Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
Dear Sam: Thank you so much for the info. Just ordered Que's Special Editon Using StarOffice by Michael Koch (for Linux only) the 15,50+ pages version from Macmillan (http://www.mcp.com). Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 03:53:22PM +0800, Mr-X- wrote: well why do they charge you $20 ? for there code... Because they're the ones with the driver that you want. It's your choice: write the code yourself, buy the driver from OSS, or go without sound. why should they get our money while most everything for linux is free. As you've discovered, there isn't a freely available driver for your soundcard. Soundcards that have freely available drivers aren't that expensive, I think I paid $20 for my Ensoniq card. 'bout the same I would have paid for the OSS driver for my old sound card if OSS had support for it at the time. Do you also feel like you should be handed Xess for free? Motif? You want the cool toys, you ante up the bucks. and if you wanna give somebody a lecture try efnet #linuxcracks cause there the ones who made the dam keygen.. And you're the one offering it up for the world on this mailing list. Do you suppose I could tell the cops that they shouldn't arrest me for selling crack, because someone else sold it to me?! so blow me. Real intelligent. Just as a warning, I'm forwarding this thread to OSS. If we can't shame you into being honest, maybe they can convince you. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Printer lpq -- any solution yet?
Dear R_Yeo: Thank you so very much for your suggestions. Will try them first thing tomorrow when I get up. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:35:24AM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Sam: Thank you so much for the info. Just ordered Que's Special Editon Using StarOffice by Michael Koch (for Linux only) the 15,50+ pages version from Macmillan (http://www.mcp.com). Just as a "head's up" to people, MacMillan is also shipping some of their books as .pdf files in their 6.5 Deluxe edition. Here's what they include: Red Hat 6 Unleashed Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours Teach Yourself KDE in 24 Hours Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Special Edition Using Linux Special Edition Using StarOffice Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 There's also a Acrobat Reader 4.0 on that CD. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate as user -- SOLVED!
I don't know about how update keeps track of what needs installing, but when you did the update, did Mandrake-update reload the available updates list? It should have, and the screen package should not have been on the list at that time (following the update). Check that the package was sucessfully installed with RPM or KRPM. If the previous version is listed as still being installed, then that may be the culprit. This is just a shot in the dark, but worth looking at. Then you will have a better idea where the problem is comming from, and perhaps what needs fixing. Ernie On Sat, 23 Oct 1999,Mr-X- wrote: | Hi again.. | i was just playing around with the update and i went to a diferent mirror site | and wanted me to update the screen package that i updated just a few minutes | ago. doesnt it write to a file somewhere so that it knows youv already updated | that package ? | | On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher said: | Dear friends: | | The credit for this solution belongs to Andrew, a member of our list. I | apologize for not remembering his surname. I hope he comes through to | confirm this. | | OK, the solution is a piece of cake (again, please take a bow, Andrew): | | On your Mandrake 6.1 desktop, right-click on the Update icon: actually | not on the icon itself but on the caption "update" beneath. This will | bring up a short menu with Properties as the last item on the menu. Open | that and go into Execute, delete what's there and type: | | kdesu -c MandrakeUpdate | | | Just like that. No quotes. | | | Click OK. | | If necessary, log out of KDE and log back in (as user). You probably | won't have to log out at all. The change should take effect immediately | (unlike in Windows, where the slightest configuration chagne requires a | reboot). | | Now just click on the Update icon (yellow star) on the Desktop. It will | ask you for your root password right off. Remember to check the | "remember password" part at left bottom of the dialogue box. And the | rest is history. | | I had entered the command a few days ago, but tonight was my first | chance to test it. There were two update rpms waiting for me. It worked | flawlessly, fetching and installing the rpms AS USER (that is, as user | who has automatically su - to root while still logged in as user in KDE. | | You can also open xterm and su - to root and type the same command. | Should work just as well. | | Once Update remembers your password, it's all automatic and just plain | fun to watch it to its updating for direct from the Internet's | neverneverland. And you never have to leave KDE as user. | | It works, folks, and flawlessly. | | Yours, | | Benjamin | -- | Benjamin and Anna Sher | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sher's Russian Web | http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie]
Hi Sam, To have HotMetalPro on Linux would be incredible. There really is nothing close to that on Linux right now. Jeanette Sam wrote: Hi Jeannette, SoftQuad has a webserver package for Linux. Maybe if people start pestering them, they'll consider porting HotMetalPro- which is an incerdible program. Sam Jeanette Russo wrote: Thanks David, I have did most of the site using Linux. I started with asWedit, and edited it in various other HTML editors such as Webmaker and August. From time to time I might add a link or edit something when I am on in Windows or NT using Notepad or Homesite. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the arcane registration process. Now if they would fix the Java and the printing it would be great. And some fonts would help. Jeanette Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Before StarOffice was bought by Sun, it was offered free for personal use by StarDivision. There was also the option to purchase it for $39.95 from StarDivision. Does anyone know what that original $39.95 Personal Edition contained: e.g. was there a Font Installer? More fonts? More clip art? Multilingual support (Cyrillic)? Etc. What happened to that original edition? Is it still available? I don't see anything about it on the www.sun.com site. Is it worth bothering with? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Fortify install
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Hugh: First make sure your Netscape (all windows) is CLOSED. Use the following command: tar -xzf Fortify-1.4.5-unix-x86.tar.gz Then cd to the Fortify directory (Fortify-1.4.5-unix-x86) and type as root: #./Fortify.sh When it asks you for the location of Netscape, do NOT say: /usr/bin/netscape. That's just a symbolic link. You need to write: /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator After installation and testing at www.fortify.net (README file online), you should consider repeating the procedure to fortify netscape-navigator as well. Yours, Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Where is Netscape Navigator I didn't see that only Netscape-Communicator when I did Fortify? Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:38:20AM +0800, Mr-X- wrote: i have a key generator already from linuxcracks I agree with Steve's post $20 is not much for the work 4front as put into this. I haven't had to use this in Mandrake but in Caldera and my Laptop I was glad to pay $20 just to have sound. Plus Dev at 4front is very helpful and responded to my e-mails for help by the next day. When I couldn't get OSS to work on Caldera 2.2 which has terrible sound support he even telnetted into my box and fixed it so I am with 4front all the way lets support these guys. Jeantte Are you really broke enough that you're unwilling to pay $20 for the drivers? This _REALLY_ pisses me off. Hannu and the rest of the guys at Open Sound/4Front have worked their asses off bringing drivers to the Linux community. They've done the crap work of agreeing to NDA's from sound card manufacturers so that people who've made unfortunate choices in hardware purchases can USE that hardware under Linux. SNIP -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sound
