Re: R: [newbie-it] problema all'arresto
Mealli Diego wrote: i file di core vanno rimossi! sono enormi e la maggior parte delle volte inutili Se non sai utilizarli si. In genere conviene evitare che si creino a utenti non-sviluppatori che non saprebbero che farsene. Sono invece utili per root. Puo` servire sapere che programma di sistema ha fatto crash. Basta lanciare file core per individuare l'origine del problema da rimuovere. Sono indispensabili per uno sviluppatore perche' permettono il debug dei propri programmi. Credo che la politica di default impostata sulle Mandrake sia appunto nessun core per utenti normali e core limitati in dimensione per root. Per variarla basta porre ulimit -c dimensione_massima_core in /etc/profile per tutti e in $HOME/.bashrc per il singolo utente. ciao, andrea PS. a proposito di bug, cerca di eliminare il bug della versione italiana di Outlook Express che mette R: invece di Re: nelle risposte. Fa scombinare gli header a tutti gli altri programmi di posta elettronica (puoi vederlo dal subject di questo messaggio). Se facessimo un po' di botta e risposta il subject diventerebbe: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: [newbie-it] problema all'arresto :- Come fare e` una FAQ dei NG per win e per internet in generale.
Re: [newbie-it] installare lo scanner gt-7000
Luca Miselli wrote: .. al momento ho letto che il scanner epson gt-7000 è supportato, ma non ho capito come installarlo Non puoi aspettarti che tutti conoscano il tuo scanner. Dicci almeno se e` parallelo, SCSI o usb ? Il supporto per gli scanner e` nel 99% dei casi gestito tramite SANE e su http://www.mostang.com/sane/ puoi trovare maggiori indicazioni. Per gli scanner usb c'e` un micro-howto di kailed a http://web.tiscali.it/kailed/miniscannerusbHow-To.html ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] scheda video ASUS
Io ho una geforce2mx400 e funziona molto bene. NVIDIA è una delle poche aziende che fornisce drivers anche per linux. Li trovi sul loro sito Ciao --- Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, vorrei acquistare una scheda video ASUS V6600 MX da 32MB per un PC su cui poi installare Linux. Questa scheda è basata sul chipset GeForce 256. Dovrebbe quindi essere supportata dal server X. Vorrei sapere se qualcuno usa questa scheda o sa dirmi con sicurezza se essa funzioni col pinguino... Grazie a chiunque vorrà rispondermi! Daniele Micci __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] scusate per le infomazioni incomplete
Scusate, non avevo detto metà delle informazioni necessarie ho installato mandrake 8 da LinuxC Macchina Pentium III 450 sheda madre asus P3BF modem 3com voice 56k Message Pro (non rilevato) scanner USB epson (non rilevato) monitor samsung 19 pollici scheda video matrox G400 problemi riscontrati: - Quando da KDE o da gnome tento di lanciare il programma di connessione alla rete il modem si attiva... ma non compone il numero, si accende un led sul modem, ma non compone il numero e rimane lì(mentre funziona perfettamente su win98) che sia il settaggio del modem? io ho lasciato quello di default -non riesco a muovermi da 800*600 a 65.000 colori mi hanno detto di modificare a mano il file dentro a /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ma speravo in un sistema automatico... putroppo il settaggio in x window pare non funzionare... baco? -per lo scanner (che non viene rilevato) proverò a seguire i consigli che mi avete dato... vi farò sapere... nel frattempo vado a visitare il sito della Mandrake... magari trovo una patch o qualcosa grazie a tutti
Re: [newbie-it] scusate per le infomazioni incomplete
Ciao, per quanto riguarda il modem, ti suggerisco una cosa semplice, ma che talvolta uno dimentica (il sottoscitto quasi ad ogni distribuzione che prova...) imposta come settaggi addizionali del modem la stringa ATFX3 che resetta il modem alle impostazioni di fabbrica e lo setta per l'italia (in questo modo non rileva il tono di libero prima di comporre il numero) Scusate, non avevo detto metà delle informazioni necessarie ho installato mandrake 8 da LinuxC Macchina Pentium III 450 sheda madre asus P3BF modem 3com voice 56k Message Pro (non rilevato) scanner USB epson (non rilevato) monitor samsung 19 pollici scheda video matrox G400 problemi riscontrati: - Quando da KDE o da gnome tento di lanciare il programma di connessione alla rete il modem si attiva... ma non compone il numero, si accende un led sul modem, ma non compone il numero e rimane lì(mentre funziona perfettamente su win98) che sia il settaggio del modem? io ho lasciato quello di default -non riesco a muovermi da 800*600 a 65.000 colori mi hanno detto di modificare a mano il file dentro a /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ma speravo in un sistema automatico... putroppo il settaggio in x window pare non funzionare... baco? -per lo scanner (che non viene rilevato) proverò a seguire i consigli che mi avete dato... vi farò sapere... nel frattempo vado a visitare il sito della Mandrake... magari trovo una patch o qualcosa grazie a tutti
Re: [newbie-it] scusate per le infomazioni incomplete
Macchina Pentium III 450 sheda madre asus P3BF modem 3com voice 56k Message Pro (non rilevato) ...Hai provato a tenerlo acceso accendendo il PC? La Mdk 8 ha un sistema di rilevamento del nuovo hardware che parte all'avvio. Tenendo acceso il modem durante il boot dovrebbe riconoscertelo e configurarlo automaticamente (io ho il modem 3com voice 56k senza Message Pro e me lo riconosce). -non riesco a muovermi da 800*600 a 65.000 colori mi hanno detto di modificare a mano il file dentro a /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ma speravo in un sistema automatico... putroppo il settaggio in x window pare non funzionare... baco? Per muoverti tra le varie risoluzioni da X ci sono a disposizione delle combinazioni di tasti (mi pare alt + tasto + del tastierino numerico per passare alla risoluzione piu' alta, e alt + tasto - del tastierino numerico per diminuirla. Ciao. Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] scheda video ASUS
Io ho una geforce2mx400 e funziona molto bene. Io ho la GeForce 256 DDR. E' piu' vecchiotta, ma e' ugualmente supportata e confermo che funziona davvero bene! NVIDIA è una delle poche aziende che fornisce drivers anche per linux. Li trovi sul loro sito Ciao --- Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, vorrei acquistare una scheda video ASUS V6600 MX da 32MB per un PC su cui poi installare Linux. Questa scheda è basata sul chipset GeForce 256. Dovrebbe quindi essere supportata dal server X. Vorrei sapere se qualcuno usa questa scheda o sa dirmi con sicurezza se essa funzioni col pinguino... Grazie a chiunque vorrà rispondermi! Daniele Micci __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere
