[newbie-it] MDK 8.0 apostrofi e parole accentate
Salve a tutti, sono oramai un fedele utente di MDK dalla versione 7.0 arrivato alla 8.0 noto lo stesso problema. ho impostato i font Arial su KDE e sui vari programmi che uso, ma su alcuni di essi, es. Opera 5 mi appare un piccol quadrato anzich apostrofi e parole accentate, come posso fare a risolvere il problema? Luca
Re: [newbie-it] 7.2 e ISDN
Salve, ho ancora problemi con la scheda ISDN. Vorrei comunque ringraziare Germano che mi sta aiutando; purtroppo non sono riuscito a risolvere il problema (sicuramente a causa della mia incompetenza). Il file /etc/rc.d/init.d/isdn4linux alla riga 159 contiene solo un numero (il 15) e nulla più. Credo che la parte che riguarda la ASUSCOM non sia quella ma il pezzo di codice che comincia con 12 . E' quello il numero che devo modificare con 35 o 36? Di seguito inserisco una perte del testo contenuto in quel file: 12) I4L_CARDNAME=ASUS COM ISDNLink HISAX_PAR2=irq=$I4L_IRQ io=$I4L_PORT ;; 13) I4L_CARDNAME=HFC-2BS0 based cards HISAX_PAR2=irq=$I4L_IRQ io=$I4L_PORT ;; 14) I4L_CARDNAME=Teles 16.3c PnP HISAX_PAR2=irq=$I4L_IRQ io=$I4L_PORT ;; 15) if [ -n $I4L_IRQ ] ; then I4L_CARDNAME=Sedlbauer PC/104 or Speed card HISAX_PAR2=irq=$I4L_IRQ io=$I4L_PORT else I4L_CARDNAME=Sedlbauer Speed PCI HISAX_PAR2= fi ;; La riga 159 è appunto quella conil 15. Se qualcuno può darmi una mano gliene sarei infinitamente grato. Cordialmente Giuseppe Foti [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12.59 19/05/01 +0200, you wrote: Il 11:53, sabato 19 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Salve, ho provato a fare quanto descritto nel file che Germano mi ha gentilmente indicato ma purtroppo ho ancora dei problemi: ho configurato manualmente il file /etc/isdn/profile/link/myisp (e comunque era stato configurato correttamente, credo, dal DrakConf) ho configurati il File '/etc/isdn/profile/card/mycard' utilizzando i Devi solo passargli il parametro che indica che tipo di scheda hai (per le asuscom è 12). Qui però potrebbe esserci il primo problema: Karsten Keil (SUSE) , che è il tizio che ha scritto i programmi per Linux che gestiscono l' ISDN mi ha detto che il software della Mandrake ha un bug quindi bisogna provare invece che con 12 con 35 (o 36 non ricordo). Quindi , se stai seguendo i consigli di quel sito, devi modificare il file /etc/rc.d/init.d/isdn4linux, li dentro c'è un pezzo (riga 159) in cui confronta il type con quello che gli hai scritto precedentemente
Re: [newbie-it] Fine iscrizione
Il 20:50, venerdì 25 Maggio 2001, Sebastiano Cordiano ha scritto: On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:09 +0200 Sapete dirmi perche' da un po' di tempo (da meta' aprile mi pare) questo sympa non mette piu' l' indirizzo della lista nel campo Reply-to ma lascia quello del mittente? Almeno da me e' cosi' ed e' mooolto scomodo.. Anche qui e` cosi`, usando la funzione ``Reply-All'' dovrebbe funzionare bene :)) -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] SSH2 deamon
Hello everybody!, I have installed SSH2 in my LM v7.0. What should I do to be able to start sshd2 start at boot time. Thanks in advance Jhun, -http://www.nccc.com.ph
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems
well i tried that and it's not there i searched for it! anything else? On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:31:15 + George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if it did it didn't find it it's a Sound Blaster Pro. And for some reason i can't find a place in linux to setup my sound card. Were is the conf for sound Try typing 'sndconfig' in a console. It is a Red Hat program (that should come with your system) but it works for me in Mandrake 7.2. Avoid running it in an X Session. Hope it helps, George ~ GiZiM ~ Angelis Errare - Where Angels Lose Their Way Due to rising energy costs, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off untill futher notice.
