Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the place. Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your X-windows manager. E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager which allows transparent windows... On the contrary, this sounds like what happens to me when I bump my video up to 32-bit color. Out of curiosity, what card/chipset do you have? Wow! Someone who seems to have seen this before! I have a Jaton Video-87AGP which is a Trident 3D Image 975 chip. Supported, by all accounts, by the X Server. I have run xf86config many times, sometimes selecting the card, and sometimes selecting the configuration details myself (although it never auto-selects for you) It gave me a TON of resolutions to choose from. I just accepted default because I was at the time trying to get the damn thing to run at all. I have scrolled through the resoulutions using ctl-alt-[num+/num-] to no avail. Some resolutions don't show at all, and those that do show have this weird transparent window problem. I am convinced (by the various wisdom of benevolent newsgroup users) that this is an X config problem. I looked through /etc/X11/XF86Config...even tried changing some stuff, so that it never pointed to "generic VGA" but always to the device card I had configured. No dice. What should I be trying? Where should I be looking? Thanks for your help! Gregg
Re: [newbie] Which server and OS is your site running on?
We pardon you. On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Just a lite-hearted jab. I'm not sure what fatuous means, bit now that I think about it, my comment was probably silly and/or idiotic ;-) Bryan liz phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/99 12:44:45 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] Which server and OS is your site running on? My husband I find your remarks fatuous :-) On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: The Royal Family Of Britain on Linux? A sure sign of the Apocalypse! Bryan "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/99 05:54:07 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] Which server and OS is your site running on? Oh! My! Thats rich!!! Ernie On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Benjamin Sher wrote: | Dear friends: | | The answer is right here below: | | http://www.netcraft.com/whats/ | | | Type: | | www.hotmail.com | | and see for yourself which server and OS Microsoft is using to run their | 50-million user Hotmail service. | | Benjamin | | -- | Benjamin and Anna Sher | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sher's Russian Web | http://www.websher.net
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Update not working
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sam Gentile wrote: I can't get Update to work at all because of firewall issues. How can you configure it to specify a proxy server? man wget Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader toysmart.com 170 High Street Waltham, MA 02454 -Original Message- From: Karen M. Heiby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 6:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Update not working I select all of the updates and click "GO". I get the explanations for each update, click "OK". I enter my root password and click "OK". I get the "Please wait..." dialog box for a split second, then it disappears. It isn't updating anything. Any help would be appreciated. Karen -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus
It is supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. They aren't supposed to be directly under Applications. On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sam Gentile wrote: It is not supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. I am running KDE. None of the menus have KDE things on them. I don't have my system here but when I pull down the first entry - Applications?? - it has things like gEDit and all the GNOME things instead of the KDE things. The rest of it is unaffected. The desktop is KDE. The task bar is KDE and has KDE things on it. It's just the menus are screwed up and look like the menus you would get if you logged into GNOME. All the kde menus? or just Applications. ls -l /usr/share/applnk/Applications # says? Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader toysmart.com 170 High Street Waltham, MA 02454 -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus Going to have to describe better than that (better yet screenshot) as it's supposed to have gnome menus... it's kinda hard to guess what you mean. On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote: I'd just like to affirm that this is a problem that I have had, too. Maybe it's a bug? Karen Sam Gentile wrote: I just installed Mandrake Power Pack 6.1 last night on a fresh system and when I boot into KDE, it has the KDE look, the KDE taskbars and such but Gnome menus!! How did this happen and how can I fix it? Sam Gentile Principle Software Engineer/Team Leader - Viridien Team -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP
John, Ok here is what I have so far, I am only looking to setup a small ISP with 10 line access on a Comtrol ISA Rocketport card that I have had since my BBS days and would like to use it. I have these 5 Machines on my hub so far: And I am assuming my layout is correct. If not please give me an Idea on how you thing I should do this I will be using a Dial-in PPP to my ISP for access 1. A linux box -(192.168.2.5) To use as a gateway and router to the net for my local lan and the rest of the servers on my network - There is a modem installed to access my provider for now, will be getting a cable interface soon and adding another NIC for it. This will be the Box to make the PPP conection to my ISP works great, I can ping anything on the net. This Box I would like to be my Secondary DNS server plus a firewall or proxy too. 2. A linux box - (192.168.2.4) Intended for a PPP server, houses the Rocketport 8 port serial board, plus 2 internal modems totalling 10 ports for dial-in, would like all requests from the dial in users to go out on the number 1 pc above. This box I would like to be my Primary DNS server 3. A linux box - (192.168.2.2) Running server FTP, MAIL, WWW, and DNS, samba to a Win98 PC that will house home directories. 4. Win98 Worstation - (192.168.2.1) Basic stuff, must be able to use net going throught the number 1 pc above. 5. Win98 Worstation - (192.168.2.3) Basic stuff - same demand as above Win Pc What I have done so far is I setup the PPP connection to my ISP on box 1, I setup DNS on Box 2, setup all the servers on box 3 I can access my ISP from box 1, and box 1 ONLY =( No other pc on my lan can get net! I can ping em all locally by IP or Name. Here is a link to a small ISP layout that I would like to do. http://www.sydney.apana.org.au/network.htm I just dont understand how to setup all this stuff on the linux boxes, do I use the linuconf or do this stuff manually? the HOWTO's seem to all be doing this stuff manually. Thanks, Rob Longo
[newbie] Apology on address error
Dear friends: Apologize for an inadvertent error. It was pointed out to me by several people, and Ramon Gandia gets the credit for solving this newbie error. By checking the "Send email address as anonymous FTP password" I had inadvertently (even after Unchecking it) put that line in Netscape's Mail, Identity section as my "Reply-to-address." How it got there I'll never know except as explained above. I never put it there. Glad to have solved it. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Wine
Foris Gabor wrote: HI I was looking for some winedows emulator in the menu made by the kpackage and did not found wine. Does this have a different name or it is simplz not there? And I cannot find the ./configure file. Any suggestions? FG If your Mandrake distribution is on a cdrom, mount the cdrom (mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom) and then open kpackage. Under kpackage go to the open file button and click it. Then go to the /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS directory and the wine rpm should be there. Select the wine rpm and the install with kpackage. If this doesn't work you can also get the wine.rpm file from the Mandrake download site or you can go to the wine homepage and read the documentation on how to install wine from a tar.gz file. Also, wine is very complex and does not work with alot of windows software. If your computer is fast enough try going to www.vmware.com and you can by vmware for about $99. This is a very good windows emulator. SA On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sean Armstrong wrote: Foris Gabor wrote: Dear Sirs, :) I would like to set up Wine under my linux mandrake and I have downloaded a file (Wine990131-ja.tar.gz). I could unpack it with gunzip and then I could copy README.jis and Wine990131-ja.Patch from it with midnight commander. How can I gon on or am I on the wrong track? FG Should be an install text file that tells you how to install the wine package. Maybe: ./configure make make install I'm not sure. But, the mandrake 6.1 distribution should come with the wine rpm then all you have to do is install the rpm.(much easier) You can use kpackage to do this. SA
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Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
I have the same problem due to my video card ( Trident 3DImage 975 ). To make it work well I had to put a Option "noaccel" line in the "Device" section of my XF86Config. PHM - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The appearance of KDE is, to say the least, weird. It's pretty much unusable. Here's whats wrong: Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu is displayed as word only, very difficult to read against the desktop background. In other words, there's no solid window background against which one can read the words. The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the place. Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your X-windows manager. E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager which allows transparent windows... John
Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP
Just make sure your Cable Agreements allows such a thing. On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Rlongo wrote: John, Ok here is what I have so far, I am only looking to setup a small ISP with 10 line access on a Comtrol ISA Rocketport card that I have had since my BBS days and would like to use it. I have these 5 Machines on my hub so far: And I am assuming my layout is correct. If not please give me an Idea on how you thing I should do this I will be using a Dial-in PPP to my ISP for access 1. A linux box -(192.168.2.5) To use as a gateway and router to the net for my local lan and the rest of the servers on my network - There is a modem installed to access my provider for now, will be getting a cable interface soon and adding another NIC for it. This will be the Box to make the PPP conection to my ISP works great, I can ping anything on the net. This Box I would like to be my Secondary DNS server plus a firewall or proxy too. 2. A linux box - (192.168.2.4) Intended for a PPP server, houses the Rocketport 8 port serial board, plus 2 internal modems totalling 10 ports for dial-in, would like all requests from the dial in users to go out on the number 1 pc above. This box I would like to be my Primary DNS server 3. A linux box - (192.168.2.2) Running server FTP, MAIL, WWW, and DNS, samba to a Win98 PC that will house home directories. 4. Win98 Worstation - (192.168.2.1) Basic stuff, must be able to use net going throught the number 1 pc above. 5. Win98 Worstation - (192.168.2.3) Basic stuff - same demand as above Win Pc What I have done so far is I setup the PPP connection to my ISP on box 1, I setup DNS on Box 2, setup all the servers on box 3 I can access my ISP from box 1, and box 1 ONLY =( No other pc on my lan can get net! I can ping em all locally by IP or Name. Here is a link to a small ISP layout that I would like to do. http://www.sydney.apana.org.au/network.htm I just dont understand how to setup all this stuff on the linux boxes, do I use the linuconf or do this stuff manually? the HOWTO's seem to all be doing this stuff manually. Thanks, Rob Longo
Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients. So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net time /set /yes" every few minutes. I think the schedule for 95 comes on the Plus CD. Can't do that either. The System Agent sits in the system tray and will allow them to add/remove jobs. One of their first tricks was to schedule FreeCell to start 2 minutes from now. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, Somewhere around here I wrote a small program that added a password to some programs in Win 3.1. I don't know how 95/98 sets their time but I imagine it's a separate executable and with a little re-write I could get it to work for 95/98. Give me a shout if you're interested. Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
Look at: 1 ) http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01311.html 2) http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html I have Trident 3DImage 975 too, with the same situation: I ran xf86config, choose defaults and KDE looks bad. I apply the modifications sugested in 1 ) and 2 ) to XF86Config and then KDE work quite well. PHM - Original Message - From: Gregg Carrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the place. Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your X-windows manager. E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager which allows transparent windows... On the contrary, this sounds like what happens to me when I bump my video up to 32-bit color. Out of curiosity, what card/chipset do you have? Wow! Someone who seems to have seen this before! I have a Jaton Video-87AGP which is a Trident 3D Image 975 chip. Supported, by all accounts, by the X Server. I have run xf86config many times, sometimes selecting the card, and sometimes selecting the configuration details myself (although it never auto-selects for you) It gave me a TON of resolutions to choose from. I just accepted default because I was at the time trying to get the damn thing to run at all. I have scrolled through the resoulutions using ctl-alt-[num+/num-] to no avail. Some resolutions don't show at all, and those that do show have this weird transparent window problem. I am convinced (by the various wisdom of benevolent newsgroup users) that this is an X config problem. I looked through /etc/X11/XF86Config...even tried changing some stuff, so that it never pointed to "generic VGA" but always to the device card I had configured. No dice. What should I be trying? Where should I be looking? Thanks for your help! Gregg
Re: [newbie] as of last posting, i got ip-masquerading to work... but...
Ronald Rand wrote: I heard you the first time, John. I wrote that second message before I ever got your first one. This is the Newbie section, by the way. Don't worry, I won't waste your precious bandwidth because I won't be back. It seems to me you're wasting more bandwidth by responding to my message without even having anything worth saying. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ronald Rand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] as of last posting, i got ip-masquerading to work... but... On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: I didn't realize the delay on these posts were over an hour. Thanks in advance to anyone who answers it in the next hour. But I did get IP-Masquerading to work. But I have more newbie questions. First, is there a way to send an ifconfig command to eth0 before Linux tries to initialize it upon bootup? It keeps hanging for a few minutes and failing and then I have to poke it with an ifconfig command that changes some specs. It would be nice if I could automate this. Also, according to the IP-Masquerading FAQ, there's a file called /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall that I had to make for it to work. But after I made it, and upon rebooting, it didn't take effect. I had to type all the code at the command prompt line-by-line before my Masquerading worked. So my question is, what is this directory? Are all these rc files supposed to automatically run on every bootup? Why didn't mine run? Do I have to assign each one somewhere? Much thanks in advance! Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Please ditch the HTML when posting to this or any other Linux-related list. It's a pain to try to read and it's also a waste of bandwidth. Thanks... John Welcome to my trash filter Mr. Rand. By the way I sure I speak for many, you're welcome for the help getting your IP-Masq'ing to work. Come back when you grow up some. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Have you turned on ip forwarding? "Rlongo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/99 06:16:22 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP John, Ok here is what I have so far, I am only looking to setup a small ISP with 10 line access on a Comtrol ISA Rocketport card that I have had since my BBS days and would like to use it. I have these 5 Machines on my hub so far: And I am assuming my layout is correct. If not please give me an Idea on how you thing I should do this I will be using a Dial-in PPP to my ISP for access 1. A linux box -(192.168.2.5) To use as a gateway and router to the net for my local lan and the rest of the servers on my network - There is a modem installed to access my provider for now, will be getting a cable interface soon and adding another NIC for it. This will be the Box to make the PPP conection to my ISP works great, I can ping anything on the net. This Box I would like to be my Secondary DNS server plus a firewall or proxy too. 2. A linux box - (192.168.2.4) Intended for a PPP server, houses the Rocketport 8 port serial board, plus 2 internal modems totalling 10 ports for dial-in, would like all requests from the dial in users to go out on the number 1 pc above. This box I would like to be my Primary DNS server 3. A linux box - (192.168.2.2) Running server FTP, MAIL, WWW, and DNS, samba to a Win98 PC that will house home directories. 4. Win98 Worstation - (192.168.2.1) Basic stuff, must be able to use net going throught the number 1 pc above. 5. Win98 Worstation - (192.168.2.3) Basic stuff - same demand as above Win Pc What I have done so far is I setup the PPP connection to my ISP on box 1, I setup DNS on Box 2, setup all the servers on box 3 I can access my ISP from box 1, and box 1 ONLY =( No other pc on my lan can get net! I can ping em all locally by IP or Name. Here is a link to a small ISP layout that I would like to do. http://www.sydney.apana.org.au/network.htm I just dont understand how to setup all this stuff on the linux boxes, do I use the linuconf or do this stuff manually? the HOWTO's seem to all be doing this stuff manually. Thanks, Rob Longo
Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Rlongo wrote: Ok here is what I have so far, I am only looking to setup a small ISP with 10 line access on a Comtrol ISA Rocketport card that I have had since my BBS days and would like to use it. I have these 5 Machines on my hub so far: And I am assuming my layout is correct. If not please give me an Idea on how you thing I should do this I will be using a Dial-in PPP to my ISP for access 1. A linux box -(192.168.2.5) To use as a gateway and router to the net for my local lan and the rest of the servers on my network - There is a modem installed to access my provider for now, will be getting a cable interface soon and adding another NIC for it. This will be the Box to make the PPP conection to my ISP works great, I can ping anything on the net. This Box I would like to be my Secondary DNS server plus a firewall or proxy too. 2. A linux box - (192.168.2.4) Intended for a PPP server, houses the Rocketport 8 port serial board, plus 2 internal modems totalling 10 ports for dial-in, would like all requests from the dial in users to go out on the number 1 pc above. This box I would like to be my Primary DNS server 3. A linux box - (192.168.2.2) Running server FTP, MAIL, WWW, and DNS, samba to a Win98 PC that will house home directories. 4. Win98 Worstation - (192.168.2.1) Basic stuff, must be able to use net going throught the number 1 pc above. 5. Win98 Worstation - (192.168.2.3) Basic stuff - same demand as above Win Pc What I have done so far is I setup the PPP connection to my ISP on box 1, I setup DNS on Box 2, setup all the servers on box 3 I can access my ISP from box 1, and box 1 ONLY =( No other pc on my lan can get net! I can ping em all locally by IP or Name. Here is a link to a small ISP layout that I would like to do. http://www.sydney.apana.org.au/network.htm I just dont understand how to setup all this stuff on the linux boxes, do I use the linuconf or do this stuff manually? the HOWTO's seem to all be doing this stuff manually. Thanks, Rob Longo Let us not forget your ISP will get slightly upset for your using their backbone connection to run your own service. This clearly violates any contract I've ever seen. To the best of my understanding you need a static IP address and your ISP most likely has given you a dynamic one. Even when you get a cable service you'll be violating all sorts of contract agreements by trying to run a service off the back of the cable service. Think twice and get some legal advice before proceeding. Good Luck Joseph S. Gardner I conquer. Most Cable agreements even if they forbid you to run Servers explicity forbid resellin of services.
