[newbie-it] Icone di çnome
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Re: [newbie] HP 722c
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 01:45, you wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up this printer or a similar one on Linux? I am using RedHat7, but I tried figuring it out on my Mandrake machine using the file from linuxprinting.org, but I had no clue how to do it. If anyone has any guidance, it would be appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Justin With linux-mandrake 7.2 the CUPS system has a driver foir the 722C adapted from the pnm2ppa driver. That "ppa" is processor performance architecture, which means the duties carried out by a "real" printer are instead done by your processor. In other words, it is the printer equivalent of a winmodem, and HP has never released any specs on it that would be useful for writing an open-source driver, nor do they have a driver supporting linux. pnm2ppa is a reverse-engineered driver which does most of the things you would expect from a printer, but may not have some of the features (yet) that you have come to expect from this printer in windows. http://ww.linuxprinting.org/database.html is the place to look for printers and drivers Civileme
[newbie] Screen Flickers
Just installed Linux for Windows carefully reading all info and checking update on hardware compatibilies. After rebooting the screen has vertical flickering lines with multiple penguins and mouse cursor. HP Pavilion 500MHz AMD K6-II 280 Ram ATI All In Wonder 128 32MHz 10 G Harddrive I carefully went through X setup during installation picking my monitor and video card. I tried different configuration on color and depth settings but upon testing I get an error message and a list drops down pointing to my keyboard, mouse, monitor,video card, and other I am not familiar with.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Another KDE2 2.0.1 ?
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 04:30, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Another KDE2 2.0.1 ? On Monday 11 December 2000 15:43, you wrote: Really can´t understand. First Mandrake quit 2.0.1 version of KDE, but can download it, but not installed because some guys from the list said it´s bad. And now in tucow´s ftp I find an update ONLY for Mandrake 7.2. This have minor size than previous. And have a Readme very usefull to upgrade without problems (solution for a lot of members of list, me too :-) ). I updated following readme exactly and at first impresion run very well. Can anyone said if this is THE reallly 2.0.1 for KDE2 ? Is it a KDE version for Mandrake 7.2 ? Yes, it is. It will be updated soon once more because those who did not select kdelibs-devel package got a klauncher error(eliminated in the update). The rest of the install procedure is basically for those who are running KDE and MandrakeUpdate WHILE they are updating KDE. This breaks things which are self-repairing, but take a while to do so. Meanwhile the user believes he has a bum system Civileme Thanks Civileme. Do you think Chris Molnar's version is best ? Chris's version is the leading(bleeding) edge which provides additional features (not all of them working or optimized). 2.0.1 is from KDE and is a bugfix of 2.0 without really any additional features. "Better" is a relative term here. It depends on your personal preference. For mission-critical stuff, I would tend to usethe bugfix release or an older version of system and KDE. For pure dazzle, I would use the latest and shakiest. Civileme
[newbie] VI
Hello, In others distro of linux I was able to use the arrow keys when editing a file with vi. Now I have installed Mandrake 7.2, but when editing a file with vi I am not able to use the arrow keys because control character appears. Does anyone knows how to resolve this problem? Do I need the lasted improved vi? Thanks Victor - Victor M. Moreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] +34.951010583
Re: [newbie] HP 722c
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 17:16, you wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2000 01:45, you wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up this printer or a similar one on Linux? I am using RedHat7, but I tried figuring it out on my Mandrake machine using the file from linuxprinting.org, but I had no clue how to do it. If anyone has any guidance, it would be appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Justin With linux-mandrake 7.2 the CUPS system has a driver foir the 722C adapted from the pnm2ppa driver. That "ppa" is processor performance architecture, which means the duties carried out by a "real" printer are instead done by your processor. In other words, it is the printer equivalent of a winmodem, and HP has never released any specs on it that would be useful for writing an open-source driver, nor do they have a driver supporting linux. pnm2ppa is a reverse-engineered driver which does most of the things you would expect from a printer, but may not have some of the features (yet) that you have come to expect from this printer in windows. http://ww.linuxprinting.org/database.html is the place to look for printers and drivers Civileme Linuxprinting.org results in "unknown host" traumax
[newbie] Problems with windows disk after change of XFree server in 7.2
Hi I have a dualboot machine with windows98 installed on my primary harddisk (hda) and Linux Mandrake 7.2 on the other one (hdc). After installing Mandrake 7.2 with the new Xfree 4.0.1 graphics server, X seemed a little unstable (I have an ATI rage card), so I wanted to change the Xserver back to 3.3.6. When asked if I wanted to test the configuration I answered yes, and my computer froze completely. Only solution was to reset it, but when Mandrake booted, it complained that it could not mount the windows disk: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems I then tried to boot directly into windows, but I couldn't do that either, the computer just froze. I made a windows boot floppy on another, similar machine, and succeded in booting into dos, but I cannot start windows. It claims that the configuration is not valid... Is there anything I can do about this, except reinstalling? Regards Morten Dyndgaard
Re: [newbie] HP 722c
http://ww.linuxprinting.org/database.html is the place to look for printers and drivers Civileme Linuxprinting.org results in "unknown host" traumax Try 3 w instead of 2 w. www.linuxprinting.org works. Paul
Re: [newbie] HP 722c
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 19:29, you wrote: http://ww.linuxprinting.org/database.html is the place to look for printers and drivers Civileme Linuxprinting.org results in "unknown host" traumax Try 3 w instead of 2 w. www.linuxprinting.org works. Paul Thanks. I missed the 2w-- must be getting senile at age 72!!!