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems
On Saturday 26 May 2001 03:47, you wrote: well i tried that and it's not there i searched for it! anything else? On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:31:15 + George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if it did it didn't find it it's a Sound Blaster Pro. And for some reason i can't find a place in linux to setup my sound card. Were is the conf for sound Try typing 'sndconfig' in a console. It is a Red Hat program (that should come with your system) but it works for me in Mandrake 7.2. Avoid running it in an X Session. Hope it helps, George ~ GiZiM ~ Angelis Errare - Where Angels Lose Their Way Due to rising energy costs, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off untill futher notice. -- The RPM for sndconfig is on the second CD if that's what you're looking for Poogle
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess
On Friday 25 May 2001 23:44, you wrote: Dear All, I have not been able to install the new cups 1.1.8. Has anyone successfully installed this in LM8? I am the one who has been asking for cups printing help for my Epson Stylus Color printer on LM8 for days now. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I got everything configured and whenever I try to print it just pours out an endless stream of paper with gibberish. When I go to the terminal and do cancel or lprm it says that I cannot cancel lp. When I check into lpstat it shows nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? How can I cancel these jobs once this gets started? May I use a whole different printing system other than cups and how would I do that? How do I install the lpr system so that I that I do not need cups. I would appreciate any help. As of now I cannot print anything from Linux. My printing worked well in Lm 7 and Lm7.2.Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia Marcia, Don't know if this will help or if it has been suggested before. Have you tried setting up your printer through kups (note the k - it's on the first CD if you didn't install it) this gives you the options for selecting your printer queue, make model, ghostscript etc. I see that there are a number of Epson stylus printers listed there but I don't remember which model your's is. -- Poogle
Re: [newbie] SSH security update
hi! thanks for your suggestions. i checked the version and it was the latest released. then i check the ssh_config and noticed all options from host and below were out commented. fixed that too, tested n didnt work. then i tried with new keygen to update rsa1 , rsa and dsa keys. ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N still not working. but i WILL MAKE IT WORK someday ! :) thanks again Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't had any problems, yet I haven't upgraded it since I installed Mandrake 8.0. However, one of the things that our Buddies at OpenBSD and OpenSSH like to do, is completely change the config files. The version that comes with Mandrake 7.2, and the version that you upgraded to a few months later, has a completely difference /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Now it has a banner you can add and more. What it sounds like you have going on now, would be strict host checking. When I read your message that was the first thing that came to mind. Here's where you can find that option. /etc/ssh/ssh_config # $OpenBSD: ssh_config,v 1.9 2001/03/10 12:53:51 deraadt Exp $ # This is ssh client systemwide configuration file. See ssh(1) for more # information. This file provides defaults for users, and the values can # be changed in per-user configuration files or on the command line. # Configuration data is parsed as follows: # 1. command line options # 2. user-specific file # 3. system-wide file # Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set. # Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the # configuration file, and defaults at the end. # Site-wide defaults for various options Host * ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes RhostsAuthentication no RhostsRSAAuthentication yes RSAAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication yes FallBackToRsh no UseRsh no BatchMode no CheckHostIP yes StrictHostKeyChecking no IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa1 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa2 Port 22 Protocol 2,1 Cipher blowfish EscapeChar ~ TransmitInterlude 100 Host * ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes # Cipher 3des TransmitInterlude 100 StrictHostKeyChecking no You can either comment out the StrictHostKeyChecking line, or you can simply make sure it's set to no. It's good to have it set to yes, just for security. Makes it a bid more difficult to get into the machine if it is set like that, but if you're not always accessing it from the same machine, or the same IP address, that can cause problems. So a lot of people just leave it set to no. Start looking at that file, which is /etc/ssh/ssh_config. Look for things like the strict host checking. You can also compare it to the syntax I pasted above. That came from a Mandrake 7.2 machine, with the up to date SSH. (Myself and the other Linux Admin of that server always keep up on the updates for that machine.) You can also go through /etc/ssh/sshd_config file that has some more configs in it. That should get you off to a start, and honestly I think it's the StrictHostKeyChecking but good luck, and if that doesn't try the list again. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010524 18:25]: | hi! | i'm running mandrake 7.1 and run ssh server in order to access my pc during daytime when i'm not home. as a common behaviour i updated the ssh related packages today. since that update i can not remotely login. i have to mentian that sshd had been up and running fine just till after updating. have anyone been having same problem ? is there anything i have to configure to make it work again ? all suggestions are welcome | thanks in advance | __ | Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs
I downloaded the L-M8 ISOs today, burned them to CD, and tried to install. It keeps freezing just after the first screen with the (enter or more options choices. I'm guessing, according to my research of similar reports of these symtoms in the newsgroups, the ISOs are corrupted. Somewhere I saw online just today how to run the md5sums so that it checks to make sure the image files are ok before burning the CDs. For some reason I just can't find that info again. I did look - honest. Could someone point me to where I can find out how to check to make sure my image files are ok with this md5sum file, or just tell me how to do it? I'm a complete Linux novice, assume I know nothing. Greatly appreciative, Eric Lauritzen
Re: [newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs
i have the same problem, but when DRAKX try copy the file system to hard drive --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I downloaded the L-M8 ISOs today, burned them to CD, and tried to install. It keeps freezing just after the first screen with the (enter or more options choices. I'm guessing, according to my research of similar reports of these symtoms in the newsgroups, the ISOs are corrupted. Somewhere I saw online just today how to run the md5sums so that it checks to make sure the image files are ok before burning the CDs. For some reason I just can't find that info again. I did look - honest. Could someone point me to where I can find out how to check to make sure my image files are ok with this md5sum file, or just tell me how to do it? I'm a complete Linux novice, assume I know nothing. Greatly appreciative, Eric Lauritzen _ Do You Yahoo!? Obtenga su dirección de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Certification
On Thursday 24 May 2001 07:09, Mark Johnson wrote: I was thinking about going for my linux certification because I figured that would allow me to really learn linux and be systematically taught by some people that really understand the system. But perhaps I'm begin naive. Any thoughts about the value of linux certification? Well, all current linux certification programs I am familiar with do not have a boot camp appraoch as I have seen used by Microsoft and to a lesser extent Cisco. By that I mean, they let the student live in aq hotel, eat meals with the instructors, take the exam twice or three times a day, and coach them on the areas missed. Instead the linux cert programs are more like the Novell cert. You really have to understand the stuff. Training is another area, entirely. Some do it well, some do it poorly, almost all charge. The RedHat ExamCram, I believe an O'Reilly book, is not especially RH-centric and teaches a lot of useful things fast if you are already an engineer. As far as career moves--type linux at monster.com and you will find the maximum number of jobs listed that they will list. A lot of those folks are either unable to assess resumes or are bone-headed enough to believe in certificates, regardless of their true worth. FWIW, I have no linux certificate. Civileme