Re: [newbie] Monitor and Video Card configuation problems...
When I installed 6.1 I don't have Xconfigurator. Or something didn't get loaded but I do have XF86Config and XF86Setup and when I upgraded to 3.3.5 and ran XF86Setup I had no problems with my SiS card (chips actually no video card here) except with a occasional cursor hickup.but, XF86Setup will work if you upgrade to 3.3.5 On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 06:17:56 + "1%warren" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm Just ran Xconfigurator xf86config - xf86config gave me a bigtime crash as I didn't comment out the 16 bit VGA modes (HEE..) Xconfigurator *did* give me an option to custom configure my monitor (right at the top of the list),but Steve is right, it only gives you 4 options for hsync. works o.k. for me. Just don't choose an option higher than your monitor can do. I'd reccommend using Xconfigurator, rather than xf86config, SiS chipsets can't use XF86Setup -Warren. ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
To enable NumLock on by default, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do setleds -D +num $tty done That will do it... Just becarefull since I have crashed linux on many occasions editing this file. On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:23:05 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) writes: How do you get the NumLock Key to come on automatically upon reboot? Seve ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients. So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net time /set /yes" every few minutes. I think the schedule for 95 comes on the Plus CD. Can't do that either. The System Agent sits in the system tray and will allow them to add/remove jobs. One of their first tricks was to schedule FreeCell to start 2 minutes from now. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is TOO FUNNY (hacking a Microsucks package in a Linux newsgroup), any way I found a web site with a reference to a download / CD program for Win95. http://www.ocis.net/~dturner/magazine/arca312.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/sysmgmt/syspol_8prn.htm and the file (policy.exe) can be located here http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q135/3/15.asp this ought to keep them guessing. 8-) -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Where's the Sound?
I am having sound problems also. Linux sees the sound chips (CMI8330) and I can play CDs and line in but no wav files or system sounds. the mixer works just fine (as far as I know). I went into system sounds ( I think that is where it is.. ) and enabled system sounds.. anything else I might be missing? What you need to do is type "chmod a +rw /dev/mixer" Also, make sure you have sound enabled. Did you ever run "snconfig"?? That's how you set up your sound system-wide in Linux, although you may still need to chmod the mixer... John ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would you please copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try it but I am not very good at using text editor to edit my XF86Config. Also, I don't know what I did. But after I startx, my screen is not viewable until I use Crtl+Alt+"+" to toggle the screen to viewable setting. How can I edit my XF86Config to make it work right rightaway? Please help. --- Pablo Monti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem due to my video card ( Trident 3DImage 975 ). To make it work well I had to put a Option "noaccel" line in the "Device" section of my XF86Config. PHM - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The appearance of KDE is, to say the least, weird. It's pretty much unusable. Here's whats wrong: Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu is displayed as word only, very difficult to read against the desktop background. In other words, there's no solid window background against which one can read the words. The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the place. Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your X-windows manager. E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager which allows transparent windows... John = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] adding another NIC
I can successfully setup and connect to the 'Net on my cable modem with one NIC, but I want to add a second NIC for a home network. Is there an easy way to add another NIC (of different chipset/manuf/style(PCI/ISA)) and set it up with little/no trouble? I know that L-M 6.0 supports the NIC's I have...it's just that when both are in the 'puter during primary install I get alots of problems ie: one or both NIC's [FAILED}( for vaious reasons...usually conflicts with addressing) during boot up??? TIA Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Re:
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Dreja Julag wrote: | is there an easy way I can see what com ports are open on my system? I want to | install a new modem, yet I have no idea which port to install it to. | -- | Drew Jackman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ - 20177604 Does the same machine boot Win9x? If so you can go into the device manager in the control panel there and see what's in use, or better, what the current one is using. Else, if there is a modem allready connected to your machine, you may be able to look at the jumpers on the card, to determine which port is being used (unless it's a PnP modem). Finally, you could try the setserial command from a command line in Linux, but you will have to run it on each of the four (I think) COM ports available. Read the setserial man page for more information on using the command. I did learn that to exit the setserial display, you use the CTRL+C key combo. There may also be a HOWTO for setserial. Ernie
Re: [newbie] adding another NIC
To install a second NIC just play with the available drivers through kernelcfg until one of them works. On a similar note - many of the cable 'modems' cache the MAC address of the NIC and will not recognize a new card until the 'modem's' power is cycled - or you forge the MAC address through ifconfig eth0 hw ether newMACaddress Of course, make sure that your DNS and Gateway for eth0 are configured correctly. On 3 Nov 1999, Jaguar wrote: I can successfully setup and connect to the 'Net on my cable modem with one NIC, but I want to add a second NIC for a home network. Is there an easy way to add another NIC (of different chipset/manuf/style(PCI/ISA)) and set it up with little/no trouble? I know that L-M 6.0 supports the NIC's I have...it's just that when both are in the 'puter during primary install I get alots of problems ie: one or both NIC's [FAILED}( for vaious reasons...usually conflicts with addressing) during boot up??? TIA Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] adding another NIC
From: Ronald A. Yacketta what I did with my two nics is enter the bios and force the IRQ for each PCI slot that holds the NIC's I set PCI sloti 1 to IRQ 9 and PCI slot 2 to IRQ 10. after I booted up and recompiled the new drivers for my rtl8139 and tulip NIC's with the associated insmod and modprobe all worked well I then enter liloconf and setup eth0 and eth1 accordingly. did a ifdown eth0 and ifup eth0, dhcp connected got ip etc.. ipdown eth1 ifup eth1 all went well thier as well hope this helps, if not sorry I could not help. Ron Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/03/99 10:51:29 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] adding another NIC I can successfully setup and connect to the 'Net on my cable modem with one NIC, but I want to add a second NIC for a home network. Is there an easy way to add another NIC (of different chipset/manuf/style(PCI/ISA)) and set it up with little/no trouble? I know that L-M 6.0 supports the NIC's I have...it's just that when both are in the 'puter during primary install I get alots of problems ie: one or both NIC's [FAILED}( for vaious reasons...usually conflicts with addressing) during boot up??? TIA Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
Would I be correct to say that KDE will still turn off the Numlock key by default? Matt From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How? Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:21:23 -0600 To enable NumLock on by default, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do setleds -D +num $tty done That will do it... Just becarefull since I have crashed linux on many occasions editing this file. On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:23:05 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) writes: How do you get the NumLock Key to come on automatically upon reboot? Seve ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How (even KDE?)?
Would I be correct to say that KDE will still turn off the Numlock key by default? Matt From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How? Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:21:23 -0600 To enable NumLock on by default, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do setleds -D +num $tty done That will do it... Just becarefull since I have crashed linux on many occasions editing this file. On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:23:05 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) writes: How do you get the NumLock Key to come on automatically upon reboot? Seve ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How to prevent?
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999,John Aldrich wrote: | On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: | Nope. The common package is needed for either the communicator or the netscape | (browser only) package. | | Umm...isn't that what I said? ;-) Seriously. I said you'll | need netscape-common and your choice of netscape-navigator | or netscape-communicator. "netscape-navigator" is the | browser-only package. Netscape-communicator is the | all-in-one package. :-) | John You, but I didn't get this one 'till today, and didn't see your responce 'till after I sent this shrug grin -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor
Re: [newbie] Terminals
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: ++ 01/11/99 13:27 -0500 - John Aldrich: I use Konsole here for all my command-line apps, and I have color *shrug* John, does your lynx looks colored in Konsole? Yep. Sure does. :-) John
Re: [newbie] OT Freeware Partition Magic Boot Magic?