Purtroppo questo modulo non esiste, ma a cosa serve. - Original Message - From: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere Il 11:47, mercoledì 27 giugno 2001, hai scritto: Chiederei quindi un piacere a chi utilizza MDK 8 ovvero di controllare se esiste questo modulo. Per farlo non dovreste fare altro che dare il seguente comando : insmod iBCS [root@kishas marco]# insmod iBCS insmod: iBCS: no module by that name found [root@kishas marco]# Mi dispiace Un saluto Marco
Re: [newbie-it] A chi utilizza MDK 8 : chiederei un piccolo piacere
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 15:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Utilizzo MDK 7.2 e sarei tentato di installare MDK 8, ma il problema nasce dal kernel 2.4 visto che probabilmente sarei costretto ad utilizzare il 2.2 visto che per il mio lavoro debbo avere la compatibilità SCO. Tale compatibilità si ha con il modulo iBCS che pare non esista appunto nel kernel 2.4 Puoi provare a continuare ad usare il tuo vecchio kernel, l'aggiornamento ti settera' di default il kernel nuovo (probabilmente potresti pure dire di non installarlo, ma non ho mai provato) lasciando la voce del vecchio nel menu di grub, e di lilo immagino. Sinceramente non so se, visti gli altri aggiornamenti che portera' la 8, potrebbero esserci problemi, ma direi di no. 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
[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 Sound Detection
Hello, I have posted this once before, but after much searching on the net for a solution, and much fiddling with my config im still having no luck. My sound card, a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 inside a Toshiba Sattellite 2520CDT. The soundcard was previously detected under Mandrake 7.1, but not with 8.0. I understand that Harddrake relies on the Detect Libraries, i have considered replacing these with the earlier libraries from 7.1 but i have been told that this is not recommended. With the failure of Harddrake i inserted the correct module into the kernel, but when i pass on the Control IO of my soundcard to the module (0x370H) it complains that this IO is busy. Even so it gives me sound through the CD player in KDE, but does not play wav, mp3 or anything else really, including the event sounds for KDE. I checked my IO configuration and it says that my card is on 371H, not 370. Could someone pleease help me here?? i feel i have pretty much done all i can do to get this card working short of going back to 7.1, which seems completly pointless. Anything you can suggest would be much appreciated. Mnay thanks for listning. Yours in hope. Cheers -- Jamie _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie] ctrl+s under X not always working...
Turn off your NumLock, or Scroll Lock. You may have to activate NumLock to deactivate Scroll Lock, and then turn off NumLock, but once those are all off, everything will work fine. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 7:50AM up 7 days, 21:42, 11 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.03, 0.01 | Under X, my control+key combinations are not being recognized by all the X | apps. Some apps, like nedit, return the actual control code (such as dc) | instead. ie. ctrl+s should save the file, but I get the control code dc3 | being inserted into the file instead. | | Keyboard: MS natual elite. | Mandrake control center: keyboard: US | KDE control center: keyboard model: MS natural | KDE control center: primary layout: US English | | Any clues? | | _ | Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. | | --
Re: [newbie] No supermount after compiling 2.4.5 on LM 8.0
On Thursday 28 June 2001 05:18 am, Artwi wrote: After compiling kernel 2.4.5 everything works fine but LM 8.0 reports: modprobe: Can't locate module supermount mount: fs type supermount not supported by kernel What's worse, supermount doesn't work even with previous kernel now. How can I compile new kernel with supermount support? I tried both CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y and CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y option in kernel 2.4.5 with no results. How can I repair LM 8.0 supermount to work with distribution kernel? 'CONFIG_SUPERMOUNT=m' is for supermount. autofs is somethin completely different, but you should have it enabled also. I suspect your original links for vmlinux and intitrd in /boot still point to 2.4.5. You'll need to fix that if you want to go back to the default 8.0 kernel. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] webmin not working..
Hola Guillermo: Segun el sitio de Linux Mandrake, esto son los modems soportados por el Sistema. La mayoría de los módem y adaptadores ISDN son soportados... Yo no soy para nada avanzado en esto llevo solo 2 dias, yo tengo un Modem Pctel y no me funciona para nada, tambien he leido y espero no equivocarme, que la mayoria de los modems USB son linmodems, yo no se cual te podria servir pero se cuales no debes comprar para eso visita www.linmodems.org espero te sirva de referencia. Disculpame si no puedo ayudarte mucho. Suerte and Have fun with you Linux ;-) Guillermo Fraile wrote: Hola disculpas por adelantado. Solo queria preguntarte si puedes aconsejarme un modem ( preferiblemente externo ) para mi sistema Linux. Tengo un Diamond Supra y no me funciona, me he comprado un 3Com USRobotics externo y tampoco. En soporte de Mandrake me han confirmado que el Diamond es un winmodem. Les he pedido una lista de fabricantes y modelos compatibles y pasan de mí. Lo cierto es que ando un poco perdido y con ganas de navegar con mi Linux. Gracias y disculpa que haya aprovechado la pregunta para hacerte otra. Un saludo Guillermo Fraile Madrid Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com
[newbie] Fixed Nvidia drivers
Hi guys Your tips were helpful but my main problem was during Mandrake 7.2's install. Seems you only get Xfree86 4.0.1 as a active option during expert install, an option which I wasn't getting with the recommended or Custom install. After fixing that the driver installed and worked fine. Thanks for the help
Re: [newbie] Hard Drives
From the response I got back from civileme, Linux can only recognize a max single drive size of 127 GB. A little bit strange that windowz can see a slightly larger hard drive than Linux ... hopefully Linux will fix that .. can't have windowz one-upping them now, can they? :-) Terry On Wednesday 27 June 2001 21:33, you wrote: You know I saw the same problem and wondered the same thing. Hopefully someone has an answer. On Wednesday 27 June 2001 10:30, Terry wrote: I was curious ... I was watching The Screensavers on TechTV last night, when they aired a segment from the PC Expo in New York City. The reporter there was talking about a new hard drive from Maxtor that will hold 100 GB of data. He also mentioned that M$ windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000) uses 24-bit addressing, only allowing windows to recognize a single drive of 137 GB max. That made me curious .. what is the largest single drive size Linux would recognize?
