Re: [newbie-it] Integrazione blocco cdrom e floppy
Marco wrote: Ad integrazione del messaggio precedente: Il blocco si è verificato da quando ho cercato di avviare rpminst da software manager. Se provo a digitare mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ( o equiv. x floppy) la periferica da timidi segnali di vita per qualche secondo e poi si pianta tutto. Ho notato, tra le altre cose, un segnale di CODEC 97 ... credo legato alla scheda audio che devo ancora configurare (a proposito qualcuno sa dove sta e come si chiama il file di configurazione audio?) ... può essere legato al blocco delle due periferiche? Elimina anche (soprattutto per configurare l'audio) il supporto per pnp nel bios. Qualcosa del tipo SO che supportano pnp. A win non serve a con Linux a volte genera casini. Eliminandolo io sono riuscito a configurare al volo la scheda audio (drakxconf) e a risolvere uno strano problema: installavo mndk-8.0 con i CD caserecci o da rivista, ma non con quelli ufficiali :-? ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Integrazione blocco cdrom e floppy
Grazie per i consigli, tra laltro avevo nel frattempo letto quei messaggi proprio dagli archivi che hai citato ma non avevano nulla a che fare col mio problema. Stasera (ora sono al lavoro e non ho linux) proverò a disabilitare kudzu anche se non lancio aurora al boot e i dispositivi cdrom e floppy non sono persi (vengono rilevati al boot) semplicemente (pur non essendo un problema di diritti) non riesco ad accedervi (es. cd /mnt/cdrom mi pianta tutto se invece digito mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom la luce del cdrom si accende, il cd gira ma dopo 2 secondi si pianta tutto) . . . spero di risolvere senza dover reinstallare tutto :-( Ciao Marco Marco wrote: Ad integrazione del messaggio precedente: Il blocco si è verificato da quando ho cercato di avviare rpminst da software manager. Se provo a digitare mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ( o equiv. x floppy) la periferica da timidi segnali di vita per qualche secondo e poi si pianta tutto. Ho notato, tra le altre cose, un segnale di CODEC 97 ... credo legato alla scheda audio che devo ancora configurare (a proposito qualcuno sa dove sta e come si chiama il file di configurazione audio?) ... può essere legato al blocco delle due periferiche? Elimina anche (soprattutto per configurare l'audio) il supporto per pnp nel bios. Qualcosa del tipo SO che supportano pnp. A win non serve a con Linux a volte genera casini. Eliminandolo io sono riuscito a configurare al volo la scheda audio (drakxconf) e a risolvere uno strano problema: installavo mndk-8.0 con i CD caserecci o da rivista, ma non con quelli ufficiali :-? ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Corel draw per Linux
--- Alberto Zanoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao, qualcuno sa di un'applicazione usabile per vedere /scrivere/modificare file prodotti da Corel Draw ? Teoricamente ci sarebbe CorelDraw per Linux che, stranamente, e` in vendita solo in Nord America. Prova con gimp ciao, Andrea Ciao, e grazie per la risposta. Il file ha l'estensione .cdr. Con gimp, ahimè, non c'é speranza. Proverò magari a vedere su Internet se ci sia qualcosa... Se qualcun altro ha qualche idea, sia il benvenuto. Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ho visto che sul sito della Corel c'e' Corel Photo Paint, che e' liberamente scaricabile. ...Pero' non so se supporti il tipo di file che serve a te... Un'altra soluzione (se tu hai comunque una versione del Corel Drow per Windows), potrebbe essere quella di eseguirlo sotto Wine... che alla fine corrisponde a quello che ti offrono loro: il porting del Corel Drow per Linux in realta' e' in emulazione sotto Wine. Ciao Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] Iptables non va......
Salve, ho mandrake 8 con iptable 1.2.2-3.1 scaricato dagli aggiornamenti sulla sicurezza. Se digito iptable -L dovrei vedere lo stato invece esce questo messaggio di errore: iptables v1.2.2: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong version Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. Ho provato a disistallare il pacchetto e relativo aggiornamento e ristallarlo di nuovo...niente da fare solito messaggio. Qualche suggerimento? Saluti max
Re: [newbie-it] Iptables non va......
