R: [newbie-it] alsa
ho scaricato gli ultimi driver e le utilities di alsa. non conosco però i comandi per installarli. sono nella directory home/massimo gentilmente qualcuno vuol farmi la cortesia di dirmi dettagliatamente,passo,passo come installarli ? sono un neofita. grazie Massimo Ciao Massimo, sono anch'io alle prese con le alsa giusto giusto in questi giorni. Sono pure io neofita e commetto ancora parecchi errori. L'installazione, salvo problemi specifici, sembra banale. Ti basta seguire passo passo quanto riportato e sito Alsa alla voce documentation, cioè scaricarti 1 drivers 2 libraries 3 utilities stando attento che siano adatte al tuo kernel. Nelle info relative ai drivers è riportato per quale kernel sono fatte. Esistono anche delle versioni rpm. Le puoi trovare con un motore di ricerca. Decomprimi i tre pacchetti. Li sistemi in tre directory con tar poi entri in successione nelle tre (segui l'ordine che ti ho indicato) e dai ./configure make make install (controlla nella documentazione, ma i comandi sono questi) poi con modules (o qualcosa del genere) + il nome della tua scheda avvii il modulo corrispondente alla tua scheda audio, quindi con alsamixer regoli il volume e togli la funzione mute. Al momento ho qualche problema di compilazione, poichè mi sono accorto di stare usando drivers che richiedono un kernel più recente di quello che ho. per il momento è tutto. Fammi sapere. Luca
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con floppy
On Sunday 17 June 2001 19:06, dott.ruffolotti wrote: purtroppo,come il collega che ha scritto precedentemente non riesco a leggere il floppy, tantomeno cambiando i diritti di accesso come root devo per caso ricompilare qualche cosa?? sorry non ricordo il mesaggio precedente. Non riesci a leggere nessun floppy? hai provato a montarli? cosa c'e' scritto nel tuo /etc/fstab? bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/~freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] scrolling mouse
Il 04:31, lunedì 18 giugno 2001, Loris ha scritto: Forse la domanda non è nuova, però possiedo un mouse economico (di cui non so nemmeno la marca) con lo scroll, ma non riesco a far funzionare la rotellina. Qualcuno di voi sa se si può fare e come? (MDK7.2) Ciao e un grazie anticipato. -- Chieder è lecito, rispondere è cortesia. Ciao io ho avuto lo stesso problema e l'ho configurato in mandrake control center. Massimo
Re: R: [newbie-it] alsa
Il 03:06, lunedì 18 giugno 2001, luca laghi ha scritto: ho scaricato gli ultimi driver e le utilities di alsa. non conosco però i comandi per installarli. sono nella directory home/massimo gentilmente qualcuno vuol farmi la cortesia di dirmi dettagliatamente,passo,passo come installarli ? sono un neofita. grazie Massimo Ciao Massimo, sono anch'io alle prese con le alsa giusto giusto in questi giorni. Sono pure io neofita e commetto ancora parecchi errori. L'installazione, salvo problemi specifici, sembra banale. Ti basta seguire passo passo quanto riportato e sito Alsa alla voce documentation, cioè scaricarti 1 drivers 2 libraries 3 utilities stando attento che siano adatte al tuo kernel. Nelle info relative ai drivers è riportato per quale kernel sono fatte. Esistono anche delle versioni rpm. Le puoi trovare con un motore di ricerca. Decomprimi i tre pacchetti. Li sistemi in tre directory con tar poi entri in successione nelle tre (segui l'ordine che ti ho indicato) e dai ./configure make make install (controlla nella documentazione, ma i comandi sono questi) poi con modules (o qualcosa del genere) + il nome della tua scheda avvii il modulo corrispondente alla tua scheda audio, quindi con alsamixer regoli il volume e togli la funzione mute. Al momento ho qualche problema di compilazione, poichè mi sono accorto di stare usando drivers che richiedono un kernel più recente di quello che ho. per il momento è tutto. Fammi sapere. Luca Ciao Luca ecco quello che mi appare dopo aver dato ./configure : loading cache ./config.cache cheking for gcc... no cheking for cc... no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH per me è cinese :) ringrazio chiunque mi dia suggerimenti utili Massimo
[newbie-it] Risoluzione video
Salve a tutti, ho un video Highscreen LE 28/3 preso alla Vobis tempo fa (abbinato ad una scheda video Matrox G200 4MB). Sotto Windows riuscivo ad avere una risoluzione di 1024x768 ma installato la MDK 8.0 riesco solo ad andare a 800x600 massimo. Esiste un driver per il monitor sopracitato o un modo per configurare KDE per funzionare con risoluzione e frequenza desiderati? Grazie per l'aiuto Giovanni
Re: [newbie-it] scrolling mouse
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:31:47 +0200 Loris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forse la domanda non è nuova, però possiedo un mouse economico (di cui non so nemmeno la marca) con lo scroll, ma non riesco a far funzionare la rotellina. Qualcuno di voi sa se si può fare e come? (MDK7.2) Ciao e un grazie anticipato. Questo e' quello che ho messo per il mio Logitech nel file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocolimps/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option Buttons5 Option ZAxisMapping4 5 EndSection Non ti resta che provare! Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.5 e driver scheda video
Ciao a tutti, Ho compilato il kernel 2.4.5 sulla Mdk 8.0 e boota (nel senso che parte... :)) e lavoro senza problemi in modalita' testo, ma non mi si avvia XWindows perche' il server non trova il driver della scheda video (NVidia GeForce) e mi risponde FAILED TO INITIALIZE THE NVdriver KERNEL MODULE. Con il kernel precompilato tutto funziona a meraviglia. Ho provato a copiare il driver che avevo installato sul kernel precompilato (/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/video/NVdriver) nei moduli del nuovo kernel (/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/video/NVdriver) ed ho riavviato, ma non e' cambiato nulla. Se provo a fare insmod NVdriver mi spara una sfilza di unresolved symbol e non mi carica il modulo (ho controllato con lsmod). In /etc/modules.conf e' presente la riga per il caricamento del driver (alias char-major-195 NVdriver). Avete suggerimenti? Grazie. Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
RE: [newbie] Speaking of Dell and Linux.........
On Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:42 AM, Michael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Does anyone know where you can lease machines and get service contracts with Linux installed? Could be a business opportunity out there... Linux does need more support than Windoze, but not much; if you were to offer small and medium size businesses a turnkey Linux solution, it should be competitive with Windoze with the additional support costs being met from savings on Windoze licence fees (these are only going to get more punitive with XP and Microsoft's move to becoming an application service provider). Key to making such a business work would seem to be hardware standardisation; the main obstacle at the moment is file and UI compatibility. (Businesses need to exchange files with clients and suppliers so they need a de facto standard format which is at present Office97; they need to get staff productive as soon as possible so MSOffice skills are standard in the employment market). But both of these obstacles can be overcome. OpenOffice will produce O97-compatible files, and even MS is moving towards open xml-based file formats; and intuitive interfaces are standardising around the WIMP-style GUIs pioneered by Xerox a quarter of a century ago at PARC. [Mind you I think that those interfaces have now reached an unsustainable level of complexity and are no longer as ergonomic as they were when conceived, but that is another story]
Re: [newbie] layout of the extension CD
¦b ¬P´Á¤é 17 ¤»¤ë 2001 17:06¡Asahilm09 ¼g¹D: Hi, I recently purchased the CD-R version of LM-8.0 from a local vendor. It seems that he has not written the extension(2nd) CD properly as it does not detect during install. Even though the RPMS show up later Can someone tell me the exact structure in which the 2nd CD is organized so that i can re-write it? Hi Sahil! all the rpm's are in: Mandrake/RPMS2/ Can someone please tell me how to install the content of the CD2? Augustin
Re: [newbie] Do I have to download everything in RPMS
Why not order the CD, it's so much simpler. I ordered LM 8.0 from www.cheapbytes.com following a recommendation on this list and It came in a matter of days (I live in the UK). Mark - Original Message - From: Keffa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:21 AM Subject: [newbie] Do I have to download everything in RPMS Hello all I am downloading Mandrake for the first time, allthough I have used it before and liked it. I am not downloading the ISO's, but the cd image at ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/8.0/i586 However, as I am running from a modem, and never having installed Mandrake Linux, or any Linux version before, I was wondering if I have to download everything in the RPMS folder. I am assuming that is where all the applications are stored, but I was wondering if I could just download the ones that I want installed, or must the entire contents of the directory be downloaded? Thanks for your help. Keffa http://www.keffacorp.co.uk __ The email address for this Keffacorp member has changed. To email this member direct your email to the address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get Mandrake Linux, a free operating system now from http://www.linux-mandrake.org __
RE: [newbie] Wow
Sorry, but the say that Linux becomes like Windows is the day i go back to windows, i dont want it to be simple! wheres the challenge in that? -- Jamie Adams Housing Assistant 41 Castle Road SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire, YO11 1BJ Tel: (01723) 507543 Fax: (01723) 355862 -- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 June 2001 03:15 To:Wendell Gragg; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wow On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 06:11, Wendell Gragg wrote: I think that you have hit on the crux of the problem for Linux...it still requires a fairly high degree of technical proficiency to install and run it. As long as this is the case, MS and MAC will have an advantage in the consumer market. Granted, this platform has come a very long way with the improvements in KDE and Gnome just in the last year, but it is still full of glitches that will hamper it being widely distributed and pre-installed on home machines. UNIX (including GNU/Linux) *can* be made ready for the desktop. MacOS X is proof. For example, I have had a number of problems getting printing to work correctly since I installed LM8. It turns out that I had to go in and change some settings in a cup.conf file to get it even half way reliable. I also have had problems upgrading as the RPM manager does not seem to have a list of update sites except in the security tab. This can be confusing (and still is to me) because when one sees a tab for security, he/she will assume that this is for security related updates only. What if I don't want that kind of update? Where do I get them? Burning CD's is another problem. I have tried to get the two cd burning programs installed by default to burn cds. Gcombust finally has, but I can't get it to make a bootable copy of the install disk 1 for LM8. There is no documentation I can find and the it certainly not self explanatory. Is your CD-ROM drive actually bootable? My friend bought a new computer only a few months ago and he found that the CD-ROM drive wouldn't boot with any bootable CD. If you burn Mandrake from an ISO image then the resulting CD will be bootable. My point is that unless one is very competent with OS's, Linux is hard to use and understand. Even when one has been working in the field for 27 years as I have, there is a steep learning curve. For all of Microsoft's problems, their OS works most of the time out of the box and is not that hard for the average consumer to use. There are many sources of help for the non-techie as well as the tech. Classes abound (both for free and for fee) on how to use things such as Word and IE5. ( I know because I am the automation coordinator for a public library system and we offer free classes.) These are hard things for any OS to overcome. Can it be done? Yes, but the platform will have to continue to mature and great emphasis will have to be made on improving and simplifying interfaces and insulating the non-technical user from the internals of the system. Most users will not put up with what I and many others who have posted here for help have had to go through. The difference between them and us is that we have the mindset of not letting the computer win and enough technical know-how to try different things. Perhaps, as world governments and more in business embrace the concepts that Linux is founded upon, and time effort and money are put into simplifying things, then the average consumer will be willing and able to buy into it also. The next couple of years should be interesting, especially considering what MS is doing to combat piracy. BTW, I am a user who has installed Linux twice. Once about a year ago and then abandoned it because I did not have time to learn it and now, because I wish to get my feet wet into the Unix world and because I don't like what MS is getting ready to do with its licensing. They are not intended to bash anybody or anything, but only to honestly express what I feel could hold up the revolution. Before anyone flames me, please let me get my asbestos underwear! Wendell Gragg From: Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wow Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:32:25 +0300 Well, for me Linux still is a secondary OS. I'm now going to start doing office jobs in StarOffice, but as long as I can't get modem to work, I can't do Internet stuff. Also, I have been writing apps for VisualBasic, and continue to do that in Win. But, I spend an even increasing amount of time in Linux. I'm proud with my OS knowledge: I have perfect knowledge of Windows 3.0, 3.1 and especially 3.11, as well as Windows 95 and 98. I know NT series (especially W2K Server), even though I really hate W2K. I know the very basics of BeOS - at least I can install it, install apps under it, and do some little job. I'm familiar with the Solaris OS, and am now gaining
Re: [newbie] Sound recording
take a look at DAP (digital audio processor) http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~richardk/ it can take as a recording source everything it finds on my sound card and i think it will also record whatever the output the master volume is bascule On Sunday 17 June 2001 4:11 pm, you wrote: In windows music jukebox can take input from mic, line in or mixer and record the song. Is there any software, preferably GUI, based in linux. When I used grecord, it needs source only from line in. Even when line input is there, it couldn record as device was being used by playing program in this case Tv tuner card. Where as in windows using Jukebox, i could record sound. with cat /dev/audio and sox, I could get sound recorded, but it was only noise may be stopping was done using ctrl+c. This didn't create proper EOF for wav file. Any solution will be appreciated
Re: [newbie] KDE Theme Install
I'm assuming your using kde 2.1.1. After you untar the theme you should have a file with the extention .ktheme Sometimes that will even be the only file in the theme. You then open the Control Center in kde--click look and feel--click theme manager then click Add and select your .ktheme file from wherever. A little note for you though. Do not try using the 1.1.x sersires themes. They don't work (at least I couldnt get them to). I downloaded only the ones that have 2.1 in the filename to avoid wasting all my time. Good luck. Jeff BTW The ones that look like 2.x-style or just have style in the filename are styles not themes. After you untar most of them they will have a script inside them written by the author with instructions on installing it. Most are simply as easy as ./install-theme , but on some you may need to edit the cp ~.kde commands to make them work. --- OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello How can Install KDE Theme. I have a bunch of them in tar ball. I did untar them but I could install them = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 pop3 server problem (should be simple for you)
When you respond to that email address in your Hotmail account, what email address is it? Is the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Does your machine always have the same IP address? For example... I can send an email to my machine directly, since it always has the same IP address, and it has a name that can be resolved. Does your machine have at least the first of those? It sounds like it would accept email, if only the Internet knows how to get to your machine. So try sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If that doesn't go through then that's not where your machine is most likely. Mandrake out of the box is set up to accept that traffic. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Hi all | I finaly after a long bad day got mandrake up and running properly on my server | i installed 7.2 the web server is perfect | postfix is doing its job (i can send email using an account on my server to another |accont say hotmail for example | but if i say use hotmail to send email to a email address that is on the server i |wont get it for some reason | it dont give any errors when my client looks for email it seems to go threw fine |just comes up with no new messages yet i did send a few from diferent address to test |out | | so in summary | i made an account now using a seperate windows computer i can send email using OE |with postfix (say to a hotmail account) | i then receive the email in the hotmail account but if i reply i will never get the |reply with the account on my server but it does check for new messages cause it dotn |give errors | | thanks for the help | | | Luc --
Re: [newbie] Re: Cannot get IBM's hp builder to install in LM8 - now fixed!
