in the "run" box, hang up the whole system. CTRL-ALT-DEL usually recovers and drops me back to shell, but it doesn't always do the trick; I had to manually power down once. Did I break something by switching in the other files? Can I fix this one somehow? Thanks for any help anybody can offer- - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Re: [newbie] Re:Netscape Files
Malmac wrote: Did anyone got SB Live to work under Mandrake kernel ? Thanks. YES Just last night thanks to Martin White. An excellent source is http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.htm The file referred to isemu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz located at http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ Just follow the directions given and it should work fine Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co. Cleveland, OH
Re: [newbie] strange messages
Oops. Spoke too soon. Just got that ICS7 msg when i replied to your msg. At 06:32 AM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: Same here. Havent noticed and Returned msgs but getting many repeat msgs. At 07:13 AM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I'm not sure if this is just me, but as of today, I have been getting messages returned to me that appear to be going to the mailing list. I resent my messages just in case (so if you have seen my messages twice, forgive me). The subject line is "Messgae not deliverable", and it is from Administrator at ISC7 ... CC'ed to administrator(IEC2). Is anyone else having this problem? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html I haven't been getting any returned msg's but I am seeing a lot of doubles. Joseph Gardner
Re: [newbie] Re:Netscape Files
Yeah.. both on 2.2.9-19mdk and 2.2.11. What are you trying? Are you getting any error messages? -tj On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Did anyone got SB Live to work under Mandrake kernel ? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail using the correct quotes
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Like Steve said, it's rejecting the messages from the imap server, check on that end. or maybe just changeing to pop might work *nods* So there is another piece of software I need? My provider is POP3. I, unfortuantely, havn't a clue what my computer is. Is it IMAP? Where would I begin to look for setting my computer up as POP?
Re: [newbie] Netscape won't browse
as a past employee of flashnet, i did notice one problem here. it is not flashnet.com, it is flash.net. the dns numbers are correct. i dont know if that will help you, but it might. :P Chad Young wrote: I can connect to my ISP but netscape won't browse. I have done the following - *changed the resolv.conf file to say search flashnet.com nameserver 209.30.0.9 nameserver 209.30.0.100 Did I leave something out? What else can I do? Please remember that I am new to Linux and need everything spelled out for me. Thanks Chad __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
[newbie] Re:
- Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 10:06 AM I found out the hard way that my network card is not supported with Linux Mandrake. I have a D-Link DE-220 PCT, has anyone seen support for this? I'm unable to download Mandrake because I have a cable modem and it relies on the network card. Help would be appreciated! Thanks! You could get another NIC that is supported. The cable modem souldn't care as long as the NIC is configured correctly. Hoyt
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
Many replies to this. Thanks. Will Partition Magic 3.0 work with on an 11 Gb win98 partition? It's the version I have easiest access to. -Tom Garrett Williams wrote: Partition Magic will make short work of that process... Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB -- Tom J. Brett Specialist, X-ray Crystallography Facility Graduate Student- Chemistry Hamilton Hall Box 725 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0304 Phone: (402) 472-8894 Fax: (402) 472-0168 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://prophet4.unl.edu/tb_hp/tom.html
Re: [newbie] Memory not found
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing. Is there some bug in the 2.2whatever kernel that it can't use the other 192 Mb? Is there some initialization file I need to change? I intend to use this PC as a serious number-crunching workstation so I'd really like to use all the ram I paid for. Thanks...Greg Hackman Had the same problem, Greg, go to /etc/lilo.config and add the line--append="mem=256M"--use quotes and place it in the global section. I placed mine right under--vga=normal--then open a terminal and type--/etc/sbin/lilo--reboot and everything should be cool! John
[newbie] 3Com 3c905 (Vortex) problem
I have a Mandrake 6.0 install on a system with a 3com 3c905b (Vortex) card. It seems to boot up fine, but I can't ping to it from outside (crossover cable from a Win98 box). When I check the IFCONFIG, it states: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:B3:79:4D inet addr:169.254.55.105 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1480 The other card can autosense 10 or 100 mbit connection, but for some reason I get no link status light. Both cards and machines talk to eachother when using Windows (98 NT) using the same crossover cable - so it's not hardware. When I checked the dmesg and /var/log/messages I found the following: From /var/log/messages: Aug 20 16:52:11 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9 Aug 20 17:01:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 17:57:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 17:58:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:34:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:37:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:42:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:44:45 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:49:25 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:49:30 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:49:35 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:49:50 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:54:55 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:55:00 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:55:35 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:55:40 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:55:45 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:56:00 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:56:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:56:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 21:00:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 21:00:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 21:00:15 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 21:00:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 19:11:30 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9 Aug 24 19:11:29 foxbase network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded Aug 24 19:21:39 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 19:28:44 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 20:27:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9 Aug 24 20:27:09 foxbase network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded Aug 24 20:37:19 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 21:13:14 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 21:45:19 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. from dmesg: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 28 current 44. Transmit list vs. 8050b2c0. 0: @8050b200 length 806e status 006e 1: @8050b210 length 806e status 006e 2: @8050b220 length 806e status 006e 3: @8050b230 length 806e status 006e 4: @8050b240 length 806e status 006e 5: @8050b250 length 806e status 006e 6: @8050b260 length 806e status 006e 7: @8050b270 length 806e status 006e 8: @8050b280 length 80dc status 00dc 9: @8050b290 length 80ff status 00ff 10: @8050b2a0 length 80fa status 80fa 11: @8050b2b0 length 80ff status 80ff 12: @8050b2c0 length 80e8 status 00e8 13: @8050b2d0 length 80e8 status 00e8 14: @8050b2e0 length 80e8 status 00e8 15: @8050b2f0 length 80e8 status 00e8 eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. What does that mean? Any help would be appreciated. thx, Robert Fox **
Re: [newbie] KDE
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you wrote: ok maybe I have things messed up here I want to get from the Command prompt part of linux to that GUI. I get stuck at the command prompt and want to use the GUI that comes with linux mandrake. After I log in as root what commands do I type? Ahh...type "startx any options, such as color depth, etc go here" at the command prompt, PREFERABLY as your "non-priveleged user" that you set up during the install. (One should NEVER "surf the 'Net" as root for security reasons!) then open up your Gnome menu (using the "foot" icon) and select "KDE Utils" and then the rest should go as indicated previously. Or, you can just edit your Xclients-default so that it looks as follows: exec startkde You can put this in both the "root" and "user" ~/home directories so that both will use KDE. However, it would be best to do this as the "user" in the user account and "root" in your root-user home directory, for "ownership" reasons. John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: There's some bad logic in the code that desides which drives to enable DMA cdroms are less tolerant than hardrives when you try and activate it and they do not support it. I am confused by this statement. I think I understand the kernel does not support the particular CD-ROM that I have and that's the reason for the errors. However, below is the output from the kernel indicating that the CD-ROM drive was recognized. It does not say the brand, but the description is right on the money (HP CD-Writer Plus 8200i, 4X/4X/24X). What he's saying is CD drives are more particular about the system trying to access them using DMA/UDMA (another way to access an "IDE" device) than hard drives when they don't support that method of accessing the drive. C: Try it with a recent mirror of Cooker I have no idea what this means. Could you please elaborate? "Cooker" is the pre-release version of Mandrake. Think of it as the "Beta" version of the next release of Mandrake.
Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III
I have the G2 file I could email if you like. John - Original Message - From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III - Original Message - From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III Rick Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote: I am still looking for a copy of RealAudio G2. What specific version and what specific web site??? Is it in RPM format? The only version I saw close to it on www.real.com was one for Redhat 5.2. I downloaded and installed it and it wouldn't even start up. Postman Try this: http://www.real.com/products/player/downloadrealplayer.html?wp=d10899src=q1 _netscape_11ang=en Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB I noticed Real has switched back to the 5.0 Player again John I noticed that as well. When I first went to dl G2, I was disconnected before the download could finish. When I came back to start again, all they had was 5.0. So I had to find G2 on a ftp site. I don't remember the URL right off though. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: [newbie] Partitions in Linux
On a PC with and Intel/Intel clone chip you can have 4 real partitions. With that said, you are not limited to 4 partitions. You can also have 3 partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition is used to set up logical partitions(or logical drives if you are coming from the MS-DOS/Windows world). Your choices there are relatively unlimited. For example, I currently have 3 drives in my system. My 13 Gig drive is currently set up with 3 real partitions (hdb1, hdb2 and hdb3) and one extended partion hdb4. hdb4 is broken up into 5 logical partitions (hdb5, hdb6, hdb7, hdb8 and hdb9). All the partitions are approximately 1.5 gig in size except one which is 2.5 gig and set up as the mount location for /home. Note, you never access the extended partition directly but always through the individual logical partitions. I have read that you can have 4 real partitions but I have not been able to do it. What tool will alow you to do this? I have tried fdisk from win98 and disk druid in the install. Does fdisk under Linux let you do it or do you have to have something like partition magic? I also have made a partition duing win2k install. I had 1 partition at the time for win98, added 1 more for win2k in the install and it made an extended partition then in the install for linux using disk druid it made all my partitions in the extended partition so I have 1 real and 1 extended with several in it. Now all I need is Be OS and dual boot all 4 :). Later, Aaron Winters, Electronic Imaging Manager. Garner Printing, http://camalott.com/~garner http://camalott.com/~kaw
[newbie] Caldera
Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud
Re: [newbie] kxicq
I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux. One is Kicq for KDE and another is for GNOME. I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support. The one for GNOME is STABLE and looks to be the better of the two to use. ANyone tried running the GNOME ICQ on a KDE desktop? ANyone tried both of these clients? ANyone running KICQ and find that it works pretty well and not to worry about it being unstable?? James
Re: [newbie] Wiping Out NT Partitions
Don't you just remove those NTFS partitions in FDISK and create new ext2fs partitions? Jo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wiping out NT Server 4.0 and installing Linux in its place. My question is Will Mandrake overwrite both the FAT root and the NTFS extended partition? I have installed over win95 many times with no problem. Installing over NT is new to me, and I was hoping to get a heads-up on what I could expect. Thanks, Bryan Moorehead
Re: [newbie] KDE
I keep reading--"never surf the web for security reasons." Just exactly what type of security risks are we talking about here? Maybe a dumb question but a legitimate one. Please help me with my ignorance! John - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Neil P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you wrote: ok maybe I have things messed up here I want to get from the Command prompt part of linux to that GUI. I get stuck at the command prompt and want to use the GUI that comes with linux mandrake. After I log in as root what commands do I type? Ahh...type "startx any options, such as color depth, etc go here" at the command prompt, PREFERABLY as your "non-priveleged user" that you set up during the install. (One should NEVER "surf the 'Net" as root for security reasons!) then open up your Gnome menu (using the "foot" icon) and select "KDE Utils" and then the rest should go as indicated previously. Or, you can just edit your Xclients-default so that it looks as follows: exec startkde You can put this in both the "root" and "user" ~/home directories so that both will use KDE. However, it would be best to do this as the "user" in the user account and "root" in your root-user home directory, for "ownership" reasons. John
Re: [newbie] kxicq
just use Licq which is stable and good, and will run fine on either GNOME or KDE - Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] kxicq I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux. One is Kicq for KDE and another is for GNOME. I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support. The one for GNOME is STABLE and looks to be the better of the two to use. ANyone tried running the GNOME ICQ on a KDE desktop? ANyone tried both of these clients? ANyone running KICQ and find that it works pretty well and not to worry about it being unstable?? James
Re: [newbie] What OS do I select for RealPlayer at www.real.com?
