Re: [newbie] Bambi/sometimes back to Windoze
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Hi Bambi (and others), Yes, it will be good when people think that Linux is a viable option to Windoze. Some do now, but not enough. Some programs aren't even done for the Mac yet. (I wonder if that should tell us anything :) HAhahahahaha!!! That is so true!! I will be glad when Corel comes out with their Ventura for Linux. Then I hope for you that you do not have to wait too long! their Ventura this summer, can't wait. I am using their WP8 for Linux I use a very simple wordprocessor called AbiWord. Not too many bells and whistles, does just what I need :) The entire download is something like 1 meg! (interested people, go to http://www.abisource.com) Basically we tricked Linux into using the ISAPNP config stuff for part of the configuration and then disabled the PnP in bios and it found the modem properly and all works great. Hahaha!! That is so cool, huh? You can't do that with windows. Everything is registry, and that is lethal. The real problem there is that the last time I booted into Windoze that has the same settings as Linux for the sound card, it changed something in the bios, even though it is not allowed to, then I had no sound but still had modem in Linux. So there we were back at it again, with the boot down, enable PnP, boot up, ISAPNP config, boot down and up, verify sound works, then boot down, delete ISAPNP config, boot up and change bios to no PnP and let it configure the modem. So as you can see I am a little leary of going back into Windoze even though I need to. Okay, that makes sense. Not nice though... I have always hated internal modems. Just give me a serial cable sticking out the COM2 port, let me plug a small box to it. That is REAL plug and play! I was disappointed that I couldn't get festival to work on my machine even though the sound card works for everything else. It works well on Jim's RedHat Linux box...but I install it and it won't work. I don't get it. Now you got me cornered. What is Festival? Oh, well all in good time. I have only been in Linux for about 3 weeks now. I love it, but really dislike Netscrappy :) But I really haven't found a viable option that does at least what Netscrappy does do. The look is yukky to me. What version do you have? I have 4.72 here, it's been pretty good so far. Okay, it hangs itself once in a while. I have tried NCSA Mosaic, but never got the program to run. It just won't start, no matter how chmod +x I tell it to be. But through all of this I have learned quite a bit. And will continue. Sounds so familiar! Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] SENDMAIL WARNING
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Wade wrote: SENDMAIL WARNING SENDMAIL: is set-uid root, or run from set-uid root process SENDMAIL: fatal: No maildrop directory maildrop No such file or directory. Sorry, can't help you. I gave up on Sendmail. I use Qmail. much easier. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Romanator wrote: I'm sorry. I am was thinking of Windows. You are right. TheN6/Mozilla is definitely more stable. Roman Hmm. This sounds good. I will check it out then. Even though NS 4.72 is pretty stable here really. It has only killed itself about 5 times since I went linux almost fulltime. Which is some 6 weeks now. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
Ok, lets go step by step to what happened and what you should have done, and what you need to do. Most of it isnt' really Mandrakes fault really. I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. That's because Netscape sucks really hard. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. This also happens every once in a while. To get rid of it, hit ctrl+alt+backspace. That will kill X and bring you back to the login prompt. So I manually rebooted. VERY bad idea. Never ever reboot manually unless you absoluty positivily cannot do it from Linux. (which has only happned to me 3 times in the 9 months I've been using Linux). Of course, since you didn't know how to do it from Linux, then in your eyes you couldn't do it, hence rebooting manually was justified in your case. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the boot process slightly. But then something different popped up: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then: "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or ctrl-D for normal startup". That's what happens when the gods get displeased at you rebooting manually and decide to make you suffer. Or in a more accurate since, the manual reboot screwed up your file system, and you're supposed to use fsck to fix it. So I entered the root password, and it said, "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version 1.14...". That is not a good sign. When you enter the root password it's supposed to drop you into a command prompt so you can run fsck. I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it scrolled too fast to make out the whole message. I'm not sure what you should do know. My best advice is just go ahead and reinstall. It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better. Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. Once a journaling file system gets implemented into Linux, many of the filesystem problems should diminish. Then simply rebooting your machine won't toally screw it up like it did to yours. But intill then, Linux has to be pampered a little bit. It's after 1 AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-( Look at it this way. Now you know what do if it ever happens again. And you already know many of the things you need to do, so reinstallation and configuring won't take near as long as it
[newbie] lost X! help
well just when i thought i was doing ok, i went and deleted the contents of /tmp on account i had run out of disk space and i thought /tmp's contents were well, just that, temporary. obviously not so since now, i cannot boot into X, i can get into runlevel3, since my friend has my cd i thought i'd try to install XFree86-4 from files i have on a dos disk but when i run rpm -ivf blah blah i get the message 'unexpected query source' what does this mean? is there a simpler way to get X back? feeling foolish bascule
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
i just wrote an e-mail to drake x about this problem. it happened to me agin tonight. in my case (and i don't know if it's the same as yours), it was the fstab file. get into the shell and emacs the fstab file. see what it says. i have a hunch that that is your problem. jd From: X Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake. Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:32:51 -0700 Thanks JD. I haven't quite decided what to do yet. I feel kind of like a guy who's house just got wiped out by a tornado, and still picking through the debris trying to figure out what the hell happened. What you said about not being able to mount in read/write mode reminds me of something I saw flash on the screen early in the boot process. I was paying extra close attention to everything at bootup after this happened, and so I'm not sure if it was new or not, but I saw something about read-only. It was only on the screen for like a split second. I'll try it again and see if I can catch anything more. At 03:25 PM 05/14/2000 +, you wrote: i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that i could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like edit the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only hd. finally after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave up and reinstalled. unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the first chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide that mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not, we're sorry to lose ya. good luck jd From: X Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake. Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700 I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the boot process slightly. But then something different popped up: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then: "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said, "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version 1.14...". I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it scrolled too fast to make out the whole message. It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better. Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1 AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time in Linux. I had just
Re: [newbie] mounting filesystems for users of a spec. group
:~i would like to know wether theres a possibility to allow only users of a :~specific group to mount filesystems, up to now ive set the "user" flag in :~fstab, but that would allow any user to mount this filesystem, and i only want :~to allow this one group.how can i change this ? :~thx in advance. At the moment, only "sudo" comes to my mind. There is "owner" option, but you would have to change ownership of devices on every login - rather dirty. Unfortunately, there is no "group" option for fstab :-( -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
Boboops! I forgot about choosing your icon using the icon picture button while you're in the Execute tab page, sorry! Alan Alan Shoemaker wrote: Bobinstead of dragging the netscape shell script icon onto the desktop and choosing link do this: 1) right-click the desktop. 2) choose New 3) choose Application 4) name it what you want , but leave the kdelnk part after the dot alone. 5) choose the Execute tab 6) put /usr/bin/netscape in the upper (not the lower one) Execute field. 7) choose the ok button Alan Bob wrote: Paul, Found out and dragged the black screen on to my USER disktop, created a link, but am unable to change the icon to Netscape. Now I have two screens one for xrpm and one for the big "N"? Oh, in my /root :) I have the link on the desktop, and the icon is the Netscape wheel. On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
Bobinstead of dragging the netscape shell script icon onto the desktop and choosing link do this: 1) right-click the desktop. 2) choose New 3) choose Application 4) name it what you want , but leave the kdelnk part after the dot alone. 5) choose the Execute tab 6) put /usr/bin/netscape in the upper (not the lower one) Execute field. 7) choose the ok button Alan Bob wrote: Paul, Found out and dragged the black screen on to my USER disktop, created a link, but am unable to change the icon to Netscape. Now I have two screens one for xrpm and one for the big "N"? Oh, in my /root :) I have the link on the desktop, and the icon is the Netscape wheel. On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul
[newbie] Uggghhhh....lost star office!
Ok, I know I did something (sumpthing stupid) but I don't know what. I had Star Office installed and working fine, then while the program was up, I clicked on the wrong something or other in the program and it simply disappeared off of the desktop! Now, I go to the K-menu to start the application, and it goes through the proceess of opening up, shows the Sun logo, then it disappears. I can't for the life of me figure out what I did wrong or how to correct it. Any ideas??? Bill - who's proudly 1005 Micro$oft Free Registered Linux User #78337
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux?
Doesn't work. Charles A Edwards wrote: Mike Login as root. Open DrakeConfig and choose Priner Config. Follow through the setup questions untill you get to select printer and there choose HP DeskJet 500C, print a test page and you are done. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael A. Kellogg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:03 PM Subject: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux? Hi folks! Ok, It's a shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a printer driver that will work for a Lexmark Z11 printer. Or, if possible, any emulation that might work for Linux. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Mike -- CF 10K Walk: http://members.home.net/jimgbrown/strides.html ___ \/\_\@ / /\ __ ___ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / /\ / / /\ /--/ //\_\/\_/\ /\/\/\ /\_/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /__/ / / // / / / /__/ // / /__/ //_/_/ // // / home: (972)495-3821 \__\/ \/ \/\/\/ \__\/ \/ \__\/ \_\_\/ \/ \/ work: (972)889-4228 Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.
Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off
Sorry to get off the subject but your e-mail comes in with the a ! next to it whats that mean and hwo do you do it? Sorry about off the topic just curious. :) - Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off when it gets to the login prompt the screen just goes black. there is still power to it it just goes blank. - Original Message - From: "vern" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 8:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off | Shut off as to power (AC out of the wall) or as to video | from the display card? | vern | | Marc wrote: | | my monitor on my other box shuts off when i get to the login prompt. i mean | it wont turn back on. this never has happened till i installed md on it. any | input on this? | | _ | NetZero - Defenders of the Free World | Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email | http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html | | -- | Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] | This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! |Silly hacker, root is for administrators! | | _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still
Thank you all so much I appreciate your patience. I am going to attempt what Drake X wrote even though its beyond my knowledge at this time :) I have a isa modem jaton modulator 56k pnp. When i try to run minicom it says configuration file not found , using defaults. Kppp says initializing modem and stalls, if I query the modem a modem query results screen pops up but is all blanks. DrakConf says checking for isa , creating tree but no + are by the modem after it does this and it isnt listed. Modem Commands are :AT^M Init Response OK Dial String ATDT. The minicom log i have shows all hangups. I hope I have given you all specific enough information. Basically is linux not seeing my modem or do I have kppp not set up correctly? Windows shows my modem as being on com3 , so i set it as $ ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem. thx Vicky Drake X wrote: Hi Vicky, I'm not sure if this would help in your particular case, and I'm assuming you don't have a winmodem, but it sounds similar to what I went through a few months ago. Here's something someone posted awhile back that got me out of where you seem to be now (KPPP hell). If you try it, try to follow it to the T. I was amazed that it actually works once you properly complete each step!: " For all you with pnp modem problems, this is how I got my usr 56k internal ISA modem to work pnp: 1. Type "/sbin/pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf" ##this loads info on your ISA PnP board(s) into the appropriate .conf file. 2. Type "/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" ##this makes your existing ISA PnP configuration active. 3. open your isapnp.conf file. You will have to remove the comment line from a couple of the resources listed, depending on how you want to set it up. Half way down the file you'll see a comment that says multiple choice time. You have to choose what IRQ and com you want to use. Com1=0x3f8, Com2=0x2f8, Com3=0x3e8, Com4=0x2e8. Here is an example of what I uncommented: # Start dependent functions: priority preferred # Fixed IO base address 0x02f8 # Number of IO addresses required: 8 (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x02f8)) # IRQ 3. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E))) This put me on Com2 IRQ 3. After you know what com port and irq you set it to, you can go onto the next step 3. Type "setserial /dev/ttySx port y irq z spd_vhi autoconfig" ##notation is as follows: "x" is your COMport, with 0=COM1, 1=COM2, 2=COM3, 3=COM4; "y" is the standard (or defined) address of that port, e.g. 0x3e8; "z" is the interrupt used by that port, usually 4 or 3; thus, if your modem is on COM1 with a standard address IRQ, the line would read "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x3f8 irq 4 spd_vhi autoconfig" . Oh, yes:"spd_vhi" is optional, I'd advise using it with a 56k modem, mine runs faster with it, but you could leave it off without a problem. 4. Type "rm /dev/modem" ##you may get a "not found" message, which is fine; if a /dev/modem" is found, you'll be asked to confirm this removal, type "y" to proceed. 5. Type "ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/modem" ##this establishes the linkage needed for your modem, not essential, but conventional; again, "x" here is the same as "x" in item 3 above. 6. With a text editor, open your "/rc.local" file, add the "setserial" command defined in item 3 above at the end of the file, save the file and exit the editor. ##For example, if your editor is xemacs, you'd type "xemacs /etc/rc.d/rc.local", then add the "setserial" command line. 7. Exit, logout, and reboot (not just restart Xserver). You should see a line for ISA PnP devices as you boot up. That should do it :) Thanks to Alan for help via his previous message - Original Message - From: "Ron Sinclair" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings At 01:38 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote: Is there a way to get linux to detect my USR internal 56k modem when the cards jumpers are set to PnP? Right now I have to set the jumpers to PnP to work with windows and set the jumpers to com2 to get it to work with Linux. Hi, Could you let me know if you get any answers to your PNP problem? I'm having the exact same problem. Thanks, Ron Sinclair AKA NipponDSM __ ICN 3765104 http://members.tripod.com/~WIGGLIT/page2.html http://www.dsm.org " At 09:34 PM 05/10/2000 -0700, you wrote: okay I found drakconf :) right there on my desktop, when I look in there nothing is listed for modem. I am so confused , I thought I had it installed okay , when i ran minicom I got the ok. I called my isp , they said they dont support linux and even though the admin has a BS in comp sci and is msce ,,etc He doesnt know anything about it and wasnt sure if it is chap or pap. I havent seen any responses to my pleas for help , this is the first maling list I have ever been on also. So even if
[newbie] No more Mandrake.....
I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the boot process slightly. But then something different popped up: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then: "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said, "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version 1.14...". I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it scrolled too fast to make out the whole message. It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better. Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1 AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-(
Fw: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still
This never posted to my inbox so I am resending it. Forgive me if it dups. in yours. Charles - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still Vicky The following are the instructions for installing an ISA modem in Linux. Q: How do I install the modem for Linux kernel 2.2.x? A: Command Line: Manually configure the COM port and IRQ via the jumper settings on the modem card and insert it into an open 16-bit ISA slot in the computer. Make sure you don't configure the modem to a COM and IRQ currently being used by the computer. Boot Linux. You should see Linux list the serial ports when booting. If there isn't a ttyS value matching the modem configuration, shutdown Linux after boot and reconfigure the modem. X-Windows: After the window manager opens, open an xterm window and type "control-pane" and hit enter. The control panel will open and select Modem configuration. In the Configure Modem section, select the communications port that the modem is installed to. Device Information ttyS0 COM1 under DOS ttyS1 COM2 ttyS2 COM3 ttyS3 COM4 Select the ttyS that the modem is on and click on OK. This creates a link from /dev/modem to the actual modem device. Run a terminal program, like minicom, and issue AT commands to the modem. If the modem responds, installation of the modem is good. I hope this is some help Charles - Original Message - From: "Vicky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still Thank you all so much I appreciate your patience. I am going to attempt what Drake X wrote even though its beyond my knowledge at this time :) I have a isa modem jaton modulator 56k pnp. When i try to run minicom it says configuration file not found , using defaults. Kppp says initializing modem and stalls, if I query the modem a modem query results screen pops up but is all blanks. DrakConf says checking for isa , creating tree but no + are by the modem after it does this and it isnt listed. Modem Commands are :AT^M Init Response OK Dial String ATDT. The minicom log i have shows all hangups. I hope I have given you all specific enough information. Basically is linux not seeing my modem or do I have kppp not set up correctly? Windows shows my modem as being on com3 , so i set it as $ ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem. thx Vicky Drake X wrote: Hi Vicky, I'm not sure if this would help in your particular case, and I'm assuming you don't have a winmodem, but it sounds similar to what I went through a few months ago. Here's something someone posted awhile back that got me out of where you seem to be now (KPPP hell). If you try it, try to follow it to the T. I was amazed that it actually works once you properly complete each step!: " For all you with pnp modem problems, this is how I got my usr 56k internal ISA modem to work pnp: 1. Type "/sbin/pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf" ##this loads info on your ISA PnP board(s) into the appropriate .conf file. 2. Type "/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" ##this makes your existing ISA PnP configuration active. 3. open your isapnp.conf file. You will have to remove the comment line from a couple of the resources listed, depending on how you want to set it up. Half way down the file you'll see a comment that says multiple choice time. You have to choose what IRQ and com you want to use. Com1=0x3f8, Com2=0x2f8, Com3=0x3e8, Com4=0x2e8. Here is an example of what I uncommented: # Start dependent functions: priority preferred # Fixed IO base address 0x02f8 # Number of IO addresses required: 8 (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x02f8)) # IRQ 3. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E))) This put me on Com2 IRQ 3. After you know what com port and irq you set it to, you can go onto the next step 3. Type "setserial /dev/ttySx port y irq z spd_vhi autoconfig" ##notation is as follows: "x" is your COMport, with 0=COM1, 1=COM2, 2=COM3, 3=COM4; "y" is the standard (or defined) address of that port, e.g. 0x3e8; "z" is the interrupt used by that port, usually 4 or 3; thus, if your modem is on COM1 with a standard address IRQ, the line would read "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x3f8 irq 4 spd_vhi autoconfig" . Oh, yes:"spd_vhi" is optional, I'd advise using it with a 56k modem, mine runs faster with it, but you could leave it off without a problem. 4. Type "rm /dev/modem" ##you may get a "not found" message, which is fine; if a /dev/modem" is found, you'll be asked to confirm this removal, type "y" to proceed. 5. Type "ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/modem" ##this establishes the linkage needed for your modem, not essential, but conventional; again, "x" here is the
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
Thanks for the inspiration Andrew! I can certainly use it right now! At 10:04 PM 05/14/2000 +0100, you wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake. Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 15:25:30 GMT From: "J D" [EMAIL PROTECTED] But now here I am back in Windows full time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-( Sorry to hear of your troubles with Mandrake and unfortunatly as a newbie I'm in no position to help. However Linux is a marvellous system and even if mandrake has proved somewhat problematic there are plenty of alternatives out there so don't give up. A friend of mine is having a hell of a time installing Md 7 but sees it as being a part of the whole fun of running Linux. Don't give up. Shop around first and then maybe you can be laughing right back in the face of Mr. Gates. -- Andrew Blackburn England -- In the pursuit of learning, Everyday something is aquired -- (Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching)
[newbie] Knapster
Hi there. New to the list ( say welcome !!!) I am a newbie in Linux and a slow learner ( not much time to spend in front of the computer) After the intro!! here is the question. I downloaded and installed?? Knapster. I downloaded the RPM version and I used RPM Drake to install it. According to the doc. I was supposed to have an icon under Internet on KDE. I got nothing and I can not find the installed files anywhere. I have to use Find file to be able to use the program. Any ideas will be welcomed. In general so you understand I am a bit confused with the whole idea of installing an RPM. Yes I know how to find the one I want how to install it but then when I want to (say) put a icon on my desktop for that program on my desktop I am lost. I had the same problem with Licq but at the end I managed to put it on the desktop but I have a hard time with Knapster so please help!! -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface! This message created with Linux!
