Re: [newbie-it] Installazione di StarOffice
Hello Anna, Sunday, December 31, 2000, 3:48:24 PM, you wrote: ASePT Salve, ASePT Ho installato la Mandrake 7.1 creando alcuni utenti. Ora vorrei ASePT installare StarOffice in modo che sia visibile e utilizzabile da parte ASePT di tutti gli utenti. ASePT Come mi devo comportare? O meglio, ci sono accorgimenti particolari da ASePT seguire? (installazione di rete e poi installazione per ogni singolo ASePT utente; la macchina però non è in rete). Installazione di rete voldire per multiutenti, percio' in tuo caso devi installarlo in questo modo, prima installazione di rete e dopo per ogni utente, non importa se il computer in rete o no... Buon Anno Nuovo a Tutti -- Best regards, Gigamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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A tutti rinnovo i miei auguri di felice anno nuovo ! - Original Message - From: rox.am [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Ciau, buon anno a tutti ecc. ecc. Rosanna -- TiscaliNet, libero accesso ad Internet. http://www.tiscalinet.it
Re: [newbie] Copy from Konsole?
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Jody wrote: I'm so new, I'm not sure if this is of help, but when I am in Konsole, Ctrl+C works, but you will get a new prompt each time. Probably a better way, but it has served me so far until I find the correct method. The trick to this is that you just select the text. No need to hit ctrl-c, ctrl-Ins or anything. The selected text is put into the clipboard buffer as you go. Just select, switch to other program, paste. (Won't work in pasting to netscape, I found.) Then click in the window with selected text to unselect the text. Paul -- An expert is somene who knows more and more about less and less. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] Netscape server refuses newsgroup
Please check : {file menu} - Edit - Preferences - Mail
Newsgroups - NewsGroup Servers - {your ISP News Server data} HTH
At 31-12-2000 -0500, you wrote:
Hi everybody,
When I try to subscribe to a newsgroup, I'm getting a message indicating
that the Netscape server is refusing connections, or it's busy or try
aagain message.
Ehh. What's a matta'?
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
High Energy Penguin Powered Email
Re: [newbie] BANG!!! its dead! g g L - DIE THREAD DIE!
Do Not Pass Go! Do Not Collect $200.00 Bad Windows No Doughnut!! - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] BANG!!! its dead! g g L - DIE THREAD DIE! Vic wrote: Its dead dead dead dead dead. Excellent, excellent... -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email
Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm
Just my $0.002, Did you [press] the {apply} and {OK} after changing the
settings.
At 01-01-2001 -0600, you wrote:
On Sunday 31 December 2000 11:18 am, Romanator wrote:
root wrote:
Romanator wrote:
How did you fix the time setting of your basic am/pm setting? By
default mdk7.2 shows the 24 hour clock. I haven't been able to
fix this. What am I missing?
try the kpanel options at the bottom it says clock shows time in
AM/PM format check that
Regards Anthony Daniell
This is strange. The times reset always goes back to 24 hours.
Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to
USA and see if that doesn't fix it.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA
On Sunday 31 December 2000 17:48, you wrote: Hey, I'm wondering about this subject as well. I've a Diamond Viper 770D with 32MB RAM, using the Riva TnT 2[v5] module. Till yesterday, I was running some "Other" module, but I'd reset the Riva in drakcomf had also installed the glide files from CD. Some games are now fine, but others either go beyond the desktop, are still slow, or (in one case) crash my whole system. Would the nvidia kernel fix this, or maybe a different module...? Meph Well, you do need accel enabled for some games. The NVIDIA driver that is open-source is just a 2D driver. The 3d is a secret, binary-only program... Look in the archives of www.mandrakeforum.com for ?NVIDIA Driver Nightmare". A couple of replies to the posts have links to sites that explain how to configure those cards for that proprietary driver. Obviously, since we cannot support it, we can't include it. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Copy from Konsole?
On Sunday 31 December 2000 19:49, you wrote: I am learning to compile using the NHF on compiling software. I am getting an error and would like to be able to cut and paste to file or save the output to file, but there are no options that I can find to do this. As usual, any help will be appreciated. Go Broncos, beat the Ravens!! Jerold Highlight the error messages with your mouse Open a text editor window and press both mouse buttons at once. (CutPaste) Or add "| tee foofile" to your command line to compile to capture all the output in foofile. Civileme
Re: [newbie] zip driver permissions
On Sunday 31 December 2000 14:19, you wrote: Dear All, I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and I had my internal Atapi zip drive supermounted and it was working fine until recently. As user all of a sudden I cannot copy a file into my zip. I can take them out and place them unto my desktop but I cannot place a file into my zip. As root I can do it but not as user. It was working fine until a week ago and I did nothing to change it. What do I need to do manually in either fstab or through Linuxconf to make this work for user again? I have attached a screenshot of my fstab file. I have tried changing permissions with chmod, Linuxconf,etc. and nothing has worked. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia Get rid of that conv=auto on that line--make it either conv=text or conv=binary. There is a problem with conv=auto. With umask=0 there should be no problem and uid/gid should not be necessary. the dev=/dev/hdx4 doesn't seem to be there I am wondering how it sees your ZIP at all Check the file permissions on /mnt/zip as well cat /proc/modules to assure that ide-floppy.o is loaded. Civileme P. S. Next time you need to send the contents of a file, try attaching it to your email. Saves a lot of i/o time on both ends.
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault
On Sunday 31 December 2000 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin Ummm, no, you need to clean netscape. Reinstalling linux is not necessary; the base system is stable. A segmentation fault means that the segment registers in the processor are pointing at the wrong area of memory. Most likely the problem lies with the WM you are running. If /usr/bin/netscape brings up netscape from a terminal, it is almost certainly the launcher of the WM. If that is the problem, there are fixes. Try that and report what happens Civileme
[newbie] Sound config problem
New installation. (Mandrake 7.2) M'board: ASUS P5A-B with built-in sound chip CMI 8330. Processor: Cyrix II 333MHz BIOS: Award with latest flash update. What happens: Linux is loaded, but when started no sound. Config tools recognise the card, but don't fix it. Error messages say things like: "invalid parameter parm_io" "insmod sound_slot_0 failed" When Windows is loaded, sound works OK. Any suggestions?