[newbie] help
[newbie] Testing tinyfirewall
OK, I have set up my firewall. What do I need to test it? Also, should Bastille firewall be disabled at startup? Harry G
[newbie] Linux Gaming
Hiya, You guys must be sick of getting mails from me by now :) When i attempt to play Tuxracer or GLTron, the display dosnt render on my screen properly, the display splits into three/four vertical bars, each displaying the same portion of the screen (left hand side i think). Could anyone shed any light on this? Im running in a resolution of 800x600 (i cant go any higher than this on my lappy) on an S3 Virge MX, which only has 2 meg of memory on board, but i could play half-life on it when i had windows. Cheers -- Jamie _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie] Hard Drives
On Thursday 28 June 2001 13:34, Terry wrote: From the response I got back from civileme, Linux can only recognize a max single drive size of 127 GB. A little bit strange that windowz can see a slightly larger hard drive than Linux ... hopefully Linux will fix that .. can't have windowz one-upping them now, can they? :-) Well, to clarify the situation--There is no one-upping It is an IDE-ATA hardware limitation at the present time. Moreover the 137G figure is a trade number--it looks at 137 x 1,000,000,000 My 128G number is 128 x 2^30 which is 128 x 1073741824 or 137438953472 These trade numbers are in wide use For example a 20G hard drive only formats to 18, because the trade number uses the near equivalence of 2 to the tenth power (1024) and 10 to the third power (1000) to sloppy things up and make their numbers look bigger than they really are. One manufacturer even sheepishly pointed out in his literature that GB (his measurement) meant 1,000,000,000 while Gb (Hardware Measurement) meant 1073741824. Terry On Wednesday 27 June 2001 21:33, you wrote: You know I saw the same problem and wondered the same thing. Hopefully someone has an answer. On Wednesday 27 June 2001 10:30, Terry wrote: I was curious ... I was watching The Screensavers on TechTV last night, when they aired a segment from the PC Expo in New York City. The reporter there was talking about a new hard drive from Maxtor that will hold 100 GB of data. He also mentioned that M$ windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000) uses 24-bit addressing, only allowing windows to recognize a single drive of 137 GB max. That made me curious .. what is the largest single drive size Linux would recognize? H For IDE the same limit applies to BOTH systems, however if you pay attention during 8.0 install, you will notice something available called LVM. The size of an LV is ... well see for yourself at http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.2/doc/ide.txt.html for drive limits for IDE drives How To Use *Big* ATA/IDE drives with Linux -- The ATA Interface spec for IDE disk drives allows a total of 28 bits (8 bits for sector, 16 bits for cylinder, and 4 bits for head) for addressing individual disk sectors of 512 bytes each (in Linear Block Address (LBA) mode, there is still only a total of 28 bits available in the hardware). This limits the capacity of an IDE drive to no more than 128GB (Giga-bytes). All current day IDE drives are somewhat smaller than this upper limit, and within a few years, ATAPI disk drives will raise the limit considerably. All IDE disk drives suffer from a 16-heads limitation: the hardware has only a four bit field for head selection, restricting the number of physical heads to 16 or less. Since the BIOS usually has a 63 sectors/track limit, this means that all IDE drivers larger than 504MB (528Meg) must use a physical geometry with more than 1024 cylinders. (1024cyls * 16heads * 63sects * 512bytes/sector) / (1024 * 1024) == 504MB (Some BIOSs (and controllers with onboard BIOS) pretend to allow 32 or 64 heads per drive (discussed below), but can only do so by playing games with the real (hidden) geometry, which is always limited to 16 or fewer heads). This presents two problems to most systems: 1. The INT13 interface to the BIOS only allows 10-bits for cylinder addresses, giving a limit of 1024cyls for programs which use it. 2. The physical geometry fields of the disk partition table only allow 10-bits for cylinder addresses, giving a similar limit of 1024 cyls for operating systems that do not use the sector count fields instead of the physical Cyl/Head/Sect (CHS) geometry fields. Neither of these limitations affects Linux itself, as it (1) does not use the BIOS for disk access, and it (2) is clever enough to use the sector count fields of the partition table instead of the physical CHS geometry fields. .. OK Linux basically has no real limit, and furthernmore, a filesystem can now be bigger than a single disk. The hardware limitation of the current mapping scheme for ATA drives applies to Windows and even the NT and Win2k systems despite their internal addressing ability. For the mapping of a filesystem to (parts of) multiple disks, see this: http://linux.msede.com/ext2/ http://linux.msede.com/ext2/ext2end.html http://sistina.com/lvm/doc/lvm_howto/index.html Now since linux sees sector count, and is capable of ignoring all the CHS stuff, the question is what size sectors--with physical sectors of 512 bytes we take the 32-bit unsigned integer which might be applied to sector count and see that it is 2 to the 31st power K or 2 to the 21st power M or 2 to the 11th power G, that is 2048G. Of course if the platform is a 64-bit processor, the limit (within classical processor arithmetic) is 4 billion times that high. If
Re: [newbie] Testing tinyfirewall
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 07:46 pm, Harry Giles wrote: OK, I have set up my firewall. What do I need to test it? Also, should Bastille firewall be disabled at startup? No, why would you wanna disable it? It should be run as a service from boot. Go to http://www.sdesign.com:8080/cgi-bin/fwtest.cgi and try the Basic scan first. If you pass that with flying colors, I'd suggest doin the Complete scan. Another good site for a quick scan is http://scan.sygatetech.com -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Install error - Segmentation Fault
I have been trying to get Mandrake 8.0 installed for the past couple of days. However, I seem to be getting an error called a segmentation fault around the part of the install where you select the packages you want. I want to install linun, but I can't. I am running a Celeron-533, 256Mb ram, two hard drive ( one 30 Gb, the other 20Gb), nVidia TNT 2, two network card ( smc, netgear), and a Diamond Sonic Impact s100 sound card on a Iwill motherboard (vd133) Please Help! __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] open and shut case
i don't if this article has been shared with you all yet, but i found this interesting article at the econmist site. thought some of you may find this of interest. jennifer An open and shut case May 10th 2001 From The Economist print edition What is behind Microsoft's attack on open-source software? BEWARE of open-source software, those nefarious free computer programs written online by groups of volunteers. The licence that comes with most of this code could turn a company's intellectual property into a public good. More important, it undermines the livelihood of commercial-software developers, putting a brake on innovation. This, in a nutshell, was the message that Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief software strategist, tried to convey on May 3rd in a headline-making speech at New York University. Open-source disciples were quick to dismiss Mr Mundie's speech as just another example of Microsoft's trademark strategy: spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt to undermine rivals. To Mr Mundie, research and development seem to be driven mainly by intellectual-property rights, commented Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, a popular free operating system, "which is entirely ignoring the fact that pretty much all of modern science and technology is founded on very similar ideals to open source." Mr