Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?
Non offenderti, ma quando accedi a /mnt/cdrom hai inserito qualcosa nel lettore? Perché ho notato per caso che dà quell'errore se non vi sono dischi presenti... e lo stesso suppongo per le altre periferiche. Non so se è una cosa nuova della Mdk 8.0 perché è la prima che utilizzo, ma cmq sono certo di questo. Riguardo alla stampante, io ho uan Epson Stylus Phto 870 che stampa bene. Ma ho avuto qualche problema anch'io quando ho tentato di bloccare dei job di stampa dal Konqueror (andando all'indirizzo localhost:631). Cmq prova a usare il programma suddetto (andando a puntare il Konq su localhost:631). Di qui è ancghe possibile installare una nuaova stampante. Approposito di ciò: non sono ancora riuscito a bloccare in NESSUN modo i jobs di stampa, né con lprm né tramite il Konqueror (che mi dà un errore). Come posso fare? Non c'è qualcuno che conosca qualche programma specifico. Perché ora l'unico modo che mi rimane per bloccare la stampa è quello di spegnere la stampante e di SPEGNERE il sistema, altrimenti se spengo la stampante e la riaccendo, lei ricomincia... Ciao CaMiX Il 12:23, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. Sono nuovo della lista e probabilmente i miei problemi saranno gia' stati discussi e per questo perdonatemi. Ho dovuto reinstallare Mdk 8 e da quel momento ho un sacco di problemi. - CD-Rom (da root) : Impossibile accedere alla directory /mnt/cdrom. - Zip 100 scsi e Floppy (da root) : Impossibile accedere a file:/mnt/zip/. Non hai i diritti di accesso a questo indirizzo. - Epson S.C. 740 : non stampa Cosa puo' essere successo? Mi ritrovo con le directori in /mnt tutte con il lucchetto??? perche'??? Qualcuno e' ingrado di aiutarmi? Ciao, Franco
Re: [newbie-it] address book
Il 19:00, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] ok...proverò a cercare i file di configurazione...se intanto sapeste darmi un suggerimento su dove trovarli...ve ne sarei grato... grazie mille a tutta la ml e a daniele osva Penso vengano creati all'interno della cartella /home/utente/nsmail ...
[newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri
Ciao a tutti, da un paio di giorni mi capita - sotto KDE - di vedere alcuni caratteri visualizzati male, quasi illeggibili. Succede col Konqueror, succede con Konsole, ... Credo dipenda da alcune modifiche al server X: qualche giorno fa ero entrato nel Mandrake Control Center, nella sezione - appunto - del server X. Ho ricontrollato i settaggi, ma sembrerebbe tutto a posto: scheda video giusta, monitor anche (credo). I caratteri appaiono quasi illeggibili, poi spesso basta scrollare la pagina o cliccare da quelle parti col mouse, o selezionare il testo per renderli nuovamente leggibili. E' un problema di X? Del font server? Come posso risolverlo? Esiste vita su marte? Come sempre, grazie a chiunque vorrà rispondermi ! Daniele
[newbie-it] Scheda video
Ciao, ho cercato per giorni driver per Linux che potessero far vedere al PC la scheda video (Hercules 4000XT) ma sembra che non esistano ancora. La mia domanda è: a chi devo chiedere di svilupparne? Alla Hercules oppure affidarmi agli sviluppatori privati che incontrato la stesso mio problema decidano di programmarne i driver? Grazie Michele
[newbie-it] Barra applicazioni
Ciao a tutti. Ho un problema con la barra delle applicazioni (o meglio panel) del KDE. Vi spiego; ho installato LM 8 Kernel 2.4 e all'inizio funzionava tutto bene fiono a quando un bel giorno, durante il caricamento il KDE arriva fino al panello e non lo carica più così mi sono trovato senza barra. Ho provato a caricarla con il comando panel e funziona, ma non è giusto che ogni volta debba stare li a caricarla. Ho provato a disistallare/reinstallare il KDE, ma il problema continua. Adesso uso Gnome ma vorrei capire la fonte del problema. Grazie Michele
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?
Il giorno 23-07-2001 1:59, Sandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Il 12:23, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Potresti dire come hai reinstallato la mdk8. Sei partito da zero ho hai fatto l'update. Oppure hai reinstallato mdk8 su se stessa? Ciao Sandro Ho reinstallato partendo da zero. In precedenza funzionava tutto a meraviglia, poi una interruzione di corrente mi ha mandato tutto a carte quarantotto... :-((( Ho fatto una installazione in modalita' esperto perche' ho avuto prob con video e mouse. Ho selezionato oltre ai gruppi preselezionati i giochi e la parte audio. Del resto come avevo fatto in precedenza. Ciao Franco
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda video
Il 11:19, sabato 21 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao, ho cercato per giorni driver per Linux che potessero far vedere al PC la scheda video (Hercules 4000XT) ma sembra che non esistano ancora. La mia domanda è: a chi devo chiedere di svilupparne? Alla Hercules oppure affidarmi agli sviluppatori privati che incontrato la stesso mio problema decidano di programmarne i driver? Grazie Michele Purtroppo la Hercules non produce i driver dei suoi dispositivi per Linux. Devi riferirti, piuttosto, al tipo di chip grafico che è presente nella tua 4000XT. Per farti un esempio: io ho una Hercules con chip Nvidia (della serie GeoForce II). Installando i driver Nvidia specifici (anche per la distribuzione) i tuoi problemi, probabilmente saranno risolti. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?
Il 08:01, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Il giorno 23-07-2001 1:59, Sandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Il 12:23, domenica 22 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Potresti dire come hai reinstallato la mdk8. Sei partito da zero ho hai fatto l'update. Oppure hai reinstallato mdk8 su se stessa? Ciao Sandro Ho reinstallato partendo da zero. In precedenza funzionava tutto a meraviglia, poi una interruzione di corrente mi ha mandato tutto a carte quarantotto... :-((( Ho fatto una installazione in modalita' esperto perche' ho avuto prob con video e mouse. Ho selezionato oltre ai gruppi preselezionati i giochi e la parte audio. Del resto come avevo fatto in precedenza. Ciao Franco Uhm, il contenuto della partizione ext2 della installazione precedente è stato azzerato (cancellato) oppure hai installato da zero sopra i dati che avevi? OK, prima di tutto controlla il file fstab nella directory /etc, il mio, per esempio, è il seguente: /dev/hdb6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 A parte i riferimenti alle eventuali diverse partizioni e all'assenza (nel mio caso) dello zip dovresti controllare i parametri per quanto riguarda i cd-rom. Inoltre i permessi delle directory all'interno di /mnt devono essere, per le categorie: - mostra - scrivi - entra (te li riporto, per semplicità, come li mostra in KDE) tutti configurati per essere accessibili sia all'utente, che al gruppo che ad altri. Mandami, comunque, il tuo fstab che gli do un'occhiata. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
Re: [newbie-it] Barra applicazioni
Il 13:50, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. Ho un problema con la barra delle applicazioni (o meglio panel) del KDE. Vi spiego; ho installato LM 8 Kernel 2.4 e all'inizio funzionava tutto bene fiono a quando un bel giorno, durante il caricamento il KDE arriva fino al panello e non lo carica più così mi sono trovato senza barra. Ho provato a caricarla con il comando panel e funziona, ma non è giusto che ogni volta debba stare li a caricarla. Ho provato a disistallare/reinstallare il KDE, ma il problema continua. Adesso uso Gnome ma vorrei capire la fonte del problema. Grazie Michele Potrebbe esserci un errore nei file di configurazione del KDE. Controlla se questo problema ti si verifica solo come utente, o anche come root (o con un altro account utente). I file di configurazione del tuo profilo del KDE sono nella cartella file:/home/utente/.kde/share/config/ Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri
Il 20:50, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Prova ad aprire il COntrol Center, quindi: LookFeel Stile (o style se in inglese) qui vedi se l'opzione utilizza l'anti-aliasing per i caratteri e le icone è spuntata. altrimenti spuntala e riavvia KDE. Se vuoi cambiare font, inoltre e sempre all'interno del Contro Center c'è l'opzione Fonts. Ciò ti permette di configurare dei font più leggibili per il sistema. Ciao Sandro Ciao Sandro, grazie per la tua risposta. Ma non è questo il problema. I fonts sono leggibili, ed uso l'antialiasing senza problemi sin dalla prima installazione del Mandrake 8. Solo da alcuni giorni, a volte, risultano illeggibili piccole parti del testo: il titolo di un paragrafo, una riga di testo, un collegamento ipertestuale, due parole in una frase. Poi, come ti dicevo, basta magari selezionare quel testo, o anche solo cliccare nei suoi dintorni, per renderlo nuovamente leggibile. Solo che non riesco a capire cosa abbia determinato questo nuovo, improvviso, problema. Immagino dipenda da qualche modifica a seguito della riconfigurazione dei settaggi nel modulo relativo al server X del Mandrake Control Center. Può essere un errato settaggio delle frequenze di aggiornamento del video? Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri
Il 14:54, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao Sandro, grazie per la tua risposta. Ma non è questo il problema. I fonts sono leggibili, ed uso l'antialiasing senza problemi sin dalla prima installazione del Mandrake 8. Solo da alcuni giorni, a volte, risultano illeggibili piccole parti del testo: il titolo di un paragrafo, una riga di testo, un collegamento ipertestuale, due parole in una frase. Poi, come ti dicevo, basta magari selezionare quel testo, o anche solo cliccare nei suoi dintorni, per renderlo nuovamente leggibile. Solo che non riesco a capire cosa abbia determinato questo nuovo, improvviso, problema. Immagino dipenda da qualche modifica a seguito della riconfigurazione dei settaggi nel modulo relativo al server X del Mandrake Control Center. Può essere un errato settaggio delle frequenze di aggiornamento del video? Daniele Alla luce di quanto hai riportato credo che si tratti di qualcosa inerente alla scheda grafica o all'impostazione di X. Riguarda, infatti, il refresh dello schermo. Non ti ricordi quali nuovi settaggi hai fatto a X? Se puoi cerca di riportare X alle condizioni in cui era prima o, in alternativa, cerca di diminuire la frequenza di refresh del monitor. Fammi sapere, Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri
Il 03:16, martedì 24 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Alla luce di quanto hai riportato credo che si tratti di qualcosa inerente alla scheda grafica o all'impostazione di X. Riguarda, infatti, il refresh dello schermo. Non ti ricordi quali nuovi settaggi hai fatto a X? Se puoi cerca di riportare X alle condizioni in cui era prima o, in alternativa, cerca di diminuire la frequenza di refresh del monitor. Fammi sapere, Ciao Sandro Era quel che pensavo. In realtà non ho fatto modifiche all'impostazione del server X. Ero entrato nel MCCenter per verificare i passi della configurazione per rispondere ad una email di qualcuno in difficoltà proprio con il risettaggio di X. L'unica ipotesi è che il MCC, per qualche motivo, abbia modificato i valori precedentemente identificati per il refresh del monitor. Proverò a modificare manualmente il file di configurazione. Ma prima devo scoprire quale siano le frequenze giuste del mio monitor... Grazie ancora dell'aiuto! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?