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:12, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Did you install IBM's WINE? It looks like you have. You need to use that, not the generic WINE Project WINE. You can have both installed at the same time, they won't interfere with each other. All I can say is to try uninstalling and then reinstalling it again from the command line (not a graphical tool). That has worked for me on more than one occasion. On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:50, Romanator wrote: Hi, I downloaded IBM's HP Builder html editor demo including the wine 4.0x rpm. It would not install. It looked like it installed but the software installer indicated that it wasn't installed. Has any one experienced this or have any tips? May be I should download it again. as a usr. I am looking for the best Linux html editor. Argh! It isn't working. I'll try again. Hi all, I fixed it but the rpms do not add an icon to kpanel. You will have to add it in manually. Some notes: The rpm installation installs IBM Home Builder to the /opt/hpbuilder 4 folder. However, the problem was that it needed a database rebuild. If you run into a similar problem, try the steps below: 1. Log in as root, open a console window, and type in: rpm --rebuilddb Press the [enter] key. Give it a little time 2. Log out of the console and close the window 3. Log in as user and open a console window 4. To start up the IBM Home Builder, type in hpbuilder -e Press the [enter] key. Enjoy the program, I know am. Just out of curiousity, are you using XFree 4.x or 3.x? When I tried using it some months ago it hosed my X font server. Hidden in one of the readme files was a note saying not to use it in XFree 4.x. If you manged to get it going in XFree 4, I should be able to use it too. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 01:45, Solver wrote: As for the permissions, no offence taken. But, you'll be very surprised to know that I am a sysadmin. Additionally, I often repair stand alone PCs. My network currently runs W2K, which I hate for everything except the increased security, but I'll put Windows XP on ASAP. If I were you I'd wait till at least the first service pack is released before doing a switchover. Win2K officially had about 63,000 (that's not a typo: sixty-three thousand) open bugs when it was released. It is common practice to wait a while for bugs to be fixed before deploying *any* major system change -- GNU/Linux included. Permissions are confusing, but I've succeeded to deny them installing of any applications, any registry access, changing wallpaper, and imposed a very strict password policy. I haven't tried to compile a Kernel - I don't know how. Which files I need to modify and how do I apply the changes (make install?). http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/ has a good tutorial. Compiling a kernel is quite easy and can be almost totally graphical. If you're not sure about a setting, you can always find an explanation on the Internet somewhere. That's the beauty of open source :-) Thus far, I believe everything I read about Linux, since my Linux experience obviously is to small for me to speak about anything. Should buy a book. Solver Just like for anything else, there are both good and bad publications. I wouldn't, for example, trust Microsoft or ZDNet (although a few journalists there aren't that bad) to inform me on the GPL, just as I wouldn't trust GM to inform me on Ford. It's just an issue on selecting the correct sources. For books on GNU/Linux, anything by O'Reilly is excellent. The Linux-Mandrake manual is a good read as well. You should have an online version installed at /usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/index.html. - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux-Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 4:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 01:46, Solver wrote: No, no Bill's richness means little to me. Perhaps he's right, only some need to do this. Of course, I didn't buy Office XP! It's all piracy - I rarely buy something legally. I know Dragon is the leader, but haven't seen it at piracy shops. Just wondering about the Kernel. It's possible to compile, but even of Linux users, not everyone does it. Still, what majority users want is simple to use OS, that they can't screw up - while one typo in kernel can and will make you format it and reinstall. The beauty of the system is that you don't *have* to compile a kernel. Disrro companies (like Mandrakesoft) give you binaries that work just fine without any compilation at all (just like Windows). If you want that added performance boost, you *can* recompile a kernel. It is a very easy thing to do (even some GNU/Linux books targetted at *beginners* teach it). A kernel can only be compiled if you have the relevant source code, which is not installed, nor is needed, by default. The root-user security system, where you have to log in as root to perform administration tasks, prevents most careless user errors. There is *no* such protection in Windos, so *anyone* can make a blunder at *any* time. Win2K, with its administrator-user system, is incredibly confusing wnen it comes to user permissions. If you've ever tried to manage multiple users and their privileges in Win2K you'll know what I mean. Have you ever actually *tried* to compile a Linux kernel, or tried to manage user rights and permissions? No offence, but it appears to me as if you're just believing whatever you read instead of actually learning from personal experience. So in short: You don't need to compile anything if you don't want to. If you don't, GNU/Linux is little different from Windows, since Windos is closed-source and hence can't be recompiled. Making important system changes requires a log-in as root, forcing the user to actually *think* about what they're doing (unless they're stupid, in which case nobody can help them), unlike in Windows. Solver - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux-Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 21:32, Solver wrote: Just as a note - I wouldn't mind if MS had my password. I would only mind if they could erase hard drive. If they had your password they COULD erase your hard drive. They could get your e-mail, your credit card deails (if you ever typed them into your computer) -- in fact anything they wanted, from you. And if you didn't use a
Re: [newbie] Need to change GRUB boot loader default opsys
At 11:58 15.06.01 -0700, you wrote: Hi - I want to change the order of the operating systems in GRUB. I want to make another operating system the default when the system starts up. Any ideas? Can it be done from anywhere else outside of Linux too? (can I edit it somehow from dos, etc.) I have LM7.2. Thanks! Jason the file to edit is /boot/grub/menu.lst (could be slightly different, i'm not at my mandrake machine right now). in 8.0 you can also set it from the mandrake control center by choosing 'edit' for the entry in question. as for editing it from 'outside' of linux i don't know; there's explore2fs (or sth like that) which let's you access the linux file system but i'd definitely *not* use that to fiddle with my linx configuration. hth, martin
Re: [newbie] IPchains is missing....
On Sunday 17 June 2001 09:22 pm, s wrote: Well, naw, but it's cool he switched. I was just mentioning it because Tom said Steve was unwise to use windows for a server. -s No, I said I lack faith in any security expert who would choose the most insecure server available, Winblows. On Sunday 17 June 2001 05:53 pm, you wrote: s wrote: He has recently moved his site and ngs to a unix server (after the recent DoS attacks). So I guess he's catching on. :-) Can Linux protect him from a DoS attack? Randy Kramer Ya know I was gonna drop out of this because it's no longer on topic for this list, but search just now at http://www.netcraft.com/whats/ shows that www.grc.com (ShieldsUP) The site www.grc.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000. just as his site currently says Gibson is in his warning message that his scan could be innacurate 'cause his Windoze server is buggy.. The only reason this topic is pertinent is that after I gave the simple instructions for configuring an iptables firewall, I recommended that it be test scaned to verify it. Granted I implied the Gibson's site isn't the best, and that Secure Design's was better, more comprehensive and more accurate. I still believe SD is _much_ better, YMMV. BTW, www.sdesign.com reports The site www.sdesign.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on Linux. To answer Randy, very little can be done to protect a site before a DoS begins, but much can be done during and after. FWIW, both sites were DoS'd. Gibson's Windoze server was down and out for several days after the attack was over. SecureDesign's Apache/Linux was only down during the attack for a few hours. You may want to Google 'Denial of Service' for more info. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Help, 8.0 install
On Monday, Jun 18, 2001, civileme wrote: Error scenario: Unable to mount root fs... error message. When: After installation. Why: The kernel is configured to initialize offboard controllers before onboard controllers. I just have a quick question... is this a 'feature' of the kernel, or is this a bug in the kernel? What kernel version does the install use? -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 1 day 9 hours 33 minutes.
[newbie] Doom
Hello I installed doom from an RPM that I downloaded from www.rpmfind.net but I don't know where did it go or how can I run it. Any ideas? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Speaking of Dell and Linux.........
