Re: [newbie] Network settings
Billversion 7 has a new configuration program with access via desktop icon. It's called DrakConf, give it a try, there's a networking tool inside. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I can go back edit network settings w/o having to re-install? thanks, bg
Re: [newbie] CDRW Mounting problems
Ahh not to be mean or anything but do you realize that you have sent that message 3 times? Sorry i cant help with the question though - Original Message - From: Lonnie Marvena To: Newbie Linux Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 9:25 PM Subject: [newbie] CDRW Mounting problems Hi! I am extremely new to mandrake linux I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mountinga cdrom was automatic? I have1 cdrom and1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is setup as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I havebeen unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated ThanksLonnie
Re: [newbie] {newbie} Unable to mount CDRW
LonnieI have a Smart Friendly CDR that I installed after I initially installed 7.0. Below is my fstab entry for both cd's (the one called cdrom is a CD and was automatically set up during 7.0's installation, cdrom1 is the CDR) on my system. All I did was create a softlink (/dev/cdrom2) linked to the actual device and then add the second line below: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom1 0 0 Alan Lonnie Marvena wrote: Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mounting a cdrom was automatic? I have 1 cdrom and 1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I have been unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Lonnie
Re: [newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown
Hey, I may not be a Linux guru, but I know my q2 This is an error w/ Quake2! I get this error sometimes in windows, and I get millions of e-mails from ppl about this problem! in windows... the only solution is to acctually get colormap.pcx or run it thru a shortcut or explorer. As well as re-isntall the game. Other than that.. Don't know how to solve Good Luck, ChOPpY - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, 404 Error wrote: I know nothing of games, but perhaps you should check if there is something like a config or setup file. If there is something like that (do ls -l and look for files with an 'x' attribute), run that setup/config. Perhaps that helps. Paul I just got the Quake2 RPM from rpmfind.org and installed it, but couldn' t figure out what to do to start it. I finally managed to "start" it from the console, I think by typing ".\quake2", but then it immediately quit with this message: couldn't exec default.cfg couldn't exec config.cfg loading ref_softx.so recursive shutdown couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx It didn't complain about any missing dependencies when I put it in. Any ideas? Thanks! )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Netscape
??Advertising?? Just a guess, Mike Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, then it goes to the home page. -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Problem mounting CDRW
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mounting a cdrom was automatic? I have 1 cdrom and 1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I have been unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated This happened to me also. seems like Mandrake decided the burner was a burner and set it up as such, but did not load the ide-scsi module on boot try 'insmod ide-scsi ' as root then try mounting the drive as /dev/scd0 and see if that works -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
[newbie] Trendware?
Found something curious in my surfings this evening. www.trendware.com claims to offer Linux device drivers for their products. Don't think my modem is one of their devices, but maybe the info could help someone out there. Has anyone tried any of their drivers? I am quite curious about this, just on general principal!!! Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] Netscape
That's just normal Netscape behavior. You'll just have to deal with it until Mozilla (aka Netscape 6) becomes stable/fast enough for you to use as your main browser. Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, then it goes to the home page. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: R: [newbie] a couple of questions...
Hi! Edit /etc/lilo.conf as root. Look for a line with append="". If between the brackets is already something like hdd=ide-scsi type mem=128M behind it. Example: append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=128M" Example without ide-scsi: append="mem=128M" Then in a console type lilo -v That should do it. Hi Paul! Even this is not the first time I deal with Linux (the first time was over 5 years ago, with Linux Slackware, and the configuration was very very hard!!), now I've the same memory problem! My Athon 600MHz on a Microstar's motherboard is not able to recognize more then 65Mb instead of 128. Unfortunately I didn't find any solution yet, so I cannot help you in this moment. Nevertheless as soon as I'll be able to do it I'll write to you immediately! About the network, I never connected together two (or more) Linux workstation (I want to do it in the future). I hope that if you find a solution for the RAM's trouble before me you will write to me. Thank you Damiano -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] X11 Server Lacks DPMS Support
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andy wrote: ALright so now no one has been able to help me out yet. I get the error "X11 Server lacks DPMS Support" in KDE how do either turn DPMS or make kde allow me to use DPMS? Check out the X server XF86_SVGA. It should support DPMS. Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
Re: [newbie] Netscape
That's called the "splash screen". To disable it, change your shortcut to start netscape with the "-no-about-splash" option, or make it a system-wide alias in /etc/bashrc (put it together with the other predefined aliases): alias netscape="netscape -no-about-splash" This disables the automatic loading of the splash scren. On Apr 25 Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, then it goes to the home page. -- 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
[newbie] IRQ Problems after BIOS modifications
Hi to all, i had my Dual-Boot-System running. (windows 98 and Mandrake 7.0). I decided to make modifications in my BIOS to optimizes it. After that my Windows assigned the new IRQ to my Hardware, but Mandrake didn´t. Now i want to setup my internetconnection by ISDN, but whatever i do, Mandrake says that the device is busy. Now my question: Do i have to install Mandrake again or is there a chance to reset hardware settings in Mandrake? By Thorsten PS:Please excuse my bad english but i hope you will understand my problem !
Re: [newbie] OT-HTML
Although I agree with you, I also believe it would really add to the richness of email if every mail client would understand at least a subset of the HTML language (no scripting, no funny shit, just the basic tags), or otherwise ignore HTML tags. This would aid people to better structure their emails. Ok, not neccessary for short messages, but it could be handy for longer letters, so the readers can see the structure of the email at the glimpse of an eye. Anyway, the responsibillity lies with the programmers of the mail-clients here. They should incorporate the functionality into their programs. As long as this still sin't the case, I consider mailing in HTML generally a bad thing also. From the moment all email readers understand HTML though, I see no reason why people shouldn't mail in HTML. The few people who refuse to upgrade and then whine about not being able to read these mails can go... Well, you know... Do the physically impossible thing... ;) But... Mailing in HTML has some disadvantages as well. For some reason these HTML-mails always have a font tag to specify the font size... Wouldn't be so bad if it were _relative_ font size, but for some reason they use _absolute_ font sizes... Well, I gotta tell you... These small fonts overrule my kmail settings, and they look very nice in 1600x1200... If you have microscopes for eyes that is!!! Bottom line: My feelings about this are mixed... I generally consider it a good thing, as soon as it becomes standard functionality in all email clients. Untill then, it's a no-no for lists at least... On Apr 25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTML is for web pages, not for mailing lists. many of the people waiting to help you on this list do not have or use mailers that respond to HTML I have a filter that throws away HTML messages I notice since rejoining this list that my trash fills up with newbie list messages at breakneck speed. Please check your mailers and send in plain text if at all possible. Best regards, Civileme -- 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
[newbie] samba mount problems
Hi folks! I have a home network consisting of 3 windows98 "workstations", my Linux box and a win95OSR2 "server". My "server" is used as a fileserver and internet gateway useing winroute pro. All works fine with the windows machines. My Mandrake 7.02 tcpip seems fine as I can surf/ftp/ping/telnet/kxicq with no problems through the server but I can't mount any of the shared server drives. This used to work before I changed the NIC in my server from a generic NE2000 to a SMC8013EWC. BTW: ALL the other computers have 3COM NIC's The reason I changed nics in my server was because I couldn't get full duplex running on the old NE2000 NIC. Here is a copy of the message I get when I try and mount one of the Server drives. [root@mike /root]# mount -t smbfs -o guest //server/ahable_serv /mnt/ahable [root@mike /root]# error connecting to 6.6.6.1:139 (Connection refused) Connection to server failed SMB connection failed Please note that this very command used to work when the NE2000 clone was in the windows server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers:
Re: [newbie] X-Window, Mandrake 7.0, SiS6326
Kostya wrote: Hi to everybody!!! Sorry for my terrible English. Russian is my native language. I have a very popular problem: I can't correctly configurate X-Window. Interesting fact: Linux Mandrake 7.0 has a graphics instalation and during the instalation graphics works in my computer correctly, but after instalation it doesn't work. Can You tell me WHY???!!! I have PII-266/32mb/SiS6326 AGP PRO... and monitor DAYTEK 15''. My friends, they are newbies too said me that it very hard to configurate correctly X-Window for my Video Card. /*May be you can tell me what I must write in section VideoCard*/ Thank you for your attention. With best wishes, Konstantin V. Lupach. Konstantin, I have the same chipset and have managed to get it to work with XFree86 3.3.6 and 4.0 in L-M7.0. There is a thread in the expert list archive you could check under SiS6326 where I posted my XF86Config file. Run Xconfigurator or xf86config and set the values for your system and desired resolution and color depth but do not test. Then edit (I recommend using midnight commander) the /etc/XF86Config file by going to the section Device configured by Xconfigurator (or xf86config) and under the lines Device, Identifier, Driver, VideoRam add a new line: Option "sw_cursor" just like that. There should be other options listed and in my system they are all commented out. Save and at the command line type startx. It should work. You will need to edit /etc/inittab file to id:5:initdefault if you want to routinely start X on bootup. Good luck. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone for setup.