You have the correct version i believe. I am using RealPlayer5.0 for Linux from www.real.com. It needs to find a few libraries in order to run.. these libs are included in the distribution of the player.. so one only needs to set up a simple script that should be run in place of the rvplayer binary. Here is mine: #!/bin/sh # rp.script to start up real player 5.0 LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/rvplayer5.0" PATH=$PATH":$HOME/rvplayer5.0" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH ~/rvplayer5.0/rvplayer $1 #end you may need to modify the PATH and the call to rvplayer at the end to point to your distribution. Make sure you `chmod u+x rp.script`. Note to developers: yes i know i should include ALL the parameters instead of just the first one.. but im not sure how to do that with bash.. im sure its really simple. If someone could email me with that info id be much abliged. I hope this works for you.. keep me up to date. Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote: When I go to www.real .com I try to download the real player. It asks which OS I am using. I do not see Mandrake there. I see RedHat 5.2. That's not supposed to be compatible with Mandrake 6. I thought RedHat 6.0 was the only compatible platform to Mandrake 6.0. I installed the RedHat 5.2 version at it doesn't' launch or start up. Anyone gone to this web site to see the other options? What the heck to I do? Postman.
Re: [newbie] kxicq
I use kxicq and it works pretty well. I've also tried kicq and klicq, and they also get the job done. I installed gnomeicu and didn't like it, and every time I openened it, a gnome taskbar apears over my KDE taskbar. You can find some information here: http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/ El mié, 25 ago 1999, escribiste: I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux. One is Kicq for KDE and another is for GNOME. I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support. The one for GNOME is STABLE and looks to be the better of the two to use. ANyone tried running the GNOME ICQ on a KDE desktop? ANyone tried both of these clients? ANyone running KICQ and find that it works pretty well and not to worry about it being unstable?? James
[newbie] TRY THIS AGAIN - 3Com 3c905 (Vortex) problem
I have a Mandrake 6.0 install on a system with a 3com 3c905b (Vortex) card. It seems to boot up fine, but I can't ping to it from outside (crossover cable from a Win98 box). When I check the IFCONFIG, it states: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:B3:79:4D inet addr:169.254.55.105 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1480 The other card can autosense 10 or 100 mbit connection, but for some reason I get no link status light. Both cards and machines talk to eachother when using Windows (98 NT) using the same crossover cable - so it's not hardware. When I checked the dmesg and /var/log/messages I found the following: From /var/log/messages: Aug 20 16:52:11 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9 Aug 20 17:01:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 17:57:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 17:58:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:34:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:37:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:42:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:44:45 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:49:25 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:49:30 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:49:35 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:49:50 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:54:55 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:55:00 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:55:35 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:55:40 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:55:45 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:56:00 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:56:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 20:56:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 21:00:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 21:00:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 21:00:15 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 20 21:00:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 19:11:30 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9 Aug 24 19:11:29 foxbase network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded Aug 24 19:21:39 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 19:28:44 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 20:27:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9 Aug 24 20:27:09 foxbase network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded Aug 24 20:37:19 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 21:13:14 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Aug 24 21:45:19 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. from dmesg: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 28 current 44. Transmit list vs. 8050b2c0. 0: @8050b200 length 806e status 006e 1: @8050b210 length 806e status 006e 2: @8050b220 length 806e status 006e 3: @8050b230 length 806e status 006e 4: @8050b240 length 806e status 006e 5: @8050b250 length 806e status 006e 6: @8050b260 length 806e status 006e 7: @8050b270 length 806e status 006e 8: @8050b280 length 80dc status 00dc 9: @8050b290 length 80ff status 00ff 10: @8050b2a0 length 80fa status 80fa 11: @8050b2b0 length 80ff status 80ff 12: @8050b2c0 length 80e8 status 00e8 13: @8050b2d0 length 80e8 status 00e8 14: @8050b2e0 length 80e8 status 00e8 15: @8050b2f0 length 80e8 status 00e8 eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. What
Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!
Rick Murphy wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette Jeanette, Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and helper? What I meant was that now when I'm browsing with netscape and click on a real audio button (the ones that say listen here) it will automatically bring up real audio and start playing. I hope I haven't caused any confusion. Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB No its just that as a plugin it will play from from embeded sound files and I have imagine radio which I guess needs the pluggin cause I can't get it to work in Linux and I like to listen to my custom radio station while I am online. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
Tom Brett wrote: Many replies to this. Thanks. Will Partition Magic 3.0 work with on an 11 Gb win98 partition? It's the version I have easiest access to. -Tom Garrett Williams wrote: Partition Magic will make short work of that process... Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB -- Tom J. Brett Specialist, X-ray Crystallography Facility Graduate Student- Chemistry Hamilton Hall Box 725 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0304 Phone: (402) 472-8894 Fax: (402) 472-0168 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://prophet4.unl.edu/tb_hp/tom.html I think you will need PM 4.0 for over 8.4 gigs. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Caldera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud No Caldera is not based on Red Hat the way Mandrake is. Some Red Hat programs might run on Caldera but some don't. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] What OS do I select for RealPlayer at www.real.com?