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
Paul/Euniceyou really don't want to go to the binary for this link. The launching of netscape is done by a shell script and that is what you should be linking the desktop icon to. It's located at: /usr/bin/netscape Alan Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Installation Help for Linux Mandrake 7.0 -How about an installtion video guide
MandrakeSoft should include a little video for installations. I have 6 CDs that cannot be accessed. The Install Guide is way too sparse, and appears to be written almost as an afterthought. I understand that there are many volunteers involved, and I appreciated every one's help immensly. I have worked with many languages but I have never run into such a difficult installation. It's probabley something very simple that I'm missing. Time to hit the books and have a coffee. Roman
[newbie] Trouble installing Mandrake 7
It's my first time to install Linux and I'm having a terrible time with it. I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 with a boot disk I made with rawwrite with the cdrom image (since I can't boot from CD on this old system). My install always ends with this: in second stage of install _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect errno = 111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect errno = 111 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display :0 at /usr/bin/perl-install/mt-gtk.pm line 139. installed exited abnormally I guess this is the Xserver having trouble with my display and I've tried two different graphics cards a Trident and ATI All in Wonder Pro but both of them give me this error. Here are the specs to the system I'm trying to install on: Cyrix 150 Hot - 541 mainboard 1 x 32 meg SIM Mitsumi FX810S CD-ROM Trident 9440-1 video card Maxtor 2.1 gig HD Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Ryan
Re: [newbie] do not read this - it is obscene .-)
:~HAHA im gettin a kick outta this one. Dennis you have the rights so :~people shouldn't complain. It is your list :) Wrong It is YOUR list (I mean, all of you), and you have full right to complain. And i feel kind of sory for offending people by my letter - it was intended to be funny, not to offend anyone. Which just shows that obscenities really do not belong to this group. Nevertheless, I hope I have made one point very clear: No censorship here, unless someone really forces me to do it - like with "unsubscribe" (yes, I can post this word). Just in case someone is still interested in the problem: I got no response from the filtering-program. I guess it was shut-down or reconfigured. Next time you see any similar problems, please just e-mail me. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] Filesystem is Read Only!
hey man, what's up. guess what? it happened to me again tonight!!! but i figured out what was wrong, at least with my system. it's the fstab file. for some reason, when i try to get my zip drive to work, it overwrites everything in the fstab file, and leaves only the lines for the zip drive. now the bad part. i haven't figure out how to fix it. so i had to reinstall, again. the only thing that i couldn't try was the recovery boot disk (mine was screwed up somehow). try that, if it works, then i'm gonna make about 8 recovery disks. but other than that, i don't know what to tell ya. jd From: Drake X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Filesystem is Read Only! Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:44:55 -0700 Well, I went back and played with it some more, and confirmed that the Linux filesystem is indeed, read only now. Here's the line I found during boot: "VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only." Just like what JD said happened to him. Despite all the angry, nasty looking error messages I still seem to be able to move around at the command prompt after I enter my root password. I tried startx but it just says "bash: id: command not found". Does anyone know if there's a way to reset the filesystem to read/write? Also, could I run install without having to wipe the Linux partitions clean? It would sure be great to run install again without losing all my settings and stuff! Thanks! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Resizing Drive with Partition Magic
Hi,
I am still working on my installation of Linux Mandrake 7.0. I installed
Partition Magic Special Edition(DOS).
Next, I resized my partition from 10 Gig to 2 Gig. This left a little
less than 8 Gig. of free space.
Partition Magic shows the following:
Volume TypeSize
Used FreeSTATUS PRI/LOG
C: DISK1_VOL1 FAT322,000.3 939.31,066.4
Active Primary
*Free space 7,765.8
0.00.0NonePrimary
I am still new to Partition Magic, and partitioning in general. I have a
feeling that something is missing. I think that I should create another
FAT32 partition? The beginning and ending commands in Partition Magic
are confusing me. Linux Mandrake 7.0 installation is unable to read the
partition table.
Read out in DOS during Linux installation
Partition Table
hdb: drive not ready for command
hdb: status error: status:0x00{}
hdd:hdd lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
Roman
Registered Linux Mandrake User
Re: [newbie] logitech trackball
If I were better at programming I would like to see what happens if I were to reverse compile the windows drivers and then re-compile them for linux, or if I would have to change any of the lines of code, since it runs for the same hardware it should not be to rottenly difficult unless there is something that I am n0t aware of. On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: Hello, I'm using a logitech trackball which has really nice drivers and software for windows, but according to the company, Linux just isn't worth supporting. Anyway, there's a really nice feature called 'smart move' that whenever you open a window, etc., the cursor automatically moves to the default button on that page. Example: when an 'alert' box pops up that says either 'ok' or 'cancel', with the 'ok' button highlighted by default, the cursor instantly goes there. It's a simple feature that I've grown to REALLY appreciate in windows, but I miss in Linux. It's supported in all versions of 'mouseware' by logitech, and I'm wondering if there's a comparable Linux program that would do that? If not, how hard would it be to create a program like that? Thanks all, Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! == -- Signature: 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] PCMCIA Modem advice
can anyone recommend a pcmcia modem? Preferably 56k I've got a Versa M75 that I'm going to put Mandrake 7.0 on, and would like to be able to roam around with it. TIA.
Re: Fw: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still
Hey Vicky! It sounds like you might be following the same path I did! I got a similar error message on startup. I just went back and found the rest of the posts from that thread and pasted them in below. It looks like I may end up having to do all this again myself because I'm probably going to have to reinstall after some unknown cataclysmic event nuked everything in Linux last night! -=Drake X=- == for one, I dn't know if you typed this the first time, but in your rc.local it should be /dev/ttyS2 instead of dev/ttyS2. Also, I forgot to mention that also in your isapnp.conf file you have to un-comment a line near the bottom that says something to the effect of (ans y). This tells it to accept your configuration. Also, within each block of paramaters, make sure you ONLY uncomment the two lines identifying irq and base: i.e. (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x02f8)) and (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E))) Hope this helps. and from a 2nd post: Your modem may still be able to be on com 2. Since this is plug and play, it doesn't HAVE to be on thhe same port as it is in windows. As long as com2 is open(and the irq associated with it), you can configure it to be on com2 in your iaspnp.conf file. - Original Message - From: Drake X [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings Hi - I followed your instructions for getting Plug Play to work for my PnP USR modem, and everything went as you laidout, until I rebooted. In red text, it roughly said, "don't know what to do with start dependent functions no action taken can't parse isapnp.conf... around line 64 or priority acceptable". It was only on the screen for a brief amount of time so I might not have it typed out exactly right, but it's close. Here's what the section of the isapnp.conf file I modified looks like: start dependent functions: priority acceptable # logical device decodes 16 bit io address lines minimum io base address 0x03e8 maximum io base address 0x03e8 # io base alignment 8 bytes number of io addresses required: 8 (io (size 8) (base 0x03e8)) # IRQ 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, or 15. IRQ 2 high true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) (int 0 (IRQ 2 (mode + E))) and the line I added to the end of the rc.local file reads: setserial dev/ttyS2 port 0x3e8 irq 2 spd_vhi autoconfig I really appreciate any further help! I've been trying to get it working for over 2 hours tonight alone! The strange thing about it though, is that before my computer was upgraded the same modem worked fine in the same version of Mandrake (6.0). But the shop installed it back in a different slot, and now it is on COM 3 (it was COM 2 before). Thanks!!! At 06:04 PM 05/14/2000 -0700, you wrote: I attempted drake x's directions :) when i restarted linux it says: fatal error parsing config file ,I dont want to physically change my modem since its working fine in windows so at least I have internet access. It is set at com3 irq 5 I/O 03E8-03EF. will try again thx Vicky Charles A Edwards wrote: This never posted to my inbox so I am resending it. Forgive me if it dups. in yours. Charles - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still Vicky The following are the instructions for installing an ISA modem in Linux. Q: How do I install the modem for Linux kernel 2.2.x? A: Command Line: Manually configure the COM port and IRQ via the jumper settings on the modem card and insert it into an open 16-bit ISA slot in the computer. Make sure you don't configure the modem to a COM and IRQ currently being used by the computer. Boot Linux. You should see Linux list the serial ports when booting. If there isn't a ttyS value matching the modem configuration, shutdown Linux after boot and reconfigure the modem. X-Windows: After the window manager opens, open an xterm window and type "control-pane" and hit enter. The control panel will open and select Modem configuration. In the Configure Modem section, select the communications port that the modem is installed to. Device Information ttyS0 COM1 under DOS ttyS1 COM2 ttyS2 COM3 ttyS3 COM4 Select the ttyS that the modem is on and click on OK. This creates a link from /dev/modem to the actual modem device. Run a terminal program, like minicom, and issue AT commands to the modem. If the modem responds, installation of the modem is good. I hope this is some help Charles - Original Message - From: "Vicky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still Thank you all so much I appreciate your
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux?