[newbie] realplayer problem
Hey ppl, Was wondering if anyone has had the same problem as me with Mandrake 7.0 and RealPlayer. When I log in as root I am able to click on the link and the application starts up. When I log in as a user the link does not work. I can cut and paste the link into the "Open Location" area and it works, but how do I get it to activate when I click on a link? Namoshay _ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club.
[newbie] Boot disks?
I recently got a copy of Mandrake with the latest issue of "Maximum Linux". I installed it on a test machine and was pretty impressed as it was one of the easiest installs I have done. I want to load it on an old machine at home that I use for Linux and testing. It does not have a bootable CD-ROM. I use an external one of the parallel port (MicroSolutions Backpacker). So, is there a boot disk available for Mandrake? I looked on the CD, but did not see anything that would allow me to make one. Thanks! David -- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken
Re: [newbie] Netscape
When you call up Netscape, there should bne a switch included in the command such as: netscape --no-about-splash On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, then it goes to the home page. -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] CDRW Mounting problems
I have been told that your not supposed to mount a cd rw, just do a burn to it and if you do mount it, that would be making it act like a cd rom, so in the case of a cdrw, it would be no mounting if you just want to record. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Ahh not to be mean or anything but do you realize that you have sent that message 3 times? Sorry i cant help with the question though - Original Message - From: Lonnie Marvena To: Newbie Linux Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 9:25 PM Subject: [newbie] CDRW Mounting problems Hi! I am extremely new to mandrake linux I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mounting a cdrom was automatic? I have 1 cdrom and 1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is setup as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I have been unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Lonnie Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
[newbie] had drive woes
Here is my problemo. I have a Compaq 2266 desktop. I have a 4 gig harddrive and a CDROM attached to it (obviously). I purchased a 18 gig drive toadd on to it. Now the problem is, Compaq's support is basically a bunch ofblubbering idiots (Compaq, please don't sue me for slander!). I am having ahell of a time trying to find the correct jumper settings for mypre-installed drive. Can anybody maybe help me out or lead me to a goodstarting point to find this out? I know this is a hard question to answergiven the situation. The hard drive is the master and the CDROM is slave.What should my second hard drive jumpers be at, and then what do I have todo to the other IDE drives? whew!!I want to install Linux on a 6 gig partition on my new drive, because due tothe amount of web design I do on my Windows side, space is severely limited. Jay GO FLYERS!!www.mrsnooky.com - Web Weasel - Original Message - From: George Kamps To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Networking + gaming I had the exact same problem... Thing is, only a reformat of the linuxpartition and reinstall fixed it... Just booted up for the first timeand everything worked great... configured itself i guess...Simon Exley wrote: I am extremely new to mandrake linux, about 6 hours to be exact, i have managed to configure most of my hardware including dvd decoder card, however i am having problems configuring my network card to run properly. I am trying to connect to the internet through an NT network, I have entered all my Ip, subnet masks etc, however when i boot up it says that "etho Delay" has failed, once in Mandrake 7.0 i cannot access the internet, i am using a dual boot system with win98 so i have the configs which work from that. Any ideas? I am also wanting to begin gaming using linux and was wondering if it is possible to play existing dos/windows games using linux. I am particularly interested in Halflife and counterstrike. thanks Simon Exley ICQ 41332540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] scsi cdrom
_lee _kinkade wrote: Now that I have kde and mandrake 7 running so well at work, i am tempted to install the same at home. I have a pentium 75 with 48 MB mem a scsi hard drive and a scsi cd rom any suggestions for getting started? I think that your configuration will be a little bit short to have KDE running. You better choose a lighter wm like afterstep, windowmaker, blackbox or something like that. And make a lot of swap. HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Networking + gaming
Simon Exley wrote: I am extremely new to mandrake linux, about 6 hours to be exact, i have managed to configure most of my hardware including dvd decoder card, however i am having problems configuring my network card to run properly. I am trying to connect to the internet through an NT network, I have entered all my Ip, subnet masks etc, however when i boot up it says that "etho Delay" has failed, once in Mandrake 7.0 i cannot access the internet, i am using a dual boot system with win98 so i have the configs which work from that. Any ideas? You have a very usefull tool to configure your network. It is called netconf. I am also wanting to begin gaming using linux and was wondering if it is possible to play existing dos/windows games using linux. I am particularly interested in Halflife and counterstrike. No. They won't. You can download some games from loki.com like quakeIII or Unreal. HTH Flupke
[newbie] Can't start X-Window
Hi all Sory, I very bad speak English :-) I try to install Mandrake v7.0 lake Server. X-Window setup Ok, but when I start it, on ther is only blue screen and 2 window whis console. If install default or developer, X-Window start Ok. Plase, ansver ( if You can read this ;-)) Mihail Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] realplayer problem
By "link", do you mean the Kmenu or do you mean a link on your desktop? Regardless, it sounds like a permissions problem with your realplayer file. 1. get into your console as Superuser 2. type in: chmod 755 /usr/lib/RealPlayer7/realplay that should correct the permissions problem. Seve -Original Message- From: Sean Oonamey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: [newbie] realplayer problem Hey ppl, Was wondering if anyone has had the same problem as me with Mandrake 7.0 and RealPlayer. When I log in as root I am able to click on the link and the application starts up. When I log in as a user the link does not work. I can cut and paste the link into the "Open Location" area and it works, but how do I get it to activate when I click on a link? Namoshay _ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club.
Re: [newbie] Video mini problem
I take it you don't have a digitally controlled monitor that holds its settings? One thing though, is your XF86Config file set with the correct monitor settings for horizontal and vertical frequencies? It's likely that you will have to do it manually to get it setup correctly. Seve -Original Message- From: Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 7:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Video mini problem Hey all. Here's another curiosity. Although I stated that Mandrake supports my ATI Rage video card, the screen is off center, shifted to the right side. I usually get around this by running XVidtune. That works well, but only last the session. I dual boot Linux/Windows, so I frequently reboot. my machine. Is there a way to make the XVidtune settings permanent?
Re: [newbie] Many Questions
Perhaps it's the CD Player software. I have the same problem with that kde cd player. Try out another cd player software. "Grip" can play CDs and uses CDDB. It will also convert to MP3 for you. Seve -Original Message- From: Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 6:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Many Questions Hi all. Got a few Mandrake related questions, but first a comment. Mandrake has to be by far the BEST package that I've installed to date. I've tried Caldera, Redhat, Suse, Storm, Debian, etc. They are all pretty good, but none of them worked as well as Mandrake. When I was done with the Mandrake install, the only thing not working (hardware wise) was the sound card, until I ran sndconfig. Now I have sound too. This distro even supported my ATI Rage video card, with NO interaction on my part! Any how, first question: Anyone having trouble with the CDDB not working in the cd player program? I can't seem to get it to connect to the CDDB on-line to retrieve CD track titles. There's not a whole lot of settings in the program, and I've played with them all. Any ideas? Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] realplayer problem
Thanks Seve, I'll give it a go, but right now I have another problem. As soon as I bootup my linux the modem starts to try to log on to who knows where and wont stop! Thanks for your reply. --- Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By "link", do you mean the Kmenu or do you mean a link on your desktop? Regardless, it sounds like a permissions problem with your realplayer file. 1. get into your console as Superuser 2. type in: chmod 755 /usr/lib/RealPlayer7/realplay that should correct the permissions problem. Seve -Original Message- From: Sean Oonamey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: [newbie] realplayer problem Hey ppl, Was wondering if anyone has had the same problem as me with Mandrake 7.0 and RealPlayer. When I log in as root I am able to click on the link and the application starts up. When I log in as a user the link does not work. I can cut and paste the link into the "Open Location" area and it works, but how do I get it to activate when I click on a link? Namoshay _ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. _ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club.