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:26:24 -0400 max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve, ho mandrake 8 con iptable 1.2.2-3.1 scaricato dagli aggiornamenti sulla sicurezza. Se digito iptable -L dovrei vedere lo stato invece esce questo messaggio di errore: iptables v1.2.2: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong version Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. Ho provato a disistallare il pacchetto e relativo aggiornamento e ristallarlo di nuovo...niente da fare solito messaggio. Qualche suggerimento? Se non sbaglio in mdk 8 c' e' un tool per configurare il firewall: hai provato con quello? -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] Integrazione blocco cdrom e floppy
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:28:20 +0200 Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grazie per i consigli, tra laltro avevo nel frattempo letto quei messaggi proprio dagli archivi che hai citato ma non avevano nulla a che fare col mio problema. Stasera (ora sono al lavoro e non ho linux) proverò a disabilitare kudzu anche se non lancio aurora al boot e i dispositivi cdrom e floppy non sono persi (vengono rilevati al boot) semplicemente (pur non essendo un problema di diritti) non riesco ad accedervi (es. cd /mnt/cdrom mi pianta tutto se invece digito mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom la luce del cdrom si accende, il cd gira ma dopo 2 secondi si pianta tutto) . . . spero di risolvere senza dover reinstallare tutto :-( Non e' che c' e' qualche casino nell' fstab? Prova a dare i comandi supermount -i disable e supermount -i enable sempre che ti riferivi al supermount con quel automount. Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] CANCELLATEMI
HO INVIATO GIA' TRE MESSAGGI PREGANDO DI CANCELLARMI DALLA MAIL LIST . CANCELLATEMI VE NE PREGO NON HO PIU' MANDRAKE E QUESTA LIST NON MI INTERESSA.
Re: [newbie-it] Integrazione blocco cdrom e floppy
Sebastiano Cordano ha scritto Non e' che c' e' qualche casino nell' fstab? Prova a dare i comandi supermount -i disable e supermount -i enable No, fstab era a posto ... ho risolto, si trattava di un conflitto con il daemon sound (o meglio con la scheda audio non ancora settata). Comunque grazie a tutti Ciao Marco
[newbie-it] linux vede linux?
ciao a tutta la ML...mi sono accorto (meglio tardi che mai) che sotto linux vedo la partizione in cui ho uindos...ma non vedo un'altra partizione in cui ho un'altra distro di linux (suse6.0)mi spiego meglio: disco C:partizione uindos partizione dati (ci metto tutti le mie questioni uindos) disco D:partizione mdk 7.2 partizione suse 6.0 da mdk vedo le due partizioni uindos, ma non vedo la partizione in cui ho installato la suse...in che directory dovrei cercarla? non che la cosa mi infastidisca...ma mi piacerebbe sapere perchè grazie in anticipo osva
Rif: [newbie-it] linux vede linux?
Se chiami i dischi c: e d: già caschiamo male!! ;-) devi solo montare il disco con la partizione di SUSE (mount /dev/hdX /mnt/suse) creado prima la cartella suse! la X sta per la lettera in minuscolo distintiva della partizione (NON HA A CHE FARE CON LE LETTERE WINDOWS) Non lo ho mai fatto ma la teoria dovrebbe essere giusta ... attendo dai compatrioti della ML affinazioni sulla mia tecnica! Hola Hola [bd]Mercury bosva [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mandrax.org Inviato da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00.03 ZE2 Oggi Per favore, rispondere a newbie-it Per:mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Oggetto: [newbie-it] linux vede linux? ciao a tutta la ML...mi sono accorto (meglio tardi che mai) che sotto linux vedo la partizione in cui ho uindos...ma non vedo un'altra partizione in cui ho un'altra distro di linux (suse6.0)mi spiego meglio: disco C: partizione uindos partizione dati (ci metto tutti le mie questioni uindos) disco D: partizione mdk 7.2 partizione suse 6.0 da mdk vedo le due partizioni uindos, ma non vedo la partizione in cui ho installato la suse...in che directory dovrei cercarla? non che la cosa mi infastidisca...ma mi piacerebbe sapere perchè grazie in anticipo osva
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con i font
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:35:38 +0200 GiulioF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao !! ringrazio in anticipo x qchi mi risponderà ! Allora, uso Mandrake 7.2 e usando DrakeFont (volevo installare i font di window) il sistema grafico è andato in crash !Al riavvio del computer mi è partito in modalita console e quando ho digitato startx mi ha dato errore : il server dei fonts non riesce a trovare i percorsi dei font appunto( che a quanto ho capito dovrebbe chiamarsi xfs).Qualcuno sa come reinserire i fonts correttamente e quali sono i file di configurazione di xfs ?? Ciao e grazie Giulio Dovrebbe essere la riga FontPath unix/:-1 nella Section Files del file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Poi c' e' il file /etc/X11/fs/config che contiene l' elenco completo dei percorsi, se ti puo' servire nel mio c' e' questo (ho anch 'io mdk 7.2) a cui ho aggiunto solo QUALCHE font di windows: catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western, /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives Controlla da console. Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] Integrazione blocco cdrom e floppy
