Re: [newbie] Strange Jumping Between Virtual Desktops
Barry Marler wrote: In Enlightenment, disable "edge flip". /b It makes me feel better to know that I am approaching this the way the rest of you would approach it. Unfortunately, that was the first thing I did and it resolved the problem of flipping when I got too close to the edge. It failed to resolve the problem of the strange jumps when I select an option that creates a new window. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
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[newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!
Dear friends: I hope you don't mind my repeating this message. My main reason is that I tested Gnomeicu in Gnome (which I should done earlier) and it works fine. But it won't work in KDE. Is there any to make it work in KDE? Thank you, folks, so very much. Benjamin Here is the data for KDE: [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ /usr/bin/gnomeicu ** CRITICAL **: file giop-msg-buffer.c: line 718 (giop_recv_buffer_unuse): assertion `buffer != NULL' failed. ** CRITICAL **: file giop-msg-buffer.c: line 465 (giop_send_buffer_unuse): assertion `send_buffer != NULL' failed. type = 2 exid = IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 ** CRITICAL **: file applet-widget.c: line 673 (gnome_panel_applet_corba_init): assertion `ev._major == CORBA_NO_EXCEPTION' failed. ** CRITICAL **: file applet-widget.c: line 706 (applet_widget_new): assertion `corbadat!=NULL' failed. ** ERROR **: Can't create applet! aborting... Aborted [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows to see what each thinks it's IP is. Yes that was a typo, the corrected numbers are Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.2 /etc/hosts 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement That first line should read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I fixed that else you'll find that some things break. Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? -- Alex
[newbie] Time settings !
Good Morning newbie-list,
Just as a reminder, in order to display the correct time on your linux
system, if the cmd: date shows you the correct time you can simply run
the cmd: clock -w to correctly set your hardware clock.
The above would only occur if your system was left up and running during
the time change.
if date displayed is not correct follow the below instruction to
correctly set it.
Should it be necessary you can use the date command to
correctly set you date and time.
example: date 10310930
This will produce Sun Oct 31 09:30:00 EST 1999
when you use the cmd: date if this time is now correct simply use the cmd:
clock -w to set you hardware clock
Alternative to this is to reboot the system enter cmos setup and set
the correct time in cmos.
Simply a reminder,
Dave
--
David M. Kufta http://www.slip.n3meq.ampr.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
REAL PORTION of Microsoft Windows code:
while (memory_available){
eat_major_portion_of_memory (no_real_reason);
if (feel_like_it)
make_user_THINK (this_is_an_OS);
gates_bank_balance++;
}
My Current Dynamic IP Address Is http://216.155.33.12
To program is to be.
Re: [newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 03:50, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I hope you don't mind my repeating this message. My main reason is that I tested Gnomeicu in Gnome (which I should done earlier) and it works fine. But it won't work in KDE. Is there any to make it work in KDE? Hi Ben, try this command: gnomeicu -a if you using KDE then i recommend Kicq because it has docking support to KDE panel -- Rib
Re: [newbie] Graphical text editors?
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Saturday, Oct 30 1999, 03:16, Benjamin Sher wrote: THINK TWICE AND THRICE BEFORE STEPPING INTO THE INFINITE LOOP OF EMACS AND VIM, or they will eat you up alive or send you straight to a mental asylum. Use a simple text editor such as mcedit, pico, joe, the default KDE text editor and so on. If you decide later that you want to learn programming, you can then move up to Emacs or Vim. But not until then. Hi Ben, i think Vi/Vim is as simple as any editor you mentioned above but Vim has more feature like cut/copy-paste, split-window for multiple file editing and colors. i write this letter with Mutt and Vim as the editor (i choose Mutt becouse it can handle multiple email account, and able to running from console). I would also like to say that emacs is an extremely powerful editor, very extensible, and it has gotten much easier to use over the years. It is worth spending 20 minutes to learn the basics, and then one can learn the additional features as one neds them. It has a great tutorial built right into the start up screen. I prefer vanilla vi to vim. But that is a personal thing. Jungney
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? No, that line is correct. It says that for any address in 192.168.1.X, use the ethernet interface. All of the interfaces and routing looks correct. Could you try one more thing? On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output Then mail a good portion of the tcpdump-output file to the list. One other thing, I seem to remember seeing something in your original log messages about the card being put into 100Tx mode. Is the Windows side also 100Mb? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] KDE Problem
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi All: I just ,make a clear install of LM 6.1 all the installation process went OK but once installed i have trubble with Kde. It hangs very often suddenly I cant open any application on the desktop and I have to restart the X windows again to make the things start working again, i think this is a Kde bug? rpm -e kcmclock and then rpm -Uvh kdelibs. That's supposed to take care of it, from what I"ve been reading in this group. John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 iso...
