[newbie-it] Font

[DARIO_ORLANDO]

Ciao a tutti,
come posso installare nuovi font sotto Linux indistintamente che sia MDK
7.1 o una qualsiasi altra distro? Devo semplicemente metterli in una dir
particolare? In tal caso il drakefont come fa ad importare i font di
Windows, li prende dalla dir di winzozz e li copia sotto una Linux? Scusate
se cerco di complicarmi le cose ma voglio capire un po' come funziona il
discorso dei font sotto Linux e soprattutto perchè voglio installarne
qualcuno personalizzato.

Grazie per la pazienza.

P.S. Perche' da Netscape non riesco a vedere correttamente la maggior parte
dei siti se utilizzo i font disponibile di Default sotto Linux. Tutti i
tipi di carattere che ho provato ad utilizzare mi hanno dato picche.

R: [newbie-it] Installazione disinstallazione

[lobaxteen]

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Alan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Inviato:mercoledi 8 novembre 2000 8.20
A:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oggetto:[newbie-it] Installazione  disinstallazione

Scusate, ma quando l'installazione mi chiede dove installare il bootloader
dove lo devo installare? nel "Primo settore della partizione di boot" o nel
"Primo settore del drive (MBR)"?
dipende : io per esempio ho 2 dischi e linux sulla 2? meta dell hda ho 
installato il lilo nella part di boot cmq secondo me e preferibile 
installare il bootmenager
nella partizione di boot pere non andare a far fare casini al caricamento 
in winnizzo
E poi, installato Grub, cosa devo fare per avviare Winzoz? un menu mi kiede
non do grub ma basta che (con il lilo) digiti il sys she vuoi far partire.
all'avvio del computer se far partire Winzoz Me o Linux? altrimenti come si
fa?

Arriviamo alla disinstallazione (neanke l'ho installato cmq...), cosa devo
fare? mi basta eliminare la partizione con Partition Magic?
io veramente ti consiglio di mollare Partition magic ti potrebbe succedere 
di dover ripetere diverse volte
l'operazione e di usare i vecchio ma robusto fdsk de dos

ma resta il
bootloader Grub? come si ripristina quello di Winzoz??? altrimenti ke devo
fare x disinstallarlo

Grazie 1.000, scusate il disturbo

R: [newbie-it] KDE 2

[lobaxteen]

scusate l' intromisione ma vedo che tutti anno o la 7.1 o la 7.2 io ho la 
7.0 ma c'e cosi tanta differenza? conviene? tenendo conto che i "fronzoli " 
non mi interesano minimamente
ciao lobax

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Fabio Coatti [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Inviato:mercoledi 8 novembre 2000 8.19
A:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oggetto:Re: [newbie-it] KDE 2

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:24:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Ho installato sul mio pc Mandrake 7.1 e vorrei cambiare KDE 1.1.2 con
 KDE 2, ma ci ho provato 2 volte senza successo! quando vado per
 installare il core mi da errore sul pacchetto!!
 C'e qualcuno che puo aiutarmi?

secondo me ti mancano dei pacchetti, tipo le QT2. due consigli, uno
importantissimo: dire "mi da errore" non permette un'aiuto efficace, e
di solito la mail viene piu o meno ignorata; molto meglio scrivere "mi da
l'errore X e X". In questo caso l'aiuto sara molto piu puntuale.
L'altro consiglio e che ti conviene passara alla mandrake 7.2, che ha gia
il kde2 di default. Ti togli un sacco di grattacapi :-)



--
Fabio Coatti
http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova

Re: R: [newbie-it] KDE 2

[Andrea Celli]

lobaxteen wrote:
 
 scusate l' intromisione ma vedo che tutti anno o la 7.1 o la 7.2 io ho la
 7.0 ma c'e cosi tanta differenza? conviene? tenendo conto che i "fronzoli "
 non mi interesano minimamente
 ciao lobax

Se ti va bene tienila.
In istituto la macchina Linux piu` usata ha ancora una
RedHat-4.2 e lavora  tranquillamente.

Certo se hai schede grafiche recenti andresti meglio con
XFree86-4.x, se vuoi un'interfaccia grafica piu` accativante
ci sarebbe il KDE2, se ti serve un miglior supporto USSB, ma, 
salvo esigenze particolari, non credo abbia molto senso cambiare 
distro ogni due mesi.

Io lo faccio perche` mi diverto.
Ho un hd sovradimensionato e ogni tanto prendo una nuova distro che
mi incuriosisce e la provo su una partizione.
Se vedo che va proprio bene la faccio diventare quella di lavoro.
Normalmente ho tre o quattro distro installate.

Pero` e` uno sfizio personale. 
Un po` come collezionare francobolli o tessere telefoniche :-)

ciao, andrea

Re: R: [newbie-it] KDE 2

[Carmelo Cilia]

- Original Message -
From: lobaxteen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: R: [newbie-it] KDE 2



 - Original Message -
 From: "Andrea Celli" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 3:28 PM
 Subject: Re: R: [newbie-it] KDE 2


  lobaxteen wrote:
  
   scusate l' intromisione ma vedo che tutti anno o la 7.1 o la 7.2 io ho
 la
   7.0 ma c'e cosi tanta differenza? conviene? tenendo conto che i
 "fronzoli "
   non mi interesano minimamente
   ciao lobax
 
  Se ti va bene tienila.
  In istituto la macchina Linux piu` usata ha ancora una
  RedHat-4.2 e lavora  tranquillamente.
 
  Certo se hai schede grafiche recenti andresti meglio con
  XFree86-4.x, se vuoi un'interfaccia grafica piu` accativante
  ci sarebbe il KDE2, se ti serve un miglior supporto USSB, ma,
  salvo esigenze particolari, non credo abbia molto senso cambiare
  distro ogni due mesi.
 
  Io lo faccio perche` mi diverto.
  Ho un hd sovradimensionato e ogni tanto prendo una nuova distro che
  mi incuriosisce e la provo su una partizione.
  Se vedo che va proprio bene la faccio diventare quella di lavoro.
  Normalmente ho tre o quattro distro installate.
 
  Pero` e` uno sfizio personale.
  Un po` come collezionare francobolli o tessere telefoniche :-)
 
  ciao, andrea
 per carita ogniuno fa quello che più gli piace volevo sapere solo a
livello
 di applicazioni di sviuluppo o db e magari di configurazione per tutti
quei
 pacchetti
 che prima di poterli usare devono sempre essere configurati. non so, vedi
 apache
 o mysql o come per esempio io non ho mai risolto la compatibilità trà il
jre
 e star office51 o ancora per quanto riguarda il mio kde i client posta che
 seppure ugualmente configurati su un utente vanno e su uno no, isn,questo
 tipo di cose.
 ciao lobax
 

Re: R: [newbie-it] KDE 2

[lobaxteen]

- Original Message -
From: "Andrea Celli" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: R: [newbie-it] KDE 2


 lobaxteen wrote:
 
  scusate l' intromisione ma vedo che tutti anno o la 7.1 o la 7.2 io ho
la
  7.0 ma c'e cosi tanta differenza? conviene? tenendo conto che i
"fronzoli "
  non mi interesano minimamente
  ciao lobax

 Se ti va bene tienila.
 In istituto la macchina Linux piu` usata ha ancora una
 RedHat-4.2 e lavora  tranquillamente.

 Certo se hai schede grafiche recenti andresti meglio con
 XFree86-4.x, se vuoi un'interfaccia grafica piu` accativante
 ci sarebbe il KDE2, se ti serve un miglior supporto USSB, ma,
 salvo esigenze particolari, non credo abbia molto senso cambiare
 distro ogni due mesi.

 Io lo faccio perche` mi diverto.
 Ho un hd sovradimensionato e ogni tanto prendo una nuova distro che
 mi incuriosisce e la provo su una partizione.
 Se vedo che va proprio bene la faccio diventare quella di lavoro.
 Normalmente ho tre o quattro distro installate.

 Pero` e` uno sfizio personale.
 Un po` come collezionare francobolli o tessere telefoniche :-)

 ciao, andrea
per carita ogniuno fa quello che più gli piace volevo sapere solo a livello
di applicazioni di sviuluppo o db e magari di configurazione per tutti quei
pacchetti
che prima di poterli usare devono sempre essere configurati. non so, vedi
apache
o mysql o come per esempio io non ho mai risolto la compatibilità trà il jre
e star office51 o ancora per quanto riguarda il mio kde i client posta che
seppure ugualmente configurati su un utente vanno e su uno no, isn,questo
tipo di cose.
ciao lobax

[newbie-it] CD di mandrake 7.2

[MusTanGi]

prima cosa vorrei ringraziare tutti chi mi ha aiutato per scaricare
mandrake... ho scaricato due file di image iso, per installazione ed
Extension,  vorrei sapere se possibile trovare sull'internet altri
file di image iso, per fare altri due CD.
Grazie ragazzi per aiuto...

