Re: [newbie-it] questione drivers.....
infatti io mi sono arreso, disinstallo mandrake e riprovo linux con RedHat... - Original Message - From: Andreas Voigt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:39 PM Subject: R: [newbie-it] questione drivers. Eccone un altro. E via! Fondiamo un club ? Porcamiseria! Ho fatto e disfatto. Anche manualmente. Ma niente da fare. Mandrake 8,0 non mi vede il modem! -Messaggio originale-Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di D.P.Inviato: mercoledì 18 luglio 2001 11.32A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oggetto: [newbie-it] questione drivers. ciao a tutti. sto quasi per farmi prendere dal panico, però prima consulto voi :-) ...allora , il mio problema è il seguente : ho appena installato Linux Mandrake 8.0, ma il sistema non riconosce alcune periferiche per essere precisi : bridge vari della Motherboard e modem interno ( entrambi ASUS ) la piastra madre è una A7PRO con chipset via KT133 ( Via VT 8363 ) il Modem è un ISDNLink 128k Adapter ( P IN 100 ) potete aiutarmi magari indicando una soluzione per la questione drivers in generale ??? ...grazie anticipate ! _IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
Re: [newbie-it] Cercasi consigli per gli acquisti
Grazie a tutti per i consigli. Io ho già letto quello di Medri (non ho capito proprio tutto, ma cmq abbastanza). Solo che è troppo incompleto. Per quanto riguarda Appunti di Informatica Libera, lo posseggo sia in html che in pdf. Il mio problema è proprio la stampa (personalmente non riesco a leggere + di tanto a video...). Cavolo è una cosa pazzesca. Per curiosità, che tipo di negozio ti stampa il bestione? Una tipografia o cosa? Mi sembra fatto molto bene, ma non so come fare. La soluzione fai-da-te mi sembra francamente suicida (in tutti i sensi). Adios CaMiX Il 20:49, giovedì 19 luglio 2001, hai scritto: CaMiX wrote: Ciao a todos. Qualcuno potrebbe consigliarmi un buon libro su cui apprendere seriamente il funzionamento di Linux? Avrei bisogno di qualcosa che parta proprio dalle basi ma che non si fermi a quelle. Mi spiego: ora non so molto di Linux, ma vorrei conoscerlo in maniera piuttosto approfondita, non solo per passione personale, ma anche per il mio futuro lavorativo di ing. informatico (ammesso che riesca a laurearmi...). Penso sia più facile trovare libri specifici per diversi target (newbie, medium, hard ;-), ma se volessi partire praticamente da zero (o quasi) e arrivare a una buona conoscenza? Sarei anche disposto all'acquisto di 2 libri (non contemporaneamente... troppe palanche :-), ma ne preferirei uno solo completo. Accetto numerosi consigli. Grazie CaMiX P.S. Se non chiedo troppo, potreste sinteticamente dirmi pregi e diffetti di eventuali libri segnalati? Scusate se rompo in questo modo... ma il pinguino lo voglio capire... Se vuoi imparare ad utilizzare Linux e hai voglia di leggere 2605 pagine ti consiglio Appunti Linux che tra l'altro è gratis perchè in formato pdf è molto cmprensibile ed è perfetto per tutti gli utenti dal newbie all'utente più esperto . Io ad esmpio me lo sono fatto stampare in un negozio e ho speso circa 100 mila. Appunti Linux lo puoi trovare nelle riviste come Linux Magazine ho su internet al sito : http://www.allnet.it/AppuntiLinux/ o altri. Invece per quanto riguarda libri in vendita , io ne possiedo solo due Linux senza fatica speedy e Linux non credevo fosse cosi facile , ma sono due libri che ti danno praticamente le basi e nulla più. Quindi il mio coniglio e di provare con Appunti Linux. Ciao Lele _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie-it] questione drivers.....
Penso che il consiglio di Sandro sia molto sensato se mai non dovesse funzionare allora quello di Marco è quasi giusto perchè si è dimenticato di dirti che serve anche il pacchetto isdn4net.rpm. Colgo l'occasione per dire a Marco che è vero che c'è open source ma sarebbe cortesia anche citare le persone che per la prima volte forniscono i consigli. Ciao, Germano ciao a tutti. sto quasi per farmi prendere dal panico, però prima consulto voi :-) ...allora , il mio problema è il seguente : ho appena installato Linux Mandrake 8.0, ma il sistema non riconosce alcune periferiche per essere precisi : bridge vari della Motherboard e modem interno ( entrambi ASUS ) la piastra madre è una A7PRO con chipset via KT133 ( Via VT 8363 ) il Modem è un ISDNLink 128k Adapter ( P IN 100 ) potete aiutarmi magari indicando una soluzione per la questione drivers in generale ??? ...grazie anticipate !
[newbie-it] Sound
Ho una scheda sound Blaster 16 compatibile. Il mio problema è: riesco ad avviare sndconfig, i test vanno bene poi il suono non si sente ho provato a rilanciare sndconfig, ma da errore nell' accedere a dev/audio se faccio fuser -v /dev/dsp mi dice che c'è un processo in corso. Come devo fare? Dimenticavo, se avvio da console pnpdump il programma non trova nessuna scheda audio. Attendo risposte. GRAZIE!.
[newbie-it] consigli generici installazione utility
avrei un problema, ecco: ho installato linux mandrake 8 da pochi giorni e, appassionatomi non poco , ho scaricato delle utility da internet. queste hanno estenzione tar.z. non riesco a installarle e neanche a farle funzionare. vi ringrazio per l'attenzione dedicatami finocchiaro danilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Scarica GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer all'indirizzo http://explorer.msn.it/intl.asp
Re: [newbie-it] Sound
Il 15:33, venerdì 20 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ho una scheda sound Blaster 16 compatibile. Anch'io :)) Il mio problema è: riesco ad avviare sndconfig, i test vanno bene poi il suono non si sente Posta il tuo /etc/modules.conf (o /etc/conf.modules), magari e` questione di moduli..Inoltre, controlla i messaggi dell'avvio con # dmesg | less Ps: che versione?? -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] consigli generici installazione utility
Danilo Finocchiaro wrote: avrei un problema, ecco: ho installato linux mandrake 8 da pochi giorni e, appassionatomi non poco , ho scaricato delle utility da internet. queste hanno estenzione tar.z. non riesco a installarle e neanche a farle funzionare. vi ringrazio per l'attenzione dedicatami finocchiaro danilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Scarica GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer all'indirizzo http://explorer.msn.it/intl.asp Di solito i pacchetti in formata tar.gz sono sorgenti da compilare , comunque una volta decompressi con il comando tar vfxz nomefile.tar.gzdevi entrare dentro alla directory creata e leggerti i file readme e install che ti spiegano come installarli . Il più delle volte dipende dal creatore, c'è un file confidure e da console si digita il comando ./configure che compilta i file necessari e dopo con un make crea gli eseguibili e infine con il comando make install copia gli eseguibili nella directory necessaria . Comunque il mio consiglio prima di eseguire questi comandi guarda se esistono dei file readme e leggiteli . Spero di esserti stato di aiuto. Ciao Lele _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie-it] permessi come utente
Salve, ho da poco installato mdk 8.0 e ho configurato oltre a root un'altro utente.So che quest'ultimo non ha tuuti i privilegi come su ma vorrei avere la possibilità di visionare i cdrom. Posso vedere la cartelle contenute nel cdrom, ma mi viene negato, l'accesso ai file ! come posso fare? Grazie Mario ciao mario, hai da root suppongo che tu riesca a vedere il cd rom, comunque prova ad usare il comando mount per montare una directory, non ricordo la sintassi precisa, ma dovrebbe essere mount /dev/cdrom, apero di esserti stato utile, ciao Alessandro
Re: [newbie-it] nvidia driver
Gigi wrote: il primo consiglio e' di scaricare dal sito della nvidia i src.rpm e compilare quelli in con il comando rpm --rebuild per ottenere un pacchetto rpm per la tua mdk, nel caso tu avessi un altro kernel installato. Ti sara' cosi' piu' semplice disinsallarli quando vorrai farlo. Altrimenti puoi scaricare direttamente i drivers gia' compilati per la mdk 8.0 Se proprio vuoi compilare i sorgentiecco come devi fare: controlla di avere installato, e in caso contrario fallo, i sorgenti del kernel nella dir /usr/src se e' cosi', dopo aver dato tar xvfz e aver dato il comando cd /Nvidiablabla dai il comando make per il pacchetto GLX prima. Non dovresti avere problemi. Dopo fai lo stesso per l'archivio NVIDIA_kernelXXX ma dai questo comando: make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux/include in questo modo l'archivio viene compilato per i tuoi sorgenti. il resto della procedura e' lo stesso. ricordati di editare il file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 altrimenti il tuo sidtema non usera' i drivers . ciao Gigi --- bellotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ho un problema con l'installazione dei driver nvidia , quando tento di compilare i sorgenti mi da il seguente errore : /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use Kernel-headers system hearders, /usr/include/linux/modeversions.h:1:2: #error but from headers from an appropriate Kernel-source make:***[nv.o] Error 1 siccome non sono molto esperto come mi devo comportare la versione dei driver sono 1.0 , ho cercato di seguire le istruzioni di Linuxc ma mi sono fermto al comando make install. Se qualcuno potesse aiutarmi glie ne sarei grato . Grazie Ciao Lele _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it Grazie del tuo consiglio sono riuscito ad installare i driver nvidia e adesso all'avvio di X mi appare il logo di nvidia. Nuovamente grazie cia Lele. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie-it] Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone Modem
Ciao a tutti... vorrei un aiuto in merito al mio modem: un Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone. C'è qualche sistema per farlo funzionare sotto Linux? Ho appena installato da pochi giorni la versione Mandrake 8.0 ed il mio modem non viene riconosciuto e non riesco a farlo funzionare. Sotto Windows funziona benissimo. Non è forse un winmodem? Si può in qualche modo risolvere il problema? Vi ringrazio per l'aiuto!
