Re: [newbie-it] come fare le parentesi graffe.....
Il 00:35, venerdì 18 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Sembra una cavolata, ma non so come fare le parentesi graffe. Sotto windows usavo ALT+(codice ascii) ma sulla mia dstro non funziona... Sapete aiutarmi'? Grazie anticipatamente Paolo Premi Alt Gr + 7 per la graffa aperta e Alt Gr + 0 per la chiusa. -- Marco website: www.SuperAlberT.It/~tongpo
Re: [newbie-it] come fare le parentesi graffe....
02:35, venerdì 18 Maggio 2001, Kayard: Sembra una cavolata, ma non so come fare le parentesi graffe. Sotto windows usavo ALT+(codice ascii) ma sulla mia dstro non funziona... Sapete aiutarmi'? Sul mio computer con la Mandrake 7.2 ho molti di questi caratteri usando Alt Gr + vari tasti a sinistra del backspace. In particolare le graffe sono AltGr+7 e AltGr+0 Tommaso
[newbie-it] Mandrake 8
Ciao a tutti , ho da qualche giorno installato la versione 8.0 di Mandrake e volevo esporre i miei problemi . Uno Xcdroast non funziona bene , cioè quando clicco sull'icona scrivi il programma si chiude bruscamente , quindi non posso masterizzare . Ora quello che so e che la versione di xcdroast è una versione test , la stessa della 7.2 in cui non mi dava problemi . Questo programma mi piace moltissimo ed è molto facile da utilizzare. C'è qualcuno che ha avuto il mio stesso problema ed è riuscito a risolverlo? Due all'avvio quando parte la ricerca del nuovo Hardware mi da il seguente problema : mi dice che non riconosce il nuovo hardware e mi dice che devo toglierlo , ma io non ho installato nessun nuovo hardware da quando l'ho installato, del resto questo problema non influenza sul funzionamento del sistema però aumenta l'attesa dell'avvio visto che ci impiega quasi un minuto in più del dovuto. Che cosa devo fare? Diciamo subito che un miglioramento per questa nuova versione di mandrake c'è stata , però gli errori ci sono visto che anche xmms ha un baco che però grazie ad una mail presente in questa mail list sono riuscito a risolvere , comunque sia sono soddisfatto lo stesso . In attesa di una risposta ringrazio anticipatamente. Ciao
Fw: [newbie-it] Problemi MOUSE nella console PROBLEMI INSTALLAZIONE MDK8
1)Ciao, Ops scusate, avevo sbagliato a ricordarmi l'elenco e al posto di FirstMouse+ dovevo scrivere MouseMan+:P (cmq se sbaglio ancora sto intendendo l'unico modello logitech su PS/2 che compare nell'elenco delle scelte) Cmq ho provato a configurarlo come normale e non cambia niente, quando gli do ok... mi accetta la cosa e poi però non mi cambia le impostazioni sul file (credo) perché non mi cambia neanche nell'elenco di DrakConf da console testo... Aiuto! :( 2) Poiché mi è arrivata una risposta sul mio indirizzo che non ho visto arrivare in ML, la riforwardo a tutta la lista perché oltre ad una possibile soluzione per me contiene una domanda a cui io non so rispondere e mi sembra più utile farla leggere a tutta la ML... (non potevo splittare il messaggio se no non si capiva questa cosa quindi al limite potete farlo voi che rispondete a me o a Fabrizio) Ciao e Grazie :) Matteo - Original Message - From: Fabrizio Manca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Matteo Merlin' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 8:32 AM Subject: R: [newbie-it] Problemi MOUSE nella console Ciao, 1) hai provato a configurarlo come normale? Il tuo modello non mi risulta esserci nell'elenco dei mouse supportati... 2) Mi scrivi, per cortesia, come hai fatto ad installare la MDK8.0 ? quando la installo mi da un errore missing basesystem package... Grazie. Ciao. Fabrizio. -Messaggio originale- Da: Matteo Merlin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: venerdi 11 maggio 2001 0.22 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Problemi MOUSE nella console Ciao, da quando ho installato la MDK 8 ho notato che nella console, cioe quando avvio programmi tipo linuxconf, harddrake, etc non mi va il mouse... e neanche con harddrake riesco a cambiare la scritta unknown sia sul modello che sulla marca... Dentro a X invece tutto funziona bene.. e anche se rimane la scritta unknown nel frontend grafico di harddrake, il mouse mi funziona... P.S. E' un logitech FirstMouse+ su PS/2 (con rotellina)... Matteo
[newbie-it] L'orologio corre troppo!!!
Aiuto, la MDK8 sembra non darmi tregua: l'orologio è perenemente sbagliato... però solo le ore e KDE ha dei ritardi sostanziosi che sembrano influenzare il comportamento dell'orologio... Sembra che le ore crescano troppo velocemente rispetto ai minuti cioé crescono senza che i minuti girino i 60 Boh? Se avete qualche consiglio vi ringrazio davvero :) Ciao! Matteo Merlin
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Diciamo subito che un miglioramento per questa nuova versione di mandrake c'è stata , però gli errori ci sono visto che anche xmms ha un baco che però grazie ad una mail presente in questa mail list sono riuscito a risolvere , comunque sia sono soddisfatto lo stesso . In attesa di una risposta ringrazio anticipatamente. Ciao Ah, intanto è finalmente uscita la versione 1.2.5 di xmms; pur trattandosi di una pre-release, funziona egregiamente (ho installato i tarball sulla M7.2). Corrado
[newbie] where are the API docs?
Good morning all. I wonder where I can read info about linux API. It was convenient in wins to have them right off the bat, I knew the location. Now it is linux and I'm a bit confused...
