Re: [newbie] Modems?
John David Molina wrote: > > El Sáb 26 May 2001 19:29, OOzy Pal escribió: > > 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? > > OOzy > > Any external modem should work. They are always real modems (not winmodems). > -- > John David Molina Check out this site. http://lhd.zdnet.com/ Or, you can go here for hardware info: http://www.linux.com/enhance/hardware/ Barry:-)
Re: [newbie] Copy *.* to *.bak -- how?
try something like bash# for i in *; do cp $i $.bak; done sherwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Dear friends: > >Let's say I have the following files: > >File1 >File2 >File3 >etc. > >Now, normally to make a backup copy of each, I would do the following: > >cp File1 File1.bk >cp File2 File2.bk >cp File3 file3.bk >etc. > >My question: Is there a SINGLE command that would allow me to create >backups >for hundreds of files within a directory at one blow, that is, so as to >create the series of backups above: > >File1 File1.bk >File2 File2.bk >File3 file3.bk >etc. > >In other words, is there a command that would allow me to do this all at >once >from within a directory rather than manually copy each file one at a time? > >Thanks so very much.
Re: [newbie] Modems?
El Sáb 26 May 2001 19:29, OOzy Pal escribió: > 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? > OOzy Any external modem should work. They are always real modems (not winmodems). -- John David Molina
Re: [newbie] necesito saber.....
El Vie 25 May 2001 14:21, jgarrido escribió: > Hola lista > > Soy nuevo en la lista y necesito saber si por aca hay alguien de habla > hispana, ya que no soy muy bueno escribiendo en ingles... > > De antemano Gracias > > -=PePE=- Yo hablo español. Pero no soy precisamente un guru de Linux. Apenas un usuario con alguna experiencia. Así que si en algo te puedo ayudar... de todas formas, podés hacer uso intensivo de babelfish.com o algún traductor en línea -- John David Molina
Re: [newbie]cups printing again
El Jue 24 May 2001 13:16, Marcia Waller escribió: > 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 B&W 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. I don't know if this will work, but... why don't you try the Epson Stylus Color foomatic+stcxxxih.upp driver? -- John David Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] y los modems???
Estimado Pepe: No estoy seguro, pero probablemente tu modem sea un winmodem. Revisá en la página del fabricante de tu modem para verificar eso. De ser así, la mejor fuente para saber si tu winmodem está soportado es lin-modem.org (o era linmodem.org?, no recuerdo) Allí se ofrece soporte para una lista cada vez mayor de linmodems. Es posible que tu modem específicamente no esté listado, pero esté listado el chipset genérico del mismo (es decir, diferentes marcas de módems usan el chipset de unos pocos fabricantes de los mismos). Allí tendrás las instrucciones y los drivers correspondientes para bajar. Suerte... (por cierto, para evitar problemas siempre es preferible gastar unos 5 $US adicionales y comprar un modem real, y no esos winmodems de mala calidad, o incluso mejor, un modem externo) -- John David Molina > estube revisando la lista de los hardware soportados por linux y queria > saber si mi modem estaba soportado y en esta decia que todos excepto los > winmodems, yo tengo un Cnet y no lo reconocio, alguien sabe como lograr > eso.. > > Thanx > -=PePE=-
[newbie] Copy *.* to *.bak -- how?
Dear friends: Let's say I have the following files: File1 File2 File3 etc. Now, normally to make a backup copy of each, I would do the following: cp File1 File1.bk cp File2 File2.bk cp File3 file3.bk etc. My question: Is there a SINGLE command that would allow me to create backups for hundreds of files within a directory at one blow, that is, so as to create the series of backups above: File1 File1.bk File2 File2.bk File3 file3.bk etc. In other words, is there a command that would allow me to do this all at once from within a directory rather than manually copy each file one at a time? Thanks so very much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Linux Modem
I'm not sure about SST (that's a new one on me), but diamond offers an isa modem that works in Linux called the SupraExpress (I have that one), their pci version is a winmodem and probably won't work (actually I have one of these too, in my son's computer). However, there are a few drivers for winmodems these days and you could probably search on google for linmodems. If you need a pci, I have found that 3com/USRobotics Faxmodem (5610) works great. http://lhd.datapower.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=11 -s On Wednesday 30 May 2001 05:37 pm, you wrote: > Hello, > > I´ve a Linus Mandrake v7.2. The modem I have, Diamond SST, don´t works > correctly. Could you advice me about modems compatibles with Mandrake ? I > prefer external models serial port. > > Thanks and advance > > > Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! > http://www.shopping.altavista.com
Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again
Dan wrote: > Also I gave you some bad information regarding the > export PATH thing. This won't make it permanent. I > need to either edit the .bash_profile to add that line > or create a symbolic link into /usr/bin. If I figure > it out, I'll let you know. Unless someone knows the > answer? You need to edit the PATH in .bash_profile (and export it). Randy Kramer
[newbie] Package Problems (Nvidia Drivers)
Upon upgrading from the 0.9-769 Nvidia drivers I encoutered a problem which I have not been able to resolve. A pre-uninstall query of my RPM database gives the following: > rpm -q NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769 NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769 > rpm -q NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 Fine. Looks good. Then > rpm -e NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 No problem. Gone. Then > rpm -e NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769 execution of NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769 script failed, exit status 1 Oops. Something has gone awry. So I thought, well, maybe something minor so I tried installing the 1.0-1251 Nvidia drivers > rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.i686.rpm file /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/video/NVdriver from install of \ NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251 conflicts with file from package \ NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769 I removed the NVdriver module, but rpm claims that file still exists even though it does not. So, I have some kind of conflict. rpm --rebuilddb does not help, nor a --force with the new drivers. This just creates two Nvidia-kernel packages which causes the package managers to complain (though I have done all of the above at a command prompt). I have been following the threads on package problems and Nvidia, but they didnt seem exactly relevant. Is there a way to extract the contents of the rpm so examine the script and see what is does or what it is choking on? Any suggestions? Thanks Albion Albion E. Baucom http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~baucom
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
Dave DeGear wrote: > I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and > can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I > find this? > > By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? > I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. > > Thanks. ...Dave Davethe antialiasing check box is not in fonts it's in style. Use swat, it's in K(menu)->Configuration->Networking->Samba Configuration. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] More hardisk space
This is exactly where LVM comes in. You set up a "Volume Group". This can combine multiple disks (or even partitions) into a single logical unit, which you then work with as a single "disk". The articles I indicated outline the philosiphy of Logical Volumes & Volume Groups much better than I will try to do here. But to really shorten it up: Say you had a system with 3 disks in it. Say you wanted one of them for root (/, /usr/, /var . . . etc..), and the other two for data. You "could" leave the first as is, and install the system on it (yes, you could make it a volume group too, but let's keep this simpler than that). Once the system is installed (ignoring the other two disks during the install). You could create a single "Volume Group" encompasing both those disks into a single logical unit.