[newbie] Webmin and samba
Hi Guys When accessing swat I am prompted for a username and password, using the obvious such as root and passwd etc. don't seem to work. Does anyone know what the usname and password are ? And with webmin, what is the port number to access webmin. ie http://localhost:4000 ?? Thanks. Mark A
RE: [newbie] Webmin and samba
The URL for Webmin is https://localhost:1 (note the 's' after http) -- From: Mark Annandale[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2001 15:03 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Webmin and samba Hi Guys When accessing swat I am prompted for a username and password, using the obvious such as root and passwd etc. don't seem to work. Does anyone know what the usname and password are ? And with webmin, what is the port number to access webmin. ie http://localhost:4000 ?? Thanks. Mark A _ 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. _ 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] Sound Card
At 21.44 18/07/01, Alwan Sadagopan wrote: Hi, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0. I am unable to play mp3 music. When i launch the XMMS window and submit a MP3 file for play the system hangs (No response, Key board and the mouse become non functional), Any suggestion to get XMMS stuff going??? Is there means to play .rm and .ram files? Try to update XMMS with Software manager. I had the same problem, but it disappeared after the upgrade. Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas
Re: [newbie] importing messages from MS Outlook
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:27, srinivas sastry wrote: hi i want to import the mail messages from MS outlook to kmail and didn't know how. can anyone help me . i'm using mandrake 7.2 thanks sastry Run kmailcvt from a command line, or click File - Import in Kmail. -- 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] KDE 2.2 Safe When??
Look here: http://dot.kde.org/995344211/ It says that 2.2 is due on August 6. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:01, John Rigby wrote: Hi Mandrake folks, Any idea when 2.2 will be considered safe for us Newbies?? -- 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] kmail-configuration of multiple mail accounts
Click Settings - Configure KMail. In the resulting window, click Network and open the Sending Mail tab (it should be open already). You can add accounts in the Incoming Mail section -- just click Add. If you need more info, there's always the Help button. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:27, srinivas sastry wrote: hi all i'm a newbie and i'm using mandrake 7.2. can anyone tell me how to configure multiple e-mail accounts in kmail. thanks sastry -- 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] Falshplayer and Konqueror
Install the package kdebase-nsplugins (it's on the Mandrake CD) and open the KDE Control Centre. There should be new options for plug-ins. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:10, Riker wrote: I've gotten flash working in Netscape and Mozilla but have had no luck in getting it to work with Konqueror. If someone has gotten this to work, please point me in the right direction. I'm just not sure on how to set it up. I tried following the Netscape Plugin Scan directions to no avail. I'm also going through the old mail archives to see if I can find anything; nothing yet. Thanks. Riker -- 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] STAR OFFICE FONTS
Have a look at http://OpenOffice.org/. Sun Microsystems released all the StarOffice code they could (some had been licensed from third parties) under the GPL. The code has been ported to GTK+ to become OpenOffice. It should be _far_ better than StarOffice 5.x, especially in font handling and performance. Sun is going to use the OpenOffice code for a StarOffice 6.0 release later this year. However, the current OpenOffice code can be downloaded now and it is supposed to be quite usable (I haven't tried it, however). Binaries are also available. Think OpenOffice is to StarOffice 6 as Mozilla is to Netscape 6. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:00, Miark wrote: I heard they're working on version 6 which is to be released this fall. I'm thinking they'll probably address this issue there. Anybody know otherwise? I mean, they _must_ know about this. Miark - Original Message - From: John Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS Hi there, If nobody here can fix it ( most things seem to be! ) send off a note to SO. If enough people NICELY complain, it will be fixed. The axle that squeaks gets the grease - THAT'S life! :-) : On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:03, you manipulated electrons to produce: Yes... It's extremely annoying to me. I wish I knew how to correct this problem! Konqueror had a similar problem, but I corrected it through settings changes. But, SO52 doesn't have any such settings to change! So, what can we do??? Cheers, John Fablor now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-) -- 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] Update Programs Via Mandrake Update?
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:02, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:13, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: Mandrake Update only provides security and critical bug fixes. Chances are that the newest CUPS version isn't there, or that your chosen update mirror hasn't been updated yet. Do you _need_ the latest CUPS version? Remember, if it aint broke, don't fix it :-) Well, I'm trying to update all my programs that have updates posted to them according to Mandrake Update, as it shows their is an updated version. Even though it ain't broke, I'd like to keep the newest version, UNLESS it's not good to have the newest version of programs? It isn't always good to have the latest version of a package. Newer versions can sometimes break compatibility with other packages. When a distro is made, the distro maker tries its best to ensure that all packages work well with each other. Official updates are also tested for this, and so are safe to install. With other packages, you shoudn't upgrade if everything is fine. As for the rest of your message, Civileme has already answered it. The grep command has been changed (this is a very rare occurrance, AFAIK), partially breaking the functionality of Software Manager. I think we'll have to wait for a Software Manager update before things get back to normal again. -- 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] login Manager
http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=964 On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:10, Kevin Fonner wrote: I wish to under stand the login manager better. Can you use GDM to login to the system? It seems to be more configurable then the regular login manager. -- 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] Best browser for linux?
Links is *the* best text-only browser out there, bar none! A few weeks ago, I accidentally wrecked my X setup while trying to upgrade to XFree 4.1. I was too lazy to try and fix it at the time, so I spent the next few days doing all my ordinary web browsing in Links. It is really refreshing to see only the information, with no fancy unnecesary graphics. Links has several advantages over Lynx. It has mouse support (via the gpm daemon), and it handles tables and frames very well (Lynx can't handle these at all). And since it is text-only, it is really *fast*. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:12, s wrote: Konqueror is my fave. Opera, mozilla, galeon, and slipknot (or something or other that comes with the power pack) are all adequate enough, but konqueror is undoubtedly the best (imo). And if you like a netscape, get 6.1. It is very stable and useable, cause your right, 6.0 will crash every dern time you open it. If you like text only lynx is neato in a terminal (I like to play with it sometimes and it's handy if your X won't boot - so remember it for future reference), and then there's links. -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25 am, you wrote: Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi -- 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] Browser testing grounds
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:36, Miark wrote: Strange. I just pointed Konqueror at www.prepaid-phone-cards-gbs.com and not only are the floating tables not floating, but the Mandrake and Apache images at the bottom of the page don't appear at all! The Mozilla trio (Mozilla, Galeon, and Netscape) have no problem. I guess if you need a page to test browsers (I'm thinking of something Civileme said this week) this is a good one. Miark It looks fine to me. I'm using Konqueror from KDE 2.2b1. -- 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] Still LM8.0 Box crash/hang up ?
Civileme and Paul, Many, many thanks to you for your replies on my post yesterday. Thankfully I do not have the Southbridge686B problem chip and my BIOS settings were also not the reason for my crashes. Yes, my Etherexpress pro 100 is built into the motherboard (Intel D850GB). I was able to disable it in the bios and install a PCI Ethernet card. And guess what - the box is still running. So far I was not able to crash the PC with my previous tests. Due to the fact that I also had the problems with a ATI Mach 64 3D Rage II which sits in a PCI slots, I do not know if it is a AGP related problem. However, from the lspci output one can see that both use IRQ11 and therefore it is probably an interrupt related problem. My question now is: Can I configure (in the BIOS maybe) my AGP video and my onboard network card to use different interrupts in order to happily live together or do I have to stick with my extra PCI network card? If I have to get another card would not be the end of the world. Anyway, many thanks again to Civileme and Paul. Norman :-)
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
On Friday 20 July 2001 03:23 am, you wrote: Links is *the* best text-only browser out there, bar none! Well, won't argue with you there. I just spent about an hour playing with it and the mouse support is handy dandy! I didn't realize it had that. :-) -s
[newbie] reiserfs
Hi, is there any no-destructive way of converting to reiserfs ? When I reinstalled yesterday, I decided to try it out, but messed up a little. (I formatted one drive as ext2 nand the other as reiserfs) Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 Voice: +61 97351410 Mob: 0409196144 There's nothing wrong with growing older, but where does it lead?