Re: [newbie] Re: Printer Error
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, SoloCDM wrote: lpr filenamewould prolly do what you want. That didn't work either. I tried a -s with lpr and received the same response. Hmmm. I stop here. I'd suggest go to mandrakeuser.org and see if there's a solution for you there... Paul (going there too, to see if WP is able to print on a Canon BJC4200 through kups) -- An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
[newbie] plz help
I had 2 partitions one of them was mandrake 7.1 other was Win ME i had to format it by partition magic...it was formatted weell but when i had to restart my PC i had this problem...on startup I should get Lilo usually but after i formatted the the second partition on wich mandrake was ...i get LI on startup i mean Lilo starts but tilts suddenly and i cant even choose an OS to get in to my pc anymore. I dont have mandrake pc and i started to boot from CD and disk to my WIn Me and i couldnt. What to do? Why is Lilo stuck although i formatted the drive where mandrake was? Plz help and reply back. Thnx alot!!! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Quake II Crashes X
On Sunday 31 December 2000 03:43, you wrote: anybody got quake2 working with a voodoo5? I can't get it to go in anything other then software mode at 400x320. yuck! Trevor Reynolds wrote: Hi, I am having problems running Quake II in LM 7.2. My PC is a Celeron 600@750, Via Apollo Pro chipset, 128 meg RAM, Guillemet 32 Meg GForce 256 SDR video card. I am running X 4.01 with the Nvidia .9-5 drivers. My problem is that Quake II is very unstable. Sometimes I can play it for hours without a problem and other times it will close with a "Received signal 8, exiting" while loading the game. The real pain is that sometimes X will totally crash and throw me back to the login screen. I can log back in but X and KDE (or Gnome) will be very unstable and I end up rebooting. I've looked in /var/log/messages and all is says is "KDM: server for display 0 terminated unexpectedly". The xdm-error.log says at the bottom "cat: write error: broken pipe" and "stdin: is not a tty". This problem happens whether I'm logged in as a user or root (which I know is not good to do), using KDE or Gnome, running in either OpenGL or X Quake mode. I have looked around www.linuxquake.com and the mail archives and haven't found any answers. Has anyone out there had a similar problem? Any help or leads would be appreciated. Thanks! Trevor Make sure you do not have a framebuffer-enabled kernel loaded. If you see a graphical bootup, you are using a framebuffer kernel. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Sound config problem
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Jordan wrote: Does it help when you disable PNP in the Bios? Paul New installation. (Mandrake 7.2) M'board: ASUS P5A-B with built-in sound chip CMI 8330. Processor: Cyrix II 333MHz BIOS: Award with latest flash update. What happens: Linux is loaded, but when started no sound. Config tools recognise the card, but don't fix it. Error messages say things like: "invalid parameter parm_io" "insmod sound_slot_0 failed" When Windows is loaded, sound works OK. -- An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] plz help
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Michael Mike wrote: Lilo is in the boot sector of the HD, formatting a partition won't do that away. You need to do something to the bootsector (e.g. DOS' fdisk /mbr) to clean that. As to the LI problem, you can find info about that on my page http://nlpagan.net/linux.htm at the bottom in the tips. Paul I had 2 partitions one of them was mandrake 7.1 other was Win ME i had to format it by partition magic...it was formatted weell but when i had to restart my PC i had this problem...on startup I should get Lilo usually but after i formatted the the second partition on wich mandrake was ...i get LI on startup i mean Lilo starts but tilts suddenly and i cant even choose an OS to get in to my pc anymore. I dont have mandrake pc and i started to boot from CD and disk to my WIn Me and i couldnt. What to do? Why is Lilo stuck although i formatted the drive where mandrake was? Plz help and reply back. -- An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
[newbie] WP8 + Canon BJC4200 = 0
Hi all, I have not yet been able to print to my Canon inkjet printer from Wordperfect 8 in a satisfying way. Printing through a somewhat comparable driver (BJC 330), I immediately get presented a dialog with a printer problem. I can print 1 page, through the postscript printer. That page prints fine, and then a page comes from the printer stating: Error: /rangecheck in .installpagedevice Operand stack: --nostringval-- and a lot more that I will spare you of. After some complaints about "Dictionary stack" it ends with: Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 25365 The file pos. sounds plausible, the print file length for the first page is about 25K. But I don't want a plausible number, I just want my pages printed. *grin* Does anyone have a clue what I can do next, apart from buying a different printer? - I checked at mandrakeuser.org - I checked at the wordperfect site - I changed from lpr to xpp (tip at mandrakeuser.org) by creating a symlink lpr - xpp after renaming lpr to lpr_orig I like WP as a text editor. It is superfast and can handle just about anything. Except my printer. Printing from Abiword, Gnumeric and GIMP is no problem, so the printer is working. It is something with WP. But what... Thanks, Paul -- An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
[newbie] Getting Win4Lin to install properly
I am unable to install win4lin 2.0 under LM 7.2 Powerpack deluxe using either the "patch" instructions or the modified kernel instructions located at: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Win4Lin/win4lin.html . Texstar does a nice job of instructing, but as he states, these are for experienced users. With tbat in mind, has anyone installed Win4Lin 2.0? If so, do you have detailed instruction, that I can follow step by step? Appreciation in Advance, CTK Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe User Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1
[newbie] » Configuring Sound Card
Well, I have a OPTI 82C924 (really old) and I cant configure it in mdk7.2!... I had mdk7.1 and I managed to get it to wok (bad... but working) with thinks like pnpdump, pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf and isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf. Almost everytime I rebooted i had to do this to make it work. BUT IT WORKED!! and now with mdk7.2 I cant even get it to configure it in sndconfig... (i guess sndconfig of mdk7.2 is too good 4 my card lol) so I would like an advice how to make soundcard run properly. thx
[newbie] Kernel Compiling Troubles
Hello: I finally installed all the source stuff needed to recompile the default kernel in Mandrake 7.2. It went very well. Since it was so easy, I decided to try compiling the 2.4.0-test12 kernel. I didn't have any trouble compiling it. Made may changes in GRUB and rebooted. I picked the right entry and it started to boot, but it got as far as "Uncompressing Linux... Okay to boot kernel" then it just freezes. Anyone familiar with this type of trouble? I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, so I humbly appologize if it's not. Thanks, Riker
Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm
"L. H. LOO" wrote:
Just my $0.002, Did you [press] the {apply} and {OK} after changing the
settings.
At 01-01-2001 -0600, you wrote:
On Sunday 31 December 2000 11:18 am, Romanator wrote:
root wrote:
Romanator wrote:
How did you fix the time setting of your basic am/pm setting? By
default mdk7.2 shows the 24 hour clock. I haven't been able to
fix this. What am I missing?
try the kpanel options at the bottom it says clock shows time in
AM/PM format check that
Regards Anthony Daniell
This is strange. The times reset always goes back to 24 hours.
Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to
USA and see if that doesn't fix it.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Yes I did. I need to look into this further. Very strange.
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm
On Monday 01 January 2001 02:25, you wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2000 11:18 am, Romanator wrote: root wrote: Romanator wrote: How did you fix the time setting of your basic am/pm setting? By default mdk7.2 shows the 24 hour clock. I haven't been able to fix this. What am I missing? try the kpanel options at the bottom it says clock shows time in AM/PM format check that Regards Anthony Daniell This is strange. The times reset always goes back to 24 hours. Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to USA and see if that doesn't fix it. Wow! all this time I've been running the 24 hour format and I never thought to look there. That was a neat trick! thanks Tom! -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [newbie] Sound config problem
Run sndconfig from root. It fixed my sound in less than a minute including the wav and midi sound test. Cyphfer On Mon, 01 January 2001, Jordan wrote: New installation. (Mandrake 7.2) M'board: ASUS P5A-B with built-in sound chip CMI 8330. Processor: Cyrix II 333MHz BIOS: Award with latest flash update. What happens: Linux is loaded, but when started no sound. Config tools recognise the card, but don't fix it. Error messages say things like: "invalid parameter parm_io" "insmod sound_slot_0 failed" When Windows is loaded, sound works OK. Any suggestions? Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp xscanimage
On Sunday 31 December 2000 22:44, you wrote: If you do the above and select the File drop down you will only see 'Acquire - Screen Shot' but if you pick 'Xtns - Acquire Image' you should be able to pick the device your scanner is attached to. Don't know if there is a way of changing the behavior of Acquire so that you can pick a scanner. Maybe it is a bug in what I have running here. Greg If you use xscanimage you will find your scanner under 'Xtns - Acquire Image'. Sorry I was a little incomplete. However if you use xsane and you create a symbolic link to xsane, which you will find in /usr/local/bin, you will find your scanner under 'File - Acquire' You have to use the latest version of xsane (xsane 0.69), because in earlier versions the link didn't show up in the gimp. You can download it from: http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-xsane.html -- Best regards Herman Jalink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Cups-printing-problems
I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631. While trying to install the printer with Kups I get the message "no port detected on this computer". If I run printerdrake before I get all my ports (parallel and serial) back in Kups. What have I done wrong?
