Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8.0 - Matrox G450
Qualcuno ha installato la Mandrake 8.0 con la scheda video Matrox G450? Ci sono stati problemi? ¡Hola! Non ci sono stati problemi. C'erano stati con la 7.1, ma con la 8 è tutto filato liscio :br1 --- Where do you want to go today? I will be happy to be here, thanks! :br1 ---
[newbie-it] bug xmms?
Ho avviato xmms su mandrake 8.0 e da un errore su una libreria GTK. La scheda audio funziona, Alsa player funziona, non capisco cosa sia... A chi da' lo stesso errore?
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: Ancora problemi di Accesso alle partizioni NTFS
Prova con 555 altrimenti le directory senza il permesso in esecuzione non possono essere accessibili. Ciao, Germano Il 02:49, giovedì 10 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Non riuscendo ad accedere come utente standard alle partizioni NT, mi è stato suggerito di aggiungere il parametro umask=uga nelle varie righe del file fstab. Io, volendo negare a tutti la scrittura ho inserito umask=444 Purtroppo i vari utenti non possono accede alle partizioni NT scontrandosi con un errore del tipo accesso negato, non hai il permesso Cosa posso fare? Allego fstab e mtab MTAB /dev/hde7 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hde6 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom3 supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom3 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hdf5 /mnt/win_c vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /mnt/win_d vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /mnt/win_e vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/w2k ntfs rw,nodev,umask=444 0 0 /dev/hdf2 /mnt/boxnt ntfs rw,nodev,umask=444 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 FSTAB /dev/hde7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom3 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom3 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hdf5 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /mnt/win_e vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/w2k ntfs user,exec,suid,umask=444 0 0 /dev/hdf2 /mnt/boxnt ntfs user,exec,suid,umask=444 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde5 partition swap defaults 0 0
Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: Ancora problemi di Accesso alle partizioni NTFS
Prova a dargli 555 perchè le directory se non hanno il permesso in esecuzione non sono accessibili. Ciao, Germano Il 02:49, giovedì 10 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Non riuscendo ad accedere come utente standard alle partizioni NT, mi è stato suggerito di aggiungere il parametro umask=uga nelle varie righe del file fstab. Io, volendo negare a tutti la scrittura ho inserito umask=444 Purtroppo i vari utenti non possono accede alle partizioni NT scontrandosi con un errore del tipo accesso negato, non hai il permesso Cosa posso fare? Allego fstab e mtab MTAB /dev/hde7 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hde6 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom3 supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom3 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hdf5 /mnt/win_c vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /mnt/win_d vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /mnt/win_e vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/w2k ntfs rw,nodev,umask=444 0 0 /dev/hdf2 /mnt/boxnt ntfs rw,nodev,umask=444 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 FSTAB /dev/hde7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom3 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom3 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hdf5 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /mnt/win_e vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/w2k ntfs user,exec,suid,umask=444 0 0 /dev/hdf2 /mnt/boxnt ntfs user,exec,suid,umask=444 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde5 partition swap defaults 0 0
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8.0 - Matrox G450
¡Hola! Non è ancora distribuita la versione 8.0 e come avete fatto ad averla??? Scaricata dal sito Ank'io sarei interessato ad installarla ma non so dove reperirla. Se mi dici da dove scrivi potremmo metterci d'accordo (magari in mail provata per non intasare la lista) Grazie a TUTTI The Viking Prego ;) :br1 --- Where do you want to go today? I will be happy to be here, thanks ! :br1 ---
Re: [newbie-it] bug xmms?
Il 10:18, giovedì 10 Maggio 2001, Eugenio Odorifero scrisse: Ho avviato xmms su mandrake 8.0 e da un errore su una libreria GTK. La scheda audio funziona, Alsa player funziona, non capisco cosa sia... A chi da' lo stesso errore? Leggi qui: http://mailman.ferrara.linux.it/pipermail/flug/2001-April/012377.html -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie-it] Xfree4, voodoo3 ed accelerazione 3d
allora, un paio di giorni fa mi ero stupito del fatto che non venisse supportato il 3d per questa scheda. Ho fatto un po' di ricerca.. a parte la sorpresa di vedere che tutti i siti che avevano i driver erano stati rimossi (sembra quasi una pulizia etnica!), anche quelli che parlavano della Xfree 3.xx, ho torvato qualche info: beh il comando per vedere se si ha il 3d e' glxinfo e verificare il direct rendering. Dato che ovviamente avevo no, cercando sul sito della dri finalmente ho trovato un pacchetto per le glide ed i driver tdfx. Purtroppo qui mi sono arenato, i pacchetti non si installano perche' mi dicono che richiedono un kernel piu' recente!! (ho la mandrake 8!!!) c'e' qualcuno piu' esperto che e' riuscito ad andare oltre ed ad abilitare finalmente il supporto 3d di questa ottima scheda? dai cheppalle non credo di essere il solo ad avere una voodoo3 od una banshee! ciao, Marco allora, un paio di giorni fa mi ero stupito del fatto che non venisse supportato il 3d per questa scheda. Ho fatto un po' di ricerca.. a parte la sorpresa di vedere che tutti i siti che avevano i driver erano stati rimossi (sembra quasi una pulizia etnica!), anche quelli che parlavano della Xfree 3.xx, ho torvato qualche info: beh il comando per vedere se si ha il 3d e' glxinfo e verificare il direct rendering. Dato che ovviamente avevo no, cercando sul sito della dri finalmente ho trovato un pacchetto per le glide ed i driver tdfx. Purtroppo qui mi sono arenato, i pacchetti non si installano perche' mi dicono che richiedono un kernel piu' recente!! (ho la mandrake 8!!!) c'e' qualcuno piu' esperto che e' riuscito ad andare oltre ed ad abilitare finalmente il supporto 3d di questa ottima scheda? dai cheppalle non credo di essere il solo ad avere una voodoo3 od una banshee! ciao, Marco allora, un paio di giorni fa mi ero stupito del fatto che non venisse supportato il 3d per questa scheda. Ho fatto un po' di ricerca.. a parte la sorpresa di vedere che tutti i siti che avevano i driver erano stati rimossi (sembra quasi una pulizia etnica!), anche quelli che parlavano della Xfree 3.xx, ho torvato qualche info: beh il comando per vedere se si ha il 3d e' glxinfo e verificare il direct rendering. Dato che ovviamente avevo no, cercando sul sito della dri finalmente ho trovato un pacchetto per le glide ed i driver tdfx. Purtroppo qui mi sono arenato, i pacchetti non si installano perche' mi dicono che richiedono un kernel piu' recente!! (ho la mandrake 8!!!) c'e' qualcuno piu' esperto che e' riuscito ad andare oltre ed ad abilitare finalmente il supporto 3d di questa ottima scheda? dai cheppalle non credo di essere il solo ad avere una voodoo3 od una banshee! ciao, Marco
[newbie-it] ancora a proposito di matrox 450 e mandrake
Ho appena installato linux mandrake su un hd scsi (esterno) del mio pc che, purtroppo, con la sua Matrox 450 dualhead mi ha finora creato congelamenti assortiti... Non sono riuscito a trovare linuxc (l'edicola più vicina al confine è piccolina) e così resto in attesa di un'anima caritatevole che voglia darmi due indicazioni due per inserire i driver della suddetta scheda (che mi hanno detto posso trovare sul sito della matrox). vado a scaricarli e spero in qualcuno di voi. Linux è installato ma non ho fatto avviare la GUI per evitare il solito casino con il monitor (anzi i monitor) che sfarfallano... a partire dal login testuale che devo fare?? grazie! sergio --
Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?
text always but I tried having it boot to init5 as a test and quake3 still worked fine. Abe --- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza francisco@MU1-1A-u-0534 wrote: Abe, How do you start linux?, in a graphical login or in the classic text one? ___ Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Mié 09 May 2001 17:04, escribiste: Just to toss in my .02 here, I haven't had any problems running quake3, shogo or heavy gear on mdk 8.0 in full screen mode. I have a geforce2 card. While this doesn't help with the peoblems with the 3dfx cards it does comment on the general problem of no fullscreen gaming. I haven't done anything extra or weird to my system other then to install the two nvidia driver packages. If your games are runing really slow you are probably using Mesa and not glide libraries for your 3d acceleration. There are various ways to fix this depending on the game. Sometimes you just have to edit a config file so it points to the right libs. Other times you actually don't have the right libs installed (in which case you must figure out which ones you need and install them) or the game cannot use the libs that you do have installed. (In which case you are F**ked) My brother has a V5 and runs mdk 8.0. We've spent more then a few hours trying to figure out how to make it work for full screen acceleration. I had a v5 around x 4.01 time (and I suppose you could use the x 4.01 packages from the old linux.3dfx.com if you could find em but they wouldn't be much better then what you got right now ;-) and I finially ditched it so I could have some good performance and regularly updated drivers in linux. I sincerely doubt that there is some conspiracy in mandrake to make 3d acceleration only work partially folks. That's just silly. If we keep working on this we'll figure it out. Abe --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a Voodoo problem, seems to affect more video-card.Is a kdm problem when DRI (3d acceleration is activated). It appears using XFree86 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 with KDE 2.1 and DRi (graphical acceleration) activated. a) if 3d-games run so slow, then you have not DRI activated and not full screen problems. :-( SOLUTION: install 3d acceleration. b) if 3d-games run fast, DRI is activated and then kdm make the switch between resoultions (by hand (CTL+ALT+(*) or by the game when it runs) crashes X. SOLUTION: start linux in console mode and after login, startx activate the X and you will be capable of play games in full screen mode. Another more complicated solution is use a graphic login different of kdm, for example gdm or xdm. NOTE: the problem seems to affect not only Voodo but other video-cards. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 9, 2001 2:02 pm Asunto: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes? Strange, I don't seem to have any crashing problems running some of the full screen games on my 8.0 machine with my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI video card. I do have a problem with them running reeally slow; too slow to even play. I had no idea that there were issues with them. I certainly learn something new every day on here. :-) Terry Sheltra On Tuesday 08 May 2001 19:24, you wrote: On Monday 07 May 2001 10:05 pm, you wrote: Yeah same here, Voodoo3 crashes when start a full-screen games in Mandrake 8.0. I posted a complaint about it in the forum and they immediatley took it off. I guess they cant stand getting embarssing, Rob s wrote: I haven't heard much news from the Mandrake front lately. Why so quiet? Main reason for posting: Has anyone heard about any fixes, patches, upgrades forthcoming for the voodoo3 problems? -s Hi. U having problems too? Games running in full screen? Can't get mine to do it... ;-( = Jesus saves. Allah forgives, Cthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. -- See my digital art at: === message truncated === = Jesus saves. Allah forgives, Cthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. -- See my digital art at: http://www.foramenmagnum.net/images.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet?Voodoo fixes?