Re: [newbie]cups printing again
On Thursday 24 May 2001 18:46, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Some packages are costumed to use lpr as the command to print; but cups have changed this. Now the command for acroread, kwriter, etc. must be xpp. Try it, in my case all those packages are now printing fine, I have configured my two printers: A) Epson Stylus Color 760 attached to one of the USB ports B) HP LaserJet 4L attached to the parallel port I have also the Epson in cups as two differents printers, lp1 as medium resolution (360 ppi) and lp3 as low resolution (180 ppi). When I try to print from, for example, acroread, using xpp as the print command, I can select one of the 3 printers/configurations. Using kups you can also improve the printers results, I mean leaf margins, graphical and text resolution and so on. Francisco Alcaraz Mucia(Spain) El Jue 24 May 2001 12:16, escribiste: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. Sincerely, Marcia And you can also setup the printer queue in cups like say Printer679 as a queue name and make the command lpr -P Printer679 And that will work with cups, but it lacks the power of choice you have with xpp. For some with a single printer, though, it is simpler. LyX is the one that will not run that way. You either have to get the cups mini-daemon to run (cups-lpd) or print to a postscript file and then use xpp to print the postscript file. Civileme
[newbie] Masq. and Firewall
My son uses ICQ, a Java chat program (?) and a last night he tried to connect to some URL that he uses his camera with (he is using Win98). The two chat programs would work and then he would lose his connection to them and then he would have to restart his his chat programs to get reconnected to chat. The video connection couldn't be made. Have I set something up wrong with the masq. or firewall...they worked with before with him directly connected through the DSL connectionactually before I got creative and added the router in and my daughter and my computer were hooked up. 3 computers 1 router computer 1 10/100 switching hub DSL modem The 2 computers and the router have 10 network cards and my son has a 10/100 networking card ( I gave him a 10 card this morning to replace the 10/100 card - to elimate that as the problem). Although the 10/100 card should be auto sensing and do a adjust of speed it self. Is this a masq. or firewall problem that I missed (or maybe I screwed up something in my setting up the router)? Thank you Rod
[newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
Each time I try to update my installation, rpmdrake fails, saying the packages already exists. The installable files shown in the updates only list are all newer versions than those installed. Is there any way of forcing this program (Software Manager) to *update* rather than just perform an install? Or is it back to the command line to download/update the individual packages? TIA Alex So far, I must say, I'm not overly impressed with Linux (Mandrake 8.0), having come from a Windows NT environment, with 15 years computing experience.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
You need to remove the resources you do not want to use from the lists if you want the update to work properly. Then you must specify the external source precisely. There are very few updates available as yet, but I would suspect that if it is aaying already installed on packages defnitely not there, then rpm --rebuilddb from a command line in a terminal window, logged as superuser, migth make all the differnce. If you really want to update, I recommend you use software manager to REMOVE the files that will be updated, then in a separate process, to install the new files. In some areas, rpmdrake/software manager is still very much bleeding-edge. As far as WinNT comparisons, hmmm. I wasn't aware that you could update 2000+ packages over the web with it. Civileme On Saturday 26 May 2001 06:02, Alex Potter wrote: Each time I try to update my installation, rpmdrake fails, saying the packages already exists. The installable files shown in the updates only list are all newer versions than those installed. Is there any way of forcing this program (Software Manager) to *update* rather than just perform an install? Or is it back to the command line to download/update the individual packages? TIA Alex So far, I must say, I'm not overly impressed with Linux (Mandrake 8.0), having come from a Windows NT environment, with 15 years computing experience.
Re: [newbie] SSH2 deamon
First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Many people using text e-mail clients (such as pine), will get all kinds of extra html specific junk and / or will see it in a very small font size. In answer to your question, ssh2 is included as part of the sshd daemon--which means that there isn't a separate sshd2 script. To start sshd, run '/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start' (without the quotes) from the command line. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 02:52 PM 05/26/2001 +0800, jhun bacala wrote: Hello everybody!, I have installed SSH2 in my LM v7.0. What should I do to be able to start sshd2 start at boot time. Thanks in advance Jhun, size=2>- http://www.nccc.com.ph
[newbie] windows 2000 dual boot
hello, i just purchased mandrake 7.2 and wanted to configure my system to dual boot between windows 2000 and linux. when i installed linux, i lost my windows (i wasn't able to boot to it) and ended up rebuilding my system. i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like to get it to dual boot with linux. the drive is ntfs formatted. any advice would be great. thanks in advance, haroon _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs
To check the md5sums on the iso: md5sum mandrake80-inst.iso md5sum mandrake80-ext.iso To chect the md5sums on the burned cd: md5sum /dev/cdrom The dev(ice) in the above statement can be determined by looking at the /etc/fstab file to see where the cd reader is mounted. -- It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux! In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] StarOffice and Netscape 6 in Hotmail
The problem with StarOffice saving Microsoft Office Documents can be resolved unselecting the option Save with the same format and parameters that have the original document. My linux Mandrake 8.0 freeze every time that i try to save word or excel documents, i unselect this option and work fine now. I have a problem with Netscape 6 in Hotmail, when i try to login to my account Netscape 6 freezee and i need kill application, what happend? Simon _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
RE: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot
lilo wouldn't boot up windows anymore and it had taken over the master boot record. i was unable to free it up. when it owuld try to boot windows, it would hang. haroon -Original Message- From: Tanel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 10:08 AM To: Haroon A. Qureshi Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot On Sat, 26 May 2001, Haroon A. Qureshi wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 and Windows 2000 professional, and everything works just fine. How did you lost your Windows? I have never experienced this, but exactly the opposite - Linux won't boot up after installing Windows. i just purchased mandrake 7.2 and wanted to configure my system to dual boot between windows 2000 and linux. when i installed linux, i lost my windows (i wasn't able to boot to it) and ended up rebuilding my system. i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like to get it to dual boot with linux. the drive is ntfs formatted. any advice would be great. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Haroon A. Qureshi wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 and Windows 2000 professional, and everything works just fine. How did you lost your Windows? I have never experienced this, but exactly the opposite - Linux won't boot up after installing Windows. i just purchased mandrake 7.2 and wanted to configure my system to dual boot between windows 2000 and linux. when i installed linux, i lost my windows (i wasn't able to boot to it) and ended up rebuilding my system. i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like to get it to dual boot with linux. the drive is ntfs formatted. any advice would be great.