Is it the Notebook that is not detecting the PCMCIA slots, or the system? If Linux is not finding the PCMCIA slots, then Linux may be looking for the slots under resources being used by the sound card (remember that when you turn on PnP in the BIOS, the settings for all devices may be changed from what they were with PnP turned off). If this is the case, you may have to change the PCMCIA set up to make things work with PnP turned on. Just another shot in the dark from, Ernie On Sat, 23 Oct 1999,R_Yeo wrote: | "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: | | | The "no boards found" line tells us that pnpdump is not seeing your card | (obviously). Your sound card has the same chip set as mine. I read somewhere | something about edge detection with respect to setting up the card, so I went | into my BIOS settings, and changed the setting for detection from "level" to | "edge". Then I was able to set up the card. | | You have led the horse to the water, now is time to drink | it. You just gave me a hint on where to look. I read | somewhere during my initial install that I should set the | PNP in BIOS to off. (Anyone care to contradict that?). So | when I set if to 'on', wallah, I get sound without going | thru' sndconfig. But, there's a big BUT there, the | notebook doesn't detect my PCMCIA slots, so no network. | | Back to the drawing board, but I feel I'm getting closer. | Turned off the PNP in BIOS and I'm back again. Let me dig | thru' the PCMCIA-HOWTO again and I'll get back on the | outcome. | | Any kind soul have any suggestions on what could be the | cause of this? | | | | -- | Ronald Yeo | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:35:24AM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Sam: Thank you so much for the info. Just ordered Que's Special Editon Using StarOffice by Michael Koch (for Linux only) the 15,50+ pages version from Macmillan (http://www.mcp.com). Just as a "head's up" to people, MacMillan is also shipping some of their books as .pdf files in their 6.5 Deluxe edition. Here's what they include: Red Hat 6 Unleashed Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours Teach Yourself KDE in 24 Hours Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Special Edition Using Linux Special Edition Using StarOffice Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 If you get the "Complete Edition" (about 29 USD) you get Red Hat 6 Unleashed Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours Teach Yourself KDE in 24 Hours Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Special Edition Using Linux -- Alex
Re: [newbie] LILO installation error
When the install asks if you have any SCSI devices, answer "yes". In the LILO set-up screen, check the "use linear" checkbox. This tells LILO to work with your HD in a manner which is compatible with the SCSI interface. I don't know if this is what you did before, but if not, maybe it will be of help, Ernie On Sat, 23 Oct 1999,Slagathor wrote: | I continually get an error message when trying to install LILO to the MBR. | The error reads something like "An error has occurred while trying to | install LILO to the MBR". I have tried multiple combinations of | partitioning strategies with the same result. The most time consuming part | of this is having to complete an entire installation with each attempt. | | The hardware: 4GB SCSI drive | | I use the Linux FDISK to create the partitions. Although I should not be | burdened by the 1024th cylinder issue, I make it a habit of creating a | 100MB /boot partition as sda1. Here is an example of a typical partitioning | strategy that I use: | | sda1/boot Linux native100MB | sda2/dosDOS 1000MB | sda3Linux Swap 100MB | sda4/ Linux native2800MB | | I suspect that since I use a SCSI hard drive, I may have to provide some | arguments during the installation section that asks for them, as well as | whether or not to use linear mode. I don't understand this section, nor can | I find any documentation regarding what it's for and how it works. | | Any tips? | | Thanks | | | "The three greatest things in life are to crush your enemies, | to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations | of their women." -Conan the Barbarian | | -Slagathor | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] user security
I use KPPP in the KDE desktop, and I didn't have to set any priveliges. However, if you use Linuxconfig, in the ppp section there is a check box to allow all users to use ppp. Ernie On Sat, 23 Oct 1999,Richard Salts wrote: | What user privileges do I, as root, enact to be able to enable an ordinary | user to be able to dial up the Internet and use browser, e-mail, chat, etc? | | | Richard
Re: [newbie] Where is Kernel?
/boot Ernie On Sat, 23 Oct 1999,art-nj wrote: | I am trying to compile ftape and keep getting errors. I think it is | because I have not properly specified the location of the kernel. I | am running mandrake 6.0. Which directory would contain the Kernel? | | Your help is appreciated. Thank you!!
Re: [newbie]
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a replacement package for the kernel problem is coming soon, right MandrakeSoft?? :) Haven't forgotten anyone i swear, I think i've just about got this stable so as i can actualy compile things with 'make -j' and know it's not gonna flake out and loose dma or irq forceing me to reboot. BP6 users, upgrade your bios to 1.20 (might be in 1.10 didn't check) to beable to turn off dma on the hpt366. (note my io's changed after this you'll wanna recheck /proc/pci vs. dmesg) and for the lilo stuff in bios set boot to EXT, set the ext method to not scsi (forgot what it says exactly) Before rebooting change to tty2, edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 then 'lilo -r /mnt' -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Where is Kernel?
Whoops! Dumb me, I responded to this a few ago, and told him /boot ! Wasn't thinking about the compile. Ernie On Sun, 24 Oct 1999,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:45:35PM -0400, art-nj wrote: | I am trying to compile ftape and keep getting errors. I think it is | because I have not properly specified the location of the kernel. I | am running mandrake 6.0. Which directory would contain the Kernel? | | /usr/src/linux | | Your help is appreciated. Thank you!! | | -- | Steve Philp | Network Administrator | Advance Packaging Corporation | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
Personaly, I'd give sun a few more weeks to get organized then ask them :) On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Before StarOffice was bought by Sun, it was offered free for personal use by StarDivision. There was also the option to purchase it for $39.95 from StarDivision. Does anyone know what that original $39.95 Personal Edition contained: e.g. was there a Font Installer? More fonts? More clip art? Multilingual support (Cyrillic)? Etc. What happened to that original edition? Is it still available? I don't see anything about it on the www.sun.com site. Is it worth bothering with? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] user security
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:32PM -0700, Richard Salts wrote: What user privileges do I, as root, enact to be able to enable an ordinary user to be able to dial up the Internet and use browser, e-mail, chat, etc? The only thing you have to do is allow them to dialup. Everything else is automatically available. Depending on what you're using to connect to the Internet, it's easy to allow normal users to make the connection: Kppp: just set up kppp for that user. They start the connection just like root. netcfg: there's a checkbox to "allow normal users to (de)activate the connection, put a checkmark in it and save all the way back out. Users use /sbin/ifup ppp0 # to connect /sbin/ifdown ppp0 # to disconnect or usernet which is just a one button window that you click to connect and click to disconnect. Does anyone else get the idea that we've got too damn many ways to accomplish one thing? Hey you forgot diald, and probably a few others :) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] How do I get my old ksirc back?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Ty Mixon wrote: For some reason if I update ksirc beyond the 6.0 version it breaks. Instead of connectiing to a server it starts to, then just dies. What I'd like to do is go back to my old ksirc, but it's part of the kdenetwork package and I don't want to downgrade the whole package. Anyone know how I'd do this? Thanks, Download and compile it seperately from ftp.kde.org, Posibly less painfull to get the latest version working My first guess as to why it doesn't is config file incompatibility. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
I used the StarOffice 5.1 from StarDivision in Windoze95, and was not impressed. 5.1a is better organized, looks and works better. It runs faster, at least on my old box, and the installer is easier to use. YMMV, Ernie On Sat, 23 Oct 1999,Benjamin Sher wrote: | Dear friends: | | Before StarOffice was bought by Sun, it was offered free for personal | use by StarDivision. There was also the option to purchase it for $39.95 | from StarDivision. Does anyone know what that original $39.95 Personal | Edition contained: e.g. was there a Font Installer? More fonts? More | clip art? Multilingual support (Cyrillic)? Etc. What happened to that | original edition? Is it still available? I don't see anything about it | on the www.sun.com site. Is it worth bothering with? | | Thank you so much. | | Benjamin | -- | Benjamin and Anna Sher | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sher's Russian Web | http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