(you would do this without creating any partitions on the disks first!!). Then create "Logical Volumes" on the disks. (these would be a logical replacement for partitions). Then create your filesystems on the logical volumes. (once you get your head around logical volume management it all makes a lot of sense). Why do this you ask? If those two drives were 9GB each, you would essentially have a single "logical" dirve of 18 GB, and you would work with it that way. More importantly: If you didn't allocate ALL 18GB to start out with. Let's say you built logical volumes & filesystems like so: /opt 5GB /usr/src 4GB /usr/local 4GB And saved the rest for later use (with this, you don't have to (or want to) "partition" the whole disk). Well, later arrives, and you discover that /usr/src is growing way too fast, and you need more space (sound familiar?). You can go in, and expand the logical volume, and then the filesystem that's sitting on it (if you have an expandable filesystem. I would recomend either XFS, or JFS. But some like ReiserFS). Oh.. and you can expand the filesystem, "without" rebooting the box! Then later, you learned that you need a new filsystem. Say the customer wants a filesystem for off the shelf software. Easy: Create a new Logical volume on the exta space on that volume group, and build a filsystem on it. Again, without rebooting. Oops.. Don't need that new fielsystem... Delete it. Again: without rebooting... hmm.. filled up that volume group. On SCSI? Good news. You can add disks to the volume group. (ok, you'll probably have to power the box down for this one to do the physical connection), but once it's in, you're back in business, adding & subtracting filesystems while the box is running. If you're not familar with Logical Volume Management, it can take some time to get your head around. But once you get it, it's well worth the investment in time. This is fairly new to Linux, but it's been with the big boys for a long time. Starting with IBM on AIX several years ago. Spend some time at the links I provided. If you're running a production server, with lots of disks in it, you'll be glad you did. Also, take a look at journaled filesystems. Again, with a production box, with lots of disks, well worth the investment in time. Ric David E. Fox wrote: >>I used to use Novell Netware and I could used to be able to merge two disk >>volumes (disk partions±) together, to create a large volume (i.e. 10gb on >>HD1 + 20Gb on HD2) could give me a 30Gb volume. >> > > I am not sure if you can *physically* merge the two partitions into one > physical volume. But you may not need to do this. > > The Unix (linux too) file system allows you to physically mount separate > drives / partitions underneath a tree, and the result is that all the > files on those partitions appear beneath the directory you mounted the > partitions on (the mount point). > > For instance, the root of all filesystems is '/' in a Unix system. Under- > neath that, you might have /usr, /home, /var, /tmp, etc. These directories > could either be hosted on one large partition, or be spread over several > smaller partitions. Suppose you put /home on a separate partition - then when > you mounted that disk on /home, you'd just be attaching its files to the main > directory tree at '/'. Someone going into /home/dfox/whatever/junk/ would be > actually getting files from another disk & partition. > > >>Is it possible to do the same with Linux? What I mean I create a directory >>called /work and then I mount two 40gb discs in this partition to give me >> > > If you separated the two logically, you could have > >/work/disk1 > > and > >/work/disk2 > > both on the filesystem. Each disk would be mounted on either disk1 or disk > 2. Unfortunately, you can't mount both filesystems on one mount point. > > Through some creative (and perhaps complex) mapping schemes (done with > symbolic links) you can make it *appear* that both filesystems are mapped > to various entries in /work transparently, and make it look like you have > one large area when in reality, you have two (or more
Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again
The answer is you can't play an .exe file in XMMS. You need to download files with .mp3 extensions. (The neat thing about gnutella clients is you can share any type of file) Regarding the desktop icon. I don't know for sure but I think you'd have to write a short shell script. (Still working on figuring out Shellscripts) Also I gave you some bad information regarding the export PATH thing. This won't make it permanent. I need to either edit the .bash_profile to add that line or create a symbolic link into /usr/bin. If I figure it out, I'll let you know. Unless someone knows the answer? > > I feel silly it was easy to find the song but I have > not been able to play > it. I use xmms, but the file has an .exe extension. > Is that the problem? How > does one play a song with that extension in xmms? > Thanks for your help. > Sincerely, Marcia > > > > > > > > to permanently add that path to your > shell(assuming > > > BASH) I think the command is (for my example): > > > > > > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin > > > > > > to vverify it has been added type > > > > > > echo PATH$ > > > > > > it should show up in the list > > > > Dear Dan & All, I followed your instructions and > it did the trick. Thank > > you very much. I have been working on this for a > couple of weeks. I had to > > find the full path and type it in. I even > downloaded a song. It came in > > however I have not found out how to play it. This > is very different from > > gnapster or Limewire. How do you play the song? I > have no idea where my > > song is to play. > > > > Also, do I have to use that same command everytime > I want to use Phex or is > > there another command to start it? > > > > May I make a desktop icon link to phex? > > > > Thanks so much for your help. I am thrilled that I > finally have a way to > > download some music. > > > > Sincerely, Marcia __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Linux Modem
Hello, I´ve a Linus Mandrake v7.2. The modem I have, Diamond SST, don´t works correctly. Could you advice me about modems compatibles with Mandrake ? I prefer external models serial port. Thanks and advance Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
For me it only applies to Konqueror. I always check the web page at www.netscape.com. I noticed the bold characters which are links look almost comical. The first character in any of the bold words is smaller than the other - going up and down. I'm also stumped on this one. I installed all of the Windows fonts with drakfont. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility Skip Montanaro wrote: > > >> try drakfont, install windows fonts and choose them in your web > >> browser. > > I've been following this thread with interest because I am similarly > afflicted. I don't recall needing to install windows fonts in earlier > versions of Mandrake, nor do I have Windows around to install fonts from, so > I can't take this particular step. My assumption from this is that there is > a bug in Mandrake 8.0 that they ought to fix with an update somewhere down > the line. Can anyone confirm or deny my assumption? > > Thx, > > -- > Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > (847)971-7098
Re: [newbie] Just wondering a few points!
Derek, Subject #2 1. Log in as root 2. Navigate to www.real.com and download the Unix .bin version of Realplayer8 3. After downloading it, open a console and type in: chmod 777 rp8_xxx_xxx_cs1.bin Press the [enter] key 4. Type in: ./rp8_xxx_xxx_cs1.bin Press the [enter] key 5. I usually let it install to /usr/local/Realplayer8 The .bin version will not ask you for a CD. They also include additional icons etc.. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility Derek Rayne wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am wondering a few things... > > SUBJECT #1: E-MAIL > > Can any of the e-mail programs (like K-Mail, Evolution, etc...) that > are on here be configured to read and send messages via Yahoo e-mail > (the free one)? I don't want to keep on using Netscape to load up the > Yahoo e-mail page to read my e-mail, I want to be able to browse the > web while going back and forth reading my e-mail. I know I can open up > another window, but that takes up time and puts lag onto Netscape. > > SUBJECT #2: Real Player 8 > > I recently purchased the Desktop Edition of LM 8.0 which only has 3 > CD's in it. I figured I might as well update my real player to version > 8 also. I went on to their website, put in the necessary information > and downloaded the file. I then I did the RPM package, appropiately, > it asks for CD #4 which wasn't included with my setup because of it > being the Desktop edition. If I downloaded it, why would it ask for > the CD? I would understand if when I was installing it, it was on CD > #4,but with the desktop edition it was 3 CD's not 4. I think it was > the professional edition or something like that had the 4th - 7th CDs > because it came with more. > > SUBJECT #3: USB Scanner > > I recently did what a lot of people suggesting for my USB scanner. I > still can't get it to work. I downloaded the newest version of SANE, > it said it was already installed. I had this when I booted up the > system: NOTE, spaces are NOT accurate. > > Loading USB interface [OK] > Mount USB filesystem [OK] > Starting USB daemon[OK] > > So I know it knows about my USB, does that usually goto IRQ 11? If > that is the case, I think i know the problem, but my soundcard which > does use IRQ 11 works perfectly fine. Should I put my sound card in > another PCI slot then try this again? > > I do appeciate all the help I got in the past and the future...I love > Linux much better than Windows, even though I don't have as much > software as I would like to have. > > 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/
[newbie] extra information, plz help!
Got extra information...
When I install linux ("Linux for Windows" aka Mandrake 7.2) from the CD in
the text mode (e.g. no fancy GUI) I can see something which I don't see
normally in GUI. Namely, at the end of
copying of all of the software from CD to linux file system file, I see such
error messages:
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symlink: can't create symlink for:
- initrd/loopfs/lnx4win/boot/vmlinuz
- initrd/loopfs/lnx4win/boot/System.b
- initrd/loopfs/lnx4win/boot/boot.b
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(might be a bit incorrect path, but this is what I get in terms of errors
during installation).
Is this what makes the problem with root device, root fs, VFS which can not
be mounted and therefore accessed when I try to boot installed linux?