Abe, what graphical login did you use for your init5 run? kdm, gdm, xdm .? I have seen that gdm use to work if you previously have run the games from a text conexion (and then startx of course), but don't if you use gdm the first time.. :-). I think the problem is more complex but evidentely kdm gives more problems thant others graphical login. I don't know if is kdm the guilt or XFree86 4.0.2-4.0.3; perhaps the results with 3d acceleration in others distribution could help to find it, but i thin that Mandrake 8 is the first distribution using XFree86 newer than 4.0.1, isn't it? Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Jueves, Mayo 10, 2001 6:09 am Asunto: Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes? text always but I tried having it boot to init5 as a test and quake3 still worked fine. Abe --- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza francisco@MU1-1A-u-0534 wrote: Abe, How do you start linux?, in a graphical login or in the classic text one? ___ Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Mié 09 May 2001 17:04, escribiste: Just to toss in my .02 here, I haven't had any problems running quake3, shogo or heavy gear on mdk 8.0 in full screen mode. I have a geforce2 card. While this doesn't help with the peoblems with the 3dfx cards it does comment on the general problem of no fullscreen gaming. I haven't done anything extra or weird to my system other then to install the two nvidia driver packages. If your games are runing really slow you are probably using Mesa and not glide libraries for your 3d acceleration. There are various ways to fix this depending on the game. Sometimes you just have to edit a config file so it points to the right libs. Other times you actually don't have the right libs installed (in which case you must figure out which ones you need and install them) or the game cannot use the libs that you do have installed. (In which case you are F**ked) My brother has a V5 and runs mdk 8.0. We've spent more then a few hours trying to figure out how to make it work for full screen acceleration. I had a v5 around x 4.01 time (and I suppose you could use the x 4.01 packages from the old linux.3dfx.com if you could find em but they wouldn't be much better then what you got right now ;-) and I finially ditched it so I could have some good performance and regularly updated drivers in linux. I sincerely doubt that there is some conspiracy in mandrake to make 3d acceleration only work partially folks. That's just silly. If we keep working on this we'll figure it out. Abe --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a Voodoo problem, seems to affect more video-card.Is a kdm problem when DRI (3d acceleration is activated). It appears using XFree86 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 with KDE 2.1 and DRi (graphical acceleration) activated. a) if 3d-games run so slow, then you have not DRI activated and not full screen problems. :-( SOLUTION: install 3d acceleration. b) if 3d-games run fast, DRI is activated and then kdm make the switch between resoultions (by hand (CTL+ALT+(*) or by the game when it runs) crashes X. SOLUTION: start linux in console mode and after login, startx activate the X and you will be capable of play games in full screen mode. Another more complicated solution is use a graphic login different of kdm, for example gdm or xdm. NOTE: the problem seems to affect not only Voodo but other video-cards. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 9, 2001 2:02 pm Asunto: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes? Strange, I don't seem to have any crashing problems running some of the full screen games on my 8.0 machine with my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI video card. I do have a problem with them running reeally slow; too slow to even play. I had no idea that there were issues with them. I certainly learn something new every day on here. :-) Terry Sheltra On Tuesday 08 May 2001 19:24, you wrote: On Monday 07 May 2001 10:05 pm, you wrote: Yeah same here, Voodoo3 crashes when start a full-screen games in Mandrake 8.0. I posted a complaint about it in the forum and they immediatley took it off. I guess they cant stand getting embarssing, Rob s wrote: I haven't heard much news from the Mandrake
[newbie] Tripplite UPS control
Can a Tripplite UPS be controlled via a serial cable from Linux? Running Mandrake 8.0 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 (quite happily serving my mail and a bunch of web sites, incidentally) and I'd like to have the option of having a controlled shutdown. Needless to say, their shutdown application is Windows only. Also needless to say, I am in the SF Bay Area and look to get prepared for a long and sometimes dark summer here in California as the energy barons cart their busloads of cash out of here, bound for Texas. Alternatively, can I just set the notebook to shut down gracefully when both UPS and internal battery are close to running out of power? Any feedback is appreciated. Andy
[newbie] How to install Corel Wordperfect Office for Linux and CorelPhotopaint
I have some problems with WPO2000 for linux. 1. I am unable to use my cliparts, and that I think because wrong permision (wpo complain about wrong permision when I try to acces floppy or my cd) , but I am running wpo2000 as root 2. I am unable to start photopaint for linux !. When my application start, after displayng the spalshscreen (That with Corel Photopaint for linux) it is crashing when diplayng creating applicatuion environment. I have to mention that I use Mandrake 8, on a Celeron II - 566 mhz, 128 Mb ram, 15 Gb harddisc, Teac CD 40x, video card Geforce 2 mx. SB live sound card ! Under mandrake 7 all was OK, but I like much more mandrake 8 and I don't whant to go back on MD 7.2 tanks and sorry for my English
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't recognize PS/2 mouse
So for the time being, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't support, nor run on an IBM Thinkpad, and presumably, any computer using a PS/2 mouse. I have an MS Intellimouse, one of the most standard PS/2 mice on planet earth and the lm8 install process freezes on me when I select the only wheel mouse choice they have which is: Generic PS/2 wheel mouse. If I do the install using standard mouse, the install does work. Once I have finished the isntall I am able to change it to Generic PS/2 wheel mouse, and it does work. -- Kind regards, Hylton Clarke www.eBucks.com
Re: [newbie] How do I track what has happened after: make install
Ric Tibbetts wrote: When I'm installing software from tar balls, I always keep a log of the install. Just do something like: make install /var/log/x_softare_install.log 2 /var/log/x_software_install.err Then you have a text record of the install to go back to if you need to uninstall. Also, some (not all) newer software has a make uninstall option. Nice when it's there. Of course, redirect the results to a log file :) I understand: /var/log/x_softare_install.log but what does this do: 2 /var/log/x_software_install.err -- Kind regards, Hylton Clarke www.eBucks.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't recognize PS/2 mouse
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 13:09, you wrote: You also won't find a working install. I tried the text install and it did exactly what I figured it would do. It still doesn't recognize the PS/2 mouse. Thus, you get the new 8.0 image, and you can't do a thing. sigh There goes two days worth of work. I'm just glad I didn't try an upgrade on a real, working server. So for the time being, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't support, nor run on an IBM Thinkpad, and presumably, any computer using a PS/2 mouse. Not quite so, I have MD 8.0 (and 7.2) before that on my Sony Vaio laptop, the touchpad on that is PS2, it also has a PS2 port for an external mouse - they both work (BTW so does a USB mouse but it's not hot-swappable)
[newbie] Re: [expert] Naughty fonts!
Gabriel Fortuna wrote: Hi All Any particulap reason why the fonts in Mandrake 8.0 are so dog ugly? I completely agree with you, the standard fonts, the fixed size fonts, are actaully unreadable. What you need to do is the following, go to Style, and enable anti-aliasing fonts. this is assuming that you are running XFree 4.0.3. You then go to Configuration-KDE-Look 'n Feel-Fonts, and there you select the new fonts you want. For some reason I don't understand, it lists helvetica as the standard font, but if you anti-alias the fonts and then select a new font, helvetica is no longer in the list. I use the font called new instead. -- Kind regards, Hylton Clarke www.eBucks.com
[newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support
I just installed VMware 2.04 in mandrake...it run's. there is only one thing i can't figure out when i start Vmware it gives the following message : ! no xfree86 DGA support for this X-screen ! ! xfree86 Digital Graphics (DGA extension) initialisation failed ! and when i run a virtual win98 machine it says the following : ! The virtual machine will not be able to run in full-screen SVGA mode, because your X-server does not support the Xfree86 DGA extension for direct-to-frame-buffer graphics or because DGA is supported but the virtual machine cannot use it ! I am running mandrake 8.0 with XFree86 4 anyone has a clue? thanx in advance Tycho
[newbie] smartmedia
Hi there all I have a digital camera FUJI MX700 with one of those smartmedia cards. The card goes into one of these floppy like drives and I insert that into the floppy disk drive to read the media. Anybody know how to get this working on Linux Mandrake 8.0? recklessnetsurfer
Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...