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: I was actually more worried about the pm4.zip file being offered. I didn't take the time to download and investigate, just wondering really. Me either. :-) I think I heard of someone at PowerQuest once saying "if you're smart enough to try the FTP server, you're smart enough to crack it" or words to that effect. :-) John
Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 AGP
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: please help me, I can not make this card work fine in graphical environment (I'm novice), I mean I hope look kde like windows but I can't read the little words of the icons and the pop up menu leaves a shadow after use it. Can somebody helpme please? It's my understanding that SiS video cards are buggy in X. I'd suggest getting a new video card, such as a Voodoo3, or TNT/TNT2 based card, all of which are available in AGP. John
RE: [newbie] ne2000 netcard
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Any idea why the ne2k-pci driver didn't work? Re-reading the ethernet-HOWTO it says if the current ne2k-pci driver doesn't detect a particular PCI card to contact the maintainers of the driver. Is this my big chance, my once in a life time opportunity, for I, a mere newbie, to contribute towards the greater body of Linux knowledge? cue music ;-) Hmmonly thing I can figure is that the pci driver isn't set up to recognize that chipset as a valid PCI network card. That's why I try and get "name brand" chipsets (for example, at home, I'm using a DEC Tulip chipset card made by Kingston G) John
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Thanks for the reply! So, KDE is a Window Manager, as is Enlightenment, correct? So I don't need Enlightenment, correct? How can I get rid of it or tell if it is indeed installed? I have the default installation of Mandrake, that should use KDE, not GNOME. (I thought Enlightenment was a Gnome thing). I'm not sure, but it seems like I didn't even install GNOME. Where should I poke around to further investigate? Thanks! Well, KDE is a Desktop Environment as well as a window manager. KDE stands for K Desktop Environment. What the "K" stands for, no one has yet explained THAT one to me. :-) The current version of Enlightenment is "KDE-compatible." It is set up to work in cooperation with KDE as the window manager. If you prefer to have KDE do the window management as well, you should be able to do so... but I'm not familiar enough with Enlightenment to tell you how to do that I'm sure someone else here will be able to help. :-) John
Re: [newbie] User privileges
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Could you please elaborate on that? I've created this username on installation, given it some privileges in the Linuxconf user privileges area but I still can't can't get e-mail sent out when I am the 'user'. What do you mean 'Simply by creating the login.' ? What mail client are you using? KMail, all I had to do was open up KMail, and configure it for my ISP's mail server and I was able to send receive mail. Most mail clients are that way. Of course, you need to be connected to the internet or to a network which has a standard POP3 SMTP mail server, but that's all you should have to do. John
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: How do you get the NumLock Key to come on automatically upon reboot? Go into your system BIOS and in one of the menues there should be an option "numlock status at boot" or something similar. Scroll through the options and you'll be able to set it there. John
Re: [newbie] shockwave
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: I installed to that directory, yes, and I followed all directions in the installeation file. Thanks again. Ok...I'm baffled... It SHOULD work from what you've said.. What happens when you open up Netscape (shut it down and then open it back up *after* installing Shockwave) and type "about:plugins" in the "address" bar?? Does it show Shockwave? Mine does application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes John
Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999,Gustavo Viola wrote: | - Original Message - | From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 10:35 AM | Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf | | | On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Gustavo Viola wrote: || Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is | misbehaving. || || I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I | am not || sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it || lately -- that have been mentiond in the list so often. As root, I | wrote || the 2 DNS nameservers to resolv.conf. As user, I use kppp, log in | fine, but || can't use any app since they can't find the server. Log out, go check || resolv.conf and it is entirely empty! || || Any suggestions? Because I can't really deal with Outlook Express | much || longer. ;-) Thank you, || || /Gustavo. | | Don't know if this answers your question, but I set up kppp as a regular | user | since I try to do most of my on-line stuff as not root. The only thing I | have | noticed with kppp is that it does not save my user name or my ISP password | even | though I have the checkbox checked (for saving the password). As a result, | I | have to enter this information each time I log onto the internet, but it | is | only a minor inconvenience. | | I prefere working online as user as well. About the password issue, I | suppose that if you logged in as root (setting the options for saving the | password) once, kppp should be able to "remember" your password next time | you logged in as user (at leat theoretically -- all I have read about kppp | tells me that I have first to log in as root, set everything correctly under | root, etc, and then try logging in as user). Well, it did in L-M 6.0, but since the uograde to L-M 6.1, kppp requests my username and password each time I start it to log on to my ISP. I just took it as a change in security (Linux is after all a multi-user / multi-tasking OS), and yes, I did set it up in "root" first, but I also had to set it up as my regular user as well (the set-up window pop'd up the first time I started kppp as regular user). shrug Ernie | | | If yoy start kppp, then select the "setup" button, the acounts dialog will | appear. Select the account for your internet connection, and then the | "edit" | button. In the dialog that pops up, select the DNS tab, and enter the | needed | information there. Maybe kppp is removing the DNS information from your | resolve.conf because this information is not in kppp? | | Just checked this info, it is placed there correctly, but kppp refuses to | work. | | Thanks, | /Gustavo. | | | | HTH, | | Ernie | | | | -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would you please copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try it but I am not very good at using text editor to edit my XF86Config. You may have seen, that Pablo pointed out a couple of links that make the problem vewry clear and have examples. You the man Pablo! Check out: 1 ) http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01311.html 2) http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html Good luck!