On Sunday, Jun 17, 2001, Romanator wrote: I've just been to their site and Dell does provide RedHat preinstalled but you have to order it. Bit. I think you learn a lot more from installing it yourself and making errors as painfull they might be. I agree. But the good thing about being able to buy a system with linux (even if it is RedHat ;) is that you're not paying for a copy of Windows that you will probably never use for anything other than a coaster. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 1 day 9 hours 47 minutes.
[newbie] Problemas con el KDE!!!! HELP ME!!!
Hola nuevamente: Otra vez el mismo problema, cuando ingreso en las X WINDOW con KDE o ejecuto un programa para KDE desde otro gestor de ventanas me arroja el siguiente error La aplicacion ServidorUI (KIO_UISERVER) fallo y provoco la Señal 11 (SIGSEGV) Alguien me podria decir que significa y como lo puedo arreglar, uso la dist. LM 7.2 y mi tarjeta de video es una SIS 6326... de antemano Gracias a TODOS... Gruss für Alle!!!
Re: [newbie] Doom
:-D type in a console: updatedb then when it's done, type: locate whatever.rpm -s On Monday 18 June 2001 11:15 am, you wrote: Hello I installed doom from an RPM that I downloaded from www.rpmfind.net but I don't know where did it go or how can I run it. Any ideas? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/
[newbie] XFree86 4.1
I was trying to install LM8.0 rpms (cooker) of XFree v4.1 but I get dependency errors. The package not found is perl(strict), but this package doesnt seem to exist. Anyone have installed succesfully X 4.1 ? thanks! -- edmz Six of one, 110 (base 2) of another. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] wino needs help ...
On Monday 18 June 2001 06:44, you wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2001 08:33, Michel Clasquin wrote: Corel has its own version of wine which thoroughly tromped yours. The way I deal with this is to keep rpms and config files for standard, IBM, Corel, and codeweavers handy (of course I don't think Corel comes in rpm form) It does - inside the Photopaint tarball. In various glibc20 and glibc21 versions When I want to do a job for a particular wine, I just install the right one with a short script. which means su-ing to root quickly first, I imagine? Then running the app, and finally removing the rpm? Thing is, I thought I had already re-installed the proper mdk wine. Oh well, I guess the thing to do is to remove every vestige of wine first, then try to reinstall. Thanks. later So that's what I did and I *still* got the same error! Then I turned to the other thing I had done - I had earlier extracted all the windows98 dll's and exe's from their cab files to give wine access to the native files. I renamed that directory, created a new one called windows and wine miraculously started working again! Which shows you what happens when you try to be too clever. But access to the real dll's should be a good thing for wine, no? I'll try to move systematically through them and find out which one is giving the trouble. Hope this helps someone else down the line -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC .-. /v\L I N U X // \\ Phear the Penguin /( )\ ^^-^^
[newbie] support with CD
Hi- Does anyone know what the support options cover when you buy the Power Pack? I thought you could use it for anything in the first 30 days, but was told that it covers installation issues only. I always buy the CD's at my local computer store to support the efforts of the developers, but this is my first attempt at support. Thanks, -Scott
[newbie] JPEG Print from GIMP
I tried to print a small JPEG from GIMP and got random character trash that comes with an incorrect printer configuration. GIMP was set for PS which I believe my Epson SC-850 should have handled just fine. I'm running MD 8.0 and have the printer setup through Cups. Suggestions? Barry
Re: [newbie] WP and Mandrake8
Michael, I can't install it either. I suspect a kernel version problem and asked the list but have no confirmation. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA mrc wrote: It seems that WP8 will not run on Mandrake8. Has anyone else had this problem? -- Michael
Re: [newbie] WP and Mandrake8
mrc wrote: It seems that WP8 will not run on Mandrake8. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm not sure where you are having the problem, but I have wp8 running on L8.0 succcesfully on my desktop as well as my laptop. In LM7.2, I could click on the install icon and it would start up the installation, but for some reason in LM8.0 I had to install from a terminal with; ./install.wp after mounting the cdrom. You can also just open your cdrom directory and open the terminal from there. That way you don't have to cd to your /mnt/cd/andapartridgeinaperartree/etcetc/andallthatjazz/ because you're already there. ShalomOut Chal Registered Linux user #217118 Never teach a pig to sing. It doesn't sound very good and it annoys the pig.
[newbie] XFree 4.0.3 freezes in LM8.0
I have been having problems with the installation of LM8.0 the worst has been that the Xservers freezes without any pattern at all. I think someone had posted it was related to some gtk packages, but I dont remember which ones. Please HELP Carlos Berardi
RE: [newbie] XFree86 4.1
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eduardo Dominguez Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] XFree86 4.1 I was trying to install LM8.0 rpms (cooker) of XFree v4.1 but I get dependency errors. The package not found is perl(strict), but this package doesnt seem to exist. Anyone have installed succesfully X 4.1 ? I installed 4.1 on 3 different systems from a Cooker mirror using the Software Mgr. All depends were auto handled and there were no problems. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
Re: [newbie] WP and Mandrake8
On Monday 18 June 2001 19:45, you wrote: It seems that WP8 will not run on Mandrake8. Has anyone else had this problem? install libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm - you'll find it on google -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC .-. /v\L I N U X // \\ Phear the Penguin /( )\ ^^-^^
[newbie] Error Installing from ISO, Mandrake 8.0
I recently downloaded the Mandrake Linux 8.0 Inst and Ext ISO's from ftp://ftp.onenet.net. The checksums from the FTP and the checksums I generated on my end were the same, so I went ahead and burned the CD's without difficultly. THe computer I'm trying to install on is a P233MMX with 64meg RAM, 3gig HD, 48x Creative CD-ROM. I set the BIOS to boot A, CDROM, HD, and leave the floppy drive unused, so it boots from CDROM. I put in the Mandrake 8.0 Inst CD and everything starts fine. Going through the steps: Choose your language -- Worked fine, picked United States. Accepted the EUL. Select installation class -- I only have Recommended and Expert options, while the text box says I should also have a Custom option. I selected Expert and clicked install. Hard drive detection -- Detected no SCSI interfaces. Clicked no ok. Configure mouse -- Selected the standard PS/2 mouse. Choose your keyboard -- Selected the plain US Keyboard. Security -- Selected Medium security level. (Will be running servers) Setup filesystems -- hda 3gig, 781 cyl, 128 head, 63 sectors. Made one lump Ext2 partition (hda1) with cyl 0 - 763 (3009meg). Made a swap space of cyl 764 - 780 (66meg). Formatted both partitions. Format partitions -- Formatted both partitions. Choose packages to install -- We finally get to the error. I get the message Please waitLooking for availible packages and then get this error: An error occured no hdlists found. During earlier attemtps I got a much larger message, that it wasn't finding /mnt/somethingsomething/hdlist.CD1 (x86) somethingsomething.cz Well, you know as much as I do at this point about my attempts to install. ANy ideas? I'd really like to get Linux installed on my system.
[newbie] laptop display
Hi, Almost got all the bugs out...now the display... Dell Inspiron 700 MHz 192 Mb ram ati M4 c/w 8 megs ram 14.1 display XFree 4 on install Two problems 1. I used an XF86Config-4 file from the net and it only hasa single resolution. 2. Mandrake 8 works very well but occasionally when I logout or if I'm in the login screen, I try to reboot, the display just disappears. There is a loss of control and very random transluscent colour patterns appear. Also, total loss of control over the laptop. Not even CTRL/ALT/BACK or CTRL/ALT/DELETE has any effect. I'm looking for a more complete XF86Config-4 file (or a close one that I can adjust from)? Does anyone have this combo? Has anyone had this weird loss of display and control at the login screen? Thanks, Bill W.