[newbie] source file in .tcshrc for root from Gnome
Hi, I use Gnome 1.4 and define a panel icon to launch a root KDE terminal. I have installed some software (that need sourcing a file) and have put a source file command in my .tcshrc file. Logging from the shell (su - ) is OK, while I noticed that when clicking on the panel icon, after being asked the root password and giving it, the root password is NOT recognized, as I would have given a false one. Clearly this origins in this source line, because every time I remove it, the root password is recognized when using the panel icon. Does somebody have an understanding of this feature? Marc -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze
[newbie] LM-8.0-review
OK, I have tried LM 7.0, 7.2, and now 8.0. (purchased the power pack editions of 7.2 and 8.0 at best buy stores in Charlotte NC). I believe it was worth every penny each time. now in truth, i do not have any reason for even having a computer, but I have three or four running in this house, networked (mostly win - internet chat and word processing boxes for the wife and kids) I allways have dual booted and have loaded all the toys and bells and whistles (ie: expert-developer install, selecting all the packages and shutting off services i am not going to use after install. I have allways started each distro as a clean install and had my data files stored in some other computer on the home network. I have NOT found any of the hard drive problems, all though my two western digital HD (hda [8.2 gig; hda1- winders_ c -4 gig ,hda5 - /boot - 90 meg, hda6 - linux swap 244 meg (192meg RAMmem) rest is /home]and hdc [10gig; hdc5 - / - hdc6 winders_d) are masters of different ide channels (hdb is cd-dvd player, hdd is cd rom, are the slaves) It found and configured the USB (hp8210e) cd burner with no input from me, and I am now learning to use Gcombust. I personally am glad to see it out
RE: [newbie] Any way to increase or change the fonts in Opera 5
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Romanator Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Any way to increase or change the fonts in Opera 5 HI all, I just downloaded Opera 5. Very fast. Just one thing - my fonts look very small. Is there a way to adjust them? Roman From the File menu choose Preferences. Click on the Document heading. In the resulting screen midway down on the right you will see the listing: Minimum font size. Increase that setting to one that is comfortable for you. Mine is set for 18, which is good for a half blind old man. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
Wrong...KT7-RAID and KT7A-RAID both have 4 ide ports! On Saturday 26 May 2001 14:04, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: The problem is there are no MB's who have more than 2 IDE-connectors (as far as I know, so the best is getting an extra card with again two IDE-connectors on it) Original Message Follows From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] A good Motherboard Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Hello Anyone knows a good motherboard that works fine with Linux and has more than two IDEs (because I have 2 hard drives, CD, CDRW, and a zip drive, so I need more than 2 IDEs) OOzy = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I got everything configured and whenever I try to print it just pours out an endless stream of paper with gibberish. When I go to the terminal and do cancel or lprm it says that I cannot cancel lp. When I check into lpstat it shows nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? How can I cancel these jobs once this gets started? This problem is the same even though I started over and even got the new cups 1.1.8 installed. With this new cups which I had to use force to install left out my cups webadmin choice from my printing selections. Again nothing has changed. It does not print anything or just gibberish and sends many papers through my printer that will not stop even when I try canceling through the terminal. Again lpstat shows nothing even when I have a pending job. This printer worked when I first installed even though the printing quality was terrible. Once I started changing configurations for resolution, etc., then the problems started and still have not stopped. Are there any files I can check? I do not know what else to do. I thought of installing LM8 again in expert mode so that I do not lose my other files. Does anyone have any other suggestions again? Thanks. Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printingMess(cont)
Dear All, I checked my services that should be running in the Mandrake Control Center and there was no cups listed at all. It was before but since I reinstalled the cups it is not there. There is nothing for a printer there. Is not Cups and lpd supposed to be listed? Why would it not be? Also, why will lpstat show nothing. And why can I not cancel my jobs through the terminal with lprm or cancel? Thanks. Marcia
Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
Does the BE6-II supports 133Mhz Bus? --- tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could go with one of Abit's BE6 series..they have a total of 4 connectors for EIDE.the second 2 connectors are an onboard High Point Technologies controller that although it is not true SCSI sets itself up that way.depending on the board you buy(BE6, BE6 II, or BE6 II rev 2 with 100 ata and supposedly raid support of some sort) Personally I have used the BE6 II and had no difficulties setting it up in Linux initially. I've never really gotten all that far with Linux yet though so really can't say how well it works out as a long term solution. The SCSI ports are fine for hard drives but I wouldn't run any CD roms with them. For windows base OS's I usually formated and installed the original OSon the regular EIDE interfaces to avoid errors that have been known to occur on the HPT controller interface. Although after recent bios flashes the reliability has gone way up and I did format and install WIN ME directly from the HPT interface. There may be a work around for thisbut if you install Linux on a different interface other then you are planning to actually use big problems occur since Linux names drive names differently then Windows and the controller drives start with hde instead of hda. As far as the latest version with supposed RAID support if I remember right it was discussed on this group somewhat that some of Abits motherboards RAID is not true Raid and only works on window based boxes. Whether this causes any other problems if just used with out the raid(assuming it can be switched off somehow) I don't know and I have never had the opportunity to try this latest board of the BE6 series. Tazmun - Original Message - From: Pauwel Demeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard The problem is there are no MB's who have more than 2 IDE-connectors (as far as I know, so the best is getting an extra card with again two IDE-connectors on it) Original Message Follows From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] A good Motherboard Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Hello Anyone knows a good motherboard that works fine with Linux and has more than two IDEs (because I have 2 hard drives, CD, CDRW, and a zip drive, so I need more than 2 IDEs) OOzy = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively
Thanks folks, I'm trying to download the iso's as we write. It's getting clearer this will take a while! Cordially, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of s Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively That file hd.img is a 1.4 meg file one puts on a floppy to boot and begin the install from a harddrive after they have downloaded all those 8.0 files in all those directories. You transfere it to a floppy by typing into a terminal: dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 (or /mnt/floppy). others: cdrom.img and network.img On Friday 25 May 2001 03:58 pm, you wrote: where did you download that from? it sounds like that might be driveimage image or a norton ghost image. you might want to download the .iso image b/c you can burn it directly to a cd and you then have an exact copy of the distro cd. thats what i did. only bad thing is you have to download a 650mb file. hope this helps. if you have any other questions just ask james massardo - Original Message - From: Michael Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: james massardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:30 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively It's the image downloaded for 8.0 -- hd.img A single file, *.img Thanks for any help! -mike -Original Message- From: james massardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively what kind of image do you have?? is it a *.iso or is a bunch of folders james massardo From: Michael Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively How do I get my hard drive image to actually work? Got a current windoze install (win98se). Downloaded the hdd image file for 8.0. However don't know how to get it to be there. How is it extracted or executed? Thanks much for any help! Michael Mitchell __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Modems?
Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] How about processors
On Saturday 26 May 2001 14:34, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Guys I am going to be running mainly Mandrake 8.0 and later and Windows 2000 Pro. Which of the following do you recommend. PIII 1.3Ghz P4 1.4Ghz AMD Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 266 Well, you can probably buy two T-Birds for the price of a P4, and in all but a very few Intel-crafted benchmarks, the Athlon outperforms the P4. The T-bird does not have thermal protection so you need a motherboard with sensors and you need to load and activate the lm_sensors mdule to panic shutdown an athlon that has lost its fan. The P3--why bother? It is way below the Athlon in performance and probably higher priced. There is a reason AMD has grown from 10% to 47% market share in a year's time. BTW on motherboards I saw a couple mentioning RAID. You might be able to use those controllers as normal controllers but forget RAID. Those RAID controllers depend on special (windows binary-only) software. YOu can achieve RAID performance with either SCSI hardware RAID, with a 3ware RAID add-on card (yes, GPL drivers and hardware for IDE RAID) or by using linux software RAID which is better than what the cheap fake hardware IDE-RAID controllers offer under Windows. Civileme OOzy = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] How about processors
Hello Guys I am going to be running mainly Mandrake 8.0 and later and Windows 2000 Pro. Which of the following do you recommend. PIII 1.3Ghz P4 1.4Ghz AMD Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 266 OOzy = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Slowness
A note for those who, like me, found Mandrake 8.0 and KDE just too slow to be usable. Today I loaded RedHat 7.1 (Seawolf), and things are fast enough. i.e. an xterm comes up in 2 seconds, kwrite in 3., and Konqueror in 7. Compare these to 15 - 45 second times I was experiencing with Mandrake. Also, I notice that I now have about 95% CPU idle, while with Mandrake 8.0, the figure was down around 5%. (With kapm-idled taking up 95%) Using RedHat, kapm-idled is still there, but uses close to 0% all the time. Regards, Irv
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems
in the console, had you signed in as root? On Saturday 26 May 2001 03:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i tried that and it's not there i searched for it! anything else? On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:31:15 + George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if it did it didn't find it it's a Sound Blaster Pro. And for some reason i can't find a place in linux to setup my sound card. Were is the conf for sound Try typing 'sndconfig' in a console. It is a Red Hat program (that should come with your system) but it works for me in Mandrake 7.2. Avoid running it in an X Session. Hope it helps, George ~ GiZiM ~ Angelis Errare - Where Angels Lose Their Way Due to rising energy costs, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off untill futher notice.
Re: [newbie] Actiontec Internal Call Waiting modem setup
Thanks to all who replied to my plea. I am writing this response from Linux. I have no sound, no USB support, and no printer, but I am at least connected. First things first, right? The problem was indeed an IRQ conflict. --Chase -Original Message- From: Chase Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:06:24 -0400 Subject: [newbie] Actiontec Internal Call Waiting modem setup I am trying to configure an Actiontec Internal Call Waiting modem on Mandrake 8.0. This is a hardware modem advertised as compatible with Linux. I have looked through the archives, and apparently some have had success with it. I got the configuration instructions from Actiontec's web site (also in the archives). After getting the IO address using a cat /proc/pci command, I type the following # setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xbc00 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig At this point, the system hangs. I get no prompt, no message, and no response to keys or mouse. Kind of like Windows. I've tried this from the Gnome terminal, from the regular terminal under KDE, and from failsafe. I tried it with ttyS4, and I tried disabling the onboard sound, which changed the modem's IRQ from 11 to 10, and changed the IO address. Same result every time. I deleted Mandrake and reinstalled. Same thing. I could well have an IRQ conflict here, since it appears that all my peripherals are trying to use IRQs 10 and 11. Before I start disassembling my system trying to find a way to get it working, I thought I'd ask. Is it normal for the system to hang in response to an IRQ conflict here, or is there a deeper problem? My system: Soyo K7VTA motherboard with 750mHz Duron, 128M PC133 ram, 5G and 20G Maxtor drives (Mandrake on 2nd drive), Diamond Speedstar A55, Adaptec AVA 1505 driving Smart Friendly CDR 4012, D-Link ethernet (not currently in use), Ensoniq AudioPCI and Hoontech Soundtrack 4ch sound cards. Any help would be appreciated. --Chase
Re: [newbie] How about processors
I'd be awfully tempted to try the AMD for finacial reasons. I believe all the P4's require the new expensive rambus where if you get the right mobo the thunderbirds can use the DDR ram that is quite cheap.(check out micostar's offering.don't have a clue for Linux though, all the chipsets etc are awfully new) BTWwith any of these processors forget all about the Abit BE6 seriesway to fast for it. Tazmun - Original Message - From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:34 PM Subject: [newbie] How about processors Hello Guys I am going to be running mainly Mandrake 8.0 and later and Windows 2000 Pro. Which of the following do you recommend. PIII 1.3Ghz P4 1.4Ghz AMD Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 266 OOzy = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Modems?
I just purchased the BestData 56K datafax internal modem model # 56SF today and it works fine in Linux! Had no problems at all. Mandrake picked it up without me doing anything. And it is not too expensive. Got it from CompUSA Walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of OOzy Pal Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 6:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modems? Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems
in the console, had you signed in as root? On Saturday 26 May 2001 03:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i tried that and it's not there i searched for it! anything else? On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:31:15 + George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if it did it didn't find it it's a Sound Blaster Pro. And for some reason i can't find a place in linux to setup my sound card. Were is the conf for sound Try typing 'sndconfig' in a console. It is a Red Hat program (that should come with your system) but it works for me in Mandrake 7.2. Avoid running it in an X Session. Hope it helps, George ~ GiZiM ~ Angelis Errare - Where Angels Lose Their Way Due to rising energy costs, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off untill futher notice.