Il giorno 23-07-2001 20:44, Sandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Uhm, il contenuto della partizione ext2 della installazione precedente è stato azzerato (cancellato) oppure hai installato da zero sopra i dati che avevi? Azzerato e rifatto partizioni. OK, prima di tutto controlla il file fstab nella directory /etc, il mio, per Eccoti il mio. Sembra tutto a posto. /dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 #/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd1 0 0 # Ho modificato in /dev/scd1 per usarlo con XCDroast /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sda 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb9 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb10 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb8 /usr/src ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 E' una cosa assai strana perche' ho provato diverse distro e non mi e' mai successo nulla di tutto questo. Per quanto riguarda la stampante ho provato ad aggiungere alias parport_lowlevel parpotr_pc in /etc/modules.conf ma niente! Quando provo a stampare con Kword appare la finesta Imposta la stampa vedo come stampante lp e come Host connesso localmete e all'Ok ... nessun risultato! A titolo di completezza ti diro' che non ho mai cancellato l'MBR. Ciao Franco PS - In questo momento cdrom da root e da utente funziona '/mnt/cdrom non ha piu' il lucchetto!?!? Incredibile... Perche', perche'... sigh!
Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri
Il 22:55, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Era quel che pensavo. In realtà non ho fatto modifiche all'impostazione del server X. Ero entrato nel MCCenter per verificare i passi della configurazione per rispondere ad una email di qualcuno in difficoltà proprio con il risettaggio di X. L'unica ipotesi è che il MCC, per qualche motivo, abbia modificato i valori precedentemente identificati per il refresh del monitor. Proverò a modificare manualmente il file di configurazione. Ma prima devo scoprire quale siano le frequenze giuste del mio monitor... Grazie ancora dell'aiuto! Daniele Come non detto: ho controllato le frequenze di refresh orizzontale e verticale settate nel file XF86config-4: sono *esattamente* quelle del mio monitor (sia nei valori massimi che in quelli minimi)... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Cd rom SCSI e setup di mdk 8.0
21:38, mercoledì 13 giugno 2001, Marco: ho appena scoperto il perche', se si installa mdk 8.0 da cd rom scsi, il setup puo' durare circa 2 ore (come nel mio caso :) ), pare che ci sia un baco nel kernelquesto problema si manifesta solo in fase di installazione (e menomale!!!) qualcuno sa dirmi dove posso (se esiste) un fix per questo problemino??? grazie mille e a presto!!! anch'io ho lo stesso problema. credo sia legato al Kernel 2.4 che non gestisce bene alcune intefacce SCSI della adaptec. Sei riuscito a risolvere il problema? Oggi pensavo di provare a installare la RedHat 7.1 uscita oggi su Linux C. ma leggendo le note ho trovato che in quella versione non hanno risolto ancora il problema. Sono stato sfortunato con la Mandrake 8.0: non funziona bene il CDRom e mi vengono sempre fuori messaggi di errore per il mio hardware USB. Ritornerei alla Mandrake 7.2 ma forse il kernel 2.2 non gestiva l'USB? In effetti è un problema che è capitato anche a me. Una volta installato il tutto ho compilato un kernel più recente ed è andato senza problemi. Magari facendo l'installazione con da un'immagine non standard si risolve tutto. ciao Fabio, ti riferisci al problema SCSI o USB? Credo SCSI, comunque credo che sia arrivato il momento di compilare il mo primo kernel 8-) Non so però da dove partire. Hai qualche consiglio e/o documento per un principiante? Ci avevo già provato nel tentativo di aggiornare i drivers Nvidia. Ho trovato anche un documento che spiega tutto passo per passo. Quasi subito però non ho trovato dei files (credo i sorgenti) dove dovevano essere e così ho rimandato. ciao e grazie, Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri
Il 05:27, lunedì 23 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, da un paio di giorni mi capita - sotto KDE - di vedere alcuni caratteri visualizzati male, quasi illeggibili. Succede col Konqueror, succede con Konsole, ... Credo dipenda da alcune modifiche al server X: qualche giorno fa ero entrato nel Mandrake Control Center, nella sezione - appunto - del server X. Ho ricontrollato i settaggi, ma sembrerebbe tutto a posto: scheda video giusta, monitor anche (credo). I caratteri appaiono quasi illeggibili, poi spesso basta scrollare la pagina o cliccare da quelle parti col mouse, o selezionare il testo per renderli nuovamente leggibili. E' un problema di X? Del font server? Come posso risolverlo? Esiste vita su marte? Come sempre, grazie a chiunque vorrà rispondermi ! Daniele Prova ad aprire il COntrol Center, quindi: LookFeel Stile (o style se in inglese) qui vedi se l'opzione utilizza l'anti-aliasing per i caratteri e le icone è spuntata. altrimenti spuntala e riavvia KDE. Se vuoi cambiare font, inoltre e sempre all'interno del Contro Center c'è l'opzione Fonts. Ciò ti permette di configurare dei font più leggibili per il sistema. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
[newbie] Ishmail
Hi all, Is there any one using ishmail for e-mails?...if so pls give me a quick lesson on how to set it up Thanks Ivan -- Ivan Miranda General Instrument Engineer/IT support Po Box 8746,Doha,Qatar Ph:974-4402524/4402773 Fax:974-4323380
Re: [newbie] stylesheet and pages
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:03, John Rigby wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:39, you manipulated electrons to produce: You probably just need to change the font settings (font selection size) in Netscape and Konqueror. All the browsers should implement the HTML properly (except maybe IE), but some browsers will render the page on a smaller scale than others. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:08, L.V.Gandhi wrote: ** Yes, but using fancy fonts you are assuming that the Client machine has the same fonts available, aren't you? My trick was always to create a gif if it simply HAD to that different, to g'tee a display. I would not recommend using fancy fonts for any web page, for the reason you have mentioned above. What I meant was that one should change the fonts and/or font sizes that are in use in the browser to something else that is also widely available (or a close substitute exists). For example, one could change from 72dpi Helvetica to 100dpi Helvetica or TTF Arial (which is 96dpi). Similarly, one could switch from Times to Times New Roman, or from Courier to Courier New. Also, font sizes (in points) can be adjusted to be as large as in other browsers. Despite all this, however, a page should still look the same in Konqueror and Netscape as it does in Mozilla, assuming the HTML coding is done well. The only difference will be that Konqueror and Netscape use smaller fonts; the contents and the content layout should be the same. If formatting is a priority, and if one has reason to worry that their information won't be rendered well in all browsers, PDF could be the answer. Adobe's Portable Document Format, being PostScript-based, is designed to look exactly the same wherever it is viewed, no matter what the platform is. In Windos, the only way (AFAIK) to create a PDF document is to pay Adobe hundreds of dollars for Adobe Acrobat (the creator, not just the reader). GNU/Linux has some useful open-source command-line tools (part of the ghostscript package) to quickly and easily create PDF files. Of these, my favourite would be ps2pdf. Since just about all GNU/Linux software that can print to a printer will also allow you to print to a PostScript (.ps) file (since printing in GNU/Linux is usually done in PostScript), all you need to do is print to a .ps file and then use ps2pdf to convert it to a PDF. More information can be found at the command-line by typing man ps2pdf. -- 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] NOW: AND Appreciation
Citizens of the Mandrake Newbie List! Please... We don't need a argument on who contributed more than everyone else. While I truly appreciate John's very kind words (thank you!), it must also be remembered that this is a _community_ list. We are all equals here, and we should all help each other out. The co-operation of many people have made the list what it is today: an enjoyable and informative place. Many of us have similar motivations, but not all of us have the time to answer as many questions as others (even if they want to). For example, I have been on university holidays for the past five weeks (it ended today), so I had a lot of time to answer many questions. Now, with my new semester commencing, I don't think my input will be quite as high (although I'll certainly try my best to answer questions). My gratitude goes out to all list members who have actively participated in helping users (not just me) with their problems. If there were more of you, the world would be a much better place to live in :-) On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:53, John Rigby wrote: Hi Michael and folks, Oh - this wasn't meant to be a List Of Appreciation, I simply used these two people as examples. Of course there is yourself and many others - I didn't mention -even Roman who is enthusiastically helping in this small but ambitious project. In the preface to the Esacape Book I am writing a piece very pointedly to the effect that without the thousands of good neighbours out there, the Geeks who patiently helped the non-Geeks through such simple things as the TCP/IP MANUAL SETUP processes etc., the PC would still be in Uni's. I personally go back so far in time that I was one of the earliest international FIDO Hosts. ( I wasn't a Geek - I supplied the machine, the phone line and the money to a Geek who used to work all day in my business and then work all night trying to keep FIDO up. ) It stopped me becoming a manic-depressive cynic as I learned the ropes of the business world. :-) - On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:30, you manipulated electrons to produce: But we really need both the pros like Civileme and Sridhar who volunteer their help and the super-users like you. You are leaving off quite a few people here...I mean there are people other than civilme and sridhar that do contribute time to the list. For example, I know I haven't posted as often as those two, but I've still posted to the list 133 times--not bad considering some days I get 100-200 e-mails to go through to this account, let alone my own personal accounts. -- 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] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff
Good on you! It's great to see newbies from the Windos world experiment with the new OS instead of just sticking with the defaults. Don't get me wrong, KDE is a very nice environment, but it is a little too Windos-like for me. I think a major reason why GNOME doesn't have more users is that it is not as Windos-like as KDE, and so has a steeper learning-curve for those switching over from The Dark Side. GNOME, in combination with a good WM like Sawfish (Enlightenment, IceWM, XFce and WindowMaker are also good candidates), can be very powerful and configurable. Of course, this configurability is a major reason for the steep learning-curve. This is slowly being addressed, and GNOME is catching up to KDE in user-friendliness. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:14, John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, You are beginning to convert me to Gnome! :-) Cheers, John On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:02, you manipulated electrons to produce: ctrl-alt-backspace is supposed to be an emergency measure only, to be used when there is no other alternative. It will kill your entire X-server, which is often unnecessary. If you have GNOME loaded, you can log out by using the menus obtained by either clicking the footprint or by right-clicking an empty area of the panel. If a single app has gone rogue, you can kill it using xkill (if you want an entirely graphical solution), or (better) by using commands/apps like kill, killall and top at the console. -- 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] Mandrake going public......... not really off topic :-)
