[newbie-it] Imwheel
Ciao a tutti, ho letto già alcuni post su problemi della rotella del mouse. E ho seguito il vostro consiglio e mi sono scaricato "imwheel"! Ora cosa devo fare? Quando lo lancio devo passargi qualche parametro particolare per farlo funzionare correttamente? Aspetto fiducioso vostri aiuti! Michele
[newbie-it] Connessione Internet (alcune domande)
Ho installato Linux Mandrake 7.2 e come interfaccia grafica uso KDE 2.x Vi faccio un esempio di quello che mi succede: Accedo come utente qualsiasi, apro una connessione internet, ..., ad un certo punto mi stufo e voglio cambiare utente, quindi (senza chiudere la connessione attiva) clikko sul punsante termina sessione, e come sarebbe logico aspettarsi, chiude ogni applicazione. Ma comunque io vedo ancora il modem acceso ed ancora in funzione. Per farmi capire, sono accese tutte le luci tranne quelle si RD e SD (che indicano i dati ricevuti ed inviati). Accedo, diciamo come root! Apro una finestra di Netscape (senza attivare la connessione) e digito un sito qualsiasi e lui me lo apre!!! In parole povere, cambiando utente se ho lasciato una connessione aperta, lui me la conserva!!! E' normale??? Sinceramente non credo sia così tanto normale Ne sapete niente? Michele
Re: [newbie-it] Connessione Internet (alcune domande)
Accedo come utente qualsiasi, apro una connessione internet, ..., ad un certo punto mi stufo e voglio cambiare utente, quindi (senza chiudere la connessione attiva) clikko sul punsante termina sessione, e come sarebbe logico aspettarsi, chiude ogni applicazione. Ma comunque io vedo ancora il modem acceso ed ancora in funzione. Per farmi capire, sono accese tutte le luci tranne quelle si RD e SD (che indicano i dati ricevuti ed inviati). Accedo, diciamo come root! Apro una finestra di Netscape (senza attivare la connessione) e digito un sito qualsiasi e lui me lo apre!!! In parole povere, cambiando utente se ho lasciato una connessione aperta, lui me la conserva!!! E' normale??? Sinceramente non credo sia così tanto normale In realtà può essere normale. Tieni presente che sotto unix l'interfaccia grafica è solo un'aggiunta a tutto il resto, non una cosa che abbraccia l'intero sistema. E' quindi assolutamente normale che dei processi utente continuino a girare tranquillamente anche se chiudi tutto. In pratica quello che ci si può aspettare che venga chiuso all'uscita sono solo alcuni processi che necessitano dell'interfaccia grafica o che sono lanciati da dentro di essa, e di cui kde conosce abbastanza. Evidentemente quando esci da kde viene chiuso kppp ma non il pppd, che è il vero responsabile della connessione. Per farlo chiudere o kppp ha un settaggio per cui quando esce uccide anche pppd (sempre che tu abbia lanciato ppp attraverso kppp), od altrimenti lo devi uccidere esplicitamente, di persè kde non elimina pppd. pppd si può anche eliminare brutalmente con un "killall pppd"
Re: [newbie-it] Connessione Internet (alcune domande)
Fabio Coatti wrote: Accedo come utente qualsiasi, apro una connessione internet, ..., ad un certo punto mi stufo e voglio cambiare utente, quindi (senza chiudere la connessione attiva) clikko sul punsante termina sessione, e come sarebbe logico aspettarsi, chiude ogni applicazione. Ma comunque io vedo ancora il modem acceso ed ancora in funzione. Per farmi capire, sono accese tutte le luci tranne quelle si RD e SD (che indicano i dati ricevuti ed inviati). Accedo, diciamo come root! Apro una finestra di Netscape (senza attivare la connessione) e digito un sito qualsiasi e lui me lo apre!!! In parole povere, cambiando utente se ho lasciato una connessione aperta, lui me la conserva!!! E' normale??? Sinceramente non credo sia così tanto normale In realtà può essere normale. Tieni presente che sotto unix l'interfaccia grafica è solo un'aggiunta a tutto il resto, non una cosa che abbraccia l'intero sistema. E' quindi assolutamente normale che dei processi utente continuino a girare tranquillamente anche se chiudi tutto. In pratica quello che ci si può aspettare che venga chiuso all'uscita sono solo alcuni processi che necessitano dell'interfaccia grafica o che sono lanciati da dentro di essa, e di cui kde conosce abbastanza. Evidentemente quando esci da kde viene chiuso kppp ma non il pppd, che è il vero responsabile della connessione. Per farlo chiudere o kppp ha un settaggio per cui quando esce uccide anche pppd (sempre che tu abbia lanciato ppp attraverso kppp), od altrimenti lo devi uccidere esplicitamente, di persè kde non elimina pppd. pppd si può anche eliminare brutalmente con un "killall pppd" Forse è troppo banale, se hai già controllato, chiedo scusa:) In Kpppd c'è un'opzione apposita per decidere se disconnettere l'utente dalla rete o meno quando esce da X... Guarda se la casella ha il segni di spunt! Corrado
[newbie-it] Blocco PC con winmodem
Ciao a tutti. Il problema e` questo: tentativo di connessione ad internet utilizzando kppp con modem interno Lucent (win-modem con driver x Linux Vers. 3.68). Al momento del "CONNECT 52000" si verifica un errore che uccide kppp. Dopo alcuni secondi si sente il modem che si scollega dalla linea ed in contemporanea il PC si blocca. Occorre resettare. Il kernel e` il 2.2.17 della Mandrake 7.2. Questo non succedeva con RH 6.0/6.1. Qualche idea ? Grazie e ciao.