Re: [newbie] Wine
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999,Foris Gabor wrote: | Dear Sirs, :) | | I would like to set up Wine under my linux mandrake and I have downloaded | a file (Wine990131-ja.tar.gz). I could unpack it with gunzip and then I | could copy README.jis and Wine990131-ja.Patch from it with midnight | commander. | How can I gon on or am I on the wrong track? | | FG I think ther'e a rpm for wine on the L-M CD, or you can download it from one of the Mandrake ftp mirrors. -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
Sorry, but at this moment I am in the work and I don't have LINUX here. For the moment, follow the guidelines posted at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01311.html http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html Tomorrow I send to you my config file. PHM - Original Message - From: Tuan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would you please copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try it but I am not very good at using text editor to edit my XF86Config. Also, I don't know what I did. But after I startx, my screen is not viewable until I use Crtl+Alt+"+" to toggle the screen to viewable setting. How can I edit my XF86Config to make it work right rightaway? Please help. --- Pablo Monti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem due to my video card ( Trident 3DImage 975 ). To make it work well I had to put a Option "noaccel" line in the "Device" section of my XF86Config. PHM - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The appearance of KDE is, to say the least, weird. It's pretty much unusable. Here's whats wrong: Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu is displayed as word only, very difficult to read against the desktop background. In other words, there's no solid window background against which one can read the words. The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the place. Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your X-windows manager. E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager which allows transparent windows... John = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
You know I havn't noticed.. but I don't think so. when I login using level 3 since I still don't trust linux yet. the num lock is on.. I never checked to see if it stays on when I startx and it goes into KDE. Will check it out though... On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 17:21:37 GMT "M Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would I be correct to say that KDE will still turn off the Numlock key by default? Matt From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How? Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:21:23 -0600 To enable NumLock on by default, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do setleds -D +num $tty done That will do it... Just becarefull since I have crashed linux on many occasions editing this file. On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:23:05 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) writes: How do you get the NumLock Key to come on automatically upon reboot? Seve ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/1/99 8:32:30 PM, you wrote: Try Sybase... :-) Is it free? Can I get RPMs of it somewhere? If not, I'll pass thanks. I believe Sybase *is* free (for now... later versions MAY cost money.) Check out the following UR -- http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/linux/index.html John
Re: [newbie] wine
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello all!! is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? If I understand how WINE works, yes. I've never used it, but to the best of my understanding, you don't need Windows to use WINE. I may be totally off base, wouldn't be the first time. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus
Sam Gentile is right. I had the same problem which is one reason why I had to re-install Linux a lot. It occurred with *one* user out of three (i.e. it wasn't a "global" problem). As a rule, in KDE, when you click the "K" button, everything that is under the gnome menu pops up there by default. It would never ever go back to normal once it started doing that (i.e. restarting, logging out, etc. didn't help at all). There was a little black dot on the panel that said "KDE menu" or whatever, and clicking that little black dot there is the only way you can get to your KDE applications. Go to Gnome, and click on the panel "foot" thing and look at what pops up. Well, that's the same menu that is popping up for Sam Gentile in KDE! I've seen it happen too. I had been told to use Desktop Switching Tool--which did nothing. I had also been told to try editing my start menu, which does not take care of the problem at all. Just a little FYI. I was wondering, since it isn't a global malady, maybe it could be remedied if one could delete a "." file in their /home/$USER folder that sets desktop preferences, so it would be reset when they returned to KDE??? What do you think about that? I'm no longer having this particular problem so I can't test it out, but I just now thought of it. BTW, I think the problem needs to be reported as a KDE bug to www.kde.org. I reported my problem since nobody could think of an answer for me! Turns out KDE is chock full of weird bugs. Karen - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:08 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus It is supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. They aren't supposed to be directly under Applications. On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sam Gentile wrote: It is not supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. I am running KDE. None of the menus have KDE things on them. I don't have my system here but when I pull down the first entry - Applications?? - it has things like gEDit and all the GNOME things instead of the KDE things. The rest of it is unaffected. The desktop is KDE. The task bar is KDE and has KDE things on it. It's just the menus are screwed up and look like the menus you would get if you logged into GNOME. All the kde menus? or just Applications. ls -l /usr/share/applnk/Applications # says? Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader toysmart.com 170 High Street Waltham, MA 02454 -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus Going to have to describe better than that (better yet screenshot) as it's supposed to have gnome menus... it's kinda hard to guess what you mean. On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote: I'd just like to affirm that this is a problem that I have had, too. Maybe it's a bug? Karen Sam Gentile wrote: I just installed Mandrake Power Pack 6.1 last night on a fresh system and when I boot into KDE, it has the KDE look, the KDE taskbars and such but Gnome menus!! How did this happen and how can I fix it? Sam Gentile Principle Software Engineer/Team Leader - Viridien Team -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] wine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello all!! is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? Ron Yes. The wine homepage has documentation on how to do this. I still would recommend using vmware over wine until wine get's it all together, because there are alot of windows apps you can't run on wine. And alot of the one you can are very difficult to set up. SA
[newbie] kppp icon on desktop?
Hi, Using Mandrake 6.5 and want to add (create) a icon link on the desktop to easily start the logon to my ISP. How do I do it? Is there a template to use, and should I be in root? Thanks,
[newbie] zip files?
Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll.
Re: [newbie] wine
You're right, there's something in one of my Linux books about not needing Windows to use wine, although you also need something else I think to get it to work. I'd go to www.winehq.com and see if they have anything about it. Karen - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] wine On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello all!! is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? If I understand how WINE works, yes. I've never used it, but to the best of my understanding, you don't need Windows to use WINE. I may be totally off base, wouldn't be the first time. :-) John
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
Sorry, but at this moment I am in the work and I don't have LINUX here. I'm just greatful you had those urls! Thanks a million, Pablo! The "noaccel" option in my config file did the trick and made all the windows solid. I would still be very much interested in seeing how you've got your config set up as there are still some inconsistincies in my display. A million times better now though. One simple line... For anyone else who is having strange problems with a Trident Video87-AGP, try adding Option = "noaccel" to your Device section in XF86Config. That's what it took for me. Thanks again Pablo! For the moment, follow the guidelines posted at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01311.html http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html Tomorrow I send to you my config file. PHM - Original Message - From: Tuan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows I am in the exact same problem. I managed to configure my X server with my video card Trident 3DImage 975. I can't read anything, so weird. Pablo, would you please copy that portion of your configure file and post it here. I want to try it but I am not very good at using text editor to edit my XF86Config. Also, I don't know what I did. But after I startx, my screen is not viewable until I use Crtl+Alt+"+" to toggle the screen to viewable setting. How can I edit my XF86Config to make it work right rightaway? Please help. --- Pablo Monti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem due to my video card ( Trident 3DImage 975 ). To make it work well I had to put a Option "noaccel" line in the "Device" section of my XF86Config. PHM - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack and managed to get my X server configured. I am able to run startx and get into KDE. The appearance of KDE is, to say the least, weird. It's pretty much unusable. Here's whats wrong: Click on any pop-up menu like the K menu and the menu is displayed as word only, very difficult to read against the desktop background. In other words, there's no solid window background against which one can read the words. The same is true if I open the KDE Manager. I see the frame of its window, the words in it vaguely, but the background of the desktop shows through. I can't tell how to change a thing, because I can't read anything. If I try to move windows around, strange afterimages are left all over the place. Sounds like you've got Enlightenment on top of KDE for your X-windows manager. E, AFAIK, is the only Window Manager which allows transparent windows... John = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus
Turns out KDE is chock full of weird bugs. Suprise, suprise! And they rant how they have no bugs and Windows is full of bugs. The song remains the same... Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader toysmart.com 170 High Street Waltham, MA 02454 -Original Message- From: Mrs. Karen Heiby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus Sam Gentile is right. I had the same problem which is one reason why I had to re-install Linux a lot. It occurred with *one* user out of three (i.e. it wasn't a "global" problem). As a rule, in KDE, when you click the "K" button, everything that is under the gnome menu pops up there by default. It would never ever go back to normal once it started doing that (i.e. restarting, logging out, etc. didn't help at all). There was a little black dot on the panel that said "KDE menu" or whatever, and clicking that little black dot there is the only way you can get to your KDE applications. Go to Gnome, and click on the panel "foot" thing and look at what pops up. Well, that's the same menu that is popping up for Sam Gentile in KDE! I've seen it happen too. I had been told to use Desktop Switching Tool--which did nothing. I had also been told to try editing my start menu, which does not take care of the problem at all. Just a little FYI. I was wondering, since it isn't a global malady, maybe it could be remedied if one could delete a "." file in their /home/$USER folder that sets desktop preferences, so it would be reset when they returned to KDE??? What do you think about that? I'm no longer having this particular problem so I can't test it out, but I just now thought of it. BTW, I think the problem needs to be reported as a KDE bug to www.kde.org. I reported my problem since nobody could think of an answer for me! Turns out KDE is chock full of weird bugs. Karen - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:08 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus It is supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. They aren't supposed to be directly under Applications. On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sam Gentile wrote: It is not supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. I am running KDE. None of the menus have KDE things on them. I don't have my system here but when I pull down the first entry - Applications?? - it has things like gEDit and all the GNOME things instead of the KDE things. The rest of it is unaffected. The desktop is KDE. The task bar is KDE and has KDE things on it. It's just the menus are screwed up and look like the menus you would get if you logged into GNOME. All the kde menus? or just Applications. ls -l /usr/share/applnk/Applications # says? Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader toysmart.com 170 High Street Waltham, MA 02454 -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus Going to have to describe better than that (better yet screenshot) as it's supposed to have gnome menus... it's kinda hard to guess what you mean. On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote: I'd just like to affirm that this is a problem that I have had, too. Maybe it's a bug? Karen Sam Gentile wrote: I just installed Mandrake Power Pack 6.1 last night on a fresh system and when I boot into KDE, it has the KDE look, the KDE taskbars and such but Gnome menus!! How did this happen and how can I fix it? Sam Gentile Principle Software Engineer/Team Leader - Viridien Team -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?