Re: [Re: [newbie] Date wont stay set] Solved
If you "uncheck" - Store in CMOS - in the date time tab of Linuxconf that will fix the problem. I had the same trouble with my workstation at work and that fixed it. -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- # On 9 Dec 2000 Altoine Barker spake passionately saying! I had the exact same problem but I solved it in my posting in this forum titled: "A Lil Time Crisis". Let me see if I have it saved in my sent folder. One moment Here it is. Enjoy. I tried what you suggested soon after I posted this message and that didn't fix the problem. I would enter the correct time from CMOS then boot back into linux, but as soon as I logged back into KDE it would switch back to the wrong time. I checked the time zone and I discovered that I had that set correctly (CST for Chicago). I discovered that if I fixed the time in KDE it will remain correct until I either relogin back into KDE (in other words if I logged back in using Blackbox, the time would still be correct) or when I did a restart. I looked into K|Configuration|Other and discovered that there were two programs I could use to set the time on my box (I was in Blackbox at the time I was doing this); Timetool and timeconfig. I did timeconfig first and realized that it looked exactly like the program used in KDE. I next tried Timetool. I ran this command: su -c timetool I changed the time and choose apply. It would switch it back to the wrong time. I next saw a box that said, "Set System Clock". I reapplied the changes and clicked onto "Set System Clock". Eureka! It worked! I next logged out then back into Blackbox. The time was still correct. I next logged into KDE, success! The time was still correct! But to make absolutely sure, I restarted my computer and the time was still correct! I posted my findings to the newbie community for these two reasons; For this experience to enrich us as troubleshooters and to point out a bug in Timetool. I surmise that if you set your linux box at install to local time and you should later set your computer to your timezone (incorrectly or not), you run the risk of having the same problems that I had. Cheers --Al Mr S Ganesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What u have to do is check the time on the CMOS setup which u can access before the machine actually goes up on the OS. Try pressing the DEL key or thee F2 key or what ever it might be for ur machine as shown on the monitor after it checks the RAM . This can be found at the bottom of the console at the time of boot up. After u are sure that the time is correct, The problem will be solved.On 7 Dec 2000, Altoine Barker wrote: I have LM7.2 Odyssey installed on my computer. I don't know if this is a glitch or not but here is my problem. My time is set wrong. While in KDE I goto the bottom right hand corner and change the time zone to CST which is the time zone I'm in and then I change the time to reflect the time on my watch. If I logout of my KDE session and then come back in, the time is totally wrong. I rebooted the computer and noticed that while bringing the services I have defaulted to run in startup, I see the time service being started and it has "(local)" after the service like this: time yada yada (local) (Up) MySQL (Up) Anybody know how I can fix this. I want to have my computer's time set to an internet service but it won't be accurate until I have this problem fixed. Thank you in advance for any information that you can provide. This is especially important to me because I used to set my computer to wake me up in the mornings but now I'm forced to use a "clock"! Save me!! Cheers --Al bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have definitely read that some computers will display gmt only in the panel of kde, however i don't remember where, i think it was a kde/hardware thing but you will have to do a search on it, from what i read you aren't doing anything wrong, sorry to be of no more help but at least you know you aren't alone bascule On Wednesday 29 November 2000 2:43 pm, you wrote: Every time I reboot my date reverts back 6 hours. No matter how many times I correct it with the 'date' command it still reverts back after rebooting? What am I doing wrong here? Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] Apache
I've got my telnet and ftp servers working ok and would like to try playing with Apache. If I install the latest Apache rpm files should I worry immediately about any security problems with this. I'd like to have it running while I'm learning but not if I introduce too many security leaks. :-( Has anyone gone through this recently? I've never run a web server before. ...Dave
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z31 ?