Re: [newbie] Modems?
That's going to depend a whole bunch on whether or not your still going to have an ISA interface in your new mobomost ISA modem would be well supported I think(I prefer 3Com-US Robotics)however if you only have PCI slots you really have to be careful your not just getting a winmodem even though the advertising says it's not because they LIE!!!. I would also check hardware compatibility lists and make sure you match the exact model number posted. - Original Message - From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 5:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Modems? Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
http://www.abit-usa.com/english/index.htm I suggest you view the preceeding URL for info on Abit motherboards. They have a product line that supports Pentium and AMD with all the modern chipsets available today for the most part with 4 eide ports(be aware that the extra ports require another IRQ if your already starved here). The BE6 series of motherboards are slot 1 type for Pentium or celeron processors only includingthe coppermines series(FC-PPA flipchip orPPGA celeron with adaptor as well will function). They are based on a 440BX chipset that was originally designed for 100 Mhz bus only. However Abit retails one board in the 440BX that is advertised as a 133 Mhz board. In my bios setup for different processors it does automatically set the settings for the 133 processor line in my BE6 II without going into the custom overclocking settings Abit was always noted for. If I already had a processor that was 133 though I think I would choose a chipset that was designed for that speed such as the intel 815 chipset. Personally I would stay away from the 810 chipset though since it seemed extremely slow to me on the few boards I occasion to encounter. The 440BX chipset however while old by todays standards was almost too good. Intel and others had one heck of a time beating it and I feel it is still a good choice for up to 1 Gig pentium III processors. However you must make sure the bios will go that high. On abits site when taking note of the processors that each individual board will run.don't count that board out if it doesn't support your processor until after you review the bios flashes available for that board. Although you should consider availability of a lower speed processor to do the initial bios flash. Some would say that it would be a poor investment because it is not upgradable very much at this point. Personally I feel that is a rather weak argument these days because things are going so fast that the only true upgrade almost always requires replacing the whole motherboard to make enough of a change to say you really did an upgrade. Latest and greatest is not always best because it's likely to be buggy...just as the boards I'm recommending were to begin with. And I think its safe to say older reliable chipsets are much more likely to be properly support by Linux. Another one of Abit's most redeeming qualities is that their support teams continue to provide upgrades to most Abit motherboards as much as possible. Sometimes not fast enough...lol...but compared to other manufactures I personally would place them in the top 4. The other brands I like are Asus, Microstar, Supermicro, but beware on boards like Supermicro where processor multiples and bus speeds are set with pin settings thus limiting upgradeability via a simple bios flash. Good Luck Tazmun - Original Message - From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard Does the BE6-II supports 133Mhz Bus? --- tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could go with one of Abit's BE6 series..they have a total of 4 connectors for EIDE.the second 2 connectors are an onboard High Point Technologies controller that although it is not true SCSI sets itself up that way.depending on the board you buy(BE6, BE6 II, or BE6 II rev 2 with 100 ata and supposedly raid support of some sort) Personally I have used the BE6 II and had no difficulties setting it up in Linux initially. I've never really gotten all that far with Linux yet though so really can't say how well it works out as a long term solution. The SCSI ports are fine for hard drives but I wouldn't run any CD roms with them. For windows base OS's I usually formated and installed the original OSon the regular EIDE interfaces to avoid errors that have been known to occur on the HPT controller interface. Although after recent bios flashes the reliability has gone way up and I did format and install WIN ME directly from the HPT interface. There may be a work around for thisbut if you install Linux on a different interface other then you are planning to actually use big problems occur since Linux names drive names differently then Windows and the controller drives start with hde instead of hda. As far as the latest version with supposed RAID support if I remember right it was discussed on this group somewhat that some of Abits motherboards RAID is not true Raid and only works on window based boxes. Whether this causes any other problems if just used with out the raid(assuming it can be switched off somehow) I don't know and I have never had the opportunity to try this latest board of the BE6 series. Tazmun - Original Message - From: Pauwel Demeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:04 PM
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. [snip] This problem is the same even though I started over and even got the new cups 1.1.8 installed. With this new cups which I had to use force to install left out my cups webadmin choice from my printing selections. Again nothing has changed. It does not print anything or just gibberish and sends many papers through my printer that will not stop even when I try canceling through the terminal. Again lpstat shows nothing even when I have a pending job. This printer worked when I first installed even though the printing quality was terrible. Once I started changing configurations for resolution, etc., then the problems started and still have not stopped. Are there any files I can check? I do not know what else to do. I thought of installing LM8 again in expert mode so that I do not lose my other files. Does anyone have any other suggestions again? Thanks. Marcia Marciayou might try removing CUPS completely and going back to lpd. I just did this, as an experiment, in reaction to your comtinuing CUPS problems. Here's how I did it: remove the following (since you installed a 1.8 version you'll have to allow for the version differences) rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-21mdk rpm -e --nodeps cups-common-1.1.6-21mdk rpm -e --nodeps cups-drivers-1.0-30mdk rpm -e --nodeps kups-1.1-6mdk rpm -e --nodeps qtcups-2.1-11mdk then delete these directories /var/spool/cups /var/log/cups /usr/share/cups /usr/lib/cups /etc/cups then put the following rpm files in an otherwise empty directory and install them all at once using: rpm -ivh * lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0) control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2) mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2) if, like I did, you get a dependency error for printtool needing rhs-printfilters-with-ppa then add a nodeps to the command line like this: rpm -ivh --nodeps * If you decide to try this, good luck. lpd is working just fine on my mdk 8.0 system. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
And I just got a new one for my son, an asus cubx, and it has 4, with some mention in the book about 8 devices and raid. It uses the old tried and true 440BX chipset tho. (Got it on sale :-) for 80 bucks). -s On Saturday 26 May 2001 02:24 pm, you wrote: Wrong...KT7-RAID and KT7A-RAID both have 4 ide ports! On Saturday 26 May 2001 14:04, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: The problem is there are no MB's who have more than 2 IDE-connectors (as far as I know, so the best is getting an extra card with again two IDE-connectors on it) Original Message Follows From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] A good Motherboard Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Hello Anyone knows a good motherboard that works fine with Linux and has more than two IDEs (because I have 2 hard drives, CD, CDRW, and a zip drive, so I need more than 2 IDEs) OOzy = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Reply-To header needed