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know where I can download this off of the Internet? I have 6.1, but I want to give 6.0 a try. I am having some printer troubles with 6.1, however I have heard that these problems don't exist in Mandrake 6.0. I have been using AltaVista to search for it, but I can't locate it anywhere. Well, I did a quick look around on several of the Mandrake FTP mirrors that Mandrake lists, and was only able to find the Helios (6.1) ISO image. Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway) Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98. However when both machines are running different os's (Linux/WIn98 or Win98/Linux) combos (both are dual boot), neither machine can ping the other. I read the ethernet howto and I think I am more confused than when I started. All I want to do (for now) is get the 2 boxes to be able to ping one another. This is the setup so far Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 EACH machine **MUST** have a different IP address. You cannot have BOTH machines as 192.168.1.1. That's your problem right there. Networking 101 -- each machine must have a unique IP address on the network. Try changing one of the above machines to 192.168.1.2 and I'll bet your ping will work! John
[newbie] Trouble installing/configuring X/video card
Any reason why only about every third message I send here gets through??? quite frustrating... Here goes again: Hi all, Total newbie. Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Pentium 2 266mhz. 128meg RAM Video card: Jaton Video87AGP Monitor: IBM 6556 p72 I tried to configure X windows through the install process, but could not provide information that made it work. First time through, the install program seemed to find my card, asked if I wanted to accept the default resolution, which I did, and then it failed when it tried to test the setup. Eventually I had to accept the install with the matter unresolved. The Xserver that was installed is XF86_SVGA, which should be right? What is the best way for me to approach this issue. Should I manually edit the XF86Config file? XConfiigurator lists my monitor but not my video card. What can II do to diagnose the problem? I'm very new to these configuration issues, so any pointers in terms of where I should start would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! Gregg
Re: [newbie] Time settings !
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good Morning newbie-list, Just as a reminder, in order to display the correct time on your linux system, if the cmd: date shows you the correct time you can simply run the cmd: clock -w to correctly set your hardware clock. Interestingly enough, my system WAS up and running during the time change, BUT, it shows the correct system time. :-) I didn't have to change a thing. :-) John'
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Alex V Flinsch wrote:
I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway)
Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98.
However when both machines are running different os's (Linux/WIn98 or
Win98/Linux) combos (both are dual boot), neither machine can ping the other.
I read the ethernet howto and I think I am more confused than when I started.
All I want to do (for now) is get the 2 boxes to be able to ping one another.
This is the setup so far
Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
Everything is connected together with the "SOHOWare 10/100 Network Starter Kit"
(picked up at a computer flea market for $45. It says Linux is supported on the
box, and includes the tulip driver). And the card seems to be recoginized while
booting.
I have included a few files/messages along with this post. I might be just
looking in the wrong place as it's been one heck of a crazy day.
The only thing I can think of is that I need to do something special to
configure the hub. If so, where can I find the information?
/etc/hosts
192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1
192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs
192.168.1.2 linux1 basement
/etc/conf/modules
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias sound sb
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=0 debug=6
demsg sez
[snip]
Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400.
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11.
read_eeprom:
8000 f8c6 9794
0014 0300 0531 10d9 fa1c
PCI latency timer (CFLT) is 0x40, PCI command is 0087.
eth0: tulip_open() irq 11.
eth0: No media description table, assuming 100baseTx transceiver, CSR12 40a1d0cc
..
eth0: Done tulip_open(), CSR0 fff84800, CSR5 e452 CSR6 38602002.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4570001 new csr5=0xe456.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4170005 new csr5=0xe4670004.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4670004 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe466 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: exiting interrupt, csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4670005 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe466 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: exiting interrupt, csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4670005 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe466 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: exiting interrupt, csr5=0xe466.
