RE: [newbie] Permissions on a directory
I'm having a hell of a time getting my win and lin machines networked, I know the networking is set up and working, I'm using an isdn router for internet access and I can get out with both machines, but then don't see each other, I can ping both from the other, but that's about it Ernie -Original Message- From: Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Permissions on a directory I have a 6GB HD that is formatted to vfat that I would like to use as both my Wind'ohs and Linux 'scrap' drive to store my documents, downloads etc. I can store stuff here from W but as soon as I try to save anything under Linux anywhere on the drive it tells me I don't have access. I have tried the usual ways to change the permissions but cannot get anything to work. Suggestions? Wayne Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University
[newbie] desktop resolution
how do i make my desktop size from640x480 to 1024x768?
Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)
Ranish Partition Manager is able to resize partitions probably also PartitionMagic and various other utilities I have forgotten but which you might find on the freeware/shareware sites often as part of a multiboot program, I remember looking at several 2/3 years ago when interested in multibooting win95/Cpm/linux. "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Okay: I understand about the types of partitions that I have to have.. but right now.. I have a Windows partition that is like 26068 MB (or something close to that) and then I have a 15MB empty partition.. that's all.. and it doesn't allow me to resize my Windows partition without deleting it. I just got this computer from Gateway like a week ago and it's a powerhouse system with full Linux compatibile components.. -Kyle "Orange" SpahnFreespace 2 CoordinatorLead ReviewerDescent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com NewsGameLordz Network - http://www.gamelordz.net NewsSummoner Homeland - http://www.summonerhl.com - Original Message - From: Alex Kirkovsky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Your boot partition MUST be before 1024 cylinder.. Reorganize your partition something like that: 1. WinXX (if you have one) 2. Linux boot partition (starting from cylinder 1024) Size: ~30MB 3. WinXX (if you want to have more space for Windoze)Size: up to you 4. Linux swap partition, Size: up to you 5. Linux root partition, Size: up to you So, the ONLY important point here is No.2 Regards,Alex Kirkovsky - Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 8:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Hey Everyone, I keep trying to partition my hard drive so I can use Linux, but when I do so, it says that the last cylinder of my drive is full. So it thinks my entire drive is filled up, which it isn't. I have a 27.3 GB Hard Drive which I've maybe used 5 GB of. It's definitely not full! I need help!!! PLEASE! -Kyle "Orange" SpahnFreespace 2 CoordinatorLead ReviewerDescent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com NewsGameLordz Network - http://www.gamelordz.net NewsSummoner Homeland - http://www.summonerhl.com
Re: [newbie] How to intall coffeecup web editor?
What version of Mandrake? Jeanette - Original Message - From: "Adam Stark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 5:10 PM Subject: [newbie] How to intall coffeecup web editor? Hi, I've been having some real problems trying to install the Coffeecup HTML Editor for Linux. I followed all the the quick-start instructionsextracting the tar.gz file into a temporary directory and then running it's installer while logged in as root. However the installer always quits on me without ever installing the software. What gives? Any help is appreciated, Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Adam.
Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)
Partition Magic will pay for itself in "hours saved" very soon after you buy it, beautifull program. One very very very big problem you could have is if you have previously tried to partition/re-partition with "DiskDrake" or "linux fdisk". Those two programs when they re-write your partition table do it in the order the partitions were created, windows requires them in there "logical" order. Partition Magic is windows based. I love the program but lost my most important stuff because of this little problem. Outside of that it is great and will solve your problem. If you do get it and get an error #120, the only way to rebuild it in a way Partition Magic can understand is to wax it and start from scratch. -- Original Message -- From: "Tony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:44:49 -0400 Ranish Partition Manager is able to resize partitions probably also PartitionMagic and various other utilities I have forgotten but which you might find on the freeware/shareware sites often as part of a multiboot program, I remember looking at several 2/3 years ago when interested in multibooting win95/Cpm/linux. "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Okay: I understand about the types of partitions that I have to have.. but right now.. I have a Windows partition that is like 26068 MB (or something close to that) and then I have a 15MB empty partition.. that's all.. and it doesn't allow me to resize my Windows partition without deleting it. I just got this computer from Gateway like a week ago and it's a powerhouse system with full Linux compatibile components.. -Kyle "Orange" Spahn Freespace 2 Coordinator Lead Reviewer Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com News GameLordz Network - http://www.gamelordz.net News Summoner Homeland - http://www.summonerhl.com - Original Message - From: Alex Kirkovsky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Your boot partition MUST be before 1024 cylinder.. Reorganize your partition something like that: 1. WinXX (if you have one) 2. Linux boot partition (starting from cylinder 1024) Size: ~30MB 3. WinXX (if you want to have more space for Windoze) Size: up to you 4. Linux swap partition, Size: up to you 5. Linux root partition, Size: up to you So, the ONLY important point here is No.2 Regards, Alex Kirkovsky - Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 8:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time) Hey Everyone, I keep trying to partition my hard drive so I can use Linux, but when I do so, it says that the last cylinder of my drive is full. So it thinks my entire drive is filled up, which it isn't. I have a 27.3 GB Hard Drive which I've maybe used 5 GB of. It's definitely not full! I need help!!! PLEASE! -Kyle "Orange" Spahn Freespace 2 Coordinator Lead Reviewer Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com News GameLordz Network - http://www.gamelordz.net News Summoner Homeland - http://www.summonerhl.com
RE: [newbie] Music Composer?
On Sunday, March 12, 2000, Tom Berger wrote: http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=music gives 98 hits. You will have to do some searching ;-)... tom Thanks. I was hoping someone could give me a lead on some software available commercially since, at the moment, I don't have Internet access other than email. Thanks for the info though. I should get my access back soon. -- Rick Friedman Salant Corp. - MIS Dept. 800-472-8013 x4814 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Where is the so called help???????
You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. Just be willing to do a little homework first and try to find the answer somewhere in all the how to's and other documentation. If you can't find anything that related to your problem just post your question in a newsgroup etc... and someone who possibly overcame the problem will help with a reply. Well for this newbie that has not been the case. I am not stupid, just inexperienced with Linux. I have posted questions in several newsgroups, and in this newbie list and all I have gotten is a resounding wall of silence. Maybe my questions aren't interesting enough or maybe not technical enough for you to show the world that you are the smartest Linux guru on the planet. My girlfriend suggests that I post questions in her name and maybe that would stroke enough male ego's out there to get a response. So one last time before I just reformat the drive and just go back to windows, maybe one person who has been there will take a few minutes and write a reply . 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. Please someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I just have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening Art
RE: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
To start without X, just type "linux 3" at the the lilo prompt (without the quotes of course). This will give you the test based/command line login. What mode did you install in?? I could not get Drakconf to work until I installed in expert mode, then it worked fine. Not sure about the NIC, I am using same card and it works fine with pnp enabled?? -Original Message- From: Art Richardson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 10:20 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Where is the so called help??? You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. Just be willing to do a little homework first and try to find the answer somewhere in all the how to's and other documentation. If you can't find anything that related to your problem just post your question in a newsgroup etc... and someone who possibly overcame the problem will help with a reply. Well for this newbie that has not been the case. I am not stupid, just inexperienced with Linux. I have posted questions in several newsgroups, and in this newbie list and all I have gotten is a resounding wall of silence. Maybe my questions aren't interesting enough or maybe not technical enough for you to show the world that you are the smartest Linux guru on the planet. My girlfriend suggests that I post questions in her name and maybe that would stroke enough male ego's out there to get a response. So one last time before I just reformat the drive and just go back to windows, maybe one person who has been there will take a few minutes and write a reply . 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. Please someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I just have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening Art
Re: [[newbie] Where is the so called help???????]
"Art Richardson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIG snip 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. === When you boot, type in "linux 3" w/o the quotes. If you prefer this as a constant, edit /etc/inittab id:5:initdefault Change the 5 to a 3 Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
RE: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
-Original Message- From: Art Richardson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 13 March 2000 15:50 To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Where is the so called help??? 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? I have the same nic in my dual booting system. No probs. The worst that may happen to you is that you may have to manually enter the IRQ and I/O in Winblows and or Linux. The way I set mine up was I looked in Winblows to see what recources it was useing and then disabled plug and play on the nic and entered those values into the nic. There is a dos program to do this that you get from the 3com site on the WWW. Mandrake had no problems to detect the settings (version 6.1) It detected the card and I let it probe for settings. 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. Can't help you with that I'm afraid, I don't have Mandy 7 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. I believe this is the easiest way: On the lilo boot prompt type linux init 3 Please someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I just have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening Art Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
- Original Message - From: "Art Richardson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 8:50 AM Subject: [newbie] Where is the so called help??? You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. Just be willing to do a little homework first and try to find the answer somewhere in all the how to's and other documentation. If you can't find anything that related to your problem just post your question in a newsgroup etc... and someone who possibly overcame the problem will help with a reply. Well for this newbie that has not been the case. I am not stupid, just inexperienced with Linux. I have posted questions in several newsgroups, and in this newbie list and all I have gotten is a resounding wall of silence. Maybe my questions aren't interesting enough or maybe not technical enough for you to show the world that you are the smartest Linux guru on the planet. My girlfriend suggests that I post questions in her name and maybe that would stroke enough male ego's out there to get a response. So one last time before I just reformat the drive and just go back to windows, maybe one person who has been there will take a few minutes and write a reply . Or maybe they didn't know the answer ? .. or due to the heavy volume of this list.. didn't get to read the mail yet. Contrary to popular belief people who use Linux, also have a life, and need time to sort through mailing lists. I for one subscribe to more than one mailing list, have a job, and have friends.. which in turn means on a slow day I read around 700 messages. I use linux, but i'm still human so are the others who are on this list. I'm sure I'm part of the masses on this list, and not a rare exception. Anyway, it's not wise to insult someone and then ask them for their help. but thats just my personal take on things.. now to your problem. 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? I did this once, and Windows ran like a charm, unless you have to reinstall windows, if you do, I think SE will recognize it, or if not.. you should have the drivers for it on a disk. I did this dual boot in the days of Slack 3.2 and Windows 95. I'm hoping 98 will have no problem working with a non-pnp card. 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. One of the problems of Linux WM's is that they usually don't tell you if they can't find a file. They print out to STDERR, and STDERR is never STDOUT, anyway.. open up an xterm, and type drak (and then hit tab), it should give u a list of executables in your path that start with the letters drak. if you see drakx, or drakxconf then proceed to type that. start gnorpm, and try to find it from there. 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. Point and click way to do it, is to use drakxconf (see above :)). But if you can't find it, try running setup, if thats not installed, try XConfigurator, or if all else fails, go to /etc/rc.d, and do the following grep kdm * ; this will search all the files in the directory that have the words kdm in them, open up the file and comment out the section that says starting X, or if you don't want to mess with files manually (if you're new to linux, I wouldn't recommend it). Once the window pops up asking for your Login info, type ctrl -alt -f1 , this will switch you to tty1, which is a normal console, you can switch between them by changing f1 to f2, note f7 will take you back to X. Hope that helps.. PS: here are some useful sites.. (will help everyone on this list). http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP (I know it's metalab now, but old habits die hard). http://lhd.datapower.com (Linux Hardware database, this has saved my life more often than I can recall). http://www.linuxpowered.com (my site.. sorry for the plug) :). http://www.linux-mandrake.com (if this needs a description, go back to pre school) :). PPS: Say hullo to your gf for us.