Re: [newbie] Many Questions
I just tried out GCD and it's nice. It's a specialized version of Grip. The CDDB lookups work. http://www.atella.com/seveman/gcd-2.94-1.i686.rpm http://www.atella.com/seveman/grip-2.94-1.i686.rpm http://www.atella.com/seveman/grip-2.94-1.src.rpm in case you want to build it yourself. Good listenings... Seve -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Many Questions Perhaps it's the CD Player software. I have the same problem with that kde cd player. Try out another cd player software. "Grip" can play CDs and uses CDDB. It will also convert to MP3 for you. Seve -Original Message- From: Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 6:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Many Questions Hi all. Got a few Mandrake related questions, but first a comment. Mandrake has to be by far the BEST package that I've installed to date. I've tried Caldera, Redhat, Suse, Storm, Debian, etc. They are all pretty good, but none of them worked as well as Mandrake. When I was done with the Mandrake install, the only thing not working (hardware wise) was the sound card, until I ran sndconfig. Now I have sound too. This distro even supported my ATI Rage video card, with NO interaction on my part! Any how, first question: Anyone having trouble with the CDDB not working in the cd player program? I can't seem to get it to connect to the CDDB on-line to retrieve CD track titles. There's not a whole lot of settings in the program, and I've played with them all. Any ideas? Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Many Questions
just got Mandrake 7 up running after a major system melt down...now when trying to connect through my nic to adsl modem I get a 'cannot open pty' message...any suggestions??? Thnx Rick
Re: [newbie] Many Questions
Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Got a few Mandrake related questions, but first a comment. Mandrake has to be by far the BEST package that I've installed to date. I've tried Caldera, Redhat, Suse, Storm, Debian, etc. They are all pretty good, but none of them worked as well as Mandrake. When I was done with the Mandrake install, the only thing not working (hardware wise) was the sound card, until I ran sndconfig. Now I have sound too. This distro even supported my ATI Rage video card, with NO interaction on my part! Any how, first question: Anyone having trouble with the CDDB not working in the cd player program? I can't seem to get it to connect to the CDDB on-line to retrieve CD track titles. There's not a whole lot of settings in the program, and I've played with them all. Any ideas? I had the same problem with grip. I suppose you are using kscd (the kde cd player). I think that (like nearly all cddb compatible cd players) it is setup to query the track names from www.cddb.com, but they recently changed. You now have to make the query to cddb.cddb.com. Setup kscd (Sorry. I don't know how to do. I don't use kscd) and change www.cddb.com to cddb.cddb.com. That should do it. HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Can't start X-Window
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: Hi all Sory, I very bad speak English :-) I try to install Mandrake v7.0 lake Server. X-Window setup Ok, but when I start it, on ther is only blue screen and 2 window whis console. If install default or developer, X-Window start Ok. Plase, ansver ( if You can read this ;-)) Mihail Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please correct me if this advice is incorrect. I am very new to linux, but this worked for me. go to the bottom window and type exit to get out put the mandrake cd in the drive Mount the CD by doing the following: at the command line prompt, type: mount /dev/cdrom press enter To get to the directories on the CD, at the command line prompt, type: cd /mnt/cdrom press enter type cd Mandrake/RPMS This directory had the files that you need to install. the command to use to install files is rpm -Uvh filename When I installed make, I typed rpm -Uvh make*.rpm I used the asterisk as a wild card because the file names are so long. http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-4.html#ss4.3 states which packages to install for kde. kdesupport (RECOMMENDED) kdelibs (REQUIRED) kdebase (REQUIRED) kdegames (OPTIONAL) kdegraphics (OPTIONAL) kdeutils (OPTIONAL) kdemultimedia (OPTIONAL) kdenetwork (OPTIONAL) kdeadmin (OPTIONAL) kdetoys (OPTIONAL) note for some files you may be told that a package it is dependant upon has not been installed. You then just have to find the right package on the cd and install it. If you can't, there may be more than one file that is named similarly, so you can try to install that instead. I had to install a package that started qt, one would not install so i tried another. I installed kde on two pc's yesterday. After you get the above installed, type startx at the command prompt. It should give you a nice full featured gui. --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
Re(2): [newbie] scsi cdrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: _lee _kinkade wrote: Now that I have kde and mandrake 7 running so well at work, i am tempted to install the same at home. I have a pentium 75 with 48 MB mem a scsi hard drive and a scsi cd rom any suggestions for getting started? I think that your configuration will be a little bit short to have KDE running. You better choose a lighter wm like afterstep, windowmaker, blackbox or something like that. And make a lot of swap. HTH Flupke nope, worked fine. I need to do something about the screen resolution and color depth. I know i had it better under gnome on the same box when redhat was installed. --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
[newbie] Installtion on Win98 with 7.0
Hi I'm trying to do an install of Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe (ISBN 1-57595-402-8) on a PIII-500 laptop with 128MB RAM and a 6GB hard drive (of which 1GB is Win98) from the floppy so that I can have both OSes on the same disk. When I boot from the floppy I get the message: SYSLINUX 1.48 MDK-7.0 Boot failed I tried booting from the floppy with and without the CDROM inserted. Nothing seems to work. Do I have a bad floppy or am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA hung
"Bruce K. Patten" wrote: Mandrake 7.0 runs beautifully on my Toshiba Satellite after a fresh install, but upon rebooting later, it gets down as far as "Starting PCMCIA" and just hangs there. I used the recommended install route and there is no other OS on this machine. WaddoIdo now? OK, I solved my problem; just hit "I" on boot up and answer "Y" to all setup questions except PCMCIA.
[newbie] Re : Enlightenment
Hi ~ I have run KDE and Gnome for a while under redhat, but recently installed Mandrake and decided to try out Enlightenment. It's fine, but for one thing - if I iconify a window, it vanishes; there are no icons anywhere. So my question is : where do iconified windows go to ? (The iconified-window planet ?!) Cheers, Del. \\\|/// ( o o ) --oO0o-U-oO0o--
[newbie] IBM Thinkpad 600X
I have a problem to Configurate my IBM thinkpad 600X, it is a Neomagic grafic device and a tft screen. Dracx cant find any possible configuration (want 1024x768) help me Peter Markebro
[newbie] In second stage install died at usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 202
When I start installing Mandrake 7.0 from a harddrive I get this message after beginning second stage install: "In second stage install died at usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 202 install exited abnormally sending termination signals... done" What is this?? Egil:-[
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, then it goes to the home page. I don't know if it's the same under linux and Windows, but in Windows, in addition to specifying the home page, one must also select "Navigator starts with: Home page" ELB -- Eric L. Brine | Chicken: The egg's way of making more eggs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do you always hit the nail on the thumb? ICQ# 4629314 | An optimist thinks thorn bushes have roses.
[newbie] (Newbie) Hydrogen
I don't know if this has been posted yet, but the latest version of Mandrake (Mandrake 7.1-BETA) can be obtained here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hydrobeta.php3
Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results
Albert wrote: Depending on the motherboard / chipset hdparm -d1 /dev/hda is the common flag Here is a snip from this machine /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.68 seconds =76.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.29 seconds =19.45 MB/sec We have others on the bench with 150 MB/sec buffer-cache and disk reads of 26 MB/sec HTH WOW! I just wanted to thank you for posting this, I decided to try this and before DMA flag was set equaled 3.01 MB/sec, and after the DMA flag was set it was 17.93 MB/sec!!! WOW! Hope the rest of the computer can keep up with this throughput!! This should be on a page of Linux tweaks! Vern On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am running Mdk 7-2 with 13 GB HD and DMA33. When I ran my first hdparm -t to test the drive read speed the results were only 3 MB/sec and the RealPlayer radio I had running was shut down. After setting the dma and unmask flags to on ,the test speed jumped to 14 MB/sec and RealPlayer did not cut out. What are the average disk read speeds to be expected with such a hard drive and is there anything else to optimize speed ? This seems like a worthwhile tweak for those who suspect their hd speed is slowing down the system. Just like to pass this along fyi and to see what others are getting on this speed test. -- Linux Tests http://www.linuxtests.org
[newbie] C++-Editor
Hi all! I am also interested in C++programming, and I am just searchingfor a good editor like the editor by Borland under DOS (It should color my source code, show the errors ..) Anything like that under Linux available? Thanks Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria ** begin:vcard n:Hebein;Gunther fn:Gunther C. Hebein tel;pager:secret! tel;cell:(43)-0699-10615108 tel;home:(43)-0512-292574 tel;work:(43)-0699-10615108 adr:;;St. Nicolausgasse 1 / II / Top 6;Innsbruck;Tyrol;6020;Austria version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Cand. Pharm. end:vcard
Re: Re(2): Re(2): [newbie] Make?