Re: [newbie] Prolems with WINE and Eudora
I installed Wine-codeweavers and many apps works fine (the launch is VERY slow, but they work). However, Eudora does not work well: even if I set it to store the mails and the accounts infos in a custom direcotry, it tries to find them in its own dir. Details: Eudora in c:\progs\eudora, mails filters and datas in d:\docs\eudora. I launch Eudora by clicking on it with konqueror, it starts (spaces indicating the delay) and asks me for account informations. Strangely, it shows the mails, but only those, no filters, addresses, accounts Any idea? If you do not want to switch to Kmail (like me), you may want to look at sylpheed. It looks a lot like Eudora and has many of its features already. You can also import the existing mailboxes into the (MH-like) folder structure. For the program: http://sylpheed.good-day.net For the faq: http://nlpagan.net/sylpheedfaq.htm For the english manual (work in progress): http://nlpagan.net/sylman/sylpheed.html Good luck Paul
Re: [newbie] Still LM8.0 Box crash/hang up ?
My question now is: Can I configure (in the BIOS maybe) my AGP video and my onboard network card to use different interrupts in order to happily live together or do I have to stick with my extra PCI network card? If I have to get another card would not be the end of the world. Hi Norman, You will have to check the manual of the BIOS (or browse around in it). If the IRQ's are definable, it will be there. Glad you have things running in a stable way! Paul
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Re: [expert] Help -- the superblock could not be read ...]
could we ask to have you quote instead of send attachments to the mail list, and ask that you keep the questions and answers in the open. it would seem to me, that way we could all learn from the problems and answers that way thanks On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:57, Randy Kramer wrote: Colin, Sridhar made a good point that is appropriate to check out. Perhaps your problem is like the one I had just a few days ago. Civileme sent me some instructions to fix it. This is a note I sent back to him with some additional notes / questions. I will also forward my original note which described the problem. Good luck! Randy Kramer Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:16:27 -0400 From: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Help -- the superblock could not be read ... References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit civileme, Wonderful -- thank you! It appears I am back in business with no problems. I plan to archive your instructions on my wiki (initially my private wiki, and later on my public wiki, WikiLearn, when it is up and running). A few notes / questions: (The notes are mostly for my records.) 1. I actually started the install with the intent of running it until the partitions were displayed so I could see which was my / partition. I could not display the partition table -- I forget exactly what stopped me. But, neither did I cause any additional damage, AFAICT. 2. While following your procedure I followed a trial and error approach -- I tried mounting the partition I thought was /, then tried the chroot. It worked when I tried /dev/hda4 (which clearly was my / partition). 3. I now know why you suggested cat -- less won't work. 4. I followed the mke2fs procedure. It gave me what might be some useful information, all of which I did not write down. I did note that it made superblock backups at 32,768, 98,304, and 163,840. Q: If this happened again, would it be worth trying the e2fsck -b command against one of those superblock backups? 5. When I tried the reboot command nothing happened. (I wasn't sure it was a command, so when nothing happened after 15 seconds, I rebooted manually.) I should have tried shutdown -r now, or maybe /sbin/reboot. Thanks again! This is wonderful! If you have any problem with me putting this post on my twiki or WikiLearn, let me know. In any event, the intent would be someday to rewrite as just a factual micro HOWTO, on WikiLearn. regards, Randy Kramer civileme wrote: OK boot with the boot CD Hit F1 and typr rescue without the quotes when the root prompt for the rescue system comes up # mount /(your / partition's actual disk partiton like /dev/hda6) /mnt # chroot /mnt # mount /usr You now are in root mode and have access to your editors, at least the non-graphic ones. # cat /etc/fstab Either make note of what partition /home2 would be mounted to or make note of the line and fire up emacs with emacs /etc/fstab and comment it out. or do what is said below. # mke2fs (partition where /home2 is mounted) # sync # reboot Take iut your rescue CD and let it boot
Re: [newbie] login Manager
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:31, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Each display manager (it's not really a login manager) has it's own set of configuration files or shares some of the files from others. XDM, the great granddaddy of them all, is the basis for the others. IIRC, GDM is not based on XDM at all -- it is a complete rewrite. That is probably a reason why it is more configurable than KDM. Mandrake 8 does a pretty good job of supplying identical configurations for all the provided and contributed managers... Thus you can easily switch between, KDM, XDM, GDM. Look in /etc/X11 for their configuration files. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin Fonner Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] login Manager I wish to under stand the login manager better. Can you use GDM to login to the system? It seems to be more configurable then the regular login manager. -- 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] ATTENTION: anyone with nVIDIA driver problems
If you have problems with OpenGL games and apps crashing with the latest nVIDIA drivers, try typing this at a console: # export __GL_SYNC_VBLANK=0 Run your game/app from the same console. If it works, add it to your ~/.bashrc file. -- 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] Kernel Probems
Well, don't know if it's an omission from your narrative or in your work, but did you edit and run lilo? Did you square away your system map and all that stuff? (LIttle short cut here: make install it does all that stuff for ya). Here's my routine: 0. rm -f /usr/src/linux, rpm -Uvv whatever , cd to /usr/src/linux 1. mrproper (only if previously installed or worked on) 2. make xconfig 3. make dep 4. make clean 5. make bzImage 6. make modules 7. make modules_install 8. make install (then double check /boot and /etc/lilo.config) 9. lilo 10. reboot I kinda put this together after reading about a baker's dozen howtos. I rarely have any trouble. (2.4.6-4mdk not withstanding embarrassed grin) -s On Friday 20 July 2001 03:44 am, you wrote: Hiya, im hoping there's a simple solution to my problem, its probably just something stupid i've done during configuration. I have attempted to compile a new kernel from a magazine coverdisk (2.4.5), whenever I try to compile a kernel (this version or another) when I try and boot the kernel it displays the 'loading Linux version 2.2.5. and then just displays a blank screen. I believe that the system is booting, because the HDD whirrs for a while and it will accept CTRL+ALT+DEL to do a reboot. but I cant see a display of any kind. Is there something I could have missed from the kernel configuration to make it do this? The steps I completed to compile the kernel were as follows: 1. Copied source to root directory and untarred. 2. Entered directory 'Linux' and ran make 'mrproper' 3. Configured kernel via 'make menuconfig' (cant get make xconfig to work) 3. 'make dep' followed by 'make bzImage' 4. 'make modules' followed by 'make modules_install' Can anyone see any flaws in the steps I am taking? Many thanks Jamie
Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 8.0
bob; when i purchased 8.0 from mandrake direct, they included an extra copy of cd 1 and cd 2 with the comment that the boxed cds were not correctly burned. you may want to talk to mandrake about it At 08:13 PM 7/19/2001 +0200, you wrote: I purchased today Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack, but the installation failed. After the first screen and booting from CD-ROM I get the following: Loading program into memory [*..] Error! Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk (press enter to proceed. The same append with expert install, also with boot disk. It seems that the system is trying to read the CD without succes. Can someone help me? Rob
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Java works fine. In fact, Opera was the first browser to support java 2, as far as I know, but I know it was before netscape or explorer Quoting Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Opera 5 for Linux works great for me, although I think Java does not work yet. Dave On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25, thus spake Ravi Malghan: Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi - Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Vv1nOiMJhTaLf3MRArnZAKCcqjzm0FZjOdDHusa1/tdKGklNyQCfbyVC lISEbSzUkfKJmWJqCRMbgSc= =w5H9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] One boot off and one boot on
W2K first, but to make life easier, format the drive as FAT32, not NTFS. The mandrake installer will make it simple to dual boot. don't try the MS dual boot with Mandrake, as far as I can see, it's not even an option. Quoting idea.list [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone help please? I installed mandrake on an old 32mByte machine with two hd's. I have win98 on first (8gig)hd and put linux on second (4gig)hd. Linux did not work so am going to reinstall it on my main 512mByte, 17gig machine. I Intend to partition the 17gig and dual boot with win2000pro/linux. On the old machine, I have tried to reclaim the 4gig harddrive and give it back to win98. Have deleted formatted the hd but did not know how to immobilize the dual boot process - I thought I would deal with that later. That time has now arrived :-) When I now boot the machine the dual boot menu does not appear and it simply boots to display grub as the prompt. Please bear in mind that I am completely stupid where linux is concerned and not much better at windows (although I did my stint with assembler, c and basic in the 8080 days - had to put that in :-) - don't like to appear too stupid ) My questions: On the old machine, how do I immobilize the dual boot process, get rid of the grub prompt, and simply boot straight into windows? On my new machine: will an 8gig partition be large enough for mandrake 8 and do I install mandrake first and win2000 second (win2000 sets up multi boot with w98 fine but will it recognise or 'see' linux) or, do I wait until I learn how to set up multi boot from within linux? Obviously I would prefer that win2000 does it for me so that I can then get into linux quickly and start to learn all these clever linux things :) It's a chicken and egg situation if win2000 won't 'do the dual bit' for me. Help appreciated Sorry if the above is a bit garbled. TIA Dave S. idea.list Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] Internet Problems
Hi! I recently set up a network and fooled around with my networking config files and now DNS lookups don't appear to work :(, which explains why I have been recently using Outlook Express to send emails... Basically, I can connect to the Internet with no problems but once I'm online, I can't do a thing. If I type ping www.any website.com, this message pops up on my screen:YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound And ping just sits there waiting forever. If I run Konqueror or Netscape and type in www.any website.com, they also just sit there forever and never load. Before, I changed my config files, Internet in Mandrake (I'm using 7.2) worked fine. I have always used kppp to connect to the Internet. I have always been using the LT WinModem 5.78D driver. What is wrong? I want to use the Internet in Linux, not Windows! Perhaps, my config files have something to do with this, so here they are :) --/etc/hosts:(btw, I have named my computer "tux350" and theother one on the network, "cups166", in my pretend domain "reisersun")--127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost192.168.1.1 tux350.reisersun tux350192.168.1.2 cups166.reisersun cups166 -/etc/HOSTNAME(note: this file did not exist before I made it!):-tux350 --/etc/host.conf:--order hosts, nis, bindmulti on --/etc/resolv.conf (note: I use an isp called Bigpond, which has everything- ip addresses, that is - starting with 139)--# search reisersun# search localdomainsearch localdomain# nameserver 192.168.1.1nameserver 139.134.5.51nameserver 139.134.2.190 # ppp temp entrynameserver 139.134.5.51 # ppp temp entrynameserver 139.134.2.190 # ppp temp entrynameserver 139.134.5.51 # ppp temp entrynameserver 139.134.2.190 # ppp temp entry END CONFIG FILES - I can't remember the numerous other config files that I changed so please tell me if you need any others to help diagnose my problem. Before I changed anything, my computer used to be called the default "localhost.localdomain". Please help me fix my config files so that I can use my Internet connection again in Linux! Thanks,George
Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?