Ad integrazione del messaggio precedente: Il blocco si è verificato da quando ho cercato di avviare rpminst da software manager. Se provo a digitare mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ( o equiv. x floppy) la periferica da timidi segnali di vita per qualche secondo e poi si pianta tutto. Ho notato, tra le altre cose, un segnale di CODEC 97 ... credo legato alla scheda audio che devo ancora configurare (a proposito qualcuno sa dove sta e come si chiama il file di configurazione audio?) ... può essere legato al blocco delle due periferiche? Grazie Marco
Re: [newbie-it] Corel draw per Linux
Il 14:59, lunedì 10 settembre 2001, hai scritto : Alberto Zanoni wrote: Ciao, qualcuno sa di un'applicazione usabile per vedere /scrivere/modificare file prodotti da Corel Draw ? Teoricamente ci sarebbe CorelDraw per Linux che, stranamente, e` in vendita solo in Nord America. Prova con gimp ciao, Andrea Ciao, e grazie per la risposta. Il file ha l'estensione .cdr. Con gimp, ahimè, non c'é speranza. Proverò magari a vedere su Internet se ci sia qualcosa... Se qualcun altro ha qualche idea, sia il benvenuto. Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Let's play a game!
I think you should try to look for something in : http://www.happypenguin.org/ -Original Message- From: Dr. Evil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Let's play a game! Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512
Matrox has some 3d capibilites (lack the advanced instructions the others have), and there GPU is relatively good. There biggest problem is there Duel Head System (this is also a problem with the Geforce 2 MX cards, but can be switched off on them) runs all the time and everything has to be sent to both outputs (pointless if you have 1 monitor). This uses extra RAM,and GPUU especially if the screen is stretched across the 2 monitors. This causes the card to suffer a bit. It performs about the same as a low end Geforce 1 in the end. The Geforce 2 MX is better choice if you have to have deul head output. HTH Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: hosey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 6:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 What about Matrox cards, or do they not perform near as well in 3D as the 3 listed below? I see Matrox has a new one out the G550: http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/mill_g550/features.cfm Steve M. On Monday 10 September 2001 01:20 am, you wrote: IMHO you have 3 choices of graphic cards 3dfx - bad idea as they no longer exist (so no more drivers) ATI - don't support Linux :( nVidia - provide closed drivers for Linux. and personally closed drivers are better than no drivers. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 On Friday 07 September 2001 05:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I've got one word for nVidia's Linux support, and like most in the wintel-gang, it's DISINGENUOUS. They're just stringin us along, with poor, partially capable, closed source secret drivers. IMO, out'a fear of losing M$ cooperation. YMMV I'm sort's pi$$'d at myself for buyin nVidia crap, even tho I knew all the above beforehand. My only excuse is it's gettin harder and harder... not to. Billy's winning ;( That's just it. What is our alternative? Voodoo support is not what it was. I had three machines (just sold one) with the voodoo3 in them, and they have not had decent acceleration since 7.2. I tried all the the little tips and tricks other say got theirs to work ok, but nope... games suck on those machines. ATI? I read post after post of horror story with those. What could we get, even if money was no object (within the home user range)? -s -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let's play a game!
I have quake 3 and unreal tournament on my machine and both run like a dream. www.linuxgames.com has a section on getting half-life to work which should mean that counter strike would work as well. If you need help getting Q3 or UT to run feel free to ask. HTH Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: [newbie] Let's play a game! Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Let's play a game!
Can you please give us some documentation source about how to install the Quake/Unreal ? Ihave the original disks, and thougt it can run only with Windohs Thanks in advance Michael Spivak -Original Message- From: Robert MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Let's play a game! I have quake 3 and unreal tournament on my machine and both run like a dream. www.linuxgames.com has a section on getting half-life to work which should mean that counter strike would work as well. If you need help getting Q3 or UT to run feel free to ask. HTH Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: [newbie] Let's play a game! Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM8.1 B3
1. sound: cs423x doesnt work from harddrake nor from sndconfig (linus' voice only no midi .. was working in lm8.0 from sndconfig) 2. task bar: i dont like the new way of putting all your running programs (for all 4 desktops)on the task bar in front of u. 2a. konqueror: only one konqueror button, with a pop up menu for the other instances of konqueror .. not nice 3. cli: no more shutting down the xserver to the cli, supposedly ok but what if u need to run a program that could mess up ur x configuration? (as i understand it .sndconfig is/was such a one 4. screensaver: i want my blue screen of death screensaver; i loved it, everybody at work went OoooH! 5. 8.1: noticed a lot of reference to 8.0 every where; set up, tutorials, etc. 6. logo: is this gonna be the new one? a short personal review of 8.1b3 its only been running 12 hours or so and havent had a chance to play with it enjoy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let's play a game!