Mark At any rate it would be very helpful and cut down on a lot of Mark extra traffic if you would please add a reply-to header to the Mark message headers. It's been missing for quite some time now and Mark while I can't speak for others, for myself and Pine it would be Mark REAL nice not to have to remove all the other address when all I Mark really want to do is reply to the list and not to the author's Mark home address and however many others were copied on the message. As I've explained in other messages, it's generally a bad idea for mailing list managers to replace or insert Reply-To: headers in the mail they forward along. While it may seem to be a convenience to have it, you *will* regret it the first time you accidentally send a message to the list that is intended just for the person whose message you are replying to. If Pine doesn't allow you to easily edit headers, get a mail user agent that works well with editors like Emacs or vi. I happen to use VM, a standard package bundled with Emacs and XEmacs, but I'm sure there are others that provide similar features. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
[newbie] USB Scanner w/LM 8.0
Hi there, I recently upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake 8.0 and boy it works like a charm. I went on the web site called www.linux-usb.org and it mentioned that my scanner (UMAS Astra 1220U) was supported with a certain version of Kernel. Well, I have that version, but how do I configure my system to recognize that there is a scanner on my USB port? The site wasn't really helpful, at least it didn't speak in English where I could understand it. Any help would be greatly appreciated...I am regoing to the web site, maybe it has it clearer (or my head will be) where I can get it. I will post that I got it if that is the case. Please send me the message as a private message. Thanks! = Richard Wegner - Linux User - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Derek Rayne is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER this is just an e-mail address I chose! I don't do Windows me (Proud Linux User) ICQ #: 12781393 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
I use Mandrake Update as a reference tool only. It has never once removed the previously existing version of anything I have updated. What I do is open a terminal window and login as su, then run Mandrake Update to see what needs an upgrade; I open a browser window and go to whichever mirror Mandrake Update is looking at; download the rpm's and go to my su terminal. There I do an rpm -Uvh on the new rpms. This updates them properly, and you get usable feedback if there are conflicts or dependency problems rather than the terse update failed message that Mandrake Update gives too often. After doing the manual installs, go back to Mandrake Update and tell it to update the package list; the ones just installed will no longer be on the list. I've tried the rpm --rebuilddb command and it makes no difference, because if the older rpms are still there Mandrake Update won't notice the new ones. It looks at the oldest version currently installed. I wish I could take credit for coming up with this procedure, but I had the same problem when I first started using Mandrake and another kind list member clued me in to the limitations of the Update program. Jay Civileme wrote: You need to remove the resources you do not want to use from the lists if you want the update to work properly. Then you must specify the external source precisely. There are very few updates available as yet, but I would suspect that if it is aaying already installed on packages defnitely not there, then rpm --rebuilddb from a command line in a terminal window, logged as superuser, migth make all the differnce. If you really want to update, I recommend you use software manager to REMOVE the files that will be updated, then in a separate process, to install the new files. In some areas, rpmdrake/software manager is still very much bleeding-edge. As far as WinNT comparisons, hmmm. I wasn't aware that you could update 2000+ packages over the web with it. Civileme On Saturday 26 May 2001 06:02, Alex Potter wrote: Each time I try to update my installation, rpmdrake fails, saying the packages already exists. The installable files shown in the updates only list are all newer versions than those installed. Is there any way of forcing this program (Software Manager) to *update* rather than just perform an install? Or is it back to the command line to download/update the individual packages? TIA Alex So far, I must say, I'm not overly impressed with Linux (Mandrake 8.0), having come from a Windows NT environment, with 15 years computing experience. -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
Re: [newbie] Slowness
What kind of computer do you have? My Pentium III 800 with Mandrake 8 don't runs, fly; xterm 1 second, kwrite 1.5 seconds, Konkeror 3 seconds to run. CPU now, with kde, kmail runing, a terminal, kap runing, 5% used Perhaps an old Pentium 166 or a bad installatiob? El Sáb 26 May 2001 17:15, escribiste: A note for those who, like me, found Mandrake 8.0 and KDE just too slow to be usable. Today I loaded RedHat 7.1 (Seawolf), and things are fast enough. i.e. an xterm comes up in 2 seconds, kwrite in 3., and Konqueror in 7. Compare these to 15 - 45 second times I was experiencing with Mandrake. Also, I notice that I now have about 95% CPU idle, while with Mandrake 8.0, the figure was down around 5%. (With kapm-idled taking up 95%) Using RedHat, kapm-idled is still there, but uses close to 0% all the time. Regards, Irv -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Department of Plant Biology Faculty of Biology University of Murcia Murcia (Spain) work e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modems?
I been using a 3com/USRobotics pci Faxmodem (aka 5610) in several distros and versions. Never a problem In additon, the isa Diamond SupraExpress is also very easy to setup and works flawlessly in various distros and versions. Oh, I have set up the isa Creative Modem Blaster (or rather 8.0 set it up) and it works fine in Mandrake 8.0 (only distro tried with it). -s On Saturday 26 May 2001 05:29 pm, you wrote: Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Modems?
I use an external USRobotics 56k. works fine... I think that most brand name external modems will work fine under linux On Saturday 26 May 2001 18:29, you wrote: Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Reply-To header needed
And...you have what relation to this list as far as the list servers go as well as the list admin? -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) On Sat, 26 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark At any rate it would be very helpful and cut down on a lot of Mark extra traffic if you would please add a reply-to header to the Mark message headers. It's been missing for quite some time now and Mark while I can't speak for others, for myself and Pine it would be Mark REAL nice not to have to remove all the other address when all I Mark really want to do is reply to the list and not to the author's Mark home address and however many others were copied on the message. As I've explained in other messages, it's generally a bad idea for mailing list managers to replace or insert Reply-To: headers in the mail they forward along. While it may seem to be a convenience to have it, you *will* regret it the first time you accidentally send a message to the list that is intended just for the person whose message you are replying to. If Pine doesn't allow you to easily edit headers, get a mail user agent that works well with editors like Emacs or vi. I happen to use VM, a standard package bundled with Emacs and XEmacs, but I'm sure there are others that provide similar features.