Re: [newbie-it] Connessione Internet (alcune domande)
Corrado wrote: Fabio Coatti wrote: Accedo come utente qualsiasi, apro una connessione internet, ..., ad un certo punto mi stufo e voglio cambiare utente, quindi (senza chiudere la connessione attiva) clikko sul punsante termina sessione, e come sarebbe .. In parole povere, cambiando utente se ho lasciato una connessione aperta, lui me la conserva!!! E' normale??? Sinceramente non credo sia così tanto normale In realtà può essere normale. Tieni presente che sotto unix l'interfaccia grafica è solo un'aggiunta a tutto il resto, non una cosa che abbraccia l'intero sistema. E' quindi assolutamente normale che dei processi utente continuino a girare tranquillamente anche se chiudi tutto Forse è troppo banale, se hai già controllato, chiedo scusa:) In Kpppd c'è un'opzione apposita per decidere se disconnettere l'utente dalla rete o meno quando esce da X... Guarda se la casella ha il segni di spunt! Aggiungo solo che anche se non ho sperimentato la cosa mi sembra "storicamente" ragionevole che sia cosi`. L'impostazione originale dei sistemi Linux/UNIX e` multiutente in cui i singoli servizi sono attivati da root e messi a disposizione di tutti gli utenti. Ricordi che per far attivare ppp da un utente normale occorre(va) anche con distro recentissime prendere alcuni accorgimenti? Un po' come il mount: un utente normale non puo` dare "mount -t .." puo` solo montare le risorse che sono elencate in fstab con l'opzione user e solo con le modalita` li` riportate. A questo punto pppd (essendo un servizio comune) e` logico che resti attivo anche se chi lo ha lanciato (normalmente root) fa logout. Un po` come lpd, cron, il mount di un disco, ... Sarei piuttosto seccato se, dopo aver chiesto all'amministratore di montarmi una directory NFS sul sistema dell'istituto, potessi lavorarci solo fintanto che lui e` presente :-) Probabilmente, kppp ha un'opzione per far stoppare pppd quando chi lo ha lanciato chiude la sessione. ciao, andrea
Re: [RE: [newbie] breaking out of a gui]
"Amin Yuliastanto" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but on my LM7.0 doesnt wor after i push Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, X-server seems just restarting not exiting X is there any other way? Salam, Amin Yuliastanto X restarts because that is what it is being told to do by /etc/inittab. You can hit ctrl-Alt-bksp all day long, and it will continue to bring you back to a graphical log in. If you edit /etc/inittab so that you boot to console or text mode, then the key combination will work for you. You need to change the line id:5:initdefault by making the 5 a 3 When you want your gui, just type startx HTH, Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing
I think what he was asking for is to share the internet. If that is what your after, you can download many free proxy server programs. My favoriate before I got linux as a router was analogx. www.analogx.com. I had real good luck with that one. - Original Message - From: "Michel Hardy-Vallee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 6:28 PM Subject: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:06, Angel Rodriguez wrote: My home network is running Win98 on my desktop and Win95 on my corporate laptop. I want to add my Linux Mandrake only machine to this network and be able to share my internet connection with Linux. The Win98 machine is running MS internet sharing software. How would I accomplish this? A.Rodriguez Angel, have you tried Samba? it is a tool for Linux machine to be able to share a MS network. It's included in Mandrake 7.2, and you can as well check for the latest version at http://www.samba.org Cheers, Michel Hardy-Vallée _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing
Just a thought as I use Linux to share the internet but you might try setting the Windows box serving the internet as the gateway address on the client linux box and enter the DNS information for you ISP on the Linux client. Another alternative is to use the Linux box as the internet server. Linux is indifferent as to what operating system the clients are running. (I don't know if this is an issue with Windows ICS) With IP chains and Pmfirewall. www.pointman.org I found this very easy to setup although I'm using cable I don't think it's much harder to setup with dial up. --- Matt Phelps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what he was asking for is to share the internet. If that is what your after, you can download many free proxy server programs. My favoriate before I got linux as a router was analogx. www.analogx.com. I had real good luck with that one. - Original Message - From: "Michel Hardy-Vallee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 6:28 PM Subject: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:06, Angel Rodriguez wrote: My home network is running Win98 on my desktop and Win95 on my corporate laptop. I want to add my Linux Mandrake only machine to this network and be able to share my internet connection with Linux. The Win98 machine is running MS internet sharing software. How would I accomplish this? A.Rodriguez Angel, have you tried Samba? it is a tool for Linux machine to be able to share a MS network. It's included in Mandrake 7.2, and you can as well check for the latest version at http://www.samba.org Cheers, Michel Hardy-Vallée _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x
What did you do to get the nvidia drivers working, I haven't for the life of me been able to get them to work. (i assume here you have 3d acceleration working) Jamie From: "John and Marcie Alexander" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:53:47 -0500 I installed lm7.2 and finally got my nvidia drivers working. When I ran X -version, I got 3.something as my current version, even though I checked the rpms installed and it seems x version 4.0 is installed. When I redirected X to the 4.0 server, all works fine now. Does this mean I have both versions installed? If so, how can I remove the one I am not using? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
RE: [newbie] Linux networking?
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/ go here they have some good little demos that got my two LM 7.2 boxes talking and sharing their internet connection Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Khachiki Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 8:36 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Linux networking? can some one help me with networking Linux? I want to get two Linux machines networked and I don't know any thing about it. I need manual that can tell me how to go about it and what programs I need? Regards Michael
Re: [newbie] can't mount floppy, Input/output error
Donnie Green wrote: All, The following command now allows me to mount my floppy drive without errors, but I cannot read any of the files on the floppy disk: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 I placed a floppy in that has a document written with notepad and a document with Microsoft Word (95) on it. I couldn't see a thing. Should I go buy unformated disks and format them using the ext2 fs? Donnie, My fstab line reads: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 Since you are starting with /dev/fd0 (which is already referenced in dev=), it may not be giving us a correct path statement. Don't change the fs=vfat if you want to view DOS/Windows based files. If you open up a term and do a 'man fs', you can read up on fs. Barry :-)
RE: [newbie] C++ resources
check out www.ibooks.com they have a book called, Thinking in C++, I think they are offering it free as a special promotion. They also have all the linux books from the LDP for free too. -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] C++ resources Its not on the web (at least mine isn't, lol), but I just got Practical C++ Programming (O'Reilly), and it's pretty good... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jeremy Sudderth wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering if you know any good C++ resources on the web. I am trying to learn now that I have gcc configured on my system at home. TIA
Re: [newbie] How do I fix it so I have a normal delete key and copy/paste in a terminal window?
I don't know how to fix the delete key "feature" (though I'd like to know how), but I do know how to (kind of) solve your copy-paste problem. The trick is that whenever you select any text in X, it is automatically copied to the copy-paste buffer. To paste, click the middle mouse button where you want it. A slight problem with this method is that the data is only copied to the buffer while it is selected. It disappears when you deselect the text. On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:56, Bob Currey wrote: I would like the delete key to work like in DOS where it moves you noplace, and deletes the character under the cursor, shifting the rest to the right one position. The problem occurs when I use terminal programs, and its pretty frustrating when basis things like the keyboard don't work "normally", though not the end of the world. I would also be eternally grateful for the ability to copy and paste into the command line, given the lengths of the filenames, typical, this is very much needed. Affected programs: gnome terminal - clicking swap bs/del doesn't change anything, here, it moves me to the left 1 pos and deletes the character preceding the one the cursor was on. Can't use ctrl-c and ctrl-v to copy and paste. kconsole - delete key works normally, but can't use ctrl-c and ctrl-v to copy and paste... arg! xterm - doesn't work at all - update - Well, I figured out a way, at least partially, so I thought I might post it so others can avoid suffering as well... install mc - midnight commander f9 for top menu, then select options, then go to learn keys, go thru all the keys and then save it. that will fix the delete key. mc allows alt-enter to paste the highlighted filename. Not as good as copy and paste, but at least functional. c ya, BobC Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="winmail.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] normal delete key and copy/paste
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:39, Bob Currey wrote: I'd be happy if any of them worked. That was why I posted my somewhat lame, and partial solution. It wasn't which keys or clicks provide copy/paste functionality that was my problem, it was the total lack of the capability and needing to type (correctly) 30 character filenames. Using Ctrl-V and Ctrl-C is not M$-exclusive. X allows this too, but there are still a few programmes out there that don't like it. To type 30-character filenames and the like, how about using tab completion? To do this, just type part of a path and press tab. If there is more than one option that begins with this, the shell will display them. If there is only one option, then Linux will complete the line for you up to a point where there are several options again. Keep doing this until the line is complete. This can really speed up file navigation and save typing. Please don't assume I only work in DOS or other MS stuff. I am not a fan of what MS has done to computing. My 1st PC was assembled by me with a screaming 2 mhz Z80 and dual 8" floppies and an ADM3a terminal. I did buy an MS program called Multiplan (before the advent of Lotus 123). I did'nt use MS Basic, I programmed in Assembler, instead, lol. As for linux, I'm just a newbie, what can I say... I will see if I can install a better version of xterm. Mine gives me a completely black screen with no prompt. The X in the corner to close it does work fine, as does the ability to minimize, and maximize, but inside the window, it appears black and dead. Sorta reminds me of MS Windoze :) Sounds like there is something wrong with your xterm. A working version should show some sort of prompt, unless you configured your shell (usually bash) not to show a prompt at all. BobC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] normal delete key and copy/paste In xterm and rxvt I only need to select something with the mouse, and without further strange things I can paste the selection at where the cursor is. Much easier than ctrl-v/c and other microfostisms... (do not remove the selection until you pasted it!!) I would like the delete key to work like in DOS where it moves you noplace, .. f9 for top menu, then select options, then go to learn keys, go thru all the keys and then save it. that will fix the delete key. Never had that problem, as far as I can remember... Paul -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
RE: [newbie] How do I fix it so I have a normal delete key and copy/paste in a terminal window?