Lee,
Your fine I just forgot that it was lower-case 'm' vice uppercase. I'm sorry I can
only read my e-mail at home from 4:00 AM to 6:00 AM as my work is a little restrictive
about personal e-mail so I couldn't get back to you sooner.
As to your Starting X question it is a little more complicated. I had this problem
when I installed without selecting the "Start X on startup" option. I guess when you
do that it doesn't load some files. I believe I may have stumbled on something that
will help though.
Here we go. I changed my mind. I've attached a copy of my /etc/X11/window-managers
file put it in you /etc/X11 directory it is a safe file, you can open it and look at
it and see that it contains no commands.
Next create a file in /etc/sysconfig named 'desktop' (no quotes) and in it have only
one line with 'KDE' (again no quotes) but must be upper-case.
Make sure there is a file in /etc/X11/prefdm on your system. If no I can send you
mine.
edit /etc/inittab and up near the top is a line that says 'id:5:initdefault' yours may
have a '3' vice a '5' change it to '5' this will make it boot to a graphic login and
if prefdm is set up right it better be kdm. The last line in the file should be
'x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon' already if it is not change it to that. Again
the quotes don't go in just the words between them. I don't want to insult you
intelligence but I do want you to get your system the way you want it.
Now reboot and hopefully all will be as you want it. The kdm login will have a
Mandrake Penguin picture on the left of a dialog box. If you get that your good.
Make sure in the dropdown box where you select your window manager you have kde
selected (or whatever you want).
Exiting plain-jane X is done by 'right-clicking' your mouse and a menu should come up
with 'exit' or 'log-out' as an option. If that fails ctl-,alt-backspace key
combination will do it.
If you have problems with your startup into X windows after you reboot. Reboot again
and at the lilo: prompt type 'linux 3' (no quotes) this will drop you to run-level 3
(dos like) and then edit /etc/inittab and change the :5: to a :3: on the first line
there after all the comments.
Let me know if this works for you.
John
-- Original Message --
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_lee _kinkade)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:37:55 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
mount the mandrake CD. (if you installed with supermount it will mount
itself when you put it in)
if you didn't use supermount. Open a shell (dos like box).
1. su
type in root password
If now supermount support
2. mount /dev/cdrom
3. cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
4. rpm -Uvh Make*.rpm
Thats it.
John
Thanks a bunch. Instructions like that I understand! I did not find
Make*.rpm but did find make*.rpm so i did that instead. Was that a mistake?
How do I use kde or gnome? I startx, but it is plain old x AFAICT. Once
in x, how do I exit?
---
lee
If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
NAME=kde
ICON=kde.xpm
DESC=The fabulous desktop
EXEC=/usr/bin/startkde
SCRIPT:
exec startkde
--@@--
NAME=Gnome
ICON=Gnome.xpm
DESC=The another fabulous desktop
EXEC=/usr/bin/gnome-session
SCRIPT:
exec gnome-session
--@@--
NAME=WindowMaker
ICON=WindowMaker.xpm
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/wmdrake
DESC=Another NeXt like Window-Manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/wmdrake
--@@--
NAME=Enlightenment
DESC=The enlightenment window manager
EXEC=/usr/bin/enlightenment
SCRIPT:
[ -f $HOME ] || {
/usr/bin/enlightenment.install
}
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
--@@--
NAME=BlackBox
ICON=BlackBox.xpm
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox
DESC=A Light but nice looking window manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/bbdrake
--@@--
NAME=AfterStep
ICON=AfterStep.xpm
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep
DESC=A NeXt like Window-Manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep
--@@--
NAME=Fvwm2
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
DESC=A popular window manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
--@@--
NAME=Icewm
ICON=icewm.xpm
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
DESC=A Light Window-Manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
--@@--
NAME=Fvwm1
EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm
DESC=A very stable and light window manager
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm
--@@--
NAME=Xfce
EXEC=/usr/bin/xfwm
DESC=A CDE like window manager
SCRIPT:
[ "x$XFCE_DATA" = "x" ] XFCE_DATA=/usr/share/xfce
exec /usr/bin/xfwm
--@@--
NAME=AnotherLevel
ICON=AnotherLevel.xpm
DESC=The AnotherLevel desktop
EXEC=/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.anotherlevel
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.anotherlevel
Re: [newbie] Trendware?
I was in Circuit City last night and found a modem that list Linux right on the package as one of the OS's that it supports. I don't know if this is a new trend, but I like it. The company was 'actiontech' I believe (never heard the name before) and it was a 'call waiting' modem. Mike - Original Message - From: "The Russells" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Trendware? Found something curious in my surfings this evening. www.trendware.com claims to offer Linux device drivers for their products. Don't think my modem is one of their devices, but maybe the info could help someone out there. Has anyone tried any of their drivers? I am quite curious about this, just on general principal!!! Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] C++-Editor
I really don't know anything about borland, however I've been using emacs (should already be on your system) and it has a C/C++ mode. I was impressed! Just type (from any command prompt): emacs filename.cpp and it should automatically choose C++ mode Mike - Original Message - From: "Gunther C. Hebein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 6:27 AM Subject: [newbie] C++-Editor Hi all! I am also interested in C++programming, and I am just searchingfor a good editor like the editor by Borland under DOS (It should color my source code, show the errors ..) Anything like that under Linux available? Thanks Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria **
RE: [newbie] C++-Editor
for kde theres kedit and kdevelop you can also get emacs to work as an ide. you could try to recompile rhide(a dos gpp ide) for linux or find an equivilent for linux. -Original Message- From: Gunther C. Hebein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 April 2000 14:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C++-Editor Hi all! I am also interested in C++programming, and I am just searchingfor a good editor like the editor by Borland under DOS (It should color my source code, show the errors ..) Anything like that under Linux available? Thanks Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria **
Re: [newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need
I am encountering the same problem. I am used to mandrake 6.2 but when I reinstalled with 7.02 I can't do anything. all basic cammands ie setup, Xconfigurator, etc are gone. I have recentely gone back to 6.2 because 7.02 is not as fuctional for me and I could not get a reply for my questions regarding this and many others. If you have a solution I would like to go back to newer ver. but I need KDE and I need to know what replaced the old config files. I am new to linux and unfortunately only know the KDE gui with a little console experience. Mike When you are in X go to a terminal and type in setup. Then go to X Configuration. Then choose the monitor that you should have already sleected and test it out. Then it should say Do you want me to boot X on on startup and choose yes. And it should work - Original Message - From: Andrew Brackenbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:18 PM Subject: [newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need Hello. First, thank you to everyone who has helped me with all my very newbie question. Here's the most recent problem: So, I still can't get linux to boot to a nice GUI login window. I still get the lego looking penguin window. A couple of you suggested that I login at the lego penguin and then type startx. This did take me to a GUI but it was the "enlightenment" GUI. Frankly, this is the most un-enlightening interface I have ever sworn at. I want to get to kde. I must get to kde. One of you mentioned that I may have changed my default run level somewhere. How do I fix this? -andrew Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] CD Re-writer for Linux
I'm considering buying HP CD Re-Writer (probably 9210i) to use with Windows 98 and Linux. Has anyone used HP CD Re-Writers with Linux? Regards. Mungal.
RE: [newbie] (Newbie) Hydrogen
i'm after buying a DVD drive, 1: does 7.1 support dvd's 2: which dvd drive shouldn't i buy, eg bad ones or ones produced buy companies that give money to the us government ;-), put the patient on the fermentation of penicillin -Original Message-From: Evan Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 26 April 2000 14:04To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] (Newbie) Hydrogen I don't know if this has been posted yet, but the latest version of Mandrake (Mandrake 7.1-BETA) can be obtained here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hydrobeta.php3
Re: [newbie] Boot disks?