[newbie] KLyX
when I start KLyX and go to create a new document right after the xfont is loaded the window were you compose the document goes black. It would be nice to be able to see what you are typing :) Greg
Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems
On Monday 01 January 2001 08:51, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631. While trying to install the printer with Kups I get the message "no port detected on this computer". If I run printerdrake before I get all my ports (parallel and serial) back in Kups. What have I done wrong? Have you tried uninstalling Cups and your printer and then reinstall them both. It sounds as though Cups isn't installed correctly. If your printer is connected locally to this machine is the paralell port connection in the www Cups admin. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [newbie] KLyX
On Monday 01 January 2001 16:08, you wrote: when I start KLyX and go to create a new document right after the xfont is loaded the window were you compose the document goes black. It would be nice to be able to see what you are typing :) Greg Use LyX. KLyX has had very few revisions and was originally written in a "marathon" to demonstrate the power of Qt widgets. KLyX has a serious paging problem on long documents that causes text to be lost from the printout unless you insert a bunch of manual breaks--and then what is the point of using a typesetting program? It is not possible for either LyX or KLyX to show you a 100% WYSIWYG, but it is close and the housekeeping of the embedded environments is automatic compared to LaTeX/TeTeX with a separate editor like EMACS. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Mail delayed
Hey Dennis, Thanks for the reply Meph No problem. I find it a little annoying that it takes so long. But I suspect it may be Mandrakesoft's "answer" to duplicate posts. They'll get it right eventually. I was afraid I had broken something again. I tend to fool around with this OS and it's peripherals alot. That's how you learn. Break it. Fix it. Break it again. You realise what you'd done wrong stop doing it;-). As an example I have something messed up in Netscape now where the tool bars are all monochromatic (black) no depth no color. Easy to fix. I'm light sensitive need dark or black backgrounds bright fonts. Netscape is motiff-based (I know little about motiff, but any motiff app's appearance can easily be altered), so all you need is the right wording set in your .Xdefaults. Here're the pertinent settings (I think these are the ones -- I too have fooled with lots of Netscape settings right down to Netscape's global settings files) for Netscape's backgrounds: ~/.Xdefaults !# General FG/BG for menus and borders Netscape*background: #00 Netscape*foreground: #ff In this example, I've an html code for a black backtground bright blue fonts for the foreground. You can use any html code here. If you don't know the codes off the top of your head, just do a search for html color on the Web -- there a bags of pages. Lemme know if you'd like more. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Hi, I'm running it on a pentium 166,and have run it on a pentium 100. Dan Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at processers: dos : 8086 win3.11 : 80286 win95 : 80386 win98 : unknown win me : 166MHz thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a very different beast to the Win9x line, including ME... Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of bloat... 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]] -- -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] KLyX
civileme wrote: On Monday 01 January 2001 16:08, you wrote: when I start KLyX and go to create a new document right after the xfont is loaded the window were you compose the document goes black. It would be nice to be able to see what you are typing :) Greg Use LyX. KLyX has had very few revisions and was originally written in a "marathon" to demonstrate the power of Qt widgets. KLyX has a serious paging problem on long documents that causes text to be lost from the printout unless you insert a bunch of manual breaks--and then what is the point of using a typesetting program? It is not possible for either LyX or KLyX to show you a 100% WYSIWYG, but it is close and the housekeeping of the embedded environments is automatic compared to LaTeX/TeTeX with a separate editor like EMACS. Civileme tks ... got LyX up and running. It just just looked like KLyX had more features so I wanted to give it a shot. Greg
Re: [newbie] samba conf
Sorry, I haven't really been following this thread, but it now caught my eye. Were there any specific error messages you receive when trying to access the samba share from Win98? Eric may be right about it being a permissions problem, but if that were the case then even Win2k should not be able to access the share. I have seen similar problems to the one you are reporting, and they usually have to do with the differences between Win2k and Win98. Specifically, with Win2k you can specify a user id and password for each network share you wish to access. But with Win98, the os will automatically use your Microsoft networking user id and password for accessing all network shares. If you don't have Win98 set up with a user and password, you need to change your network properties to use the Microsoft networking login prompt, then create a new user (in Control Panel) with the appropriate user id and password. Dave At 03:42 PM 12/31/00 -0800, you wrote: Andri Genio wrote: yes in windows 98 i saw the samba server but can't access to that in windows 2000 i can access it Its definitely either a permissions problem--or you don't have a public share set up on your Linux box. Go to the Diagnosing Your Samba Server site and follow the steps and you will learn all you need to know about samba networking. It's here: http://www.rtr.com/winpak/Documentation/sambadiag.htm 0101 1010 0111 01101100 0110 01100111 01101001 01110011 01100100 01100101 0111 01100100 01001110 0110 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01110100 0111 01101100 (Go figure it out.)
[newbie] Updating software...rpmdrake or cooker?
I've just installed Mandrake 7.2 and I'm confused on how to update installed software. Installing security fixes is easy with the "Updates" icon of KDE, but what if I want to update package A from version 1 to version 2? For instance, I've been using KDE and it seemes I've got KDE 2.0 installed. Is there an easy, automatically-grabbing-over-the-Internet, way to update KDE to 2.0.1? Or what if I want to install Netscape 6? Can I point a software program (like RpmDrake) to a central repository and have it take care of everything? I can't correctly configure RpmDrake to use an FTP site. I noticed that "Cooker" in the development updates might be the answer, though. Thanks.
[newbie] Realplayer question?
Okay, I hadn't done it in a while (no-wait, don't start feeling sorry for me, this isn't something of a sexual nature! lol), but I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its not the same architecture. So...how can I get a new version that works, or where can I find the older version 7 since it worked fine on my setup. I would try to find it on my Mandrake CD's but I loaned them to a friend who wanted to try Mandrake out. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Look and Feel in applications in MDK7.2
Hey, I don't know if it's the way I have set up the look. I have noticed that Netscape and other applications still have a stark, knobby look to the drop down menus. It's not your config. Some apps aren't effected by either gnome's or kde's colour configs. To get most of the rest (there will be a few still not changing), you'll need to add things to your ~/.Xdefaults file. I'd found so many pages on the Web trying to find other settings for Netscape by searching google.com/linux for "xdefaults" and "netscape". You'll find even more pages with setting for various apps just by searching for "xdefaults". The Look and Feel for the buttons and bars have greatly been improved. The edges aren't as sharp looking. Get some either kde or gtk (or both) themes. The stock stuff looks really bad, but there are some really good ones at either kde, or gtk-themes.org. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Firewalls
There are a lot of firewall solutions. One that many people recommend is pmfirewall. It asks you some simple questions about your network: how you get your IP address, what services you want accessible, etc., then generates a customized firewall script. Pmfirewall is based on IPCHAINS, so you do need to have that installed. (BTW, if you're running a recent version of LInux-Mandrake, IPCHAINS should already have been in your system.) You can download pmfirewall from http://www.pointman.org. Cheers. M. On Monday 01 January 2001 08:10, you wrote: How does one go about setting up a firewall in Linux? I discovered the firewall daemon and am running that...is that how most home users do it? (When I tried to configure it it complained that ipchains was not installed, so I installed it. Does that sound OK?) I've used IPFilter before, where I could create a list of rules. Is there a kernel-driven firewall available? I have a home computer with a DSL connection. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm
On Sunday 31 December 2000 08:58 pm, Romanator wrote: Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to USA and see if that doesn't fix it. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Yes I did. I need to look into this further. Very strange. Here's a more complete 'howto' http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/12hour.htm -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
If you go back to the netscape plugin page and dig around you will see a list of available rp versions for Linux. I _believe_, but am not sure, that they are all .tar.gz files. You might try rpmfind.net to see if there is an rpm available. --Kevin - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 10:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Realplayer question? Okay, I hadn't done it in a while (no-wait, don't start feeling sorry for me, this isn't something of a sexual nature! lol), but I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its not the same architecture. So...how can I get a new version that works, or where can I find the older version 7 since it worked fine on my setup. I would try to find it on my Mandrake CD's but I loaned them to a friend who wanted to try Mandrake out. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Look and Feel in applications in MDK7.2
Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, I don't know if it's the way I have set up the look. I have noticed that Netscape and other applications still have a stark, knobby look to the drop down menus. It's not your config. Some apps aren't effected by either gnome's or kde's colour configs. To get most of the rest (there will be a few still not changing), you'll need to add things to your ~/.Xdefaults file. I'd found so many pages on the Web trying to find other settings for Netscape by searching google.com/linux for "xdefaults" and "netscape". You'll find even more pages with setting for various apps just by searching for "xdefaults". The Look and Feel for the buttons and bars have greatly been improved. The edges aren't as sharp looking. Get some either kde or gtk (or both) themes. The stock stuff looks really bad, but there are some really good ones at either kde, or gtk-themes.org. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux Hi Meph, Whew! I thought I was the only one experiencing this strangeness. They really have to get away from this look. It is very unappealing. Thanks for the pointers. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
Ronald, I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its not the same architecture. Sounds like Real Audio's tactics. Like Netscape, they just love to hide the stuff you want force you into upgrades which don't work properly. Chances are, your realplayer is fine. Did you try opening it, say, from the command line (type realplay) play some known URL? I've found that this works when I get those errors. So...how can I get a new version that works, or where can I find the older version 7 since it worked fine on my setup. If all else fails, try http://www.rpmfind.net search it out. They usually have everything. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Okay, I hadn't done it in a while (no-wait, don't start feeling sorry for me, this isn't something of a sexual nature! lol), but I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its not the same architecture. So...how can I get a new version that works, or where can I find the older version 7 since it worked fine on my setup. I would try to find it on my Mandrake CD's but I loaned them to a friend who wanted to try Mandrake out. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Download the bin version of rp7 rather than the .rpm for Unix. It works quite well. In addition, it will supply the icons for you. Check it out. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
I have what I believe is a copy of rp 8 on my machine, it is an autoinstaller much like in mac, all you do is set the executable bit on the file, then run it by typing ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Typing that period and slash added onto the front of the filename tells linux to directly execute the file. Do all this while logged in as the root user, but first, please download the file from my ftp server if you cannot find it on www.real.com ftp://kittypuss.org/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Let me know if the url works or not, the file is approx 6 or 7 megs long. Hope this helps. Vic On Mon, 01 Jan 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I hadn't done it in a while (no-wait, don't start feeling sorry for me, this isn't something of a sexual nature! lol), but I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its not the same architecture. So...how can I get a new version that works, or where can I find the older version 7 since it worked fine on my setup. I would try to find it on my Mandrake CD's but I loaned them to a friend who wanted to try Mandrake out. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Updating software...rpmdrake or cooker?