Postman wrote: When I go to www.real .com I try to download the real player. It asks which OS I am using. I do not see Mandrake there. I see RedHat 5.2. That's not supposed to be compatible with Mandrake 6. I thought RedHat 6.0 was the only compatible platform to Mandrake 6.0. I installed the RedHat 5.2 version at it doesn't' launch or start up. Anyone gone to this web site to see the other options? What the heck to I do? Postman. You want the glibc2 version. Alan -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] kxicq
James Schofield wrote: I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux. One is Kicq for KDE and another is for GNOME. I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support. The one for GNOME is STABLE and looks to be the better of the two to use. ANyone tried running the GNOME ICQ on a KDE desktop? ANyone tried both of these clients? ANyone running KICQ and find that it works pretty well and not to worry about it being unstable?? James Thats the thing I find cool about Mandrake. I can run KDE apps in Gnome ( KNews for one ) and Gnome apps in KDE ( Gnoxcq or whatever it is! ).. Works fine for me and I did nothing but run them.. Another words, no configuration.. Alan -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
[newbie] GUI problem
I cannot get into the GUI that comes with Linux Mandrake 6.0 Everytime I do, it says fatal server error, NO SCreens Found. I think the video card drivers are not set correct. I have a 32 meg AGP RAGE Fury ATI with TV Out. Does anybody know the ATI drivers I should have picked during the install? Better yet can I change the driver setup in the Command prompt style setting so I can get into the GUI, by picking some generic drivers that work with all video cards? Any help would be appreciated. thanks neil
[newbie] Problems installing kicq
hello I am having problems installing kicq. When I try to run the kicq rpm it stops and tells me that I need libkdecore.so.1, libkdeui.so.1, and libkfm.so.1. I am have problems trying to find these. If you could please write me back with a little help. Thanks
[newbie] Problem with shutdown
I have had a problem with shutting down. I have installed Mandrake 6.0 and then updated the initscripts as recommended. This helped with the unmount problems. However when I do a shutdown -h the last thing that happens is a full screen of scrolling [CF??] . I am stuck with this. It doesn't appear to do harm to my system, but it would still be nice to fix. Thanks in advance. Mark Lyon
Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown
- Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Newbie Help Linux-Mandrake' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem with shutdown I have had a problem with shutting down. I have installed Mandrake 6.0 and then updated the initscripts as recommended. This helped with the unmount problems. However when I do a shutdown -h the last thing that happens is a full screen of scrolling [CF??] . I am stuck with this. It doesn't appear to do harm to my system, but it would still be nice to fix. Thanks in advance. Mark Lyon Did you update the kernel as well? NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Problems installing kicq
- Original Message - From: Sean King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Problems installing kicq hello I am having problems installing kicq. When I try to run the kicq rpm it stops and tells me that I need libkdecore.so.1, libkdeui.so.1, and libkfm.so.1. I am have problems trying to find these. If you could please write me back with a little help. Thanks I wouldn't know what packages those libraries are in right off, but it is most likely a kde rpm. Do a find from Kpackage, and it will tell you in what package you can find them, then install that rpm. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] kxicq
Try KLICQ. It's the one that I use. Lyndon Lininger Sr. ok.. where do I get it from?? James
[newbie] Question RE: Netscape and ALT-O
I remember reading the answer to this I've got Mandrake 6.0 and Netscape 4.6 (came pre-installed.) I am so used to using ALT+O to open a new site in Netscape, and it doesn't work... what is the procedure to fix that??? Thanks (FWIW, I DID do a quick search of the archive... G) John
Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown
- Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:40 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with shutdown No I haven't. I read somewhere that it wasn't necessary. Should I do this? -Original Message- From: Manny Styles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown snip Did you update the kernel as well? It is very necessary. I don't know where you read that, but all of the updates are suggested. The kernel and initscripts are required to fix the security and unmounting problems. You should get them all. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Caldera
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud Yes and no. It looks very much like Mandrake what with its KDE desktop, but it is not tied so closely with the RPM package management (dept. of redundancy, dept.). You will do a lot more untarring and compiling with Caldera, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It sure made me learn more. I like Caldera and have it installed now in a virtual machine so I can keep learning from it. However, KDE is all you get from the box, which may or may not be OK, depending on your level of Windows tolerance 8-). Caldera was based in the begining, I believe on RPM (RedHat), but not so much now. This is newbie talk, so I"m sure someone else can give you a lot more insight. The install is very easy. Tom
Re: [newbie] KDE
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I keep reading--"never surf the web for security reasons." Just exactly what type of security risks are we talking about here? Maybe a dumb question but a legitimate one. Please help me with my ignorance! John Definitely a good question. The main reason is that it opens you up to hostile apps and other things. Say you happen to download a program and compile it. Say that program is a "trojan horse" that gives someone else "root" access to your system from remote. Now, that won't work if you don't compile and execute it as "root." That's just one example. I'm sure others here who are more knowledgeable about this sort of thing will be able to tell you better! :-) John
RE: [newbie] Problem with shutdown
Thanks heaps, I'll try it out tonight. -Original Message- From: Manny Styles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown - Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:40 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with shutdown No I haven't. I read somewhere that it wasn't necessary. Should I do this? -Original Message- From: Manny Styles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown snip Did you update the kernel as well? It is very necessary. I don't know where you read that, but all of the updates are suggested. The kernel and initscripts are required to fix the security and unmounting problems. You should get them all. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] HP-8100 CDR-RW
Ed Santiago wrote: I have Mandrake-Linux 6.0 installed and have downloaded all the updates and have been able to format a floppy give it a file system transfer some files between Windows and Linux. I reconfigured my kernel to the AMD K6 processor. I have played around with the thing but I can't seem to mount my HP-8100 CDR-RW. The secondary master is a LG 32x CDROM and the secondary slave is the HP-8100. I can mount the master via the icon on the KDE desktop. The more I read the more confused I get. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. FIC VA503+ motherboard AMD K6-2/400mhz RIVIA TNT 16mb (PCI) Soundblaster AWE 64 WD 6.4gig HD LG 32x CDROM HP-8100 CDR-RW Windows 98SE Linux 2.2.9-27 When the Linux is starting up it lists the HP-8100 as hdd Complete newbie, Ed Right click on the desktop, select 'New', then 'Filesystem Device'. Name it whatever you'd like then hit enter. Click on the 'Device' tab and enter /dev/hdd. Should be all that's necessary! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ppa