Petre, I have some bad news and ...some more bad news... RPM 4 is completely uncomaptible with Mandrake 7.2. Do not, under any circumstances even whisper to your machine that you're thinking about trying to get that program onto your system. To tell you the truth you really don't need it anyway. The version of RPM that comes with 7.2 works just fine and isn't broken in anyway. If you find that you have packages that won't install with the version of RPM that installs with the system, then all you have to do is grab the SRC rpm package of that particular program and rebuild it for your machine. It's a very simple process and will aleviate a lot of problems for you. Doing so will also better ensure that the package you install hasn't been compromised myu worms or trojans. If you've already begun the install of RPM 4 on your Mandrake 7.2 system I would then suggest you do a fresh install of the system and not attempt again to install any other version of RPM except that which comes with that system. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I am saying it's NOT advisable. Good Luck, Mark On Mon, 7 May 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: Heya,this is my problem... After i installed mdk 7.2 on a ppro200/32mbRAM/4gbHDD i started updating packages from the net. I downloaded the rpm 4 package and it asked for glibc 2.2 i believe kinda' forced install rpm -iF glibc2.2. anyways it seemd alright.but now look what do i get when i type /root]# rpm -qa| grep ftp /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: /lib/libdb.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/librpm.so.0) what's that? it seems that rpm 4 works when i run it by simply typing rpm but at complex commands it gives those strange error... i mean there is more. anyone can help me?
[newbie] Geforce in Mandrake 8
Has anyone managed to install Geforce Xfree4 drivers on Mandrake 8 yet? I've not tried yet but didn't want to screw up my, currently, working, installation just in case the drivers on the Geforce site don't work. Cheers Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] launching apps in specific desktops?
Hans N. wrote: Have you tried going to the specific desktop and then launching the application? Such as selecting desktop 2 and then starting KMail, then heading to desktop 1 and launching Konqueror. I have, and it's very frustrating. If you start an application in one desktop and switch to another desktop to start another application, they both start in the second desktop. (Unless you wait 15 to 45 seconds for the first one to actually start before switching desktops.) Not the way it should be, IMNSHO. It should start in the desktop you start it in, not the one you happen to be in when it finally opens its window. Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] Full screen video problem (was Games (full screen) under 8.0?)
I have a v3 2000 and have had the problems u describe and fixed them as outlined...sorry to say though that i havent experienced the problems u are having with xmms et al. All the videos it is prepared to play at all it plays wellthere may be another problem with your system ( i wouldnt bet on it but i would like to blame the banshee ( bad experience with one:))) On Thursday 10 May 2001 05:40, Sam wrote: Thanks to all who replied! Following the outlined steps, I can now switch to full-screen for games :) However I am still encountering some abnormalities: 1) using AVIplay to play AVIs or ASFs, I can now switch to full-screen modewithout X dying on me. However, the results of the full-screen mode aren't entirely consistent. For instance, if the video window was first maximised to fill the entire screen, the full-screen mode looks nice enough. But if the video window were at any other size, full-screen mode would result in a small video screen with large black border all around. 2) The same thing happens with MTV for MPEG playback. The only difference is that there's no way to maximise the video window to fill the entire screen in the first place, so I can't get the proper full-screen effect at all. 3) XMovie and XMMS-SMPEG all still segfault immediately upon any attempt to playback MPEG videos. I wonder whether these are problems only encountered by users of 3Dfx Banshee cards, or ALL 3Dfx cards i.e. including the Voodoo3 variants? Many thanks in advance. On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Sam, Francisco had it right in his reply to my message! Don't do a graphical login. In my case, I opened a shell, typed in (as su) Xconfigurator, and picked my normal: 1024x768 res 16bit depth but when it asked me if I wanted a graphical login, I said -NO-. Then, from the console login, I logon with my normal user account, type in startx, and all works fine. MTV, Xmms with the SMPEG plugin, all games. The Shogo demo even, which I couldn't get to work under my old setup (v7.0 and v7.1) now works fine in full screen. Hurrah! (and thanks Francisco!) ;-)
Re: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support
On Thursday 10 May 2001 10:51, you wrote: I just installed VMware 2.04 in mandrake...it run's. there is only one thing i can't figure out when i start Vmware it gives the following message : ! no xfree86 DGA support for this X-screen ! ! xfree86 Digital Graphics (DGA extension) initialisation failed ! and when i run a virtual win98 machine it says the following : ! The virtual machine will not be able to run in full-screen SVGA mode, because your X-server does not support the Xfree86 DGA extension for direct-to-frame-buffer graphics or because DGA is supported but the virtual machine cannot use it ! I am running mandrake 8.0 with XFree86 4 anyone has a clue? thanx in advance Tycho Try going to VMware's web site, I believe that there is an update available fot the 2.4.x kernel which might fix the problem. Roger
Re: [newbie] LM 8.0
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:44, KompuKit wrote: Well...I finally upgraded...to 8.0 from 7.2 and I love it...great job mandrake !!! everything went without a hitch...except one thing... I bought a CD set from cheapbytes... so, I assume they are the download version. I have a Pentium 233 MMX, 64 mg Ram Installed 8.0 on a Maxtor 20 gig HD (dual booting with a 8.4 gig HD maxtor win98) Before upgrading...I bought a Creative Labs ModemBlaster 56k external modem model DE5625 it worked fine under 7.2...and windows.. but now, I can't seem to get it to work under 8.0 I placed the same info...for connection just as I did in 7.2 ...it trys to connect...I see the lights flashing on the modem.. but when it gets to a certain point... ( I think it's when it says LOGGING ON TO NETWORK)... it disconnects...and gives me an error 16 (whatever that is..) I double checked all the settings...to make sure I have them right... and try again...to the same thing.. What's happening here...? why can't I connect...? i have had this a couple of time with 7.2 and 8.0 but all i had to do to fix it was delete and re-enter my username and passord. cant be any more helpful i am afraid
RE: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support
I am already using vmware 2.04 with the suppert for kernel 2.4 it was a clean install..and i didn't get any errors -Original Message- From: Roger Pithers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 10 mei 2001 14:32 To: Tycho Bizot Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support On Thursday 10 May 2001 10:51, you wrote: I just installed VMware 2.04 in mandrake...it run's. there is only one thing i can't figure out when i start Vmware it gives the following message : ! no xfree86 DGA support for this X-screen ! ! xfree86 Digital Graphics (DGA extension) initialisation failed ! and when i run a virtual win98 machine it says the following : ! The virtual machine will not be able to run in full-screen SVGA mode, because your X-server does not support the Xfree86 DGA extension for direct-to-frame-buffer graphics or because DGA is supported but the virtual machine cannot use it ! I am running mandrake 8.0 with XFree86 4 anyone has a clue? thanx in advance Tycho Try going to VMware's web site, I believe that there is an update available fot the 2.4.x kernel which might fix the problem. Roger
Re: [newbie] How do I track what has happened after: make install
Hylton Clarke wrote: Of course, redirect the results to a log file :) I understand: /var/log/x_softare_install.log but what does this do: 2 /var/log/x_software_install.err The 2... redirects the errors to the specified file. Randy Kramer
[newbie] LM 8 KDE 2.1.1 failures
I just installed LM 8.0 on my new Inspiron 8000 laptop. When I logon to X and KDE starts up, sometimes I get a SIGSEGV error on some of the programs (like klipper or kcontrol). Is it a bug in KDE or the LM 8.0? I have the latest KDE (2.1.1) as far as I know. --LG
[newbie] Screensaver won't work -- Solution
Dear Klar: My thanks to a fellow list member for this. Someone wrote me to tell me how to do it. You have to activate xscreensaver by typing in the console: xscreensaver-demo This activates the screensaver demon. Now select your screensaver. Close console. Go to KDE Control Center, Look n Feel, screensaver, choose your screensaver and configure it. Try it by setting the time to 1 minute. It should work. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Geforce in Mandrake 8
working great over here. abe --- s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, they work. -s On Thursday 10 May 2001 05:26 am, you wrote: Has anyone managed to install Geforce Xfree4 drivers on Mandrake 8 yet? I've not tried yet but didn't want to screw up my, currently, working, installation just in case the drivers on the Geforce site don't work. Cheers Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. = Jesus saves. Allah forgives, Cthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. -- See my digital art at: http://www.foramenmagnum.net/images.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
Sorry (being a smart ass), you can't buy civilizationII, you have to get it for free (FreeCiv). Seriously, although I like the original Civilization better than Civ II, FreeCiv is a very good clone of CivII. You will have to get past the client/server thingie though. If you have trouble, post again. (FreeCiv comes with Mandrake 7.0 and 7.2, and I presume with any Mandrake since 7.0.) The Gimp is often described as a good graphic program, and perhaps a suitable substiture for Photoshop. (I've never used either.) The others I can't help you with. Randy Kramer matty mo wrote: are any of the following available for linux? i'm willing to buy them if they are... civilizationII simcity3000 dreamweaver photoshop6 black and white matt = cosmic systems intertwine astral bodies drip like wine all of nature ebbs and flows ...why does all creation rejoice? - mad donna http://www.gardenprimitive.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] problem with boatloader
everytime that i try to install linuxmandrake 8 everything goes fine untill the boatloader is getting installed then it says "cylender too big 10241023" I try setting up a 10mg boot partition but it still says the same thing.I have windows 98, but i have had mandrake on my system before but this time it just won't work unless i remove windows. could someone please give me some advice? thank you very much [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Click and bid on cool stuff like Dave Matthews Band Tickets & more!
[newbie] How i fixed my sound problem.