Jeanette Russo wrote: I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the arcane registration process. Now if they would fix the Java and the printing it would be great. And some fonts would help. Jeanette I have asked this question before, and will try again. Does anyone know specifically what are the "upgrades' from the original SO5.1 to Sun's 5.1a? It takes a hell of a long time to d/l the package over a 64K satellite link shared by a few people, so I'd prefer to know first before I jump. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] user security
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:32PM -0700, Richard Salts wrote: | What user privileges do I, as root, enact to be able to enable an ordinary | user to be able to dial up the Internet and use browser, e-mail, chat, etc? | | The only thing you have to do is allow them to dialup. Everything else is | automatically available. | | Depending on what you're using to connect to the Internet, it's easy to | allow normal users to make the connection: | | Kppp: just set up kppp for that user. They start the connection | just like root. | | netcfg: there's a checkbox to "allow normal users to (de)activate | the connection, put a checkmark in it and save all the | way back out. Users use | | /sbin/ifup ppp0 # to connect | /sbin/ifdown ppp0 # to disconnect | | or | usernet | | which is just a one button window that you click | to connect and click to disconnect. | | | Does anyone else get the idea that we've got too damn many ways to | accomplish one thing? | | -- | Steve Philp | Network Administrator | Advance Packaging Corporation | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah! Ain't it great!? Ernie
Re: [newbie] Fortify install
Call me lazy, but I just use the KDE archiver tool. Navigate to the file you wish to extract, Rt-Click the file, select Archiver, then in Archiver, File/Extract to ... Then I select the location where I want to decompress the archive, and "OK". I don't learn as much about using tar, or gzip, but I get the job done. Ernie On Sat, 23 Oct 1999,Hugh wrote: | Today I tried installing Fortify into netscape. But I ran into a problem | When I try to UN zip the file I get an alarm that says it doesn't know -xf- | I'm using this command | gzip -dc Fortify-1.4.5-unix-x86.tar.gz | tar -xf- | what am I doing wrong? I'm really bad with tar files as you can see | | Thanks for any help | | Hugh | | | | | | | | | -- | Boling's postulate: | If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
Re: [newbie] update problelms?
Maybe I'm just cautious, but I get it from Windoze. I like to do a single install at a time. That way, I know if there is a problem, and I may have a better chance of doing something about it (This may be superstition, but remember my PC roots). I know you can do multiple updates, because the "select all" button is there, it just never crossed my mind to use it. Ernie On Sat, 23 Oct 1999,Don Whitman wrote: | I just tried to update for the first time. I am running mandrake 6.0. I | selected all updates which was quite a lot. It took about one and a half hours | to download. Then when it was installing I got an error (do not remember exact | message) and was asked to either force or quit so I forced. I then got about 7 | errors stating that I had conflicting files and it I believe asked me to | continue. After that everything was gone. Nothing got installed. Where did I | go wrong. Is it there somewhere that I can try to reinstall? Is there an | easier way to do this?Thanks Don | | | Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie]
Hi Steve, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake mounted my windows partition during the install as a read only device- That's EXTREMELY useful for a beginner. None of the others did or even asked to. Why, exactly, is it helpful to have the Windows partition mounted? There's nothing but fonts in there that are even useful when running Linux. Actuaally, there is something very important on the windows partition- files. For example, this is useful because I do most of the graphics manipulation for a couple of websites in GIMP, but I do the actual layout in hotmetal pro. I can access the images from the Linux partition to do work. I changed the permissions so I can write to the vfat partition as root. When I'm done, I move them back to the Windows side. Since I do this when I have a couple of hours worth of work to do, it makes it worthwhile switching OS's (and GIMP is sooo cool) Let's say a new Linux user gets Applixware. He can access the Office documents he was working on from the DOS partition and move them over to Linux with little or no hassle. It makes it easy for a newbie to change over to Linux from MS These little details will make a big difference in how Linux is perceived by the new user. The more options given without confusing the person, the happier the newbie becomes. Sam
Re: [newbie] Sound
wow steve i fear your ability to forward emails from a list to companies that proly get so many emails a day they delete it all. and i didnt boast about cracking it.. someone asked if i decompiled it to crack it and i said i used a keygen.. so again, blow me you geek. eye fear joo :) Mr-X- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 03:53:22PM +0800, Mr-X- wrote: well why do they charge you $20 ? for there code... Because they're the ones with the driver that you want. It's your choice: write the code yourself, buy the driver from OSS, or go without sound. why should they get our money while most everything for linux is free. As you've discovered, there isn't a freely available driver for your soundcard. Soundcards that have freely available drivers aren't that expensive, I think I paid $20 for my Ensoniq card. 'bout the same I would have paid for the OSS driver for my old sound card if OSS had support for it at the time. Do you also feel like you should be handed Xess for free? Motif? You want the cool toys, you ante up the bucks. and if you wanna give somebody a lecture try efnet #linuxcracks cause there the ones who made the dam keygen.. And you're the one offering it up for the world on this mailing list. Do you suppose I could tell the cops that they shouldn't arrest me for selling crack, because someone else sold it to me?! so blow me. Real intelligent. Just as a warning, I'm forwarding this thread to OSS. If we can't shame you into being honest, maybe they can convince you. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Fortify install
Dear Folks, Regarding Fortify. I have the 128-bit encrypted Netscape. The version that requires you to swear you are a Canadian or American citizen to download. The bottom line is I tested it on Fortify's site. They said the encryption is military weapons grade and I don't need their product. BTW, this applies to both my Windows and my Linux versions of Netscape. So I really don't know what all the fuss is about. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
[newbie] modprobe ppa does not work
Whenever I try to start my paralell ZIP drive (with "modprobe ppa" as root), I get the following message: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Das Gerät oder die Ressource ist belegt parport: Das Gerät oder die Ressource ist belegt (which means "occupied" or "busy") lsmod shows: Module Size Used by parport_probe 3588 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 6068 0 (autoclean) parport 8348 0 [parport_probe parport_pc] nls_iso8859-1 2052 1 (autoclean) opl3 13928 0 (unused) sb 36980 0 (unused) uart401 6480 0 [sb] sound 65240 0 [opl3 sb uart401] soundcore 3748 6 [sb sound] soundlow 304 0 [sound] tulip 25028 1 (autoclean) vfat 11036 0 fat32960 0 [vfat] which is necessary, as I also want to use the printer (not at the same time of course!) and it worked in SUSE 5.3 some time ago, now I am running Mandrake 6.1 (great stuff BTW!). Any tips how to get it working?? Thanks, Willy
[newbie] Plugger
Hey, all...just a reminder that the Mandrake RPM of Netscape is the Libc5 version, and if you go to get "plugger" or any other C-version specific plugin, you need to get the libc5 version, not the GLIBC2 version. :-) Mandrake itself may use glibc2, but the Mandrake RPM of Netscape is using the older library, which is incompatible with plugins based on the newer version of the c-language library. :-) I found that out the hard way this morning trying to install Plugger. :-) John
[newbie] Where is my message ????