Re: [newbie] lnx4win and windows 2000
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 14:14, Eduardo Carrancá wrote: Can I use lnx4win and windows 2000 with NTFS? Or is better not to try it? Thanks for your help Eduardo Definitely do NOT try it. Lnx4Win was designed for win 9x. If you want to have a linux there, make room by shrinking a partition and install a eal linux dual-boot . Civileme
Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel
On Thursday 17 May 2001 07:32, John Clark wrote: I have a MSI 694D motherboard with onboard VIA 686a chipset ide controller and Promise FastTrak 100 w/ lite bios. I also have an additional Promise FastTrak 66 with full bios. I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0 I have 5 hd's and a cdrom all set to master. 20gig onboard VIA ide channel 1 cdrom onboard VIA ide channel.2 40gig onboard fastrack channel 1 40gig onboard fastrack channel 2 30gig on pci fastrack channel 1 30gig on pci fastrack channel 2 If I have all drives hooked up and boot the cd the cd hangs affter it detects hda and hdc the pdc driver in the kernel only sees 1 channel on the 2 promise cards. If I unplug the cables from the drives on the promise cards I can boot the cd and install. after installing I can plug the cables back in and see 1 40gig and 1 30gig drive but I get random lockups. (do I need to recompile the kernel???) I have tried changing the way the drives are in the promise bios (1 drive stripe, 2 drive stripe, 2 drive mirror, etc) with no different results. My guess is that the kernel module needs some parameter passed to it to see the second channel on the promise controllers, but I don't know what to do. I have searched and searched on the net for answers and put my problem into mandrake expert but still no answers. If someone could help me I would appreciate it much! I don't want to install windows again just to use my drives. Sorry, Promise FasTrak is NOT SUPPORTED. To be blunt, IDE RAID Controllers, with the exception of 3ware, are more notable for the amount of money they are able to make fleecing consumers than for any hardware RAID. The RAID functions are controlled by secret EPROM software and are far less efficient and totally incompatible with Linux Software RAID. Also, they are proprietary, and they have no drivers for kernel 2.4. (RH driver for kernel 2.2 existed but it was also not free software) We have been able to use them only by turning off the RAID, or, lacking that, by installing on ONE drive and using it in mirroring mode, using the controller to copy to the second drive. Also, our tests showed that drives attached to that controller ran slightly faster and with much higher noise immunity, if driven at udma4 instead of udma5... In other words, the limited tests we were able to do showed that it handled the drives better at Ultra-66 than at Ultra-100. Civileme _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] very slowly
On Thursday 17 May 2001 10:34, Paul wrote: It was Thu, 17 May 2001 11:53:35 -0500 when Chubby Vic wrote: Perhaps time to look for another window manager? Paul Dang, they must be a bunch of mean old buttfaces who don't want to help anyone, why did they do that? On Thursday 17 May 2001 11:11 am, so spoke Irv Mullins: I had the same problem, KDE was so slow that I couldn't get any work done. When I posted this to the KDE list, all I got was flames, but about half of the people on the ALE list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who tried KDE 2 reported similar problems. Some people with 750 mhz machines even reported slowness, so it seems to be not directly related to hardware. My only choice was to go back to 7.2. Regards, Irv Ummm, I don't think so. I have a Celeron 366 running KDE under 8.0 very fast. I believe the fault may lie with the hdd and how it is set up under 8.0. I have been noting the phenomenon that some disks which claim to be Ultra-66 or 100 often run faster, up to 5 times faster, at UltraDMA33. Obviously channel noise and retransmissions are a large source of this problem, but the default 2.4 kernel does attempt to drive disks at their rated speed. I am working on an optimizer program for hdds which should improve this performance, or at least find settings where hard drives work with peak noise immunity and near peak throughput. It should be ready soon. The Celeron 366 is running a mxtor Udma-66 at 31.89 Mb/s tested speed. Civileme -- Elephant, n.: A mouse built to government specifications. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] linux-nonfb (/boot/vmlinux) entrie on boot loader
On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:23, Nuno Ricardo Loureiro Ferreira wrote: Hi all I've just installed Win2000 and LM 8.0 on my machine. The instalation went fine (think). After reboot, the graphical lilo bootloader presented me with an entrie called linux-nonfb (/boot/vmlinux). Can any tux friend, elucidate me about this? Regards, Nuno Ferreira That is the linux-non framebuffer kernel. It will not run Aurora, so no graphical startup, but its memory footprint is lower if you are using X, and its speed should be slightly better. Also, Quake II and Quake III, among other games, do not like to run with a framebuffer kernel, so it is appropriate to boot nonfb if you are going to play graphic-intensive games. Civileme Civileme Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] XCDROAST
HI there all I'v installed Xcdroast and all the libs that must go with it. First of all I got the message that I needed GTK+ so I installed that too now I get this message. What do I have to do to creat a helper program in order to get it to run. Iv checked out the site indicated but that didn't seem to help. This is the message that now appears when I try to run Xcdroast. Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper program instead. For further details, see: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html Refusing to initialize GTK+. Anybody got any ideas.
[newbie] Firewall - Your Personal Choice
Right now I am using PMFirewallmainly because it was used by Mandrake in their firewall tutorialbut is there a better firewall than PMFirewall and I am also not too sure if the firewall is up and running...ther is no indication if it is running or not. What is your personal choice of a firewall ( I am using a DSL connection) and does your choice give you some kind of indication that it is up and running...?? Rod
[newbie] konqueror question
I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear the location bar in Konqueror web browser. I was not able to find anything in their help or on the online FAQ. I am really stumped over this one. Thanks all for looking at this Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] LM8 ISDN and CHAP
Hi folks, Are there any known issues regarding ISDN and CHAP in LM8? I`ve struggled for the past 2 days to get it do dialup and authenticate with no success whatsoever. ] System: 1ghz AMD, 512M ram, Geforce2. Asuscom ISDNLink PCI internal TA. draknet, as in LM7.2, makes an arse of detecting the card thinking it to be a Dynalink. So I correct it to the Winbond chipset and it then works (learnt that with 7.2). PAP ISP`s work fine, though my main ISP and BTInternet which uses CHAP. /var/log/messages reports ippp0 connecting ok then the remote end dropping followed by authenticaion faliure, no CHAP secret found in chap-secrets. /etc/ppp/chap-secrets is like this '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' * 'pass' * pap-secrets is the same. Fraid I can post the config files at the moment, but this is from a clean install then just running draknet. Machine used to have a 3com card in it but I took that out then reinstalled thinking that may have been causing trouble (for some bizarre reason draknet likes to try dialling using eth0). IMO the LM network scripting needs complete re-write, its vastly inferior to other distro`s methods. TIA for any advice. Mongrol, I don`t look like a two zombies.
[newbie] ASUS A7V133 Motherboard
I'm in the midst of building a new machine and I'm trying to decide what motherboard I should go after. I'm going with a AMD K7 850, (For $105, it's a great price! :0) so now I need a motherboard to put it in of course. Upon looking at motherboards, I saw the ASUS A7V133 and the A7Pro. Well the A7V133 has an onboard Promise controller. It's the PCI-ATA100, it also has 4 x PCI and 1 x PCI/AMR. What I need to do is set the machine up with a SoundBlaster 16, and two NICs. Provided I can work the shared IRQs so there aren't any IRQ conflicts, will Mandrake 8.0 have a problem with the PCI-ATA100 controller? I like the A7V133 over the A7Pro for two reason. The A7V133 has 266/200 FSB, the A7Pro only has 200 FSB. No big deal there, but the A7Pro only does UltraDMA/66. I have UltraDMA/100 drives so I would like to access an use that speed. Other wise I'd go with the A7Pro because one it's about $30 cheaper, and not having to worry about problems with that Promise Controller. Does anybody else know how this motherboard/IDE controller combination works with other distros? I like to frequently just install another distro on a spare drive just to see what it looks like. Thus far I've not come across anything that'd make me leave Mandrake, but I like knowing what's out there, and having some sort of knowledge of it. Any help would be really appreciated. And for those of you running this kind of hardware, your experience and or war stories are very welcomed! Thanks! tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi.