Thanks, yes, your copy/paste worked. Clicking both mouse buttons at the same time pastes. Sad that I've been suffering from not reading the book on that 1 the past month or 2. It doesn't work under mc, but it isn't critical, there, as I know a way to paste filenames, with alt-enter, already. mc is a Godsend to me as compared to gui stuff or a command line. The delete key seems to have a mind of its own. Whether its X, linux, or kconsole, I'm not sure, but this time it works, next time it doesn't, then it will work again another time. I will try a newer version of xterm and when I find a terminal program where the keys work well doing the basics, I'll remove all the others. thanks, BobC -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bob Currey Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I fix it so I have a normal delete key and copy/paste in a terminal window? I don't know how to fix the delete key "feature" (though I'd like to know how), but I do know how to (kind of) solve your copy-paste problem. The trick is that whenever you select any text in X, it is automatically copied to the copy-paste buffer. To paste, click the middle mouse button where you want it. A slight problem with this method is that the data is only copied to the buffer while it is selected. It disappears when you deselect the text. On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:56, Bob Currey wrote: I would like the delete key to work like in DOS where it moves you noplace, and deletes the character under the cursor, shifting the rest to the right one position. The problem occurs when I use terminal programs, and its pretty frustrating when basis things like the keyboard don't work "normally", though not the end of the world. I would also be eternally grateful for the ability to copy and paste into the command line, given the lengths of the filenames, typical, this is very much needed. Affected programs: gnome terminal - clicking swap bs/del doesn't change anything, here, it moves me to the left 1 pos and deletes the character preceding the one the cursor was on. Can't use ctrl-c and ctrl-v to copy and paste. kconsole - delete key works normally, but can't use ctrl-c and ctrl-v to copy and paste... arg! xterm - doesn't work at all - update - Well, I figured out a way, at least partially, so I thought I might post it so others can avoid suffering as well... install mc - midnight commander f9 for top menu, then select options, then go to learn keys, go thru all the keys and then save it. that will fix the delete key. mc allows alt-enter to paste the highlighted filename. Not as good as copy and paste, but at least functional. c ya, BobC Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="winmail.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
[newbie] help...
I downloaded and installed Chris's KDE2 from the site that has been showing up in this list lately.I did a --test first and all passed.I then did a rpm -Uvh *. rpm.Everything went fine till the end when it came up with a "cant find make file" When I went into KDE I don't have sound,the K Panel is gone and all the icons on task bar are now the cog wheels.Did I do something wrong? Is there a fix for my problem? Thanks for all the help you guys have given me
Re: [newbie] WooHOOO!!!
hey Roger, that was me. glad that you are happy. nothing quite like a smooth speedy computer is there. as has been said before on this list, if you feed your pinguin good food she will be your friend. =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3:09:53 PM 12/19/00 To whomever it was that told me that RAM at crucial was as cheap as it is now, thanks! And thanks again! I just installed another 128 SDRAM, for a total of 192, and the difference is nothing short of astounding... Just to see what kind of a difference it made, I opened ten + programs, starting with Netscape, and every other memory pig I could think of...Program ten opened as fast as the first one...which, again. was Nutscrape, but it opened as fast as a terminal window did when I had just 64... BTW, sorry I forgot your name, but when I reinstalled a couple days ago, the emails we'd traded didn't get backed up for some reason :-/ peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
[newbie] Wallpaper OT
I have a question. This is kinda OT. On www.linux-mandrake.org there is a section for screenshots. I 'm sure you've all seen it. In there I saw a shot with a desktop picture of an x-ray of a human skull and it had wires plugged into the back of the head. The caption was "do you feel connected?" I would love to find this wallpaper. Any help or ideas would be cool!! You guys rock! Cheers, Chris Kelly Linux user #185775
Re: [newbie] help...
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 08:47 am, Dale Kosan wrote: I downloaded and installed Chris's KDE2 from the site that has been showing up in this list lately.I did a --test first and all passed.I then did a rpm -Uvh *. rpm.Everything went fine till the end when it came up with a "cant find make file" When I went into KDE I don't have sound,the K Panel is gone and all the icons on task bar are now the cog wheels.Did I do something wrong? Is there a fix for my problem? Thanks for all the help you guys have given me I have no idea what's with the 'makefile', did you use the src rpms? As far as the menu/icons, with either LM 2.01 upgrades, or Chris' 2.1 beta1 upgrades, you need to (as root) run 'update-menus -v' immediately after installing ALL the rpms. I also keep a bakup copy of /home/user/.kde/share/applnk/ directory which is all my menus/icons including ones for apps I've added. I've found that deleting all the items in user.../applink/ and then copying them back in from my bakup (as root) means I never loose them. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] ReiserFS
Hi... In the LM7.2 Expert Install there is an option for using "hard drive optimizations". Is this LM's obscure way of referring to ReiserFS? If not, where else in the Installer can one choose ReiserFS? Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup
This may be considered sacreligious, but what worked for mine was to bring the same box up under win/95, get it on mediaone, get all the settings, then plug them into the linux netconf. I still lose it on a reboot, but it seems to come back after a few tries of running dhcpcd with no hostname. Take it for what it is, just the observations of a newbie, BobC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Warwick Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:18 AM To: 'Roger Sherman' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup h, well, it's not working that way for me. I've been through a bunch of reboot cycles, and no joy. thanks, Richard -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:49 PM To: Richard Warwick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup Yeah, thats what I'm saying though...once I entered that command, it initialized successfully on subsequent bootups...don't know why, but it did, and continues to... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: Roger, yeah, I've got it to work manually as well - I'm trying to figure out why it isn't working in the standard bootup scripts. - I can hack around the problem, but I'm trying to get some advice on how to fix it properly. Thanks for the response. Richard -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:39 PM To: Richard Warwick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkand sbin/ifup Hi Richard...I had a similar problem - eth0 just refused to initialize on bootup, but I entered this command: /sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h [hostname] And it would log right in, and log in on bootup most times thereafter. Hope it helps! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: hi, I installed mandrake 7.2 from the iso images, and I'm having trouble with the dhcp client and the normal startup scripts. I think I see what problem might be occurring, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it. I'm on an att cable modem, so my dhcpc command line needs to be something like " dhcpc -h c55-a " where c55-a is the hostname that ATT assigned to me. (I've changed the name to protect the guilty) When I execute that command line manually, everything works just fine. In the normal startup, the dhcp fails because evidently the dhcp hostname is not being passed. I've figured out that the network startup script ( /etc/init.d/network ) calls the ( /sbin/ifup ) script. and the ifup script seems to need the environment variable DHCP_HOSTNAME set in order to have that be included on the dhcpc command line. the line 'DHCP_HOSTNAME=c55-a' is in the file /etc/sysconfig/network which is being read by /etc/init.d/network I added lines to the two main scripts to create a file with the environment variables, set /var/richard and in examining the output, I see the DHCP_HOSTNAME while in /etc/init.d/network, but it is not there while executing /sbin/ifup how do I fix this? has someone else had this problem? is it a bug in the scripts from mandrake? or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Richard Warwick warwickr at usa dot net
[newbie] RE:KDE2
Okay,I did not use source rpms,should I have? Can I fix the system with the command you mentioned or do a re-install and upgrade to the newest KDE2? I don't mind the re-install,just want to get this right.The site I downloaded from is ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ is this the correct site? Thanks allot for the quick response.