It's the 5th time I send a message about Netscape to the list, and it never appeared ! What's happening ? I attached it to my mail. Are messages about Netscape filtered ? Hello list, I have the following problem with Communicator (version 4.61 or 4.7) under Mandrake 6.1 : I open the "Composer" window, choose Insert/Link..., and click on the Cancel button in the link window : Netscape closes every window, and is terminated ! Does someone have the same problem (and maybe have the solution) ? Thank you...
Re: [newbie] X-Windows Font Server Problem
This specifically deals with KDE. I can't start it up. Here are the messages: failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Thanks to the very person who got me *into* Linux, I have the answer for you. Or, at least a "work-around". Personally, I would like to know **WHY** this should even be necessary. At shell prompt, edit the following files (each in turn) with your favorite Unix-based editor: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config Look for the line that contains the following five (5) lines: # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" And then insert a "#" before "FontPath" and Save/Exit the file. You should end up with the following change: # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. #FontPath "unix/:-1" That's all there is to it.
RE: [newbie] Where is my message ????
Some mailer readers may not be handling attachments well so it may be better, seeing as you attachment is small and not really in need of being an attachment, to just put it in the body of your message. Secondly, Composer in Netscape running under Linux is broken, this is well documented in the archives of this maillist on the Mandrake homepage. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dominique Deleris Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Where is my message It's the 5th time I send a message about Netscape to the list, and it never appeared ! What's happening ? I attached it to my mail. Are messages about Netscape filtered ?
Re: [newbie] Fortify install
Dear Jeanette and friends: You need to fortify Netscape Communicator and Netscape Navigator separate. After you fortify Communicator, quit Fortify, then reenter the Fortify directory and restart it with ./Fortify.sh and this time choose option 2 for your directory (as before) and type /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-navigator instead of /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator (assuming, of course, you have both Communicator and Navigagor installed on your system). Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
RE: [newbie] Fortify install
My Netscape wasn't US standard mine was international or in other words 40 bit. I hate our govt. policy on encryption Hugh On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear Folks, Regarding Fortify. I have the 128-bit encrypted Netscape. The version that requires you to swear you are a Canadian or American citizen to download. The bottom line is I tested it on Fortify's site. They said the encryption is military weapons grade and I don't need their product. BTW, this applies to both my Windows and my Linux versions of Netscape. So I really don't know what all the fuss is about. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -- Boling's postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
Re: [newbie] linux games, and when will they fix the address book?
I think we won't see the 'real good' games for Linux until we have 3D acceleration other than 3dfx for our beloved OS. If you want to play in Linux anyway yuo can get a game console emulator, like SNES9X. It rocks, and you'll find ROMs everywhere. If interested, go to www.snes9x.com. If you want ROMs, my ICQ # is 38321312. El sáb, 23 oct 1999, escribiste: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: On the loki side, Railroad Tycon II is on its way. Theyre also continuing their alliance with Activision and have plans to port Heretic II and Heavy Gear II as well. I saw HereticII at ALS a weekend or so ago It rocked! :-) I'm going to have to give up this video card and get a 3d card, I think... :-) John
Re: [newbie] modprobe ppa does not work
Dear Bertalan: With a cartridge inserted in my 100 Zip parallel drive, I su - to root, then switch to / It will not work with [root@root]# You have to be [root@ /]# Hope this helps. [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ su - Password: [root@adsl-77-232-189 /root]# cd / [root@adsl-77-232-189 /]# modprobe ppa [root@adsl-77-232-189 /]# mount /mnt/zip [root@adsl-77-232-189 /]# cd /mnt/zip [root@adsl-77-232-189 zip]# ls docs lost+found Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] modprobe ppa does not work -- footnote
Dear Bertalan: I forgot: To unmount, you also need to be at [root@ /] [root@adsl-77-232-189 /]# umount /mnt/zip [root@adsl-77-232-189 /]# -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] FYI - Go here to setup your SoundBlaster Live soundcard in Linux!
I don't have a SoundBlater Live soundcard, but I have seen many recommend this URL for intructions on setting up your SoundBlaster Live soundcard (personally, I own a SoundBlaster AWE 32). Check it out: http://www5.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.html __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Fastest Download Site
I Absolutely agree. That's what I was trying to convey earlier. Thanks for helping me out. Matt From: "Singer XJ Wang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Fastest Download Site Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:27:49 -0300 I hate to say this, download speed does not improve by using Go!Zilla, GoZilla finds the fatest site and goes there and that's why its fast. You can also pop up ftp and go there and you'll even get the same speed. - Original Message - From: M Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fastest Download Site If you are still running Windows, download a program called Go!Zilla. It's a download manager that will search thru FTP sites to find the fastest server. It will start downloading when you click the "download" button. If the download starts to slow down, Go!Zilla will automatically switch to a faster server. **On a 56K connection, I was able to download at 48K using Go!Zilla. HTH, Matt From: Eduardo Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Support (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Fastest Download Site Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 12:31:23 -0500 What is the fastest site where I can download Linux Mandrake 6.1 (Helios)? I'm on a T1. Thanks, Eddie __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Install problems
Hi, I had mandrake 6.0 running on my machine and I tried to install 6.1. I got a message with SIGSEGV(11) in it. The upgrade stopped and I couldn't boot my machine. Now when I tried to reinstall when I get to the part where the partitions are formatted the process stops and I get a message with this in it. Code 28 8b 43 18 a8 04 75 21 8b 43 18 a8 80 74 1a 8b 53 30 31 c0 kernel panic: attempted to kill the idle task in swapper task not syncing Does anyone know what this means Thanks
RE: [newbie]
Axalon Are you a Mandrake person? (As in employed by them?) If so... have you heard anyone else having the problem as I did with Postfix? keep in mind, I actually use my install to receive email for several people and relay for my home users, so I am using the mail server for what it can do, not like other 'general' users who probably use more fetchmail type scenarios. It seems that somewhere along the way, the executable 'newaliases' was using the wrong file and format, so postfix was bombing. I would suspect that newaliases was configured during install for some sendmail process or something. And my other curiosity... the "optimizations" that Mandrake does for pentiums, does that include ALL programs.. were all the files (executables) recompiled for better performance on pentiums? (amd/intel/and that other thing cyrix) ;) Thanks !! R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axalon Bloodstone Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a replacement package for the kernel problem is coming soon, right MandrakeSoft?? :) Haven't forgotten anyone i swear, I think i've just about got this stable so as i can actualy compile things with 'make -j' and know it's not gonna flake out and loose dma or irq forceing me to reboot.