Like I mentioned before, I end up with the following messages when I boot
linux:
8<
request module [block-major-7]: Root fs is not mounted
VFS: can not open root device 07:07
kernel panic VFS: unable to mount root fs on 07:07
8<
Is this the result of failing to create those symlinks?
What can I do about these???
thanks
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Re: [newbie] More memory, more swap file?
No. I would leave it the way it is. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I have an AMD K6-2 400 Mhz CPU with 128 megs of RAM (and 16 megs of video > RAM) and a swap file of 256 megs of RAM. > > I will be adding 256 megs of RAM tomorrow for a total of 384 megs of RAM. > > Question: With 384 megs of memory RAM, should I reinstall my LM 8.0 and > install a new Linux swap file of 384 x 2 or 768? Or should I leave my present > LM 8.0 installation as it is with 384 megs of real RAM and a swap file of 256 > megs of RAM. Would increasing the swap file to 768 be worth it? > > Thank you so much in advance. > > Benjamin > -- > Sher's Russian Web > http://www.websher.net > Benjamin and Anna Sher > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Mail like MS Outlook
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of OOzy Pal > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Mail like MS Outlook > > > Hello Guys > > Is there a Linux mail programs like MS Outlook or even > better. > > I like Outlook's address book. I also like it when I > just type the name of the person I want to email and > if this person name is my address book, Outlook will > automatically substitutes the name with the email > address. I also like the import/export functions of > outlook. > > Is there anything to so the same? > > OOzy > > Try Evolution. Version 0.9 is included in 8.0. It is being developped in conjunction with Ximian Gnome. Version 0.10 is the lasted build but is only readily available with Ximian Gnome installed which has not yet been finilized for Mandrake 8.0. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended
Hi! I have a K6-2, 450 mhz, 256 megs ram and an ELSA Erazor III Pro videocard (TNT 2 chip). I also installed the RPM's for Mandrake 8 and it runs very well, only one time the X-server lost connection and dropped me to a shell. Games are also working very fine. Do you have Mandrake 8 and XFree 4.0.3 installed? > I have tried the nvidia kernel and GLX 1.xx drivers and cannot run any games > other than the standard penguin comand and the *tris variants with the > exception of Chromium. What a well designed game by the way. Reminds me of my > days as a kid in the arcades. When I try mesa gears or reflection it runs for > a short time and locks up as well as Tux Racer. I get the splash screen and > nothing more. Q3 locks up at the splash screen as well. I followed the > directions for the config file and added the required lines. > I installed the drivers using the .RPM and have a geforce 2 mx PCI, on an > AMD k6-2 500, 256MB ram, ASUS P5a mobo. > I know some of these may be some sort of Mesa conflict with the Nvidia > drivers but would really like to be able to use this card with Linux with the > success many of you have reported. > John W -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] Unusably slow printing in 8.0 using 'official' HP DeskJet drivers?
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:52, Michael Carr wrote: > I was wondering whether anyone using 8.0 is experiencing prohibitively > slow print-outs with the bundled HP DeskJet drivers. > I have a Business InkJet 2200 attached to a win98 machine. Printing from Linux to it via a samba share is acceptable, very good quality, reasonable speed, just a bit slower than when printing directly from windows. Printing from the kid's iMac thru netatalk then thru samba, the quality is the same, but very slow. Overall, I am pleased with it, but I am considering getting the real postscript card & seeing if that makes a difference. -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
Re: [newbie] Mail like MS Outlook
1. Aethera, part of KDE. Not 1.0 yet but worth trying out. It is on the Mandrake 8.0 CDs but you need to upgrade to the latest version. Check http://www.thekompany.com 2. Evolution, part of GNOME. Also not at version 1.0 yet. It is also on MDK 8.0 CDs. Again new version is out. Tried to upgrade using Software Manager but it failed. You probably have to download the rpm, do rpm -Uvh --test evolution-xxx.rpm and meet the dependencies until rm -Uvh --test does not return an error. Then do the rpm -Uvh evolution-.rpm Eric Indiogine On Wednesday 30 May 2001 14:41, OOzy Pal wrote: > Hello Guys > > Is there a Linux mail programs like MS Outlook or even > better. > > I like Outlook's address book. I also like it when I > just type the name of the person I want to email and > if this person name is my address book, Outlook will > automatically substitutes the name with the email > address. I also like the import/export functions of > outlook. > > Is there anything to so the same? > > OOzy > > = > Regards, > OOzy > > What is the purpose of life? > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] soundblaster pc1 128
Yes it does work. I have the same card but you have to change ther driver to the Ensoniq 1371es or something like that. I don't remember how it is named but there's only two. TezcatlipocA -Original Message- From: Magnus Stenemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:05 PM Subject: [newbie] soundblaster pc1 128 >Hello! > >My soundblaster pci 128 doesn't work in Linux-mandrake 8.0. >Do I have to make a new kernel, or how can I get my card to work?? > > >//Magnus > >
[newbie] Mail like MS Outlook
Hello Guys Is there a Linux mail programs like MS Outlook or even better. I like Outlook's address book. I also like it when I just type the name of the person I want to email and if this person name is my address book, Outlook will automatically substitutes the name with the email address. I also like the import/export functions of outlook. Is there anything to so the same? OOzy = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] More hardisk space
> I used to use Novell Netware and I could used to be able to merge two disk > volumes (disk partions±) together, to create a large volume (i.e. 10gb on > HD1 + 20Gb on HD2) could give me a 30Gb volume. I am not sure if you can *physically* merge the two partitions into one physical volume. But you may not need to do this. The Unix (linux too) file system allows you to physically mount separate drives / partitions underneath a tree, and the result is that all the files on those partitions appear beneath the directory you mounted the partitions on (the mount point). For instance, the root of all filesystems is '/' in a Unix system. Under- neath that, you might have /usr, /home, /var, /tmp, etc. These directories could either be hosted on one large partition, or be spread over several smaller partitions. Suppose you put /home on a separate partition - then when you mounted that disk on /home, you'd just be attaching its files to the main directory tree at '/'. Someone going into /home/dfox/whatever/junk/ would be actually getting files from another disk & partition. > Is it possible to do the same with Linux? What I mean I create a directory > called /work and then I mount two 40gb discs in this partition to give me If you separated the two logically, you could have /work/disk1 and /work/disk2 both on the filesystem. Each disk would be mounted on either disk1 or disk 2. Unfortunately, you can't mount both filesystems on one mount point. Through some creative (and perhaps complex) mapping schemes (done with symbolic links) you can make it *appear* that both filesystems are mapped to various entries in /work transparently, and make it look like you have one large area when in reality, you have two (or more) smaller and physically separate areas underneath /work. How you organize that is very dependent on how your data is stored. For example, if you organized your data based on months, you could have January through June on one disk, and July through December on the second. > Also, how can I turn a directory / file stucture into an ISO image. Well, are you referring to burning an ISO image through cdrecord or some other tool? > Also, is it possible to mount to ISO images in the same directory. For > example I create the directory /Mandrake and the I mount the two ISO images > for LM8 in the SAME directory? Not at the same mount point. But I'm not sure why you'd need to do this. The best I think you could do is to 'loopback mount' the two ISO images underneath separate directories underneath Mandrake, for instance Mandrake/image1 and Mandrake/image2. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] Modems?