Anthony Daniell escribió: Hi, You should check out http://www.lexmark.com I contacted them and they said they had drivers for the Z32 and Z52 printers. But you never know what you will find untill you look. Nothing about Linux Z31... thanks anyway 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] SB AWE32
When you run sndconfig what shows up? It is /usr/sbin/sndconfig Run it as root. I have it running under 7.2 and it works fine. -Original Message- From: Jim Kempton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 4:08 AM To: newbielist Subject: [newbie] SB AWE32 Hey Just installed 7.2, great! Can't get my AWE32 to work which worked fine under 7.1 and everything before that. Read the docs and howto's and I'm stuck Any help appreciated TIA Jim -- * MJK Systems - IT Consultants/IT Training Phone/Fax 0208 697 4912 Mobile 077 4066 3292 Registered Linux User # 196384 *
RE: [newbie] SB AWE32
Eh, does your midi playback under KDE's Konqueror work? What happens when you click on a .mid file? Do you get audio? Thanks. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael, Steve Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:53 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] SB AWE32 When you run sndconfig what shows up? It is /usr/sbin/sndconfig Run it as root. I have it running under 7.2 and it works fine. -Original Message- From: Jim Kempton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 4:08 AM To: newbielist Subject: [newbie] SB AWE32 Hey Just installed 7.2, great! Can't get my AWE32 to work which worked fine under 7.1 and everything before that. Read the docs and howto's and I'm stuck Any help appreciated TIA Jim -- * MJK Systems - IT Consultants/IT Training Phone/Fax 0208 697 4912 Mobile 077 4066 3292 Registered Linux User # 196384 *
[newbie] kmail
hello people, getting ready for crimbo? (imagine this said with a thick accent and you might realise that i'm not neccessarily a big fan of this time of year - i'm a sufferer of s.a.d., solvency adjustment disorder) well a nice pressent for me would be if someone could tell me if it is possible to get kmail to read amy mail for root, in 7.1 one could enter password details etc. to access mail but i cannot get kmail in kde2 to read mail from a local mailbox (not even a user mailbox) is this possible - walkthrough anyone? bascule
[newbie] problem updating glibc
I've been having problems with MandrakeUpdate, so I went to get the cooker version, which requires rpm 4 which requires glibc 2.2. So I download them and I cannot get glibc to install. I've gone to console mode and when I try to rpm -Uvh glibc-2.2-20mdk.i586.rpm, It runs for a while then prints out: VM: killing rpocess rpm Killed Any idea? Thanks, tom Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [newbie] problem updating glibc
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 12:55 pm, Thomas Matelich wrote: I've been having problems with MandrakeUpdate, so I went to get the cooker version, Do Not use cooker rpms, for anything. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, L. H. LOO wrote: When you installed Linux, did you partition the hard disk ? You can delete the linux partition by using DOS (pure, no Win) to delete the non-DOS partition, or use the Linux installation proceed untill where you can use fips to delete the Linux partition, write to disk, STOP here, and reboot with ctrl-alt-del. I done this part before, but to return the 'empty' space to Win ? HTH, Good Luck. To get the space back to windows, just run fdisk, partition the available space, format it, and you have a new drive. Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote: What is Fips? Fips is a program on the mandrake cd, which enables you to change the sizes of partitions. It is freeware, and comes with no warranty. It is a substitute for Partition Magic, without a graphical interface. Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] VI
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Victor M. Moreno wrote: Hello, In others distro of linux I was able to use the arrow keys when editing a file with vi. Now I have installed Mandrake 7.2, but when editing a file with vi I am not able to use the arrow keys because control character appears. Very strange... I use vi as it comes with 7.2 and never had the problem you describe. I also looked in ~/.vimrc (the vi that comes with 7.2 is vim) and could not find anything special or strange there. Perhaps you can find some help at www.vim.org Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Screen Flickers
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Robert Pena wrote: Just installed Linux for Windows carefully reading all info and checking update on hardware compatibilies. After rebooting the screen has vertical flickering lines with multiple penguins and mouse cursor. Looks like you did something wrong with the vertical refresh rate of the video card or the monitor... Try setting things to 640x480 and 256 colors. If that works, gradually work your way up. This usually works for the non-lin4win setup, it should, afaik, also work for the one you use. Disclaimer: I never used lin4win, and don't intend to become even a newbie on it. ;) Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
maybe you just need a new job? =) i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." i assume you have to go back to windows? why not just boot with the win CD and do an fdisk start over? or do you have a duel boot? i would think you could use a linux boot disk linux fdisk to simply change all the ext2 partitions to fat32, then format them. would that work? then of course a win/dos boot disk to run fdisk /mbr Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:01:35 AM 12/12/00 Hey all, I have a question. I need to know how to perform a clean uninstall of Linux. Now, before you guys jump all over me, listen to my reason. This is not my choice. I have 7.1 installed at work and the Network admin. found out and he, being the wonderful person that he is, told me to remove it. He gave me till the end of the week. Nice, huh? Anyway, I need your help. Thanks in advance, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] SB AWE32
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jim Kempton wrote: Hey Just installed 7.2, great! Can't get my AWE32 to work which worked fine under 7.1 and everything before that. Log in as root in a console login (outside of X, to get there press CtrlAltF2). Run sndconfig. Sound works. Log out. Press CtrlAltF7. Sound works in X :) Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
[newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2
Hi there! I have a problem with my new Linux-system. It's an old computer with the following components: AMD K6-2 300MHz, 64MB SDRAM(66), Gigabyte 586s2 (SIS5582 Chipset), ATI@work, and an old SB16! I installed the system (by automatic install) and everything seemed to work. The first thing I noticed was that the Harddisk is running without UDMA33. I know that the chipset supports UDMA because when I ran windows95 on this computer it was possible. I foend out that the Mandrake installed a driver for the SIS5513 chipset. I dont know what to do now. I tried to find out if the SIS5582 chipset is supported, but I failed (maybe because its not supported). The other thing is that Mandrake uses the SIS5582 as a graphic-board. It installed the ATI board correctly but it shows me two grapical devices... The X-Server does start but after a few minutes either an running application is terminated or the whole KDE is shut down. What can I do to correct these mistakes? It's the latest Mandrake Distribution 7.2 (kernel 2.2.17) with XFree 3.3.6 and KDE 2.0.
Re: [newbie] kmail
whoops! for 'thick accent' read 'thick sarcastic accent' apologies to those with wonderfully broad and rich dialects! bascule On Tuesday 12 December 2000 6:51 pm, you wrote: hello people, getting ready for crimbo? (imagine this said with a thick accent an
[newbie] where are default config files?
Hi everyone, I have just installed LM7.1 on a machine that will be shared by several people via remote VNC connections. I would like to customize some settings for all users. Obviously when a new user account is created, some config files with default settings (eg., for bash, KDE, VNC, etc.) are copied to the user's home directory. What I'd like to know is, where are these files stored? Especially the files for KDE and VNC. TIA for any help!! Cheers, Andy
[newbie] Spaces in names
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Rye wrote: I would have thought that a space was an undesirable if not illegal character in a filename let alone a directory name. Is this not the case? If it were illegal, I think that someone would have made a program alteration that would prevent you from putting a space in a directory name. I agree though, that it is undesirable. Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
[newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server
Hello Everyone, Here is a situation that I think you will all love. My company is sick and tired of Windows. They just hired me and after hearing that I said we should go to Linux ( Yipee ). The problem is that they are not totally sure of me yet, which I can understand, so they want a couple of test machines to try it out on. I have them all setup with samba working. The problem is the Microsoft Proxy server 2.0 will not let them access the internet. Any idea why. They can ping the proxy server and even transfer files to it, but the socks service won't let them connect. Thanks in advance, Jeremy The IT man
[newbie] Will RedHat RPM's work with Mandrake?
I'm starting to learn PHP3 and Postgres and the book I just got has a CD in it that says it has everything I need to install PHP and postgres under RedHat Linux. Since I am using Mandrake 7.1, I was wondering if this will work? The Mandrake website says I can use RedHat RPM's, but I just wanted to check. TIA, Michael -- Michael Lewis Exasource Inc. Phone: 970-206-4556 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2
"I don't want to get off on a rant here but ..." I really have an issue with some of the board manufacturers that put on-board video on their MBs. Yes, it keeps the costs down but it's a pain when you come to add another (better) card. Thorsten, I feel your pain. I had a similar issue with an SiS 530 chipset about 18 months ago. Win95 (and to a lesser extent 98) had real issues with it. The problem is that some of these boards don't give you a way to turn off the on-board video, either by use of jumpers or in the BIOS itself. My suggestion would be 1. Check in the motherboard manual to see if there are any jumper settings to disable the onboard video (many manufacturers have the manuals on-line if you can't find it). 2.Make sure you are running the latest version of the BIOS software and check to see if it gives you the option to disable on-board video. 3. If the SiS video is AGP, you could try changing the startup order for video in the BIOS from AGP to PCI. My old 530 board only allowed me to change the startup order (which didn't solve my problem), so I wound up dumping it and buying an Asus. It IS possible for the 2 devices to function together as you have said, but the system will be VERY unstable and resource conflicts will cause lock-ups and crashes. You might also want to see if the manufacturer has an FAQ site to post your question. I can't believe it's the first time it's been asked and you may find the answer you need right away. Regards, Mark Lee -Original Message- From: Thorsten Schramm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:21 AM To: Mandrake-Linux Newsgroup Subject: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 Hi there! I have a problem with my new Linux-system. It's an old computer with the following components: AMD K6-2 300MHz, 64MB SDRAM(66), Gigabyte 586s2 (SIS5582 Chipset), ATI@work, and an old SB16! I installed the system (by automatic install) and everything seemed to work. The first thing I noticed was that the Harddisk is running without UDMA33. I know that the chipset supports UDMA because when I ran windows95 on this computer it was possible. I foend out that the Mandrake installed a driver for the SIS5513 chipset. I dont know what to do now. I tried to find out if the SIS5582 chipset is supported, but I failed (maybe because its not supported). The other thing is that Mandrake uses the SIS5582 as a graphic-board. It installed the ATI board correctly but it shows me two grapical devices... The X-Server does start but after a few minutes either an running application is terminated or the whole KDE is shut down. What can I do to correct these mistakes? It's the latest Mandrake Distribution 7.2 (kernel 2.2.17) with XFree 3.3.6 and KDE 2.0.