[newbie] GIMP fonts
I hope someone can help me with this, I'm using Mandrake 8.0 and have fully installed The GIMP. I'm trying to make a button and I can't get the fonts to work the error I get is: (I tried different fonts BTW) Font'-biznet-anagnostiko-bold-i-normal-*-*-101-71-71-p-*-iso8859-2'not found. I did a rpm query of what fonts I have: XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3-7mdk fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-8mdk chkfontpath-1.7-4mdk urw-fonts-2.0-2mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-7mdk mozilla-fonts-2310-6mdk drakfont-0.58-11mdk fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-8mdk ghostscript-fonts-5.50-5mdk XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-1.0-14mdk I'd appreciate any help, Thanx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danen Consulting Services: www.danen.net Freezer Burn: www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 0 hours 17 minutes.
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 pop3 server problem (should be simple for you)
Hi my machine has a domain name associated to it wich resolvs just fine i tried sending to username@ip addy of server and i get the same resolts (A big nothing hehe) i am at a loss i really dont know what the problem is with the server could it be bad postfix configarations? Luc - Original Message - From: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Luc Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 5:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 pop3 server problem (should be simple for you) When you respond to that email address in your Hotmail account, what email address is it? Is the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Does your machine always have the same IP address? For example... I can send an email to my machine directly, since it always has the same IP address, and it has a name that can be resolved. Does your machine have at least the first of those? It sounds like it would accept email, if only the Internet knows how to get to your machine. So try sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If that doesn't go through then that's not where your machine is most likely. Mandrake out of the box is set up to accept that traffic. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Hi all | I finaly after a long bad day got mandrake up and running properly on my server | i installed 7.2 the web server is perfect | postfix is doing its job (i can send email using an account on my server to another accont say hotmail for example | but if i say use hotmail to send email to a email address that is on the server i wont get it for some reason | it dont give any errors when my client looks for email it seems to go threw fine just comes up with no new messages yet i did send a few from diferent address to test out | | so in summary | i made an account now using a seperate windows computer i can send email using OE with postfix (say to a hotmail account) | i then receive the email in the hotmail account but if i reply i will never get the reply with the account on my server but it does check for new messages cause it dotn give errors | | thanks for the help | | | Luc --
Re: [newbie] laptop display
Hi Bill, I am using: Compaq Presario 1200 700 Celeron 128MB Ram Cyberblade i7 3D Video 13.1 display and the install Xfree 4.0.3 And I used a config file I found on the net specifically for the presario 1200 and I get a 1 1/2 to 2 inch black box around my display with a small X Windows being displayed in the center. I find whether I use 800x600 or 1024x768 it is the same. Haven't found a solution yet but will send you my XF86Config. Joe Pyrczak At 12:22 PM 18/06/01 -0700, you wrote: Hi, Almost got all the bugs out...now the display... Dell Inspiron 700 MHz 192 Mb ram ati M4 c/w 8 megs ram 14.1 display XFree 4 on install Two problems 1.I used an XF86Config-4 file from the net and it only has a single resolution. 2.Mandrake 8 works very well but occasionally when I logout or if I'm in the login screen, I try to reboot, the display just disappears. There is a loss of control and very random transluscent colour patterns appear. Also, total loss of control over the laptop. Not even CTRL/ALT/BACK or CTRL/ALT/DELETE has any effect. I'm looking for a more complete XF86Config-4 file (or a close one that I can adjust from)? Does anyone have this combo? Has anyone had this weird loss of display and control at the login screen? Thanks, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] JPEG Print from GIMP
Go into the printer setup of gimp and choose a driver (printer) closer to the one you have set up in cups. I don't think ps is going to print pictures very well. -s On Monday 18 June 2001 01:02 pm, you wrote: I tried to print a small JPEG from GIMP and got random character trash that comes with an incorrect printer configuration. GIMP was set for PS which I believe my Epson SC-850 should have handled just fine. I'm running MD 8.0 and have the printer setup through Cups. Suggestions? Barry
Re: [newbie] xsreensaver
Sure, and maybe brief instructions how to install it. This is my correct email addy. Thanks! (I wonder why yours has it and mine doesn't?) -s On Monday 18 June 2001 04:47 am, you wrote: On Monday 18 June 2001 02:11, you wrote: Strange, I have a matrix ss that works fine in mdk8, and i don't remember adding it manually. Do you want a copy? it's a 280 kb file
Re: [newbie] xsreensaver
Gnome has many more screensavers than KDE but no Matrix. I have the windose version but not the linux version. Still looking. Have you tried www.tucows.com? Roman s wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2001 05:49 pm, you wrote: s wrote: Don't know why the Matrix ain't included, I've asked before myself and didn't get an answer. Must have been some kind of problem with it tho. However, I do know why there appear to be many more screensavers than show up in your xscreensaver option list. Many of the ones installed are for gnome. Go over in there and you will see a bunch of different ones. -s Why not copying the Matrix screensaver from LM7.2? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Cause it wasn't in 7.2 either. But I did try and copy it from a Redhat machine, and it showed up in the list, I could configure it, but it wouldn't start. The screen just went blank. (The Matrix in Redhat 7.1 looks really good too). There was a fellar' that got it to work on his machine, and I followed his method/howto, but no success for me. ramble That's one of main things I miss from that other os, the availability of screensavers. My better half used to kid me and call my computer your screen saver machine. I know I have over $200 in windows screensavers archived. :-(I wish someone would make some cool screensavers for Linux. I keep hoping that someday they will start to trickle in I found 3 or 4 or sourceforge or somewhere, but couldn't get them to work. Oh well, small price to pay... (Of course I do have several stuffed penguins sitting around now, and one of those cool penguin computer cases to make up for it. :-) ) /ramble -s
Re: [newbie] How can I add a shortcut to my Gnome desktop in LM8?
I'll give it ago but I couldn't see Create Link. I can see create folder etc. Linux linuxsa wrote: There must be a Create Link button on right clik menu of Gnome. After that you have to write the location where you want GNOME to create the link. --- Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I have looked and looked. I can add a folder to the Gnome desktop but how can I do this with an application link as in KDE? I guess I'm really used to KDE. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] How do you figure out your port number for yourworkstation?
Hi Chris, I'll try it out. Roman Chris Keelan wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2001 19:00, you wrote: Well, I tried. I can't get this to work. THe same thing happened to me when I tried to get Pine working. Nada. Maybe, it's because I'm using Netscape and Opera. You need to enter the fully qualified names of each host. For example, I'm using the Rogers@Home service. In Kmail/Knode I enter mail.etob1.on.wave.home.com for both my SMTP and POP3 servers. SMTP should default to port 25 and POP3 to port 110. My news server is news.etob1.on.wave.home.com. See, you're connecting to Windows DHCP but because you're not running the @Home proprietary client, no login script executes to bind smpt, mail and news to your appropriate hosts. Call your tech support lines and ask them for the fully-qualified name of each server. Let me know if this works. - Chris Registered Linux User #219465 http://counter.li.org.
Re: [newbie] How can I add a shortcut to my Gnome desktop in LM8?
Okay. Thanks, Roman Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Right-click the desktop - New - Launcher Dave On Sunday 17 June 2001 17:54, thus spake Romanator: Hi everybody, I have looked and looked. I can add a folder to the Gnome desktop but how can I do this with an application link as in KDE? I guess I'm really used to KDE. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility - -- ...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Cor 1:23-24) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7LXet6s7ySS1XETQRAuIbAJ9y2gky1+63sol+/pKlsAnlaACcqwCfeQi0 eetUZBJWNSXQd9sp7esGZH0= =PXWq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Re: Cannot get IBM's hp builder to install in LM8 - now fixed!