Re: [newbie] How to intall coffeecup web editor?
what was the error message ? - Original Message - From: "Jeanette Russo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to intall coffeecup web editor? What version of Mandrake? Jeanette - Original Message - From: "Adam Stark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 5:10 PM Subject: [newbie] How to intall coffeecup web editor? Hi, I've been having some real problems trying to install the Coffeecup HTML Editor for Linux. I followed all the the quick-start instructionsextracting the tar.gz file into a temporary directory and then running it's installer while logged in as root. However the installer always quits on me without ever installing the software. What gives? Any help is appreciated, Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Adam.
Re: [newbie] iostream.h C++ development problems
On 13-Mar-2000 -=qUeNCy95=- wrote:
I'm not an expert programmer, but isn't the header file you want
"iostream.h"
and not "streamio.h"? I could be wrong and all, but I've never seen streamio
and I can't find it on my system even though I installed everything even
remotely related to development.
That was a typo on my fault. Im still getting an error about not finding
file iostream.h, what RPM is this file in? Can anyone else with Mandrake
7 compile simple c++ source?
$ locate iostream.h
/usr/include/g++-3/iostream.h
/usr/include/g++-3/stdiostream.h
$ rpm -qf /usr/include/g++-3/iostream.h
libstdc++-devel-2.95.2-3mdk
Maybe it's a $PATH problem?
tom
P.S.: To find a certain file in a set of RPMs:
for i in *.rpm ; do rpm -qpli $i | grep [filename] echo $i ; done
When I installed Madrake 7, I chose my primary use would be developer. It
seemed to have installed all my libraries I need (I thought). I compiled
xmms, kxicq, and BitchX.
All 3 applications were written in C I believe. However, I cannot compile
any C++ programs. Not even the simplest:
#include streamio.h
int main() { cout "hello world"; return 1; }
[quency95@xena quency95]$ gcc test.c
test.c:1: streamio.h: No such file or directory
Ok so I dont have c++ libraries installed?
[quency95@xena quency95]$ rpm -q gcc-c++
gcc-c++-2.95.2-3mdk
[quency95@xena quency95]$ rpm -q libstdc++-devel
libstdc++-devel-2.95.2-3mdk
[quency95@xena quency95]$ rpm -q libstdc++
libstdc++-2.95.2-3mdk
Should I be checking for anything else?
--
Anthony Huereca
http://m3000.1wh.com
Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
--
"No fun, no gain"
Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] XFree86 4.0
On 13-Mar-2000 sujee wrote: Is there any RPM that i can download to upgrade to XFree86 4.0 thanx in advance!! Sujeevan DON'T. There have been a lot of reports on instability and incompabilities. If you really must, check out www.rpmfind.net. tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Compiling the Kernel
On 13-Mar-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, I'm having trouble compiling the kernel and I'm wondering if anybody can give me some input. Ok, here what I've done let me start by saying I'm running mandrake 6.1, and I'm trying to install linux kernel 2.2.14. I've managed to compile the kernel correctly (make mrproper;make menuconfig make bzImage;make dep;make modules;make modules_installs), then I managed to copy bzImage to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.14 and linked vmlinuz ( soft link ), then I updated lilo by adding a "test" addition to lilo with my new kernel. I did all that but when I rebooted I get messages like System.map has incorrect kernel version, and Modules-info.map incorrect kernel version. So I think I have to update System.map and Modueles-info.map, but I have no idea how to do that the HOWTO's don't have anything about that in their, any ideas's. You've forgotten to copy the new System.map from the Linux source directory to /boot. This map gets generated with each new kernel compilation and therefore you need it in /boot. tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Make question ?
On 13-Mar-2000 -=qUeNCy95=- wrote: How do I find out whether I have make installed ? rpm -q make And if I don't have make, where can I get it and install it... Put your Mandrake CD in cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS as root type: rpm -Uvh make-some_version_number.rpm or - if you are using LM 7-: urpmi make tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] starting kppp automatically
On 13-Mar-2000 Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: Tom Berger wrote: On 12-Mar-2000 Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: I got perlseti running this weekend on my ML 7.02 box. I use KPPP to dial into the internet. Can anyone give me some info on how I can automatically connect to the internet so I can keep seti running all of the time. Thanks, Later Gary Create a new application icon in the Autostart folder. Supply this commandline: kppp -c [accountname] That should do. tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me get this right. 1. Create a new icon under Autostart, 'I called it seti autostart kppp' 2. Under the Execute tab of properties for my new icon I should put 'kppp -c [accountname]' I'm quite the newbie! What does accountname stand for? What should I put for accountname? The name for the account you have given in kppp's Setup. Also, will this start kppp and dial into the internet when I complete a seti packet? No. This will dial up as soon as you start KDE. What you want would involve some heavy scripting. So if this isn't implemented in the program itself, you are out of luck, I'm afraid. Have a look at the docs of the program if they mention something like this. tom Thanks, Gary -- \\\|/// \ ~ ~ / (\ @ @ /) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo- Name:Gary K Stinnett Jr Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://web.infoave.net/~gksjr ooO ( )--Ooo-- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Can someone PLEASE do a ls -l /usr/bin/esd for me
On 13-Mar-2000 Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote: -rwxrw root audio is what I have And mpg123 works??? Id like to keep it like that, but I have to chmod o+rx it, otherwise mpg123 gives me permission denied errors :\ leave it as -rwxr-x--- 1 root 81 31628 Dec 9 11:42 /usr/bin/esd then execute "esd " as root then try using mpg1234 as a user.. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) Agreed. Put it into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. This way it will be executed on boot with the right permissions. By the way: you *are* member of the audio group, aren't you? Check this in /etc/group. tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Crystal Chipset NetGear irq(?) conflict
On 13-Mar-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally figured out the root of my sound problem. Apparently my Netgear PCI (jumperless) NIC and my Crystal Sound onboard sound card use the same irq/DMA/IO. I reformated last night, used sndconfig to set my sound at diff irq/dma/io's. Then turned on the nic. Had sound and internet. Rebooted today to do some windows stuff. Came back to linux and no sound. Well, almost none - I get a slight click when a sound should play. Any ideas? Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713 Looks like Windos messes around with the settings. Have you tried to tell Windos to use the same settings as in Linux? tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Windows 2000 Source Code
Good one! Thanks!
tom
On 13-Mar-2000 Mike Perry wrote:
I know this is off topic, but couldn't resist it :-)
For SW engineers eyes only.
Windows 2000 Source Code
So the secret is disclosed here ...
/* Source Code to Windows 2000 */
#include "win31.h"
#include "win95.h"
#include "win98.h"
#include "workst~1.h"
#include "evenmore.h"
#include "oldstuff.h"
#include "billrulz.h"
#include "monopoly.h"
#define INSTALL = HARD
char make_prog_look_big[160];
void main()
{
while(!CRASHED)
{
display_copyright_message();
display_bill_rules_message();
do_nothing_loop();
if (first_time_installation)
{
make_50_megabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
totally_screw_up_HPFS_file_system();
search_and_destroy_the_rest_of_OS/2();
make_futile_attempt_to_damage_Linux();
disable_Netscape();
disable_RealPlayer();
disable_Lotus_Products();
hang_system();
}
write_something(anything);
display_copyright_message();
do_nothing_loop();
do_some_stuff();
if (still_not_crashed)
{
display_copyright_message();
do_nothing_loop();
basically_run_windows_3.1();
do_nothing_loop();
do_nothing_loop();
}
}
if (detect_cache())
disable_cache();
if (fast_cpu())
{
set_wait_states(lots);
set_mouse(speed, very_slow);
set_mouse(action, jumpy);
set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
}
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 3.1"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 3.11"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 95"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows NT 3.0"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 98"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows NT 4.0"); */
printf("Welcome to Windows 2000");
if (system_ok())
crash(to_dos_prompt)
else
system_memory = open("a:\swp0001.swp", O_CREATE);
while(something)
{
sleep(5);
get_user_input();
sleep(5);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(5);
}
create_general_protection_fault();
}
Michael Perry.
RD. Dep. Netafim Magal.
Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
--
"No fun, no gain"
Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Can't stop X
On 12-Mar-2000 Art Richardson wrote: Hi I installed Mandrake 7.0 in a dual boot machine. It installed beautifully, almost everything works except for my 3Com 3c509 isa PnP nic. However, what I am trying to figure out is how I exit from KDE and just run from the bash shell. Please tell me how to turn it off Many thanks Art ALT-CTRL-F2, ALT-CTRL-F3 etc. Actually X just runs on one console but you have 6 of them. To boot into console mode, type linux init 3 at the boot prompt. tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Keyboard stops working in Netscape
On 13-Mar-2000 Michelle Schneider wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.0. When I use netscape for a while my keyboard stops working in netscape. It still works for other programs, but not for netscape. I have to close netscape and restart for it to work. It makes it impossible to search for things or fill out forms. Any suggestions? -- Michelle "Just because kittens are born in the hearth oven, that doesn't make them muffins." Kahlan Amnell in _Temple of the Winds_ by Terry Goodkind. Do you get this error at a certain point (e.g. choosing from drop-down menus)? That's when I get it. What I usually do is to 'shade' Netscape (double click on upper application bar) and then double click again to unshade the Netscape window. Guess that's JAANB (just another annoying Netscape bug). tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Hmmm
On 13-Mar-2000 Wayne wrote: Sorry guys. Further to my last, I have cheked the ownership of my device (hdd1) under my /dev directory and have found that it is owned by me (wapether) and not by root, yet root owns all of the directories on it and I cannot change the attributes as root or myself. HELP! Wayne Are you talking about directories on a Windos partition? You can't change their permissions since Windos has no idea what permissions are. Try the umask entry suggested by a previous poster. Regards tom Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Fwd: RE: [newbie] imwheel: not working
On 13-Mar-2000 Nicholas Imfeld wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: RE: [newbie] imwheel: not working Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:34:39 -0500 From: Nicholas Imfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote: On 12-Mar-2000 Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I was reading the installation guide for imwheel; I did everything what I've been told, but my wheel is still not working. Here is my pointer section of /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol "PS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" Resolution 100 Buttons 3 ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection EndSection I was starting "imwheel -k" after I was restarting the X server. I have a Fujitsu 3 button wheel mouse. Does anyone know how to get the wheel working? Thanks a lot for your help! Regards, Claus. Mine works :-P *grin*. You forgot to adjust the Protocol: Section "Pointer" Protocol"IMPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" ZAxismapping 4 5 You might also have to copy /etc/X11/imwheelrc to your home directory and rename it to '.imwheelrc'. tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried many different things myself in attempts to get the mouse wheel working. But whenever I change the protocol from PS/2 to IMPS/2 then I shut down and restart X my mouse flips out and the cursor flys to the upper right hand corner of the screen. Any thoughts on how to get it to work. -- Nic [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- Nic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brand of mouse? Brand of graphics card? tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] lothar dependency
I am trying to install Lothar RPM using Mandrake 7.02 and KDE, but it has a required dependency with libdetect.so.0 (which is apparently not on my system). I cannot find this on this distribution CD??? Can anyone offer any help? Thanks MDP
Re: [newbie] how do i make WindowMaker open a new window, maximi
On 13-Mar-2000 Ryan Drafall wrote: Tom Berger wrote: On 11-Mar-2000 Ryan Drafall wrote: Hello, The subject pretty much says it all. Whenever I open a new window, whatever the program may be, it always opens in a window that is off-center on the screen. How do I make it automatically maximize? Thanks for your help. -- Ryan Drafall gAIM S/N: Twygg1 Linux 2.2.14-15mdk This depends on the app you are starting, if you are starting the program anew or open another window (e.g. a new Netscape window). Tell me which apps you mean and I will try to give you an example, if it's possible (it is in many cases, but requires some fiddling about). tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for responding to my question. First of all, whenever I start Netscape (in a new process), it NEVER opens in a maximized window. Also, when I'm in Netscape and let's say I right-click on a link and choose OPEN IN NEW WINDOW, the new window that gets created also NEVER opens maximized. It gets really annoying after a while. I also notice that all the other programs in WindowMaker do the same thing...that is, opening in an UNmaximized window. Thanks for your help. Ryan. You can set this (I think!) via entries in the .Xdefaults file in your home directory. This requires quite some man-page reading and fiddling about. It's a bit different with Netscape, though. An entry in .Xdefaults like this: Netscape.Navigator.geometry: =1024x768-0-0 will open every Navigator window at 1024x768. If that is your current screen resolution, this will be fullscreen. If you use another screen resolution, change this. If you've made the changes, save the file and run xrdb -merge ./Xdefaults This loads the XResources data anew. Restart Netscape to see if it works. More Netscape Xressources are at http://www.linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/X11/Netscape/000112.html Conventional X programs like xterm usually take command line parameters like '-geometry'. Read the man pages. Happy playing ;-) tom P.S.: More Netscape hacks are at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cbrowse2.html -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] XCDROAST
I am puzzled about how to get xcdroast to instll or run. I have Mandrake 7.0 and made the mistake of trying to install xcdroast from from rpmfind yesterday but was frustrated at every turn by finding a bunch of dependencies which needed to be installed first. I started down that road but it just got worse. Today I found that there is an rpm for xcdroast on the install cd. Are all the rpm's in the mandrake/rpms directory already installed? When I try to install the xcdroast rpm I get an error msg saying libtix4.1.8.so needs to be installed. This is the same sort of thing I was getting yesterday. My question. Is xcdroast installed by default? If so how do I launch it? My scsi cd is found when I do cdrecord -scanbus Thanks. Mitch Browne, Agilent IT Support, Santa Clara CA
Re: [newbie] Winmodem
Virtually impossible, I understand from previous messages that they use el cheapo method of utilising Windows OS to function , try faq's etc. "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: "Eddy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 11:21 PM Subject: [newbie] Winmodem Hi All, Does anybody have experience use winmodem in mandrake 7? Thanks Eddy
Re: [newbie] Winmodem
btw, if you have a "winmodem" from lucent, you can get it to work in Linux, Lucent has the drivers on their website. I know 3 people who've gotten them working. - Original Message - From: "Tony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 7:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Winmodem Virtually impossible, I understand from previous messages that they use el cheapo method of utilising Windows OS to function , try faq's etc. "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: "Eddy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 11:21 PM Subject: [newbie] Winmodem Hi All, Does anybody have experience use winmodem in mandrake 7? Thanks Eddy
[newbie] S3 trio3d/2x problem
Hello, I installed mandrake 7. My video card is S3 trio3d/2x. I'm quite sure I've seen it in the supported hardware list, but linux doesn't recognize it. I can run all X managers but instead of a mouse pointer i have a white square and everything works slow. any suggestions? I don't have a clue. Thanks in advance. ---Regards,Ori Glick
[newbie] segmentation fault with DrakConfig or Xconfigurator
Hello, I installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 and then did an upgrade to Mandrake 7.02. Unfortunately, every time I click on Drak Config or Xconfigurator I get a segmentation dump. Would anybody happen to know why? Jero
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
BOY, I agree...with you BIGTIME...noone wants to help...they just want to tell you to go somewhere and read...well, thats what I've been doing...and doing and doing...but it still does no good...most all tutorials are very poorly written. they use too much technical jargon...they don't remember that HELP means you must help them on the persons level of understanding...if they had technical knowlegdge, they wouldn't be asking questions...they would of fix their own problem...man, what a bunch of dum people...for knowing so much as they do... Art Richardson wrote: You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. Just be willing to do a little homework first and try to find the answer somewhere in all the how to's and other documentation. If you can't find anything that related to your problem just post your question in a newsgroup etc... and someone who possibly overcame the problem will help with a reply. Well for this newbie that has not been the case. I am not stupid, just inexperienced with Linux. I have posted questions in several newsgroups, and in this newbie list and all I have gotten is a resounding wall of silence. Maybe my questions aren't interesting enough or maybe not technical enough for you to show the world that you are the smartest Linux guru on the planet. My girlfriend suggests that I post questions in her name and maybe that would stroke enough male ego's out there to get a response. So one last time before I just reformat the drive and just go back to windows, maybe one person who has been there will take a few minutes and write a reply . 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. Please someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I just have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening Art -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg http://kompukit.dyndns.org (personal webserver,does NOT run 24/7)
[newbie] Broken X
Here's a note I sent to Linuxcare about my Mandrake 6.1 install problems. Perhaps one of the list members has a suggestion, too. Thanks!! System: Pentium II, 400 MHz, 256 MB on Intel 440 BX motherboard, two scsi 9 GB drives Dual-boot Win98 and three other ext2 partitions, using Boot Magic Video chip = Cirrus Logic 5480 PCI on motherboard, 2 MB RAM scsi controller = ncr53C875 on motherboard Currently running Caldera 2.3/KDE 1.1.2 on second drive. Problem: Purchased "Deluxe Linux O/S 6.5" (from Fry's Elec.). Installation goes fine, linux runs well in run level 3. X appears broken. For example, the Mandrake login graphic window, each component of which is assembled from different graphic layers, has portions cut up and shifted. Color block background for one window may be offset to the side, frame for a text window may be shifted down, text for two buttons may be overlapped, text for one window may be covered by the shifted color background from another button. Of course, since kde is built on X, it is an even bigger mess. For example, drag a window and it leaves a trail of pieces of itself behind. This is not an XF86Setup problem. Monitor is working fine (16 bpp, 1024x768), I know my sync rates!! As a sanity check, I installed Red Hat 5.2 from an old VA Research disk circa very early 1999 which has virtually the same install package and it installs with no problem. Then upgraded it with the "6.5" disk and X is now a mess again. Incidentally, I had the exact same problem with a virtually identical Mandrake disk from a book "GNU C++ For Linux". Thanks in advance for your help. --- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing"
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
Art Richardson wrote: You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. I'm a newbie, too, and I don't have any answers for your specific questions. But I do have a suggestion for getting more and better responses: more and better Subjects. This is a high-volume list, and I have to scan for Subjects of interest, either those that have a problem I can solve or have a solution I can use. I don't have time to read all the "Help!", "Mandrake 7", and blank Subjects to see if there's anything there for me. In your message you raised three separate questions. They would be better posted as three messages with specific Subjects. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
RE: [newbie] Booting Another Mandrake
