Re: [newbie] About comments for the unsubscribing one
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote: Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." Didn't Spock say this on one of the Star Trek movies? -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 -- You have offended me :) I despise Star Trek. That is from Braveheart - the greatest movie of all time. Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Problems
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote: Jason Ashman wrote: Jason: While many internal modems are winmodems -- especially the $39.95 blue light specials -- not all of them are. I have a Zoom 2919 ISA internal modem that works just fine. (I disabled the PnP feature and jumpered it to COM4, but I had to do that to get it to run under Windows. [It plugged OK, but it didn't Play!]) I also got an older Zoom modem -- with PnP enabled -- to work with Mandrake. Unfortunately, one problem that newbies face is that most manufacturers (including Zoom) don't put anything on the box to indicate that their product will work with anything other than Windows. I agree with you that it would be best to get an external modem unless there is some compelling reason to go with an internal unit. In addition to the guaranteed compatibility with any operating system, you get all those neat flashing lights. -- Carroll Grigsby -- The flashing lights are soothing :) I use a Diamond SupraExpree 56K and it works perfectly in Linux, and even BeOS when I gave that OS a shot. Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com
RE: [newbie] Dual Processor Support
Donnie, What happens if you try cat /proc/cpuinfo at the command line (assuming this is not the same as ctrl alt F1)? Regs Tom Lankester -Original Message- From: Mogens Jæger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Processor Support "Donnie R. Shelton" wrote: I have just installed mandrake 7.0 and when I hit ctrl-Alt F1 to look at what Mandrake thinks that I have it says that I have 1 600 mhz celeron processor, when I am sctually running a BP-6 with two celerons 533 on it. I have the board clocked and I scaled back just to make sure that that was not the problem, but needless to say.. I don't even know where to start. So far I really like Mandrake, but I have to have the dual support. Anyone even know where I can start?? thanks!! Donnie R. Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Donnie. I have now for some time been using a similar system: an Abit BP6 with 2 Celleron 533 - and it works great. What does it 'say' at boot-time. I have just tried the Ctrl-Alt-F1 and it too said one 535 Mhz, but at boot-time the similar screen says 2, with a doubled Bogomips. When I run the GIMP I can choose the number of processors (up to 30!) I want to use. I am pretty shure that Linux is using both processors - have you ever tried to work with (large) pictures, make a print, and then go on to the next - then you will be shure, if you use 1 or 2 processors. I have upgraded to the "kernel-smp-2.2.17-0.21mdk.i586.rpm" to get support for the ATA66 controller - it's really fast. But I have a little question to you - I have tried to overclock it, but when I try, it resets to a 300 MHz - how do you do? Sincerely Mogens Jæger
[newbie] Possible modem solutions
In my quest to get my Linux compatible modem working with Mandrake 7.1, I ran across this article that may be of help to some of you. If it has already been posted here. My apologies. http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2000-03article=newbies Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sound Card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive been having trouble getting my soundcard to work. Its a SB16 soundcard by C-media. I got it to work with OSS and i tried changing the information but it still wont work. Is there any other way besides OSS to get it to work? Hello, I have also been on troubles with my soundcard. It has sb-compatible chip onboard. Furthermore, it has VIA audio device (I do not exactly what is it). I think that I have a irq conflict but I don't know how to resolve it. One of the suggestions made by the boot message is something like "try with OSS". How can I do that? Perhaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] can answer. Thank you in advance. ;-) Ricardo -- -- J. Ricardo Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Observatorio Astronomico Nacional Alcala de Henares - Spain -
Re: [newbie] Sound Card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive been having trouble getting my soundcard to work. Its a SB16 soundcard by C-media. I got it to work with OSS and i tried changing the information but it still wont work. Is there any other way besides OSS to get it to work? By the way, I could change the irq, etc with HardDrake (in graphic mode), and configure the sound card with sndconfig (console) and lothar (graphic). Greetings, Ricardo -- J. Ricardo Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Observatorio Astronomico Nacional Alcala de Henares - Spain -
Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Mike Tracy Holt put to word: 7.2 is pretty good, lots of good improvements. On 'upgrade' from 7.1 it didn't do so well; wasn't able to detect my network after the upgrade, couldn't setup my printer from the installer (which I've never been able to do) and a few other minor details. When I did the fresh install however, it DID recognize my network and even had a driver/filter for my printer! (Epson 860 on the USB port). On the downside, kde needs LOTS of work (wouldn't close 'x' without ctrl-alt-backspace) and sound doesn't work out of the box though the correct modules were configured and are being loaded. Overall, there are some awesome new features - I would call it more of an 'alpha' release at this stage though. hmmm...sound, printer, network, etc. all working fine here...and no trouble closing kde either...mileage does vary... frank -
[newbie] 7.1 installed for windows only shows 64 MB RAM
I've got 128 MB! What's wrong?
Re: [newbie] 7.1 installed for windows only shows 64 MB RAM
Gordon, Install Mandrake 7.1 on it's own partiton instead of behind a DOS partition and everything should work just fine for you. Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I've got 128 MB! What's wrong?
Re: [newbie] Burning help
Kandace Little wrote: I found the program Gnome Toaster but could not find anything on how to run it ;(. I will pop out on the net later on today ( I am up feeding new daughter :) ) but if anybody could tell me about this or maybe something better I would be in there debt. I tried it but could not drop and drag the files down and when I burnt something it would not show up, even when it said that the burn was done. I checked in windows and it show nothing as well. It did erase it though which is a plus, not sure how but I figured it did something ;).. Well the bottle is warm and I should go feed her. Thanks for the help in advance. Stephen Go to Linux-Mandrake web site www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos and scroll down to tutorials. The CD burner tutorial is pretty good for getting you going. -- Dennis a registered linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] 7.1 installed for windows only shows 64 MB RAM
when u start your computer and boot prompt shows up type linux mem=128M the login as root and edit etc/lilo.conf at the end of the file when it says appened:"" change it to appened:"mem=128M" save and close. run lilo -v to make sure changes are done. i hope it will work for u as it did for me. goodluck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got 128 MB! What's wrong? -- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail/
[newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all
Mandrake 7.1 doesn't install as either graphics or text install. On text install I get the following error "segmentation fault - seems like memory is missing as the install crashes". This is just after it finds the scsi card and disks. On graphics install I get a divide by zero error at the package selection state. I have tried making a boot disk with no difference. I have not tried copying the files on the CD to a partition on the hard disk and installing from that. ]
Re: [newbie] keyboard wierdness
it works almost proper now. after a little adding langueges :) tnx alot :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you didn´t get an answer because from your question is hard to see what you are asking. I think I got it right though. You want to see the characters that are on the keyboard? I for example have a brasilian keyboard. I enter linuxconf and then choose Portuguese (brasilian) for the language and as keyboard layout I choose Brasil. I have also tried it with a danish keyboard and it works, even the "ecu" appears. With regards, Mads Rasmussen - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 2:46 PM Subject: [newbie] keyboard wierdness hi i posted this msg 3 days ago and since i didn't recive it myself i reposte it. sorry if anyone gets a double copy. i have problem with keyboard not typing the correct characters holding AltGr key. i have a samsung keyboard. i have tried swedish , us english and english international keyboard but none have worked. holding down shift have given result as i can type £ sign. but still many characters as $ and } are missing. please explain how to adjust it as if i was a 3 years old kid.i'd be very thankful if u help me. thanks in advance -- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail/ -- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail/
[newbie] Sound card?
I am running Linux 7.1 and am shopping for a sound card. Any suggestions as to which one to pick??? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Sound card?
don't pick one with an ES1868 chip (used to be used in cheap sound cards). My sound card has never worked with Linux. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Sound card? : I am running Linux 7.1 and am shopping for a sound card. Any suggestions as : to which one to pick??? : : Thanks, : Chris Kelly : Registered Linux user 185775 : : : :
[newbie] Code Warriors Wanted !
Dear forum; I'm interested in speaking with any experienced programmers who are familiar with "Porting" a Windows-Based program to a Linux-based one, whether or not "Wine" would have to be used or not. My office uses a 16 bit program which it currently the only POS standing between a totally Linux office, and a half and half environment. This program is designed to access an on-line binary database, and then downloads these binary files to be merged with one large data file. I'd really like to find a way to switch it over to Linux, without using some sort of Windows emulator, so if anyone's interested in having a new project, get back to me at this forum, or email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] How to unpartition when I can't boot into Linux
On my reinstall of Linux I didn't(read forgot) to use partition magic. I therefore appear to have all 'linux' partitions except for my windows c drive. Since using a boot disk and botmagic won't boot me into linux I really want to START from SCRATCH and unpartition my non windows 'drives'. Partition magic 'sees' all th space but doesn't seem to know what to make of it: Below is the screen from partition magic: Disk1-29306 kbytes Letter TypeStatus Size Used Free Pri/Log C Fat32x Active 14,653 1,226 13,426 Pri * Type85 none14,653 14,653 14,653 Pri Disk2-8056 kbytes Letter Type Status Size Used Free Pri/Log * linuxSwap none 243 243 0.0 Pri * Type85 none7812 7812 0.0 Pri __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Sound card?