[newbie] 7.2 -- XFree -- is my monitor going to blow up?
hi Paul -- thanks for responding. i checked my config file and it contains ViewPort 0 0 already. does this mean i should try changing those settings? or would my problem be something else? thanks yet again=) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:39:34 AM 12/7/00 On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Adrian Smith wrote: but the question -- i don't quite know if i can describe this so you will understand, but i will try. =) the very left edge of my monitor (as i'm looking at it) is displaying a very thin slice of whatever is actually about 3-4 inches from the left edge of the screen. thus if i move a window to the very edge, that slice of it will disappear under the display of whatever is 3-4 inches over. hmmm... is that english? i have everything shut down now, but do y'all think this might cause actual damage? Hi Adrian, It looks as if, in XF86Config-4 the viewport of your desktop is virtual. Meaning that it is larger than the physical screen. That causes the strange scrolling behaviour. My XF86Config-4 (the config for Xfree 4) says: Section "Screen" Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Viewport in your file would be larger than the physical screen. Set that to 0 0 and try again (just restart X) And no, this behaviour won't damage your computer. Actually I know people who set that up, and want it! To find out the version of X you run XFree86 -version: [root@internet X11]# XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 1 July 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-21mdksmp i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Good luck! Paul -- You will be reincarnated as a toad. And you will be much happier. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?
Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? whoa On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rick Commo wrote: There was a recent article on burners in a local computer rag that you pick up free at grocery and computers stores. The Yamahas were the most highly recommended followed by the Plextors. Of course the cost a little more too. Rick
Re: [newbie] SB AWE32
Hi all, I wanted to ask a question about soundcards as well. I have mandrake ver 7.2 and downloaded and installed kde ver 2, and hard drake doesn't see any sound card. I have an older SB pro card in the computer. I run sndconfig and can set the card up, but if I go back into kde it still doesn't work. I can use the cd-player and get sound in kde, but I get no login etc, sounds. It works fine under gnome. any thoughts? Oh yeah, one other question. I have an older pentium 233 mmx with 64 mb ram and a vodoo 3 graphics card with 16mb ram. I also have a usb card installed in a pci slot with a usb zip drive installed. linux doesn't see the zip drive. When the computer starts up it loads usb storage stuff I can see it load under aurora. But it doesn't see the zip drive, any thoughts would be appreciated. Bob
Re: [Re: [newbie] VI]
Crazy notion, but maybe your TERM environment variable is wrong? Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Victor M. Moreno wrote: Hello, In others distro of linux I was able to use the arrow keys when editing a file with vi. Now I have installed Mandrake 7.2, but when editing a file with vi I am not able to use the arrow keys because control character appears. Very strange... I use vi as it comes with 7.2 and never had the problem you describe. I also looked in ~/.vimrc (the vi that comes with 7.2 is vim) and could not find anything special or strange there. Perhaps you can find some help at www.vim.org Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30 --- Michael E. Shimniok - KC0EKI - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - H. L. Menken Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [newbie] Will RedHat RPM's work with Mandrake?