Lexmarks are Winmodems. There are no drivers for Linux. Friend of mine had the same problem and no solution found. And ( you guessed it) Lexmark does not support Linux. maybe a different HP will do the trick On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: Doesn't work. Charles A Edwards wrote: Mike Login as root. Open DrakeConfig and choose Priner Config. Follow through the setup questions untill you get to select printer and there choose HP DeskJet 500C, print a test page and you are done. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael A. Kellogg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:03 PM Subject: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux? Hi folks! Ok, It's a shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a printer driver that will work for a Lexmark Z11 printer. Or, if possible, any emulation that might work for Linux. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Mike -- CF 10K Walk: http://members.home.net/jimgbrown/strides.html ___ \/\_\@ / /\ __ ___ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / /\ / / /\ /--/ //\_\/\_/\ /\/\/\ /\_/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /__/ / / // / / / /__/ // / /__/ //_/_/ // // / home: (972)495-3821 \__\/ \/ \/\/\/ \__\/ \/ \__\/ \_\_\/ \/ \/ work: (972)889-4228 Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface! This message created with Linux!
[newbie] Dual processor
Hey there. I know that I have asked this before, but I have not become any wiser on the subject. I am planning an upgrade of my machine, so I am trying to find out, if I can have any advantage of a dual processor system. I have read the FAQ's on the Gimp homepage, but I can't find any thing about support for multiple processors - does anybody know if the Gimp support dual/multi processors? Regards Mogens Jæger
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
X Drake wrote: I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually SNIP! WOW! I've never had any of these problems, it looks like a flaky hard drive, I know Linux is a LOT more particular about it's disk/file conditions. Back when I was using WinLinux 2000 (Linux used as a BIG Windoze file) I would have to run scan disk almost everytime I tried to use WinLinux! But once Linux was sure of it's files and their condition it ran well. I'm sorry to see you go and I still wonder if it is not a hardware problem: heat on the motherboard, bad stick of RAM or again some weirdness with the hard drive. I know windoze is a lot more tolerant of hard drive errors. vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off
I sent my last message on accident here is the info AMD K6 II 400MHz VIA Apollo Chipset Motherboard w/ 512K Cache 64 MB PC-100 SDRAM AGP Trident 3D with 4MB 17"CyberVision Monitor C70 .27dpi 1280x1024 Res. If any one can help please do. if not i will not be in pain lol this is for a friend ha. my install went smooth except i needa new modem =( - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Marc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off | Marcwhat's md? I ask because if your problem is related | to the installation of md then md or it's install routines may | have written to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file as the symptom | you describe sounds like incorrect synch rates for your | monitor. Just guessing here. | | Alan | | | Marc wrote: | | my monitor on my other box shuts off when i get to the login prompt. i mean | it wont turn back on. this never has happened till i installed md on it. any | input on this? | | _ | NetZero - Defenders of the Free World | Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email | http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html | _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] The demise of the expert list
DenisI'm located in Southern California and have noticed a problem with the expert list again. Here are the totals of messages arriving at my location, listed by the day, for this week: Monday56 Tuesday 24 Wednesday 26 Thursday 21 Friday 1 Saturday 4 Sunday 0 (so far, 7 hours are left in the day) Alan
[newbie] IE and wine
I know, don't everybody attack at once! I was reading someones post a couple of days ago and I'm not sure if it was sarcasm, but I would like to know if anyone has really tried running Internet Explorer on wine under Linux and if it works. Thanks, Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] cookies
Hi Michael. Delete /home/your-user/.netscape/cookies Take care! Hello all, Can someone tell me how to clear cookies from netscape? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! == -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: :~Denis Are you the daddy? -) Sure I am - look here: http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik/Album/20FirstDays/index.shtml A bit dated, but he is still among us.. :~ I have an MS intellimouse ,ps/2. :~I would like to have imwheel start automatically, or even be able to start :~it as a regular user (It worked fine in v.7.02). The only way I seem to get :~the wheel working is to change to 'su' in a terminal ,and type imwheel -k :~and then it starts. I've tried changing the permissions but still no luck as :~anyone other than the superuser starting this process. :~ **I have asked this question before, but didn't get a response." Well, this is certainly NOT the way it is supposed to be. Actually it is supposed to work withouth any interventions from your side AFAIK. Pixel? Has this been fixed? If yes, in which 7.1beta version? cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
Paul, Found out and dragged the black screen on to my USER disktop, created a link, but am unable to change the icon to Netscape. Now I have two screens one for xrpm and one for the big "N"? Oh, in my /root :) I have the link on the desktop, and the icon is the Netscape wheel. On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul
Re: [newbie] shutdown
I did read about shutdown. This is all so new that I missed something, and I suspected it at the time. Thanks to all who helped. -Gary-
Re: [newbie] shutdown
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: I wonder if it is possible to teach ctrl-alt-insert to reboot then... *grin* Hmmm... sounds good, what's the job of ctrl-alt-insert now? Sounds like it should be self explanitory, but I've never used that binding. It would be nice to have the reboot function sometimes; thought I don't use it quite as often as -h, it would be nice to have it back. At this moment it does the so called "nothing"... I don't want to play with it until I have a better understanding of what I am doing. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Netscape 6 / IM
On Sun, 14 May 2000, bluebottle wrote: I've been using IM, with Netscape 6, to connect with a friend on AOL. Ran under linux with no problems. This NS 6 you talk about, is that the preview that is available on the Netscape site? Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Telnet/SSH
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Wade wrote: I will make it my first package to go and download and install, althought I am not quite sure where to begin, or if I should be root when downloading or installing packages? Yes, you need to be root / su in order to install programs and packages. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] where do the built rpms go?