Hi Michael sorry for answering a little late. Well the modem itself was at $56.95 when I bought it. I had to pay shipping too, which was 2day air. -Original Message- From: Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TezcatlipocA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modems? >Hi, >Just curious, how much was it at Outpost.com? >Thanks >Michael > > > > >On Sunday 27 May 2001 11:18 am, you wrote: >> Hi OOzy, >> I know of one. I bought an external (serial) because the internal one >> (winmodem) wouldn't work on Linux. I search for the cheapest ones on the >> internet and found this one at Outpost.com. It's an Elsa MicroLink 56K >> Internet. It is so tiny you would doubt about its speed. But let me tell >> you something, besides being a beauty with it's translucent blue top cover >> and wavy design, it is about 30% faster to download than my PCI modem >> (winmodem). I swear. I only have one problem, Win98 doesn't detect it but >> it works perfectly with Linux. If you are going to dual boot I would >> recomend installing it in Win first. >
Re: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT2
No, no games. I don't play games. I just want Mandrake to run fast enough. I used to have PIII 450 with Asus AGP-V2740 (AGP Bus, Intel740TM accelerator) and Mandrake was so slow. I hope nVIDIA runs fast enough. OOzy --- Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OOzy Pal escribió: > > > What do you think about the this video card? Will > it > > work fine with Linux? > > > > nVIDIA TnT2 M64 4X 32MB AGP > > It will work with no problems at all. What are you > going to do with > it? I mean... it isn't good for games };) > > > -- > Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 > Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org > Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 > > > = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] More memory, more swap file?
I think that with the amount of RAM you have, you can leave the swap file as is. The general rule of thumb (that I've heard anyway) is that you don't need to make your swap file more than 100mb regardless of how much ram you have. Of course, if you're doing video or graphics editing, then the more swap space the better. > >Dear friends: > >I have an AMD K6-2 400 Mhz CPU with 128 megs of RAM (and 16 megs of video >RAM) and a swap file of 256 megs of RAM. > >I will be adding 256 megs of RAM tomorrow for a total of 384 megs of RAM. > >Question: With 384 megs of memory RAM, should I reinstall my LM 8.0 and >install a new Linux swap file of 384 x 2 or 768? Or should I leave my >present >LM 8.0 installation as it is with 384 megs of real RAM and a swap file of >256 >megs of RAM. Would increasing the swap file to 768 be worth it? > >Thank you so much in advance. > >Benjamin >-- >Sher's Russian Web >http://www.websher.net >Benjamin and Anna Sher >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.
Beowulf? tell us more about it. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 19:42, Civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Civileme wrote: > > > Well, the IRQs are assigned in groups to certain slots on the > > > motherboard. There are also ways in the BIOS of manipulating the IRQs > > > assigned. So using the BIO assignments and switching slots might be > > > what youwant to look at doing. > > > > > > Civileme > > > > Okay, this worked! I moved my PCI cards around, left slot 1 open, and > > mapped my IDE stuff to slot 1. No more conflict. Thanks everyone! ;-) > > > > BTW, does this mean that if you use ALL your PCI slots and have a > > conflict that you couldn't map your IDE to a slot? Just wondering. > > Technically PCIs are supposed to be able to share interrupts--and they do. > Sometimes, when two very high speed high priority devices share an > interrupt, particularly one that is mapped as low in the stack as IRQ3 is, > performance takes a heavy, even glitchy, hit. > > And some mobos have no ISA and two ide slots, so their BIOSes allow > different forms of mappings. But sure, you can have so many devices that > you paint yourself into a corner. Then it is time to learn how to spell > MOSIX or Beowulf or LAN. > > Civileme > > > Also, just wanted to point out that while I was moving cards around, > > rebooting, etc, etc, Mandrake handled it like a champ, no problems at > > all... > > That is very good news--for your next act figure out the steps necessary to > make Software Manager wrap around itself .-) > > > Windows 98se, on the other hand, complained - coughed - and wheezed like > > a 90 year old Asthmatic...it booted up into a 16 color/vga mode, and I > > had to reinstall my video card, SB, and SCSI cards drivers...(and btw, I > > only use Windog for games like Starcraft and Diablo2 - Once Wine can run > > these games fully, Windoze is ancient history!). ;-) > > Try the codeweavers version--believe it does run Starcraft. > > Civileme
Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.
damn, civleme, first I sware I saw a TYPO, from yu last week, and now humour what next... will we will discuss M$ dot NET. winner XP? really we all thank you. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 19:42, Civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Civileme wrote: > > > Well, the IRQs are assigned in groups to certain slots on the > > > motherboard. There are also ways in the BIOS of manipulating the IRQs > > > assigned. So using the BIO assignments and switching slots might be > > > what youwant to look at doing. > > > > > > Civileme > > > > Okay, this worked! I moved my PCI cards around, left slot 1 open, and > > mapped my IDE stuff to slot 1. No more conflict. Thanks everyone! ;-) > > > > BTW, does this mean that if you use ALL your PCI slots and have a > > conflict that you couldn't map your IDE to a slot? Just wondering. > > Technically PCIs are supposed to be able to share interrupts--and they do. > Sometimes, when two very high speed high priority devices share an > interrupt, particularly one that is mapped as low in the stack as IRQ3 is, > performance takes a heavy, even glitchy, hit. > > And some mobos have no ISA and two ide slots, so their BIOSes allow > different forms of mappings. But sure, you can have so many devices that > you paint yourself into a corner. Then it is time to learn how to spell > MOSIX or Beowulf or LAN. > > Civileme > > > Also, just wanted to point out that while I was moving cards around, > > rebooting, etc, etc, Mandrake handled it like a champ, no problems at > > all... > > That is very good news--for your next act figure out the steps necessary to > make Software Manager wrap around itself .-) > > > Windows 98se, on the other hand, complained - coughed - and wheezed like > > a 90 year old Asthmatic...it booted up into a 16 color/vga mode, and I > > had to reinstall my video card, SB, and SCSI cards drivers...(and btw, I > > only use Windog for games like Starcraft and Diablo2 - Once Wine can run > > these games fully, Windoze is ancient history!). ;-) > > Try the codeweavers version--believe it does run Starcraft. > > Civileme
Re: [newbie] soundblaster pc1 128
I have the same Sound Card And it works perfect with no problems i dont think that the problem is in kernel. If you want you can download the OSS sound driver and install it. I am shure that it will work properli after you install it :))) At 20:06 30.5.2001 'ã.'§ -0400, you wrote: >Hello! > >My soundblaster pci 128 doesn't work in Linux-mandrake 8.0. >Do I have to make a new kernel, or how can I get my card to work?? > > >//Magnus >
[newbie] a quick note
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Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 05:24, Dan wrote: > You shell is probably not looking in the proper path > for the java command. In my situation I type in the > complete path: > > /usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/java -jar phex.jar > > This is the path based on Mandrake 8 with the java run > time environment RPM from the link on the the Phex web > site. > > If the above doesn't work for you, you can find your > path (assuming installed via RPM) by the following: > > To find out what jre you have installed: > > rpm -qa | grep jr > > take the results of that and type > > rpm -ql "results of previous" | grep bin/java > > to permanently add that path to your shell(assuming > BASH) I think the command is (for my example): > > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin > > to vverify it has been added type > > echo PATH$ > > it should show up in the list Dear Dan & All, I followed your instructions and it did the trick. Thank you very much. I have been working on this for a couple of weeks. I had to find the full path and type it in. I even downloaded a song. It came in however I have not found out how to play it. This is very different from gnapster or Limewire. How do you play the song? I have no idea where my song is to play. Also, do I have to use that same command everytime I want to use Phex or is there another command to start it? May I make a desktop icon link to phex? Thanks so much for your help. I am thrilled that I finally have a way to download some music. Sincerely, Marcia > > --- Marcia Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:33, Dan wrote: > > > Can I make a suggestion? Try Phex. It was really > > > easy to use. All you need is the > > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/ > > > > > > There's no real installation. It run right out of > > > your home directory. > > > > > > http://www.konrad-haenel.de/phex/ > > > > Dear All, Thank you for your suggestions. I > > installed the jre and phex then > > used the command java -jar phex.jar and got a long > > error message then it > > aborted. What can I do now. Thanks for your help. > > Marcia > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 09:48 am, you wrote: > > How can we see if this option > > works or not? > > I don't have a definitive answer for this -- partly is, "do they look > good", but that's not the entire answer because fonts can look bad for > other reasons. > > Hope this helps, or provokes clarifying discussion, > Randy Kramer One way to tell is use the kmag or xmag and magnify some letters, if you see various shading effects, you have anitaliased fonts. If you see all one color, ususally black, with jagged edges then you don't. -s
Re: [newbie] Routing problem