On 13-Mar-2000 Lane Lester wrote: As I described in another thread, I lost access to Mandrake by some of my fiddling. As a "safety net" I've installed a second Mandrake on my computer, and I'd like to have access to it from lilo. The second install has /boot in a separate partition at hda6 and the rest of the filesystem at hda7. I added the following to fstab: /dev/hda6 /mnt/mandrake2boot ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/mandrake2 ext2 defaults 0 0 I also added the following stanza to lilo.conf: image = /mnt/mandrake2boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk label = m2 vga = normal append = "mem=124M" root = /dev/hdb7 read-only But I get a kernel panic when I try to boot to this new Mandrake. Do you see a problem with the above? One? ;-) 1) You try to boot a kernel via a partition you don't mount (/dev/hda6) 2) You point to an image relating to *the currently running* system. Even if you manage to mount /dev/hda6 as root, you'll get a kernel panic. Why? Because LiLo looks for an image on /mnt/mandrake2boot... etc and there will be none, since for the system you now try to start, the image is in /mandrake2boot... for this is the root system you've specified. (Linux is fun, isn't it? ;-) 3) The values are wrong (not 0 0 but 1 1 for boot and 1 2 for data) 4) Sorry, but your lilo.conf entry doesn't make any sense at all to me: 'root' must point to the partition where the kernel is located. This is /dev/hda6 not /dev/hdb7 5) I further assume you forgot to rerun lilo after making changes to lilo.conf, because LiLo would have refused this configuration. So how to do it? I haven't tried it myself but maybe you find something following these jots (I advise you to have a working boot diskette at hand...): - every system needs a working LiLo of its own. - Since there can only be one version of LiLo in the Master Boot Record, you have to write the second to a diskette or the master sector of the root device. You can't boot the second system, but that's no prob, use chroot /mnt This does a 'change root', so that /mnt is now /. Run 'mkbootdisk' (you'll need a floppy). This diskette will allow you to boot the second system. Type 'exit' to get out of chroot mode. - If you install the second lilo-boot sector into the master sector of the root partition, you can start the second system via the first LiLo. Don't use the 'image' flag but the 'other' flag and point it to the partition where the second LiLo is installed to. Let me know if you get it worked out!! Happy playing ;-) tom (assuming you already have a lilo.conf for the second system -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
1) install (upgrade) linux with pnp off then turn back on and see if ok at the same time you can reset startup!!! if you so desire. 2) what version mandrake are you using 3) trust your girlfriends instincts, she's had more experience than you. "Weave a circle round him thrice. And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: "Art Richardson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:50 AM Subject: [newbie] Where is the so called help??? You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. Just be willing to do a little homework first and try to find the answer somewhere in all the how to's and other documentation. If you can't find anything that related to your problem just post your question in a newsgroup etc... and someone who possibly overcame the problem will help with a reply. Well for this newbie that has not been the case. I am not stupid, just inexperienced with Linux. I have posted questions in several newsgroups, and in this newbie list and all I have gotten is a resounding wall of silence. Maybe my questions aren't interesting enough or maybe not technical enough for you to show the world that you are the smartest Linux guru on the planet. My girlfriend suggests that I post questions in her name and maybe that would stroke enough male ego's out there to get a response. So one last time before I just reformat the drive and just go back to windows, maybe one person who has been there will take a few minutes and write a reply . 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. Please someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I just have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening Art
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
Now did you really think that linux was going to be easy to learn like windows. NO, you have to understand about what you read about linux as it can do much more than windows. You also have to think how you ask your question and spell it out in your message so others can see your trouble and also how you put for the subject... You also have to have patients too, thats the biggest thing as when you succeed, then you feel good at what you accomplished.. I know I do.. I'm still learning and have been running linux for a little over a year.. Harold - Lane Lester wrote: Art Richardson wrote: You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. I'm a newbie, too, and I don't have any answers for your specific questions. But I do have a suggestion for getting more and better responses: more and better Subjects. This is a high-volume list, and I have to scan for Subjects of interest, either those that have a problem I can solve or have a solution I can use. I don't have time to read all the "Help!", "Mandrake 7", and blank Subjects to see if there's anything there for me. In your message you raised three separate questions. They would be better posted as three messages with specific Subjects. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Kit wrote: BOY, I agree...with you BIGTIME...noone wants to help...they just want to tell you to go somewhere and read...well, thats what I've been doing...and doing and doing...but it still does no good...most all tutorials are very poorly written. they use too much technical jargon...they don't remember that HELP means you must help them on the persons level of understanding...if they had technical knowlegdge, they wouldn't be asking questions...they would of fix their own problem...man, what a bunch of dum people...for knowing so much as they do... May I interject my two cents? I am a relative newbie but making progress and learning. Perhaps you got the wrong impression when you started this, but Linux is not a Mac and Linux is not Windows. Most of the people writing these various technical notes are doing it for free and certainly anyone providing help on the list is doing so for free. I have a stack of How-To's and manuals that reach to the ceiling and, although these documents are not textbooks, they're certainly helpful, and I have learned a lot by reading them. It has not been easy, but the challenge has kept my brain from rotting. It has cost me only my time, paper and ink cartridges. In return, I have received an education probably of more value than one for which I would have paid tuition. Maybe one day I will know enough about Linux to write you a nice, easy-to-understand manual. But a) you will have to pay me for it and b) it will be out-of-date by the time it gets into print. With that said, may I suggest for you several good references. They will all cost you money, and you will still have to read them, but in them I have found many answers to questions posted on these lists. "Using Caldera Open Linux" (QUE Pub.) Although specific to Caldera, there's lots of stuff in it for Linux in general. "Practical KDE" (QUE pub.) "Running Linux (3rd edition)" (O'Reilly pub.) and my final suggestion, based on what I see about problems posted on many of the lists is, bag the Red Hat (Mandrake) and load up Caldera 2.3. Perhaps more than two cents. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing"
Re: [newbie] S3 trio3d/2x problem
I think I remember seeing it in the list, you need to install Mandrake using expert mode and make the appropriate choices for Xfree, also try to download 7.0-2iso there were definite problems with 7.0 which others may tell you more about. "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: Ori Glick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 12:18 PM Subject: [newbie] S3 trio3d/2x problem Hello, I installed mandrake 7. My video card is S3 trio3d/2x. I'm quite sure I've seen it in the supported hardware list, but linux doesn't recognize it. I can run all X managers but instead of a mouse pointer i have a white square and everything works slow. any suggestions? I don't have a clue. Thanks in advance. ---Regards,Ori Glick
[newbie] (OT) I wonder ...
... which OS runs Microsoft's servers: http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.microsoft.comExamine=Wait.. Sorry, couldn't determine what the server was for host www.microsoft.com on port 80. Tried some other big sites - nobody hides the OS they're running. Just MS. Makes you think... Nevermind tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Third Mouse button
In a console type setup and select mouse configuation. Then select your mouse from the list and try if it works. If it doesn't try checking emulate 3 buttons. hope this helps. El Mon, 13 Mar 2000, escribiste: I have an MS Intellimouse and would like to use the wheel as a third button. I don't want to use the scroll feature, just the button as a third (for paste functions extc). Any idea? Wayne Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
Re: [newbie] hdc: lost interrupt
Pittman, Merle wrote: During install, when it tries to scan packages for install the CDROM hangs and this is the error I get: "hdc: lost interrupt". I got the same error when I was installing. My CD-ROM is the master on the second IDE bus (hence hdc). I have a crappy CD-ROM, so I'm assuming that LINUX is having problems with it. When I swapped it with another CD-ROM, I was able to install. /| |___| |\ David Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / | | | | \ 300 MEB, CIMAR / | | | | \Univ. of Florida /\___/ \___/\ Gainesville, Fl 32611 | | Ph: 352-392-0814 Fax: 352-392-1071 | DAVEMAN | \ _ __ __ _ / \ / | | | | \ /http://www.me.ufl.edu/~dkn/ \ | \ / | / Center for Intelligent \| | |/ Machines and Robotics "God help us, we're in the hands of engineers" - Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs Learn to pause - or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you. I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.
Re: [newbie] Kppp problem please help!!!!!!!!
One thing i forgot to mention was the fact that i can get online using network configurator-PPP/SLIP/PLIP. I don't mind connection this way it's just that i have to have 4 windows open and i don't know what speed I am connected at. --- Lance Borden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Koceja wrote: Okay here is the problem. I configured kppp without any problems and it dials and connects to my ISP just fine. Right up until right after it tells me what speed I am connected at. At this point it tries to logon to a network when it fails so does ppp. I'm sure whatever is wrong is minor. PLEASE Someone help me out __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com Mike, Have you tried this with the log window open? What does it tell you? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) I wonder ...
it's a known fact, hotmail runs on freebsd + solaris, some parts of hotmail run on NT, I don't care how evil MS is.. they aren't stupid.. they use what they need to use to keep things up. for some things NT is just fine and dandy, and for some NT isn't. the real question is.. does MS use IIS on their NT boxes ? or do they use Apache ? :). - Original Message - From: "Tom Berger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 12:26 PM Subject: [newbie] (OT) I wonder ... ... which OS runs Microsoft's servers: http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.microsoft.comExamine=Wait.. Sorry, couldn't determine what the server was for host www.microsoft.com on port 80. Tried some other big sites - nobody hides the OS they're running. Just MS. Makes you think... Nevermind tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] errors
If you are josting the webserver on your own linux box and just using myip.org to use a DNS, do the following. Remove "namevirtualhost" from your httpd.conf. Also set server name to your IP address. Restart the httpd deamon (httpd) and it should be fine. The ww.myip.com account that you setup takes care of the name resolution you cannot put that in your own server. If you could you would not need to be using a myip.com redirection. hope this helps. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 2:45 PM To: Mandrake Linux Subject: [newbie] errors Here are my configs and error logs... can someone please tell me...whats wrong? trying to setup apache -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.myip.org (does not run 24/7) KompuKit= File: error_logFile: httpd.conf
Re: [newbie] increasing the font size in Netscape?
Thanks Mark. I tried it and it worked. Just wondering if you know how to get Mandrake to detect a SCSI card? I have an Adaptec 152x card and it doesnt find/detect it at all in installation? Is there anyways i can use Lothar or soemthing else besides reinstalling Mandrake to get it to detect it? ANy help would be much appreciated.. BTW, what is your ICQ number? mine is 4005585 Paul Mark Irving wrote: Go into edit/preferences/font to change this. Sometimes you have to exit Netscape and KDE for the changes to take effect. I also had to change my desktop resolution to get a better view. Small fonts, old eyes...not a good combo. ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Funk Soul Brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: [newbie] increasing the font size in Netscape?