I'm using XFree 3.x. If I select XFree 4.x i screws up my graphics. Roman Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:12, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Did you install IBM's WINE? It looks like you have. You need to use that, not the generic WINE Project WINE. You can have both installed at the same time, they won't interfere with each other. All I can say is to try uninstalling and then reinstalling it again from the command line (not a graphical tool). That has worked for me on more than one occasion. On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:50, Romanator wrote: Hi, I downloaded IBM's HP Builder html editor demo including the wine 4.0x rpm. It would not install. It looked like it installed but the software installer indicated that it wasn't installed. Has any one experienced this or have any tips? May be I should download it again. as a usr. I am looking for the best Linux html editor. Argh! It isn't working. I'll try again. Hi all, I fixed it but the rpms do not add an icon to kpanel. You will have to add it in manually. Some notes: The rpm installation installs IBM Home Builder to the /opt/hpbuilder 4 folder. However, the problem was that it needed a database rebuild. If you run into a similar problem, try the steps below: 1. Log in as root, open a console window, and type in: rpm --rebuilddb Press the [enter] key. Give it a little time 2. Log out of the console and close the window 3. Log in as user and open a console window 4. To start up the IBM Home Builder, type in hpbuilder -e Press the [enter] key. Enjoy the program, I know am. Just out of curiousity, are you using XFree 4.x or 3.x? When I tried using it some months ago it hosed my X font server. Hidden in one of the readme files was a note saying not to use it in XFree 4.x. If you manged to get it going in XFree 4, I should be able to use it too. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded
I got a lot of stickers with LM7.0 Roman Tim Holmes wrote: And honestly, the abscence of such stickers has been my only real complaint about Mandrake! SuSE comes with stickers, RedHATE comes with a bumper sticker and some other stickets for the outside of the machine and everything. But not for Mandrake! I've been looking at the online store Mandrake just recently put out there, and was hoping those stickers would be on there right off the bat. I have however seen stickers to put over the Intel inside or the made for Windows sticker that says Penguin in Side or something like that. But I can't find that email address with that URL. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | so what I want now is to replace the apple logo on my Mazda RX3 with a nice | tux with a mandrake shooting star and like the mandrake 7.0 user guide cover | logo --
[newbie] CD Burning Trauma
I just installed a ricoh MP9060 CDRW/DVD drive on my P667 system. Both bios and Linux detect the drive by name on boot. I have poured over the CD Burning HowTo at LDP and I'm either too uninitiated or too stooped to make the commands work. So, there are basically 2 questions... I have the Iso of LM8.0 downloaded, so if it will autodetect and config my drive on install, and someone can tell me how to install it from my old version (or from dos) that would be great -or- if someone can walk me through the setup for the CDRW so I can get it going w/ XcdRoast, that would be just as good. Any help provided is greatly appreciated. Humbly... jg
[newbie] Lost Sound on Startup
Somehow, when starting up KDE, I no longer get the startup sounds. When I went into the KDE configurator to the sound events and tried to play the sounds, I get nothing, however, I can get the system bell to work through the speaker. The only thing I can think of is something to do with the updates I downloaded and installed from the security site. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can check this out? Thanks, Wendell _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
[newbie] RE: upgrading linux 2.2.x to 2.4
Hi all Im running Mandrake 7.2 wiith linux kernel at 2.2.x , im using lnx4win also running Windows 98. How can i upgrade my kernel to 2.4. I have the kernel tarball image with me,Any guidance or documentation is highly appreciated. I need to upgrade to 2.4 to as i beleive it supports the smc ethernet adapter 2202 Thanks vijay __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/
[newbie] dual screens
Hello! I've got two graphics cards, one pci and one agp I would like to have /dev/tty6 to point to the pci card. That card is connected to my TV so I can watch divx on that. Does anyone got any idea of how I could set this up?? //Magnus
[newbie] 7.2 iso's
Anyone have a ftp server that I could snatch the 2 iso's for 7.2? I am looking for the newest ones besides the first run that had problems.Please let me know via the list or direct e-mail, thanks in advance. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
Re: [newbie] 7.2 iso's
i don't know if these are the latest ftp://linux.mty.itesm.mx/pub/mirrors/mandrake they are at my local university at Mexico
Re: [newbie] 7.2 iso's
Why not use 8.0? 7.2 is quite old now, having been released around October last year. All 7.2 final (i.e. not beta) isos are the same -- they were created for the 7.2 release. You are supposed to install these and use MandrakeUpdate to update the installation to the newest packages. On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a ftp server that I could snatch the 2 iso's for 7.2? I am looking for the newest ones besides the first run that had problems.Please let me know via the list or direct e-mail, thanks in advance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] Linux SETI Client assistance needed
Can anyone on the list give me any suggestions on how to make the seti@home mailto:seti@home command line version for linux automatically dial in and send when a unit is completed and download a new unit like the one on Windows ;-P does? I've tried the various options provided with the program but they don't help at all and it is a real drag having to manually send and receive data. Thanks Charles Wackerman Carthage, NC
Re: [newbie] WP and Mandrake8
This is why it won't run...you must install this as well... then run from within a terminal... Michel Clasquin wrote: On Monday 18 June 2001 19:45, you wrote: It seems that WP8 will not run on Mandrake8. Has anyone else had this problem? install libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm - you'll find it on google -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC .-. /v\L I N U X // \\ Phear the Penguin /( )\ ^^-^^
[newbie] ISO help
Is there any way around using a CD burner with my downloaded ISO file? My computer does not have a CDR, so the only way would be to extract the files to the HD and work from a bootable floppy. I have no idea if this is possible, and if yes, how to do it ?!
[newbie] Rename
I have a bunch of .tar.gz files and I want to add .ktheme to the extension so the file name becomes whatever.tar.gz.ktheme what should I do? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] WP and Mandrake8
hello I found this file instead libc5-5.4.38-3.i386.rpm Would it work? --- KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is why it won't run...you must install this as well... then run from within a terminal... Michel Clasquin wrote: On Monday 18 June 2001 19:45, you wrote: It seems that WP8 will not run on Mandrake8. Has anyone else had this problem? install libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm - you'll find it on google -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC .-. /v\L I N U X // \\ Phear the Penguin /( )\ ^^-^^ = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Rename
It was Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:34:24 -0700 (PDT) when OOzy Pal wrote: I have a bunch of .tar.gz files and I want to add .ktheme to the extension so the file name becomes whatever.tar.gz.ktheme for a in *.tar.gz; do mv $a $a.ktheme; done That should do it. Paul -- A day without light is like, eh... night! http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] Getting legacy applications to execute
I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop, and although all the KDE apps work just fine, I can't seem to run any legacy applications -- either through the file manager or a console window. When I type the name of a program on the command line, all I get is a message saying that [program_name] is not a bash command or something like that. Anyone recognize this problem at all? T _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
RE: [newbie] ISO help
Hmmm .I just asked basically the same question and I spent the last few hours banging my head against the monitor trying to figure it out. What you need is a boot disk the installer will allow you to install from an ISO on your HDD only on 8.0 (I tried on 7.0). Im hesitant (wisely, I think) to attach the boot image and the rawrite utility over the list. You might be able to get it online w/ a google search. Once you have the boot disk you will be able to get to your ISO file on your HDD no problem. I did this 5 minutes ago and it worked great. If you cant find the disk online, write back and Ill attach it to you only. And if youre running windows, theres a messed up way of working around this with a program called iso2fcd in combination with a virtual cd rom program. If that sound like something youre interested in, Ill tell you about it after I get some sleep *yawn* -Original Message- From: Allan Myburgh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ISO help Is there any way around using a CD burner with my downloaded ISO file? My computer does not have a CDR, so the only way would be to extract the files to the HD and work from a bootable floppy. I have no idea if this is possible, and if yes, how to do it ?!
