Re: [newbie-it] Lilo o Grub?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ho installato la Mandrake 7.1 e so che c'è la possibilità di installare come bootloader il classico Lilo o il Grub; eseguendo l'installazione in modalità personalizzata non ho trovato nessuna indicazione che mi desse la possibilità di scegliere quale dei due bootloader installare e soprattutto dove installarlo (nell'MBR o in una partizione). Infatti finito l'installazione come programma di boot mi viene presentato il Lilo..niente in contrario ma ero curioso di vedere il Grub!!! Come posso ovviare al problema? Ok, da X clicca su DrakConf - DrakBoot - Configura X (si hai letto bene!) ... Ok - Fatto da linea di comando non so aiutarti, c'è un pacchetto di documentazione su Grub non installato di default, nel 1° o 2° cd-rom. Ciao, Fabio.
RE: [newbie-it] Arieccomi, col modem!
At 09.38 03/10/00 +0200, you wrote: Ciao Ciro, il comando "pppconfig" dovrebbe essere un'alterazione parlando del "daemon pppd" che e' quello che permette di collegarsi alla rete con un provider di servizi internet ,tramite autenticazione SLIP,PAP, CHAP o quello che e '. Probabilmente devi configurarlo a dovere - Insomma e' una parola :) * vedi sotto * Cos'e' un hacking? E' l'azione di un hacker,cioe' di un curioso che vuole sapere come funziona fino all'ultimo chip di un computer,senza andare oltre la legalita' ed il rispetto per gli altri.Un cracker invece era un hacker che ha superato la linea, e che usa le sue capacita' per rubare e danneggiare i sistemi degli altri. Puoi configurare la tua connessione,il modem e il demone pppd tramite "kppp" anche digitato da console. Domanda : quale'e' il corrispondente di Kppp in Gnome .. se esiste? Ce ne sono almeno tre,dipende dalla distribuzione,comunque io mi sono sempre trovato bene con kppp e kpppload ed uso Helix Gnome. Basta che digiti kppp da console o crei un collegamento sul pannello,altrimenti, se proprio non ti piace,mi pare si chiami Gnome ppp (lo trovi nel menu rete/ accesso remoto),se usi Mandrake,comunque e' meno diretto e meno ricco di opzioni. A te la scelta. * Comunque negli ultimi tentativi, il modem risponde bene, compone il numero, negozia col modem del Pop, ma dopo qualche secondo sul terminale del Log di connessione mi compare: ASCEND PIPELINE TERMINAL SERVER SYSTEM PASSWORD: e dopo un po' cade la linea. Cosa puo' essere? Come fai a connetterti,usando kppp o cosa? Beh,si vede che il pop server ti chiede la password di accesso (SYSTEM PASSWORD:). P.s. : ricordati che 9/10 dei provider italiani gratuiti utilizzano il challenge handshake authentication protocol (CHAP),quindi quando userai kppp devi cambiarlo dove c'e' l'apposito spazio;se con l'accesso automatico non ci riesci ,vedrai che c'e' una machera che che ti permette di correggere lo script di accesso. ** Riguardo a pppd,non ti scoraggiare,come dicevi tu sono gli uomini che devono dominare le macchine. saluti. Simone
RE: [newbie-it] aggiungere utente a gruppo
= Original Message from Marco Scalas [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 4/10/00 09.40 --- Floods [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: C'è una utility per aggiungere un utente a un gruppo desiderato? O devo aggiungerlo a mano editando /etc/group? Grazie -- Floodse-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao, con Linuxconf è molto semplice: appena lo avvii c'è la sezone dedicata agli utenti. CIAO MARCO. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it * Scusa, ma ti sconsiglio di usare linuxconf per queste cose. Io ho avuto grossi problemi con gli id utente ed i permessi,quindi l'ho cassato. Almeno per ora... Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] aggiungere utente a gruppo
Il 04/10/00, Fabio Coatti parlò così: On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:10:35AM +0200, Floods wrote: C'è una utility per aggiungere un utente a un gruppo desiderato? O devo aggiungerlo a mano editando /etc/group? Credo sia useradd -G group user verifica con man useradd adduser user group Ciao -- Floods e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie-it] aggiungere utente a gruppo
Il 04/10/00, Simone Ravarotto parlò così: Scusa, ma ti sconsiglio di usare linuxconf per queste cose. Io ho avuto grossi problemi con gli id utente ed i permessi,quindi l'ho cassato. Almeno per ora... Ciao Me ne sono accorto anch'io, linuxconf è veramente bizzarro e per questo mi sono ripromesso di non usarlo mai più! Bye -- Floods e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Fare il mount
Salve, volevo solo sapere se è possibile fare il mount di una porta seriale! Preciso che non sono molto abile nell'uso di Linux e che questa è solo una mia curiosità Grazie.
[newbie-it] kppp
Salve a tuttinessuno ha idea del perche kppp dopo aver fatto il numero e aver iniziato acolloquiare mi da "daemon died unespectelly" mentre quando usavo la SUSE 6.4non lo faceva ?grazieOdino
R: [newbie-it] kppp
guarda il log del kpp, le notizie che fornisci sono troppo scarse ... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 6:49 PM Subject: [newbie-it] kppp Salve a tuttinessuno ha idea del perche kppp dopo aver fatto il numero e aver iniziato acolloquiare mi da "daemon died unespectelly" mentre quando usavo la SUSE 6.4non lo faceva ?grazieOdino
Re: [newbie-it] imwheel e kde Logitec Rules!!!!!
Beh se c'e qualcuno in linea forse puo' aiutere anche me: Il problema e' piu' o meno lo stesso soltanto che io ho un Logitech Cordless ps/2 e non ne vuol sapere di funzionare lo scrolling con la rotellina Forse qualcuno ha risolto il problema e puo' aiutarmi. Ogni consiglio in merito e graditissimo. Ciao e grazie Luca - Original Message - From: "Casa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] imwheel e kde Il dom, 01 ott 2000, hai scritto: Casa wrote: Uso kde ed ho un mouse logitech con rotellina, quello con il marchietto in bianco e nero. Purtroppo pero' la rotellina non ne vuol sapere e quando eseguo il comando imwheel mi viene risposto: imwheel is not checking/writing a pid file, BE CAREFUL! An imwheel may be running already, two or more imwheel processes on the same X display, or using gpm -W, will not operate as expected! imwheel started (pid=858) Ho sentito dire che la colpa e' del mouse molto sfigto. Qualcuno ha qualche suggerimento per favore? Negli altri NG non ne sa niente nessuno. Nicola. se il tuo mouse è ps2 tipo m -s48 con logo bianco e nero hai bisogno del programma "enable_logitech_wheel" da avviare prima di imwheel. poi modificare /etc/x11/xf86setup secondo le istruzioni allegate. non ricordo dove ho prelevato questo file, ma se hai problemi te lo posso mandare io Grazie a tutti delle risposte. Ho compilato enable_logitech_wheel e messo in xinitrc ed effettivamente sembra che qualcosa vada. Pero' quando uso la rotella la freccia fa cose strane, tipo scattare a destra o finire nell'angolo in alto a destra. Il file XF86Config e' configurato come da readme. Il mio mouse tra l'altro e' il tipo M-S48a OEM e' uguale a M-S48? Vi ringrazio anticipatamente per ulteriori suggerimenti. Grazie, Nicola.