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SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM
-=x=-=x=-=x=-=x=-=x=-=x

Re: [newbie-it] problemi con SANE

[Daniele Morabito]

Silvano Pisoni wrote:
 
 ho installato SANE da RPM (Mandrake7.0) ma non riesco a lanciarlo.
 Se lancio scanimage mi dice che non trova i devices per SANE
 Come faccio?
 _
 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.
 
Molto probabilmente devi verificare il device dello scanner (es.
/dev/sge o /dev/sga); poi devi settargli i permessi corretti: puoi
impostare gli stessi permessi del root (molto semplice sotto file
manager) o più semplicemente: # chmod 660 /dev/sge.

Fatto questo, normalmente riscontrerai altri problemi fai sapere
comunque.

Ciao,
Daniele Morabito

Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 swap file size vs ram?

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

I had performance problems earlier this year when I had 64MB RAM. Upgrading 
it to 192MB made a *big* difference. Your system should run fine after the 
upgrade.

Your swap looks fine. You shouldn't ever need more than this, unless you're 
running something *really* memory hungry like a VMware virtual machine. When 
I had 64MB RAM, I often filled my 130MB swap halfway when running 
applications like Netscape (multiple windows open) on Gnome/Enlightenment. 
With 192MB RAM my swap was only used if I was running VMware or some process 
had rioted.

I'm not sure about /proc/bus/usb. I think the reason is because /proc is 
merely a virtual filesystem designed to show system processes. In other 
words, you cannot store files there since it doesn't really exist. In that 
case there would be 0% free space.

On Thu,  9 Nov 2000 09:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,
 Installed 7.2 today. After install going into Netscape or Koffice
 seems to take a very long time. Can hear the hd churning like it is
 trying to load program eventually it does.

 Machine is a 533 w/64 mb ram 15gig hd.
 partions are
 swap  hda5 137mb.62.8 free
 roothda63.85 gig2.36 gig free
 home hda73.63 gig 3.44 gig free

 I have ordered more ram will put that in tomorrow.

 Is the swap partion about the right size?

 Another thing I noticed when running Kdiskfree it shows
 /proc/bus/usb with 0% free. Is this normal?

 Any suggestions are appreciated.

 thanks,
 dkunz

-- 
Sridhar Dhanapalan
"One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad.
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler

[newbie] Lost Grub and lilo only appears

[Romanator]

Hi everybody,

It looks like I cannot retrieve Grub in 7.1. I'm only getting lilo. In
addition, it looks like my superblock is corrupt and I cannot mount C to
access my Windows partition. 
The C drive icon has disappeared from the virtual desktop. Should I
install 7.2 as an upgrade or delete the entire Linux partition and then
install 7.2?

Any thoughts?

-- 
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293

[newbie] need help on sound driver of chip VIA 97

[eric]

Dear any linux user or expert:

   I had compaq notebook , it had VIA 97 pci sound card, but  my
sounddrake response as
Can not read /usr/share/harddrake/soundcard

it also show a panel Select an Sound Card
it default put me as
SB

that is not my card, and I can not find VIA chip on it
I check the mandrake hardware list it do support VIA chip

need help

thanks in advance
eric

[newbie] My experience and problems with Mandrake 7.2

[falcaraz]

Hello everybody
I would like to write about my experience with the installation of
Mandrake 7.2 (release 7.2rcl). My computer is a Pentium III 800 bus 133,
128 Mb RAM, Quantum HD 30 Gb, Yamaha CDRW, Hitachi DVD, Avermedia
Capture98, Voodoo3 3000, Epson Stylus Color 760 printer.
I tryed a first installation using a floppy disk, but the KDE gived me
lot of problems.

The second time I used CDROM installation and the results were better. 
I had problems with the tv-card sound but i solved they creating a
script to run the kwintv, cabletv and xawtv with appropriate parameters,
and now the tv works fine.
The printer did not work fine, but using kups the results are
wonderfull; my printer works OK at 720 ppi!!!

My Voodoo3 3000 has not been detected as a 3dfx accelerate card and I
don't know how to force linux to do that.

Other problem that I have not solved is with the CDRW Yamaha, because it
works OK to copy CD-ROMS, but I can't read CDs. I had this problem with
Mandrake 7.0, but it was solved with 7.1 release. I have analyzed the
main files (fstabs, mtab, modules.conf) and the parameters are the same
that the used with 7.1. I can not understand where is the problem,
because it is supposed that supermount solved these kind of problems.

Because rpmddrake can't read cd cdrom (1) I tryed to force the program
to read the cdrom2, but when I deleted the cdrom (1) analysis, rpmdrake
hung and from then I can not lunch it. I have searched all rpmdrake
files (using locate) and I can't find any config file for this program.
i have uninstalled and installed again it several times but the problem
persist.

Could anybody help me to solved these problems; actually Mandrake 7.2
looks great, this weekend I will try to download the final release.

[newbie] Upgrade Mandrake 7.2

[Francisco Alcaraz Ariza]

Hello,
I have finally installed 7.2 on my computer; when I did the installation
using a booting disk I had a lot of problems with KDE2, but doing the
installation from the CD-ROM more of the problems have dissapeared.
Most of the problems, but not all; I have the next ones:

a) under 7.1 my Yamaha CDR works fine, as CD-recorder and as CD-lecture; but
now it only works as CD-recorder, when I introduce a CD_ROM it is not
recognized (the KDE shows the icon closed). Unfortunately Rpmdrake just look
for the rpm packages in the Yamaha.

b) My DVD Hitachi was recognized well, but not with xcdroast; I just can
copy CD using the Yamaha to read (in this case it works!) and write.
Under 7.1 the Hitachi worked fine 100%.

c) The sound of the tv-card (Avermedia Capture 98) is not correctly
detected, so I can watch the tv with kvintv but not hear the sound. Under
7.1 worked fine.

d) The KDE system control (the name it is not exactly that, but it is
equivalent to the System-Configuration package in windows) detects a lot of
conflict of IRQ between netcard and soundcard, but I have not idea about how
to change this; I have made changes in the modules.conf file, for example
the soundcard IRQ under windows is 5, but in linux is 7 (I think this could
be part of the problem), but if I put the change in modules.conf and restart
the sistem the irq is the same.

e) My epson Stylus 760 works; the color print is fine, much better than in
7.1, but the margins are minimum (cup configuration) and I can find how to
modify them.

Any help will be very appreciated, because 7.2 looks and seems to work fine
for the rest of the hardware and software.

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)

Re: [newbie] New to list

[fred banana]

jeeez   I recommend deaf AND prozac for the whole list ...  maybe some lithium
too. those who have helped so many newbies can get frustrated with people who
will not read the freaking directions and those of you you can not find the
info you need in the direction should (imho) chill out before getting upset that
you are being corrected for not reading (or not following) the directions. If
the biggest problem we have is html backgrounds, hell we are a smart and lucky
bunch. 
get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN YA. YOU
FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.


On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, you wrote:
 Hey Larry,
 I've been following the exchange between you and Fred (excerpts belowsnipped
out)  with interest.  I don't know what kind of tag team you've got going with
 Tomsnip-- Larry

[newbie] X on 7.2 and Toshiba490CDT

[Paul . Newman]

I have done a custom install of 7.2 on my Toshiba 490CDT. The graphical install
works perfectly - the resolution is correct for my LCD, going to the edge of the
panel in 800x600. When I reboot and X starts the display justs whites out and
the system freezes totally - even the caps lock light does not respond.

I am wondering would the install program have put XFree86v4.x.x on or v3.3.6 --
I have XF86Config files that I know work with 3.3.6 and have tried these -
modified so that the fonts and pointers sections conform to the Mandrake
requirement -- but still no joy and exactly the same result.

Is there a log file that would help (if so where is it?) and would Superprobe
help?



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[newbie] RV: Upgrade Mandrake 7.2

[Francisco Alcaraz Ariza]

Hello again,

I have another problem (remember, I am a newbie!)
rpmdrake was trying to read the rpm packages from the cdrom (cdrom 1) that
at the moment I can use as reader (is a Yamaha CDRW and mandrake 7.2 just
can read cd when it is used with xcdroast)
I tryed yesterday to force rpmdrake to read from the cdrom2 (Hitachi DVD)
erasing the cdrom (1) lecture to find rpm packages from the preferences and
from then it is impossible to open rpmdrake, that gives me an error (no
packages avalaible or something similar).
Is there any configuration file for rpmdrake?, I suppose that because if I
uninstall and then reinstall rpmdrake the problem is not solved. And
rpmdrake wasn't read from the Hitachi DVD, so I can not use the program to
install more rpm packages.