can Konqueror be run on a gnome environment? Thanks Ravi - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux? Konqueror is my fave. Opera, mozilla, galeon, and slipknot (or something or other that comes with the power pack) are all adequate enough, but konqueror is undoubtedly the best (imo). And if you like a netscape, get 6.1. It is very stable and useable, cause your right, 6.0 will crash every dern time you open it. If you like text only lynx is neato in a terminal (I like to play with it sometimes and it's handy if your X won't boot - so remember it for future reference), and then there's links. -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25 am, you wrote: Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi
[newbie] Printing
I've got a printer on the network with an IP address. How do I print to it? It is an HP color laserjet 4500 N. thannks jim Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] dial-up
Not only do I have two NIC cards on my machine, but I also have a 56K modem. Into my network, I have a T1 line. How can I configure my machine so that I can dial into it and get the internet service? Ignorance is underrated
RE: [newbie] Kernel Probems
Another small question, do i have to use a special Mandrake kernel or can i just use any old run of the mill sources? -- From: s[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 July 2001 12:33 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel Probems Well, don't know if it's an omission from your narrative or in your work, but did you edit and run lilo? Did you square away your system map and all that stuff? (LIttle short cut here: make install it does all that stuff for ya). Here's my routine: 0. rm -f /usr/src/linux, rpm -Uvv whatever , cd to /usr/src/linux 1. mrproper (only if previously installed or worked on) 2. make xconfig 3. make dep 4. make clean 5. make bzImage 6. make modules 7. make modules_install 8. make install (then double check /boot and /etc/lilo.config) 9. lilo 10. reboot I kinda put this together after reading about a baker's dozen howtos. I rarely have any trouble. (2.4.6-4mdk not withstanding embarrassed grin) -s On Friday 20 July 2001 03:44 am, you wrote: Hiya, im hoping there's a simple solution to my problem, its probably just something stupid i've done during configuration. I have attempted to compile a new kernel from a magazine coverdisk (2.4.5), whenever I try to compile a kernel (this version or another) when I try and boot the kernel it displays the 'loading Linux version 2.2.5. and then just displays a blank screen. I believe that the system is booting, because the HDD whirrs for a while and it will accept CTRL+ALT+DEL to do a reboot. but I cant see a display of any kind. Is there something I could have missed from the kernel configuration to make it do this? The steps I completed to compile the kernel were as follows: 1. Copied source to root directory and untarred. 2. Entered directory 'Linux' and ran make 'mrproper' 3. Configured kernel via 'make menuconfig' (cant get make xconfig to work) 3. 'make dep' followed by 'make bzImage' 4. 'make modules' followed by 'make modules_install' Can anyone see any flaws in the steps I am taking? Many thanks 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. _ 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] Kernel Probems
You can use either, but you're probably better off with the Mandrake ones. -s On Friday 20 July 2001 08:58 am, you wrote: Another small question, do i have to use a special Mandrake kernel or can i just use any old run of the mill sources? --
[newbie] Dial on demand
Hi Guys Has anyone come accross a simple explanation on how to set up dial on demand on mandrake 8. I would like the rest of my family, on their 'doze' PC, to access the net using the modem on my Linux box. I have the two machines networked together and can ping either machine from either end. Thanks and regards Mark A
Re: [newbie] Internet Problems
- Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems -- /etc/resolv.conf (note: I use an isp called Bigpond, which has everything - ip addresses, that is - starting with 139) -- # search reisersun # search localdomain search localdomain I think you should set the search in resolv.conf to the name of your ISP, not localdomain. In your case the system will look for the DNS servers on your own computer, afaik. Paul So, do I write search bigpond.com or search 139.whateveritwas? Thanks, George
Fw: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems
oops, forget to send to list! - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems Check out your resolv.conf You should have before you connect to internet this kind of message: search unimayab.edu.mx (search domain) nameserver 172.21.14.5 (nameserver yourDNS) ppp 172.21.10.11 (ppp yourgateway) That's all you need. Don't forget about ping, with ping you can see if you are connected well or what's going on. Tomek How do I get my ppp yourgateway?...I know the DNS, but not the gateway address. Thanks, George
[newbie] Internet college classes
Dear All, I am considering taking some computer college and/or internet classes. My area college has internet instruction using webct software which supposedly works with Unix. Does that mean that it would work with Linux? Unfortunately, they offer no classes teaching linux but several for Unix. Linux is my interest but is Unix just about the same thing? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?
ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not, possibly due to the qt/gtk thing. I don't use gnome, and have maybe spent all of 5 minutes total looking at it (not my type g). Type /usr/bin/konqueror into a terminal to see. -s On Friday 20 July 2001 08:09 am, you wrote: can Konqueror be run on a gnome environment? Thanks Ravi
Re: [newbie] Internet Problems
I'm using Windows 98, the DNS server is there but the Default Gateway section is blank! Why is this? Thanks again, George - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems You need to go to windows and get connected to internet and then if you have Win2000 or WindowsNT type ipconfig /all In Win98 you go to RUN an type winipcfg, push enter... and... you will find out full internet configuration See you, Tomek El 20 Jul 2001 16:43:57 +0200, George Petri escribió: - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems Check out your resolv.conf You should have before you connect to internet this kind of message: search unimayab.edu.mx (search domain) nameserver 172.21.14.5 (nameserver yourDNS) ppp 172.21.10.11 (ppp yourgateway) That's all you need. Don't forget about ping, with ping you can see if you are connected well or what's going on. Tomek How do I get my ppp yourgateway?...I know the DNS, but not the gateway address. Thanks, George -- Czatuj, wyslij sms-y, sprawdz poczte Zainstaluj OnetKomunikatora [ http://ok.onet.pl/ ]
Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?