Re: [newbie-it] aggiungere utente a gruppo
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:27:43PM +0200, Floods wrote: Il 04/10/00, Fabio Coatti parlò così: On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:10:35AM +0200, Floods wrote: C'è una utility per aggiungere un utente a un gruppo desiderato? O devo aggiungerlo a mano editando /etc/group? Credo sia useradd -G group user verifica con man useradd adduser user group What?? hai provato a lanciarlo su una mdk 7.1 ? Dunque: adduser è un link simbolico a useradd, quindi sono la stessa cosa. [root@janus /root]# ls -l /usr/sbin/adduser lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 giu 9 21:04 /usr/sbin/adduser - useradd* Poi se provi a lacnciarlo ottieni una roba del genere: [root@janus /root]# adduser cova ftp usage: adduser [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group,...] [-d home] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-m [-k template]] [-f inactive] [-e expire ] [-p passwd] [-n] [-r] name adduser -D [-g group] [-b base] [-s shell] [-f inactive] [-e expire ] Chiaramente qualcosa non va nella tua sintassi. Credo sia riferita ad un'altra distro. -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie] Automatization bttv and related modules
Hello, I am here again and very happy, finally I could watch tv under linux in my computer and also the net. And I have two question about: QUESTION 1 It was hard to me, a beginner, but with the help in this list and some web pages I can use cabletv to watch the cable chanels with cablecrypt codification (In my house I have an account with one of the Spanish cable enterprises named ONO). I have an Avermedia TV Capture and a ATI Rage II video card in a Pentium II 400 with 64 Mb Ram; It works very fine. At the moment I must introduce manually the orders to charge all the necesarry modules: insmod videodev insmod i2c verbose=1 scan=1 i2c_debug=0 test -f i2c_chardev.o insmod i2c_chardev insmod tuner debug=1 type=5 insmod msp3400 debug=2 insmod bttv card=6 radio=0 pll=2,2 vidmem=0xf50 and after that y type: /usr/local/bin/cabletv and.. hale opp! it's run fine But I would like linux do that automatically when cabletv start to run; I think that the way is introduce this orders in the /etc/conf.modules file but I do not know exactly how; I have introduced at the end of the mentioned file the next lines: #TV alias char-major-81 bttv pre-install bttv modprobe -k msp3400; modprobe -k tuner options bttv card=6 radio=0 pll=2,2 vidmem=0xf50 options msp3400 degug=2 options tuner debug=1 type=5 bttv, videodev and i2c are correctly charged when I run cabletv, but not msp3400 neither tuner; in fact if I type the orders related with those modules everything goes. Could you help me? What must I write int he conf.modules file? QUESTION 2 I have my home computer with an eternet card and the module it is charged fine. I use it to conect sometimes my laptop to this main computer. The problem start when I switch on my computer without conexion to the laptop, the graphic screen works okey, but the others virtual screen show error messages because the computer is trying to conect and doesn't find other computers; working for example in virtual screen 1 messages apears every few seconds about that the computer is trying to conect. The ethernet card module is charged in the conf.modules file. Is there any way to make linux only use this module when the laptop is conected? Thanks a lot for your help Francisco Alcaraz ArizaMurcia, Espaa (Spain)e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
Talking about MS Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to solaris...bottom line, microsoft do use *nix. Robert. From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500 In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge - especially a full blown productivity app... -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as linux goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own distribution of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I can't believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at home (or at work) and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that apache is running somewhere in that company. Just a thought here. Corel has successfully (not in my opinion but in the minds of some) ported their Office suite to Linux using Wine. If you dig very deeply you find that within MS there's a debate about whether they should/shouldn't produce MS Office for Linux. Could there be a connection? Spin is everything these days it seems. Just thought I'd suggest that this story might have a positive spin in the end. Cheers --- Larry _ 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.
[newbie] Graphical User Interfaces for X
Hello All I am completly new to Linux and just managed to install Mandrake 7.1 on my home PC dual booting with NT. At the mo using a boot disk. My question is what is the X windows, KDE and Gnome? When I type start X I used to get a pretty interface either KDE or Gnome. Now all I get is a dos emulation of windows, I think its called TVM. What is TVM? Also how do I know if the graphical user interface is KDE or Gnome as when I type StartX KDE or StartX Gnome I get the same look desktop. ANy help will be greatly appreciated. regards Anoop
Re: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
That is odd, i remember reading that they just moved Hotmail over to win2000... markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Robert Griffiths" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 6:00 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! Talking about MS Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to solaris...bottom line, microsoft do use *nix. Robert. From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500 In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge - especially a full blown productivity app... -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as linux goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own distribution of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I can't believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at home (or at work) and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that apache is running somewhere in that company. Just a thought here. Corel has successfully (not in my opinion but in the minds of some) ported their Office suite to Linux using Wine. If you dig very deeply you find that within MS there's a debate about whether they should/shouldn't produce MS Office for Linux. Could there be a connection? Spin is everything these days it seems. Just thought I'd suggest that this story might have a positive spin in the end. Cheers --- Larry _ 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] Graphical User Interfaces for X
It sounds like you're going to have to reconfigure your display again. From what you're describing it's not properly configured which is why you're being presented with that strange screen. Actually you will want to configure X so that you're presented with a GUI login screen. This will give you a much broader selection of window managers when you log in to your system. You can reconfigure X by typing "setuptool" on the command line after you've logged in as root. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:53am ,Sharma, Anoop spake passionately in a message: Hello All I am completly new to Linux and just managed to install Mandrake 7.1 on my home PC dual booting with NT. At the mo using a boot disk. My question is what is the X windows, KDE and Gnome? When I type start X I used to get a pretty interface either KDE or Gnome. Now all I get is a dos emulation of windows, I think its called TVM. What is TVM? Also how do I know if the graphical user interface is KDE or Gnome as when I type StartX KDE or StartX Gnome I get the same look desktop. ANy help will be greatly appreciated. regards Anoop This e-mail including any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error please advise the sender immediately by return email and then delete it from your system. The unauthorised use, distribution, copying or alteration of this email is strictly forbidden. If you need assistance please contact the IT help desk on +44 207 467 2154. This email is from a unit or subsidiary of EMI Group plc, registered in England No 229231 Registered Office: 4 Tenterden Street, London W1A 2AY..
Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??
- Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:54 PM Subject: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Hello all, I have a question about burning a CD of linux mandrake 7.1... I have downloaded from the mandrake website the image needed to install mandrake (649mb) And now I'm unsure of what to do. I would like to burn a CD that I can use to install LM on my machine. Is it possible to burn a bootable CD-ROM with this image on it??? I'm extremely new to Linux installs, and even newer to burning a cd, so any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! - Joe :) Did you download the ISO image? What program will you be using to burn the cd? Charles
Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]
I know you weren't. I was speaking "tongue-in-cheek." When I first started learning Assembler I hated it cause there is SO much to remember and it was driving me crazy. However, as I learned the language and began to see just how powerful it really was I just fell in love with it. Mark Vic wrote: ahh, dude, I'm not bashing assembler code, I thought it was fun, and it gave me the chance to learn the internal workings of the basic CPU. On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: I don't care what anyone says...Assembler is just plain awesome! Mark Vic wrote: I remember assembler code for the old Z80, well I don't remember all the codes but I remember a few of the nemonnics, like DJNZ and NOP. I could make a lot of neat little programs with it, like a burglar alarm and telephone answering voice mail system control box, as well as have it control a central office box as in "inter-office" not public.
Re: [newbie] Setiathome
Need some help from the list from users of Setiathome. I am trying to start in a new file and use the -nice 19 command and also the -verbose. I get all the way to the point where it asks where my computer is located and I enter "3" for home(without the quotes of course) and I get a core dump says illegal command. Anybody have an Idea of what I might be doing wrong? OH, the program is the rpm from the Mandrake cooker, and it seemed to install without a hitch. I keep trying but am not having a great deal of success with Setiathome. I'd try the version of Seti@home from Seti's website - the Seti project do not like apps from other sources being used. It is easy enough to install... Regards, Ozz.
[newbie] LinkSys Cable Router Linux MAndrake 7.1
Hi: I was wondering if my LinkSys cable router will DHCP an ip to my Linux b0x. I have a working nic card, and my other machine[98] connects with no problems. If I set my netconfig to DHCP, and netdevice eth0 and irq: 5 , would that accept the dhcp. I love linux, but hate to config it ;) Would love some responsethnx guyzN`galz Dominick aka: FLUIDNYC
RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
FYI, here's another article about Corel. It purports that the reason for this bail out is so Microsoft could offer WordPerfect as open-source to compete against the release of Star Office on the 13th, apparently to This is nothing more than a wild-ass speculation just like the ones I and others have posed here. The sad thing is that this woman actually believes she can argue that MS isn't propping up WP because it's such an insignificant competitor and thus, they MUST be doing it to release pressure on them to open source their own Office suite. Uhm...does anyone else see an inconsistency in that logic? Speculation is fun, it's part of what we do. But it's not an "article about Corel" in my view. relieve the pressure of offering MS Office as open-source... If this is true it's a bit weak I think just about everyone could see through this. Heck Mark, she provided the tool to do it with her statements about the relative imprtance of WP suite in the marketplace. to believe the view that this is more about acquiring access to the graphics applications and .NET than about open-source products and acquiring/killing linux. Yep...whatever's happened to Corel, they've got a bunch of talent there and MS (and other US software companies) have expressed repeatedly the need for more talent. You know, from reading some of these news articles, I don't think a lot of reporters really understand "what" linux is beyond another it's type of OS... Of course you're right about this. pps: The Outlook 2000 spell checker suggested that I change "linux" to "Linux", looks like MS put Linux in its dictionary!?! I bet "free" is in there too but they don't understand it either :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] RPM download site for kernel.
I allready said i can't run Mandrake Update cause I can't Dial out for some reason to my ISP... markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM download site for kernel. MarkO Just run MandrakeUpdate and choose the kernel as the package you wish to update. That's all there is to it. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 4:59pm ,markOpoleO spake passionately in a message: I heard someone mentioning they up ugraded from 2.2.15 kernel to 2.2.16 by just downloading some RPM files..i looked everywere and can not locate these files. I looked at ftp.mandrake.com, rmfind.net, and any other place i could think of. Could someone give me the complete link to a ftp site i can download the RPM to update Kernel please? BTW is there any major change from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 besides some security stuff...kernelnotes and kernel.org does not mention anything about 2.2.16 changes. Thanks, markOpoleO
RE: [newbie] DSL
Steve: Did you ever get an answer I have the same prob. Thnx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Dressler Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DSL I have 2 win98 machines, and networked with ADSL going to both computers, I also have a IBM Server 320 with mandrake 7.1 installed on it. How much trouble is it to connect it to the network so I can have DSL going to it? Sorry if this has been topic before.
Re: [newbie] RPM download site for kernel.
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, you wrote: i have a winmodem so i have to download my updates with windows, so which rpms do i need?? Look here for exactly what you need and what to do with it http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just run MandrakeUpdate and choose the kernel as the package you wish to update. That's all there is to it. I wouldn't trust Mandrake update with a kernel upgrade. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Anyone using windowmaker environment?
I am exploring windowmaker and find the docs to be extremely poor and no book mentions it for more than one paragraph. Basic concepts such as the "purpose" of dock and clip are not discussed anywhere I can find. Is clip a clipboard? Is dock similar to the panel in KDE?valent to the .kdelnk files in windowmaker? Would love to get a helping hand here. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Choosing different desktops
well Marcia you got me i've only been messing with linux a few months -- and from some of the problems i have seen on the list it looks like i've been having it easy. =) my install system all work good. my problems have all been my own mistakes i just reinstall linux try again. =) wish i could help you out here, but this is over my head. sorry. and BTW, last time i did the expert install. you should try it, it's not really that difficult. tho it does let you partition format drives -- make sure you know what file type you want. when i got to formatting my linux drives i had to guess at what file system to use as there are multiple linux file systems. i must have got it right as it works. *haha* good luck with solving your problem Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12:24:20 PM 10/3/00 Dear Adrian and All, Many choices are listed in the graphical login. The only one that lets me in at the login is KDE. Otherwise when I get into KDE , Gnome seems to mix with my KDE alot of the time. I did open an xterm in KDE and did a XFCE command and there it was sort of. There was an icon panel for it and then I set it up I think. It was in my KDE though .I do not know how to switch to that one so that it is the only desktop filling the screen. I did the Normal install and Custom setup. I did not do expert because I am not an expert yet. The first time I installed I was able to choose the different desktops at the graphical login. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] more on 7.2 Beta3
It seems that some of the links are goofed up and there still is a KDE control center, but for some reason there are no more themes in this version of KDE. I hope KDE hasn't decided to discontinue that feature. Even so, it looks like 7.2 will be a significant improvement over 7.1 when it comes out.
Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]
i agree. i have programed (very little) in assembly it is a great way to learn what really happens in the CPU. i also found it very challenging - especially on an 8088 (only 6 registers to work with if i remember correctly). Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12:48:34 PM 10/3/00 ahh, dude, I'm not bashing assembler code, I thought it was fun, and it gave me the chance to learn the internal workings of the basic CPU.
[newbie] Use of ampersand in .rc files
In using a command like xsetroot in a .xinitrc or .bash_profile, etc, does one need to end the command line with a or not? Actual command is xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg cyan -bg black Confused. Thanks. (Do not answer "Dear confused"):-)) Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
okie, here is what i did. in /mnt i had the usual win_c win_d type things. i went into fstab changed things about (did this using KDE graphical interface) so that the drives would mount as windoze (win_c) games (win_d) so, that worked. if i go into /mnt then go into /windoze then i am on my win98 C: drive. the odd thing is, the win_c win_d are still in /mnt also. if i go into them, they are empty. what up with this?? can i simply delete these as root? or is there some other solution? second part of this i can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of them. i checked in fstab mtab. all my fat32 drives are mounted with the "rw" option, so this should put them in read-write mode, yes?? thanks much Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
you did what? - Original Message - From: Adrian Smith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:44 PM Subject: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs... okie, here is what i did.in /mnt i had the usual win_cwin_dtype things.i went into fstab changed things about (did this using KDE graphical interface) so that the drives would mount aswindoze (win_c)games (win_d)so, that worked.if i go into /mnt then go into /windoze then i am on my win98 C: drive.the odd thing is, the win_cwin_dare still in /mnt also. if i go into them, they are empty.what up with this?? can i simply delete these as root? or is there some other solution?second part of thisi can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of them.i checked in fstab mtab. all my fat32 drives are mounted with the "rw" option, so this should put them in read-write mode, yes??thanks muchAdrian Smith'de telepone dudeTelecom Dept.x 7042[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, you wrote: okie, here is what i did. in /mnt i had the usual win_c win_d type things. i went into fstab changed things about (did this using KDE graphical interface) so that the drives would mount as windoze (win_c) games (win_d) so, that worked. if i go into /mnt then go into /windoze then i am on my win98 C: drive. the odd thing is, the win_c win_d are still in /mnt also. if i go into them, they are empty. what up with this?? can i simply delete these as root? or is there some other solution? Yes, delete them, you're not using them anymore second part of this i can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of them. i checked in fstab mtab. all my fat32 drives are mounted with the "rw" option, so this should put them in read-write mode, yes?? Here's 'fstab' line for my Windoze drive. I moved it out of '/mnt/', to a dir named '/c'. I can read/write/exe anything on that fat 32 partition (13.6 gig) as user. /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 I've seen several different 'fstab' lines for r/w/x a Windoze drive, but this is the lien that has always worked for me. It's also the way 7.x versions of Mandrake have installed. *Do Not* mess with 'mtab' ! Similar to your setup, I had a storage partition for .jpg's, formatted fat32 so either OS could use them. I used to mount it as '/d'. Fat32 wouldn't let me put more than ~18,000 files in one dir tho. When I installed 7.2b3 a few days ago, I changed the format for this partion to ext2, and named it '/stor' rather than '/d'. It now has ~23,000 .jpg's in it ;) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Telnet through different ports?
Hi there. My friend and I are trying to telnet into my machine, but he's behind a firewall that doesn't let anything but web traffic out (port 80). How can we setup my machine to listen for a telnet session on port 80 so he can get in? Thanks. Cya, Cloak
[newbie] Font color?
Hi there, When I open a terminal, looks like Linux use the green color for every executable file, and the red for compressed file, etc. How can I change this color schema? Thanks! Yue
Re: [newbie]ethernet card setup
Dear All, It has been advised to me to use Pnp dump to configure my SMC EZ 10/100 ISA plug and play card. Could someone take me step by step through that process? If that works would it be best to go to Linuxconf or netcfg to finish? I looked at Netcfg and I cannot figure out alot of what they want where. Their terminology is a bit different from the Windows IP configuration that I have. Would someone help me with that, also, step by step? I am a true newbie. I am impatiently waiting for my "Running Linux" book I ordered last week. I hope that can help me, also. I am supplying again my card configuation for Windows 95 below: Distribution: Linux Mandrake 7 Complete Ethernet card- SMC EZ card 10 ISA Network Card-plug and play uses smc-ultra driver and is NE2000 compatible Windows 95 IP Configuration Host Name: MICROSOU.tcac.net DNS Servers: 205.218.118.1, 204.70.128.1 Node Type: Broadcast NetBios Scope ID: IP Rounting Enabled: No NetBios Resolution Uses DNS: No Ethernet Adaptor: Description: Novell 2000 Adaptor Physical Address: 00-E0-29-17-B7-6B DHCP Enabled: Yes IP Address: 208.180.96.251 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 208.180.96.1 DHCP Server: 205.218.118.1 Primary WINS Server: Secondary WINS Server: Lease obtained: Sund Jul 30 00 12:02:58 P.M. Lease expired: Sun Jul 30 00 2:02:58 PM Ethernet Adaptor: Description: PPP Adaptor Physical Address: 44-45-53-54-00-00 DHCP Enabled: Yes IP Address: 0.0.0.0. Default Gateway: DHCP Server: 255.255.255.255 Primary WINS Server: Secondary WINS Server: Lease Obtained: Lease Expires: Now this is the information that I got from the Cox internet technician: Domain Name: cox-internet.com email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your IP Address: Automatically assigned by our server each time you log on Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.cox-internet.com Incoming Mail Server: pop.cox-internet.com News Server: news.cox-internet.com FTP Server: ftp.tcainternet.com Of course I have an external cable modem and the brand I believe is Tetrayon(?). I appreciate all of your help. I am hoping to avoid doing a low level format on my computer disks which I was told is the only way for my computer to except a reinstall of Windows 95. I really don't want it back. I just want to use Linux only on that computer. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you all very much. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] LinkSys Cable Router Linux MAndrake 7.1
I ran Mandrake 7.0 and it automatically found the LinkSys and set it up, and I was on the net without doing anything. I have since installed SuSE 7.0 on the same machine with equal ease. (I'm DHCP to an adsl.) How to config it manually is beyond my capability, since I don't understand the terminology well enough to answer the questions the config routine asks. At 09:48 AM 10/04/2000 -0400, you wrote: Hi: I was wondering if my LinkSys cable router will DHCP an ip to my Linux b0x. I have a working nic card, and my other machine[98] connects with no problems. If I set my netconfig to DHCP, and netdevice eth0 and irq: 5 , would that accept the dhcp. I love linux, but hate to config it ;) Would love some responsethnx guyzN`galz Dominick aka: FLUIDNYC
[newbie] Xfce and KDE?