[newbie] md5sums
Hello, I have downloaded the ISO files for 7.2. I would like to verify that the md5sums code is correct on the ISO files. Is there a program available that I can run under Windows/98 to do this verification. Thanks, Charlie Patterson
Re: [newbie] md5sums
Yes,go to this site and download the program. http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/
Re: [newbie] RE:KDE2
Okay,should I use the srpms or the normal rpms? I have never used the srpms before,do I install with the normal rpm -Uvh or is the procedure not the same,sort of a newbie here!
RE: [newbie] Where is my $PATH coming from?
I will assume that you are using the default shell (BASH). Your path gets set in your .bash_profile file. This HIDDEN file is in your home directory. i.e. /home/Donnie/.bash_profile -Original Message- From: Donnie Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Where is my $PATH coming from? I installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 and cannot find out where my users' PATH is coming from. I checked the .bash_profile, .bashrc, /etc/profile, and /etc/bashrc for the PATH statement. Everytime I saw an instance of it, I rem'd it, but I was still getting a PATH from somewhere. Does anyone have any ideas? FYI--My goal is to create the PATH in a file (/etc/PATH) and have the variable PATH=' cat /etc/PATH' -if that is possible. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] RE:KDE2
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 09:55 am, Dale Kosan wrote: Okay,I did not use source rpms,should I have? I wouldn't, use the binary rpms Can I fix the system with the command you mentioned or do a re-install and upgrade to the newest KDE2? If you installed _ALL_ the KDE 2.1 rpms all at once (eg, rpm -Uvh * ), then the update-menus -v (as root) should fix your menus and icons I don't mind the re-install,just want to get this right.The site I downloaded from is ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ is this the correct site? Thanks allot for the quick response. That's the place -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Linux networking?
Michael Khachiki wrote: can some one help me with networking Linux? I want to get two Linux machines networked and I don't know any thing about it. I need manual that can tell me how to go about it and what programs I need? Regards Michael MichaelLinux mandrake and most other major Linux distros have all the programs you will need included in the distro. As to a manual, the most common book is "Linux Network Administrator's Guide" published by O'Reilly. -- Alan
[newbie] cdrom bootdisk?
I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS (free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead of the floppy I created. Thanks in advance, Mr. Smith
Re: Re: [newbie] Corel Photopaint 9 problems
yeah...thanks pal, had problems with the fonttastic rpms but got there in the end :-) thanks pal Graham On Tuesday 19 December 2000 9:33 pm, you wrote: Graham, Did you solve the font thing?? angus -Original Message- From: a r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 December 2000 21:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FWD: Re: [newbie] Corel Photopaint 9 problems --Original Message-- From: Graham Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 16, 2000 10:12:15 PM GMT Subject: Re: [newbie] Corel Photopaint 9 problems Thats the same problem Im getting... How the hell do you add it, my font server is already running! By the way, It worked just fine in MDK 7.1, its only happened since i upgraded to mdk 7.2 Graham On Saturday 16 December 2000 7:45 pm, you wrote: This is a weired one! I have just installed Corel Photopaint 9 and now my menu system has got screwed up. There are 4 copies of everything in the menu tree!! Help?? How do I fix this Also when I try and run Photopaint I get the following error message: "unable to add Fontastic font server to the font path. The font server is probably not installed or not running. Please correct it and try again. Does anyone have any ideas what I should do?? Thanks angus -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556 __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556 --- -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
[newbie] Anyone gotten 1400x1050 on a Dell Inspiron 7500?
Hi Everyone, I am trying to run XF86 v4 on my Dell Inspiron 7500. I get 1024x768 and 1280x1024 OK, but I can't seem to use the 1400x1050 resolution. This is a valid resolution with Redhat 7, so I figured I would just use the modes from my XF86Config-4 for redhat in my Mandrake XF86Config. No luck. It still shows that the resolution is invalid and let's me in with 1280x1024. Anyone struggled through this yet, or know of a place I can look? Thanks in advance -pDon
[newbie] USB Trackball Mouse
I just got the new Kensington Expert Pro Mouse. It was supposed to come out in October, but hey, we won't gripe about that now. I got the mouse yesterday, which was perfect because I was building another machine. I got all the parts, minus a sound card, for R2D2. (Have STAR WARS theme at home. JEDI, YODA,PROBE_DROID, and working on R2D2, and C3PO.) I plugged the USB Expert Pro into R2D2, dropped the Linux Mandrake 7.2 disc, and started the install. During the install, the Mouse worked beautiful. I was excited like "HECK YEAH!! This puppy's going to work!" I boot, and the X resolution is shot, but that's my fault, I can fix that, but the Mouse does NOT work. The Expert Pro has a mouse wheel, which I've not been able to get to work with any mouse to dates, despite the .imwheelrc file. It has two Left Mouse buttons, two Right Mouse buttons, and a HOME button for web pages, and then 4 or 5 quick easy start buttons to open up apps. Well I figured if I could get a Left and a Right Mouse button working, I would work on the mouse wheel, the HOME Button, and the 4 or 5 quick start buttons. But the sucka won't work. SO... my question is this. Who has used a USB Mouse? Whether it's a basic ole run of the mill mouse? Or the a track ball, or what. What did you have to do? I mean it asked if I has a USB mouse, I said yes, I got excited, then I cried! (A bit exaggerative, but you get the point!) Why did the USB Mouse work in the install, but NOT afterwards? I have yet to try the mouse with the USB -= PS/2 adapter that came with it. I just wanted to try it with USB first. Now this machine is far from being finished. I mean poor R2D2 still has it's sides off and is getting a breeze across his innards. So reinstalling will happen and I may actually make it SuSe or something else. But I'd like some feed back on the Mouse issue. Thanx for any help! tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi."
Re: [RE: [newbie] breaking out of a gui]
try [ctrl]+[alt]+[f3] (or any f* key up to [f6]) and then to get back into your xwindow sesion [ctrl]+[alt]+[f7] - Original Message - From: "Michael Scottaline" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:06 AM Subject: Re: [RE: [newbie] breaking out of a gui] "Amin Yuliastanto" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but on my LM7.0 doesnt wor after i push Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, X-server seems just restarting not exiting X is there any other way? Salam, Amin Yuliastanto X restarts because that is what it is being told to do by /etc/inittab. You can hit ctrl-Alt-bksp all day long, and it will continue to bring you back to a graphical log in. If you edit /etc/inittab so that you boot to console or text mode, then the key combination will work for you. You need to change the line id:5:initdefault by making the 5 a 3 When you want your gui, just type startx HTH, Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] cdrom bootdisk?