RE: [newbie] errors
your full ip, localhost, or 127.0.0.1 , any should work. -Original Message- From: Kit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] errors actually, I inserted my ip address...like this... 122.214.41.* the first three numbers stay the same...so I just inserted a wildcard, for the 4th should I insert the whole ip address...or insert my localhost (127.0.0.1) addy? Kit wrote: Do you have ICQ...it would so much easier nad quicker... my uin# 7110071 I edited them manually then rebooted...still get the same error... actaully commented those lines out... I'm using a dialup connectionwith external 33.6 modem "Pittman, Merle" wrote: Edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file manually would be quickest. Just make the changes I mentioned. Are you using dial up, cable, dsl, etc for access? If you are using cable or dsl, then eventhough these are often dynamic IP addessing (mine is) your IP address very rarely changes. I've had the same one for months. If you are using dialup, it is a little harder. This can change on every connection. I am not sure what you can do here. there are some utils you can download that monitors your IP address and tells you when it changes, you might find that useful. Keep the questions coming, I'll help if I can. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] errors The trouble with that is this...I need to have myip.org updated...with my dynamic ip...each time...how can I do this...? and do I do what you suggested inside linuxconf, or inside drakeconf/networking/servers/webservers...or do I just edit the httpd.conf file manually...if manually, will this automatically correct what I setup in drakeconf...overide it persay...? "Pittman, Merle" wrote: If you are josting the webserver on your own linux box and just using myip.org to use a DNS, do the following. Remove "namevirtualhost" from your httpd.conf. Also set server name to your IP address. Restart the httpd deamon (httpd) and it should be fine. The ww.myip.com account that you setup takes care of the name resolution you cannot put that in your own server. If you could you would not need to be using a myip.com redirection. hope this helps. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 2:45 PM To: Mandrake Linux Subject: [newbie] errors Here are my configs and error logs... can someone please tell me...whats wrong? trying to setup apache -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.myip.org (does not run 24/7) KompuKit= File: error_logFile: httpd.conf -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.myip.org (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] errors
okay, this is what I did...I went into httpd.conf and changed the servername to 216.41.122.89 (current ip), then commented out namevirtualserver then in inetd.conf ...instead of standalone...I inserted "inetd" I then brought up a console...and gave the command " httpd" then inserted my ip address into browser location bar and walah...my site finally came up... does that mean it's fixed...? only thing the images don't show "Pittman, Merle" wrote: your full ip, localhost, or 127.0.0.1 , any should work. -Original Message- From: Kit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] errors actually, I inserted my ip address...like this... 122.214.41.* the first three numbers stay the same...so I just inserted a wildcard, for the 4th should I insert the whole ip address...or insert my localhost (127.0.0.1) addy? Kit wrote: Do you have ICQ...it would so much easier nad quicker... my uin# 7110071 I edited them manually then rebooted...still get the same error... actaully commented those lines out... I'm using a dialup connectionwith external 33.6 modem "Pittman, Merle" wrote: Edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file manually would be quickest. Just make the changes I mentioned. Are you using dial up, cable, dsl, etc for access? If you are using cable or dsl, then eventhough these are often dynamic IP addessing (mine is) your IP address very rarely changes. I've had the same one for months. If you are using dialup, it is a little harder. This can change on every connection. I am not sure what you can do here. there are some utils you can download that monitors your IP address and tells you when it changes, you might find that useful. Keep the questions coming, I'll help if I can. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] errors The trouble with that is this...I need to have myip.org updated...with my dynamic ip...each time...how can I do this...? and do I do what you suggested inside linuxconf, or inside drakeconf/networking/servers/webservers...or do I just edit the httpd.conf file manually...if manually, will this automatically correct what I setup in drakeconf...overide it persay...? "Pittman, Merle" wrote: If you are josting the webserver on your own linux box and just using myip.org to use a DNS, do the following. Remove "namevirtualhost" from your httpd.conf. Also set server name to your IP address. Restart the httpd deamon (httpd) and it should be fine. The ww.myip.com account that you setup takes care of the name resolution you cannot put that in your own server. If you could you would not need to be using a myip.com redirection. hope this helps. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 2:45 PM To: Mandrake Linux Subject: [newbie] errors Here are my configs and error logs... can someone please tell me...whats wrong? trying to setup apache -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.myip.org (does not run 24/7) KompuKit= File: error_logFile: httpd.conf -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.myip.org (does not run 24/7) KompuKit= -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.myip.org (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] Permissions on a directory
Have you tried smbclient? I have found it very helpful in the past. If you can smbclient -L servername_here and see something you at least know it is not a closed port on the router... Ernie wrote: I'm having a hell of a time getting my win and lin machines networked, I know the networking is set up and working, I'm using an isdn router for internet access and I can get out with both machines, but then don't see each other, I can ping both from the other, but that's about it Ernie
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? Get the pci version I don't know about the isa one 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. Draxconf sucks I don't use it 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. Go into the /etc/inittab file and look for soemthing like this: id:5:initdefault: change the 5 into a 3 Sorry thats the best I can do right now. Now hopefully someone who does not like my opinion will get scraped the wrong way and belt out some info if they think its better than what I said. Then we will both know-- hehehe --- The only way to get info from arrogant or stingy people is to act like you know everything, then when they correct you, you get what you wanted from them anyway. On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Art Richardson mewed: lease someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I just have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening Art
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
Kiddo, before you even start THINKING about running linux, you must be well aware that it's a pretty hard OS to master for those with absolutely no technical background. Linux is an operating system that tries to hide nothing for the user, unlike MS Windows. If you have no basic understanding of how a computer works, and I don't mean knowing your way around in WordPerfect or something like that, I mean: how a computer works internally, well, if you don't have a basic understanding about that, then linux is not for you. Also, what's that stupid remark about "too much technical jargon" anyway? This is a hacker's OS, what did you expect? If it's too technical for you, well... Nobody forces you to run it. What pisses me off the most is people who don't even know how to upgrade their graphics card, insist on running linux because they heard some hype about it, and then get all frustrated when it's not as easy as baking an egg. Also, nobody cares to read manuals anymore. Everybody on this list claims to have read all the apropriate manuals/docs, but found nothing, so they ask here. And then they expect us "guru's" to solve their problems. Meanwhile the thing they're asking is usually explained in detail somewhere between the second and seventh paragraph in the man-page of the program that's causing them trouble. But that means they have to type in "man rpm" or something, and that's too hard. I wonder what the heck makes people decide to run linux anyway, if reading some documentation is too hard, or too much to ask? I for one don't even bother answering questions to which the answers are trivial, or easy to look up. I have enough work looking up the solutions to my own problems. Kit: "noone wants to help..." Now let's say you sell your car. Someone comes over and buys it. Then a week later he's at your door again. "How do I shift up or down?" -- "Manual page 15 and where the heck did you get your driver's license?" Then 3 days later he comes back "And how about reverse, does my car have one?" -- "Still manual page 15, and of course it has one, you moron!" Then 4 days later he comes back "How do I turn on the radio?" -- "Explained on page 4 in the radio manual. Never seen an on/off swicth before?" Then a few days later "I heard rumours that you can slide the seat to the front or back so you can reach the pedals better. Is that true? Is it worth the effort? Won't it degrade the lateral tire-pressure? My feet won't get stuck in the engine, will they?" I think you'd grabbed a big gun by the third time the dude comes over, shot the bastard trough the head, hid the body, and sold the car again. This time to someone with an IQ higher than that of a carrot. On Mar 13 Kit wrote: BOY, I agree...with you BIGTIME...noone wants to help...they just want to tell you to go somewhere and read...well, thats what I've been doing...and doing and doing...but it still does no good...most all tutorials are very poorly written. they use too much technical jargon...they don't remember that HELP means you must help them on the persons level of understanding...if they had technical knowlegdge, they wouldn't be asking questions...they would of fix their own problem...man, what a bunch of dum people...for knowing so much as they do... -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: RE: [newbie] Crystal Chipset NetGear irq(?) conflict
Actually, what I did was simpler. I remembered that after a format the system has sound, but as it locks in the install if I try to set up the network I skip that part. So I then boot to linux, and have sound. I then set up the network and no sound.. My solution was simple - take the eth0 out the boot process and put the command 'ifup eth0' in rc.local(?). That works. I have sound and ethernet before I can log in. I'm happy. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
I'd like to take this moment, and point this letter as the poster child for what NOT to do when someone asks a question. Sure in my previous email I had said that I have a life and that I get a lot messages, and sometimes I don't respond to messages on mailing lists. But I followed up with some answers. I'm not saying that I am the Martha Stewart(or moderator) of this mailing list, but since this list is for newbies, and since I joined this list, not because I'm a newbie, but because I was once a newbie, and I want to help the newbies. Obviously if everyone here was a newbie, then not a lot of help would be offered here. (imagine, 3 illiterate people, trying to teach each other how to read and write.. sure they would probably come up with their own alphabet, but it won't be anything to what everyone else uses). I for one don't even bother answering questions to which the answers are trivial, or easy to look up. I have enough work looking up the solutions to my own problems. Rial, if you're IQ really was higher than that of a carrot, you wouldn't have wasted your so called valuable time, which you spend trying to solve your own problems, by writing this letter. What pisses me off the most is people who don't even know how to upgrade their graphics card, insist on running linux because they heard some hype about it, and then get all frustrated when it's not as easy as baking an egg. I have no clue how to bake an egg. What comes easy to you, may not come easy to others, I can install slackware 7.0 in less than 15 minutes on a machine, yet installing debian, or freebsd, or even mandrake would take me 30-40 minutes. Just because someone else can't install slack in 15 minutes, doesn't mean they shouldn't try. Why did you pick up Linux ? I'm sure you heard about it from someone else, who told you how great it was.. guess what.. just because that person wasn't part of a big News agency, doesn't mean you didn't buy into the hype. He hyped it, you bought it and you installed it. Also, nobody cares to read manuals anymore. Everybody on this list claims to have read all the apropriate manuals/docs, but found nothing, so they ask here. And then they expect us "guru's" to solve their problems. Meanwhile the thing they're asking is usually explained in detail somewhere between the second and seventh paragraph in the man-page of the program that's causing them trouble. But that means they have to type in "man rpm" or something, and that's too hard. I wonder what the heck makes people decide to run linux anyway, if reading some documentation is too hard, or too much to ask? Just because you are armed with a ton of books, doesn't mean you know which book is appropriate for your current problem. Say you're a 16year old kid bent on getting a drivers license, and want to be trained by a school. How do you know which school to pick ? no one can force you to pick a school, but you decide to pick one, after doing some research.. this research usually involves talking to other people who in turn will give you their opinions on school's they've been to. The more people you talk to , the more schools you'll hear about. How do you know which one is the right one ? say you do decide to go with one school that a friend recommend, but that school wasn't as great as you thought ? the instructor didn't speak english. ? My point here is that, .1. Just because there's so much documentation about Linux, doesn't mean it's all good. I'll take the phrase from Perl, "theres more than one way to do it", my answers to do things differed from the answers of others, everyone said go into /etc/inittab and change the initrd to 3 instead of 5, Guess what, I learn't something new there. I would always have gone into /etc/rc.d to turn it off. Now Art may find my way of doing it easier than editing the innittab. maybe he's new to Linux, and isn't familiar with vi, now he stands a chance of really screwing up his boot scripts, maybe he found my answer too hard, and liked the innittab answer. In the end he knows more than he did before he asked the question. With your response, the only thing he knows now is that Linux users don't want to help him, and want to be part of some exclusive club. He gets a bad impression of the Linux community, and goes and tells all his friends. Who in turn think that the entire Linux community is made up of immature people like you. Kit: "noone wants to help..." Now let's say you sell your car. Someone comes over and buys it. Then a week later he's at your door again. "How do I shift up or down?" -- "Manual page 15 and where the heck did you get your driver's license?" Then 3 days later he comes back "And how about reverse, does my car (and so on...). Art seems to have asked 3 questions, to which he hadn't recieved an answer earlier. Comparing him to your car customer is unfair and stupid. Just because you answered the same question 200 times to 200 different people, doesn't mean that they
Re: [newbie] (OT) I wonder ...