Update your tulip driver to v0.91, and it will work just peachy with that
card. (didn't we just go over these soho cards last week?)
Re: [newbie] Strange Jumping Between Virtual Desktops
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Traci Collins wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: I had a similar situation. I cured it by turning off Active Desktop Borders in the KDE Control Center/Desktop/Borders. Hope this helps. It might, my problem is happening in Gnome but there may be a similar setting. I will hunt and see if I can track it down. Actualy Traci, try turning it off in the kde control panel, This version of enlightenment included kde support so it might actualy have an effect -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Time settings !
So was mine, time changed automagically to my happy surprise ;o) - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Time settings ! On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good Morning newbie-list, Just as a reminder, in order to display the correct time on your linux system, if the cmd: date shows you the correct time you can simply run the cmd: clock -w to correctly set your hardware clock. Interestingly enough, my system WAS up and running during the time change, BUT, it shows the correct system time. :-) I didn't have to change a thing. :-) John'
Re: [Re: [newbie] Graphical text editors?]
Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think Vi/Vim is as simple as any editor you mentioned above but Vim has more feature like cut/copy-paste, split-window for multiple file editing and colors. i write this letter with Mutt and Vim as the editor (i choose Mutt becouse it can handle multiple email account, and able to running from console). im a newbie too, i'm 13, newbie to computer, newbie to linux (i never touch Ms Windows like most of you), and newbie to English. vim is very simple, you just have to learn it for 15 minutes(maybe less) and if you want to, maybe you should try to visit this site http://www.linux.ie/tutorials/vi.html -- Rib === Rib, You are obviously a very bright young man (oh-oh; apologies if I got the gender wrong). And you've reminded me that I'm not quite marginally competent ;o) Keep up the good work, Rib. Mike ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out? Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows to see what each thinks it's IP is. Yes that was a typo, the corrected numbers are Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.2 /etc/hosts 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement That first line should read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I fixed that else you'll find that some things break. Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? -- Alex -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Brett Jones wrote: Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out? By appending 'eth0' to the end of the ifconfig command, you specify that you only want information for that interface. Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] executing programs
I am trying to learn how to do some C programming and my question is this: How do I execute the program after it is compiled? I have tried typing the name of the program in at the prompt and it says "command not found". I have tried to type "sh" before the filename and am told "cannot execute binary file". Any help would be appreciated, also, what does the "sh" before a filename do? M L Cates
Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999,Rlongo wrote: | Hi I'm Rob, | | New to the list and using Linux, what's up dudes! Power to the | Penguin!!!? I guess =)I'm lookin for some straight forward step-by-step | information on how to setup an ISP. I have been reading all the How-Tos | that came with my distro but I'm getting really frustrated at how they all | say goto this How-To or this How-to while your in the middle of reading one | How-To. Is there any site or really good book out there that can help me | out. Any Ideas? | | | TIA - Peace | Rob Longo I am going to make some assumptions with the following steps: 1) You are using a modem connected to a telephone line a) You know what port the modem is connected on b) Your modem is NOT a Winmodem (PCI bus modem) c) Your modem is not PnP, and/or uses standard Port resource allocations (IRQ etc...) 2) You have an existing account with an ISP 3) You have the following information from your ISP a) Your user name for your ISP account b) Your password for your ISP account c) 1 or 2 DNS addresses for your ISP d) if your ISP uses "dynamic IP's", and if not, the IP adderss for your ISP All the following need to be done as the superuser "root" I will assume your modem is not set up in Linux, if it is skip this part First run modemtool from a command line, (or if you use KDE right-click an open area of the desktop, and select "execute command" in the context menu) then select the port on which your modem is connected. Click the "OK" button to save the information. This tells Linux where the modem is connected. Next, run linuxconf, and select the "networking" button. Then select PPP/SLIP/PLIP at the bottom of the resulting window (if you can not see the entire window, hold the ALT key and left-drag the window up). A small window will appear, select add, then select ppp. and follow the prompts. They are pretty self explanatory, and I cannot step through them, as my ppp is already set up. An easier method is to use kppp in KDE. in the KDE panel, select the "K" icon which opens a menu, select "internet", then