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, David Kanter wrote: Or what if I want to install Netscape 6? Can I point a software program (like RpmDrake) to a central repository and have it take care of everything? There is a program called urpmi with which something like apparently is possible. I have not tried it, my phone line costs prohibit that kind of playing ;) You may have something with that though. I can't correctly configure RpmDrake to use an FTP site. I noticed that "Cooker" in the development updates might be the answer, though. Be careful. Cooker is all cutting edge stuff, using the latest libraries of things, in developmental stages. Going for the cooker is a plunge in to the dark. Better think of http://rpmfind.net or such. Or use MandrakeUpdate. Paul -- An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
Meph Istopheles wrote: Sounds like Real Audio's tactics. Like Netscape, they just love to hide the stuff you want force you into upgrades which don't work properly. Yep. ;-( Chances are, your realplayer is fine. Did you try opening it, say, from the command line (type realplay) play some known URL? I've found that this works when I get those errors. Actually, TBH, thats how I found it. I've got some *.RM files, and when I opened (or attempted to) with "RealPlayer" I got the expired message. So I went to some sites and ditto with Netscape. If all else fails, try http://www.rpmfind.net search it out. They usually have everything. I'll do that! (thanks to Kevin for the same pointer, also!) Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Updating software...rpmdrake or cooker?
On Monday 01 January 2001 17:02, you wrote: I've just installed Mandrake 7.2 and I'm confused on how to update installed software. Installing security fixes is easy with the "Updates" icon of KDE, but what if I want to update package A from version 1 to version 2? For instance, I've been using KDE and it seemes I've got KDE 2.0 installed. Is there an easy, automatically-grabbing-over-the-Internet, way to update KDE to 2.0.1? Or what if I want to install Netscape 6? Can I point a software program (like RpmDrake) to a central repository and have it take care of everything? I can't correctly configure RpmDrake to use an FTP site. I noticed that "Cooker" in the development updates might be the answer, though. Thanks. Please pass this info to the next person asking this question: Your regular update mirrors are OK for 7.2, and in /Mandrake-devel/unsupported you will find some goodies placed as a courtesy by developers. Cooker used to be a good source of (unofficial) updates, but a new compiler, new library, and new version of RPM have defeated this use. The cooker packages will NOT install or work on 7.2. Civileme
[newbie] Still no RealPlayer?
Okay, I grabbed RealPlayer v7 from RPMfind.net, and installed it. Went thru the installation routine. It still blows up a dialog box saying my copy has expired just as soon as I run it. I went back, deleted cookies from my .Netscape folder, and deleted all the .Real* files from my home directory. Reran it. Still the same result. ;-( Can anyone tell me what file(s) I need to delete so that it doesn't see itself as an expired copy, even after a fresh installation? Thanks... -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Vic wrote: ftp://kittypuss.org/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Let me know if the url works or not, the file is approx 6 or 7 megs long. I tried it, and the download is about 5.1 megs. The link works. Good luck, Ronald! You may want to get this one. Paul -- An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] Still no RealPlayer?
Okay, I grabbed RealPlayer v7 from RPMfind.net, and installed it. Went thru the installation routine. It still blows up a dialog box saying my copy has expired just as soon as I run it. Can anyone tell me what file(s) I need to delete so that it doesn't see itself as an expired copy, even after a fresh installation? You know, now I think about it, I remember running into this back in RH 6.0. I only remember going through what you are now. But I'm pretty sure I'd put the text of the error in google found a bunch of results from mailing lists. Give it a shot, maybe someone had posted the steps /or files. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
Vic wrote: I have what I believe is a copy of rp 8 on my machine, it is an autoinstaller much like in mac, all you do is set the executable bit on the file, then run it by typing ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Typing that period and slash added onto the front of the filename tells linux to directly execute the file. Do all this while logged in as the root user, but first, please download the file from my ftp server if you cannot find it on www.real.com ftp://kittypuss.org/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Let me know if the url works or not, the file is approx 6 or 7 megs long. Hope this helps. Vic Hi Vic, thanks for the reply. As you can see, I found RP7, but still am not having fun with it! smile So I just finished d/l'ing your version. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks again! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Firewalls
On Monday 01 January 2001 10:39 am, Michael O'Henly wrote: There are a lot of firewall solutions. One that many people recommend is pmfirewall. It asks you some simple questions about your network: how you get your IP address, what services you want accessible, etc., then generates a customized firewall script. Pmfirewall is based on IPCHAINS, so you do need to have that installed. (BTW, if you're running a recent version of LInux-Mandrake, IPCHAINS should already have been in your system.) Since I use PPPoE, should I set the interface to ppp0 or eth0? ppp0 has the IP address, so I assume that's the one.
Re: [newbie] Firewalls
On Monday 01 January 2001 10:52, you wrote: On Monday 01 January 2001 10:39 am, Michael O'Henly wrote: There are a lot of firewall solutions. One that many people recommend is pmfirewall. It asks you some simple questions about your network: how you get your IP address, what services you want accessible, etc., then generates a customized firewall script. Pmfirewall is based on IPCHAINS, so you do need to have that installed. (BTW, if you're running a recent version of LInux-Mandrake, IPCHAINS should already have been in your system.) Since I use PPPoE, should I set the interface to ppp0 or eth0? ppp0 has the IP address, so I assume that's the one. You are correct. ppp0 is the one. -- Ralph F. De Witt MBA It said uses Windows 98 or better so I installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Proud user of Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7
Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems
Go to Drakeconf / startup services if you haven't already and make sure that CUPS is started when you machine boots. I hope this helps. I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631. While trying to install the printer with Kups I get the message "no port detected on this computer". If I run printerdrake before I get all my ports (parallel and serial) back in Kups. What have I done wrong?