Vidyut Luther wrote: it's a known fact, hotmail runs on freebsd + solaris, some parts of hotmail run on NT, I don't care how evil MS is.. they aren't stupid.. they use what they need to use to keep things up. for some things NT is just fine and dandy, and for some NT isn't. the real question is.. does MS use IIS on their NT boxes ? or do they use Apache ? :). - Original Message - From: "Tom Berger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 12:26 PM Subject: [newbie] (OT) I wonder ... ... which OS runs Microsoft's servers: http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.microsoft.comExamine=Wait.. Sorry, couldn't determine what the server was for host www.microsoft.com on port 80. Tried some other big sites - nobody hides the OS they're running. Just MS. snip Just went to netfind they said www.microsoft.com is running microsoft -IIS/5.0 on windows 2000. Was I surprised...no, disappointed...yes. But then maybe that's why the site is down so often. -- James Mellema, CRNA MA -- Pedantic people who speak with authority from positions of ignorance are amongst the most difficult to work with. Linux User #71650 ICQ # 19685870
[newbie] 2 questions for you
Hello there] I have two questions 1st How do I uninstall a desktop replacements? because I want to upgrade to the latest version of IceWM but it conflicts with the "light" version already installed. 2nd how do I install the isapnp file needed to install Lothar so I can upgrade to the latest version? Cory
Re: [newbie] (OT) I wonder ...
Well, they've fixed it now: www.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:26:14 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... which OS runs Microsoft's servers: http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.microsoft.comExamine=Wait.. Sorry, couldn't determine what the server was for host www.microsoft.com on port 80. Tried some other big sites - nobody hides the OS they're running. Just MS. Makes you think... Nevermind tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Politas ___ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
GREAT COMEBACK...love it... Vidyut Luther wrote: I'd like to take this moment, and point this letter as the poster child for what NOT to do when someone asks a question. Sure in my previous email I had said that I have a life and that I get a lot messages, and sometimes I don't respond to messages on mailing lists. But I followed up with some answers. I'm not saying that I am the Martha Stewart(or moderator) of this mailing list, but since this list is for newbies, and since I joined this list, not because I'm a newbie, but because I was once a newbie, and I want to help the newbies. Obviously if everyone here was a newbie, then not a lot of help would be offered here. (imagine, 3 illiterate people, trying to teach each other how to read and write.. sure they would probably come up with their own alphabet, but it won't be anything to what everyone else uses). I for one don't even bother answering questions to which the answers are trivial, or easy to look up. I have enough work looking up the solutions to my own problems. Rial, if you're IQ really was higher than that of a carrot, you wouldn't have wasted your so called valuable time, which you spend trying to solve your own problems, by writing this letter. What pisses me off the most is people who don't even know how to upgrade their graphics card, insist on running linux because they heard some hype about it, and then get all frustrated when it's not as easy as baking an egg. I have no clue how to bake an egg. What comes easy to you, may not come easy to others, I can install slackware 7.0 in less than 15 minutes on a machine, yet installing debian, or freebsd, or even mandrake would take me 30-40 minutes. Just because someone else can't install slack in 15 minutes, doesn't mean they shouldn't try. Why did you pick up Linux ? I'm sure you heard about it from someone else, who told you how great it was.. guess what.. just because that person wasn't part of a big News agency, doesn't mean you didn't buy into the hype. He hyped it, you bought it and you installed it. Also, nobody cares to read manuals anymore. Everybody on this list claims to have read all the apropriate manuals/docs, but found nothing, so they ask here. And then they expect us "guru's" to solve their problems. Meanwhile the thing they're asking is usually explained in detail somewhere between the second and seventh paragraph in the man-page of the program that's causing them trouble. But that means they have to type in "man rpm" or something, and that's too hard. I wonder what the heck makes people decide to run linux anyway, if reading some documentation is too hard, or too much to ask? Just because you are armed with a ton of books, doesn't mean you know which book is appropriate for your current problem. Say you're a 16year old kid bent on getting a drivers license, and want to be trained by a school. How do you know which school to pick ? no one can force you to pick a school, but you decide to pick one, after doing some research.. this research usually involves talking to other people who in turn will give you their opinions on school's they've been to. The more people you talk to , the more schools you'll hear about. How do you know which one is the right one ? say you do decide to go with one school that a friend recommend, but that school wasn't as great as you thought ? the instructor didn't speak english. ? My point here is that, .1. Just because there's so much documentation about Linux, doesn't mean it's all good. I'll take the phrase from Perl, "theres more than one way to do it", my answers to do things differed from the answers of others, everyone said go into /etc/inittab and change the initrd to 3 instead of 5, Guess what, I learn't something new there. I would always have gone into /etc/rc.d to turn it off. Now Art may find my way of doing it easier than editing the innittab. maybe he's new to Linux, and isn't familiar with vi, now he stands a chance of really screwing up his boot scripts, maybe he found my answer too hard, and liked the innittab answer. In the end he knows more than he did before he asked the question. With your response, the only thing he knows now is that Linux users don't want to help him, and want to be part of some exclusive club. He gets a bad impression of the Linux community, and goes and tells all his friends. Who in turn think that the entire Linux community is made up of immature people like you. Kit: "noone wants to help..." Now let's say you sell your car. Someone comes over and buys it. Then a week later he's at your door again. "How do I shift up or down?" -- "Manual page 15 and where the heck did you get your driver's license?" Then 3 days later he comes back "And how about reverse, does my car (and so on...). Art seems to have asked 3 questions, to which he hadn't recieved an answer earlier. Comparing him
[newbie] Mouse cursor is an opaque white square block
On Mandrake 7 X11R6 3.3.6 Mouse cursor is just an square block with dimensions seemingly the same as the icon blocks. I tried: xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -bg\#00 -fg\#ff but that did not solve the problem. I do get a full screen mouse cursor with: xfd -fn cursor Please help me in solving this annoying problem. Thanks in advance, Vazrik __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] you need to look at yourself...
YOU are still missing the point...here...just look at what you said below... I did all the reading...and still need a walkthru...you are contradicting yourself... all over the place...yes God helps those who help themselves...well, I did try to help myself...been doing so over a week now..but do you realise...that God USES people to help those, who did try to help themselves...don't you realise this...fact? God sends people to help OTHERS in need...thats how He helps you... " But, the point is, newbie or not, we don't like to help people whom we regard as lazy bums who rather bug us with their questions, than to do a little effort in finding it out themselves. There's a saying that goes: "God helps those who help themselves", and although we're not God, we feel the same. " -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.myip.org (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
[newbie] Need help connecting to Net
How do I get my modem to connect? It works fine in Win98, but I can't get Linux to use my modem. My modem is am ActionTec 56k pci internal modem. It has documents that say that this modem is verified for Redhat 5.2 and 6.0. This should work with Mandrake 6.5 right? On my KDE desktop, I can also access my Win files, but not my modem? Here is what I have done so far... As root I went to my dev directory. then I did the following command. # ./MAKEDEV ttyS2 (my modem is on COM3) then I did... # ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem/ #chmod 666 /dev/ttyS2 #chmod 666 /dev/modem next I did... # setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0xd401 irq 11 Then I went to set up my account in Kppp. When I query modem, there is no responce. I have even went to my /etc/rc.d/ directory and inserted the following line in my rc.local file as the last line in that file. "set serial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0xd401 irq 11" Well, I hope this is enough info for someone to help me with this. Thanks, Rob
[newbie]
Opinions are like a$$holes...everyone has one...this is a Linux list...not a forum for venting how bad a day you had. Please keep on LINUX content. On to Linux content. I think I broke my eth0 trying to setup my home network for sharing my cable modem. Neither NIC passes initialization, I have checked the settings in DrakXConf. and both seem fine (correct MOD, IRQ/Port) but again...only my 3C509B is listed in Lothar, I know I have 2 NIC's...is this a bug that Lothar is not displaying the second NIC? Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote: You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. Just be willing to do a little homework first and try to find the answer somewhere in all the how to's and other documentation. If you can't find anything that related to your problem just post your question in a newsgroup etc... and someone who possibly overcame the problem will help with a reply. Well for this newbie that has not been the case. I am not stupid, just inexperienced with Linux. I have posted questions in several newsgroups, and in this newbie list and all I have gotten is a resounding wall of silence. Maybe my questions aren't interesting enough or maybe not technical enough for you to show the world that you are the smartest Linux guru on the planet. My girlfriend suggests that I post questions in her name and maybe that would stroke enough male ego's out there to get a response. So one last time before I just reformat the drive and just go back to windows, maybe one person who has been there will take a few minutes and write a reply . 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. Please someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I just have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening Art Hiya, I'll do the best that I can..I'm no guru. 1) If you know the settings that Windows uses for your nic, then use the utility that came with your card to disable pnp and set it manually. This will not disable it in Windows, but should bring it to life in Linux. This is what I had to do and all is well. You will have to add the i/o and irq numbers to whatever setup program you will use in Linux. I am more familiar with SuSE, so I guess it's Lothar(?) in Mandrake. 2) As far as Drakeconf goes, if it is not installed, install it logged in as root . Installing the .rpm SHOULD do the trick.. You can poke around kpackage to see if it is indeed installed. Sorry, not a lot of help here. 3) As root, you will have to edit the inittab file ( /etc/inittab). One of the first lines in the file has something that looks like this: id: 5 : etc, etc. Change the 5 to a 3 change nothing else! Save and exit. You will no longer be in graphic mode. You could also leave all alone and type Ctrl-Alt-F1 orF2 or F3, etc. to get to console mode without messing with inittab. Hope this helps. I know the frustration you have been feeling. ;-) Tom
Re: [newbie] Need help connecting to Net
How did you get the info for the port and irq. The port number somehow does not look correct to me. cat /proc/devices and check to get the port number and the irq from there, and then use it for the setserial command. If you already have done it, then my knowledge is exhausted! Once you do the setserial it will work for the duration of the current boot. That is why you should put in the rc.d/... files to make it work on every boot (as you have done so). --- Rob and Shelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get my modem to connect? It works fine in Win98, but I can't get Linux to use my modem. My modem is am ActionTec 56k pci internal modem. It has documents that say that this modem is verified for Redhat 5.2 and 6.0. This should work with Mandrake 6.5 right? On my KDE desktop, I can also access my Win files, but not my modem? Here is what I have done so far... As root I went to my dev directory. then I did the following command. # ./MAKEDEV ttyS2 (my modem is on COM3) then I did... # ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem/ #chmod 666 /dev/ttyS2 #chmod 666 /dev/modem next I did... # setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0xd401 irq 11 Then I went to set up my account in Kppp. When I query modem, there is no responce. I have even went to my /etc/rc.d/ directory and inserted the following line in my rc.local file as the last line in that file. "set serial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0xd401 irq 11" Well, I hope this is enough info for someone to help me with this. Thanks, Rob __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] success....at last...