As silly as this may sound here is how i fixed my sound problem. I upgraded KDE from 2.0 to 2.1.1 *big grin* It fixed the problem of not having sound as a user but having it as root. It did break my abbrowser the k address book but i have my sound back. Running mdk 7.2 btw -- Regards, Dan Gordon
Re: [newbie] OT: OEM Hardware
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 01:08 pm, you wrote: I have been in the wholesale industry for years... basically, OEM ususally means without the pretty retail box, quiet often without the manual, and usually less software then the full retail version... The hardware itself is usually the same although there are a few exceptions to the rule... (eg, at one stage MS mouse and oem ms mouse had a different finish, but otherwise were the same..) I say grab the oem one if you can do without the manual and software.. (what good is a manual about how to install and setup in windows and win32 software anyway?) I think you will find that you will still get your OEM copy of Adaptec easy CD Creator anyway, so I wouldn't worry about that anyway go for the OEM I don't think I have every bought retail stuff Me too. Usually if there is a more than few dollars difference, I go for oem - expecially since using linux. -s
[newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
Hi all, I've been reading the mail in here for a couple weeks. I've tried getting both disks via modem but my 28.8 connect isn't getting the job done. I've signed up on the Mandrake page to receive the 2-CD set when available. I run Win2K Pro and have been interested in Linux for awhile now. I live beyond the limit for any high speed internet connect and was wondering if any one of you would send me a copy of the two CDs that you have downloaded. Of course I'll pay shipping and handling and what you think is fair for your time and media. Send any details you need to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd sure appreciate it! ThankYou Bob Barnes RR2 Box 44 Bardwell, Kentucky 42023
Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?
Hi, Abe: Thanks for the advice. I am using the nvidia drivers. I did rebuild them from source and I did remove the conflicting mesa files. I am VERY confident that X is loading the Nvidia driver and GLX. I definitely have the libGL files. However, they are in my /usr/lib directory. I believe smpeg is expecting them elsewhere (I'm not sure). I made links from /usr/X11R6/lib (where I believe the mesa files were originally) to the files in /usr/lib, but this did not help. I have compiled the latest SDL (1.2) and smpeg (4.3). They are optimized for i686. I have found that if I disable the movies, Shogo will work fine in OpenGL mode. It seg faults upon exit, but the game is functioning. Comparing the game to software mode, I have not (yet) noticed any missing movies. Because of this movie issue, I am especially suspicious that my problem lies with smpeg and my nvidia GL driver. I get a message during the smpeg compilation that says it is disabling OpenGL movie playback support. Compiling the previous 4.2 version gave me an error that it couldn't find GL or GLU. This is why I think that maybe smpeg is expecting my files in a location other than where nvidia installed them. I intend to write Loki (they made smpeg) tonight with the details and hopefully they will have time to help me. I'll write back if I find more details. As an aside, I am also having issues with Sin. Sin is made by Hyperion who also made Shogo. Well, they ported the games anyway. Hyperion says that my problems with Sin have to do with a bug in nvidia's latest driver. For that they said I either had to go back to an older driver or wait for nvidia to fix it. I'm still looking into this problem. Just like Shogo, Sin works fine in Software mode (albeit ugly and a tad slow). Other games like Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena, GLTron, Tuxracer, etc all work fine with OpenGL support. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, I'm using my new freebsd box right now so I can't tell you exactly what those files are ;-) Do you have the NVIDIA drivers installed on your system? Sounds to me like you either don't have them installed or they aren't installed correctly. You can find them here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html I like to download the src.rpms and build 'em myself. You MUST have these installed to get good 3d acceleration under X with an nvidia card. Before you install the GLX part you should remove all conflicting files of which there is a complete list here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/linux_geforce-07.html if your using the rpms you're only interested in removing the files in the list in the middle of the page. Once that is done then you can install the NVIDIA_GLX rpm. Need I say that you should be doing all this from the console with no X running? After those two are installed you need to change a few things in your x server config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4): under Load dbe add Load glx change driver nv to driver nvidia and add Option NVagp 2 (this part I'm not entirely sure of read the readme for the nvidia drivers to be sure. Basically you are telling X to use the nvidia agp implementation here. Make sure your default color is set no higher then 24bit. Save and reboot your system. You should have working 3d acceleration after all that. If it is flaky (IE crashes a lot try setting it to use agpgart, you'll probably have to compile it into your kernel though.) Good luck and feel free to write me again if you have more questions. Shogo is an AWESOME game. I can't wait to have the full version. Abe oh yea, smpeg and stuf too. I'm using the version that comes with mdk8.0 but I rebuilt it from source to use i686 optimizations. Gives a lot clearer picture and uses less cpu time! --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abe, I am using a GeForce 2 GTS like you are. However, my Shogo immediately crashes complaing about SDL when I try to use OpenGL mode. It works under Software Mode, but obviously that is undesirable. Since Shogo is working for you, would you be so kind as to post what version of SDL and SMPEG you are using? A listing of your relevant installed rpms would be very nice. Thanks for the help! --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to toss in my .02 here, I haven't had any problems running quake3, shogo or heavy gear on mdk 8.0 in full screen mode. I have a geforce2 card. While this doesn't help with the peoblems with the 3dfx cards it does comment on the general problem of no fullscreen gaming. I haven't done anything extra or weird to my system other then to install the two nvidia driver packages. If your games are runing really slow you are probably using Mesa and not glide libraries for your 3d acceleration. There are various ways to fix
Re: [newbie] chown and chmod
now THATS exactly what I'm talking about. Nice job Skip! Mark On Wed, 9 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael As far as I know, unless you write some kind of script, there Michael is no easy way to change just the permissions on the Michael directories without affecting the files under each directory. How about this: # make all files in /var/www owned by apache:apache chown -R apache:apache /var/www # mark all directories in that tree mode 755 find /var/www -type d | xargs chmod 755 # mark all plain files mode 644 find /var/www -type f | xargs chmod 644 # display any files that aren't plain files or directories find /var/www '!' -type d -a '!' -type f I guess that qualifies as a script. Slap a shebang on it and away you go... -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
Re: [newbie] Homepage
O dorrian...YOU'RE INFECTED YOU ATTACHMENT OPENING email user ;) this is the very reason i stopped using windows-always-has-a-bug. On Wed, 9 May 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: I hope no one here is using Windows/Outlook if they are foolish enough to open this... note the .vbs extension. Dave At 07:59 AM 05/09/2001 -0400, Dorian_750 wrote: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) Dave Sherman Business Solutions Group, LLC Quid quid latine dictum sit, [EMAIL PROTECTED] altum viditur. (763) 569-9839
RE: [newbie] chown and chmod
Why go to the trouble of writing it in PERL? Why not just write a simple bash script? seems to me that it would far less trouble and work. Mark On Wed, 9 May 2001, Franki wrote: I am surprised that no one has done it yet... I might have to see if I can do it with perl -Original Message- From: Michael D. Viron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2001 11:14 PM To: Franki; Rules Address for MDK Subject: Re: [newbie] chown and chmod Frank, As far as I know, unless you write some kind of script, there is no easy way to change just the permissions on the directories without affecting the files under each directory. The only way to do so, would be to change each directory by hand (using chmod / chown). As for files, that would be the same problem--you can't separate out files from directories with those commands. I seem to remember that this was discussed on the list last month--regardless, the only way you are going to get this type of behavior is if you write some type of program to handle it. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 05:25 PM 05/09/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: Hi all, I need to get this clear, and I was hoping you guys could help me if I am in /var/www/ and I want to make all directories and subdirecties in /html to chmod and chown 755 apache.apache respectively, but without effecting any of the files therein how can I do that? (I have tried chmod -R 755 /html but that changes everything... secondly, if I am in the same dir /var/www and I want to make all .html or .jpg or .gif etc,,, to chown apache.apache and chmod 644, without effecting the directory settings, how can I do that?? Any clearity here would save me hours of messing around as my /html dir has about 40 other dirs in it, and they all have dirs in them,, it is getting rather confusing any help?? regards Frank.
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
It was Thu, 10 May 2001 13:35:45 -0400 when Randy Kramer wrote: The Gimp is often described as a good graphic program, and perhaps a suitable substiture for Photoshop. (I've never used either.) The others I can't help you with. It -is- good. Believe me. I used Photoshop and Gimp. I love Gimp. Paul -- In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it. -Ivan Bloch http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] Homepage
yeah Dorian...see what lookin at dirty pictures gets ya? On Wed, 9 May 2001, Sam wrote: Dorian, looks like your Windows machine (and Outlook Express) has been infected by the VBS virus that's been going around recently? On Wednesday 09 May 2001 19:59, Dorian_750 wrote: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) begin 666 homepage.HTML.vbs snipped
RE: [newbie] Homepage [ALERT] Virus alert...
ha! my linux machine(s) scoff at this lowly form of cybernetic anti-life. Bah hum-bug! On Wed, 9 May 2001, Franki wrote: Hi guys, keep in mind that this guy probably doesn't know he has it... I am using outlook now, and I received it,, but I certainly wouldn't run anything I couldn't read the code of and didn't know who sent it.. he obviously didn't at some stage.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Devon Null Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2001 9:42 PM To: Dorian_750; Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com Subject: Re: [newbie] Homepage [ALERT] Virus alert... At 07:59 05/09/2001 -0400, Dorian_750 wrote: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) Attachment Converted: C:\applications\EudoraPro\Attach\homepage.HTML3.vbs === Re: [newbie] Homepage [ALERT] Virus alert... VBSWG.X (also known as VBS.VBSWG.X and VBS.Homepage) http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/vbsvbswgx.htm VBSWG.X is a worm spreading via the Internet e-mail system and is yet another variant generated by the VBS Worm Generator Kit. The worm arrives as a message with the Subject line: Homepage and the message body: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) The attached file, which contains the worm code is named: HOMEPAGE.HTML.VBS When the attached code is executed, VBSWG.X saves a copy of its code to the Temp directory and then mails itself out to all recipients listed in all address books. Once the mailing procedure is completed the worm modifies the registry entry (sets it to 1): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\An\mailed Next, the worm browses through the Inbox and Deleted Outlook folders and deletes all messages with the same Subject line as the worm's one (Homepage). Finally, VBSWG.X uses a default Web browser to open one of the following pages: http://hardcore.pornbillboard.net/shannon/1.htm; http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/prinzje/1.htm; http://www2.sexcropolis.com/amateur/sheila/1.htm; http://sheila.issexy.tv/1.htm; |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--30--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|
RE: [newbie] osx theme for kde?