There are 2 in the cd which you can choose from. One is text and the other is graphical. cdrom.img is the graphical and im not sure about the text one because i never used it sorry - Original Message - From: meijin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Boot disks? I recently got a copy of Mandrake with the latest issue of "Maximum Linux". I installed it on a test machine and was pretty impressed as it was one of the easiest installs I have done. I want to load it on an old machine at home that I use for Linux and testing. It does not have a bootable CD-ROM. I use an external one of the parallel port (MicroSolutions Backpacker). So, is there a boot disk available for Mandrake? I looked on the CD, but did not see anything that would allow me to make one. Thanks! David -- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] C++-Editor
"Gunther C. Hebein" wrote: Hi all! I am also interested in C++programming, and I am just searchingfor a good editor like the editor by Borland under DOS (It should color my source code, show the errors ..) Anything like that under Linux available? Thanks Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria ** I have been using kwrite with color highlighting for editing and g++ for compiling. Works very well and simple. Pat
RE: [newbie] Trendware?
I can tell you with the experience that we have had here in the Tech Support Department of an ISP, the actiontech modems do not create much stir as far as connectivity. They are neither the rockets nor the boat anchors as far as speed is concerned. Personally, I recommend the Supra lines... however... *grin* For a frame of reference, we are on a system using both the MaxTnT, PortMaster and Nortel servers. Kudos to any manufacturer who touts Linux compatability !!! "Everyday that I wake up and there isn't a white chalk outline around my body is going to be a GREAT day!" -Les Brown Lonny H. Barry Technical Support Trivergent Communication [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trendware? I was in Circuit City last night and found a modem that list Linux right on the package as one of the OS's that it supports. I don't know if this is a new trend, but I like it. The company was 'actiontech' I believe (never heard the name before) and it was a 'call waiting' modem. Mike - Original Message - From: "The Russells" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Trendware? Found something curious in my surfings this evening. www.trendware.com claims to offer Linux device drivers for their products. Don't think my modem is one of their devices, but maybe the info could help someone out there. Has anyone tried any of their drivers? I am quite curious about this, just on general principal!!! Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] C++-Editor
"Gunther C. Hebein" wrote: Hi all! I am also interested in C++programming, and I am just searchingfor a good editor like the editor by Borland under DOS (It should color my source code, show the errors ..) Anything like that under Linux available? I suppose I'll get flamed by emacs addicts :-) , but I can tell you that vim (=vi improved) supports coloring of c and bash code. I find it's a powerfull editor, and (I don't know if you can do that in emacs) you can execute shell commands (like compiling or executing your program) from the editor. HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Re : Enlightenment
Del Kennedy wrote: Hi ~ I have run KDE and Gnome for a while under redhat, but recently installed Mandrake and decided to try out Enlightenment. It's fine, but for one thing - if I iconify a window, it vanishes; there are no icons anywhere. So my question is : where do iconified windows go to ? (The iconified-window planet ?!) middle-click on your desktop then choose desktop-create new icon box. (you should take the time to read the help. It's not very huge, but it's very usefull.) HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] C++-Editor
Just thought I'd throw something in here. Check out this web site for a fantastic programming application :-) http://www.metrowerks.com/desktop/linux/ Hope it helps someone. Evan Holt
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7 slowdown
apparently xfree4 has lower memory usage than 3.x, and runs quicker. mandrake 7.1 beta is using xfree4, so you could do some beta testing as well as getting a more light weight desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 April 2000 20:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7 slowdown Thanks John and Paul for the suggestions. My swap partition ( 64 meg) seems adequate as it was before. I ran "setup" and removed a few non-relevant programs with no significant improvement. I guess I'll have to live with the more leisurely pace or else switch to a less memory-demanding desktop. At 06:55 AM 4/25/00 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since moving up to Mandrake 7 from M 6 I find that the loading time for KDE, and even the Kmail program inside KDE takes much longer than it did in Mandrake 6. All I can think of is in the latter stage of install I agreed to the default list of programs to be automatically booted at startup - programs that I really would only use on certain occasions. Could it be that they are clogging my 32 Meg ram? If so, is there some way I could cut back on what is loaded at startup? I think the slowness is because the added things in the X-servers, but that is just an educated guess. To see what stuff is loaded on boot, you run setup as root, and in the "system services" you can select what will be loaded and omitted. make sure you don't kick out important stuff!! If you're not sure, ask here, or leave it alone! Paul M.
Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
philomenaas of version 7, setup is no longer installed by default. I believe it's still on the installation cd, but I don't remember which package it's in. Alan philomena wrote: Paul, what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the command from the console and its not found. I searched all drives and didn't find anything. I reinstalled and made sure to leave supermount on - so, my fstab entries are exactly like yours, but the devices are still not working. Error message is a bit different - KFM says something like "can't display directory", and if I try to command line ls, an error message states there is an input/output error. Thx, philomena - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, root wrote: time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far except the three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as tones - no bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB Live!. run "setup" as root, and check the 'sound' section. I have an SB Value64 and that was initially off too. After going through this by hand it worked fine. Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes back with the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" What is in your /etc/fstab. For floppy and cdrom with me it says: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Does that match? Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Boot disks?
Davidread the readme file in the images directory on your cd. Alan meijin wrote: I recently got a copy of Mandrake with the latest issue of "Maximum Linux". I installed it on a test machine and was pretty impressed as it was one of the easiest installs I have done. I want to load it on an old machine at home that I use for Linux and testing. It does not have a bootable CD-ROM. I use an external one of the parallel port (MicroSolutions Backpacker). So, is there a boot disk available for Mandrake? I looked on the CD, but did not see anything that would allow me to make one. Thanks! David -- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken
[newbie] how uninstal linux ?
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Re: [newbie] Xfree86 4.0 / Nvidia GeForce DDR
Oliver Stieber wrote: apparently xfree4 has lower memory usage than 3.x, and runs quicker. mandrake 7.1 beta is using xfree4, so you could do some beta testing as well as getting a more light weight desktop. Yes this is true. Nvidia has finally released OpenGL support for there video cards under linux now!! I have had the GeForce DDR since January and had to play Quake 3/Unreal Tournament on a small win partition that I was keeping just for that purpose. Now I can *finally* install my quake 3 METAL box (linux version) and delete that windows partition (the most important issue).. should be great.. My friend has been playing under linux for some time, but with a V3-3000 that looks like shit. However the V5-5500 (which 3dfx is taking pre-orders for now) should be a great advancement for them.. problem is.. Nvidia has been waiting for 3dfx to release it, so it can release it next generation card and crush them again!! 3dfx has great linux support, and I was a big fan of the V2-SLI configuration, but hate the V3 series.. hopefully 3dfx will pull out of this slump its in.