Can't believe it...finally got my server working...with help from TOM thankyou Tom Now, all I need is a script or someway to update my IP in the " httpd.conf " file... everytime I connect...anyone got any ideas...? check out my server now...: 216.41.122.202 -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.myip.org (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
[newbie] sorry,had to reboot
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[newbie] Booting Another Mandrake
Well, it's working. I can boot either of two separate Mandrake installations with LILO. The following line needed to be added to fstab, so that when "lilo -v" compiles the code in the MBR, it can find the alternate kernel: /dev/hda6 /mnt/mandrake2boot ext2 defaults 0 0 The stanza in lilo.conf that boots the alternate kernel is: image = /mnt/mandrake2boot/vmlinuz label = m2 vga = normal append = "mem=124M" root = /dev/hda7 -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
RE: [newbie] Mouse cursor is an opaque white square block
My name is Michael Bui and I have the same problem. I got a BIG WHITE block when I am in Xwindows. Is this one of the BUGS on version 7.0 of Mandrake Linux. Not in my 7.0.2. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [newbie]
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[newbie] Re: where is the so called help
To everyone on the list First, I would like to thank everyone who replied to my post. You help was very much appreciated and I was able to solve two of my problems so far. Secondly, when I wrote that post I was frustrated about my inability to solve my problems. I like to consider myself somewhat technically proficient and can usually solve the problems that I have come across. However, this was in Windows and I guess that it's so dumbed down anyone can figure it out. Linux is not like that, as you all know. Several years ago I had a 133 running Slackware. I never could get any form of x running but further experimentation was put on hold due to a divorce. I had read several articles complimentary to the Mandrake distribution. I went out and bought the 6.5 version and got everything going except the nic card. I was amazed that it went so well! But as hard as I tried, I could not get the blankety - blank nic card running. I checked 3Com and their documentation was oriented toward the PCI version and not the ISA version which I have. I tried the Don Becker page and really didn't understand it to well except it seemed to imply that I needed to add a driver and recompile the kernel. Not wanting to do that I thought that I would just upgrade to 7.0 and maybe that would cure my nic card problem. I have a cable connection and I downloaded the distribution from a Mandrake FTP mirror. After several tries to install it, I got it to install. Once again the install could not find the nic card. It was listed in the install configuration setup but no joy. This is when I went off the deep end and wrote my now infamous post. I got a lot of great information. To solve the logging out problem and the Draxconf not installed, I just reinstalled the distribution again and this time I used the expert mode. I set x not to start at login and Draxconf installed ok. You all know what is coming next. That's right, no nic card. So after visiting several newsgroups and re-reading the posts to this list I edited the /etc/conf.modules file. I added the line Options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=9 I got the parameters from windows and again no joy. I am at the point where I am going to disable the PnP setting on the card. If this does not work I am going to check the supported cards at the Redhat site and get another card. Again, thanks for not flaming me too much. I'll let everyone know how it went Art
Re: [newbie] Mouse cursor is an opaque white square block
Well, well, well, others are having problems as well as myself. Nice to know I am not the only one!!! No, I am not happy you are having problems, just glad I am not alone. I have installed Linux/Mandrake Complete 7.0 about 9 different times. For one thing to see what happens when you use different methods of installing. Well, to make a long story longer, I tried the Lnx4Win installation and it runs very www. Using the Power Quest BTMagic runs faster but still is not as fast as using 'LILO'. Also when you use the BTMagic if you are to uninstall you have to 'Disable' it before you can remove it by any method, except just the old fashion way of DEL on the folder. That is not a good method though. I used the Power Quest Partition Magic, and I cannot say enough about how well it performs there were no problems while I did all of this reinstalling, and then did my Boot from the CD and installed using 'Custom' and then 'Normal' so I can have a dual boot system. I had UGH Windows boot as default for a few times then changed it to Linux. I have an AMD K6-II 350Meg 3D Sound/w 32meg RAM PCCHIPS PC100 MOBO. Enough on my CHEAPPYY CPU. Back to Linux/Mandrake, I have not had any probs with any of my installs, except if I left any of the PACKAGES out of the install they were installed just the same. The Selection process is of no use, they install what ever they want. I have had some FREEZES and had to use the Old fashion method of regaining control by Pussshhhinngg the RESET button on the front of the TOWER case. The last time I did that the 'nfslock' has FAILED and given me a error of 101 during the Linux install and booting up process. Even when running the linuxconf --status or linuxconf --update all that shows is: "/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S60nfslock restart *The command takes more than 15 seconds to execute. odd" Have also looked at the "Service nfslock" and "Pachage Info" which are no help either. Have not been able to determine how to reset this function so I loose the FAILED and reactivate this function. Any Ideas? Thanks for reading this rambling mess and good luck on your systems as well. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Re: where is the so called help
In my experiences with the install of Mandrake Complete 7.0 the PNP should be set to disable in the CMOS prior to doing the install. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:52:37 -0500 "Art Richardson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To everyone on the list First, I would like to thank everyone who replied to my post. You help was very much appreciated and I was able to solve two of my problems so far. Secondly, when I wrote that post I was frustrated about my inability to solve my problems. I like to consider myself somewhat technically proficient and can usually solve the problems that I have come across. However, this was in Windows and I guess that it's so dumbed down anyone can figure it out. Linux is not like that, as you all know. Several years ago I had a 133 running Slackware. I never could get any form of x running but further experimentation was put on hold due to a divorce. I had read several articles complimentary to the Mandrake distribution. I went out and bought the 6.5 version and got everything going except the nic card. I was amazed that it went so well! But as hard as I tried, I could not get the blankety - blank nic card running. I checked 3Com and their documentation was oriented toward the PCI version and not the ISA version which I have. I tried the Don Becker page and really didn't understand it to well except it seemed to imply that I needed to add a driver and recompile the kernel. Not wanting to do that I thought that I would just upgrade to 7.0 and maybe that would cure my nic card problem. I have a cable connection and I downloaded the distribution from a Mandrake FTP mirror. After several tries to install it, I got it to install. Once again the install could not find the nic card. It was listed in the install configuration setup but no joy. This is when I went off the deep end and wrote my now infamous post. I got a lot of great information. To solve the logging out problem and the Draxconf not installed, I just reinstalled the distribution again and this time I used the expert mode. I set x not to start at login and Draxconf installed ok. You all know what is coming next. That's right, no nic card. So after visiting several newsgroups and re-reading the posts to this list I edited the /etc/conf.modules file. I added the line Options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=9 I got the parameters from windows and again no joy. I am at the point where I am going to disable the PnP setting on the card. If this does not work I am going to check the supported cards at the Redhat site and get another card. Again, thanks for not flaming me too much. I'll let everyone know how it went Art YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Kppp problem please help!!!!!!!!
I had a simular problem. For me the answer was to have the ISP give me another dial up number connected to a different back bone. The problem you are expereancing is a very slow connection and you are timing out. You need to work with your ISP to get a faster dial up response time from them. Ralph On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote: Here is my log MODEM READY MODEM INITIALIZING ATZ OK ATMOLO OK ATDT4792004 DIALING 479-2004 CONNECT 48000 V42bis LOGGING ONTO NETWORK I THEN GET THE FOLLOWING ERROR MESSAGE Timeout expired while waiting for the PPP interface to come up! --- Mike Koceja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing i forgot to mention was the fact that i can get online using network configurator-PPP/SLIP/PLIP. I don't mind connection this way it's just that i have to have 4 windows open and i don't know what speed I am connected at. --- Lance Borden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Koceja wrote: Okay here is the problem. I configured kppp without any problems and it dials and connects to my ISP just fine. Right up until right after it tells me what speed I am connected at. At this point it tries to logon to a network when it fails so does ppp. I'm sure whatever is wrong is minor. PLEASE Someone help me out __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com Mike, Have you tried this with the log window open? What does it tell you? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Music Composer?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, RICHARD FRIEDMAN wrote: Thanks. I was hoping someone could give me a lead on some software available commercially since, at the moment, I don't have Internet access other than email. http://linux.com/columns.phtml?sid=94aid=7619 That mentions some different packages. I think youre gonna be out of luck as far as commercial pakcages. I believe Logic and Nuendo are going to hit BeOS but no word for linux. . .