Thanks a lot for your attention
Yours sincerely

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
-Mensaje original-
De: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fecha: jueves, 09 de noviembre de 2000 11:04
Asunto: Upgrade Mandrake 7.2


Hello,
I have finally installed 7.2 on my computer; when I did the installation
using a booting disk I had a lot of problems with KDE2, but doing the
installation from the CD-ROM more of the problems have dissapeared.
Most of the problems, but not all; I have the next ones:

a) under 7.1 my Yamaha CDR works fine, as CD-recorder and as CD-lecture;
but
now it only works as CD-recorder, when I introduce a CD_ROM it is not
recognized (the KDE shows the icon closed). Unfortunately Rpmdrake just
look
for the rpm packages in the Yamaha.

b) My DVD Hitachi was recognized well, but not with xcdroast; I just can
copy CD using the Yamaha to read (in this case it works!) and write.
Under 7.1 the Hitachi worked fine 100%.

c) The sound of the tv-card (Avermedia Capture 98) is not correctly
detected, so I can watch the tv with kvintv but not hear the sound. Under
7.1 worked fine.

d) The KDE system control (the name it is not exactly that, but it is
equivalent to the System-Configuration package in windows) detects a lot
of
conflict of IRQ between netcard and soundcard, but I have not idea about
how
to change this; I have made changes in the modules.conf file, for example
the soundcard IRQ under windows is 5, but in linux is 7 (I think this
could
be part of the problem), but if I put the change in modules.conf and
restart
the sistem the irq is the same.

e) My epson Stylus 760 works; the color print is fine, much better than in
7.1, but the margins are minimum (cup configuration) and I can find how to
modify them.

Any help will be very appreciated, because 7.2 looks and seems to work
fine
for the rest of the hardware and software.

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)

[newbie] RV: Upgrade Mandrake 7.2

[Francisco Alcaraz Ariza]

Hello again,

I have another problem (remember, I am a newbie!)
rpmdrake was trying to read the rpm packages from the cdrom (cdrom 1) that
at the moment I can use as reader (is a Yamaha CDRW and mandrake 7.2 just
can read cd when it is used with xcdroast)
I tryed yesterday to force rpmdrake to read from the cdrom2 (Hitachi DVD)
erasing the cdrom (1) lecture to find rpm packages from the preferences and
from then it is impossible to open rpmdrake, that gives me an error (no
packages avalaible or something similar).
Is there any configuration file for rpmdrake?, I suppose that because if I
uninstall and then reinstall rpmdrake the problem is not solved. And
rpmdrake wasn't read from the Hitachi DVD, so I can not use the program to
install more rpm packages.


Thanks a lot for your attention
Yours sincerely

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
-Mensaje original-
De: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fecha: jueves, 09 de noviembre de 2000 11:04
Asunto: Upgrade Mandrake 7.2


Hello,
I have finally installed 7.2 on my computer; when I did the installation
using a booting disk I had a lot of problems with KDE2, but doing the
installation from the CD-ROM more of the problems have dissapeared.
Most of the problems, but not all; I have the next ones:

a) under 7.1 my Yamaha CDR works fine, as CD-recorder and as CD-lecture;
but
now it only works as CD-recorder, when I introduce a CD_ROM it is not
recognized (the KDE shows the icon closed). Unfortunately Rpmdrake just
look
for the rpm packages in the Yamaha.

b) My DVD Hitachi was recognized well, but not with xcdroast; I just can
copy CD using the Yamaha to read (in this case it works!) and write.
Under 7.1 the Hitachi worked fine 100%.

c) The sound of the tv-card (Avermedia Capture 98) is not correctly
detected, so I can watch the tv with kvintv but not hear the sound. Under
7.1 worked fine.

d) The KDE system control (the name it is not exactly that, but it is
equivalent to the System-Configuration package in windows) detects a lot
of
conflict of IRQ between netcard and soundcard, but I have not idea about
how
to change this; I have made changes in the modules.conf file, for example
the soundcard IRQ under windows is 5, but in linux is 7 (I think this
could
be part of the problem), but if I put the change in modules.conf and
restart
the sistem the irq is the same.

e) My epson Stylus 760 works; the color print is fine, much better than
in
7.1, but the margins are minimum (cup configuration) and I can find how
to
modify them.

Any help will be very appreciated, because 7.2 looks and seems to work
fine
for the rest of the hardware and software.

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)

RE: [newbie] No icons...

[Kelly, Christopher]

I'm referring to the icons on the desktop in the graphical logon...

-Original Message-
From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons...


What icons are you referring to?  The ones on the graphical login? or like
in KDE?


On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote:
 I have a question that probably has a very simple solution.
 
 When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in
 as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my
 wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have
 them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on
 other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is
 appreciated...
 
 Thanks,
 Chris Kelly
 Registered Linux user 185775
-- 
Eddie Torres
www.veloct.net

RE: [newbie] No icons...

[Kelly, Christopher]

I did make the users during the install. Last night out of curiousity, I
installed it on another one of my machines and this time I got the icons
that I wanted. Go figure! However, I did do the expert install these past
couple of times. Maybe I missed something and it never knew to place the
icons there. That may make sense??

-Original Message-
From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons...


Weird. I always make the users during install.

Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its something like that.). that is
where icons go.
- Original Message -
From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:29 PM
Subject: [newbie] No icons...


 I have a question that probably has a very simple solution.

 When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in
 as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my
 wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have
 them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on
 other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is
 appreciated...

 Thanks,
 Chris Kelly
 Registered Linux user 185775

RE: [newbie] No icons...

[Eddie Torres]

Ok, here's what you do Kelly.  Login as root ( I haven't been able to su
and do this) and go to the K icon and open the menu ( I'm assuming you are
using KDE) under the configuration options go to boot and ini submenu and
open login manager,  there you can change the options on your graphical
login including backgrounds, icons for users, etc...  Hope that helps.

On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, you wrote:
 I'm referring to the icons on the desktop in the graphical logon...
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:14 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons...
 
 
 What icons are you referring to?  The ones on the graphical login? or like
 in KDE?
 
 
 On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote:
  I have a question that probably has a very simple solution.
  
  When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in
  as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my
  wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have
  them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on
  other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is
  appreciated...
  
  Thanks,
  Chris Kelly
  Registered Linux user 185775
 -- 
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 www.veloct.net
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Re: [newbie] Improving Xwindows on my laptop

[Clayton Hoskinson]

Bombardier Systems Consulting wrote:

 I have a Compaq Presario 1230 laptop with a NeoMagic MagicGraph 128ZV+
 display adapter and an 800X600 display panel. I have installed 7.1
 and  I have not found info on how to configure KDE X to be very
 readable on my laptop.  The setup stuff that I find assumes monitors
 and not panel displays.  I would appreciate some
 assistance. Thanks...Jim I also don't see the JBL sound card in any
 list but that is not as critical as a GUI with legible text.

Jim,
On my Dell Lattitude Laptop which is my linux machine I chose the
generic SVGA monitor option, admitedly some of the fonts are difficult
to read from time to time, but most of it is fine.  I'm using LM 7.0
though and I guess it could make difference.  I've found the one screen
almost impossible to read are those with a white background and light
blue lettering.  If you figure it out other than the generic options I
hope to see the answer on the list.  It would help me too.

Clayton

[newbie] login as root goes in as Icewm even if I choose KDE

[Paul . Newman]

in 7.2, login as root results in Icewm popping up even if I choose KDE. What
  gives?



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RE: [newbie] No icons...

[Kelly, Christopher]

Thanks, Eddie, I will try it.

-Original Message-
From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] No icons...


Ok, here's what you do Kelly.  Login as root ( I haven't been able to su
and do this) and go to the K icon and open the menu ( I'm assuming you are
using KDE) under the configuration options go to boot and ini submenu and
open login manager,  there you can change the options on your graphical
login including backgrounds, icons for users, etc...  Hope that helps.

On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, you wrote:
 I'm referring to the icons on the desktop in the graphical logon...
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:14 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons...
 
 
 What icons are you referring to?  The ones on the graphical login? or like
 in KDE?
 
 
 On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote:
  I have a question that probably has a very simple solution.
  
  When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged
in
  as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my
  wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have
  them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro
on
  other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is
  appreciated...
  
  Thanks,
  Chris Kelly
  Registered Linux user 185775
 -- 
 Eddie Torres
 www.veloct.net
-- 
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[newbie] another upgrading question

[Adrian Smith]

i'm going to upgrade to 7.2 eventually
i am going to try the "upgrade" install since i have never done that before, tho if 
all fails i'll just start over since my /home is on a seperate partition and i'll do a 
fresh.  but one other thing i wonder about the upgrade function

obviously it will upgrade existing packages, but i assume (dangerous to do) that it 
will add any packages that i do not have installed?  am i correct.  does the "upgrade" 
have that part where you select which packages to install?  i want to install / 
upgrade 100% of everything to include the development tools.

thanks much to all.


Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x 7042
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] random dhcpcd drops

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

I have the same problem with my cable modem, which I connect to the Internet 
with dhcpcd. I have tried dhclient, but there is no difference. dhcpxd is 
supposed to be the best dhcp client there is right now, but I haen't been 
able to get it working with my setup. Perhaps that solves this problem (if 
you can work out how to use it, please tell me).

I have found a Perl script called dhcpkeepalive which tries to ping an 
outside server. If the ping fails, it reruns dhcpcd to reconnect. I can be 
set to run periodically as a cron job.

The method I prefer, however, is to run dhcp directly to renew my connection 
every five minutes (via a cron job). Since the connection is actually being 
renewed on the server side as well as the client side (a dhcp request is sent 
to the server), there should be no dropouts at all. It seems to work for me 
-- I have had no problems since.