Thanks for the warning! Any other suggestions for a good sound card? -Original Message- From: pablito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card? don't pick one with an ES1868 chip (used to be used in cheap sound cards). My sound card has never worked with Linux. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Sound card? : I am running Linux 7.1 and am shopping for a sound card. Any suggestions as : to which one to pick??? : : Thanks, : Chris Kelly : Registered Linux user 185775 : : : :
Re: [newbie] ISP
Ozz said: I still find this sort of thing a little strange. Generally the kind of people who know enough about systems to run Linux want REAL ISPs, not wannabee ISPs like AOL/Compu$erve. I reply: I mostly agree with you but =) i use CS from way back in the day when CS was for computer geeks, and when it was a good service. when i started on computers i never called a tech line once, got all my support thru CS, especially for Logitech (spelling?) products. it was great. i must agree with you now. when AOL brought CS i thought i was gonna cry. it sucks today. i stick with it only because i want to keep my email address as everyone has it. i haven't tried to connect yet, so i don't know if it can be done (under linux). i have to buy a real modem first. winmodems... gotta love 'em. when i bought my PC i wondered what that little "designed for Windows 98" sticker on it ment. now i know. *groan* Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] VCD player?
Lovister LJ wrote: I need a program to play VCD's".dat" files. Thanks in advance. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. MTV, aka MpegTV is the way to go. Its not free, takes something like a $10 registration fee to fully use it (timed demo). A version of it is already on Mandrake v7.0 and 7.1... Just type in mtv at at command line... -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] error on samba-2
Try not to encript passwords. - Original Message - From: "Juggernaut" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake maling list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:46 AM Subject: [newbie] error on samba-2 Hi again.. I'm trying to connect windoze 98 SE with Linux. And then I get some error messages on Windoze.Anyone can help me ? Please. Computer 1 : IP Address : 192.168.0.1, Mandrake 7.0, host name : Craven.net Computer 2 : IP Address : 192.168.0.2, Windoze 98 SE, host name : teteh.net Here's the errors : 1. I'm trying to copy files from linux to win, and I get error message like this : "cannot copy kfm_0_776Craven. Access denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. " The file is in /tmp. 2. "Cannot access \\Craven\Linuxer The network name is either not found on the running network, or is incorrect. Do you want to connect by using Dial-Up-Networking ?" And I answer "No". And the the second message appear. " \\Craven\Linuxer is not accessible. The share name was not found. Be sure you typed it correctly." 3. "You must supply a password to make the connection. Resource : \\Craven\pungki Password : " And then the box " Save the password in your personal list" is checked. I tried to fill the password with user password, root password, and the user password in windoze. But I still cannot access it. Thank you very much for helping me. NB : This is my smb.conf: [global] workgroup = QUAKE server string = QUAKE SERVER security = SHARE null passwords = Yes log level = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%a max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 os level = 0 domain master = Yes dns proxy = No comment = Craven.net hosts allow = 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.1 [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/%u read only = No guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 198.168.0.2, 192.168.0.1 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba print ok = Yes browseable = No [Linuxer] comment = Testing path = /root read only = No guest only = Yes guest ok = Yes [Nieda] comment = komputer Windoze path = /tmp read only = No guest only = Yes guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2
[newbie] a suggestion for safe installing
in addition to as has been said before: 1. read the manual (i installed Mandrake 7.0 7.1 with nothing but the manual and had no real problems -- sound card doesn't work yet printer is dingy -- but those are not "real problems") 2. back up your data.. duh. that's why i have a CD burner. things like partitoning drives such still frightens me, i'm just not that trusting of software in general especially of anything M$, or anything i don't understand yet (like Linux) but... here is what i do it might help some of you feel safe as well. 1. purchase 2 hard drives, physical drives. 2. use the second drive for all your data files and personal stuff. letters to mom, JPGs of Alicia Silverstone, etc 3. put all of your OSs on the first physical drive, also all of your programs. 4. when ready to upgrade or install a new OS or repartiton or anything else shut off the computer 5. physically unplug the power data to the second drive 6. fire up the system install or whatever 7. when all is happy, power down hook up the second drive. no matter how badly you shaft your first drive, your data is safe this assumes (dangerous to do) that you have install CDs for all your OSs software (not true if you are using the crap that came on your system and thus don't have install disk) thus i believe it's good to get an install CD for each program you use. if you totally trash the OS drive, just start over from nothing and reinstall all of your stuff. i've been doing this for years i've trashed my OS so many times i've lost count. never lost any important data at all. just a suggestion hope it helps someone oh, and read the manual *before* you install =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] New Modem Problems ;(
I got a new to me modem, it is a 33.6 USRobotics Sportster and it works great in windows. I can query it in Linux and it give me some stuff but when I try to connect to the net through kppp it hangs on initializing and it goes not father. I hope somebody can help me out with this. Stephen
Re: [newbie] Sound card?
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Thanks for the warning! Any other suggestions for a good sound card? -Original Message- From: pablito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card? don't pick one with an ES1868 chip (used to be used in cheap sound cards). My sound card has never worked with Linux. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Sound card? : I am running Linux 7.1 and am shopping for a sound card. Any suggestions as : to which one to pick??? : : Thanks, : Chris Kelly : Registered Linux user 185775 I have an Ensoniq 1371 sound card in my system and it worked out of the box. It is not a real high end sound card but it does serve the purpose. -- Dennis a registered linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] New Modem Problems ;(
Try messing around with the flow control Mads - Original Message - From: Kandace Little To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:06 PM Subject: [newbie] New Modem Problems ;( I got a new to me modem, it is a 33.6 USRobotics Sportster and it works great in windows. I can query it in Linux and it give me some stuff but when I try to connect to the net through kppp it hangs on initializing and it goes not father. I hope somebody can help me out with this. Stephen
[newbie] OT: Ulysses?
Pardon the OTness of this, but does anyone know if the beta title comes Greek mythology, or from the fact that there's an Irish bloke working at Mdk? -- Damien Mc Kenna, Paraprofessional The Computer Institute, 100 Waldon Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 407-328-4722 x3397
Re: [newbie] ISP
I mostly agree with you but =) i use CS from way back in the day when CS was for computer geeks, and when it was a good service. when i started on computers i never called a tech line once, got all my support thru CS, especially for Logitech (spelling?) products. it was great. i must agree with you now. when AOL brought CS i thought i was gonna cry. it sucks today. i stick with it only because i want to keep my email address as everyone has it. i haven't tried to connect yet, so i don't know if it can be done (under linux). i have to buy a real modem first. winmodems... gotta love 'em. when i bought my PC i wondered what that little "designed for Windows 98" sticker on it ment. now i know. *groan* Compu$erve was always little more than a glorified BBS. However, back then there was little choice, and Compu$erve was, as you say, the best of the bunch, if a little pricey. The trouble was, Compu$erve never really moved with the times. They were always slow, and always expensive compared to the others. The vast majority of Compu$erve users today probably fall into two categories. The 'old timers' who keep it rather than lose their e-mail address (as in your case) and the newbies who don't know any better. I can fully sympathize with you about your e-mail address. When I left the UK I had to quit my old account, and was heartbroken at losing the e-mail address that had been my trademark for close to a decade. It was like the death of a close friend. In fact, I am seriously considering re-instating my old account if my finances allow within the required timescale! The advantages of unlimited mailbox size, unlimited e-mail addresses, etc. are very tempting, even though I would never be dialling into the account (just remotely logging onto the POP3 server). As for AOL, quite apart from the crap service, there are WAY too many lamerz on it. It can therefore be very difficult to be taken seriously. I actually know quite a few people who have the aol.com domain in their killfile - ALL messages from AOL accounts are deleted unread! Go figure... Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?