Yep. IMHO, it's the only way to fly :-) Since version 1.0.x, GNOME has been as solid as a rock for me. I found KDE 2.0 to be simply unusable, but from 2.1 things got really good. I love GNOME for its ultra-configurable Panel and its equally versatile Sawfish WM. At the same time, I love KDE for Konqueror (both as a browser and as a file manager) and Kmail. At the moment I have Mandrake 8.0 with both GNOME 1.4 and KDE 2.2b1 installed. KDE has never been quite as stable as GNOME for me (YMMV), and running KDE apps like Konqueror and Kmail in GNOME provides me with the ultimate in flexibility. If a KDE-related process goes rogue (as it does on occasion; it is a beta after all), I can simply kill all of KDE (killall kdeinit) and load it back up again. GNOME stays up, totally unharmed. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:09, Ravi Malghan wrote: can Konqueror be run on a gnome environment? Thanks Ravi - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux? Konqueror is my fave. Opera, mozilla, galeon, and slipknot (or something or other that comes with the power pack) are all adequate enough, but konqueror is undoubtedly the best (imo). And if you like a netscape, get 6.1. It is very stable and useable, cause your right, 6.0 will crash every dern time you open it. If you like text only lynx is neato in a terminal (I like to play with it sometimes and it's handy if your X won't boot - so remember it for future reference), and then there's links. -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25 am, you wrote: Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi -- 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] Internet Problems
I think the problem is with the default gateway on ur machine. When u are not connected to the internet having the default gateway set to 192.168.1.1 is all right. Before dialing to the internet delete this static route and u should be able to browse the internet. FYI to delete the route route delete 192.168.1.1 defaultgateway (this syntax may incorrect, all u have to do is delete the default gateway) HTH Ravi - Original Message - From: George Petri To: Ravi Malghan Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems This output is with my other computer (tux166) off: netstat -nr output: - Kernel IP routing tableDestination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface192.168.1.0 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 route output: -Kernel IP routing tableDestination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface192.168.1.0 tux350.reisersu 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lodefault tux350.reisersu 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Thanks, George - Original Message - From: Ravi Malghan To: George Petri Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems can you send the output of netstat -rn command. Ravi - Original Message - From: George Petri To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:27 AM Subject: [newbie] Internet Problems Hi! I recently set up a network and fooled around with my networking config files and now DNS lookups don't appear to work :(, which explains why I have been recently using Outlook Express to send emails... Basically, I can connect to the Internet with no problems but once I'm online, I can't do a thing. If I type ping www.any website.com, this message pops up on my screen:YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound And ping just sits there waiting forever. If I run Konqueror or Netscape and type in www.any website.com, they also just sit there forever and never load. Before, I changed my config files, Internet in Mandrake (I'm using 7.2) worked fine. I have always used kppp to connect to the Internet. I have always been using the LT WinModem 5.78D driver. What is wrong? I want to use the Internet in Linux, not Windows! Perhaps, my config files have something to do with this, so here they are :) --/etc/hosts:(btw, I have named my computer "tux350" and theother one on the network, "cups166", in my pretend domain "reisersun")--127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost192.168.1.1 tux350.reisersun tux350192.168.1.2 cups166.reisersun cups166 -/etc/HOSTNAME(note: this file did not exist before I made it!):-tux350 --/etc/host.conf:--order hosts, nis, bindmulti on --/etc/resolv.conf (note: I use an isp called Bigpond, which has everything- ip addresses, that is - starting with 139)--# search reisersun# search localdomainsearch localdomain# nameserver 192.168.1.1nameserver 139.134.5.51nameserver 139.134.2.190 # ppp temp entrynameserver 139.134.5.51 # ppp temp entrynameserver 139.134.2.190 # ppp temp entrynameserver 139.134.5.51 # ppp temp entrynameserver 139.134.2.190 # ppp temp entry END CONFIG FILES - I can't remember the numerous other config files that I changed so please tell me if you need any others to help diagnose my problem. Before I changed anything, my computer used to be called the default "localhost.localdomain". Please help me fix my config files so that I can use my Internet connection again in Linux! Thanks,George
Re: [newbie] Internet Problems
Well, in this situation there are 2 options: 1. First, try to go to MORE and then push the bottom of REALESE ALL and then RENEW ALL. It should renew your IP configuration and you should see default gateway. 2. If this doesn't work... maybe somebody else can help you, just because I don't what alse you can do. Tomek P.S. Check out your network configuration, maybe something there is cousing this problem. El 21 Jul 2001 01:04:06 +1000, George Petri escribió: I'm using Windows 98, the DNS server is there but the Default Gateway section is blank! Why is this? Thanks again, George - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems You need to go to windows and get connected to internet and then if you have Win2000 or WindowsNT type ipconfig /all In Win98 you go to RUN an type winipcfg, push enter... and... you will find out full internet configuration See you, Tomek El 20 Jul 2001 16:43:57 +0200, George Petri escribió: - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems Check out your resolv.conf You should have before you connect to internet this kind of message: search unimayab.edu.mx (search domain) nameserver 172.21.14.5 (nameserver yourDNS) ppp 172.21.10.11 (ppp yourgateway) That's all you need. Don't forget about ping, with ping you can see if you are connected well or what's going on. Tomek How do I get my ppp yourgateway?...I know the DNS, but not the gateway address. Thanks, George -- Czatuj, wyslij sms-y, sprawdz poczte Zainstaluj OnetKomunikatora [ http://ok.onet.pl/ ] -- Darmowy komunikator internetowy - zainstaluj OnetKomunikator [ http://ok.onet.pl ]
[newbie] driver for PCTel's HSP 56K Micromodem
I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on my Compaq Pressario 7599. It has PCTel's HSP 56K micromodem in it. Can someone tell me if there is any driver available for this modem? I appreciate your help in advance. Regards, Karthigan Srinivasan. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
RE: [newbie] kmail-configuration of multiple mail accounts
hi sridhar thank you very much for your reply. i could be able to configure 3 to 4 of my mail accounts. but there comes a problem with my principle mail account. all it says when i click checkmail is : the server says the password is wrong. but when i use the same in netscape messenger i could be able to receive my mails . but i couldn't configure multiple mail accounts in netscape messenger. i tried but invain. any help is appreciated. thanks sastry -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:30 PM To: srinivas sastry; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] kmail-configuration of multiple mail accounts Click Settings - Configure KMail. In the resulting window, click Network and open the Sending Mail tab (it should be open already). You can add accounts in the Incoming Mail section -- just click Add. If you need more info, there's always the Help button. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:27, srinivas sastry wrote: hi all i'm a newbie and i'm using mandrake 7.2. can anyone tell me how to configure multiple e-mail accounts in kmail. thanks sastry -- 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] importing messages from MS Outlook
hi i tried both methods and i couldn't get anything. i couldn't run kmailcvt as it is not available in my distribution . i'm using mandrake 7.2 . i did run find / -name kmailcvt which couldn't find anything of that sort. secondly i couldn't find Import command in kmail. is my kmail belongs to older version?. thanks sastry -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:10 PM To: srinivas sastry; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] importing messages from MS Outlook On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:27, srinivas sastry wrote: hi i want to import the mail messages from MS outlook to kmail and didn't know how. can anyone help me . i'm using mandrake 7.2 thanks sastry Run kmailcvt from a command line, or click File - Import in Kmail. -- 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] AVI player in mdk8?
Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent. http://mplayer.sourceforge.net The only thing I found about installing it is to pass the argument to disable compiler version checking in ./configure, as it doesn't seem to like gcc 2.96. Do './configure --help' for the exact syntax of that. The resulting binary executes fine, despite the admonition not to bother sending bug requests. -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com
Re: [newbie] Old Kernel- Safe to delete?
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 6:29 AM Subject: [newbie] Old Kernel- Safe to delete? I recently compiled my own kernel. It seems to be working pretty well, I've been using it for a week or so now... so is it safe to delete the old one? I would think so, but just want to be safe. Takes up space on the boot menu Also, what is the "linux non-fb" and "failsafe"? Safe to remove those too? Dan Hi! 'linux non-fb' is the same as 'linux' but without framebuffer. The difference is that with 'linux' you have console in graphic mode, graphic bootup (aurora), and you can have high resolution console, but in framebuffer mode there is only 60Hz refresh. So I use 'linux non-fb', I have text mode bootup and console 80x25 and higher refresh rate in console ( 70 Hz I think). I did't use 'failsafe'. Mikolaj
Re: [newbie] How do I change the refresh rate of my monitor?
To change the Refresh Rate... Edit the following file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Look for the Monitor Section: (example below) Change the values for VertRefresh and HorizSync HorizSync 60.0 VertRefresh 56.0-76.0 Well, it doesn't set maximum possible refresh rate. I have Samsung SyncMaster 700IFT, it can do 1024x768@100Hz. I set: HorizSync 30-96 VertRefresh 50-160 and when I run X I have only 85Hz. I see it on OSD. When I run Windows I can easy change to 100Hz and it works. Also I don't know how to change X resolution without restarting X. When I press ctrl+alt+gray_+ X switch virtual desktop. I don't use virtual desktop, I want switch resolution. In XF86Config I have Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" Viewport 0 0 Mikolaj
Re: [newbie] slow performance whist downloading normal ?