Hey, I'm building RPMs from tar.gzip'ed files that contain valid spec files. I'm using the command "rpm -ta file.tar.gz" The last output from this command is "+exit 0" which I believe means that the execution was successful. However..the problem is I don't know where the newly built rpm is. It is *not* in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/arch For some reason my computer doesn't seem to be creating the file. Regards, cyberclay --- cclay at fastlane dot net I think, therefore I am dangerous http://www.abednego.com
Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0
Romanyou're not stupid, so I won't call you that. :-) The problem is that the MandrakeSoft Powerpack (and MacMillan's 7.0 Deluxe) does not include PQ Partition Magic. MacMillan's 7.0 Complete is the package that includes it. Alan Romanator wrote: Call me stupid but I have checked all 6 CDs, and I cannot find Partition Magic. I purchased Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack. Roman. Charles A Edwards wrote: have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I tried using fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig. After reading a ton of material on hard drives, I came across an article about Win98SE, hard drives and 3rd party utilities. It stated that I should not used fdisk to partition the drive but DiskGo. The manufacturer provided it for free Roman Anytime I reformat any of my HDs I always use the vendor supplied software. IBM has EZDrive, Maxtor has MaxBlast and I suppose DiskGo is Fujitsu version. If all you will be installing on this drive are Win98 and Mandrake you do not need to partition your drive beforehand. 1) Install Win98 2)Install PM that is included with the Mandrake CDs 3)From within Win launch PM [It is a DOS based based program so do not worry when that message screen pops up]. 4}When PM launches click on the Win partition and from the tools select Resize. I suggest setting it at around 2GB, the other 8GB will be free space, and then click apply. 5) Install Mandrake. Unless you tell it otherwise it will auto install itself in the Free space. I would suggest allowing it 2.5GB, the remaining 5.5GB of your HD left as Free space. Set 1 of the Mandrake supplied options as your MBR. 6) You are done. One other word on SystemCommander( I like and use it myself). It comes on 2 floppys and to install any part of it you have to install all of it. Which means once installed you have to use it as your MBR. A second point. Any time you install or re-install Win98 or WinNT you will also have to re-install SysComnd. Charles
[newbie] cookies
Hello all, Can someone tell me how to clear cookies from netscape? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0
Hi Alan, The published packages with MacMillian and MandrakeSoft are a little confusing. After reading the Linux-Mandrake web site, I thought it would be best to purchase an official copy. However, I did purchase a book from Que called: "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook" by Roderick W. Smith. I found it very helpful(thanks Rod). The book came with a CD, and it included a copy of Partition Magic Special Edition(DOS version). Whew As I am very new to this, I thought that it would be better if I practiced on another computer. This computer has Win98SE installed on it. The entire C drive was the entire 10 Gig. drive. Using Partition Magic, I was able to reduce it to about 2 Gig.. The rest was left as free space. I rebooted using the installation CD 1. The installation started okay but was unable to read the partition table. I will try again today. I think I missed a step. Roman Linux Mandrake Registered User Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanyou're not stupid, so I won't call you that. :-) The problem is that the MandrakeSoft Powerpack (and MacMillan's 7.0 Deluxe) does not include PQ Partition Magic. MacMillan's 7.0 Complete is the package that includes it. Alan Romanator wrote: Call me stupid but I have checked all 6 CDs, and I cannot find Partition Magic. I purchased Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack. Roman. Charles A Edwards wrote: have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I tried using fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig. After reading a ton of material on hard drives, I came across an article about Win98SE, hard drives and 3rd party utilities. It stated that I should not used fdisk to partition the drive but DiskGo. The manufacturer provided it for free Roman Anytime I reformat any of my HDs I always use the vendor supplied software. IBM has EZDrive, Maxtor has MaxBlast and I suppose DiskGo is Fujitsu version. If all you will be installing on this drive are Win98 and Mandrake you do not need to partition your drive beforehand. 1) Install Win98 2)Install PM that is included with the Mandrake CDs 3)From within Win launch PM [It is a DOS based based program so do not worry when that message screen pops up]. 4}When PM launches click on the Win partition and from the tools select Resize. I suggest setting it at around 2GB, the other 8GB will be free space, and then click apply. 5) Install Mandrake. Unless you tell it otherwise it will auto install itself in the Free space. I would suggest allowing it 2.5GB, the remaining 5.5GB of your HD left as Free space. Set 1 of the Mandrake supplied options as your MBR. 6) You are done. One other word on SystemCommander( I like and use it myself). It comes on 2 floppys and to install any part of it you have to install all of it. Which means once installed you have to use it as your MBR. A second point. Any time you install or re-install Win98 or WinNT you will also have to re-install SysComnd. Charles
Re: [newbie] needed programs
Hi J D, I have found that xmms is a great mp3 clone of winamp and that gaim is a great AIM clone. I think I got both of them from the Mandrake CD, am certain I got the gaim from CD, can't remember for sure about the xmms. Bambi J D wrote: i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol instant messanger clone, so i can contact people using IM. does anyone know of any really good ones? jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2000, X Drake wrote: I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So Did you have no trouble to get back into Windows? This sounds so strange... If you did not have to reformat all kinds of things, then I am puzzled. If you did have to reformat your disk, then I could imagine that the harddisk itself has a problem. Well I had similar problems with M6 on a P75 w/ MB or PS problems, the disk was fine in my case. M7 is a lot better at self recovery (same system, same errors but it fixed itself). Once I moved the disk to another system all was well (note that I also had a lot of registry errors w/ Win on that P75 system). I don't think everything is gone but I don't have any suggestions for recovery. It doesn't help now but a couple of things I do in similar situations is to use Utilities Process Management for killing a progie and ctl-alt-backspace restart X if X gets weird.
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that i could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like edit the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only hd. finally after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave up and reinstalled. unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the first chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide that mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not, we're sorry to lose ya. good luck jd From: X Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake. Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700 I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the boot process slightly. But then something different popped up: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then: "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said, "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version 1.14...". I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it scrolled too fast to make out the whole message. It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better. Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1 AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-( Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
Thanks JD. I haven't quite decided what to do yet. I feel kind of like a guy who's house just got wiped out by a tornado, and still picking through the debris trying to figure out what the hell happened. What you said about not being able to mount in read/write mode reminds me of something I saw flash on the screen early in the boot process. I was paying extra close attention to everything at bootup after this happened, and so I'm not sure if it was new or not, but I saw something about read-only. It was only on the screen for like a split second. I'll try it again and see if I can catch anything more. At 03:25 PM 05/14/2000 +, you wrote: i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that i could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like edit the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only hd. finally after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave up and reinstalled. unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the first chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide that mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not, we're sorry to lose ya. good luck jd From: X Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake. Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700 I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the boot process slightly. But then something different popped up: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then: "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said, "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version 1.14...". I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it scrolled too fast to make out the whole message. It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better. Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1 AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-( Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions
OK!
I downloaded a new theme from kde.themes ('daPhoton') installed it and now
the mouse wheel works fine without any intervention.
I would ask why but since it's working now I won't ;that is until I get
tired of that theme.
Thanks DAD -:)
Eunice Thompson
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From: "Denis HAVLIK" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Pixel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote:
:~Denis Are you the daddy? -)
Sure I am - look here:
http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik/Album/20FirstDays/index.shtml
A bit dated, but he is still among us..
:~ I have an MS intellimouse ,ps/2.
:~I would like to have imwheel start automatically, or even be able to
start
:~it as a regular user (It worked fine in v.7.02). The only way I seem to
get
:~the wheel working is to change to 'su' in a terminal ,and type
imwheel -k
:~and then it starts. I've tried changing the permissions but still no
luck as
:~anyone other than the superuser starting this process.
:~ **I have asked this question before, but didn't get a response."
Well, this is certainly NOT the way it is supposed to be. Actually it is
supposed to work withouth any interventions from your side AFAIK.
Pixel? Has this been fixed? If yes, in which 7.1beta version?
cu
Denis
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[newbie] Kvirc frozen up...
... well, that's the problem! Since yesterday, all ok: today, every time I've tried to use Kvirc, all seemed to be right, till the tips box appear, giving no sign of life... then the hd start running, and did'nt stop at all (Wait half an hour...); reinstallation did nothing, the only difference between yesterday and today on my system, are QT2 libs upgraded to 2.1.0... (1.44 are still there, of course, since kde need it... but I use Gnome, aniway...)... Any ideas? Corrado
Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7
I've registered my copy of Word Perfect, and with my video properly configured again tried to install Star Office when Word Perfect was already in place, and it still corrupts Xwindows to the extent that I have to reload Linux to fix it. Summarizing many installs of Linux and WP/SO: 1) generic video or fully configured makes no difference, 2) whether Word Perfect has had its registration number entered or not makes no difference, 3) hdparm either default or c3d1, and desktop configuration makes no difference, 4) whether other RPMs have been installed or not makes no difference, and 5) the order of WP and SO makes no difference. The last couple of times I've gotten "install failed" at about 80% complete, which I had not gotten earlier, and I don't know what is responsible for that change. In all cases, everything seems fine until a reboot. I can't think of anything that might be responsible for this failure to get both WP and SO installed. I've spent a couple of weeks going through the various permutations, and the only conclusion I can come to is that this just isn't going to work for me, though I was encouraged and gladdened by others of you successfully installing them both. Thank you all for your assistance and your suggestions. -Gary-
Re: Fw: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still
I attempted drake x's directions :) when i restarted linux it says: fatal error parsing config file ,I dont want to physically change my modem since its working fine in windows so at least I have internet access. It is set at com3 irq 5 I/O 03E8-03EF. will try again thx Vicky Charles A Edwards wrote: This never posted to my inbox so I am resending it. Forgive me if it dups. in yours. Charles - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still Vicky The following are the instructions for installing an ISA modem in Linux. Q: How do I install the modem for Linux kernel 2.2.x? A: Command Line: Manually configure the COM port and IRQ via the jumper settings on the modem card and insert it into an open 16-bit ISA slot in the computer. Make sure you don't configure the modem to a COM and IRQ currently being used by the computer. Boot Linux. You should see Linux list the serial ports when booting. If there isn't a ttyS value matching the modem configuration, shutdown Linux after boot and reconfigure the modem. X-Windows: After the window manager opens, open an xterm window and type "control-pane" and hit enter. The control panel will open and select Modem configuration. In the Configure Modem section, select the communications port that the modem is installed to. Device Information ttyS0 COM1 under DOS ttyS1 COM2 ttyS2 COM3 ttyS3 COM4 Select the ttyS that the modem is on and click on OK. This creates a link from /dev/modem to the actual modem device. Run a terminal program, like minicom, and issue AT commands to the modem. If the modem responds, installation of the modem is good. I hope this is some help Charles - Original Message - From: "Vicky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still Thank you all so much I appreciate your patience. I am going to attempt what Drake X wrote even though its beyond my knowledge at this time :) I have a isa modem jaton modulator 56k pnp. When i try to run minicom it says configuration file not found , using defaults. Kppp says initializing modem and stalls, if I query the modem a modem query results screen pops up but is all blanks. DrakConf says checking for isa , creating tree but no + are by the modem after it does this and it isnt listed. Modem Commands are :AT^M Init Response OK Dial String ATDT. The minicom log i have shows all hangups. I hope I have given you all specific enough information. Basically is linux not seeing my modem or do I have kppp not set up correctly? Windows shows my modem as being on com3 , so i set it as $ ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem. thx Vicky Drake X wrote: Hi Vicky, I'm not sure if this would help in your particular case, and I'm assuming you don't have a winmodem, but it sounds similar to what I went through a few months ago. Here's something someone posted awhile back that got me out of where you seem to be now (KPPP hell). If you try it, try to follow it to the T. I was amazed that it actually works once you properly complete each step!: " For all you with pnp modem problems, this is how I got my usr 56k internal ISA modem to work pnp: 1. Type "/sbin/pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf" ##this loads info on your ISA PnP board(s) into the appropriate .conf file. 2. Type "/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" ##this makes your existing ISA PnP configuration active. 3. open your isapnp.conf file. You will have to remove the comment line from a couple of the resources listed, depending on how you want to set it up. Half way down the file you'll see a comment that says multiple choice time. You have to choose what IRQ and com you want to use. Com1=0x3f8, Com2=0x2f8, Com3=0x3e8, Com4=0x2e8. Here is an example of what I uncommented: # Start dependent functions: priority preferred # Fixed IO base address 0x02f8 # Number of IO addresses required: 8 (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x02f8)) # IRQ 3. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E))) This put me on Com2 IRQ 3. After you know what com port and irq you set it to, you can go onto the next step 3. Type "setserial /dev/ttySx port y irq z spd_vhi autoconfig" ##notation is as follows: "x" is your COMport, with 0=COM1, 1=COM2, 2=COM3, 3=COM4; "y" is the standard (or defined) address of that port, e.g. 0x3e8; "z" is the interrupt used by that port, usually 4 or 3; thus, if your modem is on COM1 with a standard address IRQ, the line would read "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x3f8 irq 4 spd_vhi autoconfig" . Oh, yes:"spd_vhi" is optional, I'd advise
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux?