Re: [newbie] Re : Enlightenment
I don't believe I enabled 3 button emulation but if I did how do you middle click with a 2 button mouse. Mike Del Kennedy wrote: Hi ~ I have run KDE and Gnome for a while under redhat, but recently installed Mandrake and decided to try out Enlightenment. It's fine, but for one thing - if I iconify a window, it vanishes; there are no icons anywhere. So my question is : where do iconified windows go to ? (The iconified-window planet ?!) middle-click on your desktop then choose desktop-create new icon box. (you should take the time to read the help. It's not very huge, but it's very usefull.) HTH Flupke Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
Hi Alan, Thanks, I'll check that out when I get home. I just realized something I should have mentioned when describing my problems with the CDROM drive - its a CD-RW drive - does that require something additional in the fstab file ? On Wed, 26 April 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: philomenaas of version 7, setup is no longer installed by default. I believe it's still on the installation cd, but I don't remember which package it's in. Alan philomena wrote: Paul, what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the command from the console and its not found. I searched all drives and didn't find anything. I reinstalled and made sure to leave supermount on - so, my fstab entries are exactly like yours, but the devices are still not working. Error message is a bit different - KFM says something like "can't display directory", and if I try to command line ls, an error message states there is an input/output error. Thx, philomena - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, root wrote: time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far except the three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as tones - no bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB Live!. run "setup" as root, and check the 'sound' section. I have an SB Value64 and that was initially off too. After going through this by hand it worked fine. Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes back with the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" What is in your /etc/fstab. For floppy and cdrom with me it says: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Does that match? Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
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Re: [newbie] Re : Enlightenment
Hi Del Click with both right and left buttons in the mouse a window will open, then go to the desktop and click in the create iconbox. Your iconbox will open !! and everything that you minimize will be there!! Regards!! --- Del Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi ~ I have run KDE and Gnome for a while under redhat, but recently installed Mandrake and decided to try out Enlightenment. It's fine, but for one thing - if I iconify a window, it vanishes; there are no icons anywhere. So my question is : where do iconified windows go to ? (The iconified-window planet ?!) Cheers, Del. \\\|/// ( o o ) --oO0o-U-oO0o-- = Antonio Luiz Oliveira de Noronha Nucleo de Estudos em Química Medicinal - NEQUIM Chemistry Departament - DQ Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG Belo Horizonte, MG __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
[newbie] Mandrake 7 slowdown
Thanks John and Paul for the suggestions. My swap partition ( 64 meg) seems adequate as it was before. I ran "setup" and removed a few non-relevant programs with no significant improvement. I guess I'll have to live with the more leisurely pace or else switch to a less memory-demanding desktop. At 06:55 AM 4/25/00 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since moving up to Mandrake 7 from M 6 I find that the loading time for KDE, and even the Kmail program inside KDE takes much longer than it did in Mandrake 6. All I can think of is in the latter stage of install I agreed to the default list of programs to be automatically booted at startup - programs that I really would only use on certain occasions. Could it be that they are clogging my 32 Meg ram? If so, is there some way I could cut back on what is loaded at startup? I think the slowness is because the added things in the X-servers, but that is just an educated guess. To see what stuff is loaded on boot, you run setup as root, and in the "system services" you can select what will be loaded and omitted. make sure you don't kick out important stuff!! If you're not sure, ask here, or leave it alone! Paul M.
Re: [newbie] IBM Thinkpad 600X
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem to Configurate my IBM thinkpad 600X, it is a Neomagic grafic device and a tft screen. Dracx cant find any possible configuration (want 1024x768) help me PLEASE would be the magic word here, I think. After all we're not helpdesk people, we're regular people trying to help others. Paul )0(---)0( CAT: A pygmy lion that loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. (Oliver Herford) )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] had drive woes
oops. It is a Western Digital, bought at comp show... Jay GO FLYERS!! www.mrsnooky.com - Web Weasel - Original Message - From: Paul To: Jaybone Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] had drive woes On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jaybone wrote: Here is my problemo. I have a Compaq 2266 desktop. I have a 4 gig hard drive and a CDROM attached to it (obviously). I purchased a 18 gig drive to add on to it. Now the problem is, Compaq's support is basically a bunch of blubbering idiots (Compaq, please don't sue me for slander!). I am having a hell of a time trying to find the correct jumper settings for my pre-installed drive. Can anybody maybe help me out or lead me to a good starting point to find this out? I know this is a hard question to answer given the situation. The hard drive is the master and the CDROM is slave. What should my second hard drive jumpers be at, and then what do I have to do to the other IDE drives? whew!! A bit of info on the brand of the new HD would help, but usually you can hook up the new HD to the second IDE bus, and configure it as single/master. Usually that setting is labeled M/S. Good luck Paul )0(---)0( CAT: A pygmy lion that loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. (Oliver Herford) )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] In second stage install died at usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 202
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Egil Brodshaug wrote: "In second stage install died at usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 202 install exited abnormally sending termination signals... done" Don't know, is there enough space on the partition you are installing to? Try looking at http://mandrakeuser.org, in the installation section. Lots of useful tips there!! Paul )0(---)0( CAT: A pygmy lion that loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. (Oliver Herford) )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Install security setting
Is there a list of what the install-time security settings provide? I'm referring to the 1-5 list that starts with "Hack me please" and ends with "Ultra Paranoid" (or something to those effects). I'm curious as to the technical details of each setting, such as what services are installed and running, what ports are open etc... Regards, Nathan Hopper
Re: [newbie] IRQ Problems after BIOS modifications
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Thorsten Brenner wrote: i had my Dual-Boot-System running. (windows 98 and Mandrake 7.0). I decided to make modifications in my BIOS to optimizes it. After that my Windows assigned the new IRQ to my Hardware, but Mandrake didn´t. Now i want to setup my internetconnection by ISDN, but whatever i do, Mandrake says that the device is busy. Now my question: Do i have to install Mandrake again or is there a chance to reset hardware settings in Mandrake? Hi Thorsten Do you have Mandrake initialise the card with the MODPROBE command in /etc/rc.d/local? If so, update the IRQ setting there and reboot. The line in my rc.local: modprobe hisax io=0x180 irq=10 type=3 protocol=2 id=line0 (I use a Teles card which runs through Hisax) Paul )0(---)0( CAT: A pygmy lion that loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. (Oliver Herford) )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] PAUL
- Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:03 PM Subject Paul you seem to be a real helper you respond to just about every message. I just wanted to let you its great having people like you :) _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] going back to shell
Edit /etc/inittab (as root) and change the line id:5:initdefault ...to... id:3:initdefault Del. "Rivera, Oscar" wrote: hi my machine boots directly into x windows and I want it to boot to the command prompt how can I do that? can you help? thanks -- \\\|/// ( o o ) --oO0o-U-oO0o--
Re: [newbie] going back to shell
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Rivera, Oscar wrote: hi my machine boots directly into x windows and I want it to boot to the command prompt how can I do that? can you help? find /etc/inittab and pull that in an editor (vi, emacs, kedit) and locate id:5:initdefault change the 5 to 3 and save the file (needs root privileges). Next time you boot you are in console mode. Paul )0(---)0( CAT: A pygmy lion that loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. (Oliver Herford) )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Still unable to mount cdrw and read directory
Hi I have tried everything listed below and am still unable to read the directory of a cd on this drive. In the fstab it says its mounts ok and when I check it says it is mounted but I get an error saying Can't read directory. What a stuburn little bugger this thin is. Its and ide Smart Friendly CDRW2224 racer on my secondary ide controller and set as slave. Any help would be appreaceated and I would like to thank the ones who have help me get this far. THKS Lonnie This happened to me also.seems like Mandrake decided the burner was a burner and set it up as such, butdid not load the ide-scsi module on boottry 'insmod ide-scsi ' as root then try mounting the drive as /dev/scd0 and seeif that worksLonnieI have a Smart Friendly CDR that I installed after Iinitially installed 7.0. Below is my fstab entry for both cd's(the one called cdrom is a CD and was automatically set upduring 7.0's installation, cdrom1 is the CDR) on my system. AllI did was create a softlink (/dev/cdrom2) linked to the actualdevice and then add the second line below:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0/mnt/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom1 00Alan Lonnie wrote: Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mounting a cdrom was automatic? I have 1 cdrom and 1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I have been unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Lonnie-- Alex(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) Try:"mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdr2"It worked for me mounting my cdrw even though it's an IDE-device-- Dejan Bucar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SEE YLonnie Marvena
Re: [newbie] had drive woes
Paul wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jaybone wrote: Here is my problemo. I have a Compaq 2266 desktop. I have a 4 gig hard drive and a CDROM attached to it (obviously). I purchased a 18 gig drive to add on to it. Now the problem is, Compaq's support is basically a bunch of blubbering idiots (Compaq, please don't sue me for slander!). I am having a hell of a time trying to find the correct jumper settings for my pre-installed drive. Can anybody maybe help me out or lead me to a good starting point to find this out? I know this is a hard question to answer given the situation. The hard drive is the master and the CDROM is slave. What should my second hard drive jumpers be at, and then what do I have to do to the other IDE drives? whew!! A bit of info on the brand of the new HD would help, but usually you can hook up the new HD to the second IDE bus, and configure it as single/master. Usually that setting is labeled M/S. Good luck Paul But the CD may be the primary on the second channel... Find your mke and model of the hard drive and check the websit of the manufacturer. Most have data sheets on the web
Re: [newbie] PAUL
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Andy wrote: Paul you seem to be a real helper you respond to just about every message. I just wanted to let you its great having people like you :) Hi Andy, Just trying to help people avoid the same pitfalls that I stumbled in. No need that people invent the wheel 10 times over. And to that, I learn things here too. Like the hdparm thing, never heard of that!! Paul )0(---)0( CAT: A pygmy lion that loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. (Oliver Herford) )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
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[newbie] installation problems = (
Hi ya - well here is my sad sad story I bought Mandrake 7.0 on Sunday, and I've been working on installing it properly since. I've already ditched a class, and I'm going to not go to school again tonight, just so I can install linux. My system: 12 gig hard-drive, Pentium II 400, 64 mb memory My problem: so far I've only been able to install the whwhole thing once, and even then I couldn't get my KDE up. Everytime I try to install it, I get a different patter of errors. For example, I go through all the steps, and then when I try to create a boot disk it says it failed. These are the following errors I get: can't find dumpkey, can't config timezone, can't find base packages or the system freezes all together. Can someone pretty pretty please help me. The one time that I did get to finish my installation, I was able to get a graphical login. I logged in and all I saw was two screens, one being xterm, and the other I'm not sure about. I also had a neat clock on the upper right. I was unable to see the kde desktop. In the manual it said if all went well I should see a kde desktop, so I figured all didn't go well =( I'll spend another 6 hours tonight, figuring it out - thanks in advance Alex
[newbie] sound card config
I have a turtle beach montego II sound card that came wiht my dell computer. I went to aureal and got all of the sound drivers that are needed, I ran make install and it keeps telling me that the Device or resource is busy. I turned off pnp in my bios, and i don't know what else to try. Any suggestions?