Re: [newbie] Partitions
Sure enough Paul. Was able to go in and delete them. Thanks On Sunday 31 December 2000 14:01, Paul wrote: On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Norris wrote: I just reinstalled 7.2 (actually a couple of times) and now when I boot I'm getting all of these different entries in the loader. Such as 'oldwindows', 'oldlinux' etc. I have reinstalled before and didn't get all of that. Is there a way to rewrite the boot record so that it is as it was before ? Without risking the C: drive access...still have my finances in Windows. These things are remainders from all your installs. Entries in grub's menu.lst or lilo.conf. Has nothing to do with the bootrecord of your harddisk :) Perhaps with the other reinstalls you also formatted the partitions, and now you did not do that? Paul
Re: [newbie] samba conf
Under Samba 2.0.7 in mdk 7.2 I could connect using Windows ME, but I had a similar problem with Windows 98. What I did was to de-install Samba 2.0.7 and install Samba 2.0.6 which came with mdk 7.1. Now things work much better with Windows 98 and it still works with Windows ME. yes in windows 98 i saw the samba server but can't access to that in windows 2000 i can access it
[newbie] Realplayer 8 is now installed!
Okay, I finally got it. Here is what I had to do (in case someone else runs into this same problem): As su/root: rpm -e RealPlayer (even though it was "expired") (there is a deps issue with a Realplayer rnp? RPM as well) Set the file below to be executeable. ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin (I d/l'ed this from Vics ftp site) follow installation prompts After its installed, do the same for your normal user account Add /usr/local/RealPlayer8 to my $path in /home/darklord/.bash_profile Delete the Realplayer G2 .kde link. Otherwise, everytime I did a "startx" I got a couldn't find mime type error. (I started to use the menu editor but it said it was not installed?) Thats it! I can once again play *.RM files locally as well as access them from web sites. Thanks to Kevin, Mepth, Paul, and Vic! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems
Am Montag, 1. Januar 2001 16:28 schrieben Sie: On Monday 01 January 2001 08:51, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631. While trying to install the printer with Kups I get the message "no port detected on this computer". If I run printerdrake before I get all my ports (parallel and serial) back in Kups. What have I done wrong? Have you tried uninstalling Cups and your printer and then reinstall them both. It sounds as though Cups isn't installed correctly. If your printer is connected locally to this machine is the paralell port connection in the www Cups admin. yes I have it already installed Cups new. But nothing changed.
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault
Yea, I tried running it from both the KDE app launcher, the desktop icon and also using /usr/bin/netscape from the terminal. Same result. TIA for any help. Someone else suggested deleting all netscape dirs and reinstalling. Is that the best solution? --Kevin - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] segmentation fault On Sunday 31 December 2000 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin Ummm, no, you need to clean netscape. Reinstalling linux is not necessary; the base system is stable. A segmentation fault means that the segment registers in the processor are pointing at the wrong area of memory. Most likely the problem lies with the WM you are running. If /usr/bin/netscape brings up netscape from a terminal, it is almost certainly the launcher of the WM. If that is the problem, there are fixes. Try that and report what happens Civileme
Re: [newbie] Mail delayed
Yes. On Saturday 30 December 2000 18:33, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else noticing that their posts are delayed quit a long time, like up to 24 hours?
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Well it errored when I tried to install it an just rebooted the machine. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Eugene C. Zesch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Simply not true. It ran on mine till I erased it in favor of Mandrake 6.0. Gene
[newbie] Passing User Execution to Root
Is it possible to pass an executed program over to the super-user from a user? I tried nohup and the ampersand in X as a user, but once the terminal closes -- the command terminates. Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list address in Cc: and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM
Re: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems
The mandrake intaller for 7.2 picked up my usb MS intelieye mouse and cofigured the wheel an the buttons for me. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "C.T.K." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 2:03 AM Subject: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems I am having trouble getting LM 7.2 to recognize my USB Logitech MouseMan Wheel, unless I plug it into the PS/2 port. Has anyone had success getting their USB mouse recognized? If, please email me. Thanks, CTK Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1
Re: [newbie] Linuxs kills gates (was 'gates gets Linux')
Oh my god man why, why. Get it off, A. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Daniel Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Hi, I'm running it on a pentium 166,and have run it on a pentium 100. Dan Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at processers: dos : 8086 win3.11 : 80286 win95 : 80386 win98 : unknown win me : 166MHz thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a very different beast to the Win9x line, including ME... Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of bloat... 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]] -- -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Abiword or Kwork can open Ms Word files. Or you could just save them in RTF which can be opened by anything. I my self am at Sixform an my school have a windows NT network with word 2000 and there is not a drop of windows on my box anymore. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux I installed 98 after melting my P200MMX in the laptop. I just wanted to get it up to 166. It should have worked but I didn't know the core voltage was too high. I thought it was just a cooling problem and tried to fix it by stuffing the heatsink with thermal paste. I ended up buying a p166 with my birthday money and that will do 166 easy. So now I have bindows 98 on it. I want to put on mandrake 7.1 but the hard drive is only 1 gig. I need 98 for school. They insist I use a popular word processor and that means word. Soon as I get enough for a bigger drive its getting linux. - Original Message - From: Mark Hillary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at processers: dos : 8086 win3.11 : 80286 win95 : 80386 win98 : unknown win me : 166MHz thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a very different beast to the Win9x line, including ME... Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of bloat... 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]] -- -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Why are you using windows 98 on a file server, come on this is a job for linux. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "James Mellema" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary It runs just fine on the P 133 file server on my home network. Well, not fine its slow and if I run programs on it it crashes, but as a network backup/file server and storage facility it works just fine. The only program it runs routinely is SETI and it takes close to 400 hours to do a run. -- Jim -- James Mellema, CRNA -- Linux User # 71650
Re: [newbie] Still no RealPlayer?
On Monday 01 January 2001 12:20 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I grabbed RealPlayer v7 from RPMfind.net, and installed it. Went thru the installation routine. It still blows up a dialog box saying my copy has expired just as soon as I run it. realplayer 7 is expired, has been for a while I went back, deleted cookies from my .Netscape folder, and deleted all the .Real* files from my home directory. There's no tellin how _big_ a mistake that was . ; Reran it. Still the same result. ;-( Can anyone tell me what file(s) I need to delete so that it doesn't see itself as an expired copy, even after a fresh installation? Prob'ly easiest way is to start kpackage, search 'realplay' and uninstall all packages found, most likely need to uncheck 'Depends..." since you've prob'ly corrupted the whole deal with your deleting Then, an ftp search of 'rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin' turns up 16 links newer than 12/21/2000 (http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/) 1 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.proxad.net /mirrors/ftp.linuxberg.com/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 2 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.task.gda.pl /vol/d33/mirror.linuxberg.com/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 3 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.ip.pt /disk2/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 4 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.netis.com /pub/mirrors2/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 5 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.is.co.za /packages/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 6 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.cadvision.com /pub/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 7 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.chemo.tuniv.szczecin.pl /dsk4/www.linuxberg.com/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 8 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.dei.uc.pt /.disk2/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 9 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.duth.gr /pub/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 10 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.esoterica.pt /local/ftp/ftp/pub/mirrors/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 11 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.matrix.com.br /pub/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 12 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl /dsk4/www.linuxberg.com/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 13 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.univie.ac.at /systems/linux/tucows/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 14 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.datacomm.ch /.3/linuxberg/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 15 -r--r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 26 ftp.uni-c.dk /mirrors/mirror.linuxberg.com/files/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 16 -rw-r--r--5.6M 2000 Dec 21 ftp.man.poznan.pl /pub/realaudio/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin 'chmod a+rx' it to make it executable by anybody, and then run './rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin' You don't have to type it all out, type './rp8 and hit Tab' (w/o the 's of course). It will auto install the nsplugin too. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Realplayer 8 is now installed!