If you use the route command, your entries will not be saved to any files on disk, therefore a reboot will erase your routing entries. Use Linuxconf instead, and it will save your routing entries for you. I believe the actual file is /proc/net/route, however there may one or more other files beyond this one. 'man route' for more info. Dave On Wednesday 30 May 2001 03:47, thus spake LinuxKH: > Hello All ! > > I have 2 network cards and am trying to set routing by using the > command: "route add -net x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x eth0" and > "route add -net x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x eth1" > I saw the result by "route -n", but the problem is that when I booted > the machine and they were disappeared from the routing table. > > What was I doing wrong ? Please correct me, I'm newbie. > > TIA. > > LinuxKH > --- > "A real newbie learning to swim in Linux sea." -- "Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
[newbie] soundblaster pc1 128
Hello! My soundblaster pci 128 doesn't work in Linux-mandrake 8.0. Do I have to make a new kernel, or how can I get my card to work?? //Magnus
RE: [newbie] LimeWire Again
It might help if you could include the error message in your post. -Original Message- From: Marcia Waller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:51 PM To: Dan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:33, Dan wrote: > Can I make a suggestion? Try Phex. It was really > easy to use. All you need is the > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/ > > There's no real installation. It run right out of > your home directory. > > http://www.konrad-haenel.de/phex/ Dear All, Thank you for your suggestions. I installed the jre and phex then used the command java -jar phex.jar and got a long error message then it aborted. What can I do now. Thanks for your help. Marcia
[newbie] Samba Configuration for File server
Is it possible to have my linux box act as an NT 4 server for file sharing? I have LM 8 with the version of Samba that was included in the ISO image. I know how to configure Samba to share out shares and I can actually do most of the configuration in the smb.conf file. What I want to do is have the Linux box look to the PDC to authenticate users trying to access shares on this machine. I don't want to have to use share level or user level access on the shares. I want to use domain authentication. I don't want to have to administer 2 seperate user databases? Is this possible and if so where can I find the info. Thanks in advance. Gabe "I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player." -John Kruk
Re: [newbie] xscanimage
It was Wed, 30 May 2001 10:36:24 -0500 when Dennis Myers wrote: >I am trying to get my scanner working. I have installed "sane" and am trying >to install xscanimage. When I use the rpm package, I get a dependency for >"libgimp-1.1.so.18" . There is no libgimp-1.1.so.18 any where to be found on >rpmfind or on the CDs. Only 1.2 version. Has anyone got this thing to work? >What is a work around or an alternate scanner utility? Any help is >appreciated. TIA A trick that sometimes work is make a softlink (ln -s) from the existing lib to the one you need: ln -s libgimp-1.2.so libgimp-1.1.so.18 One never knows. I have upp'd the system with the scanner to MDK 8.0 but have not tried it yet. It worked all fine in 7.2, and xscanimage perfectly configured my (scsi) scanner, a Mustek 6000SP Paul -- Within a computer, natural language is unnatural. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] fvwm
It was Tue, 29 May 2001 23:41:52 +0200 when hellmut wrote: >Hi! > >I have been advised to use fvwm to start 3d games, cause it isn't so >performance eating like KDE. Well... how do I start it? >Cheers, You can adapt your ~/.xinitrc: add exec fvwm to the bottom (or create the file if it is not there), and that should do it. Works for me when running XFCE (which has a small memory footprint too, you might like to try it ;-) Paul -- Within a computer, natural language is unnatural. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended
Hello You might try the following guide: http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00022.asp It explains how to install the Nvidia drivers from tar files. Thsi skips the rpm's which might have been built for a different kernel. also check out the Linux newbie site: http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/mandrake/mdk_nvidia.html These instructions are for LM 7.2 but they might be of some help since it tells you how to remove the offending Mesa files. Hope this helps S.
[newbie] Cooker Kernel Updates
I've heard that the Cooker kernel updates fix the PS/2 mouse and TP Trackpoint problem. What is the best way to download and install these patches? All that I have is a 56K Modem from a Win2k machine. [the sound / modem support on a TP is from a custom digital signal process and LM doesn't recognize them gracefully]. I can download files on the Win2k machine and ftp them over a LAN, but I have never installed a Cooker patch before. tia,
[newbie] Networking Question
One more message from the 'newbie' trenches I need a little expert help on getting my machine to recognize network file systems. At work I've got LM 8.0 installed on a Micron Millenium running a ~500mhz PII. We're on a Sun-based intranet supported by a bunch of clever folks who know Unix and generic linux and, on the linux side, are most familiar with RedHat. Officially, we're a Sun/Microsoft only site but our data management people do have a few linux servers running, etc. Here's the problem. I can't see the network file systems from my linux machine. I'm on the network fine. I've done the following per the instructions of our network gurus (without really knowing what is behind this and without them putting their hands on my machine): 1. install and turn on the ypbind and autofs daemons. 2. go to 'etc/auto.master' and add the line: /net yp:auto.net --timeout=60 3. go to '/etc/rc.d/init.d' and run 'autofs reload' 4. go to /net (which has been created on my machine) and do a 'ls'. I'm supposed to see all the network drives. I get nothing. If I run 'autofs status' I get: /usr/bin/automount --timeout 60 /net yp auto.net /home auto_home /usr/bin/automount --timeout 60 /- yp auto_direct -browse When I logon I see all the usernames on the system (NIS?). So where are the server files??? TIA. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA
[newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended
I have tried the nvidia kernel and GLX 1.xx drivers and cannot run any games other than the standard penguin comand and the *tris variants with the exception of Chromium. What a well designed game by the way. Reminds me of my days as a kid in the arcades. When I try mesa gears or reflection it runs for a short time and locks up as well as Tux Racer. I get the splash screen and nothing more. Q3 locks up at the splash screen as well. I followed the directions for the config file and added the required lines. I installed the drivers using the .RPM and have a geforce 2 mx PCI, on an AMD k6-2 500, 256MB ram, ASUS P5a mobo. I know some of these may be some sort of Mesa conflict with the Nvidia drivers but would really like to be able to use this card with Linux with the success many of you have reported. John W
Re: [newbie] running web servers for 2 different domains
At 11:13 AM 05/30/2001 -0500, Tom wrote: >Where can I get help on setting up web pages for 2 domains? You have to hand-edit the httpd.conf file stored in /etc/httpd/conf/ to include vhosting for the 2 domains. Help on this is available from the docs on httpd.apache.org or from the list. Also, both domains must be in DNS and pointing to the IP in question, otherwise virtual name hosting will not work. Michael
Re: [newbie] More hardisk space
The short answer: Yes, it's possible. The slightly longer answer: You need to look into "LVM" (or Logical Volume Manager) to do this. The following links should help you along with that. Part 1 of Logical Volume Management by IBM. This is part 1 of a 2 part set. (note: there are many white papers on this web site by IBM. Well worth looking at!) http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm/?dwzone=linux Also take a look at: http://www.sistina.com (they support the LVM code & utilities. Hope that helps! Ric Phil Curtis wrote: > Hello all, > > I used to use Novell Netware and I could used to be able to merge two disk > volumes (disk partions±) together, to create a large volume (i.e. 10gb on > HD1 + 20Gb on HD2) could give me a 30Gb volume. > > Is it possible to do the same with Linux? What I mean I create a directory > called /work and then I mount two 40gb discs in this partition to give me > 80Gb of space in the /work directory, or something similar. > > Also, how can I turn a directory / file stucture into an ISO image. > > Also, is it possible to mount to ISO images in the same directory. For > example I create the directory /Mandrake and the I mount the two ISO images > for LM8 in the SAME directory? > > Thanks All. > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 17-May-01 > > >
[newbie] running web servers for 2 different domains
Where can I get help on setting up web pages for 2 domains? They both use the same IP, but only one is recognized. I'm using Corporate Version 1.0.. I see that people here are using 8.0, so, not sure if this is the place to ask, or if I should be on some other mailing list? Thanks, Tom http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions
[newbie] hsp56 mr laptop winmodem
I want to thank all the people who tried to help, but I couldn't find anything useful yet. If the solution ever comes to my hands, I'll tell you all. Hopefully, Linux is not vital for me, although I was willing to get unsticked to Windows. Well, they say Windows 2000 is not that bad. Maybe I should give it a try? --Pablo García Durán
Re: [newbie] Windows Font Installer takes a very long time to install fonts in LM8
There is a bug in the version that is on the CD. You need to upgrade DrakFont (sp?) from cooker to the latest version and then run it again. Eric Indiogine On Monday 28 May 2001 18:45, Romanator wrote: > Hi all, > > I was trying to install the Windows fonts in Mandrake Control Center. I > have been waiting 15 minutes and it is still installing. Is this normal?