Is it free? Can I get RPMs of it somewhere? If not, I'll pass thanks. I believe Sybase *is* free (for now... later versions MAY cost money.) Check out the following UR -- http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/linux/index.html This directly from the web page above. Download links are on the page. Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 continues to be offered as a free, unsupported release for development as well as deployment. Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 is available from the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 download web page. Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.9.2 is offered FREE for development from the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.9.2 download web page. You can purchase support even if you download the free development copy. You can get the software on CD with printed copy of Installation guide for $99 from Sybase sales. To deploy Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.9.2 on a production box, contact Sybase sales at 1-800-8SYBASE. Michael
Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows
Wow! Someone who seems to have seen this before! I have a Jaton Video-87AGP which is a Trident 3D Image 975 chip. Supported, by all accounts, by the X Server. Ooh, I'm sorry. I've had all sorts of problems with Trident chipsets. I stay very far away from them now. Also, everybody (well, almost) I talk to says every Trident card they've worked with has been horrible. Not a very good reputation. I have scrolled through the resoulutions using ctl-alt-[num+/num-] to no avail. That should go through different screen sizes (i.e. 640x480, 800x600), but not change your color depth. If you find that one of these resolutions will work for you while a different screen size doesn't (at the same color depth) then you'd do good to move that resolution to the front of the line in XF86Config and delete the ones that don't work. I'd suggest just playing around with it. Set up several different resolutions under different color depths. `startx -- -bpp 16` I think will start X in 16-bit color. You'll have to exit and run `startx -- bpp 24` to use 24-bit color. Anyway, just run through a bunch of resolutions in several color depths and see what works and what doesn't. On the other hand, the second of Pablo's links looked pretty good. I didn't go through it too much- I don't have one of these cards. I'd guess, though, that it'll work pretty well for you. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] zip files?
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll. If you're using KDE, there's an app associated with zip files that'll uncompress them (don't know the name). Just click on the file in kfm and it'll start the app. DvB
Re: [newbie] zip files?
unzip-5.31-6mdk.i586.rpm, on the Helios CD. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . .
Re: [newbie] kppp icon on desktop?
Thomas Cox wrote: Hi, Using Mandrake 6.5 and want to add (create) a icon link on the desktop to easily start the logon to my ISP. How do I do it? Is there a template to use, and should I be in root? Thanks, ThomasIn KDE, as an unpriveleged user, open the home icon (on your desktop) by clicking it and then click on the up arrow (near the upper left corner of the window) twice. You should now be in the root (/) directory. Click on user/. Next click on share/. Then click on applnk/. Finally click on Internet/. Drag the icon marked Kppp onto the desktop and choose Link after you let go if it. Close the KFM window. Right-click the desktop and choose Arrange icons. Answer yes to 'Do you really want to rearrange your icons ?' That's it. Alan
RE: [newbie] ne2000 netcard
You're probably right about going for name brand, you get better performance etc, though the HOWTO gave me the impression that the Realtek 8029 was a well supported chipset, though I see what you mean, the driver might just assume it's an ISA card. Fortunately the vendor I purchased from actually sells Linux Mandrake pre-installed (www.trinix.com.au). They sold me a card they knew would work with Linux, if I hadn't worked it out myself by the following Monday, I'm sure they would have helped me out. In mess around home systems, where there is nothing critical happening, it becomes harder to justify to the missus the extra cost of high performance network cards. Oh well, at home I have 10M for two computers, at work there is 10M for 30. I can't complain. Aaron -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] ne2000 netcard On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: Any idea why the ne2k-pci driver didn't work? Re-reading the ethernet-HOWTO it says if the current ne2k-pci driver doesn't detect a particular PCI card to contact the maintainers of the driver. Is this my big chance, my once in a life time opportunity, for I, a mere newbie, to contribute towards the greater body of Linux knowledge? cue music ;-) Hmmonly thing I can figure is that the pci driver isn't set up to recognize that chipset as a valid PCI network card. That's why I try and get "name brand" chipsets (for example, at home, I'm using a DEC Tulip chipset card made by Kingston G) John
Re: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Mrs. Karen Heiby wrote: Sam Gentile is right. I had the same problem which is one reason why I had to re-install Linux a lot. It occurred with *one* user out of three (i.e. it wasn't a "global" problem). As a rule, in KDE, when you click the "K" button, everything that is under the gnome menu pops up there by default. It would never ever go back to normal once it started doing that (i.e. restarting, logging out, etc. didn't help at all). There was a little black dot on the panel that said "KDE menu" or whatever, and clicking that little black dot there is the only way you can get to your KDE applications. Try letting kappfinder regenerate menu. Go to Gnome, and click on the panel "foot" thing and look at what pops up. Well, that's the same menu that is popping up for Sam Gentile in KDE! I've seen it happen too. Ok lets see posible causes, 1) kappfinder was takeing a "long time", so you shut down the Xserver to see what was going on and kappfinder did not complete 2) Your computer locked up and you used reset button, filesystem got damaged, linking kde and gnome menus to same inode (so very very unlikely, considering diff pc's) 3) Somebodys been playing with the menu editors 4) Poltergiests have infiltrated your computers and it's time to get the priest I had been told to use Desktop Switching Tool--which did nothing. I had also been told to try editing my start menu, which does not take care of the problem at all. Just a little FYI. Just exactly what were you expecting from it that it did not do? All it's intended todo is alter the ~/.xinitrc of the user.. (with option to change system default if root) I was wondering, since it isn't a global malady, maybe it could be remedied if one could delete a "." file in their /home/$USER folder that sets desktop preferences, so it would be reset when they returned to KDE??? What do you think about that? I'm no longer having this particular problem so I can't test it out, but I just now thought of it. mv ~/.kde ~/kde.sux mv ~/.gnome ~/gnome.sux cp -r /etc/skell/.kde ~/ cp -r /etc/skell/.gnome ~/ BTW, I think the problem needs to be reported as a KDE bug to www.kde.org. I reported my problem since nobody could think of an answer for me! Turns out KDE is chock full of weird bugs. David? Daniel? (i don't know if they are subscribed here, if you believe its a bug in kde it's self and not our implementation you'll need file bug report thru their bug system) Karen PS. Niether one of you answer what i asked, ls -l /usr/share/applnk/Applications # Says what? - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:08 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus It is supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. They aren't supposed to be directly under Applications. On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sam Gentile wrote: It is not supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. I am running KDE. None of the menus have KDE things on them. I don't have my system here but when I pull down the first entry - Applications?? - it has things like gEDit and all the GNOME things instead of the KDE things. The rest of it is unaffected. The desktop is KDE. The task bar is KDE and has KDE things on it. It's just the menus are screwed up and look like the menus you would get if you logged into GNOME. All the kde menus? or just Applications. ls -l /usr/share/applnk/Applications # says? Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader toysmart.com 170 High Street Waltham, MA 02454 -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus Going to have to describe better than that (better yet screenshot) as it's supposed to have gnome menus... it's kinda hard to guess what you mean. On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote: I'd just like to affirm that this is a problem that I have had, too. Maybe it's a bug? Karen Sam Gentile wrote: I just installed Mandrake Power Pack 6.1 last night on a fresh system and when I boot into KDE, it has the KDE look, the KDE taskbars and such but Gnome menus!! How did this happen and how can I fix it? Sam Gentile Principle Software Engineer/Team Leader - Viridien Team -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 12:21:40PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients. So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net time /set /yes" every few minutes. I think the schedule for 95 comes on the Plus CD. Can't do that either. The System Agent sits in the system tray and will allow them to add/remove jobs. One of their first tricks was to schedule FreeCell to start 2 minutes from now. :) Hmm...have you folks considered using "dumb" terminals??? ;-) Unfortunately, the application they need to run is Windows-only. Requests for bugfixes from the vendor are usually replied to with a pricetag, so I'm not counting the days for the applications to be available on an alternate platform. Ah well, this is why I get the big bucks, I guess. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:27:12AM -0500, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients. So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net time /set /yes" every few minutes. I think the schedule for 95 comes on the Plus CD. Can't do that either. The System Agent sits in the system tray and will allow them to add/remove jobs. One of their first tricks was to schedule FreeCell to start 2 minutes from now. :) This is TOO FUNNY (hacking a Microsucks package in a Linux newsgroup), any way I found a web site with a reference to a download / CD program for Win95. http://www.ocis.net/~dturner/magazine/arca312.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/sysmgmt/syspol_8prn.htm and the file (policy.exe) can be located here http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q135/3/15.asp this ought to keep them guessing. 8-) Thanks for the pointers, I'll give them a browse. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