Mr. Smith, If you _INSIST_ on creating a boot CD, I guess all you would have to do is take the boot disk you have, and then burn it to CD. That's a huge waste of a CD, but that will do the trick. You could consider buying LS-120. It doesn't run off the floppy cahin and is much faster, but those do get pricey and so are the discs. (It will read regular ole floppies though.) So that would most likely be the easiest thing. But it's a waste of a CD, but however cheaper then a LS-120. tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Mr. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001220 11:10]: I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS (free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead of the floppy I created. Thanks in advance, Mr. Smith
Re: [newbie] USB Trackball Mouse
I don't remember where to look to paste it here, but I remember seeing it start up when the machine boots. Which was like 15 days ago. But I'm pretty sure it is up and running. Do you recall where that is? So I can look there and make sure it is running. tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Tim Holmes'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] USB Trackball Mouse Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:47:47 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Is the USB deamon in your start-up? -Original Message- Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001220 13:56]: I just got the new Kensington Expert Pro Mouse. It was supposed to come out in October, but hey, we won't gripe about that now. I got the mouse yesterday, which was perfect because I was building another machine. I got all the parts, minus a sound card, for R2D2. (Have STAR WARS theme at home. JEDI, YODA,PROBE_DROID, and working on R2D2, and C3PO.) I plugged the USB Expert Pro into R2D2, dropped the Linux Mandrake 7.2 disc, and started the install. During the install, the Mouse worked beautiful. I was excited like "HECK YEAH!! This puppy's going to work!" I boot, and the X resolution is shot, but that's my fault, I can fix that, but the Mouse does NOT work. The Expert Pro has a mouse wheel, which I've not been able to get to work with any mouse to dates, despite the .imwheelrc file. It has two Left Mouse buttons, two Right Mouse buttons, and a HOME button for web pages, and then 4 or 5 quick easy start buttons to open up apps. Well I figured if I could get a Left and a Right Mouse button working, I would work on the mouse wheel, the HOME Button, and the 4 or 5 quick start buttons. But the sucka won't work. SO... my question is this. Who has used a USB Mouse? Whether it's a basic ole run of the mill mouse? Or the a track ball, or what. What did you have to do? I mean it asked if I has a USB mouse, I said yes, I got excited, then I cried! (A bit exaggerative, but you get the point!) Why did the USB Mouse work in the install, but NOT afterwards? I have yet to try the mouse with the USB -= PS/2 adapter that came with it. I just wanted to try it with USB first. Now this machine is far from being finished. I mean poor R2D2 still has it's sides off and is getting a breeze across his innards. So reinstalling will happen and I may actually make it SuSe or something else. But I'd like some feed back on the Mouse issue. Thanx for any help! tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi."
Re: [newbie] cdrom bootdisk?
that's interesting as i was thinking of the same thing. see, i have a "live CD" of Red Hat (version 3.something) which i can boot up from the CD. i know that in XCDRoast there is an option to make a CD bootable. so i was thinking that i would figure out which files directories i must have to run linux, then burn those to the CD make it bootable. in theory i can get a live file system. i expect however there might be problems with some configuration files, or the boot up or something. but i can burn those bridges when i get to them. this will be as much a learning tool for me as something actually practical useable. what would really be fun would be to add X with very general config files that would work on most any system and Enlightenment so that i could boot this up on other peoples system and show off. =) but that is another bridge even further down the road. but sure, there is no reason you can't do this. as someone said in reply to you, it's rather a waste of a CD -- so you may as well add some other stuff to it then it might become a good recovery tool or portable linux distrabution (which is what i am hoping to create). yea, then i could use linux at work oh. IS people having fits and convulstions when they see it... oh i could tell them i formatted the drive and installed Linux oh they would be foaming at the mouth oh i love it. the other Mr. Smith Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Mr. Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9:10:21 AM 12/20/00 I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS (free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead of the floppy I created. Thanks in advance, Mr. Smith
[newbie] Resolution problem (I think)
I just installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT. I can't see the entire screen. The cursor will move off the screen on the bottom and to the right about 2 inches further than I can see. It doesn't appear to be related to the other virtual desktops. When I try to change the resolution under Xdrakres I only get a please wait box that shows up for a split second. I have reinstalled three times choosing first 1024x768 and then 800x600 under generic LCD then going with 1024x768 generic SVGA display. According to the spec sheet this laptop is capable of 1024x768. The chipset is Chips and Technologies CT65550. When output is sent to a 17" monitor the entire display shows. When output is sent to both the monitor and laptop the display is cut off on both. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Worst case I'll just use the external monitor. Thanks in advance.
Re: [newbie] Help with soundcard
HI All!!! First get out of x-windows by going to the shutdown section and selecting console mode..(after it boots into it you may have to press enter to get a login prompt)log in as rootand then run sndconfig.i had the same problem and this worked like a charm, and you get to hear linus torvalds pronounce linux! Good luck!!! Amin Yuliastanto wrote: Hello all, I am not trying to solve your problem, I just want to tell you and other that i have the same problem but my soundcard is Yamaha OPL3-sax 719 chip maybe someone can help us... regards, Amin Yuliastanto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mickey Soltys Sent: 20 Desember 2000 9:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with soundcard Hello all, I am running Mandrake 2.2.17-21. I have a Soundblaster Live soundcard which works fine under Winblows. However, when I try to configure it with Harddrake, I get the following message /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-emu10k/.0:init.nodule: device or resource busy. Has anyone had any luck with one of these soundcards? Can anyone help me? Thanks, Mickey Soltys
RE: [newbie] Quake III or any game?
Dear Michael, I have Mandrake 7.2, Voodoo3 3000 and Quake III runs fine. I had a lot of problems to got the acceleration of my Voodoo3, because Mandrake 7.2 have a bug for our video card, but after solvingit, every accelerated program I have installed runs OK. Are you sure you have the acceleration runing? You can taste with some of the Arcade games coming with Mandrake, for example Chromium, Tuxkart, Tuxracer and so on. If these games do not run, you probably need to solve the acceleration problems first. Anyway, sometimes when I run Quake III the screen change to a little ressolution, but I just wait for almost a minute and it starts to run. I hope this help you Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Michael, Steve" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Diciembre 19, 2000 10:57 pm Asunto: [newbie] Quake III or any game? Has anyone got Quake III or Unreal Tournament to work with Mandrake 7.2? I have a Vodoo III video card and have had no luck. The program installsfine, but when I try to run it, it switches my video to ~680X480 resolution.