Re: [newbie] gcc problems
The Mandrake 8.0 GCC is not the same as the unstable GCC used in Red Hat 7.0 and 7.1. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, the Mandrake developers decided to use the same version number as Red Hat used for their GCC (2.96), creating heaps of confusion in the process. Mandrake have been compiling Cooker with their GCC (a pruning from the then-unfinished 3.0 tree) for months now, with no problems whatsoever. Hopefully Mandrake will end this confusion by releasing a GCC 3.0 package. Red Hat have already done so, and have labelled it as a critical update. On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:35, Adam Willcox wrote: I've heard and read rumors that the version of gcc included in Mandrake 8.0 is bad. As evidence I recently upgraded my nvidia video driver and had to compile it about 50 times before the module would successfully load. Has anyone else heard, read, or otherwise experienced the same? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Lost Sound on Startup
This is a problem with the recently-issued kdelibs 2.1.2 update. A fix has been issued in the form of another kdelibs package. More details can be found at http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=983. On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:57, Paul wrote: It was Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:42:14 -0500 when Wendell Gragg wrote: Somehow, when starting up KDE, I no longer get the startup sounds. When I went into the KDE configurator to the sound events and tried to play the sounds, I get nothing, however, I can get the system bell to work through the speaker. The only thing I can think of is something to do with the updates I downloaded and installed from the security site. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can check this out? Only thing I can think of is that you have to check the permissions on the sound devices, like /dev/dsp and so on. That was a problem here for a while also. Paul -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Help, 8.0 install
On Monday 18 June 2001 12:15, Paul Cox wrote: On Monday, Jun 18, 2001, civileme wrote: Error scenario: Unable to mount root fs... error message. When: After installation. Why: The kernel is configured to initialize offboard controllers before onboard controllers. I just have a quick question... is this a 'feature' of the kernel, or is this a bug in the kernel? What kernel version does the install use? Same version--it is a compile time option. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for the install kernel which is a very special shape. Civileme
[newbie] Xerox DocuPrint XJC8
Hi ! I installed LM8 without any problems except one. For color printer was mentioned in driver description as BW and so installed. If anybody know how to switch it into color mode? (In Win2k and Win98 it is OK). Thanks. Vladimir Kaploun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Printing Japanese
Hi, I have been viewing a site in Japanese with Netscape. It loads and runs fine but how do I print it and why can't I view it with Konquerer I am curious as to why Konquerer won't render it properly and instead shows a whole range of non Japanese characters when Netscape renders them correctly. The page is written in Japanese but doesn't have a line in the header to say what character set it is using and all the style information comes from a separately linked style sheet. That shouldn't be an issue but maybe. Thanks in advance. -- Regards Richard - There is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. Ruskin
Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft
On Saturday 16 June 2001 00:35, Richard wrote: So I bought a PowerEdge 300 server to run on the desk top. It works just fine and running Linux does not invalidate the service policy on this. It is a similar price to a lot of the desk top machines. I preferred to install my own version of Mandrake on it but they were certainly prepared to put RedHat on it for me. On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, you wrote: That is now changing with some of the big computer companies, including Dell. They offer the option to have Linux or Windows installed. Dell does offer Linux or windows on their server line, nut not on desktops or laptops. At least that is what they told me when i bought my Lattitude CPx. Their service agreement does not cover a linux machine, and if you even install it as a dual boot, it will void your service policy. They further stated that even a hardware problem would not be covered because they couldn't test the software to make sure. This came stright from Dell. I'm sure they support their server line. -- Regards Richard - There is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. Ruskin
RE: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded
Of course, one could always check thinkgeek.com and linuxmall. I know thinkgeek has some classics. -Original Message- From: Tim Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:54 AM To: Ed Tharp Cc: Dan LaBine; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded And honestly, the abscence of such stickers has been my only real complaint about Mandrake! SuSE comes with stickers, RedHATE comes with a bumper sticker and some other stickets for the outside of the machine and everything. But not for Mandrake! I've been looking at the online store Mandrake just recently put out there, and was hoping those stickers would be on there right off the bat. I have however seen stickers to put over the Intel inside or the made for Windows sticker that says Penguin in Side or something like that. But I can't find that email address with that URL. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | so what I want now is to replace the apple logo on my Mazda RX3 with a nice | tux with a mandrake shooting star and like the mandrake 7.0 user guide cover | logo --
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 pop3 server problem (should be simple for you)
Pardon my jumping in here. I'm new to the list and taking a HUGE stab in the dark here. I notice you have an @home account. By any chance, is this server also doing any firewalling? If so, is it configured to allow ports 25 and 113? You should have both ports open. On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:53:39 -0700, Luc Martineau wrote: Hi my machine has a domain name associated to it wich resolvs just fine i tried sending to username@ip addy of server and i get the same resolts (A big nothing hehe) i am at a loss i really dont know what the problem is with the server could it be bad postfix configarations?
Re: [newbie] Lost Sound on Startup
It was Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:42:14 -0500 when Wendell Gragg wrote: Somehow, when starting up KDE, I no longer get the startup sounds. When I went into the KDE configurator to the sound events and tried to play the sounds, I get nothing, however, I can get the system bell to work through the speaker. The only thing I can think of is something to do with the updates I downloaded and installed from the security site. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can check this out? Only thing I can think of is that you have to check the permissions on the sound devices, like /dev/dsp and so on. That was a problem here for a while also. Paul -- A day without light is like, eh... night! http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] gcc problems
I've heard and read rumors that the version of gcc included in Mandrake 8.0 is bad. As evidence I recently upgraded my nvidia video driver and had to compile it about 50 times before the module would successfully load. Has anyone else heard, read, or otherwise experienced the same?