umm, I think so. Check out kde.themes.org and the theme is called Aqua or AquaX or something like that -- there's also one or two for gnome (sawfish), but I had some problems with it... Russell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of matty mo Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:50 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] osx theme for kde? is there an osx like them available for kde? = cosmic systems intertwine astral bodies drip like wine all of nature ebbs and flows ...why does all creation rejoice? - mad donna http://www.gardenprimitive.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Homepage [ALERT] Virus alert...
does make ya wonder...doesn't it? On Wed, 9 May 2001, Terry wrote: Kinda funny how a windows Outlook virus made its way to a LINUX mailing list, where I'm sure majority of the people on here use LINUX. :-) Terry Sheltra On Wednesday 09 May 2001 09:41, you wrote: At 07:59 05/09/2001 -0400, Dorian_750 wrote: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) Attachment Converted: C:\applications\EudoraPro\Attach\homepage.HTML3.vbs === Re: [newbie] Homepage [ALERT] Virus alert... VBSWG.X (also known as VBS.VBSWG.X and VBS.Homepage) http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/vbsvbswgx.htm VBSWG.X is a worm spreading via the Internet e-mail system and is yet another variant generated by the VBS Worm Generator Kit. The worm arrives as a message with the Subject line: Homepage and the message body: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) The attached file, which contains the worm code is named: HOMEPAGE.HTML.VBS When the attached code is executed, VBSWG.X saves a copy of its code to the Temp directory and then mails itself out to all recipients listed in all address books. Once the mailing procedure is completed the worm modifies the registry entry (sets it to 1): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\An\mailed Next, the worm browses through the Inbox and Deleted Outlook folders and deletes all messages with the same Subject line as the worm's one (Homepage). Finally, VBSWG.X uses a default Web browser to open one of the following pages: http://hardcore.pornbillboard.net/shannon/1.htm; http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/prinzje/1.htm; http://www2.sexcropolis.com/amateur/sheila/1.htm; http://sheila.issexy.tv/1.htm; |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--30--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well under Wine, but I'd stll like one ported for Linux. Fortunately, I sent Forte an email about it, and they said they were considering a linux port for Agent 2.0. On Thu, 10 May 2001 08:49:44 -0700 (PDT), Rog kept his cool as you frantically scribbled: are any of the following available for linux? i'm willing to buy them if they are... civilizationII simcity3000 dreamweaver photoshop6 black and white matt = cosmic systems intertwine astral bodies drip like wine all of nature ebbs and flows ...why does all creation rejoice? - mad donna http://www.gardenprimitive.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ peace, Rog
[newbie] Mandrake 8
Downloaded version 8 and ext...burned the cd's. The ext disk looked okay and so did the installation didk. Started to install and the first problem came when it couldn't uncompress 2nd ramdisk (I believe that what it said...it was last night)...so it said press return to continue on installation...everything went good until it went off and looked for the packages that I needed. Sat there watching the screen waiting for the next screen to come up (version 7.2max 1 minute wait)...after about 7 minutes came up with another error screen. Drat...drat. Gee...maybe it was a bad manufactured recordable cd...burned another one..Crapsame problems...the same installation points as the other disk. Well...I redownloaded version 8...installation iso from another site...another evenning hoping to get the new version to work. What a life. Anyone else have installation problems? Thanks Rod
Re: [newbie] How to unnstall Linux?
why? ...thats just plain gross! Mark On Wed, 9 May 2001, g wrote: Can someone tell me how to unistall LM? I've given it a valiant effort, but I must return to Windows. No sound, screen resolution is hosed, tried to upgrade to LM 8.0, lost the mouse and lost screen resolution. Wife kids want their pc and programs back. It was an interesting 2 month adventure. A Big Thanks to all of you who tried to help me along the way. This is still to advanced for me. Ya never know unless you try. Maybe when it gets to LM 10.0 I'll try a dual boot system Good Luck on your continued development. G
Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...try this... Open Kpackage as root and then do your searching that way. you will want to find the RPM packages that were installed. other then that there isn't anything else you can do other then completely reinstalling the system. Mark Mark,can you get to the Undernet? i am on channel #mandrake nick Super_Cow ( cos so i fell..: ) i don't have X ...
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8
Yea, I can install without error, but when I try to run almost anything there are all sorts of missing files and configuration problems. I start up KDE and none of the programs show in the menu, the web browser doesn't work, and the update utility is missing files and after I find and install those files, it crashes every time I start it. So much for updating. The only things that seem to work properly are the configuration utility (most of it), the file browser, and the xterm. ~Wynne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rod Upfold Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Downloaded version 8 and ext...burned the cd's. The ext disk looked okay and so did the installation didk. Started to install and the first problem came when it couldn't uncompress 2nd ramdisk (I believe that what it said...it was last night)...so it said press return to continue on installation...everything went good until it went off and looked for the packages that I needed. Sat there watching the screen waiting for the next screen to come up (version 7.2max 1 minute wait)...after about 7 minutes came up with another error screen. Drat...drat. Gee...maybe it was a bad manufactured recordable cd...burned another one..Crapsame problems...the same installation points as the other disk. Well...I redownloaded version 8...installation iso from another site...another evenning hoping to get the new version to work. What a life. Anyone else have installation problems? Thanks Rod
[newbie] Java NS 6.01 FYI
I have posted to the list seeking help for getting Java to work in Netscape 6.01. I recently changed viseo cards from my sceaming 2MB Diamond Stealth to some cheap SiS 16MB that my brother could not get working in winders (hey it was free) and upon doping so reverted to Xfree 3.3.6 from 4.0.3 and now by some miracle the Java has begun to work in NS 6.01. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but it works and I'm happy! I love Linux!!! John W
Re: [newbie] How to unnstall Linux?
yeah...you can do that, but what about just booting to the floppy, running fdisk and then simply deleting the Non-DOS partition leaving the windows installation intact and untouched. After which you will of course want to refresh your MBR by issuing this command on the command line. Thats a DOS command line mind you. A:\fdisk /mbr ENTER Mark On Wed, 9 May 2001, Tim Holmes wrote: fdisk Just reformat the disk, and install Windows. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * g [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010509 08:46]: | Can someone tell me how to unistall LM? | | I've given it a valiant effort, but I must return to Windows. No sound, | screen resolution is hosed, tried to upgrade to LM 8.0, lost the mouse and | lost screen resolution. | | Wife kids want their pc and programs back. It was an interesting 2 month | adventure. A Big Thanks to all of you who tried to help me along the way. | | This is still to advanced for me. Ya never know unless you try. Maybe when | it gets to LM 10.0 I'll try a dual boot system | | Good Luck on your continued development. | | G
[newbie] Who sells Mandrake distributions?
I used http to do a from-the-net install of 8.0. I'd like to support Mandrake and buy a full distribution. Unfortunately, many of the vendors listed on Mandrake's website are either out of business, not yet selling 8.0, or not providing much information about what they are selling. Can anyone here recommend a vendor (or vendors)? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't recognize PS/2 mouse
The solution ... don't use a PS/2 mouse. Just plug in a $3.00 (I might have paid $4.00 for it) serial mouse into the serial port, Mandrake recognizes it on boot and off you go. This worked great (as a work-around). Of course, that eats up the one and only serial port, but at least I am able to run Linux-Mandrake 8.0. Now, all I have to do is get IBM's MWave modem and sound drivers and I should be in business. Thanks to Turgut Kalfaoglu over on the Expert mailing list for the tip. Of course, he's still trying to figure out how to get the builtin track-point to work. For some reason, this isn't turning out to be as trivial as one would think it should be.
RE: [newbie] Homepage
Good grief! when are people going to learn NOT to click on email attachments? for cryin out loud! On Wed, 9 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIRUS --- Hank Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]Blacksburg, Va Virginia Tech - Administrative Information Services - HR http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/H/hingram/ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magicArthur C Clarke -Original Message- From: Dorian_750 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 7:00 AM To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com Subject: [newbie] Homepage Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O)
Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...