Re: [newbie] Resolution problem (I think)
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100, and the graphics chipset on it is a S3 Savage. I had to find beta drivers for it. Find out who makes your card, and look to see if you can find a linux driver for it. If you find one, and can figure out how to install it, write back. Steve Combs wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT. I can't see the entire screen. The cursor will move off the screen on the bottom and to the right about 2 inches further than I can see. It doesn't appear to be related to the other virtual desktops. When I try to change the resolution under Xdrakres I only get a please wait box that shows up for a split second. I have reinstalled three times choosing first 1024x768 and then 800x600 under generic LCD then going with 1024x768 generic SVGA display. According to the spec sheet this laptop is capable of 1024x768. The chipset is Chips and Technologies CT65550. When output is sent to a 17" monitor the entire display shows. When output is sent to both the monitor and laptop the display is cut off on both. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Worst case I'll just use the external monitor. Thanks in advance. -- |---| Peter Marks E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:46202991 http;//www.tweeterindustries.net |---|
[newbie] Tuxracer
I have a dual celeron system with an ATI All in wonder, and Drake 7.2, but when I run tuxracer, the menus load fine, but when I play the game, the screen is very, very white, you can hardly see tux. but when I press excape, the little dialog is in color, how could I go about fixing this? Regards, Peter Marks -- |---| Peter Marks E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:46202991 http;//www.tweeterindustries.net |---|
Re: [newbie] Microsoft's idea of risk
What do you get if you not only use but also copy and sell it? Windows 95 and 98 disks have the words "please do not make pirate copies of this disk" on them. Nice try m$. - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: [newbie] Microsoft's idea of risk From http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15101.html Microsoft urges people not to use the Internet By: Kieren McCarthy Posted: 29/11/2000 at 17:10 GMT Finding out what exactly Microsoft is thinking is harder than getting blood out of a stone or a coherent sentence out your grandma, but work hard enough... The Beast of Redmond has put an online form on its Web site that will tell you what sort of risk you are running of having obtained unlicensed or pirated software. Which is nice. Depending on how you answer, M$ will give you a low, medium or high-risk rating. So we had a play around to determine exactly what Microsoft saw as risky behaviour. Unsurprisingly, if you buy all your software off Microsoft, have all the licences at hand and also purchase upgrade licences, client access licences and purchasing licences, then you are at low-risk. Deviate much from this and you enter medium risk. Your software is pre-installed (keeping all the other answers the same)? Medium risk. Your IT department installed it? Medium risk. You're not sure that you have licences for every piece of software? High risk straight away. You don't know exactly how many workstations your company has? From Low to High risk in one fell swoop. However, of most interest to us were the Internet options. It would seem that Microsoft - despite everything it says - doesn't trust the Internet at all. In answer to the question "How did you acquire the software installed on your workstations/servers?", three of the ten options concern the Net. These are: Internet acquisition - On-line Store, On-line Auction and Downloaded from Internet. Select any of these three and you are immediately sent from a Low risk situation to a High risk one. So there you have it - Microsoft doesn't want you to use the Internet. We'd always suspected. Update Incidentally, don't bother to try the quiz out if you are using anything but Internet Explorer. Such is the complexity of running a simple quiz that only a product as amazing as Explorer can deal with it. Good to see Microsoft hasn't changed. ® Related Link MS' online form (try it yourself - you'll be Medium risk) http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/samguide/atrisk/default.asp
[newbie] Next Question
Ok. I have been playing around in linux and I was trying to access my floppy from both my superuser account and root. I did this via /mnt/floppy and I believe they are being supermounted. Do I still have to mount them or should they be accessible? Under root it was locked out which doesn't make sense to me. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance again Mr. Smith
Re: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x
I'll try to tell you what i did, but unfortunatly I am away from my computer (and install notes) till Jan3! And yes, I have 3d accell working- man quake 3 is cool! I had to mix and match instructions from s many sources. I have the Viper V770 using the TNT2 -so I presume the install will be the same for the other drivers. You need the nvidia kernel 0.9-5 and glx tarballs - dont get the rpms. gunzip and untar them in a temp directory. go to the Nvidia kernel directory and run: make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux/include Now you have to remove all of the traces of libGL: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions mv libGLcore.a libGLcore.a.mesa mv libglx.a libglx.a.mesa cd /usr/X11R6/lib mv libGL.so libGL.so.mesa mv libGL.so.1 libGL.so.1.mesa mv libGL.so.1.0 libGL.so.1.0.mesa mv libGL.so.1.2.0 libGL.so.1.2.0.mesa I can't remember nor find the help files I used, but search your computer for other libGL files. next go to the Nvidia glx directory and run: make Then goto /etc/X11/ and edit the XF86Config-4 file (not the XF86Config file) and change the entry Driver "nv" to Driver "nvidia", I think it is in the screen section. Also add the line Load "glx" to the Module section. This last part seems to be a problem with M7.2 - you have to cd /etc/X11 rm X ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X so that you are now using the right server. Finally, if X locks up when you load it you need to add the line that removes AGP support in you config file - I forgot what it is, but it should be listed on the Nvidia help file. After that, quake should run! check out http://members.home.net/linuxfrog/nvidia.html Later! --- Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did you do to get the nvidia drivers working, I haven't for the life of me been able to get them to work. (i assume here you have 3d acceleration working) Jamie From: "John and Marcie Alexander" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:53:47 -0500 I installed lm7.2 and finally got my nvidia drivers working. When I ran X -version, I got 3.something as my current version, even though I checked the rpms installed and it seems x version 4.0 is installed. When I redirected X to the 4.0 server, all works fine now. Does this mean I have both versions installed? If so, how can I remove the one I am not using? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Microsoft's idea of risk
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Goldenpi wrote: What do you get if you not only use but also copy and sell it? Windows 95 and 98 disks have the words "please do not make pirate copies of this disk" on them. Nice try m$. That of course is high risk. But then, I never found a pirate that would lie still long enough for me to write a copy of windoze on him... ;) Paul -- Windows didn't get as bad as it is overnight. It took years of careful development. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
[newbie] how to downgrade XF86 from 4 to 3.3?
Hi everyone, Can someone tell me how I can downgrade XFree86 from 4.0 (in LM7.1) to 3.3? I found out that some of the software that we want to run do not support XFree86 4.0 (yet), such as Win4Lin and VMware. Cheers, Andy
RE: [newbie] Quake III or any game?
What did you do to solve the acceleration problem? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 7:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Quake III or any game? Dear Michael, I have Mandrake 7.2, Voodoo3 3000 and Quake III runs fine. I had a lot of problems to got the acceleration of my Voodoo3, because Mandrake 7.2 have a bug for our video card, but after solvingit, every accelerated program I have installed runs OK. Are you sure you have the acceleration runing? You can taste with some of the Arcade games coming with Mandrake, for example Chromium, Tuxkart, Tuxracer and so on. If these games do not run, you probably need to solve the acceleration problems first. Anyway, sometimes when I run Quake III the screen change to a little ressolution, but I just wait for almost a minute and it starts to run. I hope this help you Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Michael, Steve" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Diciembre 19, 2000 10:57 pm Asunto: [newbie] Quake III or any game? Has anyone got Quake III or Unreal Tournament to work with Mandrake 7.2? I have a Vodoo III video card and have had no luck. The program installsfine, but when I try to run it, it switches my video to ~680X480 resolution.
Re: [newbie] C++ resources
Mark Johnson wrote: check out www.ibooks.com they have a book called, Thinking in C++, I think they are offering it free as a special promotion. They also have all the linux books from the LDP for free too. Last I looked, this book was available free off the author's website too. Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] --
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 10:46, you wrote: Hi... In the LM7.2 Expert Install there is an option for using "hard drive optimizations". Is this LM's obscure way of referring to ReiserFS? If not, where else in the Installer can one choose ReiserFS? the hard drive optimizations are loaded as an append to the kernel. I have never had it work correctly, and have had it leave me with an unbootable system. ReiserFS can be chosen when you partition the drive. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: RE: [newbie] Quake III or any game?