Op maandag 01 januari 2001 20:57, schreef u: Okay, I finally got it. Here is what I had to do (in case someone else runs into this same problem): As su/root: rpm -e RealPlayer (even though it was "expired") (there is a deps issue with a Realplayer rnp? RPM as well) Set the file below to be executeable. ../rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin (I d/l'ed this from Vics ftp site) follow installation prompts After its installed, do the same for your normal user account Add /usr/local/RealPlayer8 to my $path in /home/darklord/.bash_profile Delete the Realplayer G2 .kde link. Otherwise, everytime I did a "startx" I got a couldn't find mime type error. (I started to use the menu editor but it said it was not installed?) Thats it! I can once again play *.RM files locally as well as access them from web sites. Thanks to Kevin, Mepth, Paul, and Vic! ;-) You can also install the mime types and plugins by executing the 2 .sh files in the /usr/local/Realplayer dir type sh mimeinstall.sh sh pluginstall.sh and restart your graphic shell -- Luk Vermeylen Putse Baan 84 2040 Antwerpen 4 03/295.00.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Netscape-kppp weirdness
Anyone ever have kppp spontaneously spawn connection windows? I was reading my mail (this list), and suddenly multiple copies of the message I was reading started to open. I managed to "X" all of them back to my desktop, but as soon as I reached the desktop the "Internet" icon started to show a "starburst effect" (no kidding) and multiple copies of the connection window began to appear--like really fast, filling up my taskbar and continuing to spawn the app way faster than I could hope to kill it. In desperation I killed the X-server. In 3 years of using linux this hasn't happened before, and I hope it doesn't again. Any ideas?
Re: [newbie] Netscape-kppp weirdness
Dude! your system is haunted! You'd better call an exorsist! Mark On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:12:07 +, eryl said: Anyone ever have kppp spontaneously spawn connection windows? I was reading my mail (this list), and suddenly multiple copies of the message I was reading started to open. I managed to "X" all of them back to my desktop, but as soon as I reached the desktop the "Internet" icon started to show a "starburst effect" (no kidding) and multiple copies of the connection window began to appear--like really fast, filling up my taskbar and continuing to spawn the app way faster than I could hope to kill it. In desperation I killed the X-server. In 3 years of using linux this hasn't happened before, and I hope it doesn't again. Any ideas?
[newbie] Grub
Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in any other distro to load lilo), but having done this rebooted, grup still loads at the 2nd stage. So, short of deleting all things grub rerunning /sbin/lilo, is there anything else? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] Netscape-kppp weirdness
desktop, but as soon as I reached the desktop the "Internet" icon started to show a "starburst effect" (no kidding) and multiple copies of the connection window began to appear--like really fast, filling up my taskbar and continuing to spawn the app way faster than I could hope to kill it. In desperation I killed the X-server. In 3 years of using linux this hasn't happened before, and I hope it doesn't again. I have had this happen to me as well. Just surfing along and its like I am hijacked but I am sure none of the pages I am on do that.
Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2000 08:58 pm, Romanator wrote: Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to USA and see if that doesn't fix it. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Yes I did. I need to look into this further. Very strange. Here's a more complete 'howto' http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/12hour.htm -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Hey Tom, For some reason it was still indicating that it was Dec. 31, 00. I changed it to USA and rebooted the computer. It changed again. For now, It appears to working okay. I'll see what happens after I reboot again. Thanks for your help. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
As a follow up, log in as root, open Konsole: a) Type in: chmod u+x rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Press the enter key. Then, press either the up or right arrow keys. Instead of retyping, you call up the what you've typed from the previous line. b) Insert ./ in from of rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin so that it appears as shown below: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin As Vic mentioned, the ./ allows you to execute the binary file Press the enter key. c) Install it to /usr/local/Realplayer8 Roman Vic wrote: I have what I believe is a copy of rp 8 on my machine, it is an autoinstaller much like in mac, all you do is set the executable bit on the file, then run it by typing ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Typing that period and slash added onto the front of the filename tells linux to directly execute the file. Do all this while logged in as the root user, but first, please download the file from my ftp server if you cannot find it on www.real.com ftp://kittypuss.org/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Let me know if the url works or not, the file is approx 6 or 7 megs long. Hope this helps. Vic On Mon, 01 Jan 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I hadn't done it in a while (no-wait, don't start feeling sorry for me, this isn't something of a sexual nature! lol), but I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its not the same architecture. So...how can I get a new version that works, or where can I find the older version 7 since it worked fine on my setup. I would try to find it on my Mandrake CD's but I loaned them to a friend who wanted to try Mandrake out. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ -
[newbie] weird Xfree4 problem!
I recently wanted to upgrade my Xfree drivers, so I downloaded the appropriate files , ran Xinstall, ran xf86config, and everything apeared to be kosher... but when I type startx to load xwindows it just loads X with3 consoles and xclock: a login console, 2 xterm consoles. KDE was my original window manager and i want it back. I have gone through several readme's as well as looking at linuxnewbie.org, but to no avail please please help me: do I need to edit my xf86config file? trigger my window manager to load? or what? thanks devon
[newbie] Fetchmail problem
I use pine for email, and fetchmail to actually get the email. Strangely, today I hadn't gotten one single email, so I fire one off to myself as a test. I never get it. OK, so I figure fetchmail isn't working. I open Kmail to check the email, and sure enough, theres a ton of email on my server waiting to be downloaded and read. After dl'ing and reading said email, I open kpm, kill fetchmail (seemed logical) and type fetchmailconf in a terminal, so I can do a little troubleshooting. Well, it didn't work. Here is what it said: [rog@ool-18beefd7 rog]$ fetchmailconf Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 1841, in ? hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0] socket.error: host not found Anyone ever seen anything like this before? This actually happened to me once before, but I had done something stupid, which I definitly didn't do this time...this just seemed to happen out of the blue! Anyways, I _really_ don't want to have to reinstall again, so if anyone can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault
Try deleting your .netscape folder. Just make sure you copy the bookmarks.html file into a safe place so you don't have to rebuild all your bookmarks again. Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] ShoutCast, *.pls, Netscape - MIME type Setup?
I don't know of a direct way, but what you can do is use wget to download the .pls file "wget http://somesite.com/playlist.pls" and then read the contents of it to get the URL of the stream. How do you get Netscape to run xmms when you click a ShoutCast *.pls link? I've tried messing with netscape but it just won't respond correctly. Seve -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] Grub
At 02:17 PM 1/1/01 -0800, Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in any other distro to load lilo), but having done this rebooted, grup still loads at the 2nd stage. So, short of deleting all things grub rerunning /sbin/lilo, is there anything else? well if so, probably you need to change the lilo.conf a little bit, just add # for example, and run lilo or if it doesn't work then remove the grub ;)
Re: [newbie] My Linux Box
Crush, kill destroy. Change the subject line!! Mark Hillary wrote: Well it errored when I tried to install it an just rebooted the machine. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Eugene C. Zesch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Simply not true. It ran on mine till I erased it in favor of Mandrake 6.0. Gene -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] SMB 2.0.6 printing under Mandrake 7.2 w/ CUPS solved
When I looked at the smb.conf file I noticed that the printer command specified the printer with the print option -P %p. I just figured that seeing that they had a variable there that Samba was somehow smart enough to select a printer, any printer. The concept seemed kind of fuzzy in my head, but the documentation said that it was not necessary to specify individual printers. What I did seeing that I named my printer lp so that the printing subsystem would assume that it was the default printer, was to take out the -P option altogether. If I where to ever rename the printer or add another printer i would assume (not tested) that I should ignore the part of the doc that threw me off in the first place and create individual entries for each printer queue. (I would have to do more research into cups, but it seems that I should be able to set up a shared queue if I had more than one printer of the same type that I wanted to distribute the load across them.) This does bring up another question in that by taking out the -o raw option I was able to get something to my printer. So between those two items (automatic printer finding and the raw option) the solution that I came up with does not make perfect sense to me, but it seems to work. I recently hooked a HP 672C to my Linux box. When the printer is hooked directly to my Linux box it prints ok. When the printer is hooked directly into my Windows ME box, it prints good. When I hook the printer into my Linux box and then try to print over the network from my Windows ME box, all is not well. When I tried to print with the default print settings in the smb.conf file, I got a bunch of garbage which was expected (default is set to use a postscript filter, but I was using the HP supplied drivers). When I switched lines commented out in the smb.conf file so that 'raw' mode was selected and restarted Samba I could no longer get anything to print out from Windows ME, but I could still print locally. I tried to toggle back to the default mode in the smb.conf file and got garbage as expected. I then switched again to 'raw' mode and was back to nothing. I also looked for a 'Generic Postscript Driver' for Windows ME, but I never found such a beast. I thumbed through the CUPS doc and even though it gave better insight onto how to use CUPS, I failed to find anything wrong with how things where set up in the smb.conf file. (BTW I already have user level file services working between the boxes with the Linux box as the file server with the use of Samba.) Any advice would be appreciated.