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I have an Iomega Zip 100 parallel port zip drive connected to my system. When I used Mandrake 5.3, it was detected during installation, and was ready to be mounted when I first started the system. with 6.0, it was not detected, and would not mount until I used "modprobe ppa". Unfortunately, this does not completely fix the problem. I have to use modprobe everytime I start my linux system in order to mount my zip drive. Is there a way I can get around this, and/or have the ppa module load at boot? Sure, create a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules that contains: #! /bin/sh modprobe ppa Then set it to be executable: chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.modules And it'll be run auto-magically whenever you boot. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, What is the line#! /bin/shfor? I thought the "#" char. signified a comment to follow? Joe It means to use /bin/sh to interpret the script that follows. Similarly, you would use "#! /usr/bin/perl" for a Perl script and "#! /bin/csh" for a Csh script. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ppa
Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ppa Steve Philp wrote: snip Sure, create a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules that contains: #! /bin/sh modprobe ppa Then set it to be executable: chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.modules And it'll be run auto-magically whenever you boot. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, What is the line#! /bin/shfor? I thought the "#" char. signified a comment to follow? Joe I believe that it switches to the sh shell from bash shell, which is usually the default. As to why you need sh for a script, I was actually planning to write an e-mail asking that exact question. Because you need to tell the system what to use to execute the commands contained in the file. Check /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and you'll find the same at the top of them. Probably the same in the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III
John Connell wrote: Rick Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote: I am still looking for a copy of RealAudio G2. What specific version and what specific web site??? Is it in RPM format? The only version I saw close to it on www.real.com was one for Redhat 5.2. I downloaded and installed it and it wouldn't even start up. Postman Try this: http://ww .real.com/products/player/downloadrealplayer.html?wp=d10899src=q1_netscape_11ang=en Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB I noticed Real has switched back to the 5.0 Player again John Turn off HTML posting. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: [newbie] strange messages
I've got the same message but my mail got thru. __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: [newbie] strange messages Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET-GATEWAY Date:8/25/99 7:13 AM Manny Styles wrote: I'm not sure if this is just me, but as of today, I have been getting messages returned to me that appear to be going to the mailing list. I resent my messages just in case (so if you have seen my messages twice, forgive me). The subject line is "Messgae not deliverable", and it is from Administrator at ISC7 ... CC'ed to administrator(IEC2). Is anyone else having this problem? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html I haven't been getting any returned msg's but I am seeing a lot of doubles. Joseph Gardner
Re: [newbie] NMB
Sean Armstrong wrote: I configured the samba.conf files. The problem seems to lie with the fact that NMB fails at boot. This is an integral part of samba so that I can see my computer through "Network Neighborhood", or at least I'm told. I don't know why NMB fails at boot. I installed the SAMBA package when I installed Mandrake 6.0. There is another linux box on our network that can be seen and it was installed with Redhat 6.0. But I don't believe this is the problem because my linux box couldn't be seen when I had redhat 6.0 installed. Maybe there is something I didn't compile in the Kernel? SA It'd be most important to find out why NMB is failing at boot. It's likely to be causing the same sort of problem later. I believe there's a "log level" option you can add to /etc/samba.conf to cause it to log everything to the system logs. Try that and post the results. Sean Armstrong wrote: I am trying to get my computer to talk with the network with SMB. I was told that I need NMB also. On startup, SMB loads fine but NMB fails. Is there something in the kernel i need to install and if so, can i reconfigure that part of my kernel without having to recompile the whole kernel. You probably just need to configure the Samba configuration files. Check in /usr/doc/samba-version for more information. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail using the correct quotes
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: try just a plain old, mailto -s "Mail test" beo@localhost ~. Well that worked. I mailed a email and it showed up. So... it's working for internal(?) mail routing? Just not routing the items from fetchmail correctly. Beo Like Steve said, it's rejecting the messages from the imap server, check on that end. or maybe just changeing to pop might work Could someone repost the logs that this thread is referring to? I seemed to have lost them in my mail queue. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] memory not all used
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 and it only uses 64 Mb of the 256 Mb installed. The PC is a PIII (Gateway) with two 2940 SCSI cards. I'm using whatever kernel comes with Mandrake 6.0, I don't know how to figure out which one that is. Is there an easy solution to this or am I doomed? I intend to use this PC as a major number-crunching workstation so I'd like to use all the memory I paid for. thanks...Greg Hackman Add this to the linux section of /etc/lilo.conf: append="mem=256M" Then rerun lilo to install the new options: /sbin/lilo Then reboot. :( -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Rick Murphy wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette Jeanette, Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and helper? What I meant was that now when I'm browsing with netscape and click on a real audio button (the ones that say listen here) it will automatically bring up real audio and start playing. I hope I haven't caused any confusion. Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB No its just that as a plugin it will play from from embeded sound files and I have imagine radio which I guess needs the pluggin cause I can't get it to work in Linux and I like to listen to my custom radio station while I am online. Jeanette Jeanette, What do you mean by custom radio? Are these a bunch of songs you have loaded on your computer? I listen to radio Margaritaville and other radio stations with no problem now. Well since yesterday. Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
Re: [newbie] 3Com 3c905 (Vortex) problem
Robert Fox wrote: I have a Mandrake 6.0 install on a system with a 3com 3c905b (Vortex) card. It seems to boot up fine, but I can't ping to it from outside (crossover cable from a Win98 box). When I check the IFCONFIG, it states: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:B3:79:4D inet addr:169.254.55.105 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1480 The other card can autosense 10 or 100 mbit connection, but for some reason I get no link status light. Both cards and machines talk to eachother when using Windows (98 NT) using the same crossover cable - so it's not hardware. Check to see if Windows is using 100Mbit while Linux is running 10Mbit -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Kiosk email client question