Mundie's message played cleverly to the prejudices that are still held by many corporate technology officers. Most open-source software is "viral"the licence that comes with Linux, for instance, says all changes made to the program must be made freely available. But this does not mean that a company using Linux is forced to give away any application it writes for the operating system or, worse, its business processes. And while it is true that open-source software competes with commercial programs, open-source and similar online groups have been at least as innovative as software firmscreating, for example, most of the technology underlying the Internet. Yet Mr Mundie's speech and the reaction of the open-sourcers have some value, because the exchange has sharpened the debate within the software industry over the relative merits of two rival approaches. One way to write software, the proprietary approach, is best epitomised by Microsoft. The firm hires the most driven programmers, pays them a lot in share options, works them hardand then sells the product in a form that customers can use, but not change (because it comes without the "source code", the set of computer instructions underlying a program). The other approach is open source. Motivated by fame not fortune, volunteers collectively work on the source code for a program, which is freely available. Most of these projects are overseen by a "benevolent dictator", such as Mr Torvalds. Although no panacea, open-source software has several advantages over proprietary programs, besides being free. Most important, it tends to be more robust and secure, because the source code can be scrutinised by anyone, which makes it more likely that programming errors and security holes will be found. In contrast, hardly a week passes without headlines about a new security hole in a Microsoft program. The day before Mr Mundie's speech, it was reported that a potentially serious security flaw had been found in one of Windows 2000's server programs. Open source is not so much the ideological cause of anti-Microsoft hackers as a profound effect of the Internet, which means that it is here to stay. The emergence of free, open-source alternatives to costly proprietary software will undoubtedly hurt Microsofthence Mr Mundie's speech. In a further swipe at open source, Microsoft this week launched a new range of server software that, it claimed, offers "superior value" to Linux, by providing "clarity of
Re: [newbie] Hard Drives
On Thursday 28 June 2001 08:34 am, Terry wrote: From the response I got back from civileme, Linux can only recognize a max single drive size of 127 GB. A little bit strange that windowz can see a slightly larger hard drive than Linux ... hopefully Linux will fix that .. can't have windowz one-upping them now, can they? :-) Terry Apples-Oranges. HDD manufacturers used one million bytes to a MB, when actually there's 1024x1024 bytes to a MB. Since Windoze is claiming 137, they're using 1000 instead of the actual 1024. They're fibbin, and it's just that Linux doesn't use their creative accounting method ;) IOW's, and since we're working with GB's, 1024/1024/1024 = .9313~ So Microsoft's 137 GB, is only really 127 GB, or the new 30 GB HDD you just bought ... is really a little less than 28 GB. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Creating /dev/scd1 ?!
Hi! I've deleted /dev/scd1 and it's where my ide DVD was redirected using hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf -i've got a scsi cd recorder at /dev/scd0-. What commands do i have to pass mknod to create it again? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] / partition
I've used diskdrake but cannot expand my / partition. It is almost full and I get an error saying just so. Funny thing though, my 512 sound card does not work properly in win98 but perfectly in 8.0 and beos. thanks for any help, eric
Re: [newbie] WordPerfect Install in LM8
How does one install the libc5-1.0-2.i386 source rpm? After that is install= ed=20 then how do I install the WordPerfect ? Any help will be greatly appreciate= Generally, you install source rpm's by putting the source rpm file in /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS, and do a 'rpm --rebuild libc5-1.0-2.src.rpm' (the .i386.rpm is the binary, not the source rpm). Once that is done (and it can take a while, depending on your processor and amount of RAM) you can install it by going to the /usr/src/RPMS/arch directory, where the arch is either i586, i686, or whatever, depending on what processor you have. However, you need to be really careful when you do something like this -- especially when you're working with fundamental system libraries. If you go ahead and attempt to install the RPM, you will probably get a lot of dependency and other errors, and if you force the install, you'll likely break your system. That's because nearly everything *but* Wordperfect needs a different version of libc. However, it *is* possible for two versions of libc to coexist on the same system, because each process can have its own idea of what system libraries are going to be used (via the LIBPATH environment variable). What I'd recommend is first to get a source tar.gz version of this library and compile it. It's possible that you may get the libraries already precompiled, so if that's the case, you can forego the time the compilation takes. The next step is to install Wordperfect. There is probably a Readme that will describe how exactly to install it. Of course, since you've already downloaded the libc5 tar.gz it probably won't run, because it needs a specific libc5 library to run. If you cd into where Wordperfect is (cd /opt/wp, probably) you'll run into a libraries subdirectory with a lot of shared libraries -- that's where you want to copy the libc5 libraries. Next, there is probably a runwp shell script somewhere in /opt/wp, perhaps in /opt/wp/bin, that may need to be edited. That's because you'll need to make LIBPATH point to /opt/wp/libsomethingorother, and it'll be in force for that particular process, while the other binaries on your system happily use the standard libc. Write me privately if you need more help. This is a fairly advanced thing, I suppose, and I don't have WP on my system any longer, but this is how I remember doing it. I've used similar techniques for other software packages (Star Office, for one) that required a slightly different version of libc than was usual for the distribution I was running at the time. Marcia Waller David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[newbie] DNS
Hello, I have two machines running Mandrake 8.0 with Bind DNS server. Machine A is the primary DNS that stores master zone records, and Machine B is the secondary DNS that stores slave records of the zones in Machine A. Zone transfer from Machine A to Machine B is set. In the past, zone transfer is not a problem, but lately I found that zones in Machine B is not in sync with Machine A. I read in Machine B's log and found error messages that said could not transfer from Machine A IP#53. Then, I port scan Machine A and found that the TCP port #53 is not opened, and no matter how many times I restart Bind the #53 port in Machine A would still not be open (The #53 TCP port on Machine B is open) I remember in the past when I port scan Machine A, TCP port #53 would be opened. How could I re-open #53 TCP port in Machine A, and might this be the problem of zones could not transfer from Machine A to Machine B? Also, during portscan I found that there are some services that I don't know has opened some TCP and UDP ports on my machines. Is there anyway to find out what this ports are for, track down the program that is using this port, and stop that program if I don't need it? e.g. I found a blackjack service that has opened a UDP port in one of my machines, but when I ps that machine I could not find a blackjack program. I am just afraid that this blackjack program might be some nasty stuff of someone hacked into my system. Thank you for any help Regards, Jason
[newbie] Postfix, where is spam controls?