It referz to how long it takes to install it and get it working. - Original Message - From: "Damien Mc Kenna" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 10:00 AM Subject: [newbie] OT: "Ulysses"? : Pardon the OTness of this, but does anyone know if the beta title "Ulysses" comes : Greek mythology, or from the fact that there's an Irish bloke working at : Mdk? : : -- : Damien Mc Kenna, Paraprofessional : The Computer Institute, 100 Waldon Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 407-328-4722 x3397 : : :
[newbie] Cannot get Version 7.1 Deluxe to install
Hi Mandrake Linux Help Desk, I guess I must be one of a small minority who cannot get version 7.1 Deluxe to install on his/her PC. I have made three thorough attempts and all goes well until the final step where the X configuration test is done. I chose from the list of options, a Matrox Millennium II video card and a Viewsonic PT 775 monitor and a resolution of 1024 by 768 at 24-bit color depth. I get an error stating that install exited abnormally and everything is deleted. I am installing the program on a Maxtor 8.4 GB hard drive as a virgin installation, allowing Mandrake Linux to do an automatic install. I run my PC using a rack system, that is, all my boot drives are mounted in rack inserts so I can run any operating system I want to, putting each system (Win98, Win2000, etc.) exclusively on its very own boot hard drive. Since I installed Mandrake Linux from the CD drive and NOT from Windows (as the boot hard drive was blank) I cannot send you the dump of the error messages that appeared on the screen when the program crashed. Heres a description of my system: Abit BX6-2 mobo, April 2000 BIOS, Matrox Millennium II PCI bus video card with 16 Mb WRAM tied to a Diamond Monster II PCI 3-D video card using a 3Dfx voodoo 2 chip set and 12 Mb of video RAM, 256 Mb of PC-100 SDRAM, 250 Mb Iomega Zip drive, Panasonic 40X (oem) CD drive, 3.5 inch Teac floppy drive, Realtek RTL 8029 NIC, Promise DMA66 controller card, Sound Blaster Live sound card, Intel Celeron 566 Mhz. Flip Chip PGA (retail) CPU (overclocked to 850 Mhz.) on an Abit slocket adapter all cooled using a Golden Orb heat sink fan combo and finally a mobile rack configured for DMA-66. The rack holds whatever boot drive and operating system I want. I also have a slave drive permanently mounted inside the generic case (300 watt Power Supply in the case). That slave drive is a Maxtor model 52049U4 (20.5 Gb). Your help will be appreciated. I do expect success, but on the other hand, I also expect a full refund of my purchase price if we cannot get Mandrake Linux version 7.1 Deluxe successfully installed on my PC. I look forward to your prompt reply. You can reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and by phone at 310-820-352. I have attached this message as a Word 2000 document in case you want to print this out in a formatted version. Cheers Dennis J. Betts _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Mandrake Linux.doc
[newbie] Upgrade from Linux?
I was wondering whether there was some way to upgrade Mandrake Linux without running the install program. I managed to get Mandrake 6.0 installed but no version after that, trying 7.0, 7.0-2, and now 7.1. I tried using Kpackage but I'd get messages that I needed some library installed first.
Re: [newbie] ISP
Adrian, If you want to get a non-winmodem you'd better hurry up and get one cause I think there's but one company left making them. I hear that soon there won't be any. I believe 3Com/USRobotics is still making them, but for how much longer is a mystery. Mark Adrian Smith wrote: Ozz said: I still find this sort of thing a little strange. Generally the kind of people who know enough about systems to run Linux want REAL ISPs, not wannabee ISPs like AOL/Compu$erve. I reply: I mostly agree with you but =) i use CS from way back in the day when CS was for computer geeks, and when it was a good service. when i started on computers i never called a tech line once, got all my support thru CS, especially for Logitech (spelling?) products. it was great. i must agree with you now. when AOL brought CS i thought i was gonna cry. it sucks today. i stick with it only because i want to keep my email address as everyone has it. i haven't tried to connect yet, so i don't know if it can be done (under linux). i have to buy a real modem first. winmodems... gotta love 'em. when i bought my PC i wondered what that little "designed for Windows 98" sticker on it ment. now i know. *groan* Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?
um...how old are you? :| Beta is the second letter of the "greek"...or is that "geek" alhpabet. Mark Damien Mc Kenna wrote: Pardon the OTness of this, but does anyone know if the beta title comes Greek mythology, or from the fact that there's an Irish bloke working at Mdk? -- Damien Mc Kenna, Paraprofessional The Computer Institute, 100 Waldon Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 407-328-4722 x3397
Re: [[newbie] ICQ?]
OF CURSE ONLY ADD THEIRS ICQ NUMBERS IN THE OPCION SYSTEM ADD USER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kandace Little) wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Does this work with the windows version? as in can I talk to people that have Win/98 ICQ? Steve Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [newbie] actiontec pci pro
Look at the help file, section 7 I think. Assumning you're using the kppp dialer. There was a lot of helpful info there for me when I was using my ISA modem. dave wrote: Its a winmodem...I tried the latest ltmodem driver from lucent and am able to dial out..However when ISP answers a box comes up saying ppp unexpectedly quit. The same configuration works on an old 14400 modem. Any help with the lucent greatly appreciated.
Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I am a VERY new newbie in Linux. I have installed 7.1 using the windows install successfully, but I feel that it doesn't give Linux "free rein" and thus am going to attempt a complete install on its own partition. When I run the complete instal, what do I have to tell it about the partitions that it will make? I have a 13 GB HD, and am currently running Win98. I would ideally like to have 8GB for windows, and 4GB for Linux (or may be 7 and 6 as I don't use a lot of storage-hungry apps) First make sure you shrink your windows partition (partition magic, fips, whatever you have available). Then you can leave all the difficult work to the setup. If you want to live dangerously, put everything in 1 partition. I would suggest you create at least a separate /home directory (1 gb) and a separate /usr directory (4 gb) next to / (root) which can use the rest. But this is just how I would do it. Paul -- When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? -Robin Williams http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] re: mandrake 7.02 problems
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very simple question about mandrake 7.02 and am embarrassed to have to ask it but here goes. After installing successfully (I thought)and rebooting for the first time I tried to configure my rc.local file for ip chains. First off there was no ip chains or rc.local. Did I do something wrong on my install? It sounds like it, but I can't explain it. This is basic stuff that the installer takes care of by itself. Anyway I finally got on the net and installed ipchains but I don't know how to setup a file to start at boot up.(embarrassing) Where do you look for rc.local ? Its full path is /etc/rc.d/rc.local ipchains is usually in /sbin and you won't have it in a user path normally. To set it up, go to www.pointman.org and download pmfirewall. It is a script that helps you set up ipchains and will also stick it in the proper bootfiles. Paul -- Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. -Mark Twain http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, pablito wrote: Mandrake 7.1 doesn't install as either graphics or text install. On text install I get the following error "segmentation fault - seems like memory is missing as the install crashes". This is just after it finds the scsi card and disks. On graphics install I get a divide by zero error at the package selection state. I have tried making a boot disk with no difference. I have not tried copying the files on the CD to a partition on the hard disk and installing from that. Perhaps a good idea to set the speed of your RAM down. I have heard that this helps in problem cases like this. Paul -- Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. -Mark Twain http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Cannot get Version 7.1 Deluxe to install
:~Hi Mandrake Linux Help Desk, Hi, tallD You are on a wrong adress... Still, try the following thing: :~I guess I must be one of a small minority who cannot get version 7.1 Deluxe :~to install on his/her PC. I have made three thorough attempts and all goes :~well until the final step where the X configuration test is done. - ignore this and let the PC reboot without X, then log-in as root and run "XFdrake" program. In case this does not work one can talk further... (But this is still not a technical support, it is a mailing-list for mandrake-linux users) cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mandrake Linux.doc
Re: [newbie] ISP
- Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP Adrian, If you want to get a non-winmodem you'd better hurry up and get one cause I think there's but one company left making them. I hear that soon there won't be any. I believe 3Com/USRobotics is still making them, but for how much longer is a mystery. Mark Where did you get this mis-information? 3Com has said that the will stop making modens but there will still be many companies making hardware modems. Actiontec Zoom Hayes Best Data Pace Various multis such as Creative and Diamond. And these I,m listing just off the top of my head. Charles :-)
[newbie] Questions on rlogin
Hello everybody! I'm trapped in the following situation: I have a LAN network and I used to have the Linux Red Hat 6.0 distribution; but I have bought the Mandrake 7.0 distribution and installed it in all the machines (except one). The problem I have is that I can start a remote session only in the machine with Red Hat, and not in the others. I have tried to use telnet and ftp, and I didnt have any problems, so I think it must be something related to ports or some kind of permission. Every time I try to rlogin I get the message : Connection Refused. I'm new in the Linux world, can anybody help me? Thanks in advance. Sue.
Re: [[newbie] Another question]
BTW I have the exact same problem...error on a Trident video card...strange thing is...it's a supported AT24/3DFX video card I installed 7.1 from the Max. Linux CD and found that there was a bunch of stuff that existed in my Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe package that was missing. One of those things was a set of 3DFX card drivers. I got it to work but went back to my 7.0 installation as I found some of the utilities missing (someone mentioned that xmms didn't install and I found it missing too). Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all
Hmm, I was wondering about that. I reduced the processor speed, however, with no visible effect. The thing is overclocked. Maybe I'll do both. - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, pablito wrote: : : Mandrake 7.1 doesn't install as either graphics or text install. On text : install I get the following error "segmentation fault - seems like memory is : missing as the install crashes". This is just after it finds the scsi card : and disks. On graphics install I get a divide by zero error at the package : selection state. I have tried making a boot disk with no difference. I : have not tried copying the files on the CD to a partition on the hard disk : and installing from that. : : Perhaps a good idea to set the speed of your RAM down. I have heard that : this helps in problem cases like this. : : Paul : : -- : Suppose you were an idiot... : And suppose you were a member of Congress... : But I repeat myself. : -Mark Twain : : http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 : -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- : : :
RE: [newbie] Sound card?