Ok...try this... Open Kpackage as root and then do your searching that way. you will want to find the RPM packages that were installed. other then that there isn't anything else you can do other then completely reinstalling the system. Mark On Tue, 8 May 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: this is what i get when i give rpm -qa| grep any package rpm -qa| grep nets /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: /lib/libdb.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/librpm.so.0) so any help? thx hor starters i can't use rpm at all. so i am asking for a method to uninstall by hand the rpm 4 thx
Re: [newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart $3.49 Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/ on 5/10/01 12:51 PM, Bob Barnes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading the mail in here for a couple weeks. I've tried getting both disks via modem but my 28.8 connect isn't getting the job done. I've signed up on the Mandrake page to receive the 2-CD set when available. I run Win2K Pro and have been interested in Linux for awhile now. I live beyond the limit for any high speed internet connect and was wondering if any one of you would send me a copy of the two CDs that you have downloaded. Of course I'll pay shipping and handling and what you think is fair for your time and media. Send any details you need to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd sure appreciate it! ThankYou Bob Barnes RR2 Box 44 Bardwell, Kentucky 42023
Re: [newbie] Redhat vs Mandrake
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 21:27, you wrote about [newbie] Redhat vs Mandrake that ... My wife's company has asked me about installing a linux server to relay mail within their local LAN and also out to their ISP. They'd like to run apache and mySQL. They wanted to know whether they should install RedHat or Mandrake. I'm not sure how to answer them why would one be better than the other? Find yourself a real card-carrying ubergeek within driving distance - then install whatever distro he raves about. Six months later you can then get back to him with remember that UltraObscure LiGNUx v24.2 you told me to install? There's this little problem we're having, nothing major, mind you, but perhaps you've come across it before ... He will then spend the next two weeks overhauling your server free of charge. This is why it is *really* called Free Software ... vbg OK, tension breaker, had to be done, but many a true word is spoken in jest. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC
Re: [newbie] software and upgrade questions
on 5/9/01 10:27 AM, Jennifer Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: first of all, thanks to everyone who had an answers for me. after all was done, i think the install may have knocked windows out, i am not that bothered since my important things that i am working are stored elsewhere anyway. i have new questions: i had asked about dual booting- should i go ahead and get the 8.0 (and is the avail by box or download) versus using the 7.2? also, does anyone have any recommendations for web design programs and the like for linux. with windows i was using frontpage (which i didn't really like to begin with), there were a couple of things bundled with it- but i was looking for something a bit more full bodied. and one last question, on the 7.2 there is a graphic art program called cameleo that for the life of me i cannot get to install. i get to the little install icon and won't do anything. :0 jenny 8.0 installs Sketch and Killustrator. They are good by linux standards, ancient by desktop publishing standards. The most advanced wed design program I have found for linux is Quanta, which installs from Mandrake 8.0. It is a far cry from Front Page, and is more remniscent of Allaire's Home site. It is a great text editor, not a wysiwyg editor. If you are looking for something better than front page try dreamweaver. But it is not for Linux, not yet. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/
Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...
this is what i get when i give rpm -qa| grep any package rpm -qa| grep nets /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: /lib/libdb.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/librpm.so.0) so any help? thx hor starters i can't use rpm at all. so i am asking for a method to uninstall by hand the rpm 4 thx
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8
On Thu, 10 May 2001 13:18:05 -0400 (EDT), Rod Upfold wrote: Started to install and the first problem came when it couldn't uncompress 2nd ramdisk (I believe that what it said...it was last night)...so it I had the same problem with one of the iso images that I downloaded. Make sure that you run md5sum on the iso and that it agrees with the md5sum that is given in the text file that you'll find in the same directory as the iso images. ...Dave
Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Petre, What you may want to try is uninstalling just the RPM packages and then reinstalling RPM 3.x or what ever it was that was there when you installed the system. You should be able to get the packages you need from one of the many Mandrake FTP server. If you can't find them, then email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will put them on my FTP server and you can download them from my machine at home. Let me know what you want to do about that. i can't use rpm at all. I mean ,when i issue the command rpm it just gives me the normal screen of rpm.but at any query on the db it gives me this rpm -qa| grep nets /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: /lib/libdb.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/librpm.so.0) So it seems that i'm looking for a way to get rid of rpm 4. How can i do that if i can't use rpm??? thx Petre Daniel Romanian Whitehat Phone:+4093591346
Re: [newbie] Apache lies
on 5/9/01 9:22 PM, Chubby Vic at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://kittypuss.org/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl This file exists. Apache says: 404 Not FoundNot Found The requested URL /cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl was not found on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at kittypuss.org Port 80 Open up Netconf in KDE click on Server Tasks then Apache Web server click Defaults, and check your script alias entry and ensure that it points to the right directory. e.g. Script Alias: /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/ or however you have it configured. By the way I have found that editing the httpd.conf file directly in a text editor, does not always work with the New Apache extranet server, it seems it has to be done through the NetConf interface. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
It was Thu, 10 May 2001 14:24:40 -0400 when Rog wrote: One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well under Wine, but I'd stll like one ported for Linux. Fortunately, I sent Forte an email about it, and they said they were considering a linux port for Agent 2.0. Try Pan. It is not Free Agent yet, but very much getting there. pan.rebelbase.com if I am correct Paul -- In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it. -Ivan Bloch http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] Who sells Mandrake distributions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used http to do a from-the-net install of 8.0. I'd like to support Mandrake and buy a full distribution. Unfortunately, many of the vendors listed on Mandrake's website are either out of business, not yet selling 8.0, or not providing much information about what they are selling. Can anyone here recommend a vendor (or vendors)? Thanks, I'm sure that http://www.lsl.com/ will have the Macmillan 8.0 boxed sets as soon as they are available. -- Alan
[newbie] Where are all the games in 8.0
Where are all the games located? I've only loaded KDE (ie no Gnome). In previous releases, they were located under a games menu option. Now, even though the package manager says that they are loaded, they don't show up. Now, this is critical. My kids love Linux, cuz they like its games :-)
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
Civilization II is not out for Linux (AFAIK), but you can play with freeciv. It came with your Mandrake and it is very similar. Also, there is Civilization: Call to Power. You can purchase that here: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=6id=77856nc=989531480 You can purchase SimCity 3000 here: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=18id=77856nc=989531480 To replace photoshop, use The Gimp which came with your mandrake. It is VERY similar to Photoshop. In some ways it is better. It is VERY good. You will be pleased with it. Some things it can't due because of codecs Photoshop uses. But most likely, you will be very happy with The Gimp. To replace Dreamweaver you have vi. hahah.. No, this last one is a joke, I guess. There are some HTML generators for Linux here and there, but none as good as Dreamweaver that I know of. --- Rog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well under Wine, but I'd stll like one ported for Linux. Fortunately, I sent Forte an email about it, and they said they were considering a linux port for Agent 2.0. On Thu, 10 May 2001 08:49:44 -0700 (PDT), Rog kept his cool as you frantically scribbled: are any of the following available for linux? i'm willing to buy them if they are... civilizationII simcity3000 dreamweaver photoshop6 black and white matt = cosmic systems intertwine astral bodies drip like wine all of nature ebbs and flows ...why does all creation rejoice? - mad donna http://www.gardenprimitive.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ peace, Rog __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
I have found Netscape Messenger to work just fine for NG's... Ed ~~ At 09:11 PM 5/10/2001 +0200, Paul wrote: It was Thu, 10 May 2001 14:24:40 -0400 when Rog wrote: One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well under Wine, but I'd stll like one ported for Linux. Fortunately, I sent Forte an email about it, and they said they were considering a linux port for Agent 2.0. Try Pan. It is not Free Agent yet, but very much getting there. pan.rebelbase.com if I am correct Paul -- In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it. -Ivan Bloch http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] Redhat vs Mandrake
on 5/9/01 4:43 PM, Jeffrey M. Reed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2001 15:27, Mark Johnson wrote: My wife's company has asked me about installing a linux server to relay mail within their local LAN and also out to their ISP. They'd like to run apache and mySQL. They wanted to know whether they should install RedHat or Mandrake. I'm not sure how to answer them why would one be better than the other? there is no better my friend. they are, in essence, the same. the commands, the programs, the security, everything. essentially the same. the only baddie i keep seeing in RedHat is they mess up the compiler a lot. so, unless you're developing a lot, that won't matter. linux is linux is linux...no matter if it's slack, redhat, mandrake, whatever. i'd go with either. linuxbusca runs on mandrake and debian...and while it's nothing pretty to look at yet, mandrake does the email, web server, and DSL gateway. pretty awesome. just my two cents. Apache and Mysql won't deliver the mail. Mandrake installs Postfix by default, which is easier than Sendmail to configure, although neither of them are actually easy to configure. Mandrake and Redhat are based on the same installer program, that is all that varies from brand to brand is how it is installed, and the tools each installs for configuring it. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/
Re: [newbie] Still Unable to mount root fs
Ok...but what if you're just using standard IDE controllers? Because I got the exact same results on the two attempts I made at installing 8.0 on my home system which has two newer Maxtor drives and an AMD K6. The install was flawless on this machine here at work which is an older P1-133 with two older 2.1GB Western Digital drives. talk about throwing salt in the wound. I just reloaded 7.2 and restored my old config files and was back in business in about an hour. But still...what the heck is going on here? Mark On Wed, 9 May 2001, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I am in the process of upgrading one machine and installed a Promise Ultra 100 controller. I have Win2000 installed on the first ata100 hd using NTFS. During the partitioning I noticed that install recognizes the 2 drives as hde and hdf since this is an add on card. I am assuming it would use hda-hdd if I had any connected directly to the motherboard. Here's the newest error: VFS: Cannot open root device hdf1 on 21:41 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic: unable to mount root fs on 21:41 Where do I put the boot option so that it can mount the root partition from hdf1? Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished. Edhad almost the same error last night when I installed 8.0 on an Abit motherboard with a hypoint dma100 RAID controller. I partitioned and installed the system on the hde drive. Upon initial boot of the installed system it issued a kernal panic and said: VFS: Cannot open root device hde6 on 20:06 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic: unable to mount root fs on 20:06 I used a floppy based rescue disk called RIP-rescue: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ to boot the system and changed all references to hde to hdc (hda is a zip drive and hdb is a CDRom) in /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab. Then after executing /sbin/lilo I was able to boot up normally. This may also apply to your promise controller. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Where are all the games in 8.0
They are under Amusements. Right at the very top of the K Menu. --- A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are all the games located? I've only loaded KDE (ie no Gnome). In previous releases, they were located under a games menu option. Now, even though the package manager says that they are loaded, they don't show up. Now, this is critical. My kids love Linux, cuz they like its games :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
I'll send it to you. I assume you want it sent to the address at the bottom. You should have it in a few days. --- Bob Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading the mail in here for a couple weeks. I've tried getting both disks via modem but my 28.8 connect isn't getting the job done. I've signed up on the Mandrake page to receive the 2-CD set when available. I run Win2K Pro and have been interested in Linux for awhile now. I live beyond the limit for any high speed internet connect and was wondering if any one of you would send me a copy of the two CDs that you have downloaded. Of course I'll pay shipping and handling and what you think is fair for your time and media. Send any details you need to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd sure appreciate it! ThankYou Bob Barnes RR2 Box 44 Bardwell, Kentucky 42023 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Who sells Mandrake distributions?