Re: [newbie] Firewall - Your Personal Choice
Rod, Pmfirewall is fine for a workstation on a local network that also has a dedicated firewall, but I would not recommend it for an Internet-accessible server. By dedicated firewall, I am talking a separate box that only does firewalling and nothing (or almost nothing) else. I use FreeSco (www.freesco.org) for my dedicated firewall. It is based on an older Linux kernel, boots off a floppy, and runs on my 486 with 16MB RAM in a virtual RAM disk -- so once it is booted up, I pull out the floppy, making the machine virtually unhackable. I say unhackable, because there are no drives that can be mounted, and therefore even IF someone manages to crack the system and install a backdoor, a simple reboot from diskette wipes the RAM disk and gives me a clean system once again. Further, because the system is dedicated, there are no other Internet services running that are known security risks. Also, it constantly shows me its system log on the monitor, so I always know when the firewall is running properly, and if anything strange is happening (like someone scanning my network for open ports, etc.). I also run pmfirewall on my workstations, because if someone manages to get into my firewall, then they still have another local firewall to get past if they really want to reach my important systems. Hope this helps, Dave On Friday 18 May 2001 07:22, thus spake Rod Upfold: Right now I am using PMFirewallmainly because it was used by Mandrake in their firewall tutorialbut is there a better firewall than PMFirewall and I am also not too sure if the firewall is up and running...ther is no indication if it is running or not. What is your personal choice of a firewall ( I am using a DSL connection) and does your choice give you some kind of indication that it is up and running...?? Rod -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
[newbie] How to install a module?
HI, How to install a module on linux M.?
Re: [newbie] LimeWire
My LimeWireLinux.Bin installed on LM8 after I install Kaffe. Use the software manager, load the flat list and look for kaffe. After installing kaffe try installing LimeWire. Cyphfer On Thu, 17 May 2001, Marcia Waller wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2001 06:20, John Farrell wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001 03:17, Geoffrey Lee wrote: The way I got it to work was not to use the Linux version but the Other version. Download that and you should have a file named LimeWireOther.zip. I gave up on LimeWire and download phex. It works nicely. John Thank you for the advice. Where does one get phex? Sincerely, Marcia Waller Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com
Re: [newbie] where are the API docs?
That kind of depends on what you want to do. For just general C and C++ standard API stuff, you could use either man pages (which I use as a last resort), or any books that you would have on the standard library would work (Linux sticks to standards like POSIX and ANSI for threads, etc., so you don't need to learn any weird proprietary API's). If you're planning on doing development in the KDE, there are two areas you'll want to look at. First, check out the Qt library at www.trolltech.com and click on Reference Doc. under Resources (while you're there, you might want to download Qt Designer); next, you'll want to head over to www.kde.org and www.kdevelop.org, so that you can write full blown KDE apps easily. There are links to tutorials on Qt and KDE programming at all of these sites (and Qt even works in Windows!!!). If you're in to graphics programming, you may want to check out www.libsdl.org. It has links to some fantastic tutorials involving OpenGL. If you just want to do plain PHP/Perl stuff, go on www.google.com and type PHP tutorial, or perl tutorial; you're bound to come up with tons of matches. If you're planning on doing Java stuff, download Java from blackdown (www.blackdown.org), and use the API docs from java.sun.com. Hope this has been helpful. Have fun messing with your new system! --- dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning all. I wonder where I can read info about linux API. It was convenient in wins to have them right off the bat, I knew the location. Now it is linux and I'm a bit confused... __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Messed up my boot up
I've been messing around with my LM 7.1. I'm attempting to update a number of packages so I can compile the latest kernel. I upgraded e2fs to version 1.19. This installs files in /usr/man/man1 man8. It installs files such as xxx.1 and xxx.8. After installing these files, I went in and deleted what appeared to be duplicates. I did this because the INSTALL suggested that if I didn't remove them, the system would keep using the older versions. When I tune2fs --version I got the previous version number. So, I went in and deleted the .bz2 version of every duplicate I had. (i.e. xxx.8 xxx.8.bz2). The only problem is, I think I deleted more pairs than files that got installed. The version number that it displays is now correct. However, I screwed a boot file. As it tries to mount one of my hdas, it drops into fixit mode. I don't have any problem reinstalling 7.1 and doing all of this all over again. Right now I'm just playing with it. Nothing serious. However, if there's a way to avoid all of that, I would appreciate it. Anyone know of any way to recover the man files I deleted without reinstalling? Maybe learn a little about system fixing and recovery.