On Thu,  9 Nov 2000 11:19, Eric Becker wrote:
 I use my linux box as a router (ip-masquerading) for other PC's on my lan.
 I have two nics, one connected to an external adsl modem and the other one
 is connected to my switch.  I used to have mandrake 7.1 and I didn't
 experience any problems.  When I upgraded to 7.2...I started experiencing
 connection problems.  It seems that my connection to my dsl provider will
 mysteriously drop for unspecificied amounts of time.  Sometimes it will be
 only a couple minutes, but other times it will be for hours.  I can easily
 fix it by either restarting dhcpcd, or I can just issue and ifdown eth0
 command and then follow up with an ifup eth0.  What is causing this
 problem? I remember I used to have the same problem when I used
 Redhat...and Redhat uses pump instead of dhcpcd.  Any help would be
 appreciated.

-- 
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"One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad.
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler

Re: [newbie] Network problems

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Christopher,

You may have to disable Plug and Play on the card, particularly if it is an 
ISA card. Hopefully you should have received a disc with your card containing 
a utility allowing you to disable PnP. You may have to run it from DOS (not a 
Windows DOS prompt) for it to work.

Also, if it is ISA I think you may have to specify the IRQ when setting it up 
(don't ask me how).

On Thu,  9 Nov 2000 18:34, Christopher Tyler wrote:
 Hi, my name is Christopher Tyler
 I have just got Mandrake 7.1, to use it as a "internet server" for a
 small network we have at home(4 machines)
 Here is my problem. I have a 3com 3c509b(I think thats what its called)
 network card. Drakconf, detects it, so does the start upbut it shows
 the following message on startup:
 Bringing up interface eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/nc.0
 init module device or rescource busy  Delaying eth0 initialization

 And on shutdown:
 Shutting down interface eth0 ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 240

 I read the network howto, but that didn't have my problem
 When I tried writing "ifconfig eth0"  it says there's no device found.
 My friend who is a linux buff said it might be a conflict, but the card
 works perfectly in Windows 95 on the same machine.

 Its settings are i/o=240(though it was originally set to 210) IRQ=5

 I don't know what I am doing anymoresince I have just got Linux

 Any other needed details?
 200Mhz CyrixInstead(CPU.Linux says its 150Mhz tho?)
 2gig Western Digital HDD
 Sis 6326 4MB AGP video card
 No sound card
 Oh,  its also an ATX case

 I hope thats enough info

 Thanks
 Chris


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Re: [newbie] 7.2 ISO's

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Did you burn the ISO image file to the CD directly (i.e. if you look at the 
CD's contents you see only the ISO file) or did you actually extract the ISO 
and burn it as an image? You are supposed to do the latter, and most CD 
recording programmes (mkisofs/cdrecord, Nero, Adaptec Easy CD Creator) are 
made to handle this.

On Thu,  9 Nov 2000 18:08, Dennis Myers wrote:
 I have downloaded the 7.2 ISO disks ( took about 24 hours total) and now
 I'm like the

 proverbial car chasing dog, I've caught em, but now I don't know what to do
 with em.

 The install disk does not appear to be bootable.  I burned it as a iso9660
 file rather

 than the Joliet system. It shows up ok as an executable on the cdrom but it
 is not

 a self starter. Should I use my 7.1 boot disk to start it or do I have to
 make a new

  boot disk somehow? Can't find anything in the archives or in the other
 help sites

 that tells me. Somebody point me in the right direction, please, thankyou,

 --
 Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842

-- 
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"One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad.
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler

Re: [newbie] rsync

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Try gFTP or Igloo-FTP to get your file. It may help to turn off passive file 
transfers (PASV), which is enabled by default in gFTP.

On Thu,  9 Nov 2000 09:16, Robert Byrnes wrote:
 I have been patiently downloading 7.2 from a University server and suffer
 from getting disconnected when the ftp is deep within the file structure. I
 want to be sure I get all the files. What are the solutions? Would I use
 rsync to do this? How does that work? I am downloading using CuteFTP in
 Win98. If anyone can I help, I'd sure appreciate it!

-- 
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"One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad.
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler

Re: [newbie] another upgrading question

[Tom Brinkman]

On Thursday 09 November 2000 08:40 am, Adrian Smith wrote:
 i'm going to upgrade to 7.2 eventually
 i am going to try the "upgrade" install since i have never done
 that before, tho if all fails i'll just start over since my /home
 is on a seperate partition and i'll do a fresh.  but one other
 thing i wonder about the upgrade function

 I'll continue to recommend a fresh install of 7.2, specially if 
you're going from XF3.3.x to XF-4.  I've also found that some KDE1 
apps just don't work or work right with KDE2.  Also if you have any 
hardware that's been a hassle in the past, I believe a fresh install 
would have the best chance of gettings things right.

That said tho, you've really got nothin to loose tryin an 
upgrade first.  I'd suggest you do a 'recommended' (rather than 
'customized' or 'expert') upgrade first, then upgrade again with
expert/development. This opinion is based partly on my own 
experiences (7.2b3 - 7.2) and suggestions I've seen on the cooker 
list.  'Course this assumes you don't have to use 'expert' to 
overcome some parculiarities of your system/hardware/configuration 
to begin with.


 obviously it will upgrade existing packages, but i assume
 (dangerous to do) that it will add any packages that i do not have
 installed?  am i correct.

Generally speaking I believe this will be the case.  Sort'a like 
there's no difference between 'rpm -i' and 'rpm -U', both will 
install even if there's no existing package.  I feel the bigger risk 
tho, doing a 7.x - 7.2 upgrade, is that orphaned or obsolete 
files/packages will be left on your HDD.   I'd also advise that KDE2 
has some bobbles/irritations. Don't assume it's your 7.2 install, 
it's prob'ly KDE2, and will be fixed in KDE2.1 ;)

  does the "upgrade" have that part where
 you select which packages to install?  

 Yes
-- 
Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] Network problems

[Steven J Renar]

it appears as though you have a hardware conflict.

reboot your machine and go into the BIOS and be sure that you have answered
the "plug and play OS" as NO because linux is not a plug and play OS
(operating system)

then reboot if you still have problems try moving the card to another slot
and reconfigure it with Drakconf / hard drake.

by the way your 200mhz cyrix processor uses a performance rating so it
probably is in fact a 150mhz processor that performs at the 200mhz level
(according to cyrix) hence the marking you see on the chip is PR200 or
something similar.

if all else fails try the "netgear fa310tx" netwok card. as a pci card it
should be auto detected and is supported by just about every floavor of
linux you can throw at it.
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Tyler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:34 PM
Subject: [newbie] Network problems


 Hi, my name is Christopher Tyler
 I have just got Mandrake 7.1, to use it as a "internet server" for a
 small network we have at home(4 machines)
 Here is my problem. I have a 3com 3c509b(I think thats what its called)
 network card. Drakconf, detects it, so does the start upbut it shows
 the following message on startup:
 Bringing up interface eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/nc.0
 init module device or rescource busy  Delaying eth0 initialization

 And on shutdown:
 Shutting down interface eth0 ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 240

 I read the network howto, but that didn't have my problem
 When I tried writing "ifconfig eth0"  it says there's no device found.
 My friend who is a linux buff said it might be a conflict, but the card
 works perfectly in Windows 95 on the same machine.

 Its settings are i/o=240(though it was originally set to 210) IRQ=5

 I don't know what I am doing anymoresince I have just got Linux

 Any other needed details?
 200Mhz CyrixInstead(CPU.Linux says its 150Mhz tho?)
 2gig Western Digital HDD
 Sis 6326 4MB AGP video card
 No sound card
 Oh,  its also an ATX case

 I hope thats enough info

 Thanks
 Chris


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Re: [newbie] Netscape/kppp

[Steve Maytum]

Hi Andrew , if poss post your ISP info over and I 
may be able to suggest something. Never had connection prob. with Mandrake 7 
once configured. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]


  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Andrew 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:43 
  PM
  Subject: [newbie] Netscape/kppp
  
  Hello,
  
  I am having problems staying connected to the 
  internet through Mandrake. I can get on and surf for 3 to 10 minutes and 
  then the kppp daemon dies unexpectedly. I read something about 
  compression in the archives. Something along the lines of arguments like 
  "nodeflate, nocccomp, noccp, nopcomp..." Is that the problem or is 
  it something else? I am running Mandrake 7.0. 
  
  Thanks,
  
  Andrew

[newbie] printing too light

[malkajef]

Printing on my HP III in Mandrake 7.2 comes out very faint on the paper.  How 
can I adjust this?

Thanks
-- 
Jeff Malka ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Registered Linux user 183185

[newbie] printing in 7.2 too light

[Jeff Malka]

Printing on my HP III in Mandrake 7.2 comes out very faint on the paper.  How 
can I adjust this?

Thanks.