Petey wrote: Does anyone know of a good kiosk POP3 based email system for the KDE environment. I'm looking at putting some Linux boxes into the labs I work in. Thanks. One of your best bet for something like this might be to use IMP and KFM. IMP is a web-based email system utilizing PHP and MySQL (I believe). It's rather like HotMail or the other web-based email services. KFM can be used as a web browser. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Wiping Out NT Partitions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wiping out NT Server 4.0 and installing Linux in its place. My question is Will Mandrake overwrite both the FAT root and the NTFS extended partition? I have installed over win95 many times with no problem. Installing over NT is new to me, and I was hoping to get a heads-up on what I could expect. If you choose Server or Workstation and select that drive, yes, it will overwrite them. If you choose Custom, you will have to delete them in fdisk and recreate new partitions for Linux in their place. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] security
Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE I keep reading--"never surf the web for security reasons." Just exactly what type of security risks are we talking about here? Maybe a dumb question but a legitimate one. Please help me with my ignorance! John As a normal user, if someone tries to maliciously hack your pc while you are online, the damage will be minimal; only affecting what that normal user has access to, which isn't enough to destroy your system. On the other hand, if you are root, this malicious hacker will have possible access to your entire system. The consequences could be as simple as you having to reconfigure your system, to a full reinstall, or even trashing your pc for good. That is enough reason to not go online as root, even if you do take precautions. It is also the reason that many of us decided to go with linux as opposed to Windows. Although there are a lot of ways to protect yourself on windows when you are online, it is pretty much comparable to being online in linux as root. I'm am commenting only on what I have read, luckily not from experience. I want to "ring in" on this one before people get the wrong impression... Simply logging in as root while online is NOT a security problem. Being a normal user while online does not decrease the chances of a malicious cracker breaking into your machine and trashing the system. Network daemons (ftp, imap, pop, telnet, Apache, etc, etc) are the things that will result in cracked systems from remote users no matter who you "surf" as. The decrease in risk comes from any possible problems there might be in applications you run on the network as that user. If you fire up IRC as a normal user and someone hacks that application, the only damage they can do is to files and directories that you own. If you IRC as root, you own the entire system and you put all of it at risk. Similarly, a buglet in Netscape that erases your home directory might be a little bothersome (if you don't have backups!) as a normal user could be disastrous as root. And THAT'S why you should NEVER surf as root. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Boot problem
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you wrote: I'm not sure if it will help with the boot problem, but I know from learning the hard way that older bios (ie. back when the pentium pro was popular) can't recognize disks larger than G. Before that I think there was another size limit at about G. Supposedly those on the market today are good through G (at least thats what I infer from unicore's website, makers of Award bios and Mr.Bios) If your comp is reading the drive at 8.5, it's probably a pretty safe bet that you aren't going to be able to access the rest of the drive until you upgrade your bios. Unfortunately, I believe this may be the case. I may just have to forgo the extra 2 Gigs for now, or re-partition it on a machine that can handle the excess drive spacealthough I could've sworn that SCSI wasn't bothered by the same limitations, especially when it has it's own BIOS... John I've certainly never heard of SCSI being affected by the IDE BIOS limitations... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Caldera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? No. The similarity between Red Hat and Caldera ends at the .rpm packaging. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Caldera
Tom Bishop wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud Yes and no. It looks very much like Mandrake what with its KDE desktop, but it is not tied so closely with the RPM package management (dept. of redundancy, dept.). You will do a lot more untarring and compiling with Caldera, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It sure made me learn more. I like Caldera and have it installed now in a virtual machine so I can keep learning from it. However, KDE is all you get from the box, which may or may not be OK, depending on your level of Windows tolerance 8-). Caldera was based in the begining, I believe on RPM (RedHat), but not so much now. This is newbie talk, so I"m sure someone else can give you a lot more insight. The install is very easy. Tom I don't know what version of Caldera you tried, but 2.2 (their latest) still uses .rpm packaging. It's an interesting distribution, but not nearly as "newbie friendly" as some try to paint it to be. I got infuriated with it after a week and moved back to Mandrake 5.3. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] HP1600C printer
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Wow, I was really impressed by how quick I got an answer back on the memory problem! Thanks John Connell. In the mean time I have another newbie-question. I have an HP1600C. That's not one of the printers that you can choose from when you're setting up your printer. Does anyone have any experience with setting up an HP1600C on the parallel port of a Linux box who can point me in the direction of drivers or whatever I might need? Check the printer manual to see if they list any other printers it's compatible with. If it understands PCL, you're probably in luck. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] GUI problem
"Neil P." wrote: I cannot get into the GUI that comes with Linux Mandrake 6.0 Everytime I do, it says fatal server error, NO SCreens Found. I think the video card drivers are not set correct. I have a 32 meg AGP RAGE Fury ATI with TV Out. Does anybody know the ATI drivers I should have picked during the install? Better yet can I change the driver setup in the Command prompt style setting so I can get into the GUI, by picking some generic drivers that work with all video cards? Any help would be appreciated. Try running xf86config -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Question RE: Netscape and ALT-O
John Aldrich wrote: I remember reading the answer to this I've got Mandrake 6.0 and Netscape 4.6 (came pre-installed.) I am so used to using ALT+O to open a new site in Netscape, and it doesn't work... what is the procedure to fix that??? Thanks (FWIW, I DID do a quick search of the archive... G) John I believe the answer was: rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape.ad If not, I'm sure someone still has the correct answer! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] kxicq
Lyndon Lininger Sr wrote: James Schofield wrote: I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux. One is Kicq for KDE and another is for GNOME. I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support. The one for GNOME is STABLE and looks to be the better of the two to use. ANyone tried running the GNOME ICQ on a KDE desktop? ANyone tried both of these clients? ANyone running KICQ and find that it works pretty well and not to worry about it being unstable?? James Try KLICQ. It's the one that I use. Lyndon Lininger Sr. Klicq has given me no problems. You may download it at freshmeat.net. John
Re: [newbie] strange messages (and question)
Radek Dobias wrote: I got a returned message on my post... By the way, I'm just wondering. What's exactly the difference between KDE (or GNOME) and X-Windows. Or is KDE just a GUI for X-Windows? You've got it, KDE is a GUI for the X Window System. X provides a method for putting pictures onto the screen (or your cube-neighbor's screen if that's your thing!), it's up to someone else what those "things" look like. Window managers typically paint the borders, root menus, and control resizing and moving of windows. Applications decide what they look like inside the window based on the GUI libraries that they use -- Motif, Xlib, Athena, OpenLook, Gtk, Qt, etc. Desktop environments like CDE, KDE, and Gnome are trying to standardize a complete set of applications so that they look like they belong together. It's a rather nice change from the mishmash of application "looks" that we used to have. Compare xman to Netscape to kpp to Gimp and you'll see the difference that a GUI library can make! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] An error occured in file system check