[newbie] Accidentally deleted files installed with an RPM, want to get them back
Hey all, I accidentally deleted some files that were installed on my system via an RPM last night. I tried to reinstall the RPM with rpm -U theRPMName, but the rpm utility told me that the rpm was already installed. If it's possible, I'd like to get access to just those files that I accidentally deleted, so that no files are overwritten that shouldn't be. Does anyone know how this would be done? If I were to do a forced install, would I accidentally overwrite more recent versions of files? The rpm I'm using is the XFree86-devel RPM from LM 8.0, and I accidentally deleted the header files in /usr/X11R6/include/GL. If it's easier, could someone send me a gzipped tarball of these files? Thanks in advance to whoever can help solve my little hiccup (I'd give you an explanation as to how this happened, but it would be too embarrassing). __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] very slowly
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave wrote: Well, it's still strange -- my ThinkPad is a 300MHz Celeron with 64 MB RAM, and it runs both KDE 2 and Gnome just fine. Your system should be able to do as well, from a hardware standpoint. Is it possible that even though the correct X driver is installed, the video settings (refresh rate, etc.) are still not quite correct? Just a thought. Dave Well, that rules out memory as the problem; I'm using a Celeron 300 with 128 megs. Further investigation shows that many programs that use X (some Euphoria graphics programs, for example) run at about the same speed as they did on 7.2. If I open all programs I am going to use, then switching between them seems reasonably fast. However, if one of them needs to open a new window, to set preferences, select a file, or pop up a warning message, for example, it takes so long I've often forgotten what I was doing. And if for some reason I should want to open another program, I have time to walk to the kitchen for a snack before it shows up. I don't need the extra weight! Regards, Irv
Re: [newbie] konqueror question
Brandon, look to the left of the location box. You will see the word location and left of it a white x in a black icon. Click that and you will see the address box empty. BTW I am very pleased with Konqueror, I have Java, secure Java, JavaScript and several plugins work great. You can do 99% of all your browsing with Konqueror. Ciao, Eric Indiogine On Friday 18 May 2001 06:29, brandon wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear the location bar in Konqueror web browser. I was not able to find anything in their help or on the online FAQ. I am really stumped over this one. Thanks all for looking at this Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LM8 ISDN and CHAP
It was Fri, 18 May 2001 12:59:47 +0100 when Brian Skreeg wrote: /etc/ppp/chap-secrets is like this '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' * 'pass' * I am not sure about your card, that should not be a problem. But are you certain that you need to log in with your entire e-mail address? Of course, if it worked fine in MDK7.x then ignore my message... Paul (who still has to take the upgrade step) -- The only rose without thorns is friendship. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] konqueror question
Eric, Thanks for the reply. I was actually wondering how to clear all entries in the location bar. I know that you can do a ctrl-u (which does what you included) but I have alot of old entries in the location bar that keep auto populating when I type in a URL. How do you clear all entries in the location field, not just what is in the location line.. Thanks Brandon On Fri, 18 May 2001, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Brandon, look to the left of the location box. You will see the word location and left of it a white x in a black icon. Click that and you will see the address box empty. BTW I am very pleased with Konqueror, I have Java, secure Java, JavaScript and several plugins work great. You can do 99% of all your browsing with Konqueror. Ciao, Eric Indiogine On Friday 18 May 2001 06:29, brandon wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear the location bar in Konqueror web browser. I was not able to find anything in their help or on the online FAQ. I am really stumped over this one. Thanks all for looking at this Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel
I understand how the controller works, I just want a driver that works with it. I don't care how the drives come up I just want to be able to use them, software raid or not. From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:28:34 -0700 On Thursday 17 May 2001 07:32, John Clark wrote: I have a MSI 694D motherboard with onboard VIA 686a chipset ide controller and Promise FastTrak 100 w/ lite bios. I also have an additional Promise FastTrak 66 with full bios. I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0 I have 5 hd's and a cdrom all set to master. 20gig onboard VIA ide channel 1 cdrom onboard VIA ide channel.2 40gig onboard fastrack channel 1 40gig onboard fastrack channel 2 30gig on pci fastrack channel 1 30gig on pci fastrack channel 2 If I have all drives hooked up and boot the cd the cd hangs affter it detects hda and hdc the pdc driver in the kernel only sees 1 channel on the 2 promise cards. If I unplug the cables from the drives on the promise cards I can boot the cd and install. after installing I can plug the cables back in and see 1 40gig and 1 30gig drive but I get random lockups. (do I need to recompile the kernel???) I have tried changing the way the drives are in the promise bios (1 drive stripe, 2 drive stripe, 2 drive mirror, etc) with no different results. My guess is that the kernel module needs some parameter passed to it to see the second channel on the promise controllers, but I don't know what to do. I have searched and searched on the net for answers and put my problem into mandrake expert but still no answers. If someone could help me I would appreciate it much! I don't want to install windows again just to use my drives. Sorry, Promise FasTrak is NOT SUPPORTED. To be blunt, IDE RAID Controllers, with the exception of 3ware, are more notable for the amount of money they are able to make fleecing consumers than for any hardware RAID. The RAID functions are controlled by secret EPROM software and are far less efficient and totally incompatible with Linux Software RAID. Also, they are proprietary, and they have no drivers for kernel 2.4. (RH driver for kernel 2.2 existed but it was also not free software) We have been able to use them only by turning off the RAID, or, lacking that, by installing on ONE drive and using it in mirroring mode, using the controller to copy to the second drive. Also, our tests showed that drives attached to that controller ran slightly faster and with much higher noise immunity, if driven at udma4 instead of udma5... In other words, the limited tests we were able to do showed that it handled the drives better at Ultra-66 than at Ultra-100. Civileme _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] MSI694D - Promise FastTrak 66/100 -- Failure -- Lockup !
I have had no data corruption under 2000 I have had over 300gig of rars all sfv checked with NO problems. I installed SUSE 7.1 and it seemes to be working, no boot problems or lockups or random crashing, but it still only sees the first channel. From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ISU COMPU DUDE [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MSI694D - Promise FastTrak 66/100 -- Failure -- Lockup ! Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:06:26 -0700 On Wednesday 16 May 2001 17:11, ISU COMPU DUDE wrote: I have a MSI 694D motherboard with onboard VIA 686a chipset ide controller and Promise FastTrak 100 w/ lite bios. I also have a Promise FastTrak 66 with full bios. I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0 I have 5 hd's and a cdrom all set to master. 20gig onboard VIA ide channel 1 cdrom onboard VIA ide channel.2 40gig onboard fastrack channel 1 40gig onboard fastrack channel 2 30gig on pci fastrack channel 1 30gig on pci fastrack channel 2 If I have all drives hooked up and boot the cd the cd hangs affter it detects hda and hdc the pdc driver in the kernel only sees 1 channel on the 2 promise cards. If I unplug the cables from the drives on the promise cards I can boot the cd and install. after installing I can plug the cables back in and see 1 40gig and 1 30gig drive but I get random lockups. (do I need to recompile the kernel???) I have tried changing the way the drives are in the promise bios (1 drive stripe, 2 drive stripe, 2 drive mirror, etc) with no different results. My guess is that the kernel module needs some parameter passed to it to see the second channel on the promise controllers, but I don't know what to do. I have searched and searched on the net for answers and put my problem into mandrake expert but still no answers. If someone could help me I would appreciate it much! I don't want to install windows again just to use my drives. Massive data corruption cross-channel on ide occurs with win2K and many versions of linux with the VIA 686x chipset. First, before anything else, update your BIOS. VIA has been working with motherboard manufacturers to correct this _hardware_ bug by setting up IDE a bit differently thus eliminating the logic race condition. Second, there is a good possibility that the install kernel and the boot kernel see your drives at different locations. I expect a fix will be available early next week for that. Third, it may be that the Promise controllers actually do share an interrupt in which case there is little or nothing to be gained by having every device on a primary channel, and no performance hit would ensue from simplifying your hardware to the on-board plus ONE Promise controller. Civileme _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Accidentally deleted files installed with an RPM, wantto get them back
If you still have the original rpm, you can do a: rpm -qpil rpmname and that will show you what files the rpm has it will also tell you where it installes them to On Fri, 18 May 2001, Scott Canady wrote: Hey all, I accidentally deleted some files that were installed on my system via an RPM last night. I tried to reinstall the RPM with rpm -U theRPMName, but the rpm utility told me that the rpm was already installed. If it's possible, I'd like to get access to just those files that I accidentally deleted, so that no files are overwritten that shouldn't be. Does anyone know how this would be done? If I were to do a forced install, would I accidentally overwrite more recent versions of files? The rpm I'm using is the XFree86-devel RPM from LM 8.0, and I accidentally deleted the header files in /usr/X11R6/include/GL. If it's easier, could someone send me a gzipped tarball of these files? Thanks in advance to whoever can help solve my little hiccup (I'd give you an explanation as to how this happened, but it would be too embarrassing). __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] very slowly
I just thought of another possibility. The X windows server, at least in
certain cases, will try to resolve the domain and IP of a host making a
request (in other words, it does a DNS lookup). Are you connected to a
network? I have run into terrible slow-downs when I lose a network
connection but Linux hasn't figured it out yet. If I stop networking
('/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop'), then my system will speed up again
because X recognizes that there is no network to do DNS lookups for.