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote: I think most Creative Hardware such as sound blaster, modem blaster, and video blaster are the most capatible for linux. I am planning on building my computer and I am planning on putting in Voodoo 3 Af3x or whatchamacallit, modemblaster, and soundblaster. Thanks for the warning! Any other suggestions for a good sound card? -Original Message- From: pablito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card? don't pick one with an ES1868 chip (used to be used in cheap sound cards). My sound card has never worked with Linux. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Sound card? : I am running Linux 7.1 and am shopping for a sound card. Any suggestions as : to which one to pick??? : : Thanks, : Chris Kelly : Registered Linux user 185775 : : : :
[newbie] Linmodems
Linmodems (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2905114341) Due to wide avaliability of cheep junk-modems, "How can I get my winmodem working under Linux" question has made it very high on list of Frequently Asked Questions. For a long time, standard answer was "no, forget it", but this has changed lately to "maybe", "some" and "to some extend", because some vendors provided binary-only modules, and there has even been some progress on free-software front. Although this question has already been discussed several times on this forum, I decided to re-launch the story, because of two recent changes on linmodems.org and WG pages: First, there is a new table on gromitkc pages, with list of existing linmodem drivers and links to tarballs. Thus, search for drivers has just been made easier. Second change is that Mikhail Moreyra has written a driver for the CL-MD5620DT (Ambient Tech) chipset, and according to linmodems.org it does PPP! I have no idea how good this driver is, but if you have this winmodem, make sure to try out the driver. So, times are changing in Linmodems land, but don't expect too much. Binary-only drivers are bound to give you problems on next kernel upgrade, and GPL-ed ones are still in vary early stage (though the above mentioned one could be further than I thought), so you should still avoid these monsters if you can, and we will not be able to give you any sort of support if/when something goes wrong.
Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?
um, Mark - I think Damien was referencing the "Ulysses" name, not "beta" :-) , hence the literary hint of the Irish author James Joyce who wrote "Ulysses" cheers, philomena At 01:44 PM 9/5/00 -0400, you wrote: um...how old are you? :| Beta is the second letter of the "greek"...or is that "geek" alhpabet. Mark Damien Mc Kenna wrote: Pardon the OTness of this, but does anyone know if the beta title comes Greek mythology, or from the fact that there's an Irish bloke working at Mdk? -- Damien Mc Kenna, Paraprofessional The Computer Institute, 100 Waldon Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 407-328-4722 x3397
[newbie] games and mesa
There were a few games I tried to install and run but with no luck. There were games I had downloaded last night called Xevil and Zarch. Xevil cant install on a i586 system. and zarch requires a configuration through Mesa and voodoo card. Xzarch only requred the X11 configuration. I tried running xzarch but then I get a flash across the screen and then it disappeared. I dont have a clue on how to configure Mesa. and why the world xzarch isnt working? Anyone knows about this Mesa thingie? Rob
Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all
Nope, didn't work. I guess I'm a Congressman. - Original Message - From: "pablito" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : Hmm, I was wondering about that. I reduced the processor speed, however, : with no visible effect. The thing is overclocked. Maybe I'll do both. : - Original Message - : From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:03 AM : Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : : : : On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, pablito wrote: : : : : Mandrake 7.1 doesn't install as either graphics or text install. On text : : install I get the following error "segmentation fault - seems like memory : is : : missing as the install crashes". This is just after it finds the scsi : card : : and disks. On graphics install I get a divide by zero error at the : package : : selection state. I have tried making a boot disk with no difference. I : : have not tried copying the files on the CD to a partition on the hard : disk : : and installing from that. : : : : Perhaps a good idea to set the speed of your RAM down. I have heard that : : this helps in problem cases like this. : : : : Paul : : : : -- : : Suppose you were an idiot... : : And suppose you were a member of Congress... : : But I repeat myself. : : -Mark Twain : : : : http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 : : -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- : : : : : : : : :
Re: [newbie] Linmodems
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~Subject: [newbie] Linmodems :~ :~Linmodems :~(http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2905114341) BTW: If you want to receive ALL forum headlines in your INBOX, subscribe to "forum" mailing list. This means ca 3-5 mails a day, and it is quite informative... cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] CUPS not printing
Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I d/l'd CUPS the other day and tonight I installed via RPMs. Well it won't print. get error message " lpr error-no default destination available". Is there something more I need to do? I am going on an explore to find the readme if I can or even have it. Suggestions other than rtfm are appreciated. And of course I will try to provide a solution to the list if I find one on my own. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis a registered linux user #180842 As an added bonus, when I test I get the message "unable to connect to the server: no route to host". I can't pull up a config file for this either. If I want to go back to my old print system, does anyone know what package I should install? Any help would be ok, I've been to the home page and gone through the documentation but can find nothing to show me how I went wrong. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis a registered linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning
Paul wrote: On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I am a VERY new newbie in Linux. I have installed 7.1 using the windows install successfully, but I feel that it doesn't give Linux "free rein" and thus am going to attempt a complete install on its own partition. When I run the complete instal, what do I have to tell it about the partitions that it will make? I have a 13 GB HD, and am currently running Win98. I would ideally like to have 8GB for windows, and 4GB for Linux (or may be 7 and 6 as I don't use a lot of storage-hungry apps) First make sure you shrink your windows partition (partition magic, fips, whatever you have available). Then you can leave all the difficult work to the setup. If you want to live dangerously, put everything in 1 partition. I would suggest you create at least a separate /home directory (1 gb) and a separate /usr directory (4 gb) next to / (root) which can use the rest. But this is just how I would do it. Paul -- When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? -Robin Williams http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Doesn't the Mandrake install disk allow you to specify the Windows partition during install, or have I got completely the wrong impression?
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
Inetd has nothing to do with drives. It runs network services. I expect running scandisk on the bad partition would fix it. Unfortunatly, you need windows to see the partition before you can use scandisk. Chicken and egg. - Original Message - From: John I. Azeke To: Linux Mandrake Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:18 PM Subject: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!! I was looking at some of my windows 98 mpeg files under L. Mandrake 7.1 yesterday and when I rebooted the computer into windows, The partition of windows that contains all of my personal files was gone! Confused, I went back into Mandrake and the partition was still present with all information. I don't know why I can't see it under Windows. When Mandrake is performing its shut down sequence, There is a FAIL on "stopping identd services" I have tried: 1)detecting new harware under windows... No Good 2) unmounting the drive under Linux before restarting... No Good Can anyone help me?
Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
Error createing second stage ramdisk? I have seen this once before. I was installing redhat on my (shudder) 586 with 32 mi ram and 500mi hdd.I managed to get it to run by removeing two sims. It didn't mater which sims as long as there was only 16 mi ram. I finished with it when I got tired of putting my finger on the motherboard to get it to boot up :-) - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] it won't install :( nope, just tried it, made my DVD drive the bootable one, same problem: 'Error creating second stage RAMDISK' when it is creating it, the progress bar reaches the end but at the end it spits out the error message... it's not the RAM, I cleaned it as well... (sigh) no linux for me (I could try something else, like Red Hat, but Mandrake has the 'easiest' installation procedure for a linux OS in my opinion, but I'm too lazy now... what is that second stage RAMDISK anywho? Mark Weaver wrote: Um...that CD-RW was a BIG thing to forget to mention. :) Try booting the CD with a regular CDROM and I think you'll find that Mandrake will install just fine. The thing I was thinking about that RAM though was sometimes Mandrake won't recognize RAM above 64MB. I was wondering maybe the install program was having the same difficulty. As I said before, I can't be certain. It was just something I was thinking about. I'm not at all surprised that Win2K and 98 didn't have any problem with your hardware. That's how they're made. That strength is also their biggest weakness. Overall compatability. Anyway, CD-RW's are not the same kind of CD hardware in that they 'read' somewhat differently. In some instances they won't read regular data CD's because of the formatting. An example of this is a re-writable CD is a data CD that can only be read by the CD-RW that wrote the CD. A regular CDROM will not be able to read that format. I think this quirk goes both ways, although I could be mistaken. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Paul wrote: what I forgot to mention is that when I built the computer 3 months ago, a friend of my, a linux guru unstalled a copy of Mandrake for me and it was working fine, since then he got rid of it and I installed win2k and win98 on a clean "run..." RAM is PC100, brand new, major brand... no problems with athlons... (sigh) so frustrating... the only new thing that has changed since that first installation of Mandrake is that I added a CD-RW drive which is now the main boot CD drive... Abe wrote: re-seating the ram is worth a shot but this problem shouldn't have anything to do with the amount of ram in the system. I've got a machine with 256M that installed 7.1 just fine. My other box has 384M and it also installed just fine. What kind of ram is it? pc-100? pc-133? How new/old is it? I've read that Athlon systems can be picky about older/generic ram. I haven't had any problems with my generic ram though. Try reseating the ram, try cleaning the connecting pins, make sure the ram modules are installed in order in the slots on the motherboard. Good luck! Abe = Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] = It sounds like you've got yourself a hardware problem. While I can't be 100% certain what exactly it is. At first glance though I see you have a HUGE amount of RAM. Just a thought though. Try taking one of those 128MB chips out and then try the install again and see what happens. I'm not sure I can explain this craziness, I just have a feeling. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this| ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Paul wrote: hey all, just burned the CDs... boot with the first one, welcomed by a 'welcome' message, hit enter... it's scanning SCSI stuff, CD-ROM, then it's says it's loading second stage RAMDISK, it reaches the end, and the error message pops up: error loading RAMDISK... and I get a blinking cursor at the bottom... :( they say Windoze is frustrating... sigh my specs: Athlon 750 (not Thunderbird) Abit KA7 256MB RAM Win2k(24GB), Win98(2GB) Partitions, 4GB unPartitioned PioneerDVD 10x, Creative
Re: [newbie] VCD player?