Dear Paul and All, Thank you Paul for the explicit directions for setting up Xfce. How would I set up Xfce as one of my desktops and not to be the only one? Actually I want to use KDE and Xfce. In other words I want to be able to switch from one to the other.Those so far are my favorites. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia
[newbie] libdb2.so.2 what package?
I am trying to install the new Pan and I downloaded all the required files from the site but I am still getting an Unsatisfied dependancy: libdb2.so.2 Anyone know what package this is in? -- Registered Linux User 181996
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
I use ReiserFS for data storage. Some directories have over 100,000 files in them. ext2 worked but a directory listing took about a month to generate. Also on my new server everything but /boot is ReiserFS and the stability due to crashes, power loss, etc is great and everything runs very quickly. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, you wrote: okie, here is what i did. in /mnt i had the usual win_c win_d type things. i went into fstab changed things about (did this using KDE graphical interface) so that the drives would mount as windoze (win_c) games (win_d) so, that worked. if i go into /mnt then go into /windoze then i am on my win98 C: drive. the odd thing is, the win_c win_d are still in /mnt also. if i go into them, they are empty. what up with this?? can i simply delete these as root? or is there some other solution? Yes, delete them, you're not using them anymore second part of this i can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of them. i checked in fstab mtab. all my fat32 drives are mounted with the "rw" option, so this should put them in read-write mode, yes?? Here's 'fstab' line for my Windoze drive. I moved it out of '/mnt/', to a dir named '/c'. I can read/write/exe anything on that fat 32 partition (13.6 gig) as user. /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 I've seen several different 'fstab' lines for r/w/x a Windoze drive, but this is the lien that has always worked for me. It's also the way 7.x versions of Mandrake have installed. *Do Not* mess with 'mtab' ! Similar to your setup, I had a storage partition for .jpg's, formatted fat32 so either OS could use them. I used to mount it as '/d'. Fat32 wouldn't let me put more than ~18,000 files in one dir tho. When I installed 7.2b3 a few days ago, I changed the format for this partion to ext2, and named it '/stor' rather than '/d'. It now has ~23,000 .jpg's in it ;) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] Telnet through different ports?
you don't just open up port 23, this is the well-known telnet port... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Telnet through different ports? Hi there. My friend and I are trying to telnet into my machine, but he's behind a firewall that doesn't let anything but web traffic out (port 80). How can we setup my machine to listen for a telnet session on port 80 so he can get in? Thanks. Cya, Cloak
Re: [newbie] Telnet through different ports?
Now how are you planning to (mis)use that information? Ask on a hacking newsgroup. There a loads of people there who can help. Im not one of them. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Telnet through different ports? Hi there. My friend and I are trying to telnet into my machine, but he's behind a firewall that doesn't let anything but web traffic out (port 80). How can we setup my machine to listen for a telnet session on port 80 so he can get in? Thanks. Cya, Cloak
[newbie] Using Wine to play a Windows game?
Dear All, My husband thinks he is being deprived because he can't play his Hearts game ( a Windows compatible game) on Linux. May I use Wine to play the game? This is not the hearts game that comes with Windows. If it can be played by using Wine how exactly do I do that? I am a newbie so please tell me exactly what I do. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia
RE: [newbie] LinkSys Cable Router Linux MAndrake 7.1
I second this. I have didn't have to do anything special except during the installation I select the dhcp option; it just worked like it was suppose to. I can offer any help beyond this. -Original Message- From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LinkSys Cable Router Linux MAndrake 7.1 I ran Mandrake 7.0 and it automatically found the LinkSys and set it up, and I was on the net without doing anything. I have since installed SuSE 7.0 on the same machine with equal ease. (I'm DHCP to an adsl.) How to config it manually is beyond my capability, since I don't understand the terminology well enough to answer the questions the config routine asks. At 09:48 AM 10/04/2000 -0400, you wrote: Hi: I was wondering if my LinkSys cable router will DHCP an ip to my Linux b0x. I have a working nic card, and my other machine[98] connects with no problems. If I set my netconfig to DHCP, and netdevice eth0 and irq: 5 , would that accept the dhcp. I love linux, but hate to config it ;) Would love some responsethnx guyzN`galz Dominick aka: FLUIDNYC
RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, you wrote: I think it's obvious that MS wants to rule the world and take over as many corporation. I hope that they lose the case in the lawsuits. Talking about MS Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to solaris...bottom line, microsoft do use *nix. Robert. From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500 In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge - especially a full blown productivity app... -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as linux goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own distribution of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I can't believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at home (or at work) and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that apache is running somewhere in that company. Just a thought here. Corel has successfully (not in my opinion but in the minds of some) ported their Office suite to Linux using Wine. If you dig very deeply you find that within MS there's a debate about whether they should/shouldn't produce MS Office for Linux. Could there be a connection? Spin is everything these days it seems. Just thought I'd suggest that this story might have a positive spin in the end. Cheers --- Larry _ 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] fstab mtab left overs...
the odd thing is, the win_c win_d are still in /mnt also. if i go into them, they are empty. what up with this?? can i simply delete these as root? or is there some other solution? Yes, and this demonstrates a problem with configuration via GUI tools; you are one step removed from knowing what has occurred. When you set up "windoze" as a mount point, not only was fstab modified but a "mkdir /mnt/windoze" command was issued. You see, without an existing directory to serve as a mount point, the code within fstab will simply generate an error. so yes, you should be able to delete the win_c and win_d directories. second part of this i can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of them. As a user you probably don't have write permission. This is the default on such partitions as a protection. You can change that of course. i checked in fstab mtab. all my fat32 drives are mounted with the "rw" option, so this should put them in read-write mode, yes?? Huh? and how did you determine this. You wouldn't see "rw" anywhere. If fstab carries a umask=0,0,0 or something similar then it's unclear why you can't write to your DOS drive but your questions don't suggest that you understand the process sufficiently to have interpreted that syntax if it were there. Sorry if my conclusions are incorrect. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
Here's 'fstab' line for my Windoze drive. I moved it out of '/mnt/', to a dir named '/c'. I can read/write/exe anything on that Not a bad idea Tom. I just did: ln -s /mnt/windows win with the link in my home directory. Seems to work. Any reason not to do it that way? One of the reasons I did it was that if I want to do something like make a backup image of my root file system I can just do a umount -a and then do the backup without picking up the DOS partitions. Opnions? /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 I've seen several different 'fstab' lines for r/w/x a Windoze drive, but this is the lien that has always worked for me. It's also the way Ah...I've never seen any r/w/x syntax in any fstab I've worked. Like you, umask is what does it. It also seems to be what Linux does...at least it has on my systems :-) them. I used to mount it as '/d'. Fat32 wouldn't let me put more than ~18,000 files in one dir tho. When I installed 7.2b3 a few That's interesting. One of those "gotchas". Thanks for the info. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Programs don't run no more...