Dave
On Friday 18 May 2001 09:31, thus spake Irv Mullins:
Well, that rules out memory as the problem; I'm using a Celeron 300 with
128 megs. Further investigation shows that many programs that use X
(some Euphoria graphics programs, for example) run at about the same
speed as they did on 7.2.
If I open all programs I am going to use, then switching between them
seems reasonably fast. However, if one of them needs to open a new
window, to set preferences, select a file, or pop up a warning message,
for example, it takes so long I've often forgotten what I was doing.
And if for some reason I should want to open another program, I have
time to walk to the kitchen for a snack before it shows up.
I don't need the extra weight!
Regards,
Irv
--
Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
[newbie] lost lilo
Hi folks, I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2. I can no longer dual boot between linux and Win 98. No lilo. How do I get the lilo back? Thanks. Marshall
Re: [newbie] How do I start kde2?
Are you using startx from the command prompt? try using startkde On Fri, 18 May 2001, marshall weber wrote: Hi folks, I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0. I thought I configured it for kde2 but gnome comes up. I would prefer using kde2. I think it's installed but I'm not sure. Thanks. Marshall Marshall L.Weber Applications Analyst Information Services Northwest Airlines, Inc.
[newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
What would be the proper entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount my windoze partition from hde? I would like to at least have read access to be able to access files. Is this correct? /dev/hde1/mnt/windows ext2defaults 1 2 Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Re: [newbie] How to install a module?
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Aka Hippolyte MEA wrote: HI, How to install a module on linux M.? list modules /sbin/lsmod install-insert /sbin/insmod /path/to/module.0 uninstall-remove /sbin/rmmod module_name -- Petre Daniel Romanian Whitehat Phone:+4093591346
[newbie] Problems with Junkbuster Webwasher
Hi, With 7.1 7.2 I have used Junkbuster and latterly Webwasher with no problems. With 8.0 (clean install) Webwasher runs and I can see it in the process list but I can't access it via any browser. Junkbuster won't start and says it can't bind to port 8000 and says another Junkbuster might be running. I have also tried Webmin and I can't use that either; it runs but I can't get at it. I have tried taking out the firewall and removing iptables just be sure but no luck, even though I don't that's anything to do with it. The machine was set at medium security on install but if I try to change the security level to something lower ( in kde) I don't think it's working as when I go and look it's always set to medium. I can access the internet OK via dial up (this is a standalone machine). I'm sure the fix is trivial but I'm probably overlooking the obvious. Regards, Nick Walster
[newbie] Is Linux-Mandrake mailing list a Newsgroup?
Hi Everyone, Please excuse my Newbieness but I have a question regarding these e-mails. Is this service (LM mailing lists) of all e-mails supposed to be setup as a newsgroup? I have never been subscribed to a newsgroup but, for all the mail I get now I wonder if this is supposed to be in a newsgroup folder or different location within my Inbox so I don't have all the e-mails with the rest of my non-LM e-mail. Thanks, TezcatlipocA
[newbie] Re: Asuscom probs
If yours is like mine, you should not let MDK autodetect then when the card list comes up choose the Winbond, Wxxx chipset at the bottom. Mine has been working with this settings since mandrake7.1. Card type in the /etc/isdn/profiles/mycard file should be 36. Thanks man, that really helped! But how can I connect with 128kbps?
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive - Lost Interrupt
Ron Phelps wrote: I recently installed 7.2 and have the following problem when I boot. If I don't have a zip disk in the drive when I boot, the message hdd: lost interrupt repeatedly prints on the screen and the boot process stalls. At this point if I put a disk in the drive I still get the lost interrupt message. Under 7.0 I also got this message but the boot process continued after displaying this message just once at each bootup. I don't want to have a zip disk in the drive each time I boot. Does anyone have a solution? Is this related to automount? The message does not seem to have anything to do with the zip drive as the zip drive normally mounts on sda4 and not hdd. Please submit your /etc/fstab file. It would be of help to see the exact sequence of error messages. See what you can find inte the syslog and/or errorlog I use automount and I have a zip drive, but I never saw any message like this. /Serafim
Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
Try this: /dev/hde1/mnt/windows vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 It should give you full read/write access. Dave On Friday 18 May 2001 10:33, thus spake Ed Kasky: What would be the proper entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount my windoze partition from hde? I would like to at least have read access to be able to access files. Is this correct? /dev/hde1/mnt/windows ext2defaults 1 2 Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA .. . . . . . . . In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
On Fri, 18 May 2001, you wrote: What would be the proper entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount my windoze partition from hde? I would like to at least have read access to be able to access files. Is this correct? /dev/hde1/mnt/windows ext2defaults 1 2 I think you'll find vfat works better than ext2 for windows partitions ;) And be sure you have created the directory /mnt/windows before you add this line to fstab. Regards, Irv
Re: [newbie] How do I start kde2?