On Friday 20 July 2001 22:38, you wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 00:54, Rob wrote: Whilst downloading from the internet my general machine performance seems to fall away terribly. the machine is no slouch 900 athlon 512m memory only on a 56k modem too. is this sluggishness normal? What could be wrong ? Do you have a winmodem/linmodem? That can steal up to 40% of your CPU cycles for retraining (dropped messages). Other than that, it could be bad irq tuning. The modem should be at the top of the priority list or frames wlll be dropped and retransmissions requested frequently. Civileme Thanks Rob Modem is standard 56k external (rockwell chipset) on com2 = tty2 ? so IRQ is 3 which near top of irq chain as for IRQ my system is resonably complex being abit kt7 with hpt370, (The hpt is detected as HPT 366 ??? ) as ide34 GeForce256, sblive 5.1 3HDD 1 booting from hda , 2 on ide34 as hde f , 1 DVD as dev/cdrom on ide1, 1 burner as /dev cdrom2. on ide2 The setup works fine under windows implying I have no IRQ conflicts. swap partition is adequate at 250M + 512M ram Just seems very slow to respond when actively downloading. like 15 seconds to open a konqueror file manager window. Surely this can't be correct ?
Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX
So NOW when I launch tuxracer (just for instance--this actually happens with ALL full-screen gl apps), the screen blanks, I hear the monitor tick to a different frequency, my speakers play the first note of the music, and then nothing; I hang with a black screen. If I hit "esc" and "ctrl-alt-del" enough, I eventually get back to my desktop, having triggered the "Log me out" function in KDE, I guess. Sometimes I get KDE's "Really?" dialog, and other times I log all the way out and see KDM instead. I have the same problem. First when I installed Mandrake 8.0, programs which use OpenGL didn't work. So I downloaded nVidia drivers. I installed them and everything was ok. TuxRacer , glTron, and Chomium worked perfectly. A few days later I change something in Mandrake Command Center, and MCC changed XF86Config, switch again to nv, and removed load GLX. I repaired XF86Config, now I run XFree without errors, have nVidia splash screen, but games don't run. I have the same behavior, game switch monitor, play few notes, then hang with blank screen. I reinstalled nVidia drivers but it didn't help. Mikolaj
[newbie] Noatun bombing
Noatun keeps bombing on me(MDK 8.0). I think that deleting any noatun settings files will probably fix it (like nuking .kde when KDE goes to hell in a hand basket), but I can't seem to find them. Any suggestions? Miark
Re: [newbie] driver for PCTel's HSP 56K Micromodem
Karthigan: Yes, there are. It takes some effort, though. Check out the following websites for more information: www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html linmodems.org www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html HTH, Carroll karthigan srinivasan wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on my Compaq Pressario 7599. It has PCTel's HSP 56K micromodem in it. Can someone tell me if there is any driver available for this modem? I appreciate your help in advance. Regards, Karthigan Srinivasan.
[newbie] -deferglyphs 16
What exactly dows this switch do and is it important? I looked in the help and didn really understand it. When I removed this switch it solved my duel screen graphical login problem.
Re: [newbie] Update Programs Via Mandrake Update?
It isn't always good to have the latest version of a package. Newer versions can sometimes break compatibility with other packages. When a distro is made, the distro maker tries its best to ensure that all packages work well with each other. Official updates are also tested for this, and so are safe to install. With other packages, you shoudn't upgrade if everything is fine. Well, I assume the updates that I see when I run Mandrake Update are Official updates or, if not, how do you tell what is an official update compared to the updates that are showing at Mandrake Update? TIA Curtis As for the rest of your message, Civileme has already answered it. The grep command has been changed (this is a very rare occurrance, AFAIK), partially breaking the functionality of Software Manager. I think we'll have to wait for a Software Manager update before things get back to normal again. -- 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 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?
It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:08:10 -0400 when Dan Ray wrote: Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent. Thanks for the tip! This is excellent indeed!! :) It plays just about anything one could need!! bye bye aktion ;-) Paul -- Is it weird in here, or is it just me? -Steven Wright http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Sound Rights???
It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:44:27 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote: I have that happen also. You need to make the sound devices accessible for everyone: chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/midi* That is actually not the preferred method of making sound available for other users. The preferred method is to add your user to the audio group, which has rights to the audio devices. Besides which, if you do the above, you may open yourself up to security risks. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] Nvidia installation FAQ !
Shouldn't it be make install ? That article repeats the README file from the tar and if i remember right that didnt work. Just untar the tars and type make install in both kernel and glx directories. Then add: load glx and replace: nv with nvidia in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file as it says in the article. After that you should not use kdm as loginmanager, use gdm instead or boot into runlevel3 and startx manually. Worked for me tuxracer ut etc. all working fine. On a GeForce2 GTS. On Saturday 21 July 2001 21:23, A.Roesch wrote: i just found this a few days ago and thought this might help to solve a few problems !! http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/mandrake8/
Re: [newbie] Sound Rights???
On Friday 20 July 2001 21:09, you wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:44:27 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote: I have that happen also. You need to make the sound devices accessible for everyone: chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/midi* That should cure your problem. Paul snip Sound is a funny thing. I have sound on system notifications and sound in alsa player, but no sound in xmms or plain ole cdplayer. The cdplayer loads up and the disk spins but no sound comes out of the speakers. Any suggestions on how to get xmms working? TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: Fw: [newbie] Problem with automounting CDROM and floppy
This is what my fstab file looks like and supermount is what you are looking for I think. This is from LM 8.0, which version are you using? /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 If you need any other help, come back to the list, -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Thanks, I have LM 8.0 too. I have tried configuring CD-ROM as suggested, but I still cannot acces the drive. System says something like this (just my translation, because I use localized Mandrake...): Cannot access file:/mnt/cdrom. You have not access rights to this place. ...even when I login in root mode. When I open directory /mnt, cdrom icon has a lock on it. When I click on the icon, i get similar message: You have not enough rights to read file:/mnt/cdrom. (...again, in root mode too) Have you any more ideas what to do (or should I reinstall LM) Tnanks Jan Sedivy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Tribes 2 for Linux Error Message
Miark, Can you provide any additional instructions? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey Miark wrote: Jim, Have you installed the GLX and nVidia driver RPMs from the nVidia web site? If not, you'll need to. You can download them from http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux and let me know if you want a white-space friendly version of nVidia's sardines-in-a-can instructions. Miark - Original Message - From: Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 5:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Tribes 2 for Linux Error Message Hi, I'm getting the error message below when I try to run Tribes 2. The launcher disappears after I click on the play online option. I see this error message in the terminal window: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Any ideas how to get this fixed? Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop
Hi Dave, I guess the launcher is in the Gnome Control Panel. I still think it would be much easier to right-click on the desktop and add the link. Hopefully, they will add this in their future releases. Thanks for responding. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe the desktop right-click menu option is Launcher, or perhaps New Launcher. Dave On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:33, thus spake Romanator: Hi all, I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple Link to an application or shortcut on the Gnome desktop. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7V4rpOiMJhTaLf3MRAnNpAJ9TUmqjCLg5vR4oCequhoU0z+UtpACfYXgw c10A0z5iajDlqSI+4DkO6YQ= =Bebz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop
I'll try anything. This should be interesting. Roman s wrote: If you can't find the launcher, can't you do a ln -s /usr/bin/whatever /home/you/Desktop/whatever I used to do it that way a while back, but haven't in a while. You don't get to choose a perty icon. ;-) -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:33 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple Link to an application or shortcut on the Gnome desktop. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?
Sorry, I just caught the end of this thread. Where can I find mplayer for Linux? Is it included with the Powerpack? Roman Paul wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:08:10 -0400 when Dan Ray wrote: Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent. Thanks for the tip! This is excellent indeed!! :) It plays just about anything one could need!! bye bye aktion ;-) Paul -- Is it weird in here, or is it just me? -Steven Wright http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: Fw: [newbie] Problem with automounting CDROM and floppy
Jan, Try inserting user as shown below: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,user,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 Roman Jan Sedivý wrote: This is what my fstab file looks like and supermount is what you are looking for I think. This is from LM 8.0, which version are you using? /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 If you need any other help, come back to the list, -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Thanks, I have LM 8.0 too. I have tried configuring CD-ROM as suggested, but I still cannot acces the drive. System says something like this (just my translation, because I use localized Mandrake...): Cannot access file:/mnt/cdrom. You have not access rights to this place. ...even when I login in root mode. When I open directory /mnt, cdrom icon has a lock on it. When I click on the icon, i get similar message: You have not enough rights to read file:/mnt/cdrom. (...again, in root mode too) Have you any more ideas what to do (or should I reinstall LM) Tnanks Jan Sedivy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] Internet college classes
Marcia, webct is a browser based interface and I have used it with Netscape on Linux before without any problems. Taking Unix classes can be very helpful to you as you learn Linux. There are some differences, but over all much of what you learn for Unix will apply to Unix too. TC --- Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am considering taking some computer college and/or internet classes. My area college has internet instruction using webct software which supposedly works with Unix. Does that mean that it would work with Linux? Unfortunately, they offer no classes teaching linux but several for Unix. Linux is my interest but is Unix just about the same thing? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] CableModem 3Com - via USB not Detected!