What is a VCD? - Original Message - From: Lovister LJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:42 PM Subject: [newbie] VCD player? I need a program to play VCD's".dat" files. Thanks in advance. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
By asking the school IT teacher :-) But not even he could get redhat to run above 648x480. And he has just designed and upgraded the entire schools network to use firer optics, so he should know what he is doing.. - Original Message - From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!! patrick wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: No, you have to read, Read, READ, before you do an install. that way you can do the expert install and you have total control over everything that you're doing during the install. read the instructions. is there anybody out there that has really read the instructions. when i first installed Mandrake, it took me hours to get it right, mainly because of the monitor and video card problems. but do people actually read the instructions. wow. Hi Patrick, And yes, there are those of us who the first time they take on installing Linux actually sit down and read the instructions on partitioning, and the like. How else are you supposed to know what you're doing if you don't? -- Mark
[newbie] Mass directory delete
Hi I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how) I don't want these dirs in there, they take up space, and I want them gone. What is the correct command to do a mass dir erase without the shell beanhatching about "that is a directory" crap? I just want to know what to type in to make it do as I tel it and erase all these little stupid useless directories. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Sound card?
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote: I am running Linux 7.1 and am shopping for a sound card. Any suggestions as to which one to pick??? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 i would recommend a sound blaster . i have even found a place in austin that sells used ones(guaranteed) for $50 i think sound blaster is the definately the way to go.
Re: [newbie] ISP
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP Adrian, If you want to get a non-winmodem you'd better hurry up and get one cause I think there's but one company left making them. I hear that soon there won't be any. I believe 3Com/USRobotics is still making them, but for how much longer is a mystery. Mark Where did you get this mis-information? 3Com has said that the will stop making modens but there will still be many companies making hardware modems. Actiontec Zoom Hayes Best Data Pace Various multis such as Creative and Diamond. And these I,m listing just off the top of my head. Charles :-) i have a creative blaster, external, i hope they're not going out of business. what would happen to my soundlblaster. :) i just love Linux. i even have a little penguin on my desk, do u ?
Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hmm, I was wondering about that. I reduced the processor speed, however, with no visible effect. The thing is overclocked. Maybe I'll do both. - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, pablito wrote: : : Mandrake 7.1 doesn't install as either graphics or text install. On text : install I get the following error "segmentation fault - seems like memory is : missing as the install crashes". This is just after it finds the scsi card : and disks. On graphics install I get a divide by zero error at the package : selection state. I have tried making a boot disk with no difference. I : have not tried copying the files on the CD to a partition on the hard disk : and installing from that. : : Perhaps a good idea to set the speed of your RAM down. I have heard that : this helps in problem cases like this. : : Paul : : -- : Suppose you were an idiot... : And suppose you were a member of Congress... : But I repeat myself. : -Mark Twain : : http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 : -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- : : this may not help, but go through your bios and check out everything. if u have sound built in, turn it off :
Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta
patrick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reasons i avoid betas and alphas, their more of a pain then the finished bug! can anybody give us some idea of the differences on 7.2 beta thanks pat There was a posting about it on linuxtoday, lots of new stuff apparently, like over 250 additional packages, as well as XFree v4.01 as standard if your video card supports it. That, I can't wait for! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning
Paul said: Yes, you can point out the windows partition. If that does not occupy the entire disk, then you're fine. If it does occupy the entire disk, I do not know if you can resize the partition through diskdrake without losing data, I have never done that. Perhaps someone else knows that? so i say: If diskdrake is what runs during the GUI install of Mandrake, then yes you can. when i installed 7.0 i used that program to slice a 4G windoze drive into windoze/linux/swap. and it all came out ok for me. of course i have only done it that one time. naturally, to do this you have to have X amount of free space to create a drive of X size. i think it also helps to defrag the windoze drive before you go to cut it up. i think they mention that in the instructions that come with 7.0 Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how) That's a control file of some sort. My guess would be that it's created by an xview app you run to view graphics. It's unclear why you'd have more than one of them though. In any case rm -rf .xvpics will do what you want but it's dangerous as the command will recursively remove the directory tree listed in the command without any queries. Don't make the mistake of doing rm -rf / home/me/.xvpics as it'll remove everything from the / tree. Cheers --- Larry
RE:[newbie] Mass directory delete
Being a newbie myself, I can only guess but I believe the command to delete directory without getting the crap is "rm -Rf .xvpics" José A. Mirles
FW:Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta
I would like to know what the problems are with the beta right now. Is it using the 2.3 or 2.4test kernels? José A. Mirles --( Forwarded letter 1 follows )- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:32:52 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ronald.J.Hall[darklord]@kih.net.inet Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta patrick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reasons i avoid betas and alphas, their more of a pain then the finished bug! can anybody give us some idea of the differences on 7.2 beta thanks pat There was a posting about it on linuxtoday, lots of new stuff apparently, like over 250 additional packages, as well as XFree v4.01 as standard if your video card supports it. That, I can't wait for! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie] darkxlord
can i ask what your sig means thanks pat
[newbie] LZH file
How do I view a .lzh file? I was downloading some Dance Dance Revolution (really really cool arcade game) movies, and I came across some that ended in .lzh. I tried viewing them in GTV, but it didn't do anything. So what program do I need to view lzh files? -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Cannot get Version 7.1 Deluxe to install
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:03:28 PDT,Dennis wrote: Hi Mandrake Linux Help Desk, I guess I must be one of a small minority who cannot get version 7.1 Deluxe to install on his/her PC. I have made three thorough attempts and all goes well until the final step where the X configuration test is done. -- Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:35:20 This is not really a Mandrake help desk Dennis, but rather a mail list of users who voluntarily help one another, I am afraid you cannot get your money back from us grin... Obviously your install is bombing on a video anomaly, how about trying a expert or a text install and try to get the video working by setting it up manually? you will need to find the scan rates etc on your monitor from your owners manual or from a web site, but the chances of getting it to function are very good with the help of the citizens on this list. You are in the correct place to find help..good luck getting it going...sometimes it is very hard to do, but that is why it is fun8-) Olly P Biloxi Mississippi
Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
You already got the second part answered, but I think the reason all those .xvpics directories are in your folders is because The GIMP puts them there for some reason. I noticed that too when I was uploading my website to my hoster, and I was wondering why it was taking so long. From what I've seen, The GIMP will put one of those directories into each directory in which you've opened or saved a picture to. So if you have a picture in /home/bob/pictures, then GIMP would create a .xvpics folder in /home/bob/pictures/.xvpics. I don't know why it does that, or why it's .xvpics instead of .gimp or something, but I do know what your talking about. I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how) I don't want these dirs in there, they take up space, and I want them gone. -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
RE: [newbie] Help with Internet conection