-- 
Jeff Malka ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Registered Linux user 183185

Q10RE: [newbie] Network problems

[Jim Haight]

I am having exactly the same problem as Chris. However, my card is a
Silicon Integrated System SiS900, IRQ10. According to what I have
found, it should be supported and use the module rtl8139. When I run
System Setting/Information, the card is showing up under PCI devices.
I ran Lothar and again the card shows up under other devices. I have
tried everything I can think of to get this card working. Right now, I
am at a loss...

Jim

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven J Renar
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 11:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Network problems

it appears as though you have a hardware conflict.

reboot your machine and go into the BIOS and be sure that you have
answered
the "plug and play OS" as NO because linux is not a plug and play OS
(operating system)

then reboot if you still have problems try moving the card to another
slot
and reconfigure it with Drakconf / hard drake.

by the way your 200mhz cyrix processor uses a performance rating so it
probably is in fact a 150mhz processor that performs at the 200mhz
level
(according to cyrix) hence the marking you see on the chip is PR200 or
something similar.

if all else fails try the "netgear fa310tx" netwok card. as a pci card
it
should be auto detected and is supported by just about every floavor
of
linux you can throw at it.
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Tyler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:34 PM
Subject: [newbie] Network problems


 Hi, my name is Christopher Tyler
 I have just got Mandrake 7.1, to use it as a "internet server" for a
 small network we have at home(4 machines)
 Here is my problem. I have a 3com 3c509b(I think thats what its
called)
 network card. Drakconf, detects it, so does the start upbut it
shows
 the following message on startup:
 Bringing up interface eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/nc.0
 init module device or rescource busy  Delaying eth0
initialization

 And on shutdown:
 Shutting down interface eth0 ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 240

 I read the network howto, but that didn't have my problem
 When I tried writing "ifconfig eth0"  it says there's no device
found.
 My friend who is a linux buff said it might be a conflict, but the
card
 works perfectly in Windows 95 on the same machine.

 Its settings are i/o=240(though it was originally set to 210) IRQ=5

 I don't know what I am doing anymoresince I have just got
Linux

 Any other needed details?
 200Mhz CyrixInstead(CPU.Linux says its 150Mhz tho?)
 2gig Western Digital HDD
 Sis 6326 4MB AGP video card
 No sound card
 Oh,  its also an ATX case

 I hope thats enough info

 Thanks
 Chris


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RE: [newbie] Network problems

[Jim Haight]

Problem fixed. I took Steven's advice. I pulled the a fa310tx out of
one of my other computers. Linux recognized the card with no
problems... Moral to this story - use a good networking card :)

Jim

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven J Renar
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 11:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Network problems

if all else fails try the "netgear fa310tx" netwok card. as a pci card
it
should be auto detected and is supported by just about every floavor
of
linux you can throw at it.
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Tyler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:34 PM
Subject: [newbie] Network problems


 Hi, my name is Christopher Tyler
 I have just got Mandrake 7.1, to use it as a "internet server" for a
 small network we have at home(4 machines)
 Here is my problem. I have a 3com 3c509b(I think thats what its
called)
 network card. Drakconf, detects it, so does the start upbut it
shows
 the following message on startup:
 Bringing up interface eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/nc.0
 init module device or rescource busy  Delaying eth0
initialization

 And on shutdown:
 Shutting down interface eth0 ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 240

 I read the network howto, but that didn't have my problem
 When I tried writing "ifconfig eth0"  it says there's no device
found.
 My friend who is a linux buff said it might be a conflict, but the
card
 works perfectly in Windows 95 on the same machine.

 Its settings are i/o=240(though it was originally set to 210) IRQ=5

 I don't know what I am doing anymoresince I have just got
Linux

 Any other needed details?
 200Mhz CyrixInstead(CPU.Linux says its 150Mhz tho?)
 2gig Western Digital HDD
 Sis 6326 4MB AGP video card
 No sound card
 Oh,  its also an ATX case

 I hope thats enough info

 Thanks
 Chris


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Re: [newbie] another upgrading question

[Adrian Smith]

thanks to all for the comments on my questions regarding this topic.

Tom said:
 I'll continue to recommend a fresh install of 7.2, specially if 
you're going from XF3.3.x to XF-4.  I've also found that some KDE1 
apps just don't work or work right with KDE2.  Also if you have any 
hardware that's been a hassle in the past, I believe a fresh install 
would have the best chance of gettings things right.

me sayz -- i think i will stick with XF3.3 as the XF4 with ML7.1 did not work with my 
system.  i'm having printer problems tho, so in hope that the new printer system will 
fix that.  and i don't use the KDE environment, except as root, elsewise i use 
enlightenment.

Tom said:
That said tho, you've really got nothin to loose tryin an 
upgrade first.  I'd suggest you do a 'recommended' (rather than 
'customized' or 'expert') upgrade first, then upgrade again with
expert/development. This opinion is based partly on my own 
experiences (7.2b3 - 7.2) and suggestions I've seen on the cooker 
list.  'Course this assumes you don't have to use 'expert' to 
overcome some parculiarities of your system/hardware/configuration 
to begin with.

me sayz -- there are different types of upgrades?  oh wow...  this might be more fun 
than i expected.  =)  i have used expert, but just for the experience, not because i 
needed to do so.  i will keep your recomendation in mind.

on the topic of:
 obviously it will upgrade existing packages, but i assume
 (dangerous to do) that it will add any packages that i do not have
 installed?  am i correct.

Tom said:
Generally speaking I believe this will be the case.  Sort'a like 
there's no difference between 'rpm -i' and 'rpm -U', both will 
install even if there's no existing package.  I feel the bigger risk 
tho, doing a 7.x - 7.2 upgrade, is that orphaned or obsolete 
files/packages will be left on your HDD.   I'd also advise that KDE2 
has some bobbles/irritations. Don't assume it's your 7.2 install, 
it's prob'ly KDE2, and will be fixed in KDE2.1 ;)

me sayz --  really?  orphaned  obsolete files could get left eh?  i don't really like 
that idea much  i have pleanty of drive space, but still.   i suppose it could 
cause problems down the line eh?  the more i think about it, the more i wonder if i 
shouldn't just start over from fresh again.  having just recently reinstalled my Linux 
 Win98 systems from nothing i found that Linux + applications + customizing was 
completely up  going just as i wanted it in a day.  Win + applications + customizing 
took 3 days.

maybe i'll just format=)

thanks much for the thoughts.




Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x 7042
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] how do I get 7.2 to mount a win2k partition?

[abe]

It can be done yes?  There is no entry in my fstab file for hda or
windows.  ANyone know what the entry should look like?

[newbie] My first upgrade to 7.2 experience

[Paul]

Hi all,

I just upgraded the first machine, my test-pc, to MDK7.2.

The upgrade itself went okay, as it showed all kinds of things being
installed.

But then the fun started. No way that the original X settings were
retained. I counted myself lucky for having kept my XF86Config file on a
diskette, I needed it!! I could not convince the system that the SiS6326
chip was capable of doing 16bit colors with 1024x768 resolution. The old
XF86Config took care of that. (Xfree 4 was not set up automatically, even
though the videochip is reported to be supported.)

I have not looked at the network and printing yet (CUPS was installed).

A problem that I have never had before is shutting down. Shutting goes
partly well, until I see

umount2: /usr: device is busy

After that there is no more action from the computers end. CtrlAltDel does
not do anything, all that is left is throw the switch. The boot afterwards
will of course force a check on several partitions.

Weird, since with 7.1 everything went so well.
I will hold back from upgrading my other machine until I have an answer
why shutting down on pc2 does not work. I can't understand why /usr would
remain "busy" (mounted?)

Any takers on this problem?

Paul

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Re: [newbie] New to list

[Rolf Pedersen]

fred banana wrote:

 get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN YA. YOU
 FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.

Brave words, banana, for someone who has to run to his neighbor to get
the job done.  Do what you have to do, just spare me your stupid bitch
life story :-D
Rolf Pedersen

Re: [newbie] another upgrading question

[Tom Brinkman]

On Thursday 09 November 2000 01:42 pm, Adrian Smith wrote:

 me sayz -- i think i will stick with XF3.3 as the XF4 with ML7.1
 did not work with my system.  

but that doesn't mean that XF-4.0.1 in 7.2 won't.  I had the 
same experience with 7.0 and 7.1, too many problems with my voodoo3 
on a BX board and XF-4, so I stuck with XF-3.3.6  With 7.2/XF4.0.1 
tho, the V3 works great!  FPS in 'gears' have gone from 90's to just 
under 120 fps !!  2D looks better, quicker also.

i'm having printer problems tho, so
 in hope that the new printer system will fix that.  and i don't
 use the KDE environment, except as root, elsewise i use
 enlightenment.

OK, you'll need to look into 7.2's new print manager, CUPS. From 
what I've heard, all KDE2 apps work well, some non-KDE don't right 
out of the box, but do after a config (to the app) change.  I say 
I've heard, because I don't use a printer on my 7.2 box (I've got an 
el cheapo win-printer, and it's broke :(

 maybe i'll just format=)

That's what I'm fixin' to do ;)  Now that the challenge of 
7.2beta3 upgrading manually to 7.2+  (there's some updates past 
7.2f) is finished, and I've got the 7.2 final CD's comin in the 
mail, I'm gonna do a format/fresh install.  Then I'm gonna start a 
local chapter of Mandrake Upgrad'aholics Anonymous, another 12 step 
program ;
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[newbie] Unable to launch Photopaint

[Christian Neu]

Hi...