Hi folks, The need for caution is great when a company moves away from dockside into the deep sea. It is full of sharks who make their living precisely from the salmon-run as the rushes of companies to float happens every Spring. :-) A mandatory tale to research is that of a nice fellow and near genius in his own field, who started a very strange free-world org called ARSGRATIA - a lovely thing. THEY ATE HIM. http://philip.greenspun.com One of the things that Newbies in the international world of Big Money never learn, is that the Sharks ONLY make their money when they take over control of the company through their sucker bait. In Big Business it is not like the real world where the nice folk massively do outnumber the baddies, in Big Biz it is precisely the reverse. ( Said the old, and out-of-it ex-servant of the powerful... and fell back into a Doze.. :-) ) -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems
Roman-- Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? I had a couple of problems, which I fixed, and then it configured and installed great. Say more about is not configuring. The more descriptive you can be about your problem, the better a solution people can offer (and if your initial email is descriptive enough, we can usually skip this whole it worked for me say more about email entirely). Two unusual things I had to do: ./configure --no-gcc-checking (I think! Read './configure --help' and see what it says about gcc version checking!) install nasm from RPM (at rpmfind or, I'm told, on the CDs) So I'm guessing you haven't done one or the other of those things. --Dan
[newbie] Konqueror
Hiya, this is a little OT, sorry in advance. I like to do a little webdesign in my spare time (though i havnt done any in a while due to my phone line being cut g). The last time i did any was in Windows, using IE to check out how the pages looked. Netscape always had a problem in that pages didnt always look the same as in IE, tables out of place, font sizes differ etc. Getting to the point, my question is how does Konqueror render pages in comparison with IE? I do not have any windows boxes anymore (yeehaa!), are the font sizes similar? etc? Ta _ 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] nVidia drivers (again)
Here is a snip of the nvidias own readme that you find from the same section of nvidias homepage there where you can download the tars. This snip concerns the tar install prozess . I repeat: Use the tars not the rpms and follow the instructions from THIS readme DONT use the instructions that you find inside the tars!!! They are wrong. snip Installing/Upgrading by Tar file Instructions for the Impatient: $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz $ cd NVIDIA_kernel $ make install $ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX $ make install Instructions: To install from tar file, unpack each file: $ tar xzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz $ tar xzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz cd into the NVIDIA_kernel directory. Type 'make install'. This will compile the kernel interface to the NVdriver, link the NVdriver, copy the NVdriver into place, and attempt to insert the NVdriver into the running kernel: $ cd NVIDIA_kernel $ make install Next, move into the NVIDIA_GLX directory. Type 'make install' -- this will copy the files into place: $ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX $ make install Note that the make install for each package will remove any previously installed NVIDIA drivers. - (sec-03) EDITING YOUR XF86CONFIG FILE = When XFree86 4.0 was released, it used a slightly different XF86Config file syntax than the 3.x series did, and so to allow both 3.x and 4.x versions of XFree86 to co-exist on the same system, it was decided that XFree86 4.x was to use the configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 if it existed, and only if that file did not exist would the file /etc/X11/XF86Config be used (actually, that is an over-simplification of the search criteria; please see the XF86Config manpage for a complete description of the search path). Please make sure you know what configuration file XFree86 is using. If you are in doubt, look for a line beginning with (==) Using config file: in the your XFree86 log file (/var/log/XFree86.0.log). This README will use XF68Config to refer to your configuration file, whatever it is named. If you do not have a working XF86Config file, there are several ways to start: there is a sample config file that comes with XFree86, and there is a sample config file included with the NVIDIA_GLX package (it gets installed in the /usr/share/doc tree). You could also use a program like 'xf86config'; some distributions provide their own tool for generating an XF86Config file. For more on XF86Config file syntax, please refer to the manpage. If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver (such as the 'nv' driver), then all you need to do is find the relevant Device section and replace the line: Driver nv with Driver nvidia In the Module section, make sure you have: Load glx You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore if they exist. There are also numerous options that can be added to the XF86Config file to fine-tune the NVIDIA XFree86 driver. Please see Appendix D for a complete list of these options. Once you have configured your XF86Config file, you are ready to restart X and begin using the accelerated OpenGL libraries. After you restart X, you should be able to run any OpenGL application and it will automatically use the new NVIDIA libraries. If you encounter any problems, please see the troubleshooting section below... snip Details on http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_readme_install On Monday 23 July 2001 19:09, Terry C wrote: I am wondering if I may be able to resolve the segmentation fault errors I am getting trying to run Chromium, or Tuxracer by changing to the nVidia 769 drivers instead of using the 1251 drivers. Has anyone tried this to resolve the seg. fault problems? I have already made sure that I am not using KDM, I have tried booting into run level 3 and using startx, I have tried using gdm. The black screen and seg. fault errors started after I tried to run BZflag and it locked up. No GL games have worked since. Also, what exactly is a segmentation fault? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux
What happened to the magazine anyway? I was out of the country for a vacation and when I come back this is what happened? Doh! Anyway, kind enough to give me a brief explanation of what happened? --- Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: last i heard, they we going to change the subscription to another mag. but i never got anything, and last time i tried, the website is down. so we can't even ask. if ya ask me, i think we won't see anything done with our subscriptions. Well as another poster mentioned the contact the publisher, they do a whole series of Maximum mags. The website was up for several weeks after the news. Most of the staff stuck around for a bit to answer messages, but FWIU, they all received job = John M Catral System Specialist ABC Television Inc. New York, New York __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)
i used to get segmentation errors when using OpenGL - it was because i hadnt installed the kernel properly - there is a shell script called nv check which checks if everything is installed ok get it at : http://www.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/nv_check.sh just cd to the dir and type : $ sh nv_check.sh oh year - with rpms you may want to type : $ rpm -i NV_GLX.blahblah.rpm --nodeps --force this will force the install of rpms even if your system says it is already installed - Original Message - From: Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:09 PM Subject: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) I am wondering if I may be able to resolve the segmentation fault errors I am getting trying to run Chromium, or Tuxracer by changing to the nVidia 769 drivers instead of using the 1251 drivers. Has anyone tried this to resolve the seg. fault problems? I have already made sure that I am not using KDM, I have tried booting into run level 3 and using startx, I have tried using gdm. The black screen and seg. fault errors started after I tried to run BZflag and it locked up. No GL games have worked since. Also, what exactly is a segmentation fault? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)
Thanks. I already used the nv_check.sh script and it said that everything was OK. Based on the information I have been seeing I am thinking that I need to try installing the 1251 drivers from the tarball instead of the rpm. Should I uninstall the drivers I installed from the rpm first and then install the tar files? TC --- james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i used to get segmentation errors when using OpenGL - it was because i hadnt installed the kernel properly - there is a shell script called nv check which checks if everything is installed ok get it at : http://www.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/nv_check.sh just cd to the dir and type : $ sh nv_check.sh oh year - with rpms you may want to type : $ rpm -i NV_GLX.blahblah.rpm --nodeps --force this will force the install of rpms even if your system says it is already installed - Original Message - From: Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:09 PM Subject: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) I am wondering if I may be able to resolve the segmentation fault errors I am getting trying to run Chromium, or Tuxracer by changing to the nVidia 769 drivers instead of using the 1251 drivers. Has anyone tried this to resolve the seg. fault problems? I have already made sure that I am not using KDM, I have tried booting into run level 3 and using startx, I have tried using gdm. The black screen and seg. fault errors started after I tried to run BZflag and it locked up. No GL games have worked since. Also, what exactly is a segmentation fault? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Russian(KOI8) in Mandrake 8.0
Hello All, I`ve installed Mandrake with Russian(KOI8) language. But in KDE there are strange characters, not russian. I`ve heard that there is some error in Mandrake, how to fix this problem? -- Best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail
Dear Civilme, Thank you for the information. I have the Award Bios. How exactly do I do a low-level format? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:07:25 + civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 23 July 2001 19:30, Marcia L Waller wrote: Dear ALL, Thank you for the advice. I wonder about the possibility of correcting this hard drive problem. Oddly I can get my Northon Utilities 5.00 CD up and I am viewing things but I do not how to use Disk Editor. I am browsing with it but there do not seem to be extensive directions on how to use it. Is there anyway that I can reformat my disk either with Norton or using the HDD low level format in the BIOS? I have a feeling this hard drive is not dead but could have been hit with a virus? Strange characters show up with the boot up messages for hdb drive. I do not care about saving files at this point. I just want to be able to use my computer again and do a fresh install of LM8 again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia Low-level format will either fix the drive or break it totally. But if you have no retrievable data on it, it might extend the life of the drive by a little whiile while you start saving for a new drive. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail
Is there anyway that I can reformat my disk either with Norton or using the HDD low level format in the BIOS? I have a feeling this hard drive is not dead but could have been hit with a virus? Strange characters show up with the boot up messages for hdb drive. I do not care about saving files at this point. I just want to be able to use my computer again and do a fresh install of LM8 again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia I suspect that Civileme and the others are correct and this drive is toasted, but a couple of thoughts come to me to check possibly. Regarding a possible virus, it's possible if it was dual booting windoze, but unlikely if running only MD 8.0. I find that to cause failure to the point your describing even in windoze it would be unlikely. I have however saw the bios spit out some weird machine language before when running systems that are overclocked too far. Are you sure your bios is set right for the processor your running etc. If the onboard clock has not been keeping time correctly this is a hint towards a failing battery. If your battery died or is weak on the motherboard your bios would lose all the settings upon shutdown and a normal boot after would not be likely. The latter was probably a long shot though. The low format utilities are not found in your bios, or at least I've never seen such a thing. I would suggest downloading the utilities offered by the hard drive manufacturer on line. The ones I've used are quite helpful and offer the proper low level format for your drive if necessary. They normally offer to help you make a bootable disk to boot on your floppy drive. The low level format is sometimes called the write test(specifically maxtor), but remember this wipes your drive completely clean and requires a fdisk and normal format afterwards. Sorry I don't know the Linux equivalents. I have had drives testing bad after a low level format test out ok. Depending on why the drive got messed up it might be actually damaged and even though temporarily running right will not last for long. If this happened because of a local power outtage though I'd say the odds are in your favor of a complete permanent recovery. But worst case scenario...new hard drives are a better, cheaper buy then I've ever seen before! Tazmun
Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)
On Monday 23 July 2001 21:18, Terry C wrote: Thanks. I already used the nv_check.sh script and it said that everything was OK. Based on the information I have been seeing I am thinking that I need to try installing the 1251 drivers from the tarball instead of the rpm. Should I uninstall the drivers I installed from the rpm first and then install the tar files? Its worth a try i would say and i would also say NOT to use force and nodeps it naturally wakes up some bad feelings in me and i know its not necessary. Sooner or later something gets messed up if you use the --force option. especially if its about system stuff like drivers etc. TC --- james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i used to get segmentation errors when using OpenGL - it was because i hadnt installed the kernel properly - there is a shell script called nv check which checks if everything is installed ok get it at : http://www.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/nv_check.sh just cd to the dir and type : $ sh nv_check.sh oh year - with rpms you may want to type : $ rpm -i NV_GLX.blahblah.rpm --nodeps --force this will force the install of rpms even if your system says it is already installed - Original Message - From: Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:09 PM Subject: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) I am wondering if I may be able to resolve the segmentation fault errors I am getting trying to run Chromium, or Tuxracer by changing to the nVidia 769 drivers instead of using the 1251 drivers. Has anyone tried this to resolve the seg. fault problems? I have already made sure that I am not using KDM, I have tried booting into run level 3 and using startx, I have tried using gdm. The black screen and seg. fault errors started after I tried to run BZflag and it locked up. No GL games have worked since. Also, what exactly is a segmentation fault? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] USB modem
Hello All, I have USB modem. How I can use it with Linux? -- Best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] stylesheet and pages
civileme wrote: [snip] software, I decided I would use .png and .mng in place of .gif. There is even a little program called gif2png you can search for on the web. I really don't want to support what amounts to a legalized protection racket, run by attorneys. Civileme Çivilemegif2png-2.4.0-1mdk.i586.rpm is in cooker. :) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail
Thank you for your reply. I will try to find how to do the low-level format. If I do need a new hard drive what would be a good and inexpensive one that will handle Linux just fine? Thanks. Marcia On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:48:48 -0500 tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway that I can reformat my disk either with Norton or using the HDD low level format in the BIOS? I have a feeling this hard drive is not dead but could have been hit with a virus? Strange characters show up with the boot up messages for hdb drive. I do not care about saving files at this point. I just want to be able to use my computer again and do a fresh install of LM8 again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia I suspect that Civileme and the others are correct and this drive is toasted, but a couple of thoughts come to me to check possibly. Regarding a possible virus, it's possible if it was dual booting windoze, but unlikely if running only MD 8.0. I find that to cause failure to the point your describing even in windoze it would be unlikely. I have however saw the bios spit out some weird machine language before when running systems that are overclocked too far. Are you sure your bios is set right for the processor your running etc. If the onboard clock has not been keeping time correctly this is a hint towards a failing battery. If your battery died or is weak on the motherboard your bios would lose all the settings upon shutdown and a normal boot after would not be likely. The latter was probably a long shot though. The low format utilities are not found in your bios, or at least I've never seen such a thing. I would suggest downloading the utilities offered by the hard drive manufacturer on line. The ones I've used are quite helpful and offer the proper low level format for your drive if necessary. They normally offer to help you make a bootable disk to boot on your floppy drive. The low level format is sometimes called the write test(specifically maxtor), but remember this wipes your drive completely clean and requires a fdisk and normal format afterwards. Sorry I don't know the Linux equivalents. I have had drives testing bad after a low level format test out ok. Depending on why the drive got messed up it might be actually damaged and even though temporarily running right will not last for long. If this happened because of a local power outtage though I'd say the odds are in your favor of a complete permanent recovery. But worst case scenario...new hard drives are a better, cheaper buy then I've ever seen before! Tazmun
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 and digital camera miniDV ?
Hi i have a firewire card and a sony cam now sony cams are a little more complicated cause they use different encoding (i think) but i got them working now you need to install libraw and i recommend gscanbus to have an eye on your firewire filesystems etc libraw is available from the rpms dir on the mandrake ftp servers. But i have to say that they didnt really work for me rather install from tar ! here are some links : http://ronald.bitfreak.net/ http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ if you hav ethe tars of libraw they will compile into /usr/local you might get some problems with your paths (root doesnt have /usr/local in the path for some reason) here are quick instrucktions how to get libraw and your raw device working if youre impatient but i recommend reading through the links that i gave you cause you have to be prepared for some manuall changes and hacks. gscanbus http://www.ivistar.de/0500opensource.php3?lang=en is a really nice prog where you can control the devices on your firewire ports install that one from tar it will also compile into /usr/local so it will work fine together with the libraw tar. here quick instructions for libraw without this nothing will work Compile libraw1394: cd /where/you/downloaded/libraw1394 tar xvfz libraw1394_0.9.0.tar.gz cd libraw1394-0.9.0 ./configure make make install Create the raw device (/dev/raw1394): make dev Reboot: shutdown -r now After the system reboots, logon and load the modules: modprobe ohci1394 modprobe raw1394 Module dependencies should ensure that the ieee1394 subsytem module installs automatically. If you receive errors about unresolved symbols, then try the following: insmod ieee1394 insmod ohci1394M insmod raw1394 if it works nicely you can add modprobe ohci1394 modprobe raw1394 to your /etc/rc.local file so they will load at each boot If you decide to use the rpms from mandrake and if you have success with that tell me how you did it =) with me the rpm version didnt make the device if i remember right and the modules should be loaded manually the rpm installed but didnt create the device and didnt load the modules i dont know why so i gave up and installed the tar (or did i install the tar first and create the device manually ? i dont remember =)) Anyway happy hacking and dont forget to tell about your sucess this is a rather new unwritten chapter of mandrake hacking =) . Cheers On Saturday 21 July 2001 20:30, =/\\= Majki =/\\= wrote: Hi! I have miniDV digital camera Panasonic NV-DS15. I'd like to download film or photos to computer. Camera has i-link FireWire connector, and I have FireWire controller. In Windows Me I can just plug cable to controller, switch on camera, and Windows automatically shows camera in My Computer and I can take photo from camera. I have also program to editing films downloaded from camera, this program were included in FireWire Controller. Is it possible to do the same in Linux ? Mikolaj
RE: [newbie] Proxy and NAT
I like the discussion, but here's one question that's baffled me: How does the NAT distinguish between sessions with clients who whish to talk to the same port on the same IP ? My Theory: The NAT or the Foreign IP server will issue a unique port number for each session, and the NAT will then reverse-translate the unique ports to the port that the client expects... Just another shot in the wind... -Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 10:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Proxy and NAT Jose (and everyone), Thanks for the response! I may need to digest it a little more, but my first take on the difference is that I need more software on my host (the workstation) to work with a proxy server, and it has to go through the extra step of logging on to my Internet gateway (which, in this case, I guess, would be my proxy server). Are there any practical (i.e., user visible) advantages or disadvantages of a proxy server vs. NAT? Any reason I should consider switching? Maybe one thing comes to mind -- I guess Squid (if I have the right name -- that thing that can cache Internet pages on my local LAN) is a proxy server (or a variation or enhancement of a proxy server), and, I suspect, no one has ever built a NAT gateway with similar caching capabilities? Not that I'd ever try to build one, but if both proxy servers and NAT gateways had caching capabilities, would one be a better choice than the other? Why? Randy Kramer Jose M. Sanchez wrote: For all intents and purposes, MAC addresses have no bearing on NAT or PROXY. Good! You are reasonably close but the devil is in the details... I'm sure -- I was trying to keep it simple for myself. --- Now my question: Can somebody tell me what is different about a proxy server? (In some similar oversimplified but reasonably correct and adequate form) --- A NAT server repackages the protected outbound packets and sends them out to the internet as if originating from the NAT host machine. Proxy on the other hand does NOT requires packets to be repackaged rather the HOST acts as an agent or proxy (hence the term) on your behalf. With a proxy server the addresses used on the protected net are almost unimportant. The client logs in (passive proxies and login-less proxies confuse things a bit) to the proxy on your behalf and submits the request, etc. With NAT the client software can safely assume that your client machine is on the internet. As a result there need be no special PROXY code included in the client. Client software believes the machine to be directly connected to the net with the NAT host as the gateway. With proxy the client software can effectively only contact the internet via the proxy. Seemingly a small difference, but in fact it's a huge difference. -JMS
Re: [newbie] A job using linux?