Re: [newbie] installation problems = (
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[newbie] Enlightenment upgrade
Hello! My Mandrake distro came with DR0.16.3 release of E. Now I downloaded the 0.16.4 RPM release. Do I need to uninstall .3 before upgrading to .4? Or just `rpm -i' it? Thanks!
Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
Philomenano. The fstab file is only concerned with mounting file systems. A cd, a cdr, and a cdrw are the same thing as far as the fstab entry is concerned. It's only the burning software that needs to know about cdr's and cdrw's and they scan the drives and figure this out for themselves. Alan Philomena wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks, I'll check that out when I get home. I just realized something I should have mentioned when describing my problems with the CDROM drive - its a CD-RW drive - does that require something additional in the fstab file ? On Wed, 26 April 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: philomenaas of version 7, setup is no longer installed by default. I believe it's still on the installation cd, but I don't remember which package it's in. Alan philomena wrote: Paul, what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the command from the console and its not found. I searched all drives and didn't find anything. I reinstalled and made sure to leave supermount on - so, my fstab entries are exactly like yours, but the devices are still not working. Error message is a bit different - KFM says something like "can't display directory", and if I try to command line ls, an error message states there is an input/output error. Thx, philomena - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, root wrote: time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far except the three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as tones - no bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB Live!. run "setup" as root, and check the 'sound' section. I have an SB Value64 and that was initially off too. After going through this by hand it worked fine. Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes back with the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" What is in your /etc/fstab. For floppy and cdrom with me it says: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Does that match? Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Still unable to invoke modem.
Where would be a good place to begin to determine problem and make the necessary correction to modem set up. I am able to invoke Drakcomp, but do not seem to run the set up properly. System is a Gateway 500p, 4.2gig. purchased 60 days ago. Howtos, man, available, but I must be overlooking something. Do I rerun setup, from the cd, again, or just attempt to upgrade. I have Linux Mandrake 7.02 on a separate HD, hdb. Another problem is that Linux seems to take 4 or 5 minutes to start, from the boot disk. Thanks in advance.
Re: [newbie] Trendware?
yes I use it in linux very well... call waiting and all... - Original Message - From: Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Trendware? I was in Circuit City last night and found a modem that list Linux right on the package as one of the OS's that it supports. I don't know if this is a new trend, but I like it. The company was 'actiontech' I believe (never heard the name before) and it was a 'call waiting' modem. Mike - Original Message - From: "The Russells" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Trendware? Found something curious in my surfings this evening. www.trendware.com claims to offer Linux device drivers for their products. Don't think my modem is one of their devices, but maybe the info could help someone out there. Has anyone tried any of their drivers? I am quite curious about this, just on general principal!!! Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] Install security setting
Hopper wrote: Is there a list of what the install-time security settings provide? I'm referring to the 1-5 list that starts with "Hack me please" and ends with "Ultra Paranoid" (or something to those effects). I'm curious as to the technical details of each setting, such as what services are installed and running, what ports are open etc... Regards, Nathan Hopper These are handled by the msec package. So, you will find the descripion you want in a file under /usr/doc/msecver directory. But you can have a far more detailed documentation about securing your box in the security-HOWTO HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment upgrade
Use rpm -U and everything should be fine Hello! My Mandrake distro came with DR0.16.3 release of E. Now I downloaded the 0.16.4 RPM release. Do I need to uninstall .3 before upgrading to .4? Or just `rpm -i' it? Thanks
RE: [newbie] Enlightenment upgrade
just rpm -Uvh -Original Message- From: Nickolay Belostotsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 09:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Enlightenment upgrade Hello! My Mandrake distro came with DR0.16.3 release of E. Now I downloaded the 0.16.4 RPM release. Do I need to uninstall .3 before upgrading to .4? Or just `rpm -i' it? Thanks!
RE: [newbie] (Newbie) Hydrogen
1. Mandrake supports DVD drives (so that they can function like a CD-ROM drive), but you have to use a seperate program to play DVD movies. And I don't think there is any DVD Software out for Linux, but I could be wrong. But if you want to play movies, check out www.opendvd.org for more info about the current Linux DVD situation. 2. I have no idea. I have a "old" creative drive that does just fine, but I'm not sure about it's Evilness factor : ) i'm after buying a DVD drive, 1: does 7.1 support dvd's 2: which dvd drive shouldn't i buy, eg bad ones or ones produced buy companies that give money to the us government ;-), put the patient on the fermentation of penicillin -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] In second stage install died at usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 202
Egio Brodshaug wrote: When I start installing Mandrake 7.0 from a harddrive I get this message after beginning second stage install: "In second stage install died at usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 202 install exited abnormally sending termination signals... done" What is this?? I don't really have a clue here, but I get a somewhat similar message: "In second stage install: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 Date Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display :0 at /usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 and then it dies in the same way. I never get the installation screen. I'm trying to install this directly from CD-ROM (7.0 Power Pack) on an oldish machine: Pentium 90MHz, 40MB RAM, HD's 500MB + 1300MB, IDE CD-ROM drive. The graphics card is from Diamond (Stealth 64 I think). SuperProbe says: S3 Trio 64, 2MB RAM. Red Hat 6.1 installed flawlessly on this machine, and runs XFree86 3.3.5 without problems. Any help would be appreciated. Is there, for example, a way to install without using X? TIA Thomas -- - Thomas Huld European Commission - Joint Research Centre - Ispra Site(IT) T.P.723 I-21020 Ispra| Insofar as my employer has coherent Italy| opinions they are unlikely to be mine tel. +39 0332 785273 | (That said, see http://eu.conecta.it) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: [newbie] Re : Enlightenment
Click both the left and right buttons at the same time, that will give you a middle click. You should get a menu that says "User Menus, Desktop, Settings, Themes" and a few more. On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:50:02 -0500 (CDT) To: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re : Enlightenment I don't believe I enabled 3 button emulation but if I did how do you middle click with a 2 button mouse. Mike Del Kennedy wrote: Hi ~ I have run KDE and Gnome for a while under redhat, but recently installed Mandrake and decided to try out Enlightenment. It's fine, but for one thing - if I iconify a window, it vanishes; there are no icons anywhere. So my question is : where do iconified windows go to ? (The iconified-window planet ?!) middle-click on your desktop then choose desktop-create new icon box. (you should take the time to read the help. It's not very huge, but it's very usefull.) HTH Flupke . Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] VMware Tools ver. 2.0
Are there any VMware users out there using ver 2.0? As of 2.0, the VMware Tools are (supposedly) included in the VMware program download - they no longer exist as a separate package - I have downloaded the 2.0 package for Linux, and installed it - I loaded Win2000 as the guest OS, and it works fine - connects to my company's lan and everything, but it is operating in straight VGA mode (640x480x16-color). I have used ver. 1.x for Win NT and loaded Linux as the guest, and used the VMware Tools for Linux that used to come separately - Worked great. With this "New, Improved" method, I can not find the VMware Tools executable that is described in VMware's new documentation - Can't find the Linux OR the Windows version - Even tried installing the new VMware for Win NT on my NT partition to see if the Tools executable would turn up there - no luck. Does anyone out there have a copy of VMwareTools.exe that they could send me? If so, my address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Joe
[newbie] Dual Booting to WIN95/Linux with Boot Magic V5/LILO
Hello all, I am having difficulty trying to setup dual booting using Boot magic with WIN95/LINUX. My boot floppy boots fine into LINUX Mandrake 7.0, but I would like to not have to fumble around with a boot floppy disk. Now for the story...I used partition magic 5.0 to setup my partition for LINUX and also loaded Bootmagic 2.0. In my initial installation of LINUX I get a error message when I get to the section on setting up Dual-Booting to either Windows or LINUX. In the area of "Install bootloader" I get the error message installation of LILO failed. The following error occurred: geo_comp_addr: cylinder number is too big (11711023)". I have two harddrives on my system a WD 13.6 GB and a Maxtor 6.4 GB. I have loaded LINUX on my WD 13.6 GB with a logical partition. WIN95 is also loaded onto my WD 13.6 GB harddrive. I am unclear about the 1024 cylinder limit which I am fairly sure is causing the problem. I have roughly 3 GB allocated for LINUX and 10.6 GB for WIN95. What do I need to do in order to enable Bootmagic to boot either from WIN95 or LINUX?? Please bear with me because I am relatively new learning about how to setup my partitions on my PC. Thanks in advance,