How do you get to the spam control panel for postfix? Webmin? If so, where is it? Thanks -- Linux is cool
[newbie] Archiving old mail under Kmail.
Hi, As my mail folders are currently just over half a GIG I have an urgent need to do something to compact them. This is the idea I have at present but have no idea if I am even vaguely on the right track here. I am looking for a script that will automatically once a month scan through my mail folders and remove all messages older than 3 months and then make a backup of everything that is left which can be burnt to CD. I can't see any way of doing this directly in Kmail. I have looked in the mail folders with vi and have been able to delete messages with that and have had no problems especially if I delete the indexes and allow Kmail to rebuild them when it restarts. This leads me to believe that what I need is a script file that 1) Checks that Kmail is not open and if it is closes it. 2) Deletes the index files from /home/user/Mail 3) Grep looking for something like Date: Month 2001 4) Delete mail by clever method not yet devised. 5) Start Kmail to automatically rebuild the indexes 6) Tar -cvf monthly.backup.tar /home/user/Mail Will it work and is there an easier way? -- Regards Richard - There is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. Ruskin
Re: [newbie] Creating /dev/scd1 ?!
On Thursday 28 June 2001 23:50, Joan Tur wrote: Hi! I've deleted /dev/scd1 and it's where my ide DVD was redirected using hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf -i've got a scsi cd recorder at /dev/scd0-. What commands do i have to pass mknod to create it again? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 As root, do... mknod /dev/scd1 b 11 1 -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ) Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586 Linux 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1 Uptime 3 days 3 hours 30 minutes
Re: [newbie] Some reviews for those looking into hardware...
Jason: A sidelight about Anandtech. Anand has just finished his freshman year at North Carolina State University, and the site is celebrating its fourth anniversary. In other words, he was about 15 or 16 years old when he started. Impressive. Regards, Carroll Jason Guidry wrote: As per recent discussion, I thought I'd drop these by. No, I don't work for anandtech.com (as should be obvious from my posts) but here are some reviews that should be of interest... Note, there are for the people who love plowing through pages of benchmarks, but if it makes your head hurt, you can always jump to the conclusion page. Linux Video Cards http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1331 Socket A (AMD Duron/T-Bird) Chipset Comparison http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1448p=1 And here's that article they did on their own server upgrade. Of particular interest should be an _open_source_ load balancer that they utilized after using big $$$ hardware solutions. Lots of info. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1456p=1 I'm not a Pentium fan, but a chipset comparison for linux specifically: http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1384p=1
[newbie] Gateway hangs at What type of CD-rom do you have
Linux Mandrake 7.2 loaded on a Gateway machine. Does not have Cd-rom listed on CDROM Type, therefore, can not continue installation. Any suggestions?? Tyrell O. Baker
[newbie] Uninstall RPMs
First I install Freeciv: rpm -i freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed The system says it is not intalled, but It is really installed: rpm -qa | grep freeciv freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk What should I do? -- Linux Registered User: 219425 __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs
Try rpm -e freeciv Miark - Original Message - From: Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs First I install Freeciv: rpm -i freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed The system says it is not intalled, but It is really installed: rpm -qa | grep freeciv freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk What should I do? -- Linux Registered User: 219425 __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs
Thanks. It works pefertly. On Thu 28 Jun 2001 17:45, you wrote: Try rpm -e freeciv Miark - Original Message - From: Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs First I install Freeciv: rpm -i freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed The system says it is not intalled, but It is really installed: rpm -qa | grep freeciv freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk What should I do? -- Linux Registered User: 219425 _ _ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros -- Linux Registered User: 219425 __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
Re: [newbie] Installing RealPlayer8.bin file -- Instructions
Hello I tried all sort of instruction. I read a lot in the newbie archives. The problem is Realplayer audio is noisy. It is just scratches not sound. Please help. Dear friends: You can get RealPlayer 8 from RealPlayer home page at http://www.real.com by selecting the free RealPlayer 8 Basic and then choosing under OS Unix. This will take you directly to the Unix Community Supported RealPlayer page at: http://huxley.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=rpbform You have a choice of downloading two files for Linux: a RealPlayer8.rpm and the other file, which is a RealPlayer8.bin file. Due to the problem with a different architecture, the rpm file will NOT install. It has been strongly advised by our gurus NOT to try to install it either by forcing it (--force) or by using the --ignorearch option. INSTEAD, do what I just did, thanks to a message from Wolfgang and from Tom Brinkman: First uninstall RealPlayer 7 by typing the command as root: #rpm -e RealPlayer Now install the RealPlayer8.bin file (around 5.8 meg) as ROOT. Then, as root, continue your installation and install the plugins and mimetypes. This is part of the installation as root. Just follow instructions until you have installed it fully as root. Then, as USER, go to the directory it has installed itself in, namely, /usr/local/RealPlayer8 and type: $/usr/local/RealPlayer8sh mimetypes.sh and $/usr/local/RealPlayer8sh plugins.sh This will give you the plugins and mimetypes as user. Now, all that's left is to make it more convenient to launch RealPlayer8 as a desktop icon. Create the icon, then in Properties, Execute type: kstart /usr/local/RealPlayer8/./realplay If you don't add kstart you won't be able to launch RealPlayer automatically from the icon. So, add the kstart ... and it's done. That's it. I am going to send this to the Newbie list. Hopefully, this will help other newbies. My thanks again to everyone who helped. Benjamin = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.