Mike Login as root. Open DrakeConfig and choose Priner Config. Follow through the setup questions untill you get to select printer and there choose HP DeskJet 500C, print a test page and you are done. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael A. Kellogg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:03 PM Subject: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux? Hi folks! Ok, It's a shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a printer driver that will work for a Lexmark Z11 printer. Or, if possible, any emulation that might work for Linux. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Mike
Re: [newbie] IE and wine
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: I know, don't everybody attack at once! I was reading someones post a couple of days ago and I'm not sure if it was sarcasm, but I would like to know if anyone has really tried running Internet Explorer on wine under Linux and if it works. I highly doubt that this would work. I-Exploiter is for some 80% incorporated into the Ms-OS. It uses a lot of Win-core functionality. Wine cannot handle all that. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] needed programs
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol instant messanger clone, so i can contact people using IM. does anyone know of any really good ones? desktop. For mp3 files, there are several to choose from; xmms and kmp3 are two that again are already installed on your system. If you want some other options, check www.linuxberg.com I use XMMS and I like it a lot. It is the second generation Xamp, supports winamp skins and functions really good. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] IE and wine
Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: I know, don't everybody attack at once! I was reading someones post a couple of days ago and I'm not sure if it was sarcasm, but I would like to know if anyone has really tried running Internet Explorer on wine under Linux and if it works. I highly doubt that this would work. I-Exploiter is for some 80% incorporated into the Ms-OS. It uses a lot of Win-core functionality. Wine cannot handle all that. Paul Oh well, it did sound interesting. Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
On Sun, 14 May 2000, X Drake wrote: I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So Did you have no trouble to get back into Windows? This sounds so strange... If you did not have to reformat all kinds of things, then I am puzzled. If you did have to reformat your disk, then I could imagine that the harddisk itself has a problem. I have had that once too, a 3 year old disk just crapped out on me with no reason. Reformat went well, but a month later it was down again. I threw it away. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] IE and wine
I had it working under WINE a couple of WINE versions ago. Ran pretty good, except the rendering was slow and it didn't support java (since java is a VxD in Windows). You need to use -winver win95 -dll commctrl,comctl32 as WINE parameters to get it work properly. Since moving to WINE 04302000 IE doesn't seem to work anymore though -Chris On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: I know, don't everybody attack at once! I was reading someones post a couple of days ago and I'm not sure if it was sarcasm, but I would like to know if anyone has really tried running Internet Explorer on wine under Linux and if it works. I highly doubt that this would work. I-Exploiter is for some 80% incorporated into the Ms-OS. It uses a lot of Win-core functionality. Wine cannot handle all that. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
BobI don't understand, how can you have changed the ownership of a file on bob's desktop that never got copied to bob's Desktop? What does "No Joy/???" mean? If you do an 'su -' you should end up in /root. If you are in root and there is an icon made the way I instructed on root's Desktop then there must be a ./Desktop/Netscape.kdelnk file You can't get a "No such file" error. Is it there or is it not there? Alan Bob wrote: entering: cp ./Desktop/Netscape.kdelnk /home/Bob/Desktop returns an error message. No such file. Also made sure of su - . Have continued to Utility/Su etc. as instructed, changing owner ship from root to Bob,(both places), closing the window, and refreshing the Desktop. No Joy/??? On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: BobI've heard of that happening before, though I don't know why, but there is a workaround. Let's say that the new icon on root's Desktop is named Program.kdelnk and that you're logged in as bob and are in the KDE gui. Open Konsole (on the Panel) and su - (don't forget the 'space dash' after su) to the root account. Then type: cp ./Desktop/Program.kdelnk /home/bob/Desktop/ and close the Konsole. Open KFM [filemanager (as superuser)] in the Utilities Menu. Navigate to bob's desktop and right-click on Program.kdelnk. Choose the Permissions tab and change the ownership of both Owner and Group to bob. Close the KFM window and the new icon on bob's desktop should now work (if it hasn't yet appeared then right-click the desktop and choose Refresh Desktop). Alan Bob wrote: Alan, I did that and it worked just great in my /root directory. I am attempting to do the same in /Bob, however as I right click on the desttop and then New, all I get is a popup, named "folder"?? On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: Bobinstead of dragging the netscape shell script icon onto the desktop and choosing link do this: 1) right-click the desktop. 2) choose New 3) choose Application 4) name it what you want , but leave the kdelnk part after the dot alone. 5) choose the Execute tab 6) put /usr/bin/netscape in the upper (not the lower one) Execute field. 7) choose the ok button Alan Bob wrote: Paul, Found out and dragged the black screen on to my USER disktop, created a link, but am unable to change the icon to Netscape. Now I have two screens one for xrpm and one for the big "N"? Oh, in my /root :) I have the link on the desktop, and the icon is the Netscape wheel. On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul
[newbie] FIPS
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Kenny wrote: doesnt fibs format and partiton a drive with destroying data?? Nope. It is the freeware equivalent to Partition Magic. Use at own risk. It is included on the distro CD, with decent manual... Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Bob wrote: Paul, Found out and dragged the black screen on to my USER disktop, created a link, but am unable to change the icon to Netscape. Now I have two screens one for xrpm and one for the big "N"? Oh, in my /root :) I have the link on the desktop, and the icon is the Netscape wheel. You dragged "the black screen"?? Not something like /usr/local/bin/netscape, or /usr/bin/netscape?? As far as I know, the link that you create that way should contain the right icon immediately... I am kinda puzzled by your explanation... Paul On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] ATTN GREAT BOOKS!
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Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0
Charles, Well, I have been able to resize to about 2 Gig. I placed the installation disk 1 and ran the default. However, I think I forgot to add and FAT. The messages kept mentioning that there was no formatted table Roman Charles A Edwards wrote: I couldn't find PM in the PowerPack I checked all 6 CDs. But, I did find a Partition Magic Special Edition with The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook. However, I am getting batch errors about lost clusters. I will have to run a complete scandisk overnight to correct this. This is one of the biggest peeves I have with Windows 98SE. It takes about 24 hours to run a full blown defrag and scandisk Roman It Should not take take that long I can do both on my system in 45 min and I have a 20GB hd. If it does on your system I would run scandisk from DOS. You Do Not need to defrag it beforehand, when you use PM to resize the Win partition PM will automatically defrag it. Charles
[newbie] hello mothers
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Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
i have not been into linux long not even close to long. i have never heard of a hd going bad after a year. unless you got sold a faulty hd. - Original Message - From: "Drake X" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake. | I hope it's not a hard drive problem. The system is only about 3 months | old, although the HD is close to a year old. It's a Maxtor drive. Do you | know of any way to do a system check? Thanks! | | At 07:30 PM 05/14/2000 -0400, you wrote: | X Drake wrote: | | I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything | is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with | Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the | browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So | I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop | icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would | normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time | to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up | and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually | SNIP! | WOW! I've never had any of these problems, it looks like a flaky hard | drive, | I know Linux is a LOT more particular about it's disk/file conditions. | Back | when I was using WinLinux 2000 (Linux used as a BIG Windoze file) I | would have | to run scan disk almost everytime I tried to use WinLinux! But once | Linux was | sure of it's files and their condition it ran well. I'm sorry to see | you go and | I still wonder if it is not a hardware problem: heat on the motherboard, | bad stick | of RAM or again some weirdness with the hard drive. I know windoze is a | lot more | tolerant of hard drive errors. | vern | | -- | Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] |This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! | Silly hacker, root is for administrators! | | _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] winmodem inormation/Re: Installing Linux w/PCI DI5630
:~I also wrote to several of the manufacturers responsible for 'my winmodem' :~and many other models of winmodems too. I have received a couple of replies :~Subject: Re: Installing Linux w/PCI DI5630 Gee, from specifications listed here: http://www.modemblaster.com/product/di5630.html I would never have guessed it is a winmodem. It sounds like an ordinary HAYES modem to me. It even has fax, voice mocem cap. etc. Since, http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc lists is as winmodem - it must be. I suppose someone has comunication problems. But then again, when a guy from support tells you that PCI - card is a PnP card, what can you expect? (hint: ever seen a non-PnP PCI card?) cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] Resizing Drive with Partition Magic
Roman
It will not hurt anything so go back in to PM click on the free space,
from tools select create, and change the whole partition to Fat; then try
installing Mandrake.