kppp. In the kppp window, select "setup", then in the resulting window select "new", and in that resulting window enter a name for the connection, and the telephone number to dial. If you wish, you can enter the path to an application you want to run when kppp connects (perhaps a web browser, or email client). Select the "IP" tab, and check that "Dynamic IP address" is selected. This should be the default, and should work with most ISP's. Select the "DNS" tab, and enter the promary DNS address provided by your ISP in the DNS IP adress dialog box, then select "Add", and repeat for the secondary DNS IP address if one is provided (by your ISP). You should leave the "Disable existing DNS servers during connection" checkbos unchecked for most connections. Select the "Gateway" tab, and check that "Default Gateway" is selected (this should work for most ISP's), and that the "Assign the default route to this gateway" checkbox is checked (this should be checked by default). Unless you need to use a "Login Script" to connect to your ISP, or keep track of your connect time (Your service is not "unlimited"), you can let the remaining tabs alone. Select the "OK" button at the bottom of the window, then select "OK" in the remaining window. You may need to exit kppp to enable the information you just provided, if so restart kppp, and enter your Login ID, and password, then select "connect", and you should then connect to your ISP. I hope this is of help, Ernie
[newbie] Floppy CD icons w/KDE
Good day, all: My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I only get the error message: " KFM error - could not mount mount: you must specify the file system type." What does it mean by this?
Re: [newbie] Spell checker Gone?? 6.1
Dunno, It's working fine here! Ernie On Sat, 30 Oct 1999,G_REEPER wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Has anyone noticed that when u run the spell checker in kmail it just pops up | and goes away? Or am i the only one with this. | Steven | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- | Version: PGP 6.5.1 | | iQA/AwUBOBsr2cu0Jnj1RPEREQJmIgCgqvmadRnvuK0apQ7qUpfKk/p+VGMAoPjQ | PLQv61wOFGha85Uo5+n1cJ5M | =rjY6 | -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] executing programs
M L Cates wrote: I have tried typing the name of the program in at the prompt and it says "command not found". The "current directory" is probably not in your path. try typing $ ./program_name Which means run the program right here in this directory. I have tried to type "sh" before the filename and am told "cannot execute binary file". That's right. The shell is looking for a list of shell commands. Michael -- Michael R. Batchelor Industrial Informatics Instrumentation, Inc.
Re: [newbie] Spell checker Gone?? 6.1
It happened to me once when I had to kill Kmail. Afterward when I restarted the program The checker would appear then disappear I shut down and rebooted and all was well Hugh On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dunno, It's working fine here! Ernie On Sat, 30 Oct 1999,G_REEPER wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Has anyone noticed that when u run the spell checker in kmail it just pops up | and goes away? Or am i the only one with this. | Steven | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- | Version: PGP 6.5.1 | | iQA/AwUBOBsr2cu0Jnj1RPEREQJmIgCgqvmadRnvuK0apQ7qUpfKk/p+VGMAoPjQ | PLQv61wOFGha85Uo5+n1cJ5M | =rjY6 | -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Boling's postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
Re: [newbie] Floppy CD icons w/KDE
You need to put some media in the drive before you mount it. John the Nadger On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good day, all: My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I only get the error message: " KFM error - could not mount mount: you must specify the file system type." What does it mean by this?
Re: [newbie] executing programs
I am trying to learn how to do some C programming and my question is this: How do I execute the program after it is compiled? I have tried typing the name of the program in at the prompt and it says "command not found". I have tried to type "sh" before the filename and am told "cannot execute binary file". First of all, make sure the file has executable permissions. If it doesn't, you'll need to add them with `chmod +x a.out` before trying to run the program. Second, your current working directory is not in your path. You'll need to run the program like `./a.out` to specify that the program is in the current directory. Any help would be appreciated, also, what does the "sh" before a filename do? That would start up a new instance of the Bourne Shell and execute the program inside that new shell. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Cyrillic fonts in KFM -- poor quality
Dear friends: I am thrilled to see that KFM supports Cyrillic as a browser. My thanks to KDE for thinking of us Slavicists. However, I must be frank in saying that the Cyrillic fonts selected for KDE are ugly. There is no other word for it. Just plain ugly. Why couldn't KDE use the same quality Cyrillic fonts that Netscape uses? This is a plea to the KDE people to replace their current Cyrillic font by something at least as good as Netscape's or to make it possible for us to use Netscape's Cyrillic font. Once again, my congratulations to KDE for caring about multilingual support. But, please, give us a quality Cyrillic font to go with the quality KDE applications. Thank you. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!