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
Both best buy and compusa are selling redhat for 19.95 plus tax. The box also includes star office 5.1 on a seperate cd. The star office cd has the sun emblem on the cd cover. Seems like a pretty fair deal. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie]
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 06:37:03AM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a replacement package for the kernel problem is coming soon, right MandrakeSoft?? :) Haven't forgotten anyone i swear, I think i've just about got this stable so as i can actualy compile things with 'make -j' and know it's not gonna flake out and loose dma or irq forceing me to reboot. BP6 users, upgrade your bios to 1.20 (might be in 1.10 didn't check) to beable to turn off dma on the hpt366. (note my io's changed after this you'll wanna recheck /proc/pci vs. dmesg) I wondered about that... I saw the BIOS update, but didn't want to risk throwing another variable into the mix. I'll give it a shot. I hope it fixes the problem of the drive jumping between C: and D: on each boot. and for the lilo stuff in bios set boot to EXT, set the ext method to not scsi (forgot what it says exactly) Before rebooting change to tty2, edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 then 'lilo -r /mnt' Excellent, I'll give that a try! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Dieing mouse
Hello, I'm installing linux-man., version 6.0 and configure mouse for generic ps/2 and just about every other mouse in the list. But when I get to the xconfig part, I can see the test box but can't use mouse to click ok, then I have to quit and reboot to the non-graphical linux. The mouse I'm using is a generic mouse made by logitech for IBM. I have also tried my generic compaq mouse that works under linux on my other computer and I get the same results. The computer I'm trying to put linux on is an IBM 330 - P75. If you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex
Re: [newbie] Plugger
John Aldrich wrote: Hey, all...just a reminder that the Mandrake RPM of Netscape is the Libc5 version, and if you go to get "plugger" or any other C-version specific plugin, you need to get the libc5 version, not the GLIBC2 version. :-) Mandrake itself may use glibc2, but the Mandrake RPM of Netscape is using the older library, which is incompatible with plugins based on the newer version of the c-language library. :-) I found that out the hard way this morning trying to install Plugger. :-) John Hmmm. I'm a bit confused. I thought RH 6.0 and above including Mandrake was glibc2.. Can you explain this? I've tried plugger a few times and it installed, but everytime a web "event" called something to utilize plugger CRASH!... Maybe this is indeed my answer, since I dloaded glibc2. This is damn confusing. How do you tell? How do you know? Ever since the last attempt at plugger in which I had to edit a number of things in Netscape just to get RID of it!!! I find this interesting since all my local linux buddies say GLIBC2!!! If anyone can explain this and tell me how to figure out what I need I would appreciate it!! Alan
Re: [newbie] Plugger
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:14:09PM +, Alan_N wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Hey, all...just a reminder that the Mandrake RPM of Netscape is the Libc5 version, and if you go to get "plugger" or any other C-version specific plugin, you need to get the libc5 version, not the GLIBC2 version. :-) Mandrake itself may use glibc2, but the Mandrake RPM of Netscape is using the older library, which is incompatible with plugins based on the newer version of the c-language library. :-) I found that out the hard way this morning trying to install Plugger. :-) John Hmmm. I'm a bit confused. I thought RH 6.0 and above including Mandrake was glibc2.. Can you explain this? They are. The ONLY application in any of these that is libc 5 is Netscape. I've tried plugger a few times and it installed, but everytime a web "event" called something to utilize plugger CRASH!... Maybe this is indeed my answer, since I dloaded glibc2. This is damn confusing. How do you tell? How do you know? You can tell what libraries an application is linked against using the command: ldd application Because of all the "behind the curtain" work to get Netscape even resembling stable, you'll find that /usr/bin/netscape and /usr/bin/netscape-communicator aren't even the real executables. The real one hides in /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator. Here's the output of "ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator" from the Netscape shipped with 6.1: /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 = /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x4000) libBrokenLocale.so.1 = /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0x40009000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000b000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4005b000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40064000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4007b000) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4008e000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4009d000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400aa000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40159000) libstdc++.so.2.8 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 (0x4015c000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4019d000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401bb000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) You'll notice that this one is linked against glibc instead of libc 5. Guess it got magically "stable" in the move to 6.1? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] linux games, and when will they fix the address book?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: I think we won't see the 'real good' games for Linux until we have 3D acceleration other than 3dfx for our beloved OS. Ummm. . .im gonna have to disagree with that. Is Q3 not a "real good game?" Granted its mainly a multiplayer game, but it's a "real good" multiplayer game (in my opinion). Same can be said for Unreal Tournament. Elsewise. if you've played the Win32 versions of Heavy Gear II or Descent 3. . .i think those are all "real good" games that are coming to Linux. . .and these efforts would probably be hampered quite a bit had there been no base to stand on. So what if that base is in the form of 3dfx? God grant, everyone's heard the "shame on 3dfx for releasing such substandard 'next generation' boards", but hey. . .whatever works for now eh? At the time the Voodoo2 was a revolutionary chipset and yes it is a shame to not see 3dfx continue that trend but it is a starting point. . .Im thankful for that at least Good things are afoot however. . .Xfree86 4 will include Mesa for 3D rendering and many of the games coming will include Mesa based renderers so fear not. . .that and seeing as how nVidia is also a major player in the Linux OpenGL Base Project, i think Linux support (GOOD Linux support even!) for all present and future nVidia chipsets is a for sure. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) To paraphrase my friend stephen: "life can be like that great ifs xscreensaver. . .random garbage goes in and sometimes, beautiful things come out."
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 03:53:22PM +0800, Mr-X- wrote: Just as a warning, I'm forwarding this thread to OSS. If we can't shame you into being honest, maybe they can convince you. Good call steve. Personally one of the things that makes Linux so neat is that beyond the OS there's really a strong community mindedness at work here. Linux is about all of us choosing to use and support something different and superior, and it's about all of us supporting everyone who is choosing to do work on various Linux projects, most people doing it mainly for the love of programming and the OS. im thinking $20 is a small price to pay for that sort of thing. . . - Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) To paraphrase my friend stephen: "life can be like that great ifs xscreensaver. . .random garbage goes in and sometimes, beautiful things come out."