Thilo escribió: Hi folks, Here's my problem, Some of the programs that use to run, don't anymore. When I click on the program icon or I select it from the menu, the HD light flashes a few times and then my desktop just looks at me all contented and does nothing else. Hi! If you start the application from a terminal you'll get some error messages (if there are some!). You will be able then to post them here and... ;-) One of the programs is kmpg and I've tried reinstalling and nothing happens. I've even tried changing permisions and have been unable to run these programs from root or any other user. The StarOffice5.2 install binary won't even run. Can anybody offer any more ideas? Thanks in advance Cheers Thilo -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] news from O'Reilly Press
Was at the local computer bookstore this morning and picked up a little book produced by O'Reilly. There are several things that are significant about this little book (56pages). First, it's FREE! Second, it's titled "Open Source Bibliography" and while it lists a lot of O'Reilly products, it's not exclusive to them. They suggest in their introduction that they've selected the best 2-3 books in each area based on what people have said about the various books. There's also an interesting paragraph in the preface that relates to the recent discussion about their Samba book being online. It goes like this: "And this fall, O'Reilly is launching an exciting new venture in online publishing. We begin by offering 50 of our books on our web site, with full-text searching capabilities. We'll be adding new titles as the year goes on, and hope to have all of our publications available well before the end of 2001." Thought some of you might be interested. Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] problem installing X server
dear anyone i have a BIG problem and need your help.i'd appriciate all suggestions. today a friend of mine asked me to set up a mandrake 7.1 server for his company. it's ment that the server will be tested during 2-3 months and maybe after that will be replacing one of NT servers for the office usage. the installation went smooth untill configuration of X-window. after i had chosen the monitor (actually listed in HP monitors) and the automaticly found graphic card (Asus v7700 GeForce 2 GTS AGP), when i want to test the result it all turns black and installation terminated. i restarted the pc and linux started in console mode. even after that i had no chance to configure X with Xconfigurator command. any option i ever chosen made the screen show all creation's colors. plz help me to run X server and graphical login. tnx in advance
Re: [newbie] generic scsi device in /dev?
bascule escribió: the following is a quote from the readme file for grip 2-94 : a cdripper and mp3 encoder prog which use cdparanoia, 'Secondly, cdparanoia requires access to both the cd device and (for scsi drives) the generic scsi device (usually /dev/sgsomething)' Hallo! I'm using cdda2wav instead of cdparanoia to rip CDs; i just had to give execution rights for everybody for that program and grip runs fine! Hope that helps... 8-) this explains the problem that i have been having getting this prog to run as user, however apart from /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 which my two scsi cdrom devices, how do i find out which is the appropriate 'generic scsi device' for my system? bascule -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Help with Kernel
Joe Morris escribió: I'm working with Mandrake 7.1. I decided to upgrade my kernel to 2.2.16, so I downloaded linux-2.2.16.tar.gz from kernel.org. Hallo Joe! I'm a newbie also! So if someone finds something wrong, correction will be apreciated! 8-) I've downloaded the rpm's from Mandrake (actually kernel-source-2.2.16-9mdk) and rpm-headers also; install them and you'll get the /usr/src/linux directory. Have a look at the readme file. You'll have to: # cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make xconfig (i prefer the graphical app; you can use the text one (menuconfig, if i'm right) You can load a configuration file, modify some things and save it with a different name... make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install And then you'll have to copy or move the file /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot (you can rename it for, for instance, kernel-2.2.16-test10). Then you have to edit /etc/lilo.conf (what i've done is to add that new kernel; once i've tested it i change the default one). Here is my lilo.conf (hope that helps!): boot=/dev/sda6 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=2.2.16-2 keytable=/boot/es-latin1.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz label=2.2.15 root=/dev/sda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.16-2 label=2.2.16-2 root=/dev/sda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.16-1 label=2.2.16-1 root=/dev/sda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/sda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" failsafe" read-only other=/dev/sda1 label=dos table=/dev/sda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe I did the following as root: cd /usr/src mv linux linux.old tarxzf /usr/src/linux-2.2.16.tar.gz mv linux linux-2.2.16 ln -s linux-2.2.16 linux cd linux make config When I did the above, I saw the following: rm -f include/asm (cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) /bin/sh scripts/Configure /arch/i386/config.in scripts/Configure: scripts/Configure: No such file or directory make: *** [config] error 127 I tried recompiling the kernel in Red Hat and it worked, but Mandrake is stubborn (by the way, I finally got my CD-RW working). What should I do? Thanks! Joe -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] positioning an app in KDE desktop
I discovered a cute clock called asclock which looks good on KDE desktop. I therefore created a kdelnk for it which I put into my autostart folder. Unfortunately asclock comes in my distribution with no docs, no man, info or readme. It opens on login nicely BUT it always opens at the left upper corner of the desktop. I would like to a) position it somewhere else (top right or bottom right) on the desktop but do not know how to tell the kdelnk to put it there. Is there a way? b) make it appear without the surrounding xterm (I guess it is) frame on top of it. The one that shows the miniutarize/maximize/close buttons. Can that be done? Also is there a more effective way to start it (rc file somewhere) rather than in the autostart folder and is it advantageous to do so? Great clock/calendar by the way. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
[newbie] boot and rescue diskettes
What is the difference between the boot diskette and the rescue diskettes. Are they similar? How do you create the rescue one? Thanks. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] Setiathome
Ed Tharp wrote: which "3" are you hitting (top of qwerty keys or numbers pad? and is the num lock light on? - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Setiathome Need some help from the list from users of Setiathome. I am trying to start in a new file and use the -nice 19 command and also the -verbose. I get all the way to the point where it asks where my computer is located and I enter "3" for home(without the quotes of course) and I get a core dump says illegal command. Anybody have an Idea of what I might be doing wrong? OH, the program is the rpm from the Mandrake cooker, and it seemed to install without a hitch. I keep trying but am not having a great deal of success with Setiathome. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842 -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] Setiathome