Alan I'm sure that http://www.lsl.com/ will have the Macmillan 8.0 Alan boxed sets as soon as they are available. Thanks. What LSL is offering right now is a 2-CD set for $3.78. At those prices I doubt any money will actually go to Mandrake and it probably won't include any sort of printed manuals or support (should I need it - I do have a few nits I'd like someone to address). -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
Re: [newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
That's a good price, even with the $5.00 shipping charge in the USA. Randy Kramer Darin Lang wrote: http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart $3.49 Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/ on 5/10/01 12:51 PM, Bob Barnes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading the mail in here for a couple weeks. I've tried getting both disks via modem but my 28.8 connect isn't getting the job done. I've signed up on the Mandrake page to receive the 2-CD set when available. I run Win2K Pro and have been interested in Linux for awhile now. I live beyond the limit for any high speed internet connect and was wondering if any one of you would send me a copy of the two CDs that you have downloaded. Of course I'll pay shipping and handling and what you think is fair for your time and media. Send any details you need to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd sure appreciate it! ThankYou Bob Barnes RR2 Box 44 Bardwell, Kentucky 42023
Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?
Yeah, I just found out some more. Avatar from evil3d.net posted that there was a problem with nvidia's source installs with Mandrake 8.0. He says to use the 7.2 rpms or manually edit the install script. I guess the tar.gz and src.rpm are putting the files in the wrong directory. It is wrong that they are showing up in /usr/lib and should supposedly be in /usr/X11R6/lib (which makes more sense to me). Anyway, I'll test it tonight and get back to you. I already tried linking the files, but I wonder if there's any issues with ldconfig that I haven't resolved. smpeg didn't find the files when I compiled it. Avatar also suggested that my Tcl may be out of date. I doubt that, but I'll install the latest version to be safe. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh. Sounds like you got it undercontroll man. Loki's a great company. You shouldn't have any problems getting some help from them with smpeg. good luck! Abe --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Abe: Thanks for the advice. I am using the nvidia drivers. I did rebuild them from source and I did remove the conflicting mesa files. I am VERY confident that X is loading the Nvidia driver and GLX. I definitely have the libGL files. However, they are in my /usr/lib directory. I believe smpeg is expecting them elsewhere (I'm not sure). I made links from /usr/X11R6/lib (where I believe the mesa files were originally) to the files in /usr/lib, but this did not help. I have compiled the latest SDL (1.2) and smpeg (4.3). They are optimized for i686. I have found that if I disable the movies, Shogo will work fine in OpenGL mode. It seg faults upon exit, but the game is functioning. Comparing the game to software mode, I have not (yet) noticed any missing movies. Because of this movie issue, I am especially suspicious that my problem lies with smpeg and my nvidia GL driver. I get a message during the smpeg compilation that says it is disabling OpenGL movie playback support. Compiling the previous 4.2 version gave me an error that it couldn't find GL or GLU. This is why I think that maybe smpeg is expecting my files in a location other than where nvidia installed them. I intend to write Loki (they made smpeg) tonight with the details and hopefully they will have time to help me. I'll write back if I find more details. As an aside, I am also having issues with Sin. Sin is made by Hyperion who also made Shogo. Well, they ported the games anyway. Hyperion says that my problems with Sin have to do with a bug in nvidia's latest driver. For that they said I either had to go back to an older driver or wait for nvidia to fix it. I'm still looking into this problem. Just like Shogo, Sin works fine in Software mode (albeit ugly and a tad slow). Other games like Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena, GLTron, Tuxracer, etc all work fine with OpenGL support. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, I'm using my new freebsd box right now so I can't tell you exactly what those files are ;-) Do you have the NVIDIA drivers installed on your system? Sounds to me like you either don't have them installed or they aren't installed correctly. You can find them here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html I like to download the src.rpms and build 'em myself. You MUST have these installed to get good 3d acceleration under X with an nvidia card. Before you install the GLX part you should remove all conflicting files of which there is a complete list here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/linux_geforce-07.html if your using the rpms you're only interested in removing the files in the list in the middle of the page. Once that is done then you can install the NVIDIA_GLX rpm. Need I say that you should be doing all this from the console with no X running? After those two are installed you need to change a few things in your x server config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4): under Load dbe add Load glx change driver nv to driver nvidia and add Option NVagp 2 (this part I'm not entirely sure of read the readme for the nvidia drivers to be sure. Basically you are telling X to use the nvidia agp implementation here. Make sure your default color is set no higher then 24bit. Save and reboot your system. You should have working 3d acceleration after all that. If it is flaky (IE crashes a lot try setting it to use agpgart, you'll probably have to compile it into your kernel though.) Good luck and feel free to write me again if you have more questions. Shogo is an AWESOME game. I can't wait to have the full
Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...
Petre Daniel wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Petre, I have some bad news and ...some more bad news... RPM 4 is completely uncomaptible with Mandrake 7.2. Do not, under any circumstances even whisper to your machine that you're thinking about trying to get that program onto your system. To tell you the truth you really don't need it anyway. The version of RPM that comes with 7.2 works just fine and isn't broken in anyway. If you find that you have packages that won't install with the version of RPM that installs with the system, then all you have to do is grab the SRC rpm package of that particular program and rebuild it for your machine. It's a very simple process and will aleviate a lot of problems for you. Doing so will also better ensure that the package you install hasn't been compromised myu worms or trojans. If you've already begun the install of RPM 4 on your Mandrake 7.2 system I would then suggest you do a fresh install of the system and not attempt again to install any other version of RPM except that which comes with that system. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I am saying it's NOT advisable. Good Luck, Mark On Mon, 7 May 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: Heya,this is my problem... After i installed mdk 7.2 on a ppro200/32mbRAM/4gbHDD i started updating packages from the net. I downloaded the rpm 4 package and it asked for glibc 2.2 i believe kinda' forced install rpm -iF glibc2.2. anyways it seemd alright.but now look what do i get when i type /root]# rpm -qa| grep ftp /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: /lib/libdb.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/librpm.so.0) what's that? it seems that rpm 4 works when i run it by simply typing rpm but at complex commands it gives those strange error... i mean there is more. anyone can help me? Unfortunately i already scorched my system with the new rpm4. The reinstall is out of the question,because i don't have cds and much netspeed. Now,i don't want to creep around with tarballs all the time,so, How can i can get rid of the rpm4 pieces crawling in my system,and how can i rebuild again the rpm 3? i guess this or the redhat recoming are the only solutions for me,so i'd appreciate if you'll help me a little. thx in advance -- Petre Daniel Romanian Whitehat Phone:+4093591346 Hi Petre, Things may not be as bad as you think. I would suggest you seach the expert archives for the last three months as there has been quite a bit of activity on this subject. I have actually had rpm-4 running on 7.2 so it will work however what you must do is run it from the command line. Here are one or two facts that might give you a way out of your dilemma. 1: Rpm-4 uses different names for the database files that are stored in the /var directory. You will find the new names posted on the expert list. What this means to you is that it is unlikely that your original rpm-3 database has been overwritten. 2. If your rpm-4 installation runs from the command line i.e. if you run rpm --version (in a console) and it returns version 4 then it is probably working. Rpm-4 can uninstall itself. If you do an installed packages query all you should get back is rpm-4 and anyting that you installed with it. You should not get anything else. If you do it means that the installation scripts of rpm-4 has changed your database filenames and to use rpm-3 again you would have to change them back to the old names. However before you uninstall rpm-4 read three below. 3. If rpm-4 is working then the rather useful rpm2cpio program which is part of the rpm package can be used to get you out of trouble. This program (just in case you wern't aware is capable of converting an rpm package file into a cpio archive. (Read the man page). Using cpio you can install this archive in a temporary directory. You then have a running rpm-3 (you will stillave to run it from the command line at this point). 4. Once you are in this position you can uninstall rpm-4 using itself. It may be advisable to back-up your database files before doing this just in case. 5. Now you are nearly there all you have to do is to ensure that your rpm database file names are correct then go to the temporary directory where you put the rpm-3 files and use rpm-3 to install rpm-3.rpm in the proper place. Once you have done this and checked that it is working you can delete the temporary directory and you should be pretty much back to where you were before. 6. If you really must use rpm-4 for some stuff I have found that the safest way to do this is to download the source tarball compile it and install it in /usr/local then if you need it you can run it from the command line. Rpm-3 will still work as normal because the /usr/bin/ directory where it is stored should, if your system has been properly installed precede /usr/local/ in your PATH variable thus
Re: [newbie] Redhat vs Mandrake
this is sooo true. i only do 2 things for free. theatre, and configure/fix computers 'cause i love 'em both that much. =) if you have an ubergeek friend you are set for life. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:22:46 PM 5/9/01 Six months later you can then get back to him with remember that UltraObscure LiGNUx v24.2 you told me to install? There's this little problem we're having, nothing major, mind you, but perhaps you've come across it before ... He will then spend the next two weeks overhauling your server free of charge. This is why it is *really* called Free Software ... vbg
Re: [newbie] MD5SUM
Wynne Crisman wrote: How can I get a MD5SUM to check a downloaded ISO? I don't yet have a working Mandrake install so I need to know how to do this in win2k. Wherever you downloaded the iso from should also have the correct md5sum for that iso. Download that. Then you need md5sum.exe, and md5sum program for windows. I don't remember where I got my copy, but you should be able to find it by searching google. Try aa advanced search for the exact phrase: md5sum.exe, throw Windows and download in as words -- you should come pretty close. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
[newbie] MD5SUM
How can I get a MD5SUM to check a downloaded ISO? I don't yet have a working Mandrake install so I need to know how to do this in win2k. ~Wynne
[newbie] How to configure linux to retrieve email from ISP
Is there a way that I can configure linux (daemon) to retrieve mail from for the all users on the machine from their ISP so that the just have to point their email client to the linux box instead of the ISP.