I have downloaded an executable netscape-installer that connect to internet to install Netscape6. It try to download 11 files or parts. But every time I I've had the same problem. It's better to just download the larger tar.gz file from ftp.mozilla.org directly. You'll probably want to check the status page at www.mozilla.org first. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[newbie] Install From Hard Disk
Hello all, Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to install Linux Mandrake 8.0 from hard disk? I put all the files in a separate partition and made a boot floppy with the hd.img file. All goes well until it looks for the files to install. It can't find the files. The partition is Primary DOS FAT32. Should it be a linux type? If anyone knows of a tutorial or help page, I'd be very grateful. Thanks. Skinky PS. This is my first attempt at trying Linux and I'm really looking forward to it ;-)
[newbie] mouse curson pointing to a shifted grid
Hi, On my Compaq 1200 xl106 laptop I installed Mandrake 8. After using KDE for an hour or two, suddenly the mouse seems to work on a shifted frame than the monitor! Meaning, in order to click on a button (or anthing) my mouse cursor actually doesn't sense the button is where I see it but about 10 pixels to the right! So that the button, which normally doesn't switch to darker color when a mouse is over it, changes colors even when the mouse is 10 pixels right of its right boundary, but is unaffected if the mouse is within 10 pixels of its left boundary. Plus, the mouse stops 10 pixels from the left edge of my monitor but goes off on the right edge of my monitor. Anyway idea why or at least where I should look? Thanks! G __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] CDRW won't burn
I have tried all the steps in the CD-Writing HOWTO to get my cdrom burner to burn but no luck. I have created the image using mkisofs; I have tested the CD-image by mounting it using the loop0 device and inspected the data; I have issued the cdrecord -scanbus and gotten:cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 8X4X32 ' '5.DZ' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * [geoffs@lancelot geoffs]$ I have run cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data /tmp/cd_image where /tmp/cd_image is the file created by mkisofs. All messages from the cdrecord run look perfect (no errors at all) and the red write light on the cdrw blinked on/off many times and the command completed without any errors. Nothing seems to be written on the cdrom! I also have used gcombust and gtoaster and get the same results...seems to burn but nothing gets written on the cdrom. I know the cdrw works because I can burn cdroms using the M$ dual boot side of the machine. Any ideas on why it seems to work but does not burn anything?
Re: [newbie] Some reviews for those looking into hardware...
On Thursday 28 June 2001 03:44 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Jason: A sidelight about Anandtech. Anand has just finished his freshman year at North Carolina State University, and the site is celebrating its fourth anniversary. In other words, he was about 15 or 16 years old when he started. Impressive. Regards, Carroll OTOH, it's basically 'a what works with Windoze' site, so don't take hardware recommends or commentaries as gospel, quite the contrary often... using Linux. Don't get me wrong, Anand is often listed as 'another' good hardware page, just digest the info there as it may or may not apply to OS's other than Winblows. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Jason Guidry wrote: As per recent discussion, I thought I'd drop these by. No, I don't work for anandtech.com (as should be obvious from my posts) but here are some reviews that should be of interest... Note, there are for the people who love plowing through pages of benchmarks, but if it makes your head hurt, you can always jump to the conclusion page. Linux Video Cards http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1331 Socket A (AMD Duron/T-Bird) Chipset Comparison http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1448p=1 And here's that article they did on their own server upgrade. Of particular interest should be an _open_source_ load balancer that they utilized after using big $$$ hardware solutions. Lots of info. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1456p=1 I'm not a Pentium fan, but a chipset comparison for linux specifically: http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1384p=1
[newbie] mouse in X
hi, im using mandrake 8.0 and XFCE is my window manager. I'd like to know what is the command you put in the kdm, to load XFCE. I have tried xfce, but it cant work. oh ya, by the way im using xfce 3.8.3 because i cant load my xfce from kdm, so im force to load it from the command prompt. but there is a problem with mouse, everytime i load xfce using the startx command, the mouse will go crazy. i mean, when i move the mouse the pointer will not follow my hand movement. what i do is, i shut down the x server, and load the xfce again. and the mouse will working just fine. this thing only happen once, when i first boot the pc and load the x for the first time. anyone can help me? thanks in advance, willy
[newbie] I need help!
I downloaded from you site the Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and the Linux-Mandrake 8.0 ISO images and I read the install .txt but I could not figure out how to install it from my harddrive. What do I have to do? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard E. Parks
[newbie] another shutdown problem
When I shutdown Mandrake the last thing it says is Power Down and then my computer locks up. At one time it actually shut off my laptop but now it just sits their. I know it's not waiting for me to turn it off because I have to hold down my power button to force it to the off position. Kevin
[newbie] Which Version Should I use?
I am looking at installing Linux Mandrake and would like to know which if the following versions would best suit my needs. I will be using this machine as for web development if that makes a difference. 8.0/i586 8.0/i486 Corporate Server The box this is going on contains: Tyan S1832DL Tiger 100 Motherboard 2x Intel PII 750MHz CPUs 2 SCSI 9GB Drives and 1 12GB IDE Drive 384MB Ram Matrox Millennium G400 32MB thanks, Aaron
[newbie] ext2 file system
Does mandrake use the Linux ext2 file system? Because I have a copy of partition magic 6.0 and it is supposed to understand the partition and it is not demonstrating it that way to me. Kevin
[newbie] Install - SCSI module causing problem
Hi fellow Mandrakers, Installed Mandrake 8. Detected all my hardware. Even the onboard SCSI adapter (that is disabled in BIOS - since *not* used). Message (prior to error): scsi0: Adaptec AIC7xxx yada, yada, yada aic7880: single channel a, scsi id=0, 16/255 scbs ERROR (follows): VFS: Cannot open root device 2105 or 21:05 please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:05 System stops booting after the error! I *feel* certain it's trying to mount a filesystem on a scsi device (which there are none). Can someone tell me how to (permanently) remove the aic7xxx scsi controller module/driver? Is there a way to bypass this module/device when booting? Is there an interactive boot switch? Your help is greatly appreciated. Goodbye, Nickos Motherboard is a QDI Legend IV (onboard Adaptec SCSI Intel Lan, dual processor), vid.-i740, Maxtor 30GB, LG 12/8/32 burner, Promise Fasttrack66 (pci raid controller), SB PCI64, 192MB, 2 x P(II)s 300Mhz _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] curious ....