Hola Ricardo, me parece estupendo que podamos escribirnos en español y que estés dispuesto a echarme una mano con esto de la conexión que me tiene loca, llevo varios dias dandole vueltas al asunto, y como soy muy cabezota, hasta que no lo consiga no pararé, hasta sueño con cosas del ordenador y me levanto en medio de la noche a seguir intentandolo. Jejeje. Bueno, vamos al grano: No uso Kppp, la verdad es que no se ni como se llama lo que uso. Desde la línea de comandos le digo linuxconf, me sale lo que supongo que ya sabes, voy a configuracion de red o algo así, ahora no me acuerdo muy bien de cómo se llama, y entro en lo último de abajo, lo de ppp; ahí le pongo todos los datos de que dispongo, nº al que llamar, nombre de usuario y password y luego abajo le digo conect, siempre me sale o bien que no es posible, error 2 ó que ppp0 ha quedado corriendo aunque extrañamente ha tardado más de 15 segundos en ejecutarse el comando (esto lo dice así, literalmente). ¿Cómo sé si estoy conectada a internet o no? Intenté abrir una pagina con netscape pero imposible. Otra cosa, yo conecto con eresmas (lo que antes era alehop, pertenece a Retevision) el nº desde lanzarote es 1050928000123, nombre de usuario 050@alehop y password gratis, la puede usar todo el mundo. Lo que es curioso es que nunca he tenido ni me han dicho qué DNS ponerle, en Windows siempre hay que decirle que las pone el servidor, igual que la del usuario. O sea que no es como con otras conexiones que he tenido, por ejemplo teleline,(de la que aún continuo usando el correo porque con alehop es webmail y no me gusta, prefiero el pop3) en la que hay que ponerle las DNS del servidor, o por lo menos una. De todas formas he mirado a ver qué DNS usa alehop o eresmas que es lo mismo, a traves de winipcf en c:/windows (ya sabes, ¿no?). La DNS del usuario es dinámica. El modem es interno, lo he configurado con setserial, está en ttyS1, IRQ 3, aunque yo lo había puesto en 9 y luego que me salía que se quedaba puesto en 2 que iba como dirigido hacia el 9, la verdad es que no entiendo mucho de esto. De hecho estoy en ello, estoy intentando aprender Linux y todo lo que pueda de informática porque me encanta, si por mi fuera estaría las 24 horas con el ordenador. Incluso podría decir que me ha salvado la vida mi descubrimiento, algo tardío, de la informática, ya te contaré otro día porqué, ahora no que si no me enrrollo demasiado y no paro. Creo que no tengo kppp en mi ordenador porque cuando pongo kppp en la línea de comandos me dice command not found. Voy a ver si lo encuentro por ahí por la red para bajarmelo. Lo que no sé es como se instalan las cosas en linux, ya te digo no tengo ni idea, a ver si me las apaño. Aunque si te apetece darme alguna pista te lo agradeceré eternamente, :) Hace poco compré una revista que traia linux mandrake, compre un disco duro usado y lo instalé yo solita, cosa que hizo sentir muy bien, e instalé linux, al principio no funcionaba, pero me puse a buscar informacion por la red hasta que me di cuenta de que era cosa de la bios, cambié una cosilla y funcionó, me puse supercontenta. Hacia tiempo que quería poner linux pero como no tenia mucho espacio y no queria deshacerme aún de windows, por lo menos no hasta que controle un poco mas linux, sobre todo lo de internet que es de donde saco casi toda la información que necesito y para poder comunicarme con algunas personas, lo demás me da más o menos igual, eso ya se irá resolviendo poco a poco. Cuando veo los equipazos que tiene la gente de la lista alucino, deben de pensar que mi ordenador es algo prehistorico, pero en el fondo a mi me gusta, creo que al ser mas antiguo y mas lento, es todo mas dificil y por lo tanto aprendes más. Ademas me da igual lo que les parezca yo lo quiero muchisimo, vamos como que es casi lo único que poseo aparte de un coche todo destartalado. Bueno, me voy a 'callar' ya de una vez que si no al final de vas a arrepentir de haberme escrito a mi directamente. Espero que no :( Bueno, voy a dar un paseito por el ciberespacio a ver si encuentro al famoso kppp y espero que la próxima vez que te escriba sea desde linux, aunque la verdad es que lo dudo, dudo que me resulte tan fácil o tan rápido. Un saludo desde Lanzarote, la isla de los volcanes, Carol^ -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: martes, 05 de septiembre de 2000 12:21 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [newbie] Help with Internet conection carol wrote: Hi everybody, I managed to make my modem work, I think ?? I've been trying to connect to the internet for a couple of days but it's been impossible. I wanted to be able to solve this by myself, but obviously I can't so at the end I've decided to ask you for some help. I would be really gratefull if you did. I have a very old computer but it works ok in Windows98, including the internet connection. - Pentium 133 mhz - 2 hard drives of 1'2 Gig. each (one has W98 and the other L.M. 7.0 (Air)
Re: [newbie] re: mandrake 7.02 problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very simple question about mandrake 7.02 and am embarrassed to have to ask it but here goes. After installing successfully (I thought)and rebooting for the first time I tried to configure my rc.local file for ip chains. First off there was no ip chains or rc.local. Did I do something wrong on my install? Anyway I finally got on the net and installed ipchains but I don't know how to setup a file to start at boot up.(embarrassing) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com freemanit depends on what you want ipchains to do. If it is to allow the machines on a lan to all access the internet through one gateway machine then you need to set up IP-Masquerading. If so start at the below URL: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cipc.html But if it is to set up a firewall then you can get a script that does that for you at the below URL: http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ Alan
RE: [Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]]
With the release of the 760 chip from AMD, Athlons will use DDRAM. Jason Pierce *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 09|04|2000| at 07|55 PM| Abe wrote: Ras far as I know there are no athlon motherboards that actually can use RDRAM. R From my research I'm pretty sure that RDRAM is Intels and Rambus's baby and Reven Intel is having second thoughts. AMD's web site recommends high quality Rpc-100 or pc-133 ram. R R RAbe R R= Original Message From Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] = RSome of the sites I have seen/read suggest that an Athlon runs happier with RRDRam RAnother $0.02 worth...:) RJaguar R R"Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R Abe wrote: R R I'm running mandrake 7.1 on a Duron 600 with ASUS A7V motherboard. I did Rthe R install myself. 7.1 installed perfectly on my system. Perhaps it is the RAbit R board that is causing the problems? The other possible issue is power Rsupply R and RAM. The Athlon series want a high quality 300w power supply and AMD R recommends that you use new ram in conjunction with these chips. I'm Rusing R pc-100 ram that is about a year old in my system and I haven't had any R problems. R R Good luck! R R Abe R R Hi Abe. I have a question, even though its not quite related to this Rmessage R thread. Its about that RAM speed rating you mentioned. Is it okay to use RPC-100 R with a fast Athlon system? Somebody told me I'd have to dump the RAM I'm Rusing R with my current K6-III/475mhz, if I upgraded to an Athlon. (bottleneck) R R Thanks for any info! R R -- R R/\ RDarkLord R\/ R R RGretzky shoots RJesus saves RGo to Rhttp://www.getpaid4.com?jaguar182 to make $$$ using YOUR ROWN computer and sigining subscribers in YOUR OWN emails! R RMore than $25,000,000 Already Paid to Members -- Join AllAdvantage today! Rhttp:/www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=DEG689 R RHarpoon a gay whale R R R RGet your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at Rhttp://home.netscape.com/webmail R RJesus saves, RAllah forgives, RChthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] Cannot get Version 7.1 Deluxe to install
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:03:28 PDT,Dennis wrote: Hi Mandrake Linux Help Desk, I guess I must be one of a small minority who cannot get version 7.1 Deluxe to install on his/her PC. I have made three thorough attempts and all goes well until the final step where the X configuration test is done. -- Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:35:20 This is not really a Mandrake help desk Dennis, but rather a mail list of users who voluntarily help one another, I am afraid you cannot get your money back from us grin... Obviously your install is bombing on a video anomaly, how about trying a expert or a text install and try to get the video working by setting it up manually? you will need to find the scan rates etc on your monitor from your owners manual or from a web site, but the chances of getting it to function are very good with the help of the citizens on this list. You are in the correct place to find help..good luck getting it going...sometimes it is very hard to do, but that is why it is fun8-) besides all the fun of not getting linux running it is also a source of some frustration :) Olly P Biloxi Mississippi
Re: [newbie] Cannot get Version 7.1 Deluxe to install
TallD CU2 wrote: [snip] I am installing the program on a Maxtor 8.4 GB hard drive as a virgin installation, allowing Mandrake Linux to do an ?automatic? install. I run my PC using a ?rack? system, that is, all my ?boot? drives are mounted in rack inserts so I can run any operating system I want to, putting each system (Win98, Win2000, etc.) exclusively on its very own boot hard drive. [snip] Dennisskip the test. Alan
Re: [newbie] VCD player?