hi Michael; i'm still learning linux, but from what i understand Mandrake is based on the Red Hat system and that most red hat rpms will work for mandrake. however, it has also been said on this list that it is best to use mandrake rpms when you can. so i would suggest look for the mandrake version first. if you can only find the red hat version, then simply do a test install, checking for dependanceies and all that stuff. if you get no errors from the test then that would lead me to believe it will work fine. if i'm wrong about anything here hopefully someone will let us both know. =) have a better one Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:36:25 PM 12/12/00 I'm starting to learn PHP3 and Postgres and the book I just got has a CD in it that says it has everything I need to install PHP and postgres under RedHat Linux. Since I am using Mandrake 7.1, I was wondering if this will work? The Mandrake website says I can use RedHat RPM's, but I just wanted to check. TIA, Michael -- Michael Lewis Exasource Inc. Phone: 970-206-4556 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Bell Sympatico
Hello I have a dsl from Bell Canada Anyone out there that knows how to set it up? Please? TIA -- Best regards, Vagabundo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2
When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt
Re: [newbie] Spaces in names
Wait...I thought spaces "were/are" illegal in *nix? Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:25:28 +0100 (CET), Paul said: On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Rye wrote: I would have thought that a space was an undesirable if not illegal character in a filename let alone a directory name. Is this not the case? If it were illegal, I think that someone would have made a program alteration that would prevent you from putting a space in a directory name. I agree though, that it is undesirable. Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
[newbie] install mandrake 7.2
I'm not able to install mandrake 7.2. When I boot from the install CD, I get a nice "welcome" screen with the option of typing F1 or just "enter" to go on with normal installation. After entering, the install program should do some pre-install checks, but in my case it does nothing = black screen and I have to reset. It used to work before, but I had no sound. The famous sounblaster live problem. I tried switching the sound card into another port, to have another IRQ for the soundcard but that is not the way to do it. After repositioning everything like it used to be, even windows gave me a hard time re-installing it and it tends to crash more often than before. And the sad thing ... well no linux anymore.. HELP Greetz, Philippe
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:58:52 -0700, Adrian Smith said: maybe you just need a new job? =) i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." i assume you have to go back to windows? why not just boot with the win CD and do an fdisk start over? or do you have a duel boot? i would think you could use a linux boot disk linux fdisk to simply change all the ext2 partitions to fat32, then format them. would that work? then of course a win/dos boot disk to run fdisk /mbr Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:01:35 AM 12/12/00 Hey all, I have a question. I need to know how to perform a clean uninstall of Linux. Now, before you guys jump all over me, listen to my reason. This is not my choice. I have 7.1 installed at work and the Network admin. found out and he, being the wonderful person that he is, told me to remove it. He gave me till the end of the week. Nice, huh? Anyway, I need your help. Thanks in advance, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:23 pm, Vic wrote: Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? whoa . or vice versa depending on who you believe. It's pretty obvious after checking all the hardware reviews and the cdr NG's that Yamaha and Plextor are way ahead of anything else in terms of reliabiltiy and usability. IMO, IDE Plex's are the best, stay away from Ricoh and 'rebadges' (which includes most everything that isn't Yamaha or Plextor ;) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rick Commo wrote: There was a recent article on burners in a local computer rag that you pick up free at grocery and computers stores. The Yamahas were the most highly recommended followed by the Plextors. Of course the cost a little more too. Rick
Re: [newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 10:52, you wrote: When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt [alex@homer alex]$ locate libm.so.5 /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5.0.6 [alex@homer alex]$ rpm -qf /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 file /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 is not owned by any package [alex@homer alex]$ ls -la /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Nov 7 17:42 /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 - libm.so.5.0.6* [alex@homer alex]$ rpm -qf /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5.0.6 libc-5.3.12-34mdk there you go. Install libc and you should be ok -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
[newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk
Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back. Thanks ~Lance
[newbie] cdrom deletion error
I deleted the wrong cdrom when trying to setup gnome toaster. I issued the command cd /dev rm cdrom In -s scd0 cdrom. How do I add my cdrom back in ? I get the error message no such file or directory. Also it says to be sure I have access etc. What command do I type to reset it back ? Thank you, Chronos. the serpent and the egg
Re: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:37 pm, Jeremy Sudderth wrote: Hello Everyone, Here is a situation that I think you will all love. Not one bit, it was practically unreadable _very small_ text Jeremy The IT man Not to single you out Jeremy, there's a lot of newbies posting in HTML lately. So I'll remind y'all of the email you were sent when you joined this list (and similar rules for most all lists since email began): "Welcome to the newbie List. You have just subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read this e-mail, and keep it for a future reference. snip * Please, try to keep the folowing general rules in mind before posting: 1) Use straight ASCII (TXT) format." = No.1 rule, html (and M$'s rtf) is for webpages, never for email. It's a matter of Netiquette, always has been even since the days of BBS's before the Net got popular. HTML might'a looked great on your monitor with MickeyMou$e Outlook Express, but it almost certainly doesn't on most everybody elses's. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Another KDE2 2.0.1 ?