Re: [newbie] startup scripts
I noticed that the /etc/login.defs file in Slackware has this line: MOTD_FILE/etc/motd Can't seem to find this in Mandrake though... the /etc/login.defs is a lot shorter. -Ed On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, KompuKit wrote: I'd like to know this also... I need a mail notify program... Ed Negari wrote: Which login script displays the /etc/motd and says "You have mail"? I checked the /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (and the rest of the /etc directory) but can't seem to find it. -Ed -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.penguinpowered.com (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] startup scripts
EdI use K(menu)-Internet-Biff in KDE. Alan KompuKit wrote: I'd like to know this also... I need a mail notify program... Ed Negari wrote: Which login script displays the /etc/motd and says "You have mail"? I checked the /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (and the rest of the /etc directory) but can't seem to find it. -Ed -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.penguinpowered.com (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
[newbie] startup scripts
Which login script displays the /etc/motd and says "You have mail"? I checked the /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (and the rest of the /etc directory) but can't seem to find it. -Ed
Re: [newbie] starting kppp automatically
Tom Berger wrote: On 13-Mar-2000 Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: Tom Berger wrote: On 12-Mar-2000 Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: I got perlseti running this weekend on my ML 7.02 box. I use KPPP to dial into the internet. Can anyone give me some info on how I can automatically connect to the internet so I can keep seti running all of the time. Thanks, Later Gary Create a new application icon in the Autostart folder. Supply this commandline: kppp -c [accountname] That should do. tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me get this right. 1. Create a new icon under Autostart, 'I called it seti autostart kppp' 2. Under the Execute tab of properties for my new icon I should put 'kppp -c [accountname]' I'm quite the newbie! What does accountname stand for? What should I put for accountname? The name for the account you have given in kppp's Setup. Also, will this start kppp and dial into the internet when I complete a seti packet? No. This will dial up as soon as you start KDE. What you want would involve some heavy scripting. So if this isn't implemented in the program itself, you are out of luck, I'm afraid. Have a look at the docs of the program if they mention something like this. tom Thanks, Gary -- \\\|/// \ ~ ~ / (\ @ @ /) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo- Name:Gary K Stinnett Jr Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://web.infoave.net/~gksjr ooO ( )--Ooo-- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why the need to use kppp? I use pppd with the demand option and it dials and connects for Linux and for the kid's windows machine on the LAN. Gene
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Re: [newbie] Re: where is the so called help
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[newbie] Q re: HDD
I have a question regarding my hard disks. After some trouble trying to cfdisk my HD this morning, Linux wouldn't work and I had to reinstall it. It has picked up the hard disk I partitioned to give me 3 gig of space to use for personal files etc and has mounted it is /home. Does this mean when ever I do a cd /home this is where it takes me? If not, how do I access this disk to store files on and install programs on it etc? If this is the case, is my entire home directory on this 3 gig disk and is it mine to do with as I please? Wayne
Re: [newbie] startup scripts
I guess I should've said this earlier - the reason why I'm asking is so that I can change the order in which things show up. First, I want the motd, then the output of "fortune", and LAST, the "You have mail". No one uses KDE on this machine - everyone logs in remotely. I know the whole thing is extremely trivial - I guess it's just more important that I know where everything is and how it runs. -Ed On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: EdI use K(menu)-Internet-Biff in KDE. Alan KompuKit wrote: I'd like to know this also... I need a mail notify program... Ed Negari wrote: Which login script displays the /etc/motd and says "You have mail"? I checked the /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (and the rest of the /etc directory) but can't seem to find it. -Ed -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.penguinpowered.com (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] startup scripts
The contents of /etc/motd are displayed by login(1) after a suc cessful login but just before it executes the login shell. not sure about the You have mail thing tho Ed Negari wrote: Which login script displays the /etc/motd and says "You have mail"? I checked the /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (and the rest of the /etc directory) but can't seem to find it. -Ed
Re: [newbie] Q re: HDD
Wayneif you cd /home that's where you will go. Any user account you add to the system (as root) will have their home directory created as a subdirectory in that /home directory and that is where your unprivileged user account is (if you have one). Root's home directory is not in the /home directory though, it is in /root (not actually in /root as it IS /root). So if you have an unprivileged user account and there are no other user accounts then yes, /home is all yours. I hope that answered the question. Alan Wayne wrote: I have a question regarding my hard disks. After some trouble trying to cfdisk my HD this morning, Linux wouldn't work and I had to reinstall it. It has picked up the hard disk I partitioned to give me 3 gig of space to use for personal files etc and has mounted it is /home. Does this mean when ever I do a cd /home this is where it takes me? If not, how do I access this disk to store files on and install programs on it etc? If this is the case, is my entire home directory on this 3 gig disk and is it mine to do with as I please? Wayne
Re: [newbie] Q re: HDD
If you have a 3GB partition mounted as /home, then a cd/home will indeed take you there. Note, though, that your (non-root) user startup directory will be /home/username, so it is also on the 3GB partition. Underneath that startup directory will be a lot of configuration files (for Netscape, Gimp, KDE, etc.) which should be handled with care. Programs are normally stored under /usr or /opt, though, so you should make certain you have sufficient space for these directories. Other than that, yes, the whole 3GB is yours to do with as you wish On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:27:02 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question regarding my hard disks. After some trouble trying to cfdisk my HD this morning, Linux wouldn't work and I had to reinstall it. It has picked up the hard disk I partitioned to give me 3 gig of space to use for personal files etc and has mounted it is /home. Does this mean when ever I do a cd /home this is where it takes me? If not, how do I access this disk to store files on and install programs on it etc? If this is the case, is my entire home directory on this 3 gig disk and is it mine to do with as I please? Wayne -- Politas ___ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp
Re: [newbie] Re: where is the so called help
I used the PCI nic I made sure of it. RedHat 6.1 I could not get to connect to the internet but Mandrake 7 did On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Art Richardson mewed: To everyone on the list First, I would like to thank everyone who replied to my post. You help was very much appreciated and I was able to solve two of my problems so far. Secondly, when I wrote that post I was frustrated about my inability to solve my problems. I like to consider myself somewhat technically proficient and can usually solve the problems that I have come across. However, this was in Windows and I guess that it's so dumbed down anyone can figure it out. Linux is not like that, as you all know. Several years ago I had a 133 running Slackware. I never could get any form of x running but further experimentation was put on hold due to a divorce. I had read several articles complimentary to the Mandrake distribution. I went out and bought the 6.5 version and got everything going except the nic card. I was amazed that it went so well! But as hard as I tried, I could not get the blankety - blank nic card running. I checked 3Com and their documentation was oriented toward the PCI version and not the ISA version which I have. I tried the Don Becker page and really didn't understand it to well except it seemed to imply that I needed to add a driver and recompile the kernel. Not wanting to do that I thought that I would just upgrade to 7.0 and maybe that would cure my nic card problem. I have a cable connection and I downloaded the distribution from a Mandrake FTP mirror. After several tries to install it, I got it to install. Once again the install could not find the nic card. It was listed in the install configuration setup but no joy. This is when I went off the deep end and wrote my now infamous post. I got a lot of great information. To solve the logging out problem and the Draxconf not installed, I just reinstalled the distribution again and this time I used the expert mode. I set x not to start at login and Draxconf installed ok. You all know what is coming next. That's right, no nic card. So after visiting several newsgroups and re-reading the posts to this list I edited the /etc/conf.modules file. I added the line Options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=9 I got the parameters from windows and again no joy. I am at the point where I am going to disable the PnP setting on the card. If this does not work I am going to check the supported cards at the Redhat site and get another card. Again, thanks for not flaming me too much. I'll let everyone know how it went Art
[newbie] where's the counter
where's the counter for apache... to use on websites...? doesn't it have one? or do I need to get a script...? -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.penguinpowered.com (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] startup scripts
I'd like to know this also... I need a mail notify program... Ed Negari wrote: Which login script displays the /etc/motd and says "You have mail"? I checked the /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (and the rest of the /etc directory) but can't seem to find it. -Ed -- KompuKit= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.penguinpowered.com (does not run 24/7) KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] Q re: HDD
Alan, thanks for the tip. I guess that is what another subscriber was referring to as allocating X MB for /home, X MB for /usr etc etc...I didn't know you could do that with Linux. Also, whilst I have the soapbox, I would just like to say there has been some flaming going on about people asking questions that might be provided in the documentation. Some of the docs with Linux are obscure and written by Linux gurus and therefore hard to read and understand for us newbies. I am a one time computer tech from Dos/Windows days and still have trouble understanding much Linux stuff. I have been using it full time for over a week now and have come to appreciate the power and versatility of the OS and will make a total migration to it for everything but games (for obvious reasons). I love it, it works well , and on the odd occasion it does hang, just type xkill and away you go. Not like Wind'ohs.. Any more advanced users out there, just tolerate my spupidity and other stupidity like it for a while and eventually we will be teaching the new users to the list what you have taught us. Alan, thanks again so much for the tip. It answered my Q exactly. Wayne
Re: [newbie] Q re: HDD
Dude, what are all those little nbsp thingies in your e mail? On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Wayne Petherick mewed: html font size=3Alan,br thanks for the tip.nbsp; I guess that is what another subscriber was referring to as allocating X MB for /home, X MB for /usr etc etc...I didn't know you could do that with Linux.br br Also, whilst I have the soapbox, I would just like to say there has been some flaming going on about people asking questions that might be provided in the documentation.nbsp; Some of the docs with Linux are obscure and written by Linux gurus and therefore hard to read and understand for us quot;newbiesquot;.nbsp; I am a one time computer tech from Dos/Windows days and still have trouble understanding much Linux stuff.nbsp; I have been using it full time for over a week now and have come to appreciate the power and versatility of the OS and will make a total migration to it for everything but games (for obvious reasons).nbsp; I love it, it works well , and on the odd occasion it does hang, just type xkill and away you go.nbsp; Not like Wind'ohs..nbsp; br Any more advanced users out there, just tolerate my spupidity and other stupidity like it for a while and eventually we will be teaching the new users to the list what you have taught us.br br Alan,br thanks again so much for the tip.nbsp; It answered my Q exactly.br br Waynebr br /font BR /html
[newbie] start imwheel automatically
Hello, what can I do in order to avoid typing "imwheel -k" after every reboot? I want it to be started regardless which user is loggin in. It seems that there is no appropriate startup service for this. Thanks for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Remember, in 2039, MOUSSE PASTA will be available ONLY by prescription!!
Re: [newbie] start imwheel automatically
Clausin KDE there's an Autostart directory on your Desktop that is analogous to the Windows Startup directory (works pretty much the same). Alan Claus Atzenbeck wrote: Hello, what can I do in order to avoid typing "imwheel -k" after every reboot? I want it to be started regardless which user is loggin in. It seems that there is no appropriate startup service for this. Thanks for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Remember, in 2039, MOUSSE PASTA will be available ONLY by prescription!!
Re: [newbie] start imwheel automatically
Here's an excerpt from a post dated 3/6/00 from the 'alt.os.mandrake' newsgroup, that I used to get mine working ...Now you need to create a link in your KDE Autostart folder which is on your desktop to 'imwheel'. Do this by opening the Autostart folder, right click in the window and select 'new' and 'application'. Change the name from 'program' to 'imwheel.kdelnk' and click 'OK'. Then click on 'Execute' and then browse to /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel and then click 'OK' and then click 'OK' again, close Autostart and you're done! Reboot and you should have your wheel mouse working in netscape. Good luck! - Original Message - From: "Claus Atzenbeck" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Listing" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 10:45 PM Subject: [newbie] start imwheel automatically Hello, what can I do in order to avoid typing "imwheel -k" after every reboot? I want it to be started regardless which user is loggin in. It seems that there is no appropriate startup service for this. Thanks for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Remember, in 2039, MOUSSE PASTA will be available ONLY by prescription!!
[newbie] Mandrake Problems
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.0 a few hours ago by using my cdrom to boot the installation up. When I try to access any of my cds in the /mnt/cdrom, it says it can't read the disk. I set the thing up properly in the control panel it says it's there, but won't read any of the disks, not even the cd I installed Mandrake from! My floppy drive isn't working either. Please help, I love this O/S so far. Best Regards, Jack