vcd stands for video cd. it's made of ripped movie n sound files from dvd. it contains the movie file as *.dat instead of mpeg. a vcd is usualy viewable on common dvd players. if u have a fast connection (T1 or higher) , there r plenty of them to download from irc networks. good quality sometimes too :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a VCD? - Original Message - From: Lovister LJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:42 PM Subject: [newbie] VCD player? I need a program to play VCD's".dat" files. Thanks in advance. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail/
Re: [newbie] Cannot get Version 7.1 Deluxe to install
TallD CU2 wrote: [snip] I am installing the program on a Maxtor 8.4 GB hard drive as a virgin installation, allowing Mandrake Linux to do an ?automatic? install. I run my PC using a ?rack? system, that is, all my ?boot? drives are mounted in rack inserts so I can run any operating system I want to, putting each system (Win98, Win2000, etc.) exclusively on its very own boot hard drive. [snip] Dennisin an earlier message I said to skip the test. Also, do not use the 4.0 version of XF86, use the 3.3.6 version. Alan
RE: [newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100
You may dl Gentus from their website, www.gentus.com ABIT also has a comparison chart for the differences between 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 /LT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug McGarrett Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100 There's a review in (or linked from, I forget which) LWN--Linux Weekly News--by theDukeofURL about running Abit's Gentus Linux, ver 3.0, on a KA7-100 board. Apparently the installation went reasonably smoothly. I'll find out for myself pretty soon--I just bought one of those boards, and it came with a disk marked ABIT GL6.2E. I hope this is the latest release, (3.0) but I don't know. The newest files are dated April 2000. According to the Duke, the Gentus is based on Rawhide. Does anybody know when Rawhide came out? There is an ABIT website, but it says nothing about Linux that I could find. Best of luck. If you find out anything I haven't mentioned, please pass it on to me. At 12:24 09/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: I built an Athlon system about 3-4 months ago and started out with the Abit motherboard which would NOT work even after trying 2 different boards. I switched to Asus K7V and it works great! I haven't really heard anything good about the onboard ATA100 nor abit for Athlon. My system is as follows: Asus K7V Athlon 700 Matrox G400 SoundBlaster live 512 MB RAM 2x 20 hdd's Win2k pro, server, Win98, Linux-Mandrake 7.1, and have had Suse 7.0 loaded all at the same time without problems. Mike Has anyone managed to get any distro to work with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird an Abit KA7-100 motherboard ? machine runs windows NT fine, installs Redhat, but it fails with a kernel panic when trying to start for the first time, Gentus Linux ( rebadged Redhat supplied with the motherboard) would not even complete the installation and Caldera wouldn't install (fortunately it failed quickly :). The machine is not overclocked.
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
Did you just install mandrake? Also, they files you can't see, are they on a non primary partition? _ "John I. Azeke" wrote: I was looking at some of my windows 98 mpeg files under L. Mandrake 7.1 yesterday and when I rebooted the computer into windows, The partition of windows that contains all of my personal files was gone! Confused, I went back into Mandrake and the partition was still present with all information. I don't know why I can't see it under Windows.When Mandrake is performing its shut down sequence, There is a FAIL on "stopping identd services"I have tried:1) detecting new harware under windows... No Good2) unmounting the drive under Linux before restarting... No GoodCan anyone help me?
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
hahahahahahaha!! Thanks for the laugh Mark. Dacia --- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abe wrote: he's the best auto mechanic in the world why shouldn't he be able to fix my VCR = Original Message From "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = By asking the school IT teacher :-) But not even he could get redhat to run above 648x480. And he has just designed and upgraded the entire schools network to use firer optics, so he should know what he is doing.. An NT geek has no idea what to do with a REAL OS. There's not "Reboot" button. They get confused! -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
"John Azeke (Big John)" wrote: I have 2 hard drives. One has Mandrake installed on it. The other has 2 windows partitions (C and D). Windows is installed onto the C: Drive and D: has all of my personal windows files. On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...first question. Is this "partition" we're talking about on a seperate drive from the one that contains your windows installation? I'm assuming, of course, that this is the case. At any rate, if you can see the files and the partition for that matter while running Mandrake then they're still and haven't been deleted. And Linux hasn't moved them. For what ever reason though Windows can no longer see this partition. If you can move the files to another drive. Preferably the partition which contains your Windows installation and we'll go from there. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, John I. Azeke wrote: I was looking at some of my windows 98 mpeg files under L. Mandrake 7.1 yesterday and when I rebooted the computer into windows, The partition of windows that contains all of my personal files was gone! Confused, I went back into Mandrake and the partition was still present with all information. I don't know why I can't see it under Windows. When Mandrake is performing its shut down sequence, There is a FAIL on "stopping identd services" I have tried: 1) detecting new harware under windows... No Good 2) unmounting the drive under Linux before restarting... No Good Can anyone help me? If you recently installed Mandrkae 7.1, there is something of a "bug" where it will hide your non-linux extended partitions from windows. To remedy this, download a perl script from here ( http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 ). Look for the second install problem listed and follow directions. Let me know if this helped. -Paul R. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
and there we have it. As an interesting aside, I'm enrolled in a Cisco network engineer program at my local community college. I bought my first text book which is an A+ Certification book. As I was browsing through the table of contents I was shocked to see that apparently only DOS, win 3.x, win9x and NT constitute operating systems that run on x86 processors that are all made by Intel. even funnier was the heading for the NT section: The Ultimate Solution: Windows NT I laughed my self silly. I use NT at work and if it is the ultimate solution we need to ask a much better question. Abe = Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Abe wrote: he's the best auto mechanic in the world why shouldn't he be able to fix my VCR = Original Message From "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = By asking the school IT teacher :-) But not even he could get redhat to run above 648x480. And he has just designed and upgraded the entire schools network to use firer optics, so he should know what he is doing.. An NT geek has no idea what to do with a REAL OS. There's not "Reboot" button. They get confused! -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this| ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
[newbie] RE: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors
Its true, 3dfx's linux support for all of their products is excellent. They recently open sourced Glide! I have been very very pleased with my 3dfx purchases both voodoo2 and voodoo5. The image quality made by their products is exceptional in both windows and linux. I cannot recommend their products highly enough. Abe = Original Message From Anton Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Asheesh Laroia: What about the latest NVidia chip? Reviews I've read (www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster. Until they stop providing binary-only drivers, no Nvidia chip is going to see the inside of a box I build. Linux support for both the Voodoo series and for SB-Live! is phenominal. The reason for this is the open source drivers. The original driver from Creative sucked. Might as well have not had sound. Within a month of it being open sourced, quality was up to the standards people expected of the card. A binary only driver locks you into a particular kernel version as well. OSS gets around this by recompiling everything everytime there is a new kernel release (2.2 series). But look at the poor souls who had Aureal sound cards and depended on binary only drivers for them when Aureal went out of business. I'm not suggesting that NVidia is in danger of bankrupcy. I am suggesting that you're going to be screwed if they decide to stop updating the drivers. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "First things first -- but not necessarily in that order" -- The Doctor, "Doctor Who" Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
[newbie] DVD player
Now, I know there's been a lot of trouble with getting DVD's to play on Linux. Anybody have any clue how it's done? -Paul R. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Linux4Win - never again
win98 is the best damn over glorified nintendo I have encountered yet. And that is about all I can say for it. = Original Message From Jason Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote: 95 makes 98 look like solid gold. hahahahahahahahahahaha Abe . -- I think both are the equivalent of pesos, worth nothing in the real world! Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: hahahahahahaha!! Thanks for the laugh Mark. Dacia ;-) no problem. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
try "man fsck" (wid out da quotes, A'course) - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!! On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Goldenpi wrote: Inetd has nothing to do with drives. It runs network services. I expect running scandisk on the bad partition would fix it. Unfortunatly, you need windows to see the partition before you can use scandisk. Chicken and egg. Use the windows safety disk. Of course you have one. Paul -- Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. -Mark Twain http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] Quake2/kernel/sound/video/modem/boot help ;p
Hi everyone, I recently installed Mandrake 7.0 on my Win98SE PC and I have a few q's. 1. I have a CL Live! Value sound card. It plays in KDE fine, with MP3's and the system sounds and the like. However, when playing Quake 2, the sound gets broken up and sounds like it is reverbing. I've tried messing with the audio menu, but nothing. One thing to note is I installed the latest CL emu10k1 drivers OVER the installed drivers (it worked from the get go, but didn't try Quake2 at that time). Is there anything I can do?? Check or whatever? I fixed the mouse in quake 2 by editing libvga.config. 2. In Quake 2, I can't get my Nvidia GeForce 2 to work in hardware mode. It crashes back to console every time. I followed all the instructions on installing and configuring XFree86 4.0.1 and installed the nvidia drivers (instructions from linuxnewbie.org).However, I have no idea if Mesa was installed, or installed correctly. I know I didn't install it.The quake2 readme says Ishould install the includedlibMesaGL.so.2.6, but I thought the drivers might be out of date or might mess up my nvidia driver installation (the GLX one). 3. The new 2.2.17 kernel just released.. Should i compile it, and what are the downfalls/good things about doing this? Does it fix anything, or will it mess something up? 4. How in the heck can I get my desktop to show the full desktop without running in a super high resolution? If I use 800x600, I only see part of the desktop (and I don't like scrolling the screen to find stuff). The high res hurts my eyes (I run windows in 800x600). 5. I have my system setup to boot linux only if I have my bootdisk in my A: drive. My hd was already partitioned past the 8 gig limit. Will this have any adverse effects upon my system? Also, can I burn the contents of the bootdisk to a cd and have it boot from my DVD-ROM drive? 6. In KDE, when I connect to the net and my modem icon goes to the "systray" area none of the icons will work. If i try to click on konsole, it won't come up. However, If I connect, change my theme, it will refresh the desktop, and my modem icon will disappear (still connected tho) and I can click on the icons. WHEW! I apologize about all the q's, but I'm a total newbie/moron to linux. I knew and still do know every little about how it runs, what config files do what, and how to configure things right. Upfront thanks to anyone who wishes to help! Thanks!! Greg M.