My Bios has it on as default but that method works for windows not Linux. Seve -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How? On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: How do you get the NumLock Key to come on automatically upon reboot? Go into your system BIOS and in one of the menues there should be an option "numlock status at boot" or something similar. Scroll through the options and you'll be able to set it there. John
Re: [newbie] Printer lpq unsolved -- data
Dear Ronald: Thank you so much for suggesting lpc. I am fortunately familiar with it by now and will use it if necessaary. Still, it would be nice if lpq worked, too. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
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Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
RonaldI don't know the answer to your question, but they will send you a CD with both the linux and windows versions on it for $9.95 + shipping handling. Just go to the sun website and order it. Alan R_Yeo wrote: 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] plugger's not cooperating
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, alann wrote: David van Balen wrote: I tried to install plugger under netscape 4.61 (libc5 version of both). I first tried the rpm and it appeared to install fine but then whenever I went to a page with audio files, netscape would die. Since then I have uninstalled the rpm, installed the tarball by placing the plugger.so and pluggerrc files in the right places (specified in the README file), upgraded to netscape 4.7 and reinstalled plugger, first in my user's home dir and then globally and netscape still dies. This is even worse than not having any sound. I got plugger working fine when I had LM6.0, I'm not sure what, if anything, I did then that I'm not doing now. Any ideas? DvB I've had the exact same results with plugger.. Obviously I'm ( we're ) doing something wrong.. I since marked it as a no no.. If anyone has any info as to how to make this work without crashing netscape it would be greatly appreciated.. I find it easier and better just to go into netscape and edit the apps to call a program to handle the task.. Alan Mind if I ask what programs you use? Especially for mpegs (mp3, mp2, etc). I've tried kmpg, xmms and mp3 and all of them either play the last file they played before being shut down or do nothing (xmms). I couldn't find any command line options for any of the players that might help either... DvB
Re: [newbie] shockwave
it does indeed but the shocwave site does not like it a bit and I cannot find a link to get out of the "testing" site. All I am wanting to do is play games... It is not a big deal, though. Thanks for your help. On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: I installed to that directory, yes, and I followed all directions in the installeation file. Thanks again. Ok...I'm baffled... It SHOULD work from what you've said.. What happens when you open up Netscape (shut it down and then open it back up *after* installing Shockwave) and type "about:plugins" in the "address" bar?? Does it show Shockwave? Mine does application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes John -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 20177604
[newbie] kernel boot problem
Hey, I tried to upgrade my kernel (using rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm instead of kernel -i kernel*.rpm). Then I forgot to run lilo before rebooting, and now linux can't boot. I have no other boot media besides the Linux Mandrake CD (which does not have a rescue option). I have Windows 98 on this system, and I'm able to do everything fine in there. How can I boot linux? Regards, cyberclay --- cclay at fastlane dot net Perl/C/UNIX/Linux Hacker http://www.hacked-inhabitants.com
Re: [newbie] zip files?
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . Yesjust use "unzip" :-) gzip is a totally different program. There's a PKZip compatible program called "zip" strangely enough. ;-) John
RE: [newbie] ne2000 netcard
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: You're probably right about going for name brand, you get better performance etc, though the HOWTO gave me the impression that the Realtek 8029 was a well supported chipset, though I see what you mean, the driver might just assume it's an ISA card. Fortunately the vendor I purchased from actually sells Linux Mandrake pre-installed (www.trinix.com.au). They sold me a card they knew would work with Linux, if I hadn't worked it out myself by the following Monday, I'm sure they would have helped me out. In mess around home systems, where there is nothing critical happening, it becomes harder to justify to the missus the extra cost of high performance network cards. Oh well, at home I have 10M for two computers, at work there is 10M for 30. I can't complain. Well, I got my Kingston card on sale... something like $20, I think... :-) And it's a DEC Tulip chipset as well.. :-) John
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[newbie] Re: Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus
First of all I am now of the opinion that whole problem is out of the scope of Mandrake as a product, but rather, is a KDE bug that needs to be redirected to KDE. But I appreciate Mandrake's effort to help! I replied to Axalon's questions anyway just for the heck of it, in case anyone else is interested in the problem. Ok lets see posible causes, 1) kappfinder was takeing a "long time", so you shut down the Xserver to see what was going on and kappfinder did not complete At the time I didn't even know what kappfinder was for, and had never used it. Actually I still haven't :-) 2) Your computer locked up and you used reset button, filesystem got damaged, linking kde and gnome menus to same inode (so very very Now this is possible. I have been told about how uncrashable Linux is but so far I'm having to kill processes and/or reset my machine because of an unreactive keyboard way more than I had to in Windows 98--I don't mean to start a war about it though. It's not like I'm giving up on Linux... I'm optimistic that I'll be able to learn what's going on and stop this from happening all the time. unlikely, considering diff pc's) 3) Somebodys been playing with the menu editors As far as I can tell, this problem can't even be replicated by playing with menu editors. I remember trying to use the editor to get it back the way it was, but discovered that I could only move individual application links, but not whole directory links, which I would need to do to fix it. Gnome "directories" as well as applications were showing up and would have needed to be moved. I could tell they were Gnome directory links because they all had little black dots next to their names. You can delete them, I think, but try to move the KDE directory links to your custom menu, and they just snap back to the right of the screen where they were--you can't do it. 4) Poltergiests have infiltrated your computers and it's time to get the priest haha ;-) I had been told to use Desktop Switching Tool--which did nothing. I had also been told to try editing my start menu, which does not take care of the problem at all. Just a little FYI. Just exactly what were you expecting from it that it did not do? All it's intended todo is alter the ~/.xinitrc of the user.. (with option to change system default if root) I wasn't expecting anything, I thought it was dumb advice but I just didn't want to prevent someone from advising the same thing again out of misunderstanding the problem ;-) I was wondering, since it isn't a global malady, maybe it could be remedied if one could delete a "." file in their /home/$USER folder that sets desktop preferences, so it would be reset when they returned to KDE??? What do you think about that? I'm no longer having this particular problem so I can't test it out, but I just now thought of it. mv ~/.kde ~/kde.sux mv ~/.gnome ~/gnome.sux cp -r /etc/skell/.kde ~/ cp -r /etc/skell/.gnome ~/ LOL. I take it you are not a GUI kind of guy. I'll have to remember that. BTW Sam if this works for you, write so, so I know what to do next time! BTW, I think the problem needs to be reported as a KDE bug to www.kde.org. I reported my problem since nobody could think of an answer for me! Turns out KDE is chock full of weird bugs. David? Daniel? (i don't know if they are subscribed here, if you believe its a bug in kde it's self and not our implementation you'll need file bug report thru their bug system) I think it is a KDE bug but if someone from Mandrake knew of a work around, it couldn't hurt to ask. Thanks for the help! ;-) Karen PS. Niether one of you answer what i asked, ls -l /usr/share/applnk/Applications # Says what? Sam needs to answer that one. I did a clean reinstalled to get rid of the problem (being a newbie with no important data saved on the Linux partitions just yet, that's how I fix a lot of weird stuff ;-) though I wanted to express concern about it as it was frustrating and I'm afraid it might happen again. Thanks for the help. Karen ~ - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:08 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installed 6.1 - KDE has GNOME menus It is supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. They aren't supposed to be directly under Applications. On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sam Gentile wrote: It is not supposed to have GNOME menus under KDE. I am running KDE. None of the menus have KDE things on them. I don't have my system here but when I pull down the first entry - Applications?? - it has things like gEDit and all the GNOME things instead of the KDE things. The rest of it is unaffected. The desktop is KDE. The task bar is KDE and has KDE things on it. It's just the menus are screwed up and look like the menus you would get if you logged into GNOME. All the kde menus? or just
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: My Bios has it on as default but that method works for windows not Linux. Ahh...Ok. I wouldn't know... I prefer my numlock OFF. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Unfortunately, the application they need to run is Windows-only. Requests for bugfixes from the vendor are usually replied to with a pricetag, so I'm not counting the days for the applications to be available on an alternate platform. Ah well, this is why I get the big bucks, I guess. :) How about WINE or VMWARE on a Linux box??? Should be able to use ONLY those apps you guys have using one or the other??? (besides...I'm dragging this thread kicking and screaming back to Linux G) John
RE: [newbie] Can't find SCSI controller
Hm I got my install going when I turned of the bios on the 1542 . Ingo -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Can't find SCSI controller On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: I am trying to install Linux (Mandrake 6.1) on a Gateway 2000 P5-90 machine with a scsi controller a 4gig scsi disk and a scsi tape drive. I keep getting the message "I can't find the device anywhere on you system!" when I try to install the scsi controller. I have tries an Future Domain TMC1800, an Adaptec AHA1542CF and a SIIG(advansys chip set) controllers. I get the same message every time. Any Ideas? I installed the Redhat on the same system without scsi and it works fine. Strange...I've got Mandrake (6.0) on a machine with an Advansys SCSI card. How are you trying to install the SCSI??? John application/ms-tnef
Re: [newbie] Where's the Sound?