Dear Rib: God bless you! How simple the solutions sometimes are: I typed gnomeicu -a and that did it. Works perfectly. Just thrilled. By the way, what does the -a add to it that makes it work in KDE when without the -a option it seems to be dead? Thanks a million. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] funky KDE display and fancy-schmancy mouses
Hi all, I have Linux-Mandrake 6.1 with KDE installed. A few questions about the K display: When I click on items that generate menus, the menus have no background. It's as if they are on a transparency laid over the destop. Very hard to read since all the words are overlapping. Opening windows like netscape does the same thing. I can see buttons and part of the nav bar, but it's all on top of the destop stuff and you can still see all of the destop through the netscape window. Someone must have encountered this one before. Where can I start looking to fix it? Navigating around KDE looking for a solve has obviously proven difficult as I can barely read anything. Next question is about my trackball. It's one of these fancy Logitech MarbleMan+ or something. It works OK in K, but I'm used to the buttons being set differently. I use the thumb button as the context button (usually the right mouse) and the right button as main click. Logitech has Windows software to drive it under Windows. Any way I can customize my mouse under KDE? Thanks in advance! Gregg
Re: [newbie] Windows 98
Il me semble que vous avez un an d'avance jeff wrote: Hello all. I have setup a linux server with Mandrake 6.1. Boy was that easy. Then I connected my windows box and setup all the params to log onto my linux box. It has logged on and everything seems fine except it asked for a password. No matter what password I send it, it says that it is incorrect. I do know that the linux box has only two passwords. Root account and my personal account. Tried both. What password is it asking for and if it's a bug in windows or linux, how do I fix it? Jeff
[newbie] problems mounting floppy
I just tried to save something to my floppy drive for the first time since I reinstalled 6.1 and when I try to mount it I get the message: mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy I'm pretty sure that fd0 isn't mounted. Catting /proc/mounts yields: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home/vanbalen/vmware ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 localhost:(pid421) /net nfs rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,acregmin=0,acregmax=0,acdir min=0,acdirmax=0,noac,addr=pid421@localhost:/net 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev 0 0 and running df on /mnt/floppy yields: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb5 20G 2.0G 17G 11% / So unless fd0 is mounted somewhere else (which /proc/mounts suggests it's not), I have no idea what the problem is. My entry in fstab also looks fine (I haven't changed the default): /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 Any help would be appreciated. I need to be able to use my floppy kind of urgently. DvB
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run did taht and it's pinging away happily tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output [root@localhost alex]# tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output tcpdump: listening on eth0 that is all that happens, no output in tcpdump-output file (empty) but I get this when tcpdump is stopped by a ctl-c 0 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel Then mail a good portion of the tcpdump-output file to the list. One other thing, I seem to remember seeing something in your original log messages about the card being put into 100Tx mode. Is the Windows side also 100Mb? I believe so. Everything runs at 100Mb while both systems are in windows. -- Alex
Re: [newbie] funky KDE display and fancy-schmancy mouses
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, I have Linux-Mandrake 6.1 with KDE installed. A few questions about the K display: When I click on items that generate menus, the menus have no background. It's as if they are on a transparency laid over the destop. Very hard to read since all the words are overlapping. Opening windows like netscape does the same thing. I can see buttons and part of the nav bar, but it's all on top of the destop stuff and you can still see all of the destop through the netscape window. Someone must have encountered this one before. Where can I start looking to fix it? Navigating around KDE looking for a solve has obviously proven difficult as I can barely read anything. No but if you figure it out let me know, This is exactly how i'd like mine :)
Re: [newbie] Graphical Text Editors for programmers
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: Those of you who are planning on becoming programmers and are looking for a GRAPHICAL programmer's text editor, you might wish to consider I would say that the best for programming is definitely code crusader. . .its more of an IDE than a text editor. Very nice. . .it's what Brandon Reinhart used to port the Unreal Tournament Client to linex with, so that speaks in its favor. . .check it out at: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc/ enjoy! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll.