[newbie] lm8.0 - joystick
Has anybody got a joystick to work in Linux Mandrake 8.0? Just an analog stick. In previous versions I got my joystick to work by inserting joystick in /etc/modules. That doesn't work with lm8. I can't even find the joystick testing utilities, like jstest, etc ... It is in some joystick rpm that I can't find now. Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Where are all the games in 8.0
I tried that. All I get is Toys and five really dumb demo-type games. According to package manager, I should have freeCiv and a bunch of others loaded. They ain't showing up. At 03:25 PM 5/10/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: They are under Amusements. Right at the very top of the K Menu. --- A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are all the games located? I've only loaded KDE (ie no Gnome). In previous releases, they were located under a games menu option. Now, even though the package manager says that they are loaded, they don't show up. Now, this is critical. My kids love Linux, cuz they like its games :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] MD5SUM
If you go to download.com and do a search on md5sum you will find a program called md5sumer that will calculate these for you under Windows. ...Dave On Thu, 10 May 2001 17:03:58 -0600, Wynne Crisman wrote: How can I get a MD5SUM to check a downloaded ISO? I don't yet have a working Mandrake install so I need to know how to do this in win2k. ~Wynne
[newbie] Gnutella? Napster for 8.0?
Is there gnutella or napster that will actaully install on Mandrake 8.0? -- ICQ# 27396393 Registered Linux User #181996
[newbie] msn gaming zone?
My son is upset with me cause since I've set up internet connection sharing adsl, he can't play mtm with his little friends at msn gaming zone or play ip games. I'm running 8.0 using pmfirewall to masq forward firewall for me, with portsentry on the case. I've added very little to pmfirewalls rules.local file, but have added a few trying to stop answering icmp pings and closing a couple of ports I thought might be left open (1025 32770). His machine (windows98) has ipx protocol support in place, but haven't seen anything to that effect in linux. Don't know for sure it's even needed. Anybody with any experience with this and can help? TIA, -s
[newbie] Kivio in KOffice-1.1-beta1
I have been trying to get Kivio in KOffice-1.1-beta1 to run on LM8.0. The other programs in KOffice work fine. When I install it from the RPM I have to copy the Kivio.Desktop from /usr/share/applnk to /.kde/share/applnk-mdk/office. In a terminal i get the following: Xlib:extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0" Kdecore(KLibLoader): Warning library=libkiviopart: file=/usr/lib/Kde2/libkiviopart.la: /usr/lib/Kde2/libkiviopart.so: Undefined symbol: pthread_create There is a small icon that does try to appear on the terminal screen before this message appears. I understand that the "RENDER" has to do with the video. The other programs produce this same message when started in a terminal but they still run fine. I have also tried to compile from source and get the following when it is trying to Make All. The process then stops without finishing at this point. ../Kivio/Kiviopart/.lib/libkiviopart.so: Undefined reference to pthread_create ../Kivio/Kiviopart/.lib/libkiviopart.so: Undefined reference to pthread_detach Any help would be appreciated. Linn Crowser
Re: [newbie] Gnutella? Napster for 8.0?
Hi, for gnutella I use LimeWire www.limewire.com The linux binary won't install in LM8, so download the version for other operating systems instead. You'll first need to have Java installed in your machine to install and run it though. As for napster, I used to use KNapster and Gnapster in LM7.2 - no reason why they shouldn't work in LM8. You could probably find the RPM packages at www.rpmfind.net On Friday 11 May 2001 06:41, Jon Doe wrote: Is there gnutella or napster that will actaully install on Mandrake 8.0?
[newbie] Hello
HI, I've been on this list a few days and decided to say hi and introduce myself. I'm utterly and totally a newbie as far as Linux goes (I've been running a machine with Windows as the OS since 1995). I've researched a few companies and decided to go with Mandrake as my distro. A few questions . . . I'm torn if I should buy 7.2 now or wait until 8.0 comes out as a box set. I'm running a 500 Pentium III, 128 meg RAM w/ an 18 Gig HD. I plan on buying an external modem and wonder what brand of modem would be a good choice. Any suggestions? Thanks. Michelle
Re: [newbie] Redhat vs Mandrake
there is no better my friend. they are, in essence, the same. the commands, the programs, the security, everything. essentially the same. the only baddie i keep seeing in RedHat is they mess up the compiler a lot. so, unless you're developing a lot, that won't matter. Actually, the security is not the same, although this largely depends on what security level you select (customizable after install, I believe)--if you select medium security, you are 100% locked out of the box except going in on the console by default. With redhat, you don't have the option to select a security level--it basically leaves itself totally wide open to attack. linux is linux is linux...no matter if it's slack, redhat, mandrake, whatever. i'd go with either. linuxbusca runs on mandrake and debian...and while it's nothing pretty to look at yet, mandrake does the email, web server, and DSL gateway. pretty awesome. just my two cents. -- +- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508)792-6070 +-
Re: [newbie] How to install Corel Wordperfect Office for Linux and Corel Photopaint
Hi, I'm not sure whether this will help, but generally installing WPO2K using the updated install script from Corel eliminates problems. ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/Office2000/updates/installscript/ If you encounter other problems, you might want to check out the WPO2K support newsgroup. The link is at http://linux.corel.com On Thursday 10 May 2001 17:14, Titiriga Dorin wrote: I have some problems with WPO2000 for linux. 1. I am unable to use my cliparts, and that I think because wrong permision (wpo complain about wrong permision when I try to acces floppy or my cd) , but I am running wpo2000 as root 2. I am unable to start photopaint for linux !. When my application start, after displayng the spalshscreen (That with Corel Photopaint for linux) it is crashing when diplayng creating applicatuion environment. I have to mention that I use Mandrake 8, on a Celeron II - 566 mhz, 128 Mb ram, 15 Gb harddisc, Teac CD 40x, video card Geforce 2 mx. SB live sound card ! Under mandrake 7 all was OK, but I like much more mandrake 8 and I don't whant to go back on MD 7.2 tanks and sorry for my English
[newbie] CD labeler
Hi all! I need some good CD box labeler to run under MDK 8.0. Thanks Carlos
[newbie] LM8.0 bug fixes
as i said a few days ago, my LM8.0 installation failed because of my thinkpad's ps/2 mouse. have someone installed this new version perfectly with this kind of mouse/computer? if not, does any one know if there is a way to patch the kernel or when 8.1 is being released? Carlos
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8
I ran sndconfig like you say, but I got an error. It correctly located my CS4237B:CTRL Sound card, but it couldn't get it working although there was a pop. I got the error: modprobe error: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Does anyone have a sound-slot-0? Or is there some other problem? I also tried folling the CS4232 how-to which says to: modprobe sound insmod ad1848 insmod uart401 insmod cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 it said it didn't like the irq. i gave it the argument again with irq 7 and it didn't complain. but still no sound. Thanks fro the sndcnofig tip. I had no idea about that and for the first time it did make a pop noise which is something. Darin on 5/10/01 11:44 PM, Kit at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do this logout...of X...then select: Restart (but in commandline mode or linux prompt mode) when there, put this command in: /usr/sbin/sndconfig or /usr/bin/sndconfig (forget which,try both) then just do what it says...afterwhich, log back into X you should then have sound. I bought the same CD's from the same place... I had know trouble at all...everything worked fine. Darin Lang wrote: Anyone else have installation problems? FWIW, I had no problems installing Mandrake 8.0 from the CD set I bought from CheapBytes.com. My mouse works: all three buttons and the scroll wheel, Logitech with a ps/2 type connector, I don't know if that is a ps/2 mouse techincally though. My screen resolution is perfect and stable, something it never was before when I had Slackware Linux, the image flickered and was distorted and it took me weeks to get it that good. I do not have sound, because I have an obscure sound card (cs4237b) on an ISA bus. But everything else installed without a hitch, automatically upon install including my printer. I did have to reinstall twice before I was happy with the intalled software configuration. But it ran well everytime and did a nice dual boot install without any hitches. I did have a hard time getting Apple Talk running, since it is not included (Samba is) for some stupid reason/oversight. And Postfix was a bit difficult to configure, but much easier than sendmail which I never did get to work when I was running slackware linux, but Red Hat has a nice how-to. Up till this week I have been running Slackware Linux with no printer, no mail server, no sound, a jittery display that was so difficult to look at for any length of time that I gave up using it and just telnetted from the computer sitting next to it. 2 mouse buttons worked and it took me 2 days to get the keyboard layout switched to Dvorak on boot. Mandrake took care of everything almost automatically and it is running nicely except for the sound, though it did install my TV tuner card. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/
[newbie] where's a RealPlayer for LM-8.0 rpm
Hey...where can I find a RPM for realplayer that will install/run on Mandrake 8.0 -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12a) (US EST)