Re: [newbie] Fortify install
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: Today I tried installing Fortify into netscape. But I ran into a problem When I try to UN zip the file I get an alarm that says it doesn't know -xf- I'm using this command gzip -dc Fortify-1.4.5-unix-x86.tar.gz | tar -xf- what am I doing wrong? I'm really bad with tar files as you can see Oh, two things you'll need to keep in mind. First, give it the path to Netscape (/usr/lib/netscape/Netscapeversion instead of /usr/bin/netscape.) And second, when it prompts you for a yes/no, it doesn't want just a "y" or "n" response. It wants the WHOLE word. John
Re: [newbie] Re: newbie Core Dump
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:10:46PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: What is a core dump??? and why do you get them??? Core dump is a memory dump of a crashed program. Instead of a "blue screen of death" like you get with Microsoft, you get a "core dump" Now come on now... A core dump is like a Dr. Watson trace. It just saves the memory image to disk so you can beat someone for it later. Well, it's not much use to most people. You really almost have to be a programmer to figure out what happened from a core dump. :-) Now, an OOPS... THAT's like a Blue Screen of Death. Hmm...never had an OOPS, AFAIK. :-) when a program fails. Also, the nice thing about Linux is that the PROGRAM fails, not the Operating System. :-) Indeed! Most definitely a nice feature! :-) John
Re: [newbie] How do I bring eth0 down?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:50:25AM +, Ty Mixon wrote: On my box the commands are also shortened to ifup and ifdown. They're different commands. Do a 'which ifup' and 'which ifconfig' to see. Yeah...but you can probably accomplish the same thing with both, I'd guess. Just two ways of reaching the same point. :-) John
Re: [newbie] linux games, and when will they fix the address book?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: I saw HereticII at ALS a weekend or so ago It rocked! :-) I'm going to have to give up this video card and get a 3d card, I think... :-) John Wow cool! yes linux games are coming along quite nicely from what ive seen. Speaking of 3D cards, let's hope that the support continues to be on the upward. I'd actually say keep your current vc and add some voodoo2s or a voodoo3 (when XFree86 4 comes out anyway). . .just cuz linux support for the voodoo's is so nicely stable and widespread. . . Well, I was planning on probably getting a Voodoo3-2000, since my system doesn't have AGP. If it did, I'd probably use this TNT I have lying around. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Fortify install
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: After installation and testing at www.fortify.net (README file online), you should consider repeating the procedure to fortify netscape-navigator as well. Where is Netscape Navigator I didn't see that only Netscape-Communicator when I did Fortify? Jeanette Same location, just that it's netscape-navigator, instead of netscape-communicator. :-) John
Re: [newbie] How do I bring eth0 down?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On my box the commands are also shortened to ifup and ifdown. Hmm...well, I suppose you're correct. I'm just telling it the way I learned it. As the old saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Fortify install
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: Today I tried installing Fortify into netscape. But I ran into a problem When I try to UN zip the file I get an alarm that says it doesn't know -xf- I'm using this command gzip -dc Fortify-1.4.5-unix-x86.tar.gz | tar -xf- what am I doing wrong? I'm really bad with tar files as you can see Ok. Try it this way: "tar xzvf Fortify-1.4.5-unix-x86.tar.gz" That pretty much does the same thing you were trying to do above, but does it in one step, instead of two steps. It's always worked for me... *shrug* John
Re: [newbie] Plugger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is damn confusing. How do you tell? How do you know? You can tell what libraries an application is linked against using the command: ldd application Because of all the "behind the curtain" work to get Netscape even resembling stable, you'll find that /usr/bin/netscape and /usr/bin/netscape-communicator aren't even the real executables. The real one hides in /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator. Here's the output of "ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator" from the Netscape shipped with 6.1: /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 = /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x4000) libBrokenLocale.so.1 = /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0x40009000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000b000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4005b000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40064000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4007b000) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4008e000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4009d000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400aa000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40159000) libstdc++.so.2.8 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 (0x4015c000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4019d000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401bb000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) You'll notice that this one is linked against glibc instead of libc 5. Guess it got magically "stable" in the move to 6.1? Cool.. Still confused, but a little less.. I got the same results with ldd. Maybe this is part of this horrendous memory usage I now have.. The libc.so.6 file that runs when netscape runs is huge.. Damn, where's opera! I've tried opera under BeOS and it has potential.. So much so, I'm considering buying it.. I like BeOS a lot, but Linux is still more productive.. And consider 6-8 months ago, Linux was my toy OS and win was the primary.. Nice how things move from the west! Thanks for the info.. Maybe I will try the plugger libc.. Alan
[newbie] upgrading
A couple of quick questions 1. I am using Mandrake 6.0 and would like to us VMware ver 1.1 which requires xfree86 3.3.4 and ver 6 of mandrake only uses 3.3.1 What is the simplest way of getting this done. 2. I have a soundblasrter live. I can get the cd player to work as a cd player, but am unable to get sound for other applications. I used the most recent version of the driver from the devloper site from creative labs. One other wierd thing is some times after the speakers are on for a while the will start a low tone beep that will only go away by rebooting the entire system. 3. Has anyone figured away aroung the Vmware problem of not working with the AMD K3 400 and windows 95 as a vertuila machine. Windows 95 requires a patch to allow it to work with the K6 3 series processors, but VM ware will not load windows with this patach. I would really hate to have to upgrade to windows 98. After all the whole Idea of linux is to get away from windows. Any help on the above would be great. Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?
Dear friends: How do you see the bottom of the Utilities menu. The menu is so long that it is cut off at KPilotdemon. So what do you do? -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Where is my message ????
Dominique Deleris wrote: It's the 5th time I send a message about Netscape to the list, and it never appeared ! What's happening ? I attached it to my mail. Are messages about Netscape filtered ? Subject: HTML authoring Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:39:40 +0200 From: Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello list, I have the following problem with Communicator (version 4.61 or 4.7) under Mandrake 6.1 : I open the "Composer" window, choose Insert/Link..., and click on the Cancel button in the link window : Netscape closes every window, and is terminated ! Does someone have the same problem (and maybe have the solution) ? Thank you... Hi your attachment showed up on my computer when I downloaded the E-mail. On the insert problem I had the same result. closing the insert window shut down netscape. I"d be interested in a solution also. Stan.
Re: [newbie] Fortify install
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: After installation and testing at www.fortify.net (README file online), you should consider repeating the procedure to fortify netscape-navigator as well. Where is Netscape Navigator I didn't see that only Netscape-Communicator when I did Fortify? Jeanette Same location, just that it's netscape-navigator, instead of netscape-communicator. :-) John Well its not in here so I guess its not installed. Why whould you have both Navigator and Communicator seems redundant? Jeanette
Re: [newbie] FYI - Go here to setup your SoundBlaster Live soundcard in Linux!
M Thompson wrote: I don't have a SoundBlater Live soundcard, but I have seen many recommend this URL for intructions on setting up your SoundBlaster Live soundcard (personally, I own a SoundBlaster AWE 32). Check it out: When I first installed Linux I had a "Diamond Sonic Impact" sound card. It did not work and I was unable to locate a driver that would work with Linux. I even E-mailed Diamond. They said NO! I was advised to try a "Soundblaster 16" It was emediately recognized, and it works great. Not expensive either. Stan
Re: [newbie] linux games, and when will they fix the address book?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: Well, I was planning on probably getting a Voodoo3-2000, since my system doesn't have AGP. If it did, I'd probably use this TNT I have lying around. :-) John Supposedly (or as near as one of my friends has figured from spending countless hours looking over the snapshots) XFree86 4 would give you the ability to use both, i.e. the Voodoo3 as a dedicated 3d card. . .this is a rumor and not for sure, but i wouldnt be surprised, Mesa does some really neat things. . .for example, it has a hack that lets a Voodoo or a Voodoo2 render 3D to a window, a feat that was reported to be not possible due to hardware. . .so im pretty excited to see what sort of cool things are planned. . .i wish there was more info on the website. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) To paraphrase my friend stephen: "life can be like that great ifs xscreensaver. . .random garbage goes in and sometimes, beautiful things come out."
Re: [newbie] upgrading
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: A couple of quick questions 1. I am using Mandrake 6.0 and would like to us VMware ver 1.1 which requires xfree86 3.3.4 and ver 6 of mandrake only uses 3.3.1 What is the simplest way of getting this done. www.xfree86.org. . .i think the most recent stable is 3.3.53 3 3devel is. . .3.9.15 or 16 i think. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) To paraphrase my friend stephen: "life can be like that great ifs xscreensaver. . .random garbage goes in and sometimes, beautiful things come out."