I've just installed Corel Photopaint which I've downloaded from the Corel 
Linux Website but I can't launch it.
Instead the following message appears:

"Unable to add FontTastic font server to the font path. The font server is 
probably not installed or not running. Correct this problem and try again."

I'm currently using Mandrake Linux 7.2. That was detected during the 
Photopaint installation process.

Any ideas?

Re: [newbie] New to list

[patrick]

Rolf Pedersen wrote:

 fred banana wrote:

  get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN YA. YOU
  FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.

 Brave words, banana, for someone who has to run to his neighbor to get
 the job done.  Do what you have to do, just spare me your stupid bitch
 life story :-D
 Rolf Pedersen

this is where i usually have to take over.


hi everybody, has anyone heard from patti lately

Re: [newbie] My first upgrade to 7.2 experience

[Steve Maytum]

Paul , not quite sure - but I'm sure I read somewhere that some files are
allocated to new slots in 7.2 - hence problems reading info! Anyone shed
more light on this thought (or better suggestion?) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

- Original Message -
From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 8:31 PM
Subject: [newbie] My first upgrade to 7.2 experience


 Hi all,

 I just upgraded the first machine, my test-pc, to MDK7.2.

 The upgrade itself went okay, as it showed all kinds of things being
 installed.

 But then the fun started. No way that the original X settings were
 retained. I counted myself lucky for having kept my XF86Config file on a
 diskette, I needed it!! I could not convince the system that the SiS6326
 chip was capable of doing 16bit colors with 1024x768 resolution. The old
 XF86Config took care of that. (Xfree 4 was not set up automatically, even
 though the videochip is reported to be supported.)

 I have not looked at the network and printing yet (CUPS was installed).

 A problem that I have never had before is shutting down. Shutting goes
 partly well, until I see

 umount2: /usr: device is busy

 After that there is no more action from the computers end. CtrlAltDel does
 not do anything, all that is left is throw the switch. The boot afterwards
 will of course force a check on several partitions.

 Weird, since with 7.1 everything went so well.
 I will hold back from upgrading my other machine until I have an answer
 why shutting down on pc2 does not work. I can't understand why /usr would
 remain "busy" (mounted?)

 Any takers on this problem?

 Paul

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[newbie] Patti

[Paul]

It was Nov 9, 2000, 16:09, when patrick keyboarded:

hi everybody, has anyone heard from patti lately

I talked to her on AIM a few days ago. She had to unsub from Newbie, too
much mail for her working day...

Paul

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Re: [newbie] Laptop driver support

[poogle]

I posted recently that I had been unable to get an LT Winmodem Global to work 
so I bought genuine hardware PCMCIA card which worked "out of the box" (Cost 
approx £45), I tried running sndconfig on my Sony and it returned the message 
that NeoMagic sound card was not supported, hope negtive replies help :-)

On Friday 13 October 2000 10:30, you wrote:
 I have just installed Mandrake on my laptop and I am having a few problems.
 I did a standard install and I do not think there is support for my sound
 card or modem.

 Dell Latitude LS
 Modem = LT Win Modem
 Sound Card = NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 Audio

 Do I stand a chance of getting these to work?

 Becuase this Laptop has no Serial port I have a USB to serial convertor
 made by entrega.  Would any body have a clue how this would work.  Also
 DHCP does not work.

 Matt Sim


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RE: [newbie] New to list

[Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG]

"Look, if you two kids can't play nicely together I'm going to have to
separate you."  
   --My mom, 30 years ago


 -Original Message-
From:   Rolf Pedersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, November 09, 2000 7:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [newbie] New to list

fred banana wrote:

 get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN YA.
YOU
 FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.

Brave words, banana, for someone who has to run to his neighbor to get
the job done.  Do what you have to do, just spare me your stupid bitch
life story :-D
Rolf Pedersen

Re: [newbie] No icons...

[Goldenpi]

I have installed expert. Again and again but always on the one computer. I
have found a lot of ways to destroy a linux box. I never saw anything about
makeing icons.

- Original Message -
From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] No icons...


 I did make the users during the install. Last night out of curiousity, I
 installed it on another one of my machines and this time I got the icons
 that I wanted. Go figure! However, I did do the expert install these past
 couple of times. Maybe I missed something and it never knew to place the
 icons there. That may make sense??

 -Original Message-
 From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:33 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons...


 Weird. I always make the users during install.

 Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its something like that.). that
is
 where icons go.
 - Original Message -
 From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:29 PM
 Subject: [newbie] No icons...


  I have a question that probably has a very simple solution.
 
  When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged
in
  as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my
  wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have
  them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro
on
  other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is
  appreciated...
 
  Thanks,
  Chris Kelly
  Registered Linux user 185775
 
 
 

Re: [newbie] Unable to launch Photopaint

[Christian Neu]

 I've just installed Corel Photopaint which I've downloaded from the Corel
 Linux Website but I can't launch it.

I think I found the solution myself. The installation routine did not install 
all the packages needed by Photopaint. So after a manual reinstallation 
everything works fine now...

Re: [newbie] small network plus internet question (solved-sort of)

[bascule]

after playing around with the 'route' command (thinking i had failed to
set up the box that was connected to the internet properly) i ran
'route' on my second box and realised that it didn't know what to do
with packets for an ip address that wasn't part of the local network
i.e. 192.168.0.0 or 127.0.0.0, i ran 'route add -net 0.0.0.0 gw
192.168.0.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0' and after a couple of minutes
netscape on the second box connected to netscape.com

however

it is very slow, now even with a download (dial-up) occurring to the
same second box i would have thought 10mbit/s ethernet between the two
was sufficient to transfer files one way and to access the net the
other, if i use netscape from the same box doing the download the speed
(though lessened by downloading at the same time) is acceptable.
does anyone know of some setting or reason why net access from the
second box shold be so slow?

what info should i give here?

bascule


bascule wrote:
 
 i am having trouble accessing the internet from a different box to the
 one with my modem,
 
 the scenario is:
 three machines connected via hub 192.168.0.1(2/3)
 
 192.168.0.1 also has an internal modem and a dynamically assigned ip
 address via the isp
 
 connectivity between the boxes seems to be okay, i am at the moment
 downloading mandrake 7.2 and storing it on a network drive via nfs, but
 when i load netscape on one of the other boxes i get 'unable to locate
 server name' errors,
 
 i have installed pmfirewall (http://pointman.org) -thanks to mark for
 that- and i have (i think) enabled masquerading which my kernel is set
 up for -spent last night doing that!
 
 apart from masquerading (i am trawling through the scripts created by
 pmfirewall) is there something else i should configure?
 what about dns look up on the other boxes, i have entered the same info
 in drakconfnetwork configurationdns on all boxes
 
 what about gateways? i have set up 192.168.0.1 box to have no default
 gateway but to allow routing in drakconfnetwok con..gateways and on
 the other boxes i have set no gateway and no routing
 
 help gratefully received
 
 bascule

Re: [newbie] New to list

[Ed Tharp]

that was a CAPs lock key I intended to bust...totally non-violent person
here(ever since I got out of Leavenworth for fragging my lieutenant in 'nam)
- Original Message -
From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] New to list


 Rolf Pedersen wrote:

  fred banana wrote:
 
   get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN
YA. YOU
   FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.
 
  Brave words, banana, for someone who has to run to his neighbor to get
  the job done.  Do what you have to do, just spare me your stupid bitch
  life story :-D
  Rolf Pedersen

 this is where i usually have to take over.


 hi everybody, has anyone heard from patti lately

[newbie] JDK RPM

[Cal Shepherd]

Hi... Can anyone tell me if there is a Java Developement Kit RPM for Mandrake 
7.2

Thanks

Re: [newbie] New to list

[patrick]

Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG wrote:

 "Look, if you two kids can't play nicely together I'm going to have to
 separate you."
--My mom, 30 years ago

  -Original Message-
 From:   Rolf Pedersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent:   Thursday, November 09, 2000 7:08 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject:Re: [newbie] New to list

 fred banana wrote:

  get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN YA.
 YOU
  FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.

 Brave words, banana, for someone who has to run to his neighbor to get
 the job done.  Do what you have to do, just spare me your stupid bitch
 life story :-D
 Rolf Pedersen

rolling on the floor

Re: [newbie] New to list

[patrick]

Ed Tharp wrote:

 that was a CAPs lock key I intended to bust...totally non-violent person
 here(ever since I got out of Leavenworth for fragging my lieutenant in 'nam)

rolling on the floor



 - Original Message -
 From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:09 PM
 Subject: Re: [newbie] New to list

  Rolf Pedersen wrote:
 
   fred banana wrote:
  
get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN
 YA. YOU
FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.
  