There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to the Linux OS I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any potential competition there? ... any way to combat the OS monopolistic intent of M$? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Any fix yet for PGP and Mandrake 8?
I have been gone for a while and was wondering if anyone had figured out how to get PGP6.5.8 intalled on Mandrake 8.
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.
You can also get 6.1 in a 28 meg tar.gz form from netscape. I must say that it is alot better than 6.0. I haven't used it alot, but it hasn't crashed on me yet while 6.0 crashed every dern time I opened it. (Of course I must say that for the record, konqueror is still my fav and the jury's not in on if ns 6.1 will replace 4.77 as my backup). -s On Thursday 28 June 2001 06:18 pm, you wrote: I have downloaded an executable netscape-installer that connect to internet to install Netscape6. It try to download 11 files or parts. But every time I I've had the same problem. It's better to just download the larger tar.gz file from ftp.mozilla.org directly. You'll probably want to check the status page at www.mozilla.org first. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] help
lol With what? Are you drowning, being mugged by hoodlums, your building burning down around you, or perhaps with Mandrake? -s On Thursday 28 June 2001 09:06 am, you wrote:
Re: [newbie] IDE CD Writer
It'll probably recongize it but may not set everything up like scsi emulation. Here's what Civileme wrote on how to set up: SCSI Emulation is in two parts--first a message to the kernel to tell it to assume emulation is done Second is a modprobe of scsi and a link to the appropriate SCSI device The first part is simple in /etc/lilo.conf or in drakboot (Control Center Boot Config) make sure you have this in the append hdc=ide-scsi if for example it is hdc. Now in /dev you need to do the following cd /dev rm cdrom2 ln -s scd0 cdrom2 if, for example, the /etc/fstab entry uses /dev/cdrom2 for your CDRW. Finally somewhere you need a modprobe ide-scsi It can be dropped int the next to last line of /etc/rc.local (an extra one won't hurt if your system is already doing one) It is a little known fact that ordinaty plain vanilla CDROMs can also be scsi-emulated in the same manner. Our tests over the past 5 months show this works just as well as the dual structure we now support. Civileme -s On Wednesday 27 June 2001 10:17 pm, you wrote: Hi, I have recently fitted a Sony CDU928s IDE CD Writer to my linux machine ( L.M 8.0 ) On initial start up of machine should Mandrake find the devise as new hardware and auto mount on desktop or will I need to go in and manually apply mount points etc... If manual set up is required could you please advise any links with info on how to go about it. Thanking You in Advance Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [[ With a society built on no fences or walls, would that mean no Gates or Windows ??]]
Re: [newbie] curious ....
It was Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:25:59 -0700 (PDT) when Rita F. Koenigs wrote: There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to the Linux OS I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any potential competition there? ... any way to combat the OS monopolistic intent of M$? FreeBSD is also a Unix clone, so to speak. Mac runs on completely different hardware, that is a choice someone makes. Make that choice and you have no dealings with Windoze. Paul -- It's in process: So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] curious .... ADD 'WHAT I LEARNED AT USENIX!'
On Thursday 28 June 2001 23:25, Rita F. Koenigs wrote: There seems to be a lot of talk about Windows (even before the Appeals Court decision) being a competitor of / annoyance to the Linux OS I'm wondering about FreeBSD or MAC OS X any potential competition there? ... any way to combat the OS monopolistic intent of M$? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ there is no threat. really. i can say that with all honesty. i've just been to the USENIX conference in Boston MA and let me tell you firsthand that there IS NO PLACE for Windows or ANY OTHER PROPRIETARY OS at these shows!, in your workplace, even in your home! WINDOWS IS OLD NEWS! OK? what i saw today was indeed LIVING PROOF that the Linux community at large is very much alive and kicking! there is no competitionthere is harmony...between thousands of programmers and their kindred...even good old end users. no one is left out...everyone who was there today. programmer or not - no one seemed to care about the court decision and no one cares what kind of move M$ makes next! it won't matter. there will still be GNU/Linux being installed on EVERYTHING as i saw today! one of the COOLEST things being a COMPAQ handheld PC with a full blown version of GNU/Linux running on it quite nicely! that's a handheld PCNOT a PDA!!! it had a fully working camera mounted, 64 MB of RAM, and it was THE COOLEST THING!!! gee, funny, i only saw one M$ vendor there. everyone was poking fun at the poor guy because the RAT BASTARD had a STUPID and USELESS shell interface that let's you command a Linux/UNIX box from a Windows GUI. AND, to add to it's uselessness, it only runs for 120 days before you have to purchase it! WHAT KIND OF CRAP IS THAT? there's a free shell program called ttssh for windows and it's FREE and it DOES THE SAME GODAMNED THING! http://www.tucows.com and search for TTSSH! anyway, back to the point. there IS NO THREAT. the beauty of this OS is that it gives you a CHOICE. isn't that nice? do you think the internet runs 100% on M$? BULL. what i saw today has CHANGED MY MIND FOREVER. PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT MONEY!!! everyone understand that? and i'm not saying that there's anything wrong with making money. but THESE GUYS AREN''T JUST MAKING MONEY, they're taking the general population and making us (for those of you who care) STUPID. does it work? yes. is it affordable? sure. but there's MUCH MORE than meets the eye. and, if you like computers even just a LITTLE BIT, you will take heed to what i've said here and REALLY take a good long look at how M$ is MONOPOLIZING THE WAY YOU COMMUNICATE ONLINE. YES, IT IS TRUE. start taking a good long look at how things are...if you don't care? that's fine. but, once in a while i actually enjoy excersising my constitutional rights...i don't need to buy ANYTHING from ANYONE if i don't want to! it's the LAW. and that's all i'm going to say. p.s. USENIX! Boston MA! very very very cool! p.p.s. it was nice to rub elbows with REAL people in a REAL evironment where we didn't have to sit and talk MARKETING BULLSHIT ALL DAY. these were guys who want to discover SOLUTIONS and come up with new and unique ideas in COMPUTING. then, they get paid when the job is done. wow...honest people. scary. -- +-- + Jeff Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508) 792-6070 +-- Check out Linux! It's good for you. http://www.linuxbusca.com http://www.linuxdoc.org http://www.linuxnewbie.org
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.