Hello! I've just installed Mandrake-Linux 8.0 and found this great list, with you message on it. Well... I have a PC with a cable modem, connected via USB port. It is a 3Com Cablemodem. The point is... I do not reach any internet access with it.. I think it's not even detected. But when I connect it via Ethernet card... it runs perfectly! So, is there a way to use a USB connected Cablemodem with Linux? If you have any info... I'll really appreciate it a lot! Thanks. Adrián Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Yep. IMHO, it's the only way to fly :-) Since version 1.0.x, GNOME has been as solid as a rock for me. I found KDE 2.0 to be simply unusable, but from 2.1 things got really good. I love GNOME for its ultra-configurable Panel and its equally versatile Sawfish WM. At the same time, I love KDE for Konqueror (both as a browser and as a file manager) and Kmail. At the moment I have Mandrake 8.0 with both GNOME 1.4 and KDE 2.2b1 installed. KDE has never been quite as stable as GNOME for me (YMMV), and running KDE apps like Konqueror and Kmail in GNOME provides me with the ultimate in flexibility. If a KDE-related process goes rogue (as it does on occasion; it is a beta after all), I can simply kill all of KDE (killall kdeinit) and load it back up again. GNOME stays up, totally unharmed. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:09, Ravi Malghan wrote: can Konqueror be run on a gnome environment? Thanks Ravi - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux? Konqueror is my fave. Opera, mozilla, galeon, and slipknot (or something or other that comes with the power pack) are all adequate enough, but konqueror is undoubtedly the best (imo). And if you like a netscape, get 6.1. It is very stable and useable, cause your right, 6.0 will crash every dern time you open it. If you like text only lynx is neato in a terminal (I like to play with it sometimes and it's handy if your X won't boot - so remember it for future reference), and then there's links. -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25 am, you wrote: Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi -- 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 When I'm in Gnome it feels more stable including it's graphics and file manager. I'm still stumped on why they didn't offer an easier way to create a simple shortcut to an application by right-clicking with the mouse. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] Boot Problem
On July 20, 2001 12:04 am, Juan Carlos Conde wrote: Hello All. I had a dual boot with Win98 and LM8.0. Today I delete Win98 and I install Win98SE. After that I can not choose to boot Linux now. How can I restore the Boot Manager (I belive LILO is its name). If you don't have boot disk, as many, please do like this. Get hold of explore2fs.exe from net. Install it in windows partition. Run it. It will show you the linux partition. From there export vmlinuz to windows c: drive. See what is the root partition for linux if you don't remember. Copy loadlin.exe to c: Now boot in DOS mode not DOS window. use the command loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdax where x is the correct root partition number ie 1, 2, 3, etc. Now you can go to linux. As root in console type /sbin/lilo -v. Now your lilo is back. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042
Re: [newbie] Sensors
I have kobian MB. But installing lm_utils didn't show the CPU temp etc.Has anybody working sensor with this MB. Or have I done any mistake un configuring. I used all defaults mostly but for ISA as I don't have isa slot? On July 20, 2001 02:08 am, civileme wrote: gkrellm would be a good frontend. You must load lm_utils. We do not install it by default and we defang the KDE functions that would use lm_sensors directly because there is ONE brand of notebooks where if you use lm_sensors once, your next act is a factory return for a new motherboard. lm_utils-2.4.3_2.5.5-20mdk Is the package name on the Core System CD http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/doc/useful_addresses.html Is a good place to start for additional applications. Civileme -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042
Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS
John Rigby wrote: Hi there, If nobody here can fix it ( most things seem to be! ) send off a note to SO. If enough people NICELY complain, it will be fixed. The axle that squeaks gets the grease - THAT'S life! :-) On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:03, you manipulated electrons to produce: Yes... It's extremely annoying to me. I wish I knew how to correct this problem! Konqueror had a similar problem, but I corrected it through settings changes. But, SO52 doesn't have any such settings to change! So, what can we do??? Cheers, John Fablor now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-) Apparently, a person from sun will be posting some news about the font status very soon. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?
On Friday 20 July 2001 12:56 pm, you wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 14:51, s wrote: ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not, possibly due to the qt/gtk thing. Ummm, Yes, if you have KDE installed on the machine. If you do not, then you need konqueror-embedded which does not depend on kde or the Qt widget set. Civileme In light of this conversation and testimonials to the newer gnome, I couldn't resist checking it out. (And hey, that nautilis does look kinda neato.) However, my kde apps won't start. I get couldn't start klauncher errors. In addition, my games didn't play as smoothly. Kinda like dropped frames or something. Anyone have any ideas here? -s
Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?
On Friday 20 July 2001 11:09 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2001 01:51, s wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 12:56 pm, you wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 14:51, s wrote: ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not, possibly due to the qt/gtk thing. Ummm, Yes, if you have KDE installed on the machine. If you do not, then you need konqueror-embedded which does not depend on kde or the Qt widget set. Civileme In light of this conversation and testimonials to the newer gnome, I couldn't resist checking it out. (And hey, that nautilis does look kinda neato.) However, my kde apps won't start. I get couldn't start klauncher errors. In addition, my games didn't play as smoothly. Kinda like dropped frames or something. Anyone have any ideas here? -s Yep, GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environemnt or words to that effect. It uses a network socket (CORBA) to communicate among processes. I was able to reproduce your behavior by bringing up a firewall though I could still connect to Konqueror through the File manager/Super-User Mode. I am writing this message from GNOME right now using Kmail. Civileme h. Interesting. However, I don't run a firewall or portsentry on this machine. -s
[newbie] Konqueror and Flash
Gang: Thanks for the tips! It works fine. Again, thanks! Riker
[newbie] OpenGL and Mplayer help needed
i am currently trying to install Mplayer so that i can view AVI's with DivX support. I downloaded mplayer-0.17-1.20010501.i686.rpm i am using Linux Mandrake 8.0 on an Athlon 700mhz machine with 128 MB RAM. I have a KA7 motherboard using GeForce 256 (generic) GeForce 256 DDR graphics card on PCI bus. i have a Creative Labs SB Live! EMU1 soundcard on PCI anyways, when i attempt to use the command rpm -Uvh on the mplayer.rpm file, i get this message [root@charter Packages]# rpm -Uvh mplayer-0.17-1.20010501.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies: OpenGL is needed by mplayer-0.17-1.20010501 libstdc++.so.2.10 is needed by mplayer-0.17-1.20010501 libtinfo.so.5 is needed by mplayer-0.17-1.20010501 alright, i understand that i need to get OpenGL and the other two files listed. first task, get OpenGL! so i download XFree86-OpenGL-libs-4.1.0-2.i686.rpm i try to rpm -Uvh this particular item and receive the following message error: failed dependencies: XFree86-OpenGL-core is needed by XFree86-OpenGL-libs-4.1.0-2 okay, no problem, i just need to do this by process of elimination, correct? So i go get this file XFree86-OpenGL-core-4.1.0-2.i686.rpm download it just fine and attempt to rpm -Uvh this file and run into another problem [root@charter Packages]# rpm -Uvh XFree86-OpenGL-libs-4.1.0-2.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies: XFree86-OpenGL-core is needed by XFree86-OpenGL-libs-4.1.0-2 [root@charter Packages]# rpm -Uvh XFree86-OpenGL-core-4.1.0-2.i686.rpm file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of XFree86-OpenGL-core-4.1.0-2 conflicts with file from package XFree86-libs-4.1.0-6mdk file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a from install of XFree86-OpenGL-core-4.1.0-2 conflicts with file from package XFree86-server-4.1.0-6mdk file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a from install of XFree86-OpenGL-core-4.1.0-2 conflicts with file from package XFree86-server-4.1.0-6mdk don't know what to do from here and i feel pretty stupid at this point. im super new to linux and despite the fact that i managed to get the internet running without help (which i saw as a major accomplishment), i cannot seem to install the correct rpms to get good ol' Mplayer running for me. Help! Luke
[newbie] Mozilla and Java-Plugin
Hello All. I play chess on-line at pogo.com and I want to use my linux box all of the time I can play it with Netscape 4.77 but when I try it with Mozilla in Mandrake it says to down load the java2 plugin so i do and it will never work even after it is down loaded I can see it it in the plugin directory..can someone help me out with this because I like mozilla's browser under Mandrake a whole bunch better than Netscrapeing it TNX Nathan
Re: [newbie] How to auto-mount USB digital camera
-- Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Friday, 20 July, 2001 7:03) : I'm not sure about auto-mounting, but I can definitely say that Linux Mandrake works well with the Sandisk CF reader. Basically, you plug it in, run modprobe usb-storage, and then you can mount /dev/... whatever it is, and you can just read the files out. Very convenient. Thanks. I will try that when I get a card reader. In the meantime, based on some other postings I saw on this list about mounting floppy and zip disks, I put in a line in /etc/fstab to mount the camera, and a desktop icon to the mount point, and have been able to view and transfer the files on the camera. Is there a simpler or more elegant way to do this, i.e. treat the camera's memory card like a removable drive? --
Re: [newbie] Internet college classes
It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:51:29 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote: Hey Terry, I think what you learn for Unix will apply to Unix too!! ;) Kevin I agree. I am using Linux fulltime at home for more than 1.5 years, and because of that I can find my way on big HPUX machines very well :) Paul -- Do you know the solution, or are you part of the problem? http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?