Re: [newbie] Scanning (was xscanimage)
I just sent a message indicating I had added a HP PSC 500 printer to my linux box last evening. It's an 'all-in-one' unit which prints, scans and copies. It's being discontinued and I got a good deal. Works well on the windoze side of the house. I'd like to use the scanner under linux. I know nothing about getting started. I did look at the Mandrake site on supported hardware and got passed to the sourceforge site where I see HP is providing something called 'CVS'. Dennis's note mentions SANE and xscanimage. Could someone point me to page 1 of the 'Scanner How To' so I can begin to tackle this one? Do I have software on the LM 8.0 2-disk distro that will do this? Need SANE? CVS? (I'm a real newbie but learning quickly thanks to this list.) TIA. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA On 30 May 2001 10:36:24 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: > I am trying to get my scanner working. I have installed "sane" and am trying > to install xscanimage. When I use the rpm package, I get a dependency for > "libgimp-1.1.so.18" . There is no libgimp-1.1.so.18 any where to be found on > rpmfind or on the CDs. Only 1.2 version. Has anyone got this thing to work? > What is a work around or an alternate scanner utility? Any help is > appreciated. TIA > > -- > Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842 >
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I find this? By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. Thanks. ...Dave Quoting James Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As for Mandrake, I have enable antialiasing in KDE control center because > I've been told it will fix the font problem I've been having. However, > so far this is not the case and I cannot see any noticable difference.
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
Hi, Thanks. Is it also possible to enable antialiasing in Gnome Control Center? Marc
[newbie] xscanimage
I am trying to get my scanner working. I have installed "sane" and am trying to install xscanimage. When I use the rpm package, I get a dependency for "libgimp-1.1.so.18" . There is no libgimp-1.1.so.18 any where to be found on rpmfind or on the CDs. Only 1.2 version. Has anyone got this thing to work? What is a work around or an alternate scanner utility? Any help is appreciated. TIA -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
I'm no computer expert, but I do know what antialiasing means and I can try to extrapolate its meaning to fonts. Antialiasing is when a computer blurs a line to make it smooth. Whenever a computer makes a line at an angle, it is never smooth. You may notice this if you make a slanted line in MS Paint or whatever and zoom in a lot. You will see that the line is jagged. + + + + Sort of like that (How about that ASCII Art?) Antialiasing takes the like and blurs the edges together so that the line looks smooth. Kind of like this: \ \ \ \ Now, with fonts, when you have a letter like 'W' or 'M', there are jagged curves. Antialiasing will smooth out these curves and makes the lines seem straight and a little blurry. Antialiasing is mostly used for very large font sizes in which the jagged curves really become apparent. As for Mandrake, I have enable antialiasing in KDE control center because I've been told it will fix the font problem I've been having. However, so far this is not the case and I cannot see any noticable difference. Hope this helped. > >Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing >is? What is the purpose of it? How can we see if this option >works or not? > >Thanks, > > Marc > _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] suspend to ram
You may be right. My laptop doesn't call it suspend to RAM but from what you said that makes sense. I think I mixed up the two. Sorry for the confusion. > >I thought that "suspend to ram" effectively meant "sleep" to a laptop, >whereas "suspend to disk" meant "hibernate." That is how it's referred to >on >my Compaq laptop. > >Terry > > > > > > Suspend to RAM or Hibernation, is when the computer copies the > > > > > contents > > > > > > > >of > > > > > > > > > the RAM of the computer and also usually the video ram to a file >on > > > > > the harddrive, and then powers down the computer completely. The > _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer. Has anyone got one to work withmdk8
Negative report here. I think I have a Lexmark Z11. At least it looks like one but it's been rebadged as a Compaq IJ300 and came with my windoze Compaq 'bundle'. Anyhow none of the likely Lexmark drivers work (CUPS 1.1). The Compaq drivers (for the wrong printer) will get something to the printer but it's not usable. I gave up and bought a HP PSC500 (print/scan/copy) which works very nicely (as a printer)! Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA On 30 May 2001 09:44:29 -0400, h3rb wrote: > Has anyone got a Lexmark Z11 printer to work with mdk8? I have tried both > drivers and the one won't even send any info to the printer. And the sumsum > one will send data to the printer. But it just prints out a bunch of yellow > lines. If you did get it to work...how! Thx, > > h3rb >
[newbie] Modem KPPP
When ever i start up the internet Icon, and go to connect a message pop's up and said i have another KPPP running . i have Linux 7.1 dual boot win 98 machine How do i stop it or find out if another KPPP is running in the back ground and make my modem work.
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
I'd like to try to answer your first two questions, I can't readily answer the third. Marc Audard wrote: > > What is the purpose of it? To make fonts more easily readable. > Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing > is? 1. When a character is displayed on a monitor, it is displayed as a pattern of dots. 2. When a font designer designs a font for a certain display characteristics (dots per inch, whatever), he designs it so it looks good with those display characteristics. 3. Generally speaking, those dots are either "on" or "off". When he makes that good looking design, he bases it on dots that are either on or off. 4. Antialiasing is a way of improving the appearance of a character by allowing dots to be "on" partway (shades of gray, or whatever color). By adding dots with varying shades of gray, the eye can be fooled into thinking the character is made with more dots than it really is made with. 5. Going back to 2, if a (bit-mapped) font is displayed on a display with the original intended characteristics, it looks good if the designer did a good job (and within the limits of the display characteristics -- at one dot per inch, no font on a computer screen would look good). 6. If a bit-mapped font is enlarged, it is not likely to look as good because the on and off bits will not be exactly where the original designer intended them to be. The characters will look blocky. 7. Antialiasing is an automatic means of applying shades of gray to the bits of the enlarged bit-mapped font to make it look better when enlarged. 8. There are also things other than bit mapped fonts -- they might be called vector or vector based (or something). They are better suited to being enlarged. I don't know whether antialiasing helps them also, or whether perhaps antialiasing is somehow automatically applied when a vector based font is enlarged. I'm sure someone will point out where I've led you astray. > How can we see if this option > works or not? I don't have a definitive answer for this -- partly is, "do they look good", but that's not the entire answer because fonts can look bad for other reasons. Hope this helps, or provokes clarifying discussion, Randy Kramer
[newbie] kppp
I tried dialing into my ISP yesterday and was greeted with, "pppd has unexpectedly died". I brought up the debug window and found that the login would progress to "connected at 115,200", and the bottom of the window would say starting pppd, and then after s short period of time the window would pop up telling me that pppd had died. Help! What do I need to look at or do to rectify this problem. Thanks for your help. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] MK 8.0 crashes on reboot.