Hey Michael, I am running Quake III and Unreal Tournament. I run Unreal Tournament using the software render (SDLDrv.SDLSoftware.Render). I tried OpenGL (SDLGLDrv.SDLGLRender) but it was all messed up.The sceneray was missing much and I couldn't make out any words but I could play it best in OpenGL. The SDL was clean and crisp but the performance was lousy. And this is with the screen resolution at 640X480! I have a Voodoo3 3000, 64MB RAM, 2.2.17 kernel, and a X 4.01 server running. My system is a AMD K6-2 466MHz. When I had X 3.3.6, my computer ran beautifully with Glide support. I'm tempted to go to the cvs for DRI support to see if that would bring the performance back to my system. In the Engine.Engine section it pulled the driver libGL.so.1 for OpenGL, anybody know of one better? That is all I have for now. Because of my current situation, I don't dare go into an internet Multiplay! I am a hell of a time just trying to beat the bots in the Single Player Mode! I hope someone has better new then I and would greatly appreciate them passing their information onto the rest of us. Sincerely, == Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Michael, I have Mandrake 7.2, Voodoo3 3000 and Quake III runs fine. I had a lot of problems to got the acceleration of my Voodoo3, because Mandrake 7.2 have a bug for our video card, but after solvingit, every accelerated program I have installed runs OK. Are you sure you have the acceleration runing? You can taste with some of the Arcade games coming with Mandrake, for example Chromium, Tuxkart, Tuxracer and so on. If these games do not run, you probably need to solve the acceleration problems first. Anyway, sometimes when I run Quake III the screen change to a little ressolution, but I just wait for almost a minute and it starts to run. I hope this help you Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Michael, Steve" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Diciembre 19, 2000 10:57 pm Asunto: [newbie] Quake III or any game? Has anyone got Quake III or Unreal Tournament to work with Mandrake 7.2? I have a Vodoo III video card and have had no luck. The program installsfine, but when I try to run it, it switches my video to ~680X480 resolution. __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] Multisession cd writing
Hello everyone, I use Linux Mandrake version 7.2 in a computer which has the i810 chipset and a HP CD writer 9150 (9100 series). The cd writer was already installed by the time I installed Linux. The problem is that I have't been able to write more than two sessions in a disc. I have already read the CD-Writing HOWTO and the README.multi file distributed with the cdrecord program. No error message appears at any of the steps of creating the iso image with mkisofs and recording into disc with cdrecord. The third session simply doesn't appears listed after typing [promt]$ ls /mnt/cdrom2 file_name_first_session file_name_second_session The first time I tried to append a third session, a Windows machine was able to see the third file added to the disc, but Linux never did. In the following attempts neither Windows nor Linux were able to see it. cdrecord seems to write it fine, it even can retreive the first block number in the first track of the third session and the next writable address of the following unwritten session. [promt]$ cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9100b' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * [promt]$ ls file_name [promt]$ NEXT_TRACK=`cdrecord -msinfo dev=0,0,0` [promt]$ mkisofs -r -J -o image_name -C $NEXT_TRACK -M /dev/scd0 file_name [promt]$ ls image_name file_name [promt]$ cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data -multi image_name Any idea of what could be happening? Thanks in advace. Fabian Penha.
Re: [newbie] Tuxracer
This is probably a lame response, but mine was unusable until I upgraded thru 'updates' to latest kdebase, kdegames, etc. So, well, if you haven't upgraded your install yet, you might try that. Other wise, I hear a new XF86 is out with more support for ATI Raddeons, maybe All In Wonder is supported better also. -s On Wednesday 20 December 2000 06:26 pm, you wrote: I have a dual celeron system with an ATI All in wonder, and Drake 7.2, but when I run tuxracer, the menus load fine, but when I play the game, the screen is very, very white, you can hardly see tux. but when I press excape, the little dialog is in color, how could I go about fixing this? Regards, Peter Marks -- Registered Linux user #197855
[newbie] TCP/IP stalling in LM 7.2 -- HELP!!!
I just did a fresh Mandrake 7.2 install, which went rather smoothly (I thought), until I rebooted, logged in, and tried to do anything on the net. I have a cable hookup with static IP addressing. NIC is a CompaQ, Netelligent PCI 10/100 using the tlan driver. I am noticing that it takes almost 1 minute to retrieve a single e-mail message, and that when trying to load WEB pages or DL files, that the DL rate starts at about 3.5 Kbps but within seconds dramatically drops to perhaps 250 bps and then goes into a stall, and just sits there. This is not a Netscape only phenomenon, it occurs regardless of browser and e-mail/news package used. Right now I am totally stumped because I find NO I/O address or IRQ conflicts with any installed hardware, and have checked and rechecked my TCP/IP configuration only to find no errors there. I can shut down Linux, reboot the same box into OS/2 Warp4, and immediately get on the net and see DL speeds in excess of 200 Kbps. I did NOT have this problem using Mandrake 7.0-2 on this box and could (reluctantly) restore from tape, but I would prefer to get 7.2 running smoothly. If anyone can provide me with some insight into what I should be looking for and where, I'd appreciate it. I'd really like to get this straightened out, but I'm totally lost! George ...surfing with Warp4 for now...
RE: Re: [newbie] Tuxracer
Do you have video-card acceleration. I think that tuxracer only works fine with acceleration, the same for tuxkart or chromium Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Miércoles, Diciembre 20, 2000 11:51 am Asunto: Re: [newbie] Tuxracer This is probably a lame response, but mine was unusable until I upgraded thru 'updates' to latest kdebase, kdegames, etc. So, well, if you haven't upgraded your install yet, you might try that. Other wise, I hear a new XF86 is out with more support for ATI Raddeons, maybe All In Wonder is supported better also. -s On Wednesday 20 December 2000 06:26 pm, you wrote: I have a dual celeron system with an ATI All in wonder, and Drake 7.2, but when I run tuxracer, the menus load fine, but when I play the game, the screen is very, very white, you can hardly see tux. but when I press excape, the little dialog is in color, how could I go about fixing this? Regards, Peter Marks -- Registered Linux user #197855
[newbie] BIOS setting: Plug 'n play OS
Hi all, I've discovered that my sound card won't work unless I disable the PnP setting in my BIOS. I'm dual booting to Windoze98 and Mandrake, so I'm wondering what the consequences will to Windoze. Will Windoze start spontaneously launching national defense missiles in the name of Peter Pan or something? Thanks, Miark Registered Linux user #197870
Re: [newbie] BIOS setting: Plug 'n play OS
I can't even get my soundcard to work and my PnP Bios has always been "off." I exited X and "su"ed to root and typed sndconfig and it still doesn't play sound in the test screen...Stupid Sound Blaster Live! Value cards...grrr... Mr. Smith Hi all, I've discovered that my sound card won't work unless I disable the PnP setting in my BIOS. I'm dual booting to Windoze98 and Mandrake, so I'm wondering what the consequences will to Windoze. Will Windoze start spontaneously launching national defense missiles in the name of Peter Pan or something? Thanks, Miark
[newbie] Theme manager in Mdk 7.2
Hi list, I've been checking all over this system and the closest thing I can find to the old KDE theme manager is the "Legacy Theme importer". I gave that a try, but try as I might that old thing just wasn't getting it done. My question is, if I can find it and install KDE Theme Manager will it work with KDE in Mandrake 7.2? -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- #
[newbie] Mandrake and ISDN
Hello there, I got a little headache, been trying for a while now to get my linux system online, I have a Dynalink ISDN TA, and if I run the internet/network wizard, choosing the ISDN internet option it detects the card, however, when the wizard is done, and I try to connect nothing happends, I go into setup, and it is set up for a modem, not ISDN, I have used hours reading both the howto's that comes with the dist, and also checked out the mandrake website, but the process shown in the mandrake online user manual, and what happends are not similar. is there anyone out there that could help me please?? Regards Tanis