(Of course I must say that for the record, konqueror is still my fav a You have got to try Opera. That is the creme-de-la-crop web browser for Linux. -- Jay ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs
Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed A common mistake - the -e requires the rpm name, not its filename. What's stored in the RPM database is the name 'freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk' which is the rpm. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.
I have downloaded an executable netscape-installer that connect to internet to install Netscape6. It try to download 11 files or parts. But every time I try to install it, it stop in any of them, it stop download, stop redrawing status window and do nothing at all. Any of you know an rpm package or similar to install Netscape 6, instead of this netscape-installer program? Thanks. -- Linux Registered User: 219425 __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
Re: [newbie] Burning Man8.0 install CD from ISO image
From: Dennis Gans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'm about to burn the Mandrake 8.0 install CD-ROM from the downloaded iso image and looking for some guidance. I have already burned the ext. CD from the downloaded iso image and was worried when I tried to explore the files on the CD and could not get into it. It just sits there as an iso image that If you've burnt the ext CD and it still looks like an ISO, I think something is wrong -- I think you've just burnt a copy of the ISO image on the CD. In Easy CD-Creator under Windows you must create CD from image, which makes the CD usable. I don't know the commands to do that under Linux -- somebody will -- maybe you have to post the name of the CD burning program you are using. (Actually, these commands show up periodically on the list -- if you search the archives you should find them.) I can copy or burn but not open. Do I need to make the CD bootable or is this a separate issue? If you create CD from image and the image includes a bootable image, then, AFAIK, the CD will be bootable. The downloaded inst disk from Mandrake includes a bootable image. And if I need to make the CD bootable, do I have to use a Linux bootdisk or can I use a Win bootdisk? If it has to be a Linux bootdisk, does it have to be a Mandrake bootdisk or can it be a bootdisk form another distribution (which I have)? I'm not positive about the answers to these last questions -- I think you are best off if you use the Mandrake boot image. If you boot with something else, you will be able to find a way to install, but you might have to create a Mandrake bootable image using from the Mandrake CD (some things like images, and commands like dd and rawimage??) Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] StarOffice freezes in 8.0
I solved the problem, but not in the way I had hoped: I went back to LM 7.2. My research on the StarOffice forum found a lot of people with the same problem but most of the accusations directed at my video card (Diamond Stealth III S540), but the same card works fine with the driver provided in 7.2. (Which, of course, is not specifically made for this card.) Other options mentioned in the StarOffice forum and tried without success are: use the 2.2.19 kernel, use the older Xfree driver, use Standard VGA driver with 640x480 resolution (which leaves many of the controls off the screen and still locks up the machine anyway). SO ... I'm back to LM7.2 for now, but at least I'm also back in control of my finances, medications, and vital statistics ... every little facet of my life is tracked on spreadsheets, which I migrated from MS Office to StarOffice a few months ago. I also quickly learned that the wonderful compatibility between these two programs was not to be in my case. None of the spreadsheets I tried to send back to Excel could be opened there. As soon as I move to my new digs, I'll reassemble my old PC and set it up as an LM 7.2 box for incompatible apps and network it with my newer machine, where I will reinstall LM 8.0. Right now I just don't have room to do this. Later Jay On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Jay DeKing wrote: I finally received my 8.0 Power Pack, and everything looks great, but Star Office won't run. When I click on the Star Office icon, it runs setup, but as soon as I hit next it locks up tight with the hard drive access light on. I've left it alone for as long as an hour just in case it was actually doing something, with no luck. If I'm not quick on the draw and don't hit next right away, it will lock up anyway, but without the disk access light. The only way to break out of this is with the power button; Ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't work, neither do ctrl-alt-F1 or ctrl-alt-del (which I have enabled). I also tried alt-SysRq-S + alt-SysRq-U + al-SysRq-B. It always comes back to the power button. As you notice I have learned a good assortment of keystrokes to try in order to avoid that heinous button, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I've done some research into this on the StarOffice support forum, and there I found the suggestion to set the environment variable SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true, which I have done, rebooted, and verified that it has been set; no change. Since this feels like a video setup problem, I checked all of the video parameters and they all correspond correctly to my hardware. StarOffice worked like a charm in 7.2, and I have a lot of very important data locked up in those spreadsheets. Any help that can be provided would be appreciated. Thanks, Jay DeKing -- Support your local law enforcement agency - this week commit the crime of your choice!
Re: [newbie] mouse curson pointing to a shifted grid
I had the same problem with my Compaq 1400. When I did a cold reboot (Completely shutting off the system) it went away. For some reason just rebooting the system didn't help. Kevin - Original Message - From: Travel GZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:46 PM Subject: [newbie] mouse curson pointing to a shifted grid Hi, On my Compaq 1200 xl106 laptop I installed Mandrake 8. After using KDE for an hour or two, suddenly the mouse seems to work on a shifted frame than the monitor! Meaning, in order to click on a button (or anthing) my mouse cursor actually doesn't sense the button is where I see it but about 10 pixels to the right! So that the button, which normally doesn't switch to darker color when a mouse is over it, changes colors even when the mouse is 10 pixels right of its right boundary, but is unaffected if the mouse is within 10 pixels of its left boundary. Plus, the mouse stops 10 pixels from the left edge of my monitor but goes off on the right edge of my monitor. Anyway idea why or at least where I should look? Thanks! G __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