I have had this occur. What I did was this - 1) run fsck - this program checks the filesystem. Run without any paramenters it checks the filesystem and reports to you when it has found a problem. It also suggests how this problem can be fixed, giving you a yes/no question (yes - fix, no - don't fix). To run fsck you will need to specify what device you need it to check. If your / partition is on hda1 then run fsck /dev/hda1, hdb1 run fsck /dev/hdb1. 2) when fsck has finished log out of root and the computer will reboot. It should then hopefully come up okay. If for any reason X doesn't work you may need to rerun Xconfigurator. 3) It might be an idea when you reboot to reboot into console mode. Type linux 3 at the LILO prompt and try startx from there. They way you can check that X is working without it running on start up. If this doesn't work I can't help you any further, hopefully if there are any further problems, or if my idea isn't the right one, someone else can help you out. Aaron -Original Message- From: Jeanette Russo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 26 August 1999 9:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] An error occured in file system check I was using dosemu and had a crash. When I rebooted I got this message, An error occured in file system check dropping you to shell. The system will now reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maint. Then I give the root password and I try to start x and get this x11 transport cannot connect error=2 giving up. xinit no such file or directory. Unable to connect to x server. Can this be fixed? If so can some one give me some good instructions I never had to try to fix Linux before? Thanks Jeanette
Re: [newbie] WindowMaker freezes in certain situations (fwd)
Thanks for the suggestions, Matt. I've removed all the files I think were pertinent to both gnome and windowmaker, and it appears that things are again functioning normally. Here's one more general question for folks: Before I did the above, I tried a trick I found in the gnome documentation (surprise!) that describes completely resetting a user session, right back to new defaults. The docs say to hold down CTRL-SHIFT as you log in to gnome, and you'll get a dialog box that allows you to reset the session. But, at least on my PC, holding down CTRL-SHIFT didn't do anything. Has anybody used that option? Is there another way to invoke it? - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Re: [newbie] mouse probs
I had an intellipoint, and I never was able to get it to work as such. I'd also recommend going with the generic type. ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Stephen Woodyatt wrote: Ok, I know this is probably a very easy query, but I've installed Mandrake on my system, but can't get my mouse to work in X-Windows. I've got a COM 1 MS Intellimouse, and I've tried setting it as an intellimouse, a generic mouse, a generic 3 button mouse, and even tried COM 2 but nothing makes it respond. I get no movement, no button pressing registers .. nothing. Anyone want to repsond with suggestions, flames, etc, feel free ;-) Check you /etc/X11/XF86Config to make sure it's setup like: Section "Pointer" Protocol"Intellimouse" Device "/dev/ttyS0" EndSection -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] An error occured in file system check
Jeanette Russo wrote: I was using dosemu and had a crash. When I rebooted I got this message, An error occured in file system check dropping you to shell. The system will now reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maint. Then I give the root password and I try to start x and get this x11 transport cannot connect error=2 giving up. xinit no such file or directory. Unable to connect to x server. Can this be fixed? If so can some one give me some good instructions I never had to try to fix Linux before? The error message will include the partition that has problems. Use that information in this command: e2fsck partition After it runs through all of the filesystem repairs, exit out and reboot the machine. It should come back up it's usual perky self. Good luck! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] HP-8100 CDR-RW
Ed Santiago wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Ed Santiago wrote: I have Mandrake-Linux 6.0 installed and have downloaded all the updates and have been able to format a floppy give it a file system transfer some files between Windows and Linux. I reconfigured my kernel to the AMD K6 processor. I have played around with the thing but I can't seem to mount my HP-8100 CDR-RW. The secondary master is a LG 32x CDROM and the secondary slave is the HP-8100. I can mount the master via the icon on the KDE desktop. The more I read the more confused I get. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. FIC VA503+ motherboard AMD K6-2/400mhz RIVIA TNT 16mb (PCI) Soundblaster AWE 64 WD 6.4gig HD LG 32x CDROM HP-8100 CDR-RW Windows 98SE Linux 2.2.9-27 When the Linux is starting up it lists the HP-8100 as hdd Complete newbie, Ed Right click on the desktop, select 'New', then 'Filesystem Device'. Name it whatever you'd like then hit enter. Click on the 'Device' tab and enter /dev/hdd. Should be all that's necessary! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the reply, but I have tried that and also tried it again. I get this message when I try to mount a CD: mount can't find /dev/hdd in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Is there something else that I need to do? Sounds like it... Add this to /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd/mnt/cdromiso9660noauto,ro 0 0 You may need to adjust the "/mnt/cdrom" part to reflect where you really want to mount the cdrom. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ppa
Dear Steve: You are right about # being the beginning of a comment. However, the combination #! indicates that an executable will follow setting up a new shell to work with. For instance, if you run the script from CSH or TCSH all the command have to be CSH based. If you add the line '#!/bin/sh' at the beginning of the script, it will start a Bourne Shell within your shell and then will execute all the commands that follow. I hope this helps. Bye, Gabriel From: "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ppa Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:19:30 -0400 Steve Philp wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I have an Iomega Zip 100 parallel port zip drive connected to my system. When I used Mandrake 5.3, it was detected during installation, and was ready to be mounted when I first started the system. with 6.0, it was not detected, and would not mount until I used "modprobe ppa". Unfortunately, this does not completely fix the problem. I have to use modprobe everytime I start my linux system in order to mount my zip drive. Is there a way I can get around this, and/or have the ppa module load at boot? Sure, create a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules that contains: #! /bin/sh modprobe ppa Then set it to be executable: chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.modules And it'll be run auto-magically whenever you boot. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, What is the line#! /bin/shfor? I thought the "#" char. signified a comment to follow? Joe ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
[newbie] Modem Lock
I can dial my ISP as root using DIP. When I try to dial as a user I get the following error: PORT: terminal Port set to "/dev/ttyS1". DIP: tty: lock:(/var/lock/LCK..ttyS1). Permission Denied DIP: can't open - problem with locking ttyS1 I think error is with file permissions of some type. Any help would be great. Richard
Re: [newbie] Re:Netscape Files