If you're startde from graphical login, there is a drop down selector. Ric marshall weber wrote: Hi folks, I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0. I thought I configured it for kde2 but gnome comes up. I would prefer using kde2. I think it's installed but I'm not sure. Thanks. Marshall Marshall L.Weber Applications Analyst Information Services Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Re: [newbie] konqueror question
brandon wrote: Eric, Thanks for the reply. I was actually wondering how to clear all entries in the location bar. I know that you can do a ctrl-u (which does what you included) but I have alot of old entries in the location bar that keep auto populating when I type in a URL. How do you clear all entries in the location field, not just what is in the location line.. Thanks Brandon ~/.kde/share/config/konq_history -- Alan
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have tried to adjust the resolution, etc, but nothing has helped much. I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia -- Marcia Waller Dear All, I am still having the same problems with the printer. When I try to use calibrate-gimpprint nothing will print out, so I cannot calibrate anything yet. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Accidentally deleted files installed with an RPM, want to get them back
Try rpm -Fvh rpmname.rpm -F freshens. So, it should only update with files that are newer and replace missing files. --- brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you still have the original rpm, you can do a: rpm -qpil rpmname and that will show you what files the rpm has it will also tell you where it installes them to On Fri, 18 May 2001, Scott Canady wrote: Hey all, I accidentally deleted some files that were installed on my system via an RPM last night. I tried to reinstall the RPM with rpm -U theRPMName, but the rpm utility told me that the rpm was already installed. If it's possible, I'd like to get access to just those files that I accidentally deleted, so that no files are overwritten that shouldn't be. Does anyone know how this would be done? If I were to do a forced install, would I accidentally overwrite more recent versions of files? The rpm I'm using is the XFree86-devel RPM from LM 8.0, and I accidentally deleted the header files in /usr/X11R6/include/GL. If it's easier, could someone send me a gzipped tarball of these files? Thanks in advance to whoever can help solve my little hiccup (I'd give you an explanation as to how this happened, but it would be too embarrassing). __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] XCDROAST
El Vie 18 May 2001 04:34, escribiste: HI there all I'v installed Xcdroast and all the libs that must go with it. First of all I got the message that I needed GTK+ so I installed that too now I get this message. What do I have to do to creat a helper program in order to get it to run. Iv checked out the site indicated but that didn't seem to help. This is the message that now appears when I try to run Xcdroast. Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper program instead. For further details, see: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html Refusing to initialize GTK+. Anybody got any ideas. Just go to www.xcdroast.org Carlos
Re: [newbie] Is Linux-Mandrake mailing list a Newsgroup?
On Friday 18 May 2001 12:01, TezcatlipocA wrote: Please excuse my Newbieness but I have a question regarding these e-mails. Is this service (LM mailing lists) of all e-mails supposed to be setup as a newsgroup? I have never been subscribed to a newsgroup but, for all the mail I get now I wonder if this is supposed to be in a newsgroup folder or different location within my Inbox so I don't have all the e-mails with the rest of my non-LM e-mail. This is not a newsgroup, although it serve much the same purpose. A newsgroup is part of a service such as Usenet rather than e-mail. There are tens of thousands of newsgroup on Usenet including several for the discussion of Linux, both in general (alt.linux) and specifically (alt.os.linux.mandrake). Most ISPs include Usenet access as part of their basic user accounts; try a newsreader such as KNode or Pan, or the newsreaders built into Netscape or Mozilla. -- Walter Luffman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Medina, TN USA Diabetics are sweet people (Type 2 5/99, d/e/m/motorcycle) Sage, purple 1998 Honda VT1100C Shadow Spirit
[newbie] Step by step DivX guide?
Are there any step by step idiots guide to installing DivX codecs and everything I need to watch DivX movies? -- ICQ# 27396393 Registered Linux User #181996
Re: [newbie] lost lilo
edit /etc/lilo.conf to include windows 98. Then run /sbin/lilo See this page for details: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/iboot.html --- marshall weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2. I can no longer dual boot between linux and Win 98. No lilo. How do I get the lilo back? Thanks. Marshall __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Is Linux-Mandrake mailing list a Newsgroup?
Yes, all messages sent from this list will have [newbie] in the subject line. Therefore, you should be able to create a filter based on that and have the newbie messages go to their own folder. --- TezcatlipocA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, Please excuse my Newbieness but I have a question regarding these e-mails. Is this service (LM mailing lists) of all e-mails supposed to be setup as a newsgroup? I have never been subscribed to a newsgroup but, for all the mail I get now I wonder if this is supposed to be in a newsgroup folder or different location within my Inbox so I don't have all the e-mails with the rest of my non-LM e-mail. Thanks, TezcatlipocA __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] konqueror question
There are several ways to do this: 1. Move to the end of the location line (you can press 'end') and press 'ctrl-u'. This works in many other places as well, including a standard console prompt and most input locations in X.. 2. Move to the beginning of the location line (you can press 'home') and press 'ctrl-l'. This works almost everywhere as well. 3. You can type your URL into an 'Open Location' dialogue window. Click 'Location' - Open Location. You can configure a key binding (click 'Settings' - 'Configure Key Bindings') and/or a toolbar button (click 'Settings' - 'Configure Toolbars') for this feature. This window has a 'Clear' button. 4. You can use the methods above to assign a key binding and/or toolbar button to clear the location bar itself. On Fri, 18 May 2001 12:29, brandon wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear the location bar in Konqueror web browser. I was not able to find anything in their help or on the online FAQ. I am really stumped over this one. Thanks all for looking at this Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Marcia, Is that an ink jet printer? Did you have it out of service very long while you upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0? Is there any chance a cartridge has clogged up? Do you have another computer that you can use to test the printer? Just some things to check. Randy Kramer Marcia Waller wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia
[newbie] menu editing again!