Are you using DrakX to install?
It is what I used and it went right throuh on my system.But if you are
not I don't want to be giving you any miss-imformation.
Charles
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 12:15 PM
Subject: [newbie] Resizing Drive with Partition Magic
Hi,
I am still working on my installation of Linux Mandrake 7.0. I installed
Partition Magic Special Edition(DOS).
Next, I resized my partition from 10 Gig to 2 Gig. This left a little
less than 8 Gig. of free space.
Partition Magic shows the following:
Volume TypeSize
Used FreeSTATUS PRI/LOG
C: DISK1_VOL1 FAT322,000.3 939.31,066.4
Active Primary
*Free space 7,765.8
0.00.0NonePrimary
I am still new to Partition Magic, and partitioning in general. I have a
feeling that something is missing. I think that I should create another
FAT32 partition? The beginning and ending commands in Partition Magic
are confusing me. Linux Mandrake 7.0 installation is unable to read the
partition table.
Read out in DOS during Linux installation
Partition Table
hdb: drive not ready for command
hdb: status error: status:0x00{}
hdd:hdd lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
Roman
Registered Linux Mandrake User
Re: [newbie] Reformatted my entire drive
Roman The partition table you outlined looks like what I had to use when, in the past, I tried RH 5.2 . I never could get into using it and ended up removing it. When I decided to try Mandrake I was going to do it by downloading the ISO file and then burning it to CD. I was doing something wrong in the proccess and could never get a working CD. I had an Amazon gift cert. so I used it to purchase the standard Linux Mandrake 7.0 which is a 3CD set and uses the DrakX installer. I was already using PM and had already created 2 partitions on my hd. I put CD1 in my cd-rom, inserted the installation floppy, re-booted my system, and aside from clicking a couple of buttons during setup Mandrake installed itself. It installed as easily as any Program I have ever installed and as for an OS install it was heaven. You on the otherhand are using a 6cd set and from your last couple of postings are doing the installation in text mode and have chosen custom install which does require that you setup individual partitions. I hope you can get your Mandrake up and running soon and I will still offer suggestion where I can. I just don't know of how much help they will be. Charles - Original Message - From: "Roman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 7:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Reformatted my entire drive I have spent the last while reformatting my 10 Gig. drive into 5 equal sections of about 1.95 Gig. I inserted the boot floppy disk. Next, the rawwritewin.exe utility was used to write the cdrom.img file to the 3.5" floppy disk. I rebooted and the same message appears. I can't get past the first phase!?? I am starting to see penguins where ever I look. I think, I have to use Partition Magic to create separate partition for the following: C:WIN98Fat16 * Extended /boot LinuxExt2 /root LinuxExt2 /sLinuxSwap /home LinuxExt2 /usrLinuxExt2 /varLinuxExt2 Is this right? I am completely out of ideas. I guess I have been used to easy installations from Bill's Windows - too long. I have lost all of my previous email help messages because I reformatted my drive. Partition Magic would not allow me to convert Fat32 to Fat16 due to cluster errors and links. Surely, the installation must go easier than this? Roman (Completely tired Registered Linux Mandrake (sort of) User who cannot get past the boot process)
Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7
Garywhat does "reload Linux" mean exactly? Install of what, gave an '"install failed" at about 80% complete'? Also, why is it so important to have Wordperfect in addition to Star Office (or visa versa)? Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've registered my copy of Word Perfect, and with my video properly configured again tried to install Star Office when Word Perfect was already in place, and it still corrupts Xwindows to the extent that I have to reload Linux to fix it. Summarizing many installs of Linux and WP/SO: 1) generic video or fully configured makes no difference, 2) whether Word Perfect has had its registration number entered or not makes no difference, 3) hdparm either default or c3d1, and desktop configuration makes no difference, 4) whether other RPMs have been installed or not makes no difference, and 5) the order of WP and SO makes no difference. The last couple of times I've gotten "install failed" at about 80% complete, which I had not gotten earlier, and I don't know what is responsible for that change. In all cases, everything seems fine until a reboot. I can't think of anything that might be responsible for this failure to get both WP and SO installed. I've spent a couple of weeks going through the various permutations, and the only conclusion I can come to is that this just isn't going to work for me, though I was encouraged and gladdened by others of you successfully installing them both. Thank you all for your assistance and your suggestions. -Gary-
Re: [newbie] Filesystem is Read Only!
Drake X wrote: Well, I went back and played with it some more, and confirmed that the Linux filesystem is indeed, read only now. Since nobody has mentioned it this is how Mandrake starts, it first mounts the file system as read only. I wish I could help you with fsck but I just stumbled around till it worked, take a look at man fsck.
Re: [newbie] ATTN GREAT BOOKS!
Paul
I agree with you. Because of DSL I still use Outlook Express for e-mail
and when I attempted to read the Great Books message I got a security
warning for unsafe java script.
Charles
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Re: [newbie] changing back to kde
I have already tried running "setup", but I get a "command not found" error message when I try. Bruce Go to a terminal either in root or su and type "setup" without quotes. Then go to desktop configuration and choose the one you want - Original Message - From: Bruce Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 10:13 PM Subject: [newbie] changing back to kde I re-installed Mandrake 7.0-2 today, and found that somehow I had configured X to start up with gnome. I want the kde desktop. Is there an easy way to change it to kde? Thanks, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677 _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
Re: [newbie] Telnet/SSH
Hi Flupke, Thanks, I opened kpackage and searched for kssh but could not locate the package, I thought I had installed ssh using DrakX. :) I will make it my first package to go and download and install, althought I am not quite sure where to begin, or if I should be root when downloading or installing packages? Thanks, b/web Wade flupke wrote: I don't think so, but I once saw a kssh package. You have to have ssh installed first. I think that's what you need. HTH Flupke On Sat, 13 May 2000, Wade wrote: Hi List, I turned on Telnet and told it to connect to one of my remote domains, and no probs what so ever. The remote servers I use have SSH available and I would like to make use of it and was wondering if I can use kTelnet to make an SSH connection? Thanks, b/web Wade
Re: [newbie] (VIRUS WARNING) from Great Books
DO NOT OPEN THE ORIGEONAL OF THIS MESSAGE IT WAS INFECTED WITH WScript.KakWorm Just a friendly warning. - Original Message - From: Great Books To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 5:44 AM Subject: [newbie] This file was infected with a virus. The file was quarantined by Norton AntiVirus. Sunday, May 14, 2000 09:36
Re: [newbie] needed programs
I've been using IM, with Netscape 6, to connect with a friend on AOL. Ran under linux with no problems. John the Nadger www.mklinux.co.uk www.nadger.uklinux.net actually, I recently saw at cnet that AOL now has an im for Linux www.download.com and check out the Linux section. - Original Message - From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] needed programs J D wrote: i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol instant messanger clone, so i can contact people using IM. does anyone know of any really good ones? jd As far as AOL Instant messenger, if you have Mandrake 7 you should already have 'gaim' installed. Just open a terminal window and type 'gaim' without the quotes. You can also create a shortcut on your desktop. For mp3 files, there are several to choose from; xmms and kmp3 are two that again are already installed on your system. If you want some other options, check www.linuxberg.com Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off
It is priority of the mail. There is Low,Medium High. Self explainatory. In M$ Outlook in a new mail on the options above the To: etc. set the priority as High to get the ! - Original Message - From: "Andy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off | Sorry to get off the subject but your e-mail comes in with the a ! next to | it whats that mean and hwo do you do it? Sorry about off the topic just | curious. :) | | - Original Message - | From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:12 PM | Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off | | | when it gets to the login prompt the screen just goes black. there is | still | power to it it just goes blank. | | - Original Message - | From: "vern" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 8:26 PM | Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off | | | | Shut off as to power (AC out of the wall) or as to video | | from the display card? | | vern | | | | Marc wrote: | | | | my monitor on my other box shuts off when i get to the login prompt. i | mean | | it wont turn back on. this never has happened till i installed md on | it. | any | | input on this? | | | | _ | | NetZero - Defenders of the Free World | | Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email | | http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html | | | | -- | | Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! | |Silly hacker, root is for administrators! | | | | | | _ | NetZero - Defenders of the Free World | Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email | http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html | | | | _ | NetZero - Defenders of the Free World | Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email | http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html | | _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
BobI've heard of that happening before, though I don't know why, but there is a workaround. Let's say that the new icon on root's Desktop is named Program.kdelnk and that you're logged in as bob and are in the KDE gui. Open Konsole (on the Panel) and su - (don't forget the 'space dash' after su) to the root account. Then type: cp ./Desktop/Program.kdelnk /home/bob/Desktop/ and close the Konsole. Open KFM [filemanager (as superuser)] in the Utilities Menu. Navigate to bob's desktop and right-click on Program.kdelnk. Choose the Permissions tab and change the ownership of both Owner and Group to bob. Close the KFM window and the new icon on bob's desktop should now work (if it hasn't yet appeared then right-click the desktop and choose Refresh Desktop). Alan Bob wrote: Alan, I did that and it worked just great in my /root directory. I am attempting to do the same in /Bob, however as I right click on the desttop and then New, all I get is a popup, named "folder"?? On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: Bobinstead of dragging the netscape shell script icon onto the desktop and choosing link do this: 1) right-click the desktop. 2) choose New 3) choose Application 4) name it what you want , but leave the kdelnk part after the dot alone. 5) choose the Execute tab 6) put /usr/bin/netscape in the upper (not the lower one) Execute field. 7) choose the ok button Alan Bob wrote: Paul, Found out and dragged the black screen on to my USER disktop, created a link, but am unable to change the icon to Netscape. Now I have two screens one for xrpm and one for the big "N"? Oh, in my /root :) I have the link on the desktop, and the icon is the Netscape wheel. On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul
Re: [newbie] Root Password
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: use SUDO. And use it sparsly, too .-) :~Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are granted super user permissions. :~Thanks in advance. :~Dave Perhaps I should already know, but I don't... What is SUDO? Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Bambi/sometimes back to Windoze
Hi Paul (and others as well :) I have used WordPerfect since the old DOS days and it does things no other wordprocessor does and since I am used to it and like all the bells and whistles, it is like an old friend in Linux to me :) And it was free for non-commercial use. Very nice graphical installation as well. But AbiWord sounds like a cool alternative for someone with low disk space or if someone doesn't want or need all the bells and whistles. As far as Netscape goes, I am using a very stable (compared to 4.7's Java nightmares) 128-bit version of 4.72. It works well. I just really dislike the look, and the colors of the icons that they have not changed since I used Netscape last, years ago. I dislike that I can't change it's color scheme to a more appealing setup. Like right now, writing email, EVERYTHING (except the subject line and address line and icons) is gray! I don't want that. If you change the colors, it only changes certain things and all the rest stays gray. Then it look even funnier. So I am back to the defaults. I tried to change the fonts in Netscape before my last install of Linux, and I couldn't get back into Linux...something about not being able to find the font server or something like that. Coincidental? So I am leaving it alone for now, till I learn more about it and what fonts I can change to without causing problems. BTW: Netscape says that there is a 4.73 version of the 128-bit available, anyone tried it yet? Anyway, on to Festival. Festival is a cool speech recognition engine for Linux. Jim (on his RedHat 6 Linux box) has it saying the time in a british voice, opening his browser, inserting his email address on forms, etc. Very cool program. I used MS Agent technology extensively in Windoze, so I would like to use Festival. But it won't run on my machine. Here's the URL for Festival: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ if you would like to take a look at it yourself. Much of it is command line, but you can use the terminal to build and test, then create shortcuts to run. Plus it can go get news on the internet, and read it to you, with a program that someone wrote for Festival. All kinds of stuff out there for Festival. Well, that is enough from Southside Virginia for tonight. Have a good one. Bambi Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Hi Bambi (and others), Yes, it will be good when people think that Linux is a viable option to Windoze. Some do now, but not enough. Some programs aren't even done for the Mac yet. (I wonder if that should tell us anything :) HAhahahahaha!!! That is so true!! I will be glad when Corel comes out with their Ventura for Linux. Then I hope for you that you do not have to wait too long! their Ventura this summer, can't wait. I am using their WP8 for Linux I use a very simple wordprocessor called AbiWord. Not too many bells and whistles, does just what I need :) The entire download is something like 1 meg! (interested people, go to http://www.abisource.com) Basically we tricked Linux into using the ISAPNP config stuff for part of the configuration and then disabled the PnP in bios and it found the modem properly and all works great. Hahaha!! That is so cool, huh? You can't do that with windows. Everything is registry, and that is lethal. The real problem there is that the last time I booted into Windoze that has the same settings as Linux for the sound card, it changed something in the bios, even though it is not allowed to, then I had no sound but still had modem in Linux. So there we were back at it again, with the boot down, enable PnP, boot up, ISAPNP config, boot down and up, verify sound works, then boot down, delete ISAPNP config, boot up and change bios to no PnP and let it configure the modem. So as you can see I am a little leary of going back into Windoze even though I need to. Okay, that makes sense. Not nice though... I have always hated internal modems. Just give me a serial cable sticking out the COM2 port, let me plug a small box to it. That is REAL plug and play! I was disappointed that I couldn't get festival to work on my machine even though the sound card works for everything else. It works well on Jim's RedHat Linux box...but I install it and it won't work. I don't get it. Now you got me cornered. What is Festival? Oh, well all in good time. I have only been in Linux for about 3 weeks now. I love it, but really dislike Netscrappy :) But I really haven't found a viable option that does at least what Netscrappy does do. The look is yukky to me. What version do you have? I have 4.72 here, it's been pretty good so far. Okay, it hangs itself once in a while. I have tried NCSA Mosaic, but never got the program to run. It just won't start, no matter how chmod +x I tell it to be. But through all of this I have learned quite a bit. And will continue. Sounds so familiar! Paul
Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off
when it gets to the login prompt the screen just goes black. there is still power to it it just goes blank. - Original Message - From: "vern" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 8:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off | Shut off as to power (AC out of the wall) or as to video | from the display card? | vern | | Marc wrote: | | my monitor on my other box shuts off when i get to the login prompt. i mean | it wont turn back on. this never has happened till i installed md on it. any | input on this? | | _ | NetZero - Defenders of the Free World | Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email | http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html | | -- | Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] | This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! |Silly hacker, root is for administrators! | | _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux?
Mike John is correct and I was wrong. The Z11 is a Winprinter. You can use the HP 500 as an emulator to print with the Z11 in DOS but the Z11 can not be made to and will not work in Mandrake. Charles - Original Message - From: "John Arkoulis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux? Lexmarks are Winmodems. There are no drivers for Linux. Friend of mine had the same problem and no solution found. And ( you guessed it) Lexmark does not support Linux. maybe a different HP will do the trick On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: Doesn't work. Charles A Edwards wrote: Mike Login as root. Open DrakeConfig and choose Priner Config. Follow through the setup questions untill you get to select printer and there choose HP DeskJet 500C, print a test page and you are done. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael A. Kellogg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:03 PM Subject: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer Driver for Linux? Hi folks! Ok, It's a shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a printer driver that will work for a Lexmark Z11 printer. Or, if possible, any emulation that might work for Linux. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Mike -- CF 10K Walk: http://members.home.net/jimgbrown/strides.html ___ \/\_\@ / /\ __ ___ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / /\ / / /\ /--/ //\_\/\_/\ /\/\/\ /\_/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /__/ / / // / / / /__/ // / /__/ file://_/_/ // // / home: (972)495-3821 \__\/ \/ \/\/\/ \__\/ \/ \__\/ \_\_\/ \/ \/ work: (972)889-4228 Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface! This message created with Linux!
Re: [newbie] needed programs
actually, I recently saw at cnet that AOL now has an im for Linux www.download.com and check out the Linux section. - Original Message - From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] needed programs J D wrote: i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol instant messanger clone, so i can contact people using IM. does anyone know of any really good ones? jd As far as AOL Instant messenger, if you have Mandrake 7 you should already have 'gaim' installed. Just open a terminal window and type 'gaim' without the quotes. You can also create a shortcut on your desktop. For mp3 files, there are several to choose from; xmms and kmp3 are two that again are already installed on your system. If you want some other options, check www.linuxberg.com Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [newbie] This is a directory not a File
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Bob wrote: When I open "New Messaage" icon, while using Kmail. I get the "This is a directory not a File". This is very nice to know, but at the same time not very useful. Is there some purpose in this message? You told Kmail that you always want a signature file inserted in the mail, but you did not point Kmail to a valid signature file. So it looks at your home directory and tries to insert that as a sig. Won't work... So set up a proper signature file, and update Kmails preferences. (Yes, I used it too, so I know! Had the same problem! ;) Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Charles/DSL?
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: Paul I agree with you. Because of DSL I still use Outlook Express for e-mail and when I attempted to read the Great Books message I got a security warning for unsafe java script. Charles Hey Charles, What is "DSL"? I never heard of that over here in Holland. Perhaps it is because I am not into modems (I use ISDN). LookOut is the worst mailer in existence. It is so vulnerable to virusses (prettyboy, prettypark etc) that you only have to RECEIVE a mail to get into trouble. In Windows I have always used Eudora. Viva Linux, Viva VI! Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Telnet/SSH
I don't think so, but I once saw a kssh package. You have to have ssh installed first. I think that's what you need. HTH Flupke On Sat, 13 May 2000, Wade wrote: Hi List, I turned on Telnet and told it to connect to one of my remote domains, and no probs what so ever. The remote servers I use have SSH available and I would like to make use of it and was wondering if I can use kTelnet to make an SSH connection? Thanks, b/web Wade