Yeah, I got it working. It only fully works under 2.2.9-19mdk. If I try to use it under 2.2.9-27mdk wave files just give static. You need to use the 2.2.5 version of emu10k1. Hopefully someone can post the URL that gives decent directions. Richard Malmac wrote: Did anyone got SB Live to work under Mandrake kernel ? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] HP-8100 CDR-RW
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Ed Santiago wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Ed Santiago wrote: I have Mandrake-Linux 6.0 installed and have downloaded all the updates and have been able to format a floppy give it a file system transfer some files between Windows and Linux. I reconfigured my kernel to the AMD K6 processor. I have played around with the thing but I can't seem to mount my HP-8100 CDR-RW. The secondary master is a LG 32x CDROM and the secondary slave is the HP-8100. I can mount the master via the icon on the KDE desktop. The more I read the more confused I get. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. FIC VA503+ motherboard AMD K6-2/400mhz RIVIA TNT 16mb (PCI) Soundblaster AWE 64 WD 6.4gig HD LG 32x CDROM HP-8100 CDR-RW Windows 98SE Linux 2.2.9-27 When the Linux is starting up it lists the HP-8100 as hdd Complete newbie, Ed Right click on the desktop, select 'New', then 'Filesystem Device'. Name it whatever you'd like then hit enter. Click on the 'Device' tab and enter /dev/hdd. Should be all that's necessary! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the reply, but I have tried that and also tried it again. I get this message when I try to mount a CD: mount can't find /dev/hdd in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Is there something else that I need to do? Ed Try /dev/cdrom, or add /dev/hdd to /etc/fstab, you can copy the exsisting /dev/cdrom entry and just change the device and mount point, if you have more than one drive.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Memory not found
I believe you need to give your kernel the boot option: 'mem=256M' Richard "Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing. Is there some bug in the 2.2whatever kernel that it can't use the other 192 Mb? Is there some initialization file I need to change? I intend to use this PC as a serious number-crunching workstation so I'd really like to use all the ram I paid for. Thanks...Greg Hackman
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems
Dear John: What he's saying is CD drives are more particular about the system trying to access them using DMA/UDMA (another way to access an "IDE" device) than hard drives when they don't support that method of accessing the drive. Thanks for the feeaback. Does this mean that the HP CD-R/RW 8200i drive I have is incompatible with the Mandrake 6.0 kernel I am using to boot up? C: Try it with a recent mirror of Cooker "Cooker" is the pre-release version of Mandrake. Think of it as the "Beta" version of the next release of Mandrake. Where do I get this version? Also, where can I get alternate custom boot kernels? Thanks, Gabriel ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
RE: [newbie] SMP kernel problems on PPro
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I've got dual PII's and have booted successfully with 2.2.9-19mdksmp, 2.2.9-27mdksmp, and 2.2.11 The system is: Micronics Helios board(440BX) + AHA2940UW. scott Yeah...I figured it was probably fine for P II / P III, but PPro is a different beast altogether. Although it may be more of a motherboard problem. The motherboard is a Micronics W6-LI w/ 192 Megs of RAM and only one IDE device (my boot drive.) John take the kernel-2.2-i686-smp.config from the kernel SRPM, change the cpu to a Ppro and see if that works.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Ultra DMA/66
I was wondering if anbody knows if the new linux kernel supports Ultra DMA/66. I am using the Abit BE6 motherboard that has a built-in Ultra DMA/66 pci card. I am having problems getting it to work under linux. Thanks
Re: [newbie] WindowMaker freezes in certain situations (fwd)
On 25 Aug, Alan Schussman wrote: Here's one more general question for folks: Before I did the above, I tried a trick I found in the gnome documentation (surprise!) that describes completely resetting a user session, right back to new defaults. The docs say to hold down CTRL-SHIFT as you log in to gnome, and you'll get a dialog box that allows you to reset the session. But, at least on my PC, holding down CTRL-SHIFT didn't do anything. Has anybody used that option? Is there another way to invoke it? It probably means to hold down Ctrl-Shift as you log in from gdm, not startx from console or login from kdm. To get gdm to run in runlevel 5 instead of gdm, you should just have to change a symlink: [root@localhost root]# cd /etc/X11 [root@localhost X11]# ls -l prefdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 22 17:24 prefdm - ../../usr/bin/kdm* [root@localhost X11]# rm prefdm [root@localhost X11]# ln -s /usr/bin/gdm prefdm Now you're done! The next time you reboot, you'll get gdm (GNOME's login manager) instead of KDE's! Of course, since it's fixed now anyway, this is irrellevant to your problem, but maybe someone else is intested. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Boot problem
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I've certainly never heard of SCSI being affected by the IDE BIOS limitations... Right...I confirmed it with my tech this afternoon. :-) His feeling is that the limitation on drive size in SCSI is the Operating system limitation...and if there is a drive size limitation in Linux, I'll be darned if I know what it is! :-) John http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk.html
[newbie] how about my bjc-5000? was:Re: Can Cheapo Lexmark Printer Work with LINUX?
my relatively new canon bjc-5000 is also listed as a paperweight. do you know if i might be able to use other drivers with it to make it work, or am i SOL? also, i checked the bimbo page, but it got a 404. :P Civileme wrote: The Lexmark 2050 is classified as a "Paperweight" at Grant Taylor's page http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/ HOWEVER You are in luck. There is an ACTIVE project on it, and they are looking for some owners/users to help out. http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/17kdriver read their news, then perhaps drop them a line if you feel inspired.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Gabriel Fernández wrote: Dear John: What he's saying is CD drives are more particular about the system trying to access them using DMA/UDMA (another way to access an "IDE" device) than hard drives when they don't support that method of accessing the drive. Thanks for the feeaback. Does this mean that the HP CD-R/RW 8200i drive I have is incompatible with the Mandrake 6.0 kernel I am using to boot up? C: Try it with a recent mirror of Cooker "Cooker" is the pre-release version of Mandrake. Think of it as the "Beta" version of the next release of Mandrake. Where do I get this version? Also, where can I get alternate custom boot kernels? Thanks, Gabriel ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker and Um dunno
Re: [newbie] how about my bjc-5000?
- Original Message - From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:41 AM Subject: [newbie] how about my bjc-5000? was:Re: Can Cheapo Lexmark Printer Work with LINUX? my relatively new canon bjc-5000 is also listed as a paperweight. do you know if i might be able to use other drivers with it to make it work, or am i SOL? also, i checked the bimbo page, but it got a 404. :P Civileme wrote: The Lexmark 2050 is classified as a "Paperweight" at Grant Taylor's page http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/ HOWEVER You are in luck. There is an ACTIVE project on it, and they are looking for some owners/users to help out. http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/17kdriver read their news, then perhaps drop them a line if you feel inspired. I checked out the link because I also have a Lexmark printer (1100). I bought it before I ever considered linux. Luckily for me I had a real printer sitting around which I got to work again recently. Anyway, try http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/ and go from there. I guess the webmaster changed the link. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