Re: [newbie] Grub
Irwan, At 02:17 PM 1/1/01 -0800, Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in any other distro to load lilo), but having done this rebooted, grup still loads at the 2nd stage. So, short of deleting all things grub rerunning /sbin/lilo, is there anything else? well if so, probably you need to change the lilo.conf a little bit, just add # for example, and run lilo or if it doesn't work then remove the grub ;) Hmm. Adding a #? Here's my lilo.conf. Admittedly, there are some lines here I don't recognize from RH. Is this where grub's coming in? Maybe the menu-scheme? Attached is my lilo.conf, copied to my /home directory. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux boot = /dev/hda map = /boot/map timeout = 50 prompt message = /boot/message default = linux vga = normal root = /dev/hda5 read-only install=/boot/boot.b keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image = /boot/vmlinuz-smp label = linux vga = 788 image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux-up image = /boot/vmlinuz label = failsafe append = " failsafe" other = /dev/fd0 label = floppy unsafe other = /dev/hda1 label = win
RE: [newbie] segmentation fault
Instead of uninstalling Netscape and the like first try removing all the "~/.netscaXXX" related files in your home directory. I've found that if indexes are screwed up, Netscape will quite with SIG-11's. You can save off your bookmarks temporarily and move them back after you've resolved the problem. Re-installing merely replicates the original problem... -JMS --- Yea, I tried running it from both the KDE app launcher, the desktop icon and also using /usr/bin/netscape from the terminal. Same result. TIA for any help. Someone else suggested deleting all netscape dirs and reinstalling. Is that the best solution? --Kevin - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] segmentation fault On Sunday 31 December 2000 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin Ummm, no, you need to clean netscape. Reinstalling linux is not necessary; the base system is stable. A segmentation fault means that the segment registers in the processor are pointing at the wrong area of memory. Most likely the problem lies with the WM you are running. If /usr/bin/netscape brings up netscape from a terminal, it is almost certainly the launcher of the WM. If that is the problem, there are fixes. Try that and report what happens Civileme
[newbie] where are the books on the CD
The Mandrake Linux box says "The Linux Library: Five electronix reference guides..." and shows five book titles "Linux 6 Unleashed, Kde 1.1, Gimp, TYLinux in 24 and Using Linux. But I can't find them anywhere in the distribution CDs. Michael Oliver Chief Architect MorningStar Systems, Inc. 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 520.574.1150 Voice 520.447.2736 Fax 443.277.0629 Mobile Plaatsen ter Software Ontwikkeling
[newbie] O'Reilly book
Shoot. I just won a bid at Amazon.com for the second ed. Got it for $8.99. Big mistake. Leaped before I looked [checked out the O'Reilly site and read your responses but not until too late]. Now I'm legally obligated to finish the deal. No wonder no one else was bidding! Oh well. It should still be more than just a little useful. I'm actually looking forward to receiving the package. Learn from my mistake, guys :) -- Abe At 10:06 AM 12/31/00 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2000 10:47, you wrote: The latest edition of O'Reilly's 'Running Linux' is the second edition, right? Just want to be absolutely sure before I go out to get it. Thanks -- Abe The current latest and greatest edition is the third. I have the second edition, I believe the third edition has expanded coverage about X/KDE/Gnome -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] gcc tutorial
Thanks, Tom. I've come accross google being recommended several times already on this list. I've never tried it. I guess I should before asking the following question, but I'll ask anyway :) Is it more, uh, linux-oriented than Yahoo, Lycos and the like? -- Abe At 06:49 PM 12/30/00 -0600, you wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2000 04:45 am, Abraham Mandac wrote: Can someone point me to a gcc tutorial [on the internet or a good book]? I find the man pages a bit overwhelming as yet. Thanks, Abe go to Google and search 'gcc tutorial', it'll return 35,000 links, some which might be useful ;) Then search 'c++ tutorial' and you get a lifetime's worth of tutorials, courses (with examples/problems), online books, etc and more. Enough to keep you out'a print book stores ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Word Compatibility of - Kwork - Abiword - WP - StartOffice - etc
Ok... I'll at least change the subject name before I ask the question or Mark and Roman will personally fly out here and get me!! Mark raises an interesting possibility. The question is *how* compatible. Does any of the readership have any *real* experience. I am looking for both pro and con. I remember that a while back (6-12 months) there was a review of StarOffice in one of the Linux mags and the area of so called compatibility was not what I would have hoped for. Cheers and Happy New Year to all, Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Hillary Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Abiword or Kwork can open Ms Word files. Or you could just save them in RTF which can be opened by anything. I my self am at Sixform an my school have a windows NT network with word 2000 and there is not a drop of windows on my box anymore.
Re: [newbie] Netscape server refuses newsgroup
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, When I try to subscribe to a newsgroup, I'm getting a message indicating that the Netscape server is refusing connections, or it's busy or try aagain message. Ehh. What's a matta'? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email Hi this could mean that the server has been taken off line for some maintance or their is too much trafic at that server. So I have been told by the guys who run servers like netscape and yahoo and so on. So you need to ry latter on or the next day Regards Anthony Daniell
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem
On Monday 01 January 2001 06:15 pm, you wrote: I use pine for email, and fetchmail to actually get the email. Strangely, today I hadn't gotten one single email, so I fire one off to myself as a test. I never get it. OK, so I figure fetchmail isn't working. I open Kmail to check the email, and sure enough, theres a ton of email on my server waiting to be downloaded and read. After dl'ing and reading said email, I open kpm, kill fetchmail (seemed logical) and type fetchmailconf in a terminal, so I can do a little troubleshooting. Well, it didn't work. Here is what it said: [rog@ool-18beefd7 rog]$ fetchmailconf Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 1841, in ? hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0] socket.error: host not found Anyone ever seen anything like this before? This actually happened to me once before, but I had done something stupid, which I definitly didn't do this time...this just seemed to happen out of the blue! Anyways, I _really_ don't want to have to reinstall again, so if anyone can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 Roger, Have you tried to get your messages from the server by issuing fetchmail a command to make one pass at your mail server? If not, give this a try and let us know what your system tells you. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm
On Monday 01 January 2001 05:34 pm, you wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2000 08:58 pm, Romanator wrote: Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to USA and see if that doesn't fix it. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Yes I did. I need to look into this further. Very strange. Here's a more complete 'howto' http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/12hour.htm -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Hey Tom, For some reason it was still indicating that it was Dec. 31, 00. I changed it to USA and rebooted the computer. It changed again. For now, It appears to working okay. I'll see what happens after I reboot again. Thanks for your help. Roman, Mine has been working fine all day since I made the change. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
Re: [newbie] Grub
Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey Alan, Mephadd a ' -v' to your command line entry and see what's causing lilo to not overwrite grub. Here's the results (don't see anything that looks particularly wrong, though): # /sbin/lilo -v LILO version 21.5, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Extensions beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2000 John Coffman Released 18-Jul-2000 and compiled at 11:17:43 on Oct 3 2000. Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /boot/boot.b Mapping message file /boot/message Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-smp Added linux * Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz Added linux-up Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz Added failsafe Boot other: /dev/fd0, loader /boot/chain.b Pseudo partition start: 0 Added floppy Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b Added win /boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made. Writing boot sector. This grub thingie is a mystery to me Meph Mephit appears that on this execution of lilo, lilo was written to the MBR of hda. Have you tried rebooting since running it? -- Alan
Re: [Re: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems]