John: I have a CMI8330 or somthing like that. its a on board chip set. On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:21:34 -0500 John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: I am having sound problems also. Linux sees the sound chips (CMI8330) and I can play CDs and line in but no wav files or system sounds. the mixer works just fine (as far as I know). I went into system sounds ( I think that is where it is.. ) and enabled system sounds.. anything else I might be missing? What brand of sound do you have, do you know? My boss got a Sony Vaio laptop and his system has similar problems... John ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Office Suites
I use SO for my personal stuff and I use the html editor. I believe it is good enough as is for general home use, and probably for most general business use. My wife does occasionally have a problem with documents going between SO and M$ Office 97. SO always opens them fine, but sometimes the saved version from SO will not open in M$Office. So far that hasn't caused any big problems, since we have pc's with both OS's running, though Linux is our primary OS. Winblows is primarily kept for network gaming for the kids. chip On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: "PSM 0x2710]" wrote: So what is the general opinion of Star Office? Does anyone recommend it seriously or is there something that would do the job just as well? Thanks all! I admire the effort put into StarOffice but I feel it is still quite kludgy. At the same time, we must not forget that pgms like M$Office, WP, etc have gone thru' millenniums of evolution compared to StarOffice. It's biggest selling point (I know it's free) is perhaps its 'ability' to translate M$Office documents. That's what I use it for mostly, although it has a habit of screwing up even your simplest formatting of Excel and Powerpoint. Speaking of which, what is the difference (read, fixes and improvement) of Sun's 5.1a over 5.1? -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] hanging trying to dial modem
Hi all, Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew how to do) There was no response to anything in KDE. I have a HSP K56FLEX PNP MODEM according to the Windows control panel. Any suggestions? Another configuration problem? Thanks in advance. Gregg
Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem
Assuming that your linux partition is on /dev/hda5 From the Mandrake CD copy this to your c:\ in windows 98 1. vmlinuz 2. loadlin.exe Boot in msdos mode (do not use an msdos window) Go to the root of c:\ loadlin.exe c:\vmlinuz boot=/dev/hda5 rw I suggest next time read the corresponding howto.
Re: [newbie] zip files?
Seth Gibson wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll. Thats because they are zipped, not gzip. Try in a terminal unzip "filename". :0 -- == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) running Linux Mandrake 6.1 and/or BeOS.
Re: [newbie] zip files?
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . Yesjust use "unzip" :-) gzip is a totally different program. There's a PKZip compatible program called "zip" strangely enough. ;-) John I'll answer this one before it's asked, yes it will extract from a win32 selfextracting zip also, you will get a warning message when you unzip foo.exe, it's just a warning. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?
I checked it out and when I ran KDE it dumped my NumLock but it works in the terminal just fine. SO, its off to find some way to keep the num lock on when you startx to goto KDE On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:51:18 -0500 John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: My Bios has it on as default but that method works for windows not Linux. Ahh...Ok. I wouldn't know... I prefer my numlock OFF. :-) John ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
[newbie] Two drives
I have two physical drives on my computer. One, hda, is for the Linux op system, the other I would like to reserve for Linux programs. Question: Is it possible to install Linux programs on a different physical drive? Has anybody done this? Would like to know. Thanks, Richard
Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem
On 3 Nov, cyberclay wrote: I tried to upgrade my kernel (using rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm instead of kernel -i kernel*.rpm). Then I forgot to run lilo before rebooting, and now linux can't boot. I have no other boot media besides the Linux Mandrake CD (which does not have a rescue option). I have Windows 98 on this system, and I'm able to do everything fine in there. How can I boot linux? Go to http://www.toms.net/rb download the DOS install, read the README, and boot with the root boot disk you'll make. Once you're up, mount your root partition on /mnt, and run # chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo This should install lilo, and you'll be set to reboot! -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] MacMillan's Complete Linux Operating System 6.5
On 17 Oct 99, at 20:11, R_Yeo wrote: They said the reason they are calling it Complete Linux Operating System 6.5 is that ANY revision version is automatically incremented by .5. Thus, when Mandrake 6.2 comes out, it's going to be called "The Complete Linux Operating System 7.0" (unless they decide to change their naming convention G) How does that add up ;-) Higher Version Number + Newbie perception that "higher number is latest (therefore best) version = Increased Sales :-) Joey M. Jackson "Look, I'm a Knight, I'm supposed to face as much peril as I can." Michael Palin as Sir Galahad
RE: [newbie] zip files?
I'm not sure if "unzip" is a typo or not, but to unzip files zipped by WinZip i use "gunzip /path/to/file". The problem I have is unzipping multispanned WinZip archives. The only way to unzip these is to use WinZip in Windows. After unzipping the file in Windows, I use WinZip to rezip them on the Windows hard drive, and then use gunzip to unzip them and store the file in Linux - a lot of messing about, but it gets files from Windows work to Linux home. It also prevents the hassles of Linux reading the files in 8.3 dos format. No doubt the Karchiver (or is it Kzip?), utility in KDE, will one day have the same functionality of WinZip, and will be albe to deal with multi-spanned WinZip archives. Aaron On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . Yesjust use "unzip" :-) gzip is a totally different program. There's a PKZip compatible program called "zip" strangely enough. ;-) John
RE: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
Does anyone know if the new Sun license prevents third parties from burning StarOffice CD's and redistributing them? I don't know what Sun's plans are with StarOffice but if they want to have their product up there with MS Office in terms of product recognition, a great place to start would be to allow publishers to include it on the cover CD of computer magazines. Aaron -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version? RonaldI don't know the answer to your question, but they will send you a CD with both the linux and windows versions on it for $9.95 + shipping handling. Just go to the sun website and order it. Alan R_Yeo wrote: Jeanette Russo wrote: I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the arcane registration process. Now if they would fix the Java and the printing it would be great. And some fonts would help. Jeanette I have asked this question before, and will try again. Does anyone know specifically what are the "upgrades' from the original SO5.1 to Sun's 5.1a? It takes a hell of a long time to d/l the package over a 64K satellite link shared by a few people, so I'd prefer to know first before I jump. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA IDE/ATA HDD - what a mouthful
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, R_Yeo wrote: Hi, I have the above and when I insert the card, it is detected as hdlx, with the x as partitions on the HDD. I looked in my /dev dir and it only goes to hdhx. Someone told be to use insmod, but I lost the plot when I was asked to input major and minor numbers for the block device. What numbers do I chose? It's a waste of 2Gb of HD if I can't get it going in Linux. It works fine in M$. Any help appreciated, but please go slow. Running KDE1.1.1, MDK 6.0. someone ment to say mknod, not insmod.