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Perhaps X should not hard code seven buttons, but rather have a section in the config file specifying the number of buttons that you have (i.e. you can change it to what you like). In a following section, the functions of the buttons may be specified, or the user may choose to leave that to the window manager. That way you could do something like plug in a USB joystick (one of those complex ones with millions of buttons) and use that as a pointing device. It could be useful for disabled people who find it easier to point a joystick than a mouse. On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:15, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Just as xwindows sets up, or fails to set up, a ps/2 or 2 button mouse, it instead should set up seven buttons -- period. Then the wm assigns and/or reassigns functions. The other way is going nowhere, because windows users have bad habits. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I like your idea, but this appears to be more of a job for the window manager than for X itself, since different window managers have different feature sets and different ways of doing things. As I mentioned before, I quite like the Sawfish configuration options. These allow a multitude of combinations involving the mouse, the keyboard, or even both together. While it may not have everything you may want, remember that Sawfish is a relatively young window manager (compared to, say, Enlightenment and WindowMaker) and its feature set is improving over time. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:45, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I think a new user should be faced with something like this: Xwindows Mouse Installation Wiz Button 1[add] list of functions Button 2[remove]list of functions Button 3 or 1+2 list of functions Button 4 1+2 or a-1 list of functions Button 5 1+3 or a-2 list of functions Button 6 2+3 or a-1+2 list of functions Button 7 1+2+3 or doubleclick 1 list of functions list of functions list of functions etc etc etc.. He should be able to get to this by entering "xmouse" at a command prompt. This is mouse0. Mouse1 should be also configurable, bearing in mind that you can't have two *separate* ps2 mice, tho I understand that you can hook up 2 and use them. The buttons would share. They're just switches, after all. (So is a computer :-)) Some of the functions need dialogs for pressure, axis, etc. We don't have this because W$ users have bad habits, and they continue to have a bad influence. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I agree with you - at least in part. I believe that Linux should have legacy hardware support, but only if those like us are not disadvantaged. As I've said before, Linux is all about choice. If someone wants to plug in a -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS
These are hdparm (a utility to optimise hard drive speed) settings. It can make a huge difference in performance, but since you don't get to test it first it's better not to select it if you're not sure it'll work. Have a look at http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hide2.html for details. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 02:46, Michael O'Henly wrote: Hi... In the LM7.2 Expert Install there is an option for using "hard drive optimizations". Is this LM's obscure way of referring to ReiserFS? If not, where else in the Installer can one choose ReiserFS? Thanks. M. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] BIOS setting: Plug 'n play OS
Go ahead, you should have no problem at all. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:54, Miark wrote: Hi all, I've discovered that my sound card won't work unless I disable the PnP setting in my BIOS. I'm dual booting to Windoze98 and Mandrake, so I'm wondering what the consequences will to Windoze. Will Windoze start spontaneously launching national defense missiles in the name of Peter Pan or something? Thanks, Miark Registered Linux user #197870 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] Theme manager in Mdk 7.2
KDE 2.1 will have a theme manager. I have been using Beta 1 (the most current release) for almost a week now and I can say that it's quite good, although there are still a few little bugs. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:45, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I've been checking all over this system and the closest thing I can find to the old KDE theme manager is the "Legacy Theme importer". I gave that a try, but try as I might that old thing just wasn't getting it done. My question is, if I can find it and install KDE Theme Manager will it work with KDE in Mandrake 7.2? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
RE: [newbie] Theme manager in Mdk 7.2
No. It requires the old kde base. Same with the themes. Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 3:45 PM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Theme manager in Mdk 7.2 Hi list, I've been checking all over this system and the closest thing I can find to the old KDE theme manager is the "Legacy Theme importer". I gave that a try, but try as I might that old thing just wasn't getting it done. My question is, if I can find it and install KDE Theme Manager will it work with KDE in Mandrake 7.2? -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- #
RE: [newbie] BIOS setting: Plug 'n play OS
Windows will be quite peacfull with the BIOS set to non PnP OS. I had a problem with SB Live Value in 7.2 with KDE 1.99, no sound, resource busy; but if I logged into gnome (which I like more anyway) the sound worked so the problem is not the card but the program. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mr. Smith Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] BIOS setting: Plug 'n play OS I can't even get my soundcard to work and my PnP Bios has always been "off." I exited X and "su"ed to root and typed sndconfig and it still doesn't play sound in the test screen...Stupid Sound Blaster Live! Value cards...grrr... Mr. Smith Hi all, I've discovered that my sound card won't work unless I disable the PnP setting in my BIOS. I'm dual booting to Windoze98 and Mandrake, so I'm wondering what the consequences will to Windoze. Will Windoze start spontaneously launching national defense missiles in the name of Peter Pan or something? Thanks, Miark
[newbie] Kermel Modules
I have recompiled a custom kernel more suitable to my machine and tastes and all went well except the modules. I was not able to do "make modules" for the new kernel. I am relly not sure of what exactly I need to do when it comes to the modules. Do I need to remove the modules currently in /lib/moodules or am I just missing the command syntax for this operation. The kernel boots and I am currently running on it. I used the tutorial at www.hardcorelinux.com as a reference. Thanks, John W
[newbie] Modem Issue
Hi everyone! I'm currently running 7.2 on a Pentium III 450, 128 SDRAM machine. It also has a Conexant Soft56k Fax Modem.(internal) The problem is I can't get the modem to work. I tried to play around with the modem setup, to no avail. After checking in windows, the modem is on COM3 port. No other devices is connected to COM1 and COM2. When I change the setup to ttyS2 and ttyS3 and tried to connect, I get the message "Sorry the modem is busy". When I change it to ttyS0 or ttyS1, I got some error mistake which I forgot. But the modem is on COM3, and I read that COM3 = ttyS2... Can anyone help me? Nick _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Issue
Nicholas Mario Enrico wrote: Hi everyone! I'm currently running 7.2 on a Pentium III 450, 128 SDRAM machine. It also has a Conexant Soft56k Fax Modem.(internal) Thats all you need to say... a soft modem is a winmodem, i.e. it uses the cpu power to emulate a $2.00 chip. If I were a Pentium III Id be highly insulted to be asked to do that. I dont have the links handy, but do a search for linmodem, you may be lucky enough to have one of the very few that have linux drivers written. You might also try a search of the manufacturers page to see if they offer linux support. Otherwise, you need a modem. Gene
[newbie] screen freaks out.
When Xwindows starts everything is fine until I move my mouse. The screen goes black. What can I do?
RE: [newbie] Help with soundcard
Yes, thank you very much Aric right know I listening xmms playing Sugar Ray-Every Morning.mp3 cool.. Salam, Amin Yuliastanto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aric S. Bergren Sent: 21 Desember 2000 3:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with soundcard HI All!!! First get out of x-windows by going to the shutdown section and selecting console mode..(after it boots into it you may have to press enter to get a login prompt)log in as rootand then run sndconfig.i had the same problem and this worked like a charm, and you get to hear linus torvalds pronounce linux! Good luck!!! Amin Yuliastanto wrote: Hello all, I am not trying to solve your problem, I just want to tell you and other that i have the same problem but my soundcard is Yamaha OPL3-sax 719 chip maybe someone can help us... regards, Amin Yuliastanto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mickey Soltys Sent: 20 Desember 2000 9:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with soundcard Hello all, I am running Mandrake 2.2.17-21. I have a Soundblaster Live soundcard which works fine under Winblows. However, when I try to configure it with Harddrake, I get the following message /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-emu10k/.0:init.nodule: device or resource busy. Has anyone had any luck with one of these soundcards? Can anyone help me? Thanks, Mickey Soltys
[newbie] memory Size
Hi All How do i fix the memory size on a mandrak 7.2 ( i have 256mg of ram ) and she showing up as 64 Michael Falzon Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs +61 3 93314369 BBs and Fax +61 3 93314368 BBs +61409967695Help Desk 24/7 http://mozysswamp.yi.org telnet://mozysswamp.yi.org FidoNet Number 3:634/384 BloodNet Number 53:100/101 GameLink Number 50:100/103 Xpresit Number 782:101/102 Gremlin Consltancy P/L Phone : (+61 03) 9315 3855 Fax : (+61 03) 9302 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] RAMDISK ERROR ON MANDRAKE 7.2 INSTALL
Did you burn your own Mandrake CD? I had the same problem, and I later realised that I had a buffer underrun while burning. If that is the case, you will have to burn it again. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:34, Paul Williamson wrote: When I install mandrake by booting from the cd, there is an error : "error loading second stage ramdisk" How do I fix it?? I downloaded the 'autoboot.bat file but where do I put it? Thanks Paul Williamson Contact: Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN-Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 83724504 (http://wwp.icq.com/83724504) Websites: http://paulw9.darktech.org/ http://www.huntingtower.vic.edu.au/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