I have an SIS 8meg pci card. It seems that 7.2 didn't have a problem with it. It seemed to have a problem with my sound card as well. Ensonique / soundblaster pci. Ditto on the 7.2 , it does fine. The machine's a Dell p166 with 48 meg. - Original Message - From: "Civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Carl Levin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] MK 8.0 crashes on reboot. > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:04, Carl Levin wrote: > > It seems to go well though the install process. Then, when I am lulled into > > a false sense of security it fails to go into KDE - as requested in the set > > up - and seems to start to reboot. It gets to "detecting usbok" and > > then freezes. I have tried a number of ways of installing ie. update, clean > > install with text, graphic install, expert and automated. Any ideas guys? > > 7.2 works just great. NO problems. (Until I try to load 8.0) > > That looks like a problem specific to your video card, but try to be a little > more informative about your hardware if you want help. > > Civileme >
Re: [newbie] Support for IP-Masquerading already compiled
I have it already in my default install. All the modules can be found in /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter for my install anyway. The Masquerading is way different with iptables though. Theres a faq http://netfilter.samba.org/netfilter-faq.html and also a howto http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/ personally I ended up using the Mandrake control center thing because it was easier. I liked ip chains and ip tables looks like it give you alot more comtrol but it's missing some modules that were for ipchains that I liked to have available (icq, raudio, etc). Good Luck. --- ETSoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > is this function already compiled in the standard > installation of > mandrake 8.0 ?? > > > > -- > Best regards, > ETSoft > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Civileme wrote: > > Well, the IRQs are assigned in groups to certain slots on the > > motherboard. There are also ways in the BIOS of manipulating the IRQs > > assigned. So using the BIO assignments and switching slots might be what > > youwant to look at doing. > > > > Civileme > > Okay, this worked! I moved my PCI cards around, left slot 1 open, and > mapped my IDE stuff to slot 1. No more conflict. Thanks everyone! ;-) > > BTW, does this mean that if you use ALL your PCI slots and have a conflict > that you couldn't map your IDE to a slot? Just wondering. Technically PCIs are supposed to be able to share interrupts--and they do. Sometimes, when two very high speed high priority devices share an interrupt, particularly one that is mapped as low in the stack as IRQ3 is, performance takes a heavy, even glitchy, hit. And some mobos have no ISA and two ide slots, so their BIOSes allow different forms of mappings. But sure, you can have so many devices that you paint yourself into a corner. Then it is time to learn how to spell MOSIX or Beowulf or LAN. Civileme > > Also, just wanted to point out that while I was moving cards around, > rebooting, etc, etc, Mandrake handled it like a champ, no problems at > all... > That is very good news--for your next act figure out the steps necessary to make Software Manager wrap around itself .-) > Windows 98se, on the other hand, complained - coughed - and wheezed like a > 90 year old Asthmatic...it booted up into a 16 color/vga mode, and I had to > reinstall my video card, SB, and SCSI cards drivers...(and btw, I only use > Windog for games like Starcraft and Diablo2 - Once Wine can run these games > fully, Windoze is ancient history!). ;-) Try the codeweavers version--believe it does run Starcraft. Civileme
[newbie] font antialiasing
Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing is? What is the purpose of it? How can we see if this option works or not? Thanks, Marc
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer. Has anyone got one to work with mdk8
> Has anyone got a Lexmark Z11 printer to work with mdk8? I have tried both > drivers and the one won't even send any info to the printer. And the sumsum > one will send data to the printer. But it just prints out a bunch of yellow > lines. If you did get it to work...how! Thx, I have heard horror stories about that printer. If you are lucky it just does not work. If you have bad luck, the CMOS of the printer will evaporate and render the printer useless. Sorry for you. Paul
Re: [newbie] Fw: Cron run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
Touching the file creates it, but then it complains about the permissions later. I then went and did a chmod news:news /var/log/news/nntp* and it still complains. So I said SCREW IT! I went and did a chmod -x /etc/cron.hourly/in-cron-nntpsend. So it doesn't try and run that every hour, and I stop getting the message. But pretty much what it's trying to do is access a NNTP server and download the newsgroups so you have them on your local machine. That's all. I'm not sure what in the install enables that, but that's basically what's going on. So if you want to get rid of that error message, find out what the program wants and configure it, or make sure the file can't be executed. tdh T. Holmes UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Real Men Us Vi!" | Anyone got any ideas why I keep getting this? | | I'm running postfix and apache. Not much else though?... | | | Thanks | | Brett. | | | | | - Original Message - | From: "Cron Daemon" | To: | Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 11:01 AM | Subject: Cron run-parts /etc/cron.hourly | | | > touch: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied | > chmod: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied | > /usr/bin/nntpsend: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied | | | --
Re: [newbie] Which SQL to use...
Paul, For the distribution, you'd be better off using Mandrake. This is primarily because Mandrake (especially if you select "medium" security) tends to close a lot of the security holes that in Redhat are left open. As for which SQL server you use, that is going to really depend on what the intended use is. "SQL backend" is really not detailed enough for someone to suggest one over the other. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:49 PM 05/30/2001 +1000, Paul Clyne wrote: >Hi all, > >I have finally convinced "the powers that be" that we should move to a >SQL backend. > >We are running a Novel network (4.11) with Win9x clients. > >Most of the solutions they are being proposed involve some other >_proprietary_ database (eg : Oracle) on a Novell box, or M$SQL on NT. > >I want to propose the "other" alternative (Linux and either MySQL or >ProgreSQL or ). > >I'm after advice. >What distribution would fit best in the above network ? (please, NO >"My distribution is better than yours because.." flame wars). I'm most >familiar with RH and Mandrake7.2. > >Which Linux SQL is better suited to this type of setup ?. The >'clients' (the Win9x machines) are running M$Access as their front end. For >this proposal to even get to first base I need to be able to connect these >applications to the back end. > >Which Linux SQL is best/easiest/fastest/most stable... ?. > >Any other advice you can offer... > > >My initial readings have highlighted either MySQL or ProgreSQL as viable >candidates, should I be considering others ? Which ones ? > >What other web resources would help me to understand the limitations and >advantages of each solution (I've been to both homepages and tried Google >but there must be others) ? > >PLEASE ALSO REPLY to my 'other' account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so >as I don't miss any responses. > >Thanks heaps in advance. > >Paul Clyne > > > >
[newbie] Lexmark Z11 Printer. Has anyone got one to work with mdk8
Has anyone got a Lexmark Z11 printer to work with mdk8? I have tried both drivers and the one won't even send any info to the printer. And the sumsum one will send data to the printer. But it just prints out a bunch of yellow lines. If you did get it to work...how! Thx, h3rb
Re: [newbie] EMACs: How save after editing a text area?