Re: [newbie] Trouble installing/configuring X/video card
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Any reason why only about every third message I send here gets through??? quite frustrating... Here goes again: Hi all, Total newbie. Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Pentium 2 266mhz. 128meg RAM Video card: Jaton Video87AGP Monitor: IBM 6556 p72 According to JATON's website, the Video87AGP is really a Trident 3DImage. Which, according to the Xfree86.org website, IS supported using xf86_svga: Trident 3DImage975 AGP (generic) ... XF86_SVGA Try selecting the above video card and see if it doesn't work. John
Re: [newbie] executing programs
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am trying to learn how to do some C programming and my question is this: How do I execute the program after it is compiled? I have tried typing the name of the program in at the prompt and it says "command not found". I have tried to type "sh" before the filename and am told "cannot execute binary file". Any help would be appreciated, also, what does the "sh" before a filename do? If you're in the directory with the executeable (make sure it's set to executeable, otherwise, NOTHING you do is going to make it work G) type ./program (that's "dot-slash" not just "slash" G) John
Re: [newbie] Floppy CD icons w/KDE
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good day, all: My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I only get the error message: " KFM error - could not mount mount: you must specify the file system type." What does it mean by this? It's saying you have may have specified a file system type (such as ext2) which is incompatible with your floppy's filesystem, or you have specfied a file system type which doesn't exist (for example, my system doesn't recognize "msdos" as a valid filesystem type...only fat and fat32.) John
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Hello all! I am wondering if I can create a web server of my own with my linux box for my friends and neighbors. I think it sounds like a cool experiment, but I don't know where to start. Thanks for the help. I know, I could probably look to a howto, but they are not the friendliest little creatures in the world. -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 20177604
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run did taht and it's pinging away happily tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output [root@localhost alex]# tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output tcpdump: listening on eth0 that is all that happens, no output in tcpdump-output file (empty) but I get this when tcpdump is stopped by a ctl-c 0 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel Okay, looks like the driver is bad. There was another message on the list saying that there is a known problem with the shipped driver and the SOHOware card. Check the archives at the Mandrake website for resolution. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Segmentation Faults?
Help, Whenever I try to run a particular program I receive an: Segmentation Fault core dumped Then when I try to do anything else I receive: unable to load interpreter init: Id "3" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes If I wait nothing happens. If I switch to another console Root or whatever I receive the same error. I have to RESET the machine to reboot. I am running Mandrake 6.0 on an AMD K6-2 400mhz with 64 megs ram. I recently upgraded to this mother board from an AMD 586/133mhz machine running Red Hat 5.2 Everything was wonderful and I really loved it. However, the motherboard was old and had a crack so it DIED and well now the nightmare has begun. I ended up re-installing Mandrake 6.0. Any suggestions as to why I am receiving the above errors. Regards, Clyde J. Kell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 04:23, Benjamin Sher wrote: By the way, what does the -a add to it that makes it work in KDE when without the -a option it seems to be dead? hi Ben, gnomeicu needs gnome-panel to dock the applet. so if you dont use GNOME then you must by pass the panel. more details about it just type $ gnomeicu --help at terminal. -- Rib
Re: [Re: [newbie] Graphical text editors?]
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 01:11, Michael Scottaline wrote: === You are obviously a very bright young man (oh-oh; apologies if I got the gender wrong). And you've reminded me that I'm not quite marginally competent ;o) hi Mike, please dont say that. it maybe because we born in different time and different world (is your Dad using freeBSD like my Dad? ;) if i could run fast and kick hard, i would be playing soccer and join the soccer mailing list rather than linux stuff. and of course you dont have to be so bright (or be a programmer) to use Vim. as i said im a newbie, i believe you have known something more than i do. -- Rib
[newbie] frontpage98
hello all, is there a program like frontpage98 for Linux?