Re: [newbie] user security
I should have specified that I am using Linuxconf to configure another user and when I use the 'users' box and come across the 'privileges' box, my question regarding that is what should be granted and denied? I already have configured the PPP and POP box for users to use but each time I log on as a user, I am unable to dial out. How can I dial out as a user? Thanks for any pointers Richard At 03:58 AM 10/24/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:32PM -0700, Richard Salts wrote: What user privileges do I, as root, enact to be able to enable an ordinary user to be able to dial up the Internet and use browser, e-mail, chat, etc? The only thing you have to do is allow them to dialup. Everything else is automatically available. Depending on what you're using to connect to the Internet, it's easy to allow normal users to make the connection: Kppp: just set up kppp for that user. They start the connection just like root. netcfg: there's a checkbox to "allow normal users to (de)activate the connection, put a checkmark in it and save all the way back out. Users use /sbin/ifup ppp0 # to connect /sbin/ifdown ppp0 # to disconnect or usernet which is just a one button window that you click to connect and click to disconnect. Does anyone else get the idea that we've got too damn many ways to accomplish one thing? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] linux games, and when will they fix the address book?
Yeah, maybe I was wrong El dom, 24 oct 1999, escribiste: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: I think we won't see the 'real good' games for Linux until we have 3D acceleration other than 3dfx for our beloved OS. Ummm. . .im gonna have to disagree with that. Is Q3 not a "real good game?" Granted its mainly a multiplayer game, but it's a "real good" multiplayer game (in my opinion). Same can be said for Unreal Tournament. Elsewise. if you've played the Win32 versions of Heavy Gear II or Descent 3. . .i think those are all "real good" games that are coming to Linux. . .and these efforts would probably be hampered quite a bit had there been no base to stand on. So what if that base is in the form of 3dfx? God grant, everyone's heard the "shame on 3dfx for releasing such substandard 'next generation' boards", but hey. . .whatever works for now eh? At the time the Voodoo2 was a revolutionary cchipset and yes it is a shame to not see 3dfx continue that trend but it is a starting point. . .Im thankful for that at least Good things are afoot however. . .Xfree86 4 will include Mesa for 3D rendering and many of the games coming will include Mesa based renderers so fear not. . .that and seeing as how nVidia is also a major player in the Linux OpenGL Base Project, i think Linux support (GOOD Linux support even!) for all present and future nVidia chipsets is a for sure. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) To paraphrase my friend stephen: "life can be like that great ifs xscreensaver. . .random garbage goes in and sometimes, beautiful things come out." -- Guillermo Belli Registered Linux User #131340 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
Re: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?
I know the feeling... what I wound up doing was editing the menu structure so Utilities now goes to 2 submenues (Utilities a -k and Utilities l -z) with all the apps moved to their respective submenu. Of course, next time I install an RPM that makes an entry into the utilities menu, I'm going to have to move it :( Andrew On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: How do you see the bottom of the Utilities menu. The menu is so long that it is cut off at KPilotdemon. So what do you do? -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] StarOffice Web browser -- Opinions?
Dear friends: I have recently started using StarOffice. I was quite surprised to discover that SO has its own Web Browser WITH Java. I have used it and am quite impressed. SO's File Manager is also its Web Browser, just as in KFM. The quality seems good except that the fonts look better in Netscape. What' your opinion and/or professional evaluation of StarOffice's web browser? Any takes? Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] SoundBlaster CDROM
Hello! I bought and installed Linux-Mandrake 6.5. When I mount the CD-ROM from the console, I get messages that say read "linux/Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd" and "configure sbpcd.h for your hardware". Where is this documentation located? I can't find a /linux directory anywhere.
[newbie] Printtool dev/lp* not detected
Can someone tell me the obvious mistake I am making ! I have L-M 6.1 Helios I have setup printers on RH and L-M before, However the properly connected printer, used before the 6.1 upgrade is not being detected when I attempt to "add printer" in printtool? The conf.modules has the line I understand is needed these days:? alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc Is it now necessary to put something in lilo.conf as well? I don't mind being called a "duffless-newbie" even after wrestling with LInux since 1994. Often the obvious elludes me and the HOWTO's Man's FAQ's all merge together into information overload. Generally about the time I start getting a few basics a new upgrade comes along and I have to learn something new. Thats okay with me but "after" the problems get solved! Thanks. William Bouterse
Re: [newbie] How do I bring eth0 down?
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 06:10:24PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:50:25AM +, Ty Mixon wrote: On my box the commands are also shortened to ifup and ifdown. They're different commands. Do a 'which ifup' and 'which ifconfig' to see. Yeah...but you can probably accomplish the same thing with both, I'd guess. Just two ways of reaching the same point. :-) The 'ifup' command runs through the applicable scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts setting up routes and such. It'll only work once you setup the interfaces in netcfg (don't know if linuxconf also dumps it's setup in there, I've never used the thing). -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie]
Axalonyou left off the .com part of the below URL and in that condition it doesn't work. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/people/ Alan Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, R. 'Trebor' Groves wrote: Axalon Are you a Mandrake person? (As in employed by them?) http://www.mandrakesoft/people/ clip -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?
Dear Andrew: Thanks for the suggestion. I guess I'll have to do the same. :-( Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?
Dear Andrew: Could you put me out of my misery, please :) and show precisely how to move a menu item from one submenu to another? I created the submenu Utilities II, so now I have Utilities I and Utilities II (I always said I was a mathematical genius!). Now, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to actually transfer some of the items from Utilities I to Utilities II. I've tried to left-click and drag an item from Ut 1 to Ut II. Doesn't work. It just adds the item (e.g. kpilot) to the KDE menu rather than to the submenu Ut II. What the magic trick, please? Think of how many people you will make happy with this revelation. By the way, I own Teach Yourself KDE in 24 hours. Looked it up. Still no specific instructions on how to accomplish this arduous task. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] -- MARK --
Every 20 minutes, a message with the time,date,hostname and -- MARK -- shows up on the screen when I tail the messages file. What is this? Thanks, Steve Sykes
[newbie] Sound Problems
I am still having problems with my SB Awe 32 .. i get an error when i boot about the isapnp.conf file .. which i assume sets the irq dma etc Is there a way to manually set these?? Thanks in advance Todd
[newbie] Mouse config.
Hello, My first visit to this list -- having problems configuring my mouse after installing Linux (Mamdrake) 6.5. Have been lucky enough to clunk my way around via the keyboard, found a few games and text editors. Graphics is a problem as well, using a Dell 15" Trintron monitor and I must have selected the wrong Linux choice for resultion, as much of the display is beyond the efge of the screen... I see great horsepower in Linux and these lists...! Cheers, ¥¥ King Richard ¥¥ E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Netscape -- lib5? Really?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: John Aldrich, I think, just mentioned that Mandrake's Netscape 4.61 is in effect a lib5 version and not a glib2 version? If that's so, could someone, preferably from Mandrake, explain this. Is there a reason for this? And what does all this mean, anyway, practically speaking? Is the lib5 version more stable than the glib2 version? I believe that's the reason that has been given in the past -- more stable. However, I'm told that the glib2 version of 4.7 is very stable, at least that's what a friend of mine who works at a local computer store told me. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Xconfigurator
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: My brother is putting linux on his machine. He is having problems with his video card (tnt nvidia 32mg) trying to install mandrake 6.0. He finally got the probe to work. But when he rebooted it took him to Xwindows and everything was huge. The tool bar took up half the screen. He had to turn it off to get out. Now everytime he reboots this happens. We have access to 6.1 so that should solve alot. But my question is what setting is making the screen so big. I had this same problem when I went into Xconfigurator too. I had to reinstall. Go get the updated X-server or go get the TNT drivers from nVidia. Preferably the updates X-server. It has more support for the TNT built-in. John
RE: [newbie] Fortify install
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear Folks, Regarding Fortify. I have the 128-bit encrypted Netscape. The version that requires you to swear you are a Canadian or American citizen to download. The bottom line is I tested it on Fortify's site. They said the encryption is military weapons grade and I don't need their product. BTW, this applies to both my Windows and my Linux versions of Netscape. So I really don't know what all the fuss is about. The difference is if you go to a non-US-encryption level site, you'll only get the lower-level encryption. With Fortify, you get 128-bit encryption ALL the time, not just when talking to a 128-bit encryption host. John
Re: [newbie] Where is my message ????