The idea that someone with a minimal amount of Linux knowledge can easily get a job in the IS industry is generally a myth, sort of like being able to go from a job working in a gas station to earning $70K a year just for attending an MCSE boot camp. (Perhaps before the .com bubble burst it was a possibility, if you didn't mind a 80+ hour a week job in a Silicon Valey startup with $2000/mo rent for a tiny 1 bedroom apartment over an hour commute from work. That is assuming the IPO went well and you cashed in your stock options before the crash...) There are jobs for people with Linux experience, but you will have to know your stuff and be able to prove it. Even so, I haven't seen too many jobs advertised specifically for Linux. However Linux experience can be useful when applying for a Solaris/HPUX/AIX/SCO/etc. position. Ok, so I know linux people (I usually refer to myself as a linux geek...) are supposed to be in incredible demand, and all I hear is that people are just throwing money at people who can install, configure, run etc on the OS. But every time I get into this discussion with someone, I don't have even anectdotal evidence with which to debate them. I mean, I know apache is the most widely used server on the net, but what else (as if that weren't enough)? So, what's the deal? I know more than a few people on the list are employed for use of their vast knowledge of the OS. what do ya say? how do the linux people work in the biz? what do they do? where do they do it? (and with all respect intended) how much do they make???
Re: [newbie] Proxy and NAT
The Cisco PIX firewall does it like this: clientA: 10.0.0.1===(PIX)123.4.5.6:5677Server clientB: 10.0.0.2===(PIX)123.4.5.6:5678Server What I'm trying to say here is that, where there are a limited number of valid Internet addresses available to the outside (Internet) interface of the NAT, then it sends data to the Internet server as if that data was coming from the same IP address but different ports. This is known as Port Address Translation in the Cisco world. So basically the NAT translates two different internal addresses (10.0.0.1/2) into the same external address but with different ports. The difference between this and your suggestion is that it is the NAT box which provides the different port numbers. The Cisco PIX firewall is basically a NAT box with added security features, and this method of doing things does not necessarily apply elsewhere. This scheme cannot be used with streaming protocols, according to Cisco; I've never tried. Chris === Chris Slater-Walker BA(Hons) CCNA CCDA MCSE Cisco, Windows NT, Linux, Samba, DNS French German Spoken === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.slater-walker.net/ == - Original Message - From: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Proxy and NAT TinyHoffman wrote: How does the NAT distinguish between sessions with clients who whish to talk to the same port on the same IP ? My Theory: The NAT or the Foreign IP server will issue a unique port number for each session, and the NAT will then reverse-translate the unique ports to the port that the client expects... I don't know -- suspect it is one of those details that the devil is in ;-) It does seem to work properly -- I've browsed the same sites from adjacent machines, and never seemed to have a problem that I could attribute to the data coming to the (my) wrong client machine. Maybe somebody else can answer your question. regards, Randy Kramer
RE: [newbie] Sound Card and Printers
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alwan Sadagopan Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Card and Printers Hi, A couple of clarifications: 1. Sound Card - When i configure my sound card using sndconfig my sound card gets detected by the utility. It then displays a message that it plays a 8 bit sound for test purposes. The problem occured here - the voice kept on repeating and the system hung with keyboard and mouse both not responding. --- Classic IRQ problem. You could try modifying the PNP settings as suggested, but I'll bet that the IRQ is being shared with other PCI devices because it's hard wired on the motherboard to other PCI slots... (as all motherboards do to an extent folks...). You should first try moving the sound card to another slot and see if this helps. --- 2. Printer - How do i configure printers? All the printers in my office are a part of a domain in a Win NT network. How do i configure for these printers. -- You'll need to set up SAMBA on your computer and configure your machine to part of the same Domain. Once you can get SMBCLIENT to browse the shares, you will be able to attach to the printers as remote devices. When configuring Samba, remember to point it to the PDC for the browse lists, password controller, etc. You should then make sure that you have an account on the domain with the same username and password as that you use in Linux so that credentials may be exchanged. -JMS
Re: [newbie] Linksys Cable/DSL Router
For those with DNS problems: Try the following DNS adresses in this particular order: 208.179.42.162 204.107.129.2 12.28.140.20 Put it in /etc/resolv.conf and/or in KPPP's DNS setup. I've put it in both. Then try this adress: http://www.bbc.news/ or http://www.atlantic.ocean Curious? Go to http://www.youcann.orgopposite of the ICANN. Gerard
Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail
Hi Marcia I agree with Tazmun, you need to go the the drive manufacturers website and download the utility made specifically for your drive to do the low-level format. However, I would also search the manufacturer's site for a drive-testing utility and run the diagnostics test first. The test should tell you whether or not the drive is kaput and if so, as a last resort perfom the low-level format. As Civileme pointed out, low-level formats can totally finish off the drive. Good luck skinky - Original Message - From: tazmun [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip probably a long shot though. The low format utilities are not found in your bios, or at least I've never seen such a thing. I would suggest downloading the utilities offered by the hard drive manufacturer on line. The ones I've used are quite helpful and offer the proper low level format for your drive if necessary. They normally offer to help you make a bootable disk to boot on your floppy drive. The low level format is sometimes called the write test(specifically maxtor), but remember this wipes your drive completely clean and requires a fdisk and normal format afterwards. Sorry I don't know the Linux equivalents. I have had drives testing bad after a low level format test out ok. Depending on why the Tazmun _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 and digital camera miniDV ?
btw. if you want to download an avistream from your cam use dvgrab its a comandline tool you use it like : dvgrab test.avi and it will save the actual playing stream into the file test.avi nice tool but you dont see whats comming you can only whatch the resulting file with an apropriate movie player. The problem is actually not the support of the dv or firewire hardware (like in windows lol it took me ages to get firewire working with my sonycam under windows win98 doesnt work at all win2k works sluggish with almmost allthetime hardware related crashes etc. finally win98SE worked ) no the problem with linux and firewire is the lack of good capturing and editing software sad to say. But many devellopers work a lot on those pieces of software and we can hope for the near future that good and capable software comes out into public. Cheers On Monday 23 July 2001 22:19, Kernell32 wrote: Hi i have a firewire card and a sony cam now sony cams are a little more complicated cause they use different encoding (i think) but i got them working now you need to install libraw and i recommend gscanbus to have an eye on your firewire filesystems etc libraw is available from the rpms dir on the mandrake ftp servers. But i have to say that they didnt really work for me rather install from tar ! here are some links : http://ronald.bitfreak.net/ http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ if you hav ethe tars of libraw they will compile into /usr/local you might get some problems with your paths (root doesnt have /usr/local in the path for some reason) here are quick instrucktions how to get libraw and your raw device working if youre impatient but i recommend reading through the links that i gave you cause you have to be prepared for some manuall changes and hacks. gscanbus http://www.ivistar.de/0500opensource.php3?lang=en is a really nice prog where you can control the devices on your firewire ports install that one from tar it will also compile into /usr/local so it will work fine together with the libraw tar. here quick instructions for libraw without this nothing will work Compile libraw1394: cd /where/you/downloaded/libraw1394 tar xvfz libraw1394_0.9.0.tar.gz cd libraw1394-0.9.0 ./configure make make install Create the raw device (/dev/raw1394): make dev Reboot: shutdown -r now After the system reboots, logon and load the modules: modprobe ohci1394 modprobe raw1394 Module dependencies should ensure that the ieee1394 subsytem module installs automatically. If you receive errors about unresolved symbols, then try the following: insmod ieee1394 insmod ohci1394M insmod raw1394 if it works nicely you can add modprobe ohci1394 modprobe raw1394 to your /etc/rc.local file so they will load at each boot If you decide to use the rpms from mandrake and if you have success with that tell me how you did it =) with me the rpm version didnt make the device if i remember right and the modules should be loaded manually the rpm installed but didnt create the device and didnt load the modules i dont know why so i gave up and installed the tar (or did i install the tar first and create the device manually ? i dont remember =)) Anyway happy hacking and dont forget to tell about your sucess this is a rather new unwritten chapter of mandrake hacking =) . Cheers On Saturday 21 July 2001 20:30, =/\\= Majki =/\\= wrote: Hi! I have miniDV digital camera Panasonic NV-DS15. I'd like to download film or photos to computer. Camera has i-link FireWire connector, and I have FireWire controller. In Windows Me I can just plug cable to controller, switch on camera, and Windows automatically shows camera in My Computer and I can take photo from camera. I have also program to editing films downloaded from camera, this program were included in FireWire Controller. Is it possible to do the same in Linux ? Mikolaj
[newbie] How do I create a new user without logging in?