[newbie] Terminals
dear friends, which one of these terminals do you like ;) -Konsole -Kvt -Gterm -Aterm -Xterm -Rxvt and all comes with mandrake. here im using WindowMaker,i choose Aterm and make it shaded and transparent. Eterm is great too (but not include in mandrake), you can put background image on it, but it eats lots of memory. terminal is one of my important tool,since i still using Mutt, Pine, Vim, Lynx and BitchX the problem is, all of those terminal could not support color for Lynx except Kvt. i dont know how to solve that problem. i though it must be the environtment setting with Bash, so i put export COLORBGFG="default;default" to my .bashrc but it doesnt solve the problem. i would realy appreciated if someone could tell me how to make it. BTW, Aterm and Eterm wont be transparent in KDE too. and i dont know why and sorry for my english -- Rib
Re: [newbie] Time settings !
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Patrick Putteman wrote: So was mine, time changed automagically to my happy surprise ;o) On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good Morning newbie-list, Just as a reminder, in order to display the correct time on your linux system, if the cmd: date shows you the correct time you can simply run the cmd: clock -w to correctly set your hardware clock. Interestingly enough, my system WAS up and running during the time change, BUT, it shows the correct system time. :-) I didn't have to change a thing. :-) In KDE, right? Your kernel time may be unchanged. Type date in a terminal and see what you get. If you don't like what you see, the following command will set the kernel time: date -s hh:mm:ss Then, clock -w will set the CMOS time to the kernel time. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
[newbie] Re: your mail
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 03:35:22PM -0800, Dreja Julag wrote: Hello all! I am wondering if I can create a web server of my own with my linux box for my friends and neighbors. I think it sounds like a cool experiment, but I don't know where to start. Thanks for the help. I know, I could probably look to a howto, but they are not the friendliest little creatures in the world. Install the apache package. Start the server with: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start Put the documents you wish to publish into /home/httpd/html. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Segmentation Faults?
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 07:20:47PM -0500, Clyde J. Kell wrote: Help, Whenever I try to run a particular program I receive an: Segmentation Fault core dumped What program? Then when I try to do anything else I receive: unable to load interpreter init: Id "3" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes What did you edit in /etc/inittab? If I wait nothing happens. If I switch to another console Root or whatever I receive the same error. I have to RESET the machine to reboot. I am running Mandrake 6.0 on an AMD K6-2 400mhz with 64 megs ram. I recently upgraded to this mother board from an AMD 586/133mhz machine running Red Hat 5.2 Everything was wonderful and I really loved it. However, the motherboard was old and had a crack so it DIED and well now the nightmare has begun. I ended up re-installing Mandrake 6.0. Any suggestions as to why I am receiving the above errors. Tough to tell with the limited information you provided. Post more info and we'll probably be able to help. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] OT Freeware Partition Magic Boot Magic?
Hi All! I hope someone can lend me some advice. I am currently running Ranish Partition/Boot manager 2.37.12. I am going to upgrade my 1.6Gb hard drive to 18Gb, but the Ranish Partition Manager does not support drives larger than 8 Gb. The 2.38 beta version of Ranish Partition/boot manager supports drives larger than 8GB but only supports 4 bootable partitions. I am looking for a freeware partition/boot manager than can: 1) support up to 10 bootable partitions 2) support hard drives larger than 8Gb 3) support DOS16, Linux native, and Linux Swap Anyone know of any freeware programs that fit the qualifications? My wife had been extremely generous lately and I don't want to push it by purchasing the shrink-wrapped version of PowerQuest Partition Magic for $60+. Thanks very much, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] problems mounting floppy
I had a similar experience. First, make sure you have a directory named "/mnt/floppy" Then, to resolve it, I went to a console and then typed: "mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt/floppy" without the quotes If the diskette is "ext2," then type: "mount /dev/fd0 -t ext2 /mnt/floppy" without the quotes If this works for you, then go ahead and create two icons on the desktop...one to mount the floppy and vfat and another to mount the floppy as ext2. HTH, Matt From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] problems mounting floppy Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:16:33 -0600 (CST) I just tried to save something to my floppy drive for the first time since I reinstalled 6.1 and when I try to mount it I get the message: mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy I'm pretty sure that fd0 isn't mounted. Catting /proc/mounts yields: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home/vanbalen/vmware ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 localhost:(pid421) /net nfs rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,acregmin=0,acregmax=0,acdir min=0,acdirmax=0,noac,addr=pid421@localhost:/net 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev 0 0 and running df on /mnt/floppy yields: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb5 20G 2.0G 17G 11% / So unless fd0 is mounted somewhere else (which /proc/mounts suggests it's not), I have no idea what the problem is. My entry in fstab also looks fine (I haven't changed the default): /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 Any help would be appreciated. I need to be able to use my floppy kind of urgently. DvB __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Re:
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello all! I am wondering if I can create a web server of my own with my linux box for my friends and neighbors. I think it sounds like a cool experiment, but I don't know where to start. Thanks for the help. I know, I could probably look to a howto, but they are not the friendliest little creatures in the world. Load the Apache rpm packages, or download the source from www.apache.org. And read the instructions.