Re: [newbie] installing the 2nd Disk - SWAP sizw - Software manager -
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56, Augustin wrote: 1 Installing the 2nd disk --- ¦b ¬P´Á¤é 17 ¤»¤ë 2001 19:26¡ASridhar Dhanapalan ¼g¹D: 2.5GB is a bit small for a Linux-Mandrake install. Since first-time users don't know what packages to install (since there are over a thousand of 'em), many install the entire shebang -- 2 full CDs worth. Actually, I would like to be able to install the 2nd disk for it includes some important stuff that I need. (I have 30G drive) However during the installation process, LM8.0 didn't ask me to insert the 2nd cd. I saw that it is full of rpm's and I am in the process of learning how to use rpm, but is there an easy way to install most if not all of the 2nd disk? That's odd... You should've been asked during the installation if you had the second CD on hand. 2- SWAP size --- This adds up to nearly 2 gigs. Swap (like virtual memory in Windows but in a dedicated partition) should be about twice your RAM, with a maximum of about 256MB (even if you have a huge amount of RAM). So if you have 64MB of RAM, your swap partition should be around 128MB. Why should 256MB of swap be the maximum? More isn't better? Would too much swap slow down your system? With swap, the law of diminishing returns really kicks in as your approach 256MB. Ideally, you should be able to load everthing in main memory, since a hard drive is much slower than RAM. If you're actually using as much as 256MB swap, your system will be so slow it'd be unusable. Any more than 256MB of swap is simply a waste of space. 3-- Software manager - The Software Manager doesn't work. If I launch it, it freezes whilst loading the first screen. Then, the only way to get out is to kill the application. I have installed LM8.0 from a CD (three times but for other reasons) and each time I have the same problem. I don't think the program itself has a bug, otherwise, I would have read about it in this forum. So the problem must be on my end. The CD came from a monthly linux magazine. Oh, I see now. You have a different type of Mandrake CD, which has been modified so it doesn't ask you for the second CD, since it isn't included. I suggest you download both CD images and burn your own copies to get the full Mandrake experience. Alternatively, you can buy prerecorded CDs cheaply online at places like Cheapbytes. Whenever Software Manager loads, it has to reload its RPM database. This can take some time, especially on slower computers. Next time, wait a while (a few minutes) before declaring it dead. If it really is broken and you need a reinstall, you can get the package rpmdrake from rpmfind.net. Could it be that the CD is faulty? I still find it hard to believe since I didn't burn it myself but it came with a magazine (who would check the correctness of the cd). Can I download Software manager from somewhere and reinstall it? How would I go about it? Thanks for your help. Augustin -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Licq Question
Are you using the GUI plugin for LICQ? If you are, there are plenty of menus to do just about anything. If you're using the console mode, if you type /help I believe it is, it will display a quick help menu for you. The thing I love about LICQ, is you don't actually have to get the permission from the user to add them to your list. Helps when you wipe out your list and now you have tons of people to find again. I suggest you back up the file $HOME/.licq/users.conf every now and again, just so you have it. It has all the UINs for each user. But then again nightly or weekly backups are a good idea in the first place! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | I've done the initial setup for Licq and have my UID number. I | haven't been able to figure out how to contact someone, such as | my son, or how to edit the contact list. How do I access this | area of the application? | | Barry | --
Re: [newbie] Speaking of Dell and Linux.........
Yeah... Microsoft CDs are good for coasters. Especially the MSN CDs. They at least have the pretty colors of that butterfly on them! Company seems to like those when the come over! :0) tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 1:02PM up 6 days, 3:47, 7 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.06, 0.01 | On Sunday, Jun 17, 2001, Romanator wrote: | | I've just been to their site and Dell does provide RedHat preinstalled | but you have to order it. Bit. I think you learn a lot more from | installing it yourself and making errors as painfull they might be. | | I agree. But the good thing about being able to buy a system with linux | (even if it is RedHat ;) is that you're not paying for a copy of Windows | that you will probably never use for anything other than a coaster. =) | | -- | Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com | Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 1 day 9 hours 47 minutes. | --
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 Install problems
On Monday 18 June 2001 11:34, grassi, adriano wrote: Hi all, I've decided to install 8.0 yesterday. Ok several problems occurred. 1. usb mouse not detected during installation. 2. ps/2 mouse not detected during installation. 3. after setting up networking the install crashes say that it seens that memory is missing, install crash or something really similar to that. This particular system has 524M of RAM, and athlon 700 processor. Any help is greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Adriano You may have a bad CD. You may have cables loose. You may have a worn CD drive. As far as mice go, try ONE, not both. If it is the USB mouse, what other USB devices are plugged in. Also, though the possibility is remote, make a copy onto a floppy of /images/memtest-x86.bin using dd or dos rawrite and boot it. Finally, if you have a WD drive over Udma33 on the system, especially if you are installing to it, this sometimes happens. The solution is to use a 40-pibn cable to the hdd or to hit F1 at the splash screen and type linux ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune ide2=noautotune ... Civileme
[newbie] WP and Mandrake8
It seems that WP8 will not run on Mandrake8. Has anyone else had this problem? -- Michael
[newbie] ISDN on new machine refuses to run.
Hi all, I am setting up the new monster machine, and it is fast. It is however also fast to tell me that the ISDN interface won't load. It is a message that the software certificate doesn't match and therefor it won't work. Anyone have a clue whaddado? tia, Paul -- A day without orange juice is like a day without orange juice. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] Careers in Linux
Dear List, Some of you will know me, from helping out on this mailing-list, with your problems. I have a question to ask everyone How many people on this list, are system administrators using Linux, and in order to become a Linux System Administrator, does one need lots of experience in Programming? I ask this question because once I leave school (to go to University), I want to persue a career in Linux, but I am worried that I will require vast amounts of Knowledge in Programming in C. I can program in Bash and Perl very well. Your help is Much appreciated, Thomas Adam, a student (in the VIth form) Linux Co-ordinator for The Purbeck School (Network Support) Wareham, Dorset, UK Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded
And honestly, the abscence of such stickers has been my only real complaint about Mandrake! SuSE comes with stickers, RedHATE comes with a bumper sticker and some other stickets for the outside of the machine and everything. But not for Mandrake! I've been looking at the online store Mandrake just recently put out there, and was hoping those stickers would be on there right off the bat. I have however seen stickers to put over the Intel inside or the made for Windows sticker that says Penguin in Side or something like that. But I can't find that email address with that URL. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | so what I want now is to replace the apple logo on my Mazda RX3 with a nice | tux with a mandrake shooting star and like the mandrake 7.0 user guide cover | logo --
[newbie] Gif -- Ascii convert
Dear Lists, Does anybody know where I can get hold of a gif2ascii converter, for my Linux Box?? I have tried looking at the following website, but the URL is no longer available: http://www.lug.ro/~vang/ascii-art/gif2ascii/ Has anyone got any other suggestions?? Regards, Thomas Adam, a student (in the VIth form) Linux Co-ordinator for The Purbeck School (Network Support) Wareham, Dorset, UK Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
[newbie] Signal 11 (SIGSEGV): Korganizer on edit of apointment
Greetings to all.
Our situation is this: We Upgraded our installation of Mandrake from
version 7.2 to version 8.0. Thus my current version of KDE is: 2.1.2.
Upon arriving at our destination upgrade, Korganizer will no longer allow us
add new appointments or change existing ones.
If I start korganizer from the command-line this is the data that prints to
the screen:
[mark@msp mark]$ korganizer
[mark@msp mark]$ QTime::setHMS Invalid time -1:-1:-1.000
QTime::setHMS Invalid time -1:-1:-1.000
QTime::setHMS Invalid time -1:-1:-1.000
QTime::setHMS Invalid time -1:-1:-1.000
KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = korganizer path = unknown
[mark@msp mark]$
If I choose to do a backtrace I also obtain this data:
[New Thread 1024 (LWP 1842)]
0x40f261d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#0 0x40f261d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x40f95f2c in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x406d4188 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3
#3 0x410ad0fe in pthread_sighandler (signo=11, ctx=
{gs = 0, __gsh = 0, fs = 0, __fsh = 0, es = 43, __esh = 0, ds = 43,
__dsh = 0, edi = 1090044629, esi = 2, ebp = 3221199528, esp = 3221199456, ebx
= 1090084652, edx = 3221201296, ecx = 2, eax = 39575552, trapno = 14, err =
4, eip = 1089334222, cs = 35, __csh = 0, eflags = 66050, esp_at_signal =
3221199456, ss = 43, __ssh = 0, fpstate = 0xbfff97e0, oldmask = 2147483648,
cr2 = 39575580})
at signals.c:97
#4 0x40e9ab68 in killpg () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x4002040d in _IO_vfprintf () from /lib/libsafe.so.2.0
#6 0x40023da7 in vfprintf () from /lib/libsafe.so.2.0
#7 0x4001f2ba in _IO_vfprintf () from /lib/libsafe.so.2.0
#8 0x40023cb3 in vfprintf () from /lib/libsafe.so.2.0
#9 0x408a793a in qWarning () from /usr/lib/libqt.so.2
Any help would certainly be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