Help, I have forgoten my old password for my linux mandrake 7.1 and I can't log on. Is there anyway to make a new user without logging in. I have used partition magic to partition my harddrive. Can I create a new user from windows? I have checked all my manuals and the internet and I can not figure this out. Thanks. Eric
[newbie] MPlayer install: NCurses problem
I am trying install mplayer-0.17-1.20010501.i686.rpm. It needs some files because dependencies, one of them (libtinfo.so.5) #rpm -i mplayer-0.17-1.20010501.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies: libtinfo.so.5 is needed by mplayer-0.17-1.20010501 I could find it into ncurses-5.2-4.i686.rpm in rpmfind.net. But when I try to install it says that is installed a newer version 5.2-12mdk. #rpm -i ncurses-5.2-4.i686.rpm package ncurses-5.2-12mdk (which is newer than ncurses-5.2-4) is already installed file /lib/libncurses.so.5.2 from install of ncurses-5.2-4 conflicts with file from package libncurses5-5.2-12mdk file /usr/bin/clear from install of ncurses-5.2-4 conflicts with file from package ncurses-5.2-12mdk --here will continue the long list of conflicts-- I can't erase newer version and install old one because dependencies. #rpm -e ncurses error: removing these packages would break dependencies: ncurses is needed by libncurses5-5.2-12mdk ncurses is needed by perl-Curses-1.05-2mdk Any ideas to get mplayer installed successfully? TIA -- Juan Carlos Conde e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valladolid (Spain)Running Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux Registered User: 219425 - http://counter.li.org/ __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail
- Original Message - SNIP hours at least usually. I had one maxtor drive that I tried to convert back to fat after running ext2 filesystem and it just wouldn't properly run format, fdisk until after I did the low levelthat was a couple of years ago and the drive is still in service and nevered erred since. Best of luck Tazmun Tazmun, I recently had the same problem.Dos kept reporting bad sectors and eventually said it couldn't read from the disk. Just thought others might be interested to know that a boot/partition manager that I was using at the time (BootIt Next Generation), easily recognised the ext2 filesystem and just as easily converted it to FAT32. I *was* about to do a low-level format g. Also, some might be interested to know that BootIt NG can copy entire partitions/drives to CD-RW (or other partition/drive) as an image file which can be restored any time. Although I must say, that I haven't tried it with Linux YET (it works with Win98). It handled resizing ext2 and swap partitions without any problems and supports Reiser. Just some useless information (as if you don't have enough email to read) :-) Cheers skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Proxy and NAT
The Cisco PIX firewall does it like this: clientA: 10.0.0.1===(PIX)123.4.5.6:5677Server clientB: 10.0.0.2===(PIX)123.4.5.6:5678Server Gotcha, the NAT is responcible for port allocation... This scheme cannot be used with streaming protocols, according to Cisco; I've never tried. Hmm... I'll have to see if I can get the NAT/PAT on my LAN to ship streaming audio... that's a good question. As UDPs cary Port numbers, just as TCPs, I don't know why not... though I am certain someone will edumacate me... Thanks for your time... Chris === Chris Slater-Walker BA(Hons) CCNA CCDA MCSE Cisco, Windows NT, Linux, Samba, DNS - Chris TinyHoffman wrote: How does the NAT distinguish between sessions with clients who whish to talk to the same port on the same IP ? My Theory: The NAT or the Foreign IP server will issue a unique port number for each session, and the NAT will then reverse-translate the unique ports to the port that the client expects... I don't know -- suspect it is one of those details that the devil is in ;-) It does seem to work properly -- I've browsed the same sites from adjacent machines, and never seemed to have a problem that I could attribute to the data coming to the (my) wrong client machine. Maybe somebody else can answer your question. regards, Randy Kramer
[newbie] X won't start default font fixed
Hi I got home from work today and turned my computer on, and was confronted by the error message could not open default font path unix/:1 Fatal server error: could not open default font fixed and X would not start. I have been told that one way to fix this problem, at least temporarily, is to comment out the FontPath unix/:-1 line in /etc/X11/Xf86Config. However I have not been able to access the file from the command line. Pico is not not installed. I think I have opened vim from the command line but have no idea how to use it. Is there anothe editor I could use that doesn't run on X that is likely to be installed on my system? Does anyone know of any other solutions? Is this something that could be fixed from the failsafe option from Lilo? I have never used that either. Thanks, SW
[newbie] Sony vaio F701/X problems/go to NT?
Send below message a few days ago but have had no response. Just sending it again because if I cant get X working on my computer I am going to have to go for NT instead (I even tried Redhat 7 but no luck). I am trying to get a sony vaio f701 working with X. I have tried using Xconfigurator but using the NeoMagic drivers the best I can get is a corrupted screen at 640*480 using 8 bit. Anyone got this laptop working? Regards, ben *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ * Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44 (0)7970 269 522 * * Campaign Against proper English, Dyslexia division * * Homepagehttp://www.gifford.co.uk/~bedwards * * i-Contact Progressive Videohttp://www.videonetwork.org * * Smashing the Corporate image http://www.subvertise.org * * Bristol's radical newshttp://www.bristle.co.uk * * Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org * *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems
s wrote: I been using if for months. The lastest vs. (.17) was so easy too. I've been reading about others having trouble, but it was da...da... da: movies for me. I've run out of ideas to assist these individuals with their problems, they seemed to have done what they were supposed to do So basically, yes, it's possible - even easy. I have a basic 8.0 developer's install (I haven't upgraded/updated anything), using whatever compiler the installer put on there (gcc-2.96-0.48mdk, that has begun to be doubted on the ng). People have been making things worse for themselves trying to upgrade that to 3.0. I don't know, there are so many variables in computer systems. It's always hard (in varying degrees) to figure out why something works for one but not another. -s On Sunday 22 July 2001 05:17 pm, you wrote: Hi all, Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility Can you point me to the download that you were using. I might have better luck than the laatest version I've been trying to configure. Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
[newbie] New user
Thanks for your help Alan. One problem though. I can't figure it out.This is it from the start.I boot/restart my machine.It logs into DOS and I have a couple options: Linux, Windows, and others.I hit enter on Linux and then it starts scrolling telling me what things arebeing started up, at the end of each line an [ ok ] is placed so I knowthat it booted up ok.Like this:.[ OK ].[ OK ].[ OK ].[ OK ].[ OK ].[ OK ]then it loads onto the logon screen that isn't graphical.I havelogon:password:but it only gives me like 2 seconds before it goes to the graphical menu.I tried hitting escape on the logon: password: area but it gives me some ^]or something like that. and nothing happens.I tried hitting escape in the graphical menu but nothing worked. I alsotried inputing that text into the graphical display boxes as well.I really am sort of screwed over here, and I really don't want to reinstallLinux. Is there any more help you can offer?Eric- Original Message -From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:27 PMSubject: Re: [newbie] How do I create a new user without logging in? Eric wrote: Help, I have forgoten my old password for my linux mandrake 7.1 and I can't log on. Is there anyway to make a new user without logging in. I have used partition magic to partition my harddrive. Can I create a new user from windows? I have checked all my manuals and the internet and I can not figure this out. Thanks. Eric Ericwhen the boot screen (lilo) comes up press the esc key and at the prompt type: linux single You will boot into level 1 and have root privleges. Now type: passwd and you'll be prompted for a new password and then asked to type it again. Log out and reboot. When the boot screen (lilo) comes up press the esc key and at the prompt type: linux init 3 You'll boot into the regular console mode where you need to login as root. Then type: passwd your login name and you'll be prompted for a new password foruser our login name and then asked to type it again. Log out and reboot. Your system will boot normally and your login name (you) and root will have the new passwords. :) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems
Dan Ray wrote: Roman-- Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? I had a couple of problems, which I fixed, and then it configured and installed great. Say more about is not configuring. The more descriptive you can be about your problem, the better a solution people can offer (and if your initial email is descriptive enough, we can usually skip this whole it worked for me say more about email entirely). Two unusual things I had to do: ./configure --no-gcc-checking (I think! Read './configure --help' and see what it says about gcc version checking!) install nasm from RPM (at rpmfind or, I'm told, on the CDs) So I'm guessing you haven't done one or the other of those things. --Dan I think I missed ./configure --no-gcc-checking and nasm. I'll get back with additional information about my status. Thanks. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] NOW: philosophy of the Newby book
John Rigby wrote: Roman, Have you looked at TWIKI? I am trying to find time to do it, but I actually have to make a living unlike all you rich guys who have all day to play with exotic programs :-) http://www.twiki.org It looks like a great collaboration solution and I am planning to get it up on the fablor Site a.s.a.p. Many hands make heavy work light Cheers, John On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:27, you manipulated electrons to produce: Hi John, No problem. The K.I.S.S approach is the best. I have a pleasant feeling this will turn into fine book for first time users of Mandrake only distros. We should find additional people that would like to contribute and divide up the work. What are your thoughts? -- Cheers, John Fablor now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-) Rich guys? I wish. Hey, I have to put in 12 -14 hours a day. Is there a download for the program? BTW I'm checking out TWIKI. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] New user
At 07:17 PM 07/23/2001 -0600, Eric wrote: Thanks for your help Alan. One problem though. I can't figure it out. This is it from the start. I boot/restart my machine. It logs into DOS and I have a couple options: Linux, Windows, and others. Ok...are you using lnx4win, or an actual full linux install? If you are using lnx4win -- I've not used it, so I can't help with your problem. On the other hand, if you are booting into linux (as opposed to into windows, and then running linux from within windows), here are the steps to fix your problem: 1. At the LILO prompt type in 'linux single' and press enter. 2. This will boot you into linux single user mode. You will be logged in as root (without giving the root password). 3. Type 'passwd', then type in your new password twice. 4. Type 'shutdown -r now'. 5. After it reboots, log in as root, and do an 'rpm -q sudo' from the command line (either from an xterm, or via TTY1-6 (CTRL-ALT-[F1 - F6]). 6. If it is installed, type visudo from the command line (or edit the /etc/sudoers file). 7. Add your user name (if you have a user other than root), so that if you forget the root password again, you can do 'sudo su -' and type in your user's password) Also, please try not to post 'HTMLized' e-mail to the list -- many e-mail clients display all kinds of extra html tags, make the font grayish (instead of black), or make it smaller (making it that much more difficult to read). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail
yep absolutly correct and the bad battery will cause the bios to lose it's settings as to what and where the hard drive is On Monday 23 July 2001 17:15, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: This message is -NOT- caused by a virus! It is caused by the drive's own seek mechanism being unable to recalibrate and locate the first track and sector at a low level. This is not the same as corrupted a boot sector which a virus can cause. You can have a corrupt boot sector track yet the drive will not issue the hard disk fail error message. Rather the system will hang or fail to boot. Low level formatting (which it is NOT!) merely re-initializes the data in the sectors on an ide drive while checking for bad spots. Unlike older MFM drives, this is performed at a much higher level than IDE. For the most part, unless you have a special hardware device which can lay down the timing marks, you cannot really low level format an IDE drive, even via the bios. One thing though. If something screwed up the settings on your BIOS, you may get this error, even though the drive is fine. This is because the BIOS is being told to look for the first track somewhere it's not. Check that the settings are set to how they used to be, or for AUTO detection of the drive and AUTO for block mode. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marcia L Waller Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail Dear ALL, Thank you for the advice. I wonder about the possibility of correcting this hard drive problem. Oddly I can get my Northon Utilities 5.00 CD up and I am viewing things but I do not how to use Disk Editor. I am browsing with it but there do not seem to be extensive directions on how to use it. Is there anyway that I can reformat my disk either with Norton or using the HDD low level format in the BIOS? I have a feeling this hard drive is not dead but could have been hit with a virus? Strange characters show up with the boot up messages for hdb drive. I do not care about saving files at this point. I just want to be able to use my computer again and do a fresh install of LM8 again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux
I got this response a while ago, maybe May or so. I still haven't seen anything. Mr. , Maximum Linux did cease publication with the April issue. We will be offering a replacement magazine and will have the details finalized soon and inform our subscribers. It is taking longer than anticipated, we closed 6 titles at the same time. If you would prefer a refund now, please call us toll free at 1-877-995-4689. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kathleen Gifford) On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: last i heard, they we going to change the subscription to another mag. but i never got anything, and last time i tried, the website is down. so we can't even ask. if ya ask me, i think we won't see anything done with our subscriptions. Joe Content-Type: text/html; name=unnamed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -- *** fairlane at voyager dot net www.geocities.com/dieseltempo ***
Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems
On Monday 23 July 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: s wrote: I been using if for months. The lastest vs. (.17) was so easy too. I've been reading about others having trouble, but it was da...da... da: movies for me. I've run out of ideas to assist these individuals with their problems, they seemed to have done what they were supposed to do So basically, yes, it's possible - even easy. I have a basic 8.0 developer's install (I haven't upgraded/updated anything), using whatever compiler the installer put on there (gcc-2.96-0.48mdk, that has begun to be doubted on the ng). People have been making things worse for themselves trying to upgrade that to 3.0. I don't know, there are so many variables in computer systems. It's always hard (in varying degrees) to figure out why something works for one but not another. -s On Sunday 22 July 2001 05:17 pm, you wrote: Hi all, Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility Can you point me to the download that you were using. I might have better luck than the laatest version I've been trying to configure. Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey Well, last reinstall, I apparently didn't save download from the first version I had been using, so this last time I used MPlayer-0.17a_IdegCounter.tar.bz2 from http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/homepage/dload.html And it was so much easier. I can't remember many of the details, but it was quite a pain (alot of configuring, and editing scripts, cp, ln, and such) to get the older version to work. This version just unzip win32codec, ./configure, make, make install. cp MPlayer-0.17a_IdegCounter/DOCS/codecs.conf ~/.mplayer/ and that was it. -s
[newbie] Mdk8 and PATH environment variable problems !
Hi folks. First of all, excuse me for my poor English. I have 2 mdk-8 linuxes box : 1 on my notebook and 2 on a desktop pc. I have had serious problems to define an alteration on a PATH variable to my desktop box. On my notebook all works fine. I had altered the /etc/rc.local file to accomodate a PATH=$PATH:/newdir and export PATH new commands and some services and shells (terminals) works fine. Acting by analogy, I do the same alteration on the desktop box and I did not have same success. In which file can I put a new PATH definition in manner that I have the new value of it in a global view ? I have to advise you that the only difference on those instalations are : notebook = home/office desktop = server I have experienced others things too. Alter the /etc/profile, /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions with the same failure. I used a mechanism of tracing the value of the PATH, placing echo $PATH /opt/foo_file_N in the beginning and end of each script file and perceived that my update was persisted thru the rc.local and the profile but some another script file had modified the PATH for a value that did not contain what I wanted. I saw that some scripts call the functions one and in that I saw a PATH definition PATH=... command line. By this I put my modification in it, but gain another failure. (after each script modification I reboot the box) Anybody has any clue ? The server instalation is so diffent from home one ? Thanks in advance, Marcos Nobre
[newbie] Help me with Software Manager
I have faced some problems with this feature (software). First of all it seems that I don't know how to use it. When I tried to update some packages I did : 1-Define Sources 1.1-New 1.1.1-Type of source = security updates 1.1.2-New source's name = XYZ 1.1.3-Select mirror (but before I update the mirror list) 1.1.4-Pressed OK 1.2-Pressed OK (to confirm the new source selected) 2-Reload Lists (*) (*) At this point my troubles began Tracking the troubles . Into the Define Sources windows already exists 2 entries : CD-1 Instalation. and CD-2 bla-foo-bla. Both of them were already marked. After adding the new source (mirror) it becames marked too. FIRST PROBLEM : When I call Reload Lists function the application only re-reads the CDs sources It never reads from the URL (new added source - mirror) that I have pointed. By this reason I delete both CD's entries and the feature worked fine. Where the CD1 and CD2 lists were persisted in the HD ? How can I rebuild the Source Lists using CD1 and CD2 lists ? SECOND PROBLEM : What can I do to keep a multi-list (CD1 + CD2 + URL1 +URL2...) filled and persisted ? I only need to choose one of them to Reload a List of Packages to update. I believe it is enough. The software manager don't runs like this. TIA Marcos Nobre.
Re: [newbie] RPMS - tarballs --- Can it be done ?
IIRC (haven't tried it in a while), if you try to install a .src.rpm file as if it were a binary .rpm (rpm -ivh file.rpm), it will extract to the directories under /usr/src/RPM. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: Is it possible to somehow strip an RPM of the deps info etc and make a tarball from it? I have no immediate need to do this but it might be handy to know how to do it should the need arise. I'm sure someone will come up with a better idea, but Midnight Commander (just type mc in a console) will dig into rpm files as if they were directories. You could use it to copy the contents elsewhere, then make the tarball from there. -- 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] Can't Print Anymore???
Hi there, Well I had my Lexmark 3200 working for a day but now today I tried to print out something and now it won't work at all, even if I'm logged under root or any of my other users: The URL that I followed the instructions on how to get it working are here: http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html I followed up to step 4 and then it worked, but today it doesn't, I tried up to step 6 to get it working to no avail. FYI I made the PPD file named: Lexmark-3200-lxm3200.ppd and it is located in my /usr/lib/cups/filter/ folder, as well, I made the file cupsomatic and put it in this folder: /usr/lib/cups/filter/ Lastly, I even tried deleting the printer and reinstalling it and it still did not work, I tried both as root and as a other users. Any help is appreciated. TIA Curtis _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Boot managers
Hello Steve, You must be new here! Have a read of the archives - esp anything with my name in it. On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 01:47, you manipulated electrons to produce: Um are you allowed to use this list for reference material for what I assume is a commerical book? -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
[newbie] qwest.net and dsl lan setup question
Hi all, I am so happy--- just configured my very first network! (Other than AS400 stuff) I am definatley a newbie when it comes to networks so please forgive me if this seems like a silly question.. I have just connected to the internet using my linux mandrake 7.2 box.. and set it up to share the connection made with the internal us robotics 56k modem it has in it. I successfully connected with my box to the 3 com hub with my 3 com ethernet card.. I also connected to my hub with a laptop running win98 with a pcmcia ethernet cardand i can connect thru the Mandrake box.and surf the net. with the laptop and the linux box...wow.this is so cool(If you can't tell I am having a lot of fun right now! :) ANYWAYhere is my question...(finally--sorry for the long story.. but I was just really happy!) I am in the process of getting QWEST.net dsland was wondering if the mandrake box could work the same way it is now with the 56k modem? I am sure that the modem I will get from qwest will be a pci type... (will it work?) or do I have to get an external dsl modem for this? Mandrake was definately easy to set up for internet sharing.. I just hope it is as easy to use dsl as it was the 56k modem. This is going to end up as a basic 4 computer home network sharing 1 dsl line through a 3com hub(If that makes more sense) Any ideas / suggestion / comments / internet links / recommended reading... will be read with great appreciation! Thanks, -- Dave Registered LInux User #204085 M$ is not the answer. M$ is the question. The answer is Linux !