Nico, Thanks very much for the response! However, I seem to have confused the issue -- AFAIK, reading and writing remote files using FTP is *not* what I want to do. The closest and most accurate analogy that I can come up with is this: while browsing websites with Xemacs w3 mode, I come across what is known in HTML as a TEXTAREA. A TEXTAREA appears in most (graphical) browsers as an empty box into which you can enter text. You've seen them -- pages where you can enter feedback for a site on the page rather than sending email. I've been able to enter text into them using Xemacs w3 mode, but I'm stuck at that point -- I don't know how to tell Xemacs to "save" what I've entered (back to the web site). I can press C-X C-S (or whatever) to save what I've entered locally, but that doesn't "save" it back to the web site. As I said, this is an analogy, and thus not 100% accurate. If you want to see more exactly what I'm trying to do, see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/UsingEmacsToEditTwiki. When I come across another web page with a TEXTAREA box, I'll try again. (Xemacs didn't do well at all on the dlink page I found the other day, and someone thought it might have something to do with Java.) Thanks, Randy Kramer Nico Krzebek wrote: > > (X)Emacs is able to read & write remote files using FTP transparently. The > only difference is how you enter the your file name. To access a file located > on another machine (with running FTP server!) > /user@host:file > eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/index.html > You can even use tab completion! (X)Emacs will ask for your password after > you pressed enter or used tab completion for the first time. It will be > stored for the rest of your (X)Emacs session. > > I'm not quite sure if you need to load any extra packages for that. The > XEmacs and GNU-Emacs we have installed here do it all automagically but I've > heard of a Ange-FTP package for GNU-Emacs. You might need that. You load > additional packages with M-x load-library and then type ange-ftp > . > > Two issues I have not been able to resolve yet are: how to chmod remote files > and how to use sftp instead of ftp... > > Nico > > On Monday 28 May 2001 22:05, you wrote: > > Nathan, > > > > Thanks for the response. > > > > When twiki.org is back up (on SourceForge), I'll tell you how I've done > > it using vim -- maybe that will give you a clue as to how I might do it > > in EMACs. > > > > (And, if my library has the book, I'll check that out.) > > > > Randy Kramer > > > > Nathan Owens wrote: > > > I don't know about emacs itself in terms of editing web pages, but > > > when I edit web pages, I usually have to FTP them to the web server. > > > > > > In emacs, the save command is C-x C-s, as you said, but I've only > > > saved files locally. You may want to check out the O'Reilly book > > > _Learning GNU Emacs_. It has a lot of great tips that I've picked up > > > through reading it. > > > > > > Nathan Owens > > > > > > >Anybody out there using EMACs to browse the web and edit "textareas"? > > > > > > > >I'm a very newbie to EMACs, but wanted to try that -- don't know what > > > >to do to save my edits. After I edit, I can choose save (I forget -- > > > >was it x, s?) but that seems to save only as a local > > > >file. > > > > > > > >How do I send the changes back to the web site? > > > > > > -- > > > Nathan Owens > > > Georgia Tech, Atlanta > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _ > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] y los modems???
Hola Victor Mi distribucion es la 7.2, igual no me la reconoce...
Re: [newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation
NO one is gonna find any modem there...There is none listed. And it says most winmodems, however some are supported. MODEM: Most modems and ISDN adaptors are supported. Most "Win-modems" are NOT supported. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 03:39, Eric Lauritzen wrote: > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3#modem > > That's the linke to Mandrake supported hardware. You won't find you modem > there, but if you plan to replace you modem you might find the list of > supported modems helpful. > > Eric > > > - Original Message - > From: "Frederic O Kho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:03 PM > Subject: [newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation > > > Guys, > > > > Pls. help. I have Mandrake 8 installed and it could not detect my > > internal > > modem. The modem specs are: > > Manufacturer: Cirrus Logic, Inc. > > Chipset: CL-MD5620-DT > > Memory: 32K DSP RAM > > UART: 16550AN > > > > This modem works well in Windows. Any of you have this problem? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Deric > > > > > > __ > > www.edsamail.com
Re: [newbie] Java ?
I couldn't get it to work either. When I pass the mouse over the grey box where the applet is supposed to be running, the status bar says "Applet timer can't start: ERROR." Terry On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:05, you wrote: > I have a high speed connection and our provider supplies us with a site > to check our download speed. The site is speedtest.telus.net but when > using Netscape 4.77 with the plugin package I still get a java error. This > site works fine when I reboot to Windows but I can't get it to work under > Mandrake 8. Could someone else please try this site and see if it works > for you. > > Thanks....Dave
Re: [newbie] y los modems???
yo tambien tengo ese modems, lo que pasa es que tiene chips intel que necesitan un driver, pero para el kernel 2.4.3 no hay drive(me imagino que tienes LM8, verdad, esta es la razon por lo que no lo reconoce en la instalacion. estoy buscando otra forma de pornelo ha funcional y si lo pone ha funcionar me avisas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- jgarrido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > hola lista > > estube revisando la lista de los hardware soportados > por linux y queria > saber si mi modem estaba soportado y en esta decia > que todos excepto los > winmodems, yo tengo un Cnet y no lo reconocio, > alguien sabe como lograr > eso.. > > Thanx > -=PePE=- > > = -Víctor Sosa All help gratefully appreciated. _ Do You Yahoo!? Obtenga su dirección de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] suspend to ram
I thought that "suspend to ram" effectively meant "sleep" to a laptop, whereas "suspend to disk" meant "hibernate." That is how it's referred to on my Compaq laptop. Terry > > > > Suspend to RAM or Hibernation, is when the computer copies the > > > > contents > > > > > >of > > > > > > > the RAM of the computer and also usually the video ram to a file on > > > > the harddrive, and then powers down the computer completely. The
RE: [newbie] Kmail
Title: RE: [newbie] Kmail It is hard to imagine that requesting an smtp server AND a user name is all that hard to do and has been neglected through so many revisions of kmail. There is so much functionality in the rest of kmail to be made so useless by this small feature. Netscape mail allows the input of a smtp server name/address AND a user name. Go figure. Jon H -Original Message- From: Kelley Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kmail You're absolutely right. My isp (Sisna) switched to smtp authentication and I looked for alternatives. I like mozilla best and am using it to send this email. I wrote one of the maintainers of kmail and asked about future plans for smtp authentication and he said "Maybe it will be in KDE 2.2". Dave Sherman wrote: > Perhaps someone will correct me on this, but I believe SMTP-Authentication > is *not* supported in kmail. Your mail server will need to be set up to > relay for you -- this is (generally) highly insecure, and makes it easy to > spam (even with other safeguards in place, such as using a RBL server, or > only relaying for specific networks), but many ISP's still do it this way. > > Dave > > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:22, thus spake Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA: > > >>>Anyone, >>> >>In the setup of Kmail for receiving email I can choose sendmail or smtp. >>When I select smtp I find no way to identify my smtp user. >> >>If I cannot setup kmail to identify it self how can I send email? >> >>Jon H -- "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] Please remove me from list!
Would you please remove me from the mailing list, thank you! regards Gavin Palmer
[newbie] More hardisk space
Hello all, I used to use Novell Netware and I could used to be able to merge two disk volumes (disk partions±) together, to create a large volume (i.e. 10gb on HD1 + 20Gb on HD2) could give me a 30Gb volume. Is it possible to do the same with Linux? What I mean I create a directory called /work and then I mount two 40gb discs in this partition to give me 80Gb of space in the /work directory, or something similar. Also, how can I turn a directory / file stucture into an ISO image. Also, is it possible to mount to ISO images in the same directory. For example I create the directory /Mandrake and the I mount the two ISO images for LM8 in the SAME directory? Thanks All. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 17-May-01
Re: [newbie] Just wondering a few points!
Walter Luffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC Yahoo! mail is a web-based mail application, which means you must use a > web browser to read your mail. The sort of e-mail programs you mentioned are > intended for use with mail that is actually downloaded to your computer; with > Yahoo! mail everything is actually on Yahoo!'s system and all you get is a > web page. (This can actually be an advantage if you want to read your mail > from a friend's computer; not everyone will have an e-mail client you can > use, but it seems everyone has at least one web browser.) = Yahoo mail CAN, in fact be utilized in an e-mail program such as Kmail. Use mail.pop.yahoo.com mail.smtp.yahoo.com I use it this way, so I know that it works. HTH, Mike -- "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there." --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] Unusably slow printing in 8.0 using 'official' HP DeskJet drivers?
I was wondering whether anyone using 8.0 is experiencing prohibitively slow print-outs with the bundled HP DeskJet drivers. I'm currently running 7.2, and while eager to upgrade I've heard horror stories about the downloadable version's use in conjunction with other distros. Thanks in advance, Michael
[newbie] Support for IP-Masquerading already compiled
Hello is this function already compiled in the standard installation of mandrake 8.0 ?? -- Best regards, ETSoft mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ntfs support?
On Saturday 29 May 1999 22:17, you wrote: > I've heard alot about the ntfs support module being really really buggy. > One can read horror stories of it completely destroying some people's ntfs > partition and needing a format. Is ntfs support really this buggy? I'm > running windows2000 on my first drive and mandrake 8.0 on my second drive. > Thanks for your input. > > Adam I never had any problems but i didn't very much reading from the NTFS partition. John W