Re: [newbie] Adding unused disk space to partition - how?
You might want to try fips. I'm not sure if it will do it for a Linux partation but I know that its works on a FAT32 system. Do a search for it on www.goolge.com/linux Its very easy to use. --- Ken Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my Linux machine I have a ~10G HD. When I set it up I only partitioned a small DOS, Swap, and about a 5G Linux partition, leaving about half the HD unused. If I remember the Linux partition is the last one physically on the drive. I had intended to later install another Linux distribution there, but have since changed my mind and want to add that unused space to my Linux partition. What tools can I use to do this? I have the DOS version of Partition Magic 4.0 installed but don't know if it will work successfully on Linux partitions - seems I read somewhere it doesn't. I have Mandrake 8.0 on the machine and so have its tools available. Can I do this and if so what's the easiest way and least likely for this old fumble-fingers to screw up? Thanks. Ken __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Reply-To header needed
Now tha was informative... -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) On Sat, 26 May 2001, Paul Cox wrote: On Saturday, May 26, 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, Well, actually this is directed to list server admin more then the list itself. At any rate it would be very helpful and cut down on a lot of extra traffic if you would please add a reply-to header to the message headers. It's been missing for quite some time now and while I can't speak for others, for myself and Pine it would be REAL nice not to have to remove all the other address when all I really want to do is reply to the list and not to the author's home address and however many others were copied on the message. I normally set Pine to always use the reply-to when replying to a message so I'm sure you can see the dilema when hitting R to reply to a message from the list. thanks -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)
[newbie] Questions during Install
Hi all. I have a three year old Compaq Presario computer that I want Mandrake 7.2 installed in. When I inserted the disks and rebooted the computer, there was a problem with detection of the CD ROM. I was asked to pick a cd rom from a list. Mine [Matshita] wasn't on the list. I picked *ide cd* instead and then I was asked to enter *Module Options.* I have no idea what module Option is. Can anybody tell me what I should enter? Thanks, Raj __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] USB Scanner w/LM 8.0
Here a link for ya'. http://www.mostang.com/sane/ -s On Saturday 26 May 2001 07:10 pm, you wrote: Hi there, I recently upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake 8.0 and boy it works like a charm. I went on the web site called www.linux-usb.org and it mentioned that my scanner (UMAS Astra 1220U) was supported with a certain version of Kernel. Well, I have that version, but how do I configure my system to recognize that there is a scanner on my USB port? The site wasn't really helpful, at least it didn't speak in English where I could understand it. Any help would be greatly appreciated...I am regoing to the web site, maybe it has it clearer (or my head will be) where I can get it. I will post that I got it if that is the case. Please send me the message as a private message. Thanks! = Richard Wegner - Linux User - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Derek Rayne is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER this is just an e-mail address I chose! I don't do Windows me (Proud Linux User) ICQ #: 12781393 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] case change?
David Fox's example of building things up in pieces is a perfect way to figure out how to do things in shells. It's made even easier by the history capabilities of modern shells like bash and tcsh. You got that right, thanks for the compliment. Indeed, ctrl-r (in bash) is one of my favorite keystrokes :). Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[newbie] Gtoaster observation.
Just thought I'd pass along that I do have Gtoaster working fine here with my Plextor CDRW and Adaptec 2930 SCSI card. I worked with it for 2-3 hrs the other day, about ready to pull my hair out. I kept checking to see if it would work using dummy runs, but it kept reporting an I/O error at every speed (from 12x down to 1x), so finally in disgust I set it to 12x and ran it any ways. Guess what? Burnt the CD like a charm, fast and no errors. Dunno why the dummy option keeps giving me errors. Just something to think about. -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marciayou might try removing CUPS completely and going back to lpd. I just did this, as an experiment, in reaction to your comtinuing CUPS problems. Here's how I did it: remove the following (since you installed a 1.8 version you'll have to allow for the version differences) rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-21mdk rpm -e --nodeps cups-common-1.1.6-21mdk rpm -e --nodeps cups-drivers-1.0-30mdk rpm -e --nodeps kups-1.1-6mdk rpm -e --nodeps qtcups-2.1-11mdk then delete these directories /var/spool/cups /var/log/cups /usr/share/cups /usr/lib/cups /etc/cups then put the following rpm files in an otherwise empty directory and install them all at once using: rpm -ivh * lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0) control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2) mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2) if, like I did, you get a dependency error for printtool needing rhs-printfilters-with-ppa then add a nodeps to the command line like this: rpm -ivh --nodeps * If you decide to try this, good luck. lpd is working just fine on my mdk 8.0 system. Dear All, Thank you for your advice on the cups printing however I just could not get it to work so I deleted all of the cups and installed as Alan suggested the lpd. Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. It seemed to all get installed. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller
[newbie] Early Install problem mandrake 8
I am now attempting to install from purchased mandrake 8.0 CDs from the powerpack. I have a Dell Dimension XPS 266 w/ 196MG Ram. I currenlty have WinME installed and running. I initially try booting from the install CD. I get the first splash screen with the options to hit enter or F1 for more options. I hit enter and next I see white text on black background. It begins doing things - usually the last thing I see it do before the system locks up is Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing and then it halts or freezes or locks up. Usually all my lights on the keyboard come on and the computer is completely unresponsive. I have to hit the reset button (ctrl alt delete doesn not work) as the power button doesn't even respond. sometimes the halt occurs at other stages in whatever is happening after that first splash screen. I have tried the other options vgalo text and linux with the same results. I created a bootdisk and got the same results. The same problem occured with CDs made from a downloaded ISO file - I thought they were corrupt so I said what the heck and just went out and bought the packaged version. Any ideas what else I could try?