RE: [newbie] Time settings !
This all seems well and good but I seem to have another problem. The
time setting is correct but it continually shows the wrong time zone.
It is showing MST and it should be PST. How do I change the time zone.
I have tried various permutations of including the 'PST' string inside
my command to date to change the time but the best it does is keep the
MST and set the clock one hour later than the time I input.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
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Sent: October 31, 1999 5:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Time settings !
Good Morning newbie-list,
Just as a reminder, in order to display the correct time on your linux
system, if the cmd: date shows you the correct time you can simply run
the cmd: clock -w to correctly set your hardware clock.
The above would only occur if your system was left up and running during
the time change.
if date displayed is not correct follow the below instruction to
correctly set it.
Should it be necessary you can use the date command to
correctly set you date and time.
example: date 10310930
This will produce Sun Oct 31 09:30:00 EST 1999
when you use the cmd: date if this time is now correct simply use the
cmd:
clock -w to set you hardware clock
Alternative to this is to reboot the system enter cmos setup and set
the correct time in cmos.
Simply a reminder,
Dave
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[newbie] Re: problems mounting floppy
It works now (I rebooted). I don't know what the problem was though. DvB
[newbie] Pdksh doesn't run my .profile
When I set my login shell to be /bin/ksh and login from the xdm screen using gnome or kde, it doesn't run my .profile. I'm running pdksh-5.2.14, which came with my Linux Mandrake v6.1 distribution. If I switch to another virtual console (crtlaltF2) and login, it runs my .profile just fine. If I login using "login danl" in an xterm, it also runs my .profile. The passwd file entry looks like: danl:x:551:551:Dan Lauterbach:/home/danl:/bin/ksh I verified that /bin/ksh is listed in /etc/shells. The system profile (i.e., /etc/profile) is being run just fine. How can I get this to work? Thanks, Dan
[newbie] Creating directory in KFM?
Dear friends: Am I imagining this or is it true that there is no way to create a directory in KFM? I don't see an option for that anywhere. I have to do it in xterm. Is that true or am I missing something? Surely, I must be missing something. This can not be. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
RE: [newbie] OT Freeware Partition Magic Boot Magic?
FIPS is probably your best bet from my Experience. But in my opinion, Partition Magic is worth the price. its Amazing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of M Thompson Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 10:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT Freeware Partition Magic Boot Magic? Hi All! I hope someone can lend me some advice. I am currently running Ranish Partition/Boot manager 2.37.12. I am going to upgrade my 1.6Gb hard drive to 18Gb, but the Ranish Partition Manager does not support drives larger than 8 Gb. The 2.38 beta version of Ranish Partition/boot manager supports drives larger than 8GB but only supports 4 bootable partitions. I am looking for a freeware partition/boot manager than can: 1) support up to 10 bootable partitions 2) support hard drives larger than 8Gb 3) support DOS16, Linux native, and Linux Swap Anyone know of any freeware programs that fit the qualifications? My wife had been extremely generous lately and I don't want to push it by purchasing the shrink-wrapped version of PowerQuest Partition Magic for $60+. Thanks very much, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