Re: [newbie] LZH file
Anthony wrote: How do I view a .lzh file? I was downloading some Dance Dance Revolution (really really cool arcade game) movies, and I came across some that ended in .lzh. I tried viewing them in GTV, but it didn't do anything. So what program do I need to view lzh files? -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. Anthony: .lzh files are compressed files. The format has been around for a long time, going back to the early MS-DOS period. I've never dealt with them under Linux, but a brief search on Google for ".lzh linux" found several Linux downloadable programs that should work: gutTAR, RAR and gzip. They may even be in the Mandrake distribution. If not, try TuCows or DaveCentral. HTH -- Carroll Grigsby
[newbie] Locale error when running Perl
When I run perl, I get warnings. I don't know how to fix them. Can anyone
help me fix these?
$ perl -w
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
This is the output when I type 'locale' on the command line.
$ locale
LANG=en
LC_CTYPE="en"
LC_NUMERIC="en"
LC_TIME="en"
LC_COLLATE="en"
LC_MONETARY="en"
LC_MESSAGES="en"
LC_ALL=en
As you can see, LANGUAGE is missing. LANG and LC_ALL have en but it is not
enclosed by quotes. How can I fix this?
I live in Canada and plan to use English as my primary language (en). I'm
running Mandrake 7.0 and glibc 2.1.
Thank you!
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-- /-|rcana
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[newbie] Locale warnings when running perl 5.005
When I run perl, I get warnings. I don't know how to fix them. Can anyone
help me fix these?
$ perl -w
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
This is the output when I type 'locale' on the command line.
$ locale
LANG=en
LC_CTYPE="en"
LC_NUMERIC="en"
LC_TIME="en"
LC_COLLATE="en"
LC_MONETARY="en"
LC_MESSAGES="en"
LC_ALL=en
As you can see, LANGUAGE is missing. LANG and LC_ALL have en but it is not
enclosed by quotes. How can I fix this?
I live in Canada and plan to use English as my primary language (en). I'm
running Mandrake 7.0 and glibc 2.1.
Thank you!
--
--Arcana
[newbie] does anybody know
i have read that mandrake has an agreement of some kind with sun to distribute suns office suite. does this exclude mandrake from including koffice on its distribution. like 7.2 thanks pat
[newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
I hedged an answer yesterday. It will probably work. But here's the scoop from the horse's mouth: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 Good luck. --doug
Re: [newbie] HardDrake and WebCam
well this is when search engines come in handy, check out cnet, cnet, tucows, etc. you may find some free programs! also some programs you already have may This brings up something I scratch my head over. Have I just overlooked it or is there no list of the programs that come with Mandrake and/or Red Hat releases? Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
I know what you mean...I'm hoping that some of this is addressed in Mandrake 7.2. Truth is, as bad as Windoze is, it's spoiled us. Unix has always been the superior OS but Microsoft knew what problems most people needed solving and in a standalone environment they did pretty well at eliminating all the technical stuff from the "desktop." While I might moan about all the installation "stuff" of Linux, Mandrake (and Red Hat for that matter) are a darn sight easier to deal with than when I was installing SunOS and applications on a Sparcstation. No RPMS there. No plug-n-play device managers. Just tarballs and vi. If there's a difference with Linux it's that I've now got friends who want to get into Linux and it's a tough pill to swallow, regardless of all its virtues. There are days when chasing down 'how tos' puts a sour taste in my mouth. Then Windows crashes...again...and I feel better :-) And you are correct in what you've said about the CD-RW, but that's something that most don't know about. I know of Yes, they do seem to be that "mysterious" device that looks too much like a floppy with more space :-) thinking that he would be able to use this CD-RW like he used the floppy drive on his machine. It took a little while for me to explain that it just didn't work that way. There True...especially when dealing with the RW disks. used in order for him to even be able to use the hardware in a normal fashion with "recordable" Cd's. I myself really prefer the Recordables as opposed the re-writable CDROM's. Much simpler. You betcha! In the Windows world I have two RW disks that I use for daily backups. Other than that, everything is on closed CD-Rs as I want the stuff available if I'm working with a minimal system. As long as we're talking about this, what do you use in the Linux world for CD-R management? I finally got Gtoaster to work but it doesn't seem to figure out (and report) what the total size of the files I want put onto a disk is and whether they will fit. That seems a bit odd to me. Is there something better? Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] Module Help
I was trying to install a module today for my winmodem and when i try to install it it says Init_module:device is busy. i tried reinstalling to see if it was because i installed it wrong or sumthing, but it still wouldnmt work. does anyone know why it would be like that?
Re: [newbie] Modem Problems
On Monday, September 04, 2000 7:36 PM, "Carroll Grigsby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] speaking of external modems wrote in part, . In addition to the guaranteed compatibility with any operating system, you get all those neat flashing lights. Those neat flashing lights are a lot of what I loved about my Hayes Smartmodem 300. Nowadays the only neat flashing lights I have are on my NICs. When you see me looking at them you may be sure I have run out of hair to pull out.
[newbie] Sound Card
I tried to configure my Sound Card a couple of times this week and cant seem to gte it to work unkless i use the OSS that comes on the applications CD. Does anyone know if theres a way to get a C-Media Inc Plug n Play SB16 Audio Device?
Re: [newbie] HardDrake and WebCam
yeah I have tried the search engine, tucows, download.com, and coutless others. I did find one on quickcam but it's only for parallel. mine is USB Quickcam Express and it's not currently being supported yet. They're working on it I guess. Well I'll just have to hang loose until whenever it get supported. Thanks for replying. Rob - Original Message - From: Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HardDrake and WebCam well this is when search engines come in handy, check out cnet, cnet, tucows, etc. you may find some free programs! also some programs you already have may This brings up something I scratch my head over. Have I just overlooked it or is there no list of the programs that come with Mandrake and/or Red Hat releases? Cheers --- Larry
RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]
yep and that is also why people can overclock their RAM CPU's without out right destroying them. The hard ware tends to be rated conservatively because it will last longer if it is used at less then 100% of capacity. = Original Message From "John A. MacLaughlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = . . . they make ram and the really good stuf gets rated at 133 and the less great stuf gets rated at 100. Initially pc-100 ram was really high quality pc-66 ram. . . . That's how they get the faster CPU's too. Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Philomena put to word: um, Mark - I think Damien was referencing the "Ulysses" name, not "beta" :-) , hence the literary hint of the Irish author James Joyce who wrote "Ulysses" and that book, an internal parallel to the exiled wanderer of homer's tale...so yes the reference is likely to the earlier...perhaps picked to herald mandrake's moving more widely through the world's markets...either that or one of the programmers has a cat by that name... frank ---
RE: [newbie] 7.2 beta
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Mike Tracy Holt put to word: 7.2 is pretty good, lots of good improvements. On 'upgrade' from 7.1 it didn't do so well; wasn't able to detect my network after the upgrade, couldn't setup my printer from the installer (which I've never been able to do) and a few other minor details. When I did the fresh install however, it DID recognize my network and even had a driver/filter for my printer! (Epson 860 on the USB port). On the downside, kde needs LOTS of work (wouldn't close 'x' without ctrl-alt-backspace) and sound doesn't work out of the box though the correct modules were configured and are being loaded. Overall, there are some awesome new features - I would call it more of an 'alpha' release at this stage though. hmmm...sound, printer, network, etc. all working fine here...and no trouble closing kde either...mileage does vary... frank - Yeah, I've noticed that to be true. At any rate however, I believe that there is still a LOT of work to be done seeing that 7.1 and below have worked fine on this same box (pretty standard hardware). Mike
Re: [newbie] Modem Problems
I am also a fan of das blinkenlights. :) I even know what some of them are for, at least on my Modem Blaster. Scary! ;) Kathleen "John A. MacLaughlin" wrote: On Monday, September 04, 2000 7:36 PM, "Carroll Grigsby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] speaking of external modems wrote in part, . In addition to the guaranteed compatibility with any operating system, you get all those neat flashing lights. Those neat flashing lights are a lot of what I loved about my Hayes Smartmodem 300. Nowadays the only neat flashing lights I have are on my NICs. When you see me looking at them you may be sure I have run out of hair to pull out.