[newbie] dos partition problem
i have installed staroffice as a user on my newly installed mandrake7.0 setup. i predominantly use KDE, i can only read files on my dos partition but not write to it, i have discovered that this is true even if trying to create a new file/directory using kfm, but i can write to it as root, clearly a permisions problem but i can't work out where i am going wrong in changing permissions. do have to change permisions for the mount point? for the device file? do i have to add the user to a particular group? if i use kfm to try and change permissions as root by right clicking on the mount point and choosing propertiespermissions when i choose okay everything just freezes, booting win98 shows a new file in the root of the dos partition called .directory which seems to be the kde version of windows desktop.ini i.e. references to icons background etc. all values are left blank. deleting this file and rebooting linux gives me back access to the dos partition for read purposes but kfm shows the permisions as unchanged. using chmod to change the permissions(as root) gives no error message but kfm still shows the permisions as unchanged -here i really freak out! unmounting the dos partition and checking permisions for the mount point shows a different set of permisions again! dos partition =/dev/hda5, permissions =666 mount point =/mnt/drivee, permisions =755 mount point (unmounted), permissions =777 /dev/hda5 appears to be owned by root in group disk, and the mount point /mnt/drivee owned by root in group root any advice gratefully received bascule
[newbie] supermount?
hi people, is supermount reliable? i ask because i cannot get it to work, i have reinstalled several times with the supermount option but to read a floppy i have to mount and unmount manually using a combination of the mount command and draksconf alternately, also when simply examining mounted hard drive options through Draksconf i now have no access to my cd drives which used to work! both cdrom and cdrw are scsi devices -a clue? i have read about some sort of timeout option for the mount command but i don't know if or how this might apply to my floppy drive- something to do with trying to read the files on the floppy before the drive is ready- any one the wiser out there? bascule
[newbie] Kernal Panic and Router
I made a dual boot of win98 and linux. I have two harddrives c: = windows d=linux I got everything setup. When I choose my linux from the boot menu it loads half way they I get a KERNAL PANIC: VFS: Unable to Mont Root 03:10 and its stuck. I reinstall mandrake and it did the same thing. But i loaded it before okay Suggestions? Also does anyone know how to make linux mandrake become a routerI have @home service with 3 boxes but only 1 ip. I heard you can hook another network card into a linux box and have it give out ips.
Re: [newbie] Netscape
My guess would be you have NOT gone into the MENU, Edit, Preferences, etcetera. SetUp the thing in there and it will. 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 Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:32:21 -0700 Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ??Advertising?? Just a guess, Mike Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, then it goes to the home page. -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
You may have to REINSTALL from the CD and do a DEVELOPER type UPGRADE, I just went through that same problem of 'Command SetUp not found' and did a Developer install and one of the selections was 'SETUP'. Have not tried it as yet, trying to read some of this mail (115 messages). 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 Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:58:31 -0400 "philomena" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul, what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the command from the console and its not found. I searched all drives and didn't find anything. I reinstalled and made sure to leave supermount on - so, my fstab entries are exactly like yours, but the devices are still not working. Error message is a bit different - KFM says something like "can't display directory", and if I try to command line ls, an error message states there is an input/output error. Thx, philomena - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, root wrote: time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far except the three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as tones - no bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB Live!. run "setup" as root, and check the 'sound' section. I have an SB Value64 and that was initially off too. After going through this by hand it worked fine. Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes back with the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" What is in your /etc/fstab. For floppy and cdrom with me it says: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Does that match? Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 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] Still unable to mount cdrw and read directory
Lonnie Marvena wrote: Hi I have tried everything listed below and am still unable to read the directory of a cd on this drive. In the fstab it says its mounts ok and when I check it says it is mounted but I get an error saying Can't read directory. What a stuburn little bugger this thin is. Its and ide Smart Friendly CDRW2224 racer on my secondary ide controller and set as slave. Any help would be appreaceated and I would like to thank the ones who have help me get this far. THKS Lonnie I didn't follow this tread so far, so I might repeat some advices that you were given. Sorry if this is the case. So far, I never had any luck trying to configure my cdrw with the ide-scsi module. Instead, I build it hard (ie not as a module) in the kernel, and remove the ATAPI cdrom support. With any distrib (suse, mdk, rh, slack, ...)it worked. My cdrw and cdrom were recognized as /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1. And I just had to remake the /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom2 symlinks. HTH Flupke
[newbie] Compiling from source - guess I'm just not getting it...
Just downloaded the Linux version of cthugha from the web - in tar.gz form - followed the installation instructions, and as usual, the program doesn't work - Can't seem to find the executable, when I do a Find Files in KDE for " cthugha* ", I don't find an executable that works - the closest thing I find is /usr/local/lib/cthugha-L, which I would assume by it's location is a library file - anyway, out of desperation, I tried running that file and got a segmentation error... This sort of thing happens every time I compile stuff from source - I guess I'm just not comprehending things here... I used to write c++ code in DOS, so this really shouldn't be such a problem for me - What am I missing
[newbie] sound card config
help, i have a soundblaster pci 128 that will not work for me, my install of mandrake 7.0 was not as bad as i thought it was going to be.
Re: [newbie] Can't start X-Window
THANK YOU LEE, THANK YOU LEE, THANK YOU LEE, this is a GREAT way to do this for others that may have a problem with the ENGLISH language. Good to see there are some out there that have a little of the abilities to assist with out being sarcastic. 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 Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:29:43 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_lee _kinkade) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: Hi all Sory, I very bad speak English :-) I try to install Mandrake v7.0 lake Server. X-Window setup Ok, but when I start it, on ther is only blue screen and 2 window whis console. If install default or developer, X-Window start Ok. Plase, ansver ( if You can read this ;-)) Mihail Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please correct me if this advice is incorrect. I am very new to linux, but this worked for me. go to the bottom window and type exit to get out put the mandrake cd in the drive Mount the CD by doing the following: at the command line prompt, type: mount /dev/cdrom press enter To get to the directories on the CD, at the command line prompt, type: cd /mnt/cdrom press enter type cd Mandrake/RPMS This directory had the files that you need to install. the command to use to install files is rpm -Uvh filename When I installed make, I typed rpm -Uvh make*.rpm I used the asterisk as a wild card because the file names are so long. http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-4.html#ss4.3 states which packages to install for kde. kdesupport (RECOMMENDED) kdelibs (REQUIRED) kdebase (REQUIRED) kdegames (OPTIONAL) kdegraphics (OPTIONAL) kdeutils (OPTIONAL) kdemultimedia (OPTIONAL) kdenetwork (OPTIONAL) kdeadmin (OPTIONAL) kdetoys (OPTIONAL) note for some files you may be told that a package it is dependant upon has not been installed. You then just have to find the right package on the cd and install it. If you can't, there may be more than one file that is named similarly, so you can try to install that instead. I had to install a package that started qt, one would not install so i tried another. I installed kde on two pc's yesterday. After you get the above installed, type startx at the command prompt. It should give you a nice full featured gui. --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question. 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.