It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:39:48 -0400 when Romanator wrote: Sorry, I just caught the end of this thread. Where can I find mplayer for Linux? Is it included with the Powerpack? Go to http://mplayer.sf.net and there it is :) Another tip that Dan wrote: do ./configure --help and use the parameter to prevent configure from checking the gcc compiler. It apparently does not like 2.96. Worked for me! Also download their wincodecs zipfile and install that in /usr/lib/win32, and it works like a champ. Paul Paul wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:08:10 -0400 when Dan Ray wrote: Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent. Thanks for the tip! This is excellent indeed!! :) It plays just about anything one could need!! bye bye aktion ;-) Paul -- Is it weird in here, or is it just me? -Steven Wright http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** -- Do you know the solution, or are you part of the problem? http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem
snip Heeheehee drivers needed for an external serial modem? I'll be amused for hours! Civileme snip Dang, you are easily amused, so did you hear the one about the traveling modem salesman? .eh, oh well, never mind. It really isn't as good as drivers for external serial modems. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] How to auto-mount USB digital camera
Thanks. I will try that when I get a card reader. In the meantime, based on some other postings I saw on this list about mounting floppy and zip disks, I put in a line in /etc/fstab to mount the camera, and a desktop icon to the mount point, and have been able to view and transfer the files on the camera. Cool! Is there a simpler or more elegant way to do this, i.e. treat the camera's memory card like a removable drive? That's what I can do with the Sandisk. I could not get gphoto to compile, so I couldn't access my Canon Elph Powershot 300. However, the people at Ritz Camera gave me the Sandisk reader free with the camera, so rather than struggle with gphoto, I just plugged in the Sandisk and everything worked. Now that I see how effective this thing is I'm tempted to get an MP3 player to go with it. The main thing stopping me is that I want something that plays Ogg Vorbis instead of or in addition to MP3.
Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie Linux-Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem snip Heeheehee drivers needed for an external serial modem? I'll be amused for hours! Civileme snip Dang, you are easily amused, so did you hear the one about the traveling modem salesman? .eh, oh well, never mind. It really isn't as good as drivers for external serial modems. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Careful...I think Civilme cracked a smile...heehee.me thinks he needed one :)
Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?
Sounds good. I'll check it out Roman Paul wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:39:48 -0400 when Romanator wrote: Sorry, I just caught the end of this thread. Where can I find mplayer for Linux? Is it included with the Powerpack? Go to http://mplayer.sf.net and there it is :) Another tip that Dan wrote: do ./configure --help and use the parameter to prevent configure from checking the gcc compiler. It apparently does not like 2.96. Worked for me! Also download their wincodecs zipfile and install that in /usr/lib/win32, and it works like a champ. Paul Paul wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:08:10 -0400 when Dan Ray wrote: Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent. Thanks for the tip! This is excellent indeed!! :) It plays just about anything one could need!! bye bye aktion ;-) Paul -- Is it weird in here, or is it just me? -Steven Wright http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** -- Do you know the solution, or are you part of the problem? http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] Quick question...
http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A -s On Friday 20 July 2001 11:01 pm, you wrote: Hey gang, What was that web address for the small program that checks if the NVidia tarball was installed correctly? Thanks, John
[newbie] Websphere(Fpbuilder) can't ftp
Hi folks, Gotta be something simple: 1. iglooftp ( very familiar to cuteftp users!) no probs. 2. Can't get the help files . 3. When attempting to upload inside FPB, it reports no server contact. -- Cheers, John Fablor now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] C Compiler
On Friday 20 July 2001 20:56, George Baker wrote: A V Flinsch wrote: On Wednesday 18 July 2001 17:03, you wrote: Trying to install koffice 2.0.1 and kfinance 0.2.0 and keep getting the message that the C Compiler can't create executables. I have installed gcc and gcc -c++. This is the config.log I get: You need to install glibc-devel -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command I installed glibc-devel and now get this message. Can't seem to find any libs that deal with X includes. [root@localhost kfinance-0.2.0]# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g...yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [root@localhost kfinance-0.2.0]# -- Thanks George Baker South Africa You need the stuff from XFree that says -devel- in the rpms. It checks for X by looking for a header file. Civileme
[newbie] System speaker busies out /dev/dsp
Anybody else noticed this? Do something to cause the system to beep at you (like trying to tab-complete an impossible string of characters) then use mpg123 or something. The sound device /dev/dsp is busy for sometimes 60 seconds or so after the last beep. What's the deal? Do I have something misconfigured? Also, I'd dearly love to be able to have the system beep AND play an mp3 at the same time. It's possible under Windows. Is the whole /dev concept just too fileish to allow multiple sources for sound to get to the audio device? --Dan
Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem
On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:59, you wrote: Hello People Just to let you all know the results concerning Linux compatibility with the Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem. Thanks to all who replied, much appreciated. I've decided to give this modem a go since I'm getting with Telecom TalkingPoints (until I save up for a better one like 3com or similar). I received the following email from the swann.com.au: - Original Message - From: Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: skinky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:40 AM Subject: Linux Hi, Thanks for your mail, in regards to your query please note the speed demon external is an Intel chipset. It does have a hardware controller and can be made to work with Linux using generic drivers but unfortunately we do not support that OS. Should you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact tech support on the below numbers or 1300 138 324. Best Regards Technical Support Swann Communications 1/177 Burnley St Richmond Victoria Australia 3121 Aus Tech Support +61 3 9421 3290 (9AM - 6PM Mon to Thurs, 9AM - 5.30PM Fri Aus EST). After hours mobile number 0418 146434 (6PM - 9PM Mon to Fri Aus EST) Fax. +61 3 94213688 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Hi there I am interested in purchasing the a Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem. Would you be so kind as to provide the following information regarding this modem: 1.What chipset is used? 2.Does it have a hardware controller? 3.Is this modem compatible with Linux? Your help would be much appreciated. Regards _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com You shouldn't have a problem. From your post I see that it is a serial modem. Just make sure that the serial port is enabled in bios and I personally use ttyS0 or com1 with mine, you will not see it in harddrake (probably) but if you use Kppp and setup to use the ttyS0 and your ISP dns etc it should work right out ot the box, no driver install or anything necessary. My modem is a little Best Data modem , external, serial and it works great. Good luck, -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem
On Friday 20 July 2001 00:12, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:59, you wrote: Hello People Just to let you all know the results concerning Linux compatibility with the Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem. Thanks to all who replied, much appreciated. I've decided to give this modem a go since I'm getting with Telecom TalkingPoints (until I save up for a better one like 3com or similar). I received the following email from the swann.com.au: - Original Message - From: Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: skinky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:40 AM Subject: Linux Hi, Thanks for your mail, in regards to your query please note the speed demon external is an Intel chipset. It does have a hardware controller and can be made to work with Linux using generic drivers but unfortunately we do not support that OS. Should you have any further queries please do not Heeheehee drivers needed for an external serial modem? I'll be amused for hours! Civileme hesitate to contact tech support on the below numbers or 1300 138 324. Best Regards Technical Support Swann Communications 1/177 Burnley St Richmond Victoria Australia 3121 Aus Tech Support +61 3 9421 3290 (9AM - 6PM Mon to Thurs, 9AM - 5.30PM Fri Aus EST). After hours mobile number 0418 146434 (6PM - 9PM Mon to Fri Aus EST) Fax. +61 3 94213688 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Hi there I am interested in purchasing the a Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem. Would you be so kind as to provide the following information regarding this modem: 1.What chipset is used? 2.Does it have a hardware controller? 3.Is this modem compatible with Linux? Your help would be much appreciated. Regards _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com You shouldn't have a problem. From your post I see that it is a serial modem. Just make sure that the serial port is enabled in bios and I personally use ttyS0 or com1 with mine, you will not see it in harddrake (probably) but if you use Kppp and setup to use the ttyS0 and your ISP dns etc it should work right out ot the box, no driver install or anything necessary. My modem is a little Best Data modem , external, serial and it works great. Good luck,