[newbie] Getting the basics going
Hi folks, I went and put my 2 cents worth on the Forum: How to move mandrake along.. hot subject, eh? In catching up with the support pleas here, I've noticed a distinct non-recognition by people of their own status! Some of the self-proclaimed Newbies only talk in acronyms and I can't even read their question, much less see an answer! :-) Please REAL Newbies, pass on to me the gotchas that baffled you when you tried to start up - no matter how simple they seem when looking back! How did you fix it? I hope to get a subsidiary Site up soon with a collaboration program to make it easy. So here I am back in Nursery Class: 1. I get pointed to all sorts of things, but the destructions might just as well be in Yuvan ( obscure Central Asian Dialect) . 2. I want to use the GUI wherever possible - especially as I expect to have to teach a lot of TOTALLY NEW (Nursery-level) people how to drive Mandrake, through another project I'm on. -- Growth will not be possible in any meaningful way while Mandrake tries to be all things to all people in one Distro family. Just like on this list. We go from Newbies, only trying to install a complex network to run an international Bank/Gambling centre - to me. Just trying to get on the Net, write a letter, dictate a memo/karioke(?) back up a dir, play with some html design. We really do need a Nursery Distro: VERY limited in options, designed only to include proven programs to: 1. Hit the Net 2. Write a Letter. 3. Play some music 4. Do the Home Accounts 5. Auto upgrade/official install program THAT's ALL - AND NO MENTION OF COMMAND LINE ANYTHINGS! ( A big thing is a current list of known compatible bits/drivers) Thank heavens we have so many people on here from the experts who talk in code to the fellow starters who willingly put in their personal experiences. THANK YOU! By the time *I* get my Mandrake up and going, we should have a nice little E-book ready for the next lot. Just in time to become irrelevant due to *all* the fixes in the next one.. :-} MY OWN LIST OF KNOWN PROBLEMS 1. Cannot get my ALS4000 Sound Card to go. ( M8 Even identified it) No help on the Avance Site. 2. Cannot get my new Linux Ready Lexmark Z32 Printer to work properly with Star. Cannot get it to accept new drivers./new printer. 3. Cannot figure out how to operate CDRW Writer! ( M8 knows it's there, but I'm only allowed one CD - I have 2, both identified) 4. Star Office - seems potentially great. Lousy basic fonts, won't upgrade/use my Windows ones. ( Did get complex info on converting them - but would be way beyond a normal nursery level user) 5. Scanner. Canoscan N340P. Even have a the info from the Net on a fix. Have no idea what the destructions really mean. 6. Frustrating Utilities. Like KDE Search weirdo. Docs not outsider friendly. 7. Crashing of supplied programs like SCREEM - makes a real mess. GOOD THINGS: __ 1. Much faster Modemming. 2. No Dozing off (BSOD) 3. Dead simple install - EXCEPT default is for Server too.. 4. Gnome put all the Windoze Drives on the Desktop - complete with icons! 5. Terrific friendly support. No flaming by smartass one-step-in-fronters. -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] Getting the basics going
3. Cannot figure out how to operate CDRW Writer! ( M8 knows it's there, but I'm only allowed one CD - I have 2, both identified) Hi John, Linux treats CD-writers as SCSI devices. Since most modern CD-RW's are IDE, there's some work to be done. (MDK 8 did it all by itself for me though.) This is a multi-stage rocket, but simple steps they are. First identify the device that the CDRW is on. /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc etc. hdb: slave on first IDE controller, hdc: master on second IDE. Then there is hdX=scsi-ide. in Lilo (if you use that) you put that in the append line: append=hdX=scsi-ide Run lilo -v and reboot. The X stands for the proper letter of the drive. In Grub (/boot/grub/menu.lst) you have to add that to each kernel-line. Save the file and reboot. If you have no other SCSI devices, you should now be able to do ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/scd0 which links the cdrom to the first SCSI device. (Unix starts counting at 0.) Now, when you type cdrecord --scanbus cdrecord should show your cd-rw as scsi-device. And this means you can go and burn! Good luck! Paul
[newbie] Alternatives help like Win4Lin?
Hi folks, This may seem like blasphemy, but might also be a sane solution for those who try it and it just won't go... It appears I can either: 1. Spend untold time hoping for a fix ( a week spent looking so far!) 2. Buy a lot of new stuff ( what do I do with the old?) 3. Quit and go back ( not an option!! :-) ) 4. Compromise... Win4Lin or VM or WINE or XP86 whatever it is. The most logical move financially and timewise seems Win4Lin or similar. Anyone with handson experience of any of the above I would appreciate your help. WINE is free. Can't get any sense out of it as far as applications etc go - except I just found that it is what runs Websphere on Linux!! ( I have it) Have no idea how to test it or run progs under it. XP86/BOSH . Not able to comprehend it either, Civileme says it has promise, but I could not find out anything usable about it on its Site. Also Free. No idea how to run/test it either VM is dearest by miles. Not sure of this one - seems to be similar in CPU demand to Windoze . Win4Lin is around $80. Seems to be a simple gui install.Claims to do everything one could need - IF stuck with Windows apps. I apparently am. I NEED Voice Dictation. Am going nutz fighting M8 without it now. M8 wont talk to my Sound. I NEED either FrontPage 2000 or the Windoze version of Websphere at least. - the Linux/wine version is too cut down and painfully slow. The GNU ones are too stripped down no extras. I NEED decent onscreen fonts - I work loong hours on the screen. I NEED GOOD printer output. I NEED a Scanner -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] Konqueror
Jamie, Take a look at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/BrowserFormattingIssues -- it won't answer all your questions, it might not even answer any of the questions you've asked so far, but it may provide some useful information. Randy Kramer Adams, Jamie wrote: Getting to the point, my question is how does Konqueror render pages in comparison with IE? I do not have any windows boxes anymore (yeehaa!), are the font sizes similar? etc?
Re: [newbie] New column
On Monday 23 July 2001 00:18, Randy Donohoe wrote: I'm writing to ask your help in evaluating a column I'm considering submitting to some sites and newspapers. The column is called The Curve, and is basically a tutorial on Linux for the raw beginner. Randy, meet John Rigby. John, meet Randy. You two have a lot to talk about. There's help for the beginner out there now, but it's so fragmented it's frustrating at best. But how does producing yet another resource reduce fragmentation? Not meant as a flame, really, but I see that as a contradiction. If fragmentation is your primary concern why not rather pick an existing resource and throw your weight behind it? If you don't live near a college that teaches Linux, have friends running it, or have a LUG in your area the learning curve is a nasty one. I picked these lists because I've belonged to all of them in my whole eight months of Linux usage, consider them fair, and are a more serious forum than the chat rooms. hehe I know some of you could care less if the community attracts the mainstream, but due to attrition and stagnation it's a necessity, and besides, maybe other people like me, who live in the middle of nowhere, would like some fellow users to commiserate with. So what's the idea with this? You want a quick lit-crit on it? Can do, but don't take it as a flame, OK? The Curve by Randy Donohoe A Beginner's Guide To Linux Proficiency The Curve is a roadmap for learning the Linux operating system by use of the information superhighway. Brrr - I thought that horrible cliche had died already. If you've wanted to try Linux , but don't have a college or university nearby, a friend using it, or a local Linux users' group, here's your reasonably assured of success chance. The column will be,for the most part, lineal, although I reserve the right to digress at times. I will try to keep it a little on the light side, with some humor thrown in like a grenade here and there, so it won't be like eating cotton balls. The writing will be as non-technical as possible with respect to a computer operating system, and where technical I'll explain profoundly. Each week will deal with the next progressive step(IMHO) and I will assume you'll deal with each in the correct order. Everything necessary to learn and use Linux is on the internet, although not in a cohesive unit. My experience is very limited but by using the internet I've went from Windows to being able to setup, run, maintain, compile kernels(the Holy Grail), switch hardware, and perform most everyday tasks with Linux. If, through inexperience, I drag you through gravel, mud, and broken glass, I'm counting on the gurus out there to get us back on the paved road and tell me what other professions I also wouldn't be suitable for. Copy-editing? Actually it isn't that bad, but try to use shorter paragraphs. This one could easily have been split up at Each week This first installment will consist mostly of background you'll need to get started. If you're of reasonable intelligence, aren't terrified of your computer, and want to give Linux a try, let's go. I won't bore you with the history of Linux as I'll assume most people have some knowledge of it if they're interested enough to try it, but it's a pretty good story of a young, unintentional dragonslayer if you get a chance to read about it. What I will bore you with is a little of the politics of the movement. Microsoft is considered to be the antithesis of the Linux movement by a great majority of that movement. I would love to see someone sing the praises of Linux while ignoring the Evil Empire completely. For long enough have we defined ourselves as the non-Microsoft. The time has come to pretend that MS doesn't exist, to simply ignore it to death. I know it seems incredible to us, but most people out there *admire* Bill Gates and can't see what Microsoft has done wrong to be broken up by the government. If you are simply going to blast Microsoft, half your audience will turn the page or click away from your article. Remember, you're not preaching for the converted now! Linux and it's applications are generally free, although a lot of the users believe in buying the CD's from the companies to help with development costs and a lot don't mind buying applications if they fill a niche. You can download most distibutions for free over the internet if you have a big enough pipeline You said that you are going to submit this to both sites and newspapers. How raw are your newbies, then? Ex-windows or first-ever computer? The latter group (and even some of the former) might not understand that a big pipeline is a metaphorical expression. Make that a fast connection instead. First rule of creative writing: define your audience! But: keep pushing free beer as much as possible. and whether you