   Brave words, banana, for someone who has to run to his neighbor to get
   the job done.  Do what you have to do, just spare me your stupid bitch
   life story :-D
   Rolf Pedersen
 
  this is where i usually have to take over.
 
 
  hi everybody, has anyone heard from patti lately
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [newbie] Patti

[patrick]

Paul wrote:

 It was Nov 9, 2000, 16:09, when patrick keyboarded:

 hi everybody, has anyone heard from patti lately

 I talked to her on AIM a few days ago. She had to unsub from Newbie, too
 much mail for her working day...

 Paul

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well if u see her again tell here PaTrIcK said hello

Re: [newbie] New to list

[Ed Tharp]

realyyy I want to take this opportunity to beg for forgiveness
around here I meant no harm nor any real threats... (yeesh)
- Original Message -
From: "Rolf Pedersen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] New to list


 fred banana wrote:

  get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN YA.
YOU
  FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.

 Brave words, banana, for someone who has to run to his neighbor to get
 the job done.  Do what you have to do, just spare me your stupid bitch
 life story :-D
 Rolf Pedersen

Re: [newbie] Does 7.2 come with Helix Gnome?

[Anthony]

I don't know the official answer, but my guess would be yes. I don't see 
anything that would not make it compataible with something else.

 Hello
   Does it mean that it is 100% compatible?

 Thanks

 Eduardo

  It doesn't come with the exact copy of Helix Gnome like you'd download
  off the Helix Code website, but it does come with a Mandrake specific
  version of Helix Gnome. So the short answer would be yes.
 


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[newbie] SCSI tape drive -- hows it work?

[Mark Weaver]

Hi list,

Say, I've got an SCSI HP Colorado T4000s tape drive. What do I do to make
it work? I've got a ton of 4GB tapes sitting in a box just collecting
dust. Seems a shame to waste them all.

-- 
Mark

Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
WITH WARTS!

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Re: [newbie] New to list

[patrick]

Ed Tharp wrote:

 realyyy I want to take this opportunity to beg for forgiveness
 around here I meant no harm nor any real threats... (yeesh)
 - Original Message -
 From: "Rolf Pedersen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:08 AM
 Subject: Re: [newbie] New to list

  fred banana wrote:
 
   get a grip you all, or I will send my neighbor over to BUST A CAP IN YA.
 YOU
   FIGURE OUT THE TYPE OF CAP YOU WANT.
 
  Brave words, banana, for someone who has to run to his neighbor to get
  the job done.  Do what you have to do, just spare me your stupid bitch
  life story :-D
  Rolf Pedersen
 
 

come on guys, lets have some fun.

Re: [newbie] Netscape/kppp

[Andrew]

Steve,

Well here is the info you asked for...

Device
 Modem: /dev/ttyS2
 Flow: CRTSCTS
 Line Termination: 
CR
 Connect Speed: 
57600
Lock File is 
checked
 Modem Timeout: 
120sec
Modem Commands
 Pre-Int Delay: 121
 Init String: ATZ
 Post Int Delay: 122
 Dial String: ATDT
 Hangup String: 
+++ATH
 Answer String ATA
 Escape String +++
 Guard Time: 119
PPP
 pppd Timeout: 
120sec
Account Setup
 Authentication: PAP
IP Setup
 Dynamic IP Address
Gateway Setup
 Default Gateway
DNS Server
Primary 
38.197.168.2
 Secondary: 
38.197.168.3

I hope all of this helps you help me. My ISP 
providers name is bartnet.net.and they haven't been of any 
help.

Thanks,

Andrew

  From: 
  Steve Maytum 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 1:22 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape/kppp
  
  Hi Andrew , if poss post your ISP info over and I 
  may be able to suggest something. Never had connection prob. with Mandrake 7 
  once configured. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
  
- Original Message - 
From: 
Andrew 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 
11:43 PM
Subject: [newbie] Netscape/kppp

Hello,

I am having problems staying connected to the 
internet through Mandrake. I can get on and surf for 3 to 10 minutes 
and then the kppp daemon dies unexpectedly. I read something about 
compression in the archives. Something along the lines of arguments 
like "nodeflate, nocccomp, noccp, nopcomp..." Is that the problem 
or is it something else? I am running Mandrake 7.0. 


Thanks,

Andrew

Re: [[newbie] My first upgrade to 7.2 experience]

[Altoine Barker]

Paul,

What I did was maniacal. I removed my X Server config file before I upgraded
my computer. (Of course, I kept a copy of the original on a floppy) I upgraded
by using the network(ftp) install/upgrade method. When all was said and done.
My X worked! I can't get my Unreal Tournament to work with or without Glide
but I'll probable hit up maximumforum.org or other. hint: it would be cool if
someone could help me out:) I have a Voodoo3 3000, now.

Cheers
--Al

Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,

I just upgraded the first machine, my test-pc, to MDK7.2.

The upgrade itself went okay, as it showed all kinds of things being
installed.

But then the fun started. No way that the original X settings were
retained. I counted myself lucky for having kept my XF86Config file on a
diskette, I needed it!! I could not convince the system that the SiS6326
chip was capable of doing 16bit colors with 1024x768 resolution. The old
XF86Config took care of that. (Xfree 4 was not set up automatically, even
though the videochip is reported to be supported.)

I have not looked at the network and printing yet (CUPS was installed).

A problem that I have never had before is shutting down. Shutting goes
partly well, until I see

umount2: /usr: device is busy

After that there is no more action from the computers end. CtrlAltDel does
not do anything, all that is left is throw the switch. The boot afterwards
will of course force a check on several partitions.

Weird, since with 7.1 everything went so well.
I will hold back from upgrading my other machine until I have an answer
why shutting down on pc2 does not work. I can't understand why /usr would
remain "busy" (mounted?)

Any takers on this problem?

Paul

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Re: [newbie] JDK RPM

[Charles A Edwards]

You can get the RPM from either Sun or IBM. You can also get JDK from
Blackdown but theirs is a bzip file.

   Charles


- Original Message -
From: "Cal Shepherd" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:06 PM
Subject: [newbie] JDK RPM


 Hi... Can anyone tell me if there is a Java Developement Kit RPM for
Mandrake
 7.2

 Thanks

[newbie] CDRW can read CD-ROMs!!!!

[falcaraz]

Hey, I discovered in the mandrake page
(http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/pages/) that
the problem with my CDRW is a problem of Mandrake (of kudzu) and the
Mandrake equipement shows how to solve it. It works great, now I
have my Yamaha CDRW working fine.
So one problem less.
The next I need to solve is that of the video-card aceleration

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)

[newbie] Graphical File Sharing

[Riker]

Hello:

I have a qestion concerning file sharing in Linux-Mandrake. I have two
computers networked together and can ping both machines and share the
Internet. My question now is: How can I access the others machines file
using a graphical interface? Is there a way to use Konquer to show my
other machine when I open it? In 7.0 I was using the file manager to
access the other machine and can't seem to figure out how to do it in
7.2. I'm very new to networking and believe that this may be a very
simple problem to remedy. 

Thanks for taking the time to read the question and offering
suggestions.

Riker

[newbie] startup problem-mandrake 7.2-

[eric h]

when my box starts up it gets to the part where it says:
freeing unused kernel memory...ok 128k freed

-then nothing-
my box booted fine for a couple of days (about 20 boots) and then this 
started.
i had this problem with mandrake 7.1, so i put 7.2 on

it tried at lilo putting: linux mem=128
but that didn't work
i also tried linux -alti(sp?) (or something like that)(my friend told me to 
try)
but nothing

please help!!! i have to use my win98 box...AAAGGHHH

my box is a homeade celeron 500 with a 9gig-windows and a 4gig-linux
linux is the slave drive
vodoo3 3000 agp
128 pc 100 ram
aopen ax6bc motherboard running at 83mhz fsb
scsi card (adapted AH-something) with a phillips 2x burner on it also

i also would like to know how to take of lilo and put grub on
sometimes my lilo messes up and puts o's and h's across the screen
a restart fixes it usually

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Re: [newbie] How to change graphical environment in 7.2

[Trevor Ramoutar]

Um, I don't have a .Xclients-default file...so I'm a little confused...help please...
--

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:02:17   
 xaos wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 09:33, you wrote:
 I think KDE2.0 is great and all, but how do I change my default window
 manager to Enlightenment, or maybe even GNOME?  Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 had a
 utility called "switchdesk" but I can't find it in 7.2...

 HELP!!!


add "exec gnome-session" or "exec enlightenment"  or "exec wmaker"(without 
the quotes of course) to your .Xclients-default file

-x.

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Re: [newbie] problem setting up kppp

[John Rye]

Scott Flicker wrote:
 
 I having problems setting up kppp. I am using a terminal
 based logon which is required in my case. The dialout
 and password authentication are fine. When I press
 the OK button the kppp just stops and I get an error
 message on the command line something like
 "Can not find interface ppp0"

As root run Drakconf - Network options. You will see
an option referring to PPP/SLIP and another which escapes
me.
click on that option and follow thru filling the spaces.

Remember not to use /dev/modem or /dev/cua? as your modem
device.