Now understand, Civileme, really thanks for your time. On Monday 11 December 2000 15:43, you wrote: Really can´t understand. First Mandrake quit 2.0.1 version of KDE, but can download it, but not installed because some guys from the list said it´s bad. And now in tucow´s ftp I find an update ONLY for Mandrake 7.2. This have minor size than previous. And have a Readme very usefull to upgrade without problems (solution for a lot of members of list, me too :-) ). I updated following readme exactly and at first impresion run very well. Can anyone said if this is THE reallly 2.0.1 for KDE2 ? Is it a KDE version for Mandrake 7.2 ? Yes, it is. It will be updated soon once more because those who did not select kdelibs-devel package got a klauncher error(eliminated in the update). The rest of the install procedure is basically for those who are running KDE and MandrakeUpdate WHILE they are updating KDE. This breaks things which are self-repairing, but take a while to do so. Meanwhile the user believes he has a bum system Civileme Thanks Civileme. Do you think Chris Molnar's version is best ? Chris's version is the leading(bleeding) edge which provides additional features (not all of them working or optimized). 2.0.1 is from KDE and is a bugfix of 2.0 without really any additional features. "Better" is a relative term here. It depends on your personal preference. For mission-critical stuff, I would tend to usethe bugfix release or an older version of system and KDE. For pure dazzle, I would use the latest and shakiest. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 08:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back. Thanks ~Lance http://www.google.com/and search 'loaf'first link you'll get is 'Linux On A Floppy'. That page will link to LRP and TOMSRTBT whose pages have links to other mini linux pages. Actually http://lwn.net/2000/0302/dists.phtml lists just about all linux distros and many are small, small enough to run on one floppy. Many small distros that run on DOS. It's how I first tried linux several years ago. Great way to learn and get started. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server
Sorry about that folks. Forgot that the default setting on Outlook Express was to send html. Fixed it now so every thing should work fine. Jeremy The IT man - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:37 pm, Jeremy Sudderth wrote: Hello Everyone, Here is a situation that I think you will all love. Not one bit, it was practically unreadable _very small_ text Jeremy The IT man Not to single you out Jeremy, there's a lot of newbies posting in HTML lately. So I'll remind y'all of the email you were sent when you joined this list (and similar rules for most all lists since email began): "Welcome to the newbie List. You have just subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read this e-mail, and keep it for a future reference. snip * Please, try to keep the folowing general rules in mind before posting: 1) Use straight ASCII (TXT) format." = No.1 rule, html (and M$'s rtf) is for webpages, never for email. It's a matter of Netiquette, always has been even since the days of BBS's before the Net got popular. HTML might'a looked great on your monitor with MickeyMou$e Outlook Express, but it almost certainly doesn't on most everybody elses's. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Apache
Dave DeGear [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've got my telnet and ftp servers working ok and would like to try playing with Apache. If I install the latest Apache rpm files should I worry immediately about any security problems with this. I'd like to have it running while I'm learning but not if I introduce too many security leaks. :-( Has anyone gone through this recently? I've never run a web server before. ...Dave I've played a little bit with Apache. If you download the latest version, it should be reasonably secure. Just remember that your telnet or ftp may have security holes as well. That would open up your web server to an attack via ftp or telnet. Also, if you are planning on running any cgi programs, you may open yourself up that way. You can also misconfigure Apache and open it up. There is a book that I read called "Maximum Linux Security" It has a rather large section devoted to securing Apache, I read through the chapter as I was playing with the configuration files. It is a good resource. Oh one more thing... I would reccomend you ditch telnet and install OpenSSL and OpenSSH. SSH (secure shell) works similarly to telnet, however, it employs encryption so people cannot use a traffic sniffer to get your passwords. It can also use public key encryption for authentication which prevents spoofing attacks that telnet is vulnerable to. If you plan on logging into your server remotely, SSH is a much better alternative to telnet. SSH also allows you to foreward ports from a local computer to a remote computer. This allows you to make encrypted "tunnels" that you can run other protocols through these "tunnels" and the data will be encrypted by SSH. As far as ftp goes, just remember that the passwords are sent in plain text. For a web server you should probably disable anonymous ftp access. Dan
Re: [newbie] Spaces in names
Spaces are not illegal at all - you can use them as you wish. I personally like to use spaces in file and directory names in order to keep my stuff organised. Most programmes support this, but there are a few that I've encountered that don't. I don't think it's a good idea to use spaces outside your home directories, unless you're sure this won't create any problems. On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:08, Mark's mail wrote: Wait...I thought spaces "were/are" illegal in *nix? Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:25:28 +0100 (CET), Paul said: On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Rye wrote: I would have thought that a space was an undesirable if not illegal character in a filename let alone a directory name. Is this not the case? If it were illegal, I think that someone would have made a program alteration that would prevent you from putting a space in a directory name. I agree though, that it is undesirable. Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] kmail
When you add a new mail account in Kmail's configuration settings, you get the option of having a POP or local mailbox account. I don't know about the root thing though... On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 05:51, bascule wrote: hello people, getting ready for crimbo? (imagine this said with a thick accent and you might realise that i'm not neccessarily a big fan of this time of year - i'm a sufferer of s.a.d., solvency adjustment disorder) well a nice pressent for me would be if someone could tell me if it is possible to get kmail to read amy mail for root, in 7.1 one could enter password details etc. to access mail but i cannot get kmail in kde2 to read mail from a local mailbox (not even a user mailbox) is this possible - walkthrough anyone? bascule -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:52 am, John Batt wrote: When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ and search 'libm.so.5' will tell you it's "compatibility libraries needed by old libc.so.5 applications" in libc-5.3.12-34mdk.i586.rpm which I would think should already be installed. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] MandrakeUpdate problems
I have a 650 MHz Duron running LM 7.2 When I try to install packages using MandrakeUpdate I get an error saying that the packages have been installed. However, the installed version number and the current version number in MU are different and the packages continue to show up every time I bring up MandrakeUpdate? Any ideas Thanks Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?