here i am in lovely looking lm8, i.e. it looks the same as lm7.2, eagerly looking forward to those little niggling things having been fixed from lm7.2 and guess what, java still doean't work in konqueror and most annoyingly, editing the menus still produces zero effect! it's such a tiny thing but it's driving me mad, how does one alter a menu item and have it stay changed? before any one mentions /etc/menu please note: i have this directory - it is empty i have manually edited /usr/share/applnk-mdk/ entries, i have manually edited ~/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/ entries, at the same time, i have removed write permissions (and made them owned by root if not already) but whan i log out and then in again they've been altered back, i had a long conversation here with lm7.2 and never had a coherent picture of: a) what files have menu entires in them b) what menu relevant routines are run on login c) how are the menu editing progs kmenuedit amd menu drake supposed to work? i mean, in menudrake if i choose the kde context i get more entries in the lefthand display than if i choose 'all' as a context, now is it me or is that just not what you'd expect, what is the difference between user config and system config? - they look the same, what are en/disable mandrake customistion suppose to allow/disallow? if there is a page on the net where this stuff is explained please point me to it because i can't find it, what i do have is two progs -menudrake and kmenuedit - that look as though they do something but in fact don't, who designed the menu system? perhaps they have a contact addy? i need to know exactly how this menu system works, otherwise it's obvious that i will never learn how to alter it i feel a little self conscious complaining about such things when i have this distro for free, but if those who want linux to replace a certain other os in the hearts and minds of users really want that to happen then people like me need to be listened to, what are the odds that someone who can't even alter a menu item is going to feel that they can 'control' their desktop? more likely is that rather than feeling empowered they will in fact feel stupid, like i do bascule
Re: [newbie] Firewall - Your Personal Choice
Also try http://www.bastille-linux.org --- brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use a firewall, but I found this one: http://www.astaro.com/products/index.html it seems to have a nice graphical interface to configure with. Hope it helps you.. Brandon On Fri, 18 May 2001, Rod Upfold wrote: Right now I am using PMFirewallmainly because it was used by Mandrake in their firewall tutorialbut is there a better firewall than PMFirewall and I am also not too sure if the firewall is up and running...ther is no indication if it is running or not. What is your personal choice of a firewall ( I am using a DSL connection) and does your choice give you some kind of indication that it is up and running...?? Rod __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] SoundBlaster 128/512
As I mentioned earlier, I'm building a new machine this weekend. I wanted to know if anybody has used or had good dealings with SoundBlaster 128, or SoundBlaster 512 in their Mandrake 7.2, or Mandrake 8.0 machines. I've found a place that has them for a pretty good price, and was wondering if I should just stick with the SoundBlaster 16? Any input would be appreciated! Thanx! tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi.
Re: [newbie] Accidentally deleted files installed with an RPM, want to get them back
Try typing 'man rpm' in a terminal. That should give all the info you need about RPM. In short, the command you're looking for is 'rpm -Uvh --force filename.rpm'. On Fri, 18 May 2001 15:18, Scott Canady wrote: Hey all, I accidentally deleted some files that were installed on my system via an RPM last night. I tried to reinstall the RPM with rpm -U theRPMName, but the rpm utility told me that the rpm was already installed. If it's possible, I'd like to get access to just those files that I accidentally deleted, so that no files are overwritten that shouldn't be. Does anyone know how this would be done? If I were to do a forced install, would I accidentally overwrite more recent versions of files? The rpm I'm using is the XFree86-devel RPM from LM 8.0, and I accidentally deleted the header files in /usr/X11R6/include/GL. If it's easier, could someone send me a gzipped tarball of these files? Thanks in advance to whoever can help solve my little hiccup (I'd give you an explanation as to how this happened, but it would be too embarrassing). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] HELP! LM8 installed fine, now not.. what changed? Compaq 1800T
I have a Compaq 1800T laptop. 1400/1050 screen with a ATI Mobility AGP(2) 16MB graphics card. First time I installed LM8 the graphics worked at 1400!!! It was beautiful.. However, hitting ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console produced LCD frying, i.e. nothing visible. Reinstalled, worked again! installed some games, rebooted got a bunch of INPUT/OUTPUT effors with the different services in rc.5 or something. Locked up. Rebooted into failsafe, worked. But slowly, however, console mode worked fine. Every subsecuent normal linux boot, went real slow.. so I reinstalled. Now here's the problem. Now, whenever I install, it asks me what kind of monitor I have and no matter what I chose, I get LCD Frying... why does it ask me now, but not the first two times? Anyone have any clues?? Is there a way to perform the X-windows graphics setup from console mode? Set the card, and resolution and try to start xwindows? Please help, I want to fix this so bad so I can put up a T-file on linuxlaptops.com. I've been working at this for 90 days, reading about the kernel, drivers, XF86, sound.. I will get it!! Thanks!
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our choices - buy a HP, go back to 7.2, or do without a printer until maybe it's fixed in 8.1. P.S. I asked this question in a couple of newsgroups and never got any answers on how to fix, only confirmation from others that their epsons are doing the same thing. So it's not just us. :-( We are as they, sol. -s On Friday 18 May 2001 11:05 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have tried to adjust the resolution, etc, but nothing has helped much. I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia Dear All, I am still having the same problems with the printer. When I try to use calibrate-gimpprint nothing will print out, so I cannot calibrate anything yet. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Marcia
[newbie] Where's ncurses-devel for Mandrake 8.0?
Hello! I'm having trouble finding the ncurses-devel RPM package for Mandrake 8.0. It doesn't appear together with the ncurses RPM on my install or extension CD, nor in the list of packages for 8.0 on the FTP mirror site I checked. I searched the mail-list archive and found 13 entries for ncurses-devel, mostly for 7.2, but none for 8.0. The kernel-source RPM for Mandrake 8.0/kernel 2.4.3 lists ncurses-devel as a dependency, so I figured there must be a package somewhere with ncurses-devel for 8.0. But where? Please help! Thanks in advance! David McClamrock
Re: [newbie] Is Linux-Mandrake mailing list a Newsgroup?
On Friday 18 May 2001 12:01, TezcatlipocA wrote: Please excuse my Newbieness but I have a question regarding these e-mails. Is this service (LM mailing lists) of all e-mails supposed to be setup as a newsgroup? I have never been subscribed to a newsgroup but, for all the mail I get now I wonder if this is supposed to be in a newsgroup folder or different location within my Inbox so I don't have all the e-mails with the rest of my non-LM e-mail. You can certainly move the emails from this list to a different folder, but they won't move there automatically unless you set something special up to do that. I think some mail clients can filter mail, presumably into different folders, and then there are things like procmail. Neither is for the real novice. Why don't you reply with the name of the email client you are using -- maybe someone can tell you whether it has filtering capability built in. Presumably you are on Linux. Somebody know of a good GUI email client that can automatically (after set up) filter mail to different folders? Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 128/512
On Friday 18 May 2001 3:11, you wrote: As I mentioned earlier, I'm building a new machine this weekend. I wanted to know if anybody has used or had good dealings with SoundBlaster 128, or SoundBlaster 512 in their Mandrake 7.2, or Mandrake 8.0 machines. I've found a place that has them for a pretty good price, and was wondering if I should just stick with the SoundBlaster 16? Any input would be appreciated! Thanx! tdh Tim; I'm running both. No problems at all. Install Mandrake with Plug 'n' Play turned off and there should be no problems at all. -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User # 190712
Re: [newbie] printing with Cups in LM8
Hi Marcia, I had the same problem with my Epson Stylus Color 600 printer producing severely banded text output when I upgraded to LM8 from LM7.2. Moreover, there were also very long and painful pauses during the printing process - which were absent in LM7.2. I also use the CUPS+GIMP driver. Recently though, the problems disappeared and printing works perfectly once again. I'm not sure why exactly, but it's probably due to one of these 2 following things that I'd done since: 1) updated to the recently released 1.1.7 CUPS packages 2) moved the printer from SMB printing via a shared Windows box, to LPR printing via my new SMC Barricade router/print server. Hope this helps. On Saturday 19 May 2001 00:05, Marcia Waller wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have tried to adjust the resolution, etc, but nothing has helped much. I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Step by step DivX guide?