Ed Tharp wrote: which "3" are you hitting (top of qwerty keys or numbers pad? and is the num lock light on? - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Setiathome Need some help from the list from users of Setiathome. I am trying to start in a new file and use the -nice 19 command and also the -verbose. I get all the way to the point where it asks where my computer is located and I enter "3" for home(without the quotes of course) and I get a core dump says illegal command. Anybody have an Idea of what I might be doing wrong? OH, the program is the rpm from the Mandrake cooker, and it seemed to install without a hitch. I keep trying but am not having a great deal of success with Setiathome. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842 Ok, I tried with the num lock and used both the rpm and the tar.gz program from seti@home, same result both cases, core dump at the location question. I guess I will uninstall both and try reinstalling the tar.gz file. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
Adrian Smith wrote: okie, here is what i did. in /mnt i had the usual win_c win_d type things. i went into fstab changed things about (did this using KDE graphical interface) so that the drives would mount as windoze (win_c) games (win_d) so, that worked. if i go into /mnt then go into /windoze then i am on my win98 C: drive. the odd thing is, the win_c win_d are still in /mnt also. if i go into them, they are empty. what up with this?? can i simply delete these as root? or is there some other solution? Adrianyes just delete them from /mnt if you want them no longer. second part of this i can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of them. i checked in fstab mtab. all my fat32 drives are mounted with the "rw" option, so this should put them in read-write mode, yes?? [snip] Stay away from the /etc/mtab file, it's dynamically written to by the os and doesn't take kindly to folks messing around in it. You probably need to add 'user' and 'umask=0' to the options field in the vfat lines of your /etc/fstab file. Alan
Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem
Roger what this means is that you're not connected. This is evidenced by the fact that your ethernet card isn't referenced in the output. If it were operating you would see it referenced as "eth0". -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 8:58pm ,Roger Sherman spake passionately in a message: On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:44:56 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: When you run 'ifconfig' does it show up as eth0 or something like that? If not you might try using netcfg to setup the networking to know about the ethernet card and your connections settings. OK, what I get is this: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:() errors:() dropped:() overruns:() frame:() TX packets:() errors:() dropped:() overruns:() carrier:() collisions:() txqueuelen:() Should I glean anything from that? *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I've finally gone broadband! Life is good. Except for one thing - I'm still a completely ignorant newbie. I thought I had increased my own learning curve over the last month, but apparently not :-/ Oh well...;-) So, anywho, I have a 3com Etherlink Nic card, (model 3C900B-TPO), along with the 3com HomeConnect cable modem. When I booted into linux after physically installing it, kudzu came up, and said it installed it, but Linux doesnt seem to see it. So, the long and short of this is, how do I configure this thing? Starting from installation, through configuring the network...if someone could just point me to a place where I could read about it, hopefully that was written for complete, total newbies to linux, that would be great. Thanks! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Hi Roger, Check out the following link(s): http://www.cablemodemhelp.com/ http://www.kernel-panic.org/user_files/cable-linux.html If you get stuck, I have additional links. Good Luck!! -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Support Linux drivers: http://www.libranet.com/petition.html By the way, I am using a 3Com905c and work great! -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Support Linux drivers: http://www.libranet.com/petition.html peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
[newbie] Mounting Samba Shares
Is there any way to mount Samba shares on boot up? I bought a book on Samba, and there's no indication on how to do this. TIA Rob
[newbie] configuring a network card
Hi there We have a Gateway NLX MINI DESKTOP computer which has a Intel Corp 82557 Network Card. I'm having a problem configuring the Ethernet Card. Harddrake 0.5.3 shows that we have the above mentioned Intel card but when I run Etherdrake 0.6.2 from the Root directory it shows the the system is configured for an IBM i8255B 10/100 PCI card, even though further down the list I can see that the correct card is available!!! So what is going on here Further. When I try to do a ping from the Command Line Window I get the following message: ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote localhost.localdomain 64 chars; ret = -1 Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] problem installing X server
When you boot to the console login use this command to started the console version of the X configuration utility: setuptool ENTER -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 3:15pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake passionately in...: dear anyone i have a BIG problem and need your help.i'd appriciate all suggestions. today a friend of mine asked me to set up a mandrake 7.1 server for his company. it's ment that the server will be tested during 2-3 months and maybe after that will be replacing one of NT servers for the office usage. the installation went smooth untill configuration of X-window. after i had chosen the monitor (actually listed in HP monitors) and the automaticly found graphic card (Asus v7700 GeForce 2 GTS AGP), when i want to test the result it all turns black and installation terminated. i restarted the pc and linux started in console mode. even after that i had no chance to configure X with Xconfigurator command. any option i ever chosen made the screen show all creation's colors. plz help me to run X server and graphical login. tnx in advance
Re: [newbie] Some Emails Returned
AOL's mail server is complaining as is your own postfix problem because your header information is displaying localhost.localdomain. In plain words what these two things are saying is that it doesn't want to recieve mail from a host that doesn't exist. It's a feature inherent in most mailserver to cut down on SPAM. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:12pm ,Michael R. spake passionately in a message: Is anybody else having trouble sending emails to persons using AOL? I recently reinstalled Mandrake 7.1 after two months with very little trouble.Emails sent to AOL addresses get returned with the following message: " This is the Postfix program at host localhost.localdomain. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host zb.mx.aol.com[152.163.224.33] refused to talk to me: 550 DIRECT CONNECTION FROM DIAL-UP OR DYNAMIC-IP DENIED" Everything else works great and I didn't have trouble sending messages to friends using AOL before I reinstalled 7.1. Any ideas? My system: dual boot with W98. AMD500, 64 Meg RAM, 10 Gig Hard. ISA Modem Thanks, Michael E.
Re: [newbie] Using Wine to play a Windows game?
well wine is not the most stable thing in the world in fact i tried running it and it crashed, you can use vmware it is simular to wine but much more stable and includes full documentation on how to run it, im sure there are simular games ported to linux such as your "hearts" you can check places such as tucows.com for downloads of a wide variety of games and other programs In a message dated 04-Oct-00 15:54:58 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear All, My husband thinks he is being deprived because he can't play his Hearts game ( a Windows compatible game) on Linux. May I use Wine to play the game? This is not the hearts game that comes with Windows. If it can be played by using Wine how exactly do I do that? I am a newbie so please tell me exactly what I do. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Using Wine to play a Windows game?