Oh (duh on me) ok so just those two, good thing I have my sites set on a plextor already, do the newest ones sold on http://www.jdr.com work? I would think so but not sure, just wanna make sure that all Plex's that I would buy are compatible. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: . or vice versa depending on who you believe. It's pretty obvious after checking all the hardware reviews and the cdr NG's that Yamaha and Plextor are way ahead of anything else in terms of reliabiltiy and usability. IMO, IDE Plex's are the best, stay away from Ricoh and 'rebadges' (which includes most everything that isn't Yamaha or Plextor ;) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
On 12 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." Don't forget there's something like company policy. That keeps me from removing windows and putting Linux on the pc too... Paul -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume you had an IDE cdrom. Was it on /dev/hdb? hdc? hdd? Make a new link cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s /dev/hd... cdrom and that should do it. Paul I deleted the wrong cdrom when trying to setup gnome toaster. I issued the command cd /dev rm cdrom In -s scd0 cdrom. How do I add my cdrom back in ? I get the error message no such file or directory. Also it says to be sure I have access etc. What command do I type to reset it back ? Thank you, Chronos. the serpent and the egg -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? Because of the price. Plextor is quite more expensive. Paul whoa -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] SB AWE32
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi all, I wanted to ask a question about soundcards as well. I have mandrake ver 7.2 and downloaded and installed kde ver 2, and hard drake doesn't see any sound card. I have an older SB pro card in the computer. I run sndconfig and can set the card up, but if I go back into kde it still doesn't work. I can use the cd-player and get sound in kde, but I get no login etc, sounds. It works fine under gnome. any thoughts? You have to go into the control center, locate the sound section and enable the system sounds. You may also have to set up the specific sounds per event. Paul -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] where are default config files?
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Liaw, Andy wrote: Afaik, these are in /etc. You'd have to look for the proper names, but they should (mainly) be there. Paul I have just installed LM7.1 on a machine that will be shared by several people via remote VNC connections. I would like to customize some settings for all users. Obviously when a new user account is created, some config files with default settings (eg., for bash, KDE, VNC, etc.) are copied to the user's home directory. What I'd like to know is, where are these files stored? Especially the files for KDE and VNC. TIA for any help!! Cheers, Andy -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: Oh (duh on me) ok so just those two, good thing I have my sites set on a plextor already, do the newest ones sold on http://www.jdr.com work? I would think so but not sure, just wanna make sure that all Plex's that I would buy are compatible. I recently put in a 12/10/32 IDE which works great. Paul -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, John Batt wrote: Is there anyone else out there having trouble getting WordPerfect 8 to install in LM 7.2. I had it working great in 7.0 but after installing 7.2 it won't install. Yes, neither the graphical install or text based install will work. It worked fine in RedHat 6.1. I also had trouble with Applix. That installs but seg faults when it is run. ??? StarOffice looks good but it is impossible to get it to print using the CUPS, via xpp or whatever. I have to reboot RH6.1 to do any word processing. Damned annoying. -- Len Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 West Court www.tarazed.demon.co.uk The Thistle Foundation Edinburgh EH16 4EB 0131-661 3648
Re: [newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk
At 09:13 PM 12/12/2000 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back. Thanks ~Lance This web site has links to different distributions and descriptions. http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html Hope this helps. Bee Jay
Re: [newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, John Batt wrote: When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt I imported libm.so.5 from RH6.1 but it did not help; neither did a symbolic link to libm.so.6.It looks like the underlying wine system does not sit too happily with XFree 4; just guessing. -- Len Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 West Court www.tarazed.demon.co.uk The Thistle Foundation Edinburgh EH16 4EB 0131-661 3648