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_It's the 5th time I send a message about Netscape to the list, and it never appeared ! What's happening ? I attached it to my mail. Are messages about Netscape filtered ? First, Please double-check that you're posting in plain, ascii text. Your message appears to be non-standard Second, this problem you describe with inserting links is a known bug. I believe it's there in ALL Linux versions. That's why I reboot to Windows or use Star Office's Web editor when I want to edit a web page. I've HEARD that 4.7 (glibc2) fixes this, but I haven't tried it yet. John
Re: [newbie] linux games, and when will they fix the address book?
Well ,you shouldn't have to wait too long. Nvidia and SGI are working with Mesa to help develop access to hardware accelration for openGL under Linux. The API's are suppposed to be released in Mesa 4.0 which they estimate will be out before the end of the year. Sam Walker Guillermo Belli wrote: Yeah, maybe I was wrong El dom, 24 oct 1999, escribiste: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: I think we won't see the 'real good' games for Linux until we have 3D acceleration other than 3dfx for our beloved OS. Ummm. . .im gonna have to disagree with that. Is Q3 not a "real good game?" Granted its mainly a multiplayer game, but it's a "real good" multiplayer game (in my opinion). Same can be said for Unreal Tournament. Elsewise. if you've played the Win32 versions of Heavy Gear II or Descent 3. . .i think those are all "real good" games that are coming to Linux. . .and these efforts would probably be hampered quite a bit had there been no base to stand on. So what if that base is in the form of 3dfx? God grant, everyone's heard the "shame on 3dfx for releasing such substandard 'next generation' boards", but hey. . .whatever works for now eh? At the time the Voodoo2 was a revolutionary cchipset and yes it is a shame to not see 3dfx continue that trend but it is a starting point. . .Im thankful for that at least Good things are afoot however. . .Xfree86 4 will include Mesa for 3D rendering and many of the games coming will include Mesa based renderers so fear not. . .that and seeing as how nVidia is also a major player in the Linux OpenGL Base Project, i think Linux support (GOOD Linux support even!) for all present and future nVidia chipsets is a for sure. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) To paraphrase my friend stephen: "life can be like that great ifs xscreensaver. . .random garbage goes in and sometimes, beautiful things come out." -- Guillermo Belli Registered Linux User #131340 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
Re: [newbie] Plugger
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hmmm. I'm a bit confused. I thought RH 6.0 and above including Mandrake was glibc2.. Can you explain this? Mandrake RedHat are glibc2. However, due to a problem of a newer glibc than RedHat (from a message you may already have read) there may be problems with the glibc2 version of Netscape. I've tried plugger a few times and it installed, but everytime a web "event" called something to utilize plugger CRASH!... Maybe this is indeed my answer, since I dloaded glibc2. Yep. Most likely. This is damn confusing. How do you tell? How do you know? First, rpm -e plugger and then download and install the libc5 version and try it. Plugger's website has a test link on their system. Ever since the last attempt at plugger in which I had to edit a number of things in Netscape just to get RID of it!!! Would've been easier to remove it using RPM. :-) I find this interesting since all my local linux buddies say GLIBC2!!! If anyone can explain this and tell me how to figure out what I need I would appreciate it!! As I said, download and install the libc5 version and try it. :-) John
[newbie] print probs ad.infinitum
Well still working with printtool here :-( A reboot got my lp0 detected finally this time. Dont know why it didn't before. So a "Print ASCII directly to port" gets the test line ok the first try Second try it gets cockeyed though still prints "Print ASCII test page" gets files qued but no printing lprm job # and checking the lp directory shows files purged 'lpq' gets "lp is down:lp is ready printing no entries" HuH? Well I still do not have a working printer! I will stop there for the time being to see if this rings a bell for anyone.?! Are the printing protocols that much different this time around or am I just having a-bad-printer-configuration-couple-of-days? William Bouterse Sun 1900hrs Juneau, Alaska
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster CDROM
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello! I bought and installed Linux-Mandrake 6.5. When I mount the CD-ROM from the console, I get messages that say read "linux/Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd" and "configure sbpcd.h for your hardware". Where is this documentation located? I can't find a /linux directory anywhere. Probably /usr/src/linux/ John
Re: [newbie] linux games, and when will they fix the address book?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: Well, I was planning on probably getting a Voodoo3-2000, since my system doesn't have AGP. If it did, I'd probably use this TNT I have lying around. :-) John Supposedly (or as near as one of my friends has figured from spending countless hours looking over the snapshots) XFree86 4 would give you the ability to use both, i.e. the Voodoo3 as a dedicated 3d card. . .this is a rumor and not for sure, but i wouldnt be surprised, Mesa does some really neat things. . .for example, it has a hack that lets a Voodoo or a Voodoo2 render 3D to a window, a feat that was reported to be not possible due to hardware. . .so im pretty excited to see what sort of cool things are planned. . .i wish there was more info on the website. . . Well, my card is *supposed* to do some 3d acceleration (Virge/GX) but I've never seen it, even under Windows. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Fortify install
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Well its not in here so I guess its not installed. Why whould you have both Navigator and Communicator seems redundant? Jeanette Well, there are times when you don't need all the communicator stuff, but I agree...it probably is redundant. :-) John
Re: [newbie] -- MARK --
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 06:10:53AM +0400, Steve Sykes wrote: Every 20 minutes, a message with the time,date,hostname and -- MARK -- shows up on the screen when I tail the messages file. What is this? It's just a marker so you can see that the system logs are still running. It might be useful to track whether changes have been made to the logs, but it's probably more useful if you're having crash problems with either the daemon itself or your system. By checking the timestamp on the last --MARK--, you can see when it died. To get rid of it, add "-m0" to the end of the statement "daemon syslogd" on line 21 of /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] DNS server analysis tool?
On the Mac there is a great commercial DNS server analysis tool called "DNS expert" available that queries a DNS server and looks for misconfigurations and security issues for any given domain name you choose. However, it is a hundred bucks and I cannot justify that for the limited use I have for it since my evaluation time ran out :-( Seems to me there must be some linux tool that can perfrom the same level of analysis of DNS records to make sure they are setup correctly. Any ideas? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Apache fails to start.
When I try starting my Apache web server with: /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I get the messages: BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 57: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed! Anyone know what it is trying to tell me?