copy the entire program dir that Hearts lives on your DOS partition to your Linux home dir, enter that dir in a terminal window and then on the command line call wine and name the executable you wish to run. Example: wine hearts.exe ENTER If all is well and you're not missing any .dll files or any other support files the game will run just fine. That is as long as it's not a 32 bit game. Wine doesn't do very well with 32 bit programs yet. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:16pm ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake passionately in a ...: Dear All, My husband thinks he is being deprived because he can't play his Hearts game ( a Windows compatible game) on Linux. May I use Wine to play the game? This is not the hearts game that comes with Windows. If it can be played by using Wine how exactly do I do that? I am a newbie so please tell me exactly what I do. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] X windows does not recognise graphics card
Matt, try running as root from that same command line "setuptool". -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:33am ,Matt Usselmann spake passionately in a message: Paul/Larry you suggested running Xconfigurator from the command line to change my settings. Thanks, tried that, unfortunately when I ran Xconfigurator my monitor goes dark immediately (just as it did in the last bit of the Linux install sequence). I then have to reboot to get out of that one. seems to be a tricky one.. Matt --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Sep 30, 2000, 19:36, when Matt Usselmann keyboarded: Tried your suggestion, but cannot change the settings for my video card on my BIOS (I presume that's what you meant?!) It defaults to detecting the PCI video card and default cannot be changed. Set the Windows display property settings to the values you suggested (16bit, 800*600), but that did not make any difference. Still no X windows when rebooting Linux. When you run Xconfigurator, you have to select these lower values. You can, indeed, not change the settings through the Bios. Select the settings when setting up X-Windows. Sorry if I was unclear. Paul 2000, 14:51, when Matt Usselmann keyboarded: Tried to install 7.0 for the first time. It installed ok up to the point where it should configure X Windows. Instead of seeing the "Is this the correct setting?" display, monitor went completely dark. That seems to indicate that the graphics card is not supported?!? It is a #9GXE64 (powered by S3 Trio 64) - the original card in my 5 year old Dell. Hi Matt, When setting up X, there often happens something like you describe. Happened with me also when I still had the S3 card. The way to go is NOT to let the setup probe the card, just tell it to use conservative settings (800x600, 16 bit colors, something like that), make sure that things work that way when booting, and then gradually go up with the requirements upto what you want. You can bet that a 5 year old card, as common as the S3 Trio, is supported. A note: many applications do not like 24bit colors, so try to avoid that setting. Paul -- A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie -- A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
Re: [newbie] problem installing X server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear anyone i have a BIG problem and need your help.i'd appriciate all suggestions. today a friend of mine asked me to set up a mandrake 7.1 server for his company. it's ment that the server will be tested during 2-3 months and maybe after that will be replacing one of NT servers for the office usage. the installation went smooth untill configuration of X-window. after i had chosen the monitor (actually listed in HP monitors) and the automaticly found graphic card (Asus v7700 GeForce 2 GTS AGP), when i want to test the result it all turns black and installation terminated. i restarted the pc and linux started in console mode. even after that i had no chance to configure X with Xconfigurator command. any option i ever chosen made the screen show all creation's colors. plz help me to run X server and graphical login. tnx in advance Zeynaluse the console program, xf86config instead of Xconfigurator. Alan
Re: [newbie] Setiathome
Are you by any chance using an AMD processor? At 06:18 PM 10/4/00 -0500, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: which "3" are you hitting (top of qwerty keys or numbers pad? and is the num lock light on? - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Setiathome Need some help from the list from users of Setiathome. I am trying to start in a new file and use the -nice 19 command and also the -verbose. I get all the way to the point where it asks where my computer is located and I enter "3" for home(without the quotes of course) and I get a core dump says illegal command. Anybody have an Idea of what I might be doing wrong? OH, the program is the rpm from the Mandrake cooker, and it seemed to install without a hitch. I keep trying but am not having a great deal of success with Setiathome. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842 Ok, I tried with the num lock and used both the rpm and the tar.gz program from seti@home, same result both cases, core dump at the location question. I guess I will uninstall both and try reinstalling the tar.gz file. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] Re: changing cursor shapes in X
Jeff Malka wrote: I discovered it works if I put the xsetroot command in ~/.bash-profile Why it does not work in .xinitrc is baffling to me. Hey Jeff. Hmm, can you (or anyone) point out to me the advantages/disadvantages of using rc.local vs .xinitrc, vs .bash-profile for setting up various environments? Thanks! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??
Charles, I downloaded the image, and will be using NERO Burning Rom to burn my CD. This program came with my CDRW drive (Creative Labs). - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:43 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:54 PM Subject: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Hello all, I have a question about burning a CD of linux mandrake 7.1... I have downloaded from the mandrake website the image needed to install mandrake (649mb) And now I'm unsure of what to do. I would like to burn a CD that I can use to install LM on my machine. Is it possible to burn a bootable CD-ROM with this image on it??? I'm extremely new to Linux installs, and even newer to burning a cd, so any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! - Joe :) Did you download the ISO image? What program will you be using to burn the cd? Charles
[newbie] installation
Okay, so yesterday I finally bought Mandrake 7.1. The installation was goingfine until towards the end it ejected the installation cd-rom and asked forthe extensions cd(x86). The cd's i got when I bought it were installationcd(x86), installation sources, and applications cd(x386). So I thought theymeant the applications cd but that didn't work. In fact I just tried all thecd's but none of them worked. Finally I just conitnued installation withoutthat cd but I would really like to know what I can do to fix this.Any ideas?SC
Re: [newbie] Mounting Samba Shares
You can mount Samba shares in the fstab. If you set it to automount you will get the shares mounted just like any device. Kevin On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Robert Scripter wrote: Is there any way to mount Samba shares on boot up? I bought a book on Samba, and there's no indication on how to do this. TIA Rob === Kevin Scott VE7YME Vanderhoof B.C. Live Long and Prosper - Peace and Long Life ===
Re: [newbie] libdb2.so.2 what package?
It was Oct 4, 2000, 12:46, when Jon Doe keyboarded: I am trying to install the new Pan and I downloaded all the required files from the site but I am still getting an Unsatisfied dependancy: libdb2.so.2 Anyone know what package this is in? Methinks that you should be able to find something like libdb* on www.rpmfind.net Paul -- A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Setiathome
Dennis Myers wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: which "3" are you hitting (top of qwerty keys or numbers pad? and is the num lock light on? - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Setiathome Need some help from the list from users of Setiathome. I am trying to start in a new file and use the -nice 19 command and also the -verbose. I get all the way to the point where it asks where my computer is located and I enter "3" for home(without the quotes of course) and I get Ok, I tried with the num lock and used both the rpm and the tar.gz program from seti@home, same result both cases, core dump at the location question. I guess I will uninstall both and try reinstalling the tar.gz file. -- Well, my first install from the Seti@home website was still in the files. That may be why I was getting a core dump. Not sure. Anyway, accessing the file by using the correct path and adding "-nice N " the whole shebang started up again and is currently sitting at "baseline smoothing". I can't wait to see what comes of this. I do not notice any degradation of processor speed. Have an AMD K6 II 400MHZ onboard and it seems to be working well with multiple functions on the system. I have the klseti-0.22 loaded also and it shows a great skymap. I just haven't figured out how to get it to connect to the workunit I am running, so I can monitor the proceedings. Anyone used the klseti program and if so how do you get it to see the work unit in progress? Again, any help is appreciated, Dennis -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
[newbie] My mouse is not visible
Hello, My mouse is not visible after installing linux for windows 7.1, during the installation process, it is viewable andworks fine, after installation and a reboot, and go to tlinux for win, the graphical environment loads, and the mouse disappears, its still there persay, since if you click on the screen somewhere you can usually see a small dot of white where you click, and if you hold down your left mouse button and drag, you can see the bounder box enlarge as you move your mouse, but you can't see the mouse cursor on the screen. System specs: PIII 600MHZ 25GMB RAM COUGAR VIDEO EDITION VIDEO CARD, 32MB PCI 45GB HARD DRIVES IDE DRIVES IDE CDROM, DVD PLAYER AS WELL Thank you. Adam Holt