Cheers
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expected"
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[newbie] SCSI Card

[WFLott]

When I installed 7.2 on my computer, it recognized the SCSI card as an 
Adaptec AIC-7881U.  When the computer boots, it sees and Adaptec 2940U and 
since there is no boot device the bios does not turn on.  On openning the 
computer, I am fairly certain that I have only one SCSI card and it is the 
2940U.  Is there a way without reinstalling 7.2, to tell Linux that the card 
is a 2940U instead of a AIC-7881U.  I want to run an HP 5P scanner off the 
SCSI card.  At present SANE or xscanimage cannot find the scanner even though 
it is plug into the 2940 card.  The scanner worked perfectly with an old 
computer and Windows 95.  

If I can get Linux to recognize the correct SCSI card, then I will ask my 
next question about simple directions to get SANE working with an HP 5P 
scanner.

William Lott 

[newbie] System Sound Weirdness

[Erylon Hines]

Can anyone give me a clue as to why, on one of my boxes, system sounds only
work when the Windows kdeTheme is chosen?  My other boxes have sys sound with
other themes, but this one requires the Windows--which I hate.  And, I can't
get system sound in Gnome at all--separate problem, but maybe related. 
Whenever I try to configure system sounds in Gnome nothing seems to
happen--until I close the toolbox, then I segfault (gnomecc has crashed--with
different error numbers every time).  CDplayer works fine, though.  I suspect
that a GnomeTheme buggered my system when I installed it, but can't be exactly
sure when it happened (I think I had system sounds in Gnome, on this box, at
one time).  But I've never gotten the kde sounds to work, except with the
Windows Theme.  Which is o.k. with me, I like Gnome better anyway--but not
managing to fix it is still driving me crazy.

[newbie] 7.2 and disabling PCMCIA during install

[Christopher Seaman]

hello all,

  trying to install Mandrake 7.2 on my Sony 505FX.  I
couldn't get the CD to recognize the CDROM drive it
was booting off of at first (Sony CD5, pcmcia card)
until I found the 'ide2 = 0x180,0x386' voodoo.

  now I'm at a different impass.  the CD boots fine
and finds the second stage ramdisk, but insists on
starting up pcmcia services during the 'looking for
hard drives' portion of the install.  This would be
great except that the install freezes at this point,
never to return.  I remember an option on Mandrake 7.0
which would disable pcmcia during installation, this
would solve my problem!

  Is there any way to use this option in the current
release?  Or another way workaround the problem?

all thoughts appreciated,
chris seaman

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Re: [newbie] SCSI Card

[Erylon Hines]

On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, you wrote:
 When I installed 7.2 on my computer, it recognized the SCSI card as an 
 Adaptec AIC-7881U.  

The correct Adaptec 2940u scsi card driver is "aic-7xxx"

When the computer boots, it sees and Adaptec 2940U and 
 since there is no boot device the bios does not turn on. 

What do you mean "the bios does not turn on"?  Are you talking about the scsi
bios?  You should see that with the adaptec message "press cntrl A to
configure".  Then your scsi harddrive and your scsi CD (if you have one) should
be shown.   If you don't get a bios message from the scsi card, then the card
may be screwed up.  If it isn't finding the boot device check your drive
cables, and if they appear to be o.k., on reboot do press "control a" and run
the Adaptec scandisk on your drive to see if its working.  If your drive was
working before, then it can't be the scsi device address--you didn't change it
did you?  My guess is your error is "No Boot Media Found" -- the scsi bios
doesn't see a hard drive on the cable.   Also check your system bios to see if
the boot order has SCSI in it.  If it doesn't, change it so that SCSI is there
somewhere--"A,C, SCSI" or something like that.  Whoa, did you enable booting
from the CD Rom in the bios when you did the install?  If so, check the system
bios first. 


  On openning the   computer, I am fairly certain that I have only
one SCSI card and it is the   2940U.  Is there a way without reinstalling 7.2,
to tell Linux that the card   is a 2940U instead of a AIC-7881U.  I want to
run an HP 5P scanner off the   SCSI card.  At present SANE or xscanimage
cannot find the scanner even though   it is plug into the 2940 card.  The
scanner worked perfectly with an old   computer and Windows 95.  
 
 If I can get Linux to recognize the correct SCSI card, then I will ask my 
 next question about simple directions to get SANE working with an HP 5P 
 scanner.
 
 William Lott

[newbie] startup services

[KompuKit]

In 7.02; Drakconf Startup services settings:

when I click the button to enter...so I can select which
ones 
I want...it won't open...anymore...
it used to...but it won't now...How do I fix this?
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Re: [newbie] another upgrading question

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:40, Adrian Smith wrote:
 obviously it will upgrade existing packages, but i assume (dangerous to do)
 that it will add any packages that i do not have installed?  am i correct. 

You are correct.

 does the "upgrade" have that part where you select which packages to
 install?

Yes.

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Re: [newbie] How to change graphical environment in 7.2

[Paul]

It was Nov 9, 2000, 21:43, when Trevor Ramoutar keyboarded:

Um, I don't have a .Xclients-default file...so I'm a little confused...help please...
--

add "exec gnome-session" or "exec enlightenment"  or "exec wmaker"(without 
the quotes of course) to your .Xclients-default file

Then make a file like that, by e.g.

echo "exec gnome-session"  .Xclients-default

It really is as simple as that...

Paul

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Re: [newbie] Netscape/kppp

[Dennis Myers]

Andrew wrote:

 Steve, Well here is the info you asked for... DeviceModem:
 /dev/ttyS2Flow: CRTSCTSLine Termination: CRConnect Speed:
 57600Lock File is checkedModem Timeout: 120secModem
 CommandsPre-Int Delay: 121Init String: ATZPost Int Delay:
 122Dial String: ATDTHangup String: +++ATHAnswer String
 ATAEscape String +++Guard Time: 119PPPpppd Timeout:
 120secAccount SetupAuthentication: PAPIP SetupDynamic IP
 AddressGateway SetupDefault GatewayDNS ServerPrimary
 38.197.168.2Secondary: 38.197.168.3 I hope all of this helps you
 help me.  My ISP providers name is bartnet.net. and they haven't been
 of any help. Thanks, Andrew

Andrew, just on the off chance that it may solve your prob try unchecking the lock 
file. also use CRCL or what

the other one is that is both. If you have a 56K modem use the 112k setting you may 
get better data flow

when you get online. Try these individually and I hope one of them does the trick. I'm 
betting on the lock

file.

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Re: [newbie] startup problem-mandrake 7.2-

[Tom Brinkman]

On Thursday 09 November 2000 08:30 pm, eric h wrote:
 when my box starts up it gets to the part where it says:
 freeing unused kernel memory...ok 128k freed

 -then nothing-

 my box is a homeade 

 aopen ax6bc motherboard running at 83mhz fsb
 scsi card 

  Not a Linux (or any other OS) problem.  Following is an OT 
hardware problem (overclocked).

 Eric,
On that board (which is a _very good_ BX board, BTW), with a 
83mhz fsb, your pci bus (that the HDD's, video card's, and including 
any SCSI devices run on it) is at 41+mhz (83/2).  Standard is 
33.3mhz.  Besides everything else, SCSI particularly won't 
tolerate a pci bus that is that out of spec (not for long anyhow).  
Your V3 AGP video card is way off spec too (83mhz @ 1:1).  All those 
devices are NOT overclocked, they're just plain ridiculously out of 
spec. A _VERY POOR_ overclock/spec, IMNSHO. 
 
Think of a computer system as a radio. You've been broadcasting 
at a very wierd high signal, one that many system devices have been 
straining or unable to read.  If you didn't have such a high 
quality, stable motherboard, I doubt you would'a made it this far.  
I'm surprised it still boots SCSI at all.

   Set your fsb back to the proper 66.666mhz and see if the problems 
don't resolve themselves.  That is if you haven't already ruined 
some hardware.  Otherwise, set your fsb to 100mhz if you think that 
Celery can do it.  That'll get your pci bus back to 100/3 == 
33.3mhz, and set your AGP to 2:3 (66.666mhz) for that Voodoo. If you 
haven't already, put a fan on the V3's heatsink, an I sure hope 
you've got'a super duty hs/fan on that Celery.

Don't try to boot Linux (or any other OS) at that speed tho. 
Make a 'memtest86' floppy, and boot that, see if the system will 
pass with -0- errors.  Then at least it won't corrupt your Linux 
ext2 fs, or your DOS registry (if you dual boot Windoze) if it 
doesn't make it.   

FWIW, I run a p3-450 @ 608mhz (4.5x135/33.8/89/135, BUT I use a 
_pci_ Voodoo3).  Fairly well overclocked, no?  BUT, my pci bus is 
135/4 == real close to 33.3mhz ; and I didn't fall for any AGP 
hype.  Also, I wouldn't try runnin any other HDD's than IBM's, 
Quantum's or older Western Digital's (2 years) IDE HDD's on an off 
spec pci.  If you've already done some damage, it's prob'ly to the 
SCSI HDD or the AGP Voodoo.
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