Oddly enough, installing LM 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe solved the problem, vice LM 7.2 complete, which gave me printer and mouse problems, especially in Star Office 5.2 (printer). CTK How BIG can you dream? Award Finder! Pursue your dreams. We can help. (Go ahead, it's FREE!) Get paid MORE for being online! It's FREE and takes only a minute! Join here: Refer Central Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com
[newbie] Konqueror crashes
Trying to load a NASA web site which uses java I keep getting a crash with the following bug report. Does anyone know from the following info what might be wrong. I think this all started when I went to the KDE2.1beta1 installation. Any help would be appreciated. (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... 0x40c62e39 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #0 0x40c62e39 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40cc38e0 in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x40407e67 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3 #3 0x40c8 in sigaction () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x40e4d2cb in KonqHTMLModule::save () from /usr/lib/kde2/libkcm_konqhtml.so #5 0x4002066f in KExtendedCDialog::slotApply () from /usr/lib/kcmshell.so #6 0x406ba48f in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #7 0x407dbd19 in QButton::clicked () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #8 0x4071ed48 in QButton::mouseReleaseEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #9 0x40700354 in QWidget::event () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #10 0x4067a5f8 in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #11 0x403b6808 in KApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3 #12 0x408fa691 in QApplication::sendEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #13 0x40645ab2 in QETWidget::translateMouseEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #14 0x4064295e in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #15 0x40641c6b in QApplication::processNextEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #16 0x4067c59f in QApplication::enter_loop () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #17 0x40682fcf in QDialog::show () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #18 0x40682562 in QDialog::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 #19 0x4001e88e in main () from /usr/lib/kcmshell.so #20 0x40bf9cbe in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
[newbie] Problem with other OS
There is particionado my disk of 15Gb. 1ra part. (2Gb)- Win98 (FAT16) 2da part. (4Gb)- NTServer4 (NTFS) 3ra part. (2Gb)- I File Personal (FAT16) There are 7Gb free that there still is not particionado it, but when I install Linux (andrake7.1) in that free space the fomatea like Ext2 and OK installs linux, the problem is in the boot dual, it wastes , runs Win98 and Linux, but not NTServer4, it leaves me 2 different messages in 2 different intents. 1)No have been able to load the controller of the device \ device\floppy\cpqarray.sys restarts and enable the recovery options in the panel of control of the or the option system beginning / CRASHDEBUG 2)No are the file winnt root\system32\ntoskrnl.exe And in both I can no longer enter WinNT, neither with the boot disk and neither with the other one created with rdisk. Please there is some solution to this, it is that I want to practice with both systems and to reach my conclusions which serious the correct way to install these 3 operating systems, without it exists problems. Ahead of time thank you. Claudio C.
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem
Thanks, problem taken care of...courtesy Mark Weaver, who is the man! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Meph Istopheles wrote: Roger [rog@ool-18beefd7 rog]$ fetchmailconf Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 1841, in ? hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0] socket.error: host not found Anyways, I _really_ don't want to have to reinstall again, so if anyone can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. I use pine fetchmail as well. I've never found fetchmailconf changed unless I'd done something either in that file or in fetcmail's gui config. All I can suggest is either you reconfig fetchmail through the gui or by hand. At least it'll be fixed. You might also look through your logs to see if anything odd happened earlier. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] samba conf
Dave wrote: Sorry, I haven't really been following this thread, but it now caught my eye. Were there any specific error messages you receive when trying to access the samba share from Win98? Eric may be right about it being a permissions problem, but if that were the case then even Win2k should not be able to access the share. I have seen similar problems to the one you are reporting, and they usually have to do with the differences between Win2k and Win98. Specifically, with Win2k you can specify a user id and password for each network share you wish to access. But with Win98, the os will automatically use your Microsoft networking user id and password for accessing all network shares. If you don't have Win98 set up with a user and password, you need to change your network properties to use the Microsoft networking login prompt, then create a new user (in Control Panel) with the appropriate user id and password. Exactly! And you need to add that exact username and password to your smbpasswd file. :) Holly
Re: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems
Mike: Odd. I've been doing a lot of reinstalling lately, and my experience is exactly the opposite to your's. LM 7.1 recognized my Logitech USB mouse right off the bat, but Win98SE refused to acknowledge it. I finally had to use the USB/PS-2 adapter to complete the installation, and add the USB part later. That may be because the VIA USB drivers can't be loaded until Win is installed. Stuff like this is the reason for the YMMV tag. Regards, Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:15 PM 1/1/2001 -, you wrote: I am having trouble getting LM 7.2 to recognize my USB Logitech MouseMan Wheel, unless I plug it into the PS/2 port. Has anyone had success getting their USB mouse recognized? If, please email me. I had the same problem...actually, I have 2 wheel mice, one a PS/2 to use under LM 7.0 and a USB to use in Windows. 7.2 would only recognize the PS/2 until I went back to the install CD and manually configured it. Mike Riffle Morgantown, WV USA http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm Montani Semper Liberi NRA NMLRA Friends of Fort Frederick Prickett's Fort Memorial Foundation
[newbie] Gtoaster Problems
I'm having trouble with my CD-burner under L-M 7.2. It worked fine under 7.0. I followed the tutorial on the L-M home page to create the new link. I can read disks just fine, but can't write. When I try with G-toaster, I get the error message, "CD record: Device not configured. Cannot open SCSI driver. CD Record: For possible targets, try "cdrecord -scanbus." Make sure you are root." As I said, this system worked great under 7.0. Mike Riffle Morgantown, WV USA http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm Montani Semper Liberi NRA NMLRA Friends of Fort Frederick Prickett's Fort Memorial Foundation
[newbie] Portsentry reporting
Hi again everyone, this has been puzzling me for a while. I have portsentry installed and configured on two machines (in conjunction with pmfirewall) and have not been able to determine where to look for reports on possible attacks or unauthorized access attempts. Where should I look for this information? Does portsentry send e-mail to root? Thanks for any info available. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE FIRST INSTALL - PARTITIONING QUERY
Dear DnA,
Are you using a 56K modem to download the whole thing?!? You have the
patience and fortitude of a zen monk! It took me 5 hours to do it with
DSL!
So, minus the partition that Win98 is on gives you 2.2GB to work with.
You could get away with making a 100MB 'swap' partition and having
another big one called '/' (the root partition), but I would advise you
to make a total of 4 partitions, in approximately this order and
proportion:
/dev/hda1 (this is your 1GB Win98 fat32 partition)
/ /dev/hda2 root partition, 200MB
swap /dev/hda3 swap partition, 100MB
/dev/hda4 extended partition, all other partitions fit inside
this one
/home /dev/hda5 user accounts go here, 600?MB
/usr /dev/hda6 executables, documentation, etc. gets stashed here,
1200?MB
/var /dev/hda7 system log files, mail, printer queue, etc. 100?MB
The sizes given for partitions are roughly what would work for me, you
may have to adjust them a bit to fit your needs. Mandrake is very good
about letting you know clearly what you are about to do before you do
it, but if there's any important data on your Win98 partition, FOR GOD'S
SAKE, MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF IT BEFORE YOU BEGIN If you make a backup
on your spare 540meg harddrive, be sure to physically disconnect it from
the computer before you begin. You can't be too paranoid about this. Ask
me how I know! :^{)
Good luck!
Regards,
Anthony
David and Alicia wrote:
I'm needing step by step advice now as my mandrake download is nearing
completion. I've been dowloading this since Wednesday evening and its now
Sunday AM and i have 65% WeeHee! (my wife is going bananas!!)
Heres the specs:
Machine 200mmx
Mem 48meg
HD1 3.2g, w98se installed
HD2 540 MEG, blank.
I have downloaded mandrake to the 3.2 drive. Questions:
1) How do i chop up c for my linux/win installs, what partition sizes etc,
bearing in mind that the mandrake download is residing in my win partition
and taking up a gig already!
2) How do i ensure that the mandrake install takes place on the newly
created linux partition.
looking forward to advice, regards
David and Alicia