Hi, I use avifile from http://divx.euro.ru/ First of all, as root (or su), extract the binaries-xxx.zip to /usr/lib/win32. Next extract the avifile-xxx.tar.gz file to /home/user. Now cd avifile ./configure make su make install Note that before doing all these, you probably have to first select and install the developer packages for SDL and Qt via Mandrake Software Manager. Check the compile messages for any other unsatisfied dependencies if anything fails at any point, and install accordingly. You can now create a shortcut on the menu or your desktop pointing to: /usr/local/bin/aviplay Now you can watch DivX, WMP (though limited to non-streaming) and ASF files too. :) On Friday 18 May 2001 18:16, Jon Doe wrote: Are there any step by step idiots guide to installing DivX codecs and everything I need to watch DivX movies?
Re: [newbie] Network printing problem
KUPS is simply amazing - it can scan for a networked printer, and installation proceeds in an entirely point-and-click fashion, without any typing whatsoever (except for printer name..). I hope Mandrake will one day incorporate this ease of use into its Printer configuration applet. :) On Saturday 19 May 2001 05:47, Todd Flinders wrote: Have you tried setting the printers up with kups? That makes it super easy. Configuration-Printers-Kups --- John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a cross-post. I've set up a local network of 2 1/2 machines (well one is only half working til I find some monitor specs grin), and I have no trouble transferring data and using a common dialup connection. My problem is getting printing to work. I can print from any of the machines if a printer is physically connected to the parallel port - that's easy. What I haven't been able to do is print across the network.
Re: [newbie] Is Linux-Mandrake mailing list a Newsgroup?
Randy Kramer wrote: On Friday 18 May 2001 12:01, TezcatlipocA wrote: Please excuse my Newbieness but I have a question regarding these e-mails. Is this service (LM mailing lists) of all e-mails supposed to be setup as a newsgroup? I have never been subscribed to a newsgroup but, for all the mail I get now I wonder if this is supposed to be in a newsgroup folder or different location within my Inbox so I don't have all the e-mails with the rest of my non-LM e-mail. You can certainly move the emails from this list to a different folder, but they won't move there automatically unless you set something special up to do that. I think some mail clients can filter mail, presumably into different folders, and then there are things like procmail. Neither is for the real novice. Why don't you reply with the name of the email client you are using -- maybe someone can tell you whether it has filtering capability built in. Presumably you are on Linux. Somebody know of a good GUI email client that can automatically (after set up) filter mail to different folders? Hope this helps, Randy Kramer Thanks for the explanation Randy. I followed the advice of you guys and I setup a Filter on Netscape. Now all the e-mail about (newbie) goes to a different folder. TezcatlipocA
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 128/512
Yeah, I bought one for about 35 bucks about 6 months ago and for some reason it sounded pretty bad in Mandrake and Caldera. (Bad-bad, not bad-good). It was an oem, and I was worried it may be defective. But I recently put it in my son's machine running win98 and he loves it. It sounds great. So I don't know what the deal in linux was, but might as well go a few more bucks and the get the Sound Blaster LIve - Value. (The value is the same basic hardware as the x-gamers and platnium, it's just the software that makes the price and name difference.) Others may have had better luck, I don't know. -s On Friday 18 May 2001 02:11 pm, you wrote: As I mentioned earlier, I'm building a new machine this weekend. I wanted to know if anybody has used or had good dealings with SoundBlaster 128, or SoundBlaster 512 in their Mandrake 7.2, or Mandrake 8.0 machines. I've found a place that has them for a pretty good price, and was wondering if I should just stick with the SoundBlaster 16? Any input would be appreciated! Thanx! tdh
[newbie] Which is the Real Player version for Linux Mandrake???
Hi Amigos, I am simply very excited using Linux. I like to listen to music a lot. I found out that Real Player can be installed on Linux-Mandrake but I don't know which version is the one. Can you please show me the way??? Linux 2.x (libc6 i386) or Linux 2.x (libc6 i386)RPM Thanks, TezcatlipocA
Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
If it's an ntfs formatted partition do I use ntfs in place of vfat? Ed At 01:20 PM Friday, 5/18/2001, Dave Sherman wrote -= Try this: /dev/hde1/mnt/windows vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 It should give you full read/write access. Dave On Friday 18 May 2001 10:33, thus spake Ed Kasky: What would be the proper entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount my windoze partition from hde? I would like to at least have read access to be able to access files. Is this correct? /dev/hde1/mnt/windows ext2defaults 1 2 Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA .. . . . . . . . In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen. - Peter Brock
[newbie] ip address of ppp0
Can someone tell me how to determine the ip address of ppp0 using script? I have my adsl connection up and running but I have to update dyndns.org manually. I want to update it automatically. Thanks Reggie
Re: [newbie] Network printing problem
Have you tried setting the printers up with kups? That makes it super easy. Configuration-Printers-Kups --- John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a cross-post. I've set up a local network of 2 1/2 machines (well one is only half working til I find some monitor specs grin), and I have no trouble transferring data and using a common dialup connection. My problem is getting printing to work. I can print from any of the machines if a printer is physically connected to the parallel port - that's easy. What I haven't been able to do is print across the network. Cups has an amazing amount of documentation but for the life of me I cannot work out what I need to configure where. Three machines running LM8 and Cups 1.1.7, 3 printers (HP Laserjet 4p, HP Deskjet 500, 15 Epson Dotmatrix) M/c #1 IP = 192.168.0.1, called Tom.localhost.localdomain (HP4P) M/c #2 IP = 192.168.0.2, called Dick.localhost.localdomain (DJ500) M/c #3 IP = 192.168.0.3, called Harry.localhost.localdomain (Epson) Reading the various parts of the Cups documentation seems to keep coming back to implementations where the printers are individually addressed by unique IP and MAC addresses, which to me suggests that each printer has networking hardware built in, and that's certainly not the case here. Can someome point me to a HOWTO or webpage with a step by step process for doing this? Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