To get UT to work you need the windows version of the game. Then go to http://www.lokigames.com/products/ut/ and download the Linux installer. Follow the instructions for the installer and voila. I found that for some reason the game didn't run if I installed it off the CD, or if I copied the files on to the hard drive under Linux. What I ended up doing is copying the files under windows and then installing off a fat 32 partition which worked fine. Other people I know have been able to install straight off of CD. go figure :) To Q3A to run you also need the windows version. Then go to http://www.quake3arena.com/ and download the latest Linux point release. Install the point release (this had me confused for a while, the logic of installing the update first then the game is weird), next go to the q3a cd and find the pak0 file (if I remember right, it's the very big pak file on the cd) and copy that into the base3q directory. and voila, it's frag fest time ;) This will works exactly the same for team arena, only difference is that you need to copy the pak0 file off the team arena disk ;) Personally I haven't found too much speed increase between windows and Linux on my machine. Lower end machines Linux is faster, especially with quake. I haven't had a chance to try it networked yet either, will do that this weekend. HTH Robert MacLean IDWS Technical Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.idws.com Tel: (011) 955-5613 ext 14 Fax: (011) 955-5611 NOTE: Please include this message in your reply. - Original Message - From: Michael Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:44 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Let's play a game! Can you please give us some documentation source about how to install the Quake/Unreal ? Ihave the original disks, and thougt it can run only with Windohs Thanks in advance Michael Spivak -Original Message- From: Robert MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Let's play a game! I have quake 3 and unreal tournament on my machine and both run like a dream. www.linuxgames.com has a section on getting half-life to work which should mean that counter strike would work as well. If you need help getting Q3 or UT to run feel free to ask. HTH Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: [newbie] Let's play a game! Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let's play a game!
hey, try Unreal tournament, i just switched to linux, am running a linux unreal tournament server... buy the game for windows retail about $20, download linux binaries at lokigames... it rocked in windows, my server runs unbelievably well under linux well enough that many of the game server admins i know are jealous and finally considering at least dual booting to linux. have fun, tannji Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let's play a game!
You need UT on CD. The installer for the Linux version is free. Basically the Linux installer is just a replacement for the installer on the CD which is a windows one. It also includes a few additional files in it. The whole process is mount UT cd. Run installer as root. Play UT :) There is the GOTY edition of UT which has the Linux installer on it, but unfortunately we do not get that version in South Africa ;( HTH Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Let's play a game! To get UT to work you need the windows version of the game. Then go to http://www.lokigames.com/products/ut/ and download the Linux installer. Follow the instructions for the installer and voila. I found that for some reason the game didn't run if I installed it off the CD, or if I copied the files on to the hard drive under Linux. What I ended up doing is copying the files under windows and then installing off a fat 32 partition which worked fine. Other people I know have been able to install straight off of CD. go figure :) It sounds like I should buy UT. The instructions are not completely clear (they assume that I am a Windows user or a former Windows user or something). Let me get this straight: 1. I go to my friendly software store and buy the latest release ot Unreal Tournament for Windows. 2. I then go to www.lokigames.com and buy a patch. 3. Somehow this patch will let me run this Windows game under Linux? If that's how I do it, I'll go out and get it tomorrow. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem
Up until thursday night my linux box had been working perfectly now it keeps freezing up when i leave it on overnight. Now initially i thought it my be a cron job that was crashing it as it seemed to happen at similar times. From the cron logs the last entry was 3am everynight. So i tried manually running each of the daily cron jobs seperately and they all seemed to work fine (this was yesterday) now when i came to my desk this morning the box had frozen at 5.09 pm (the clock was visible). Basically what i would like to know is how to go about finding out what the problem is, ie what logs should i be looking at etc. (its a long shot but if anyone has any ideas please share, i don't expect any to though from such a vague, general description) cheers jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.
Peter Rymshaw wrote: Followed your instructions. Checking found some things missing and stopped. Returned this: checking for working autoconf--- missing checking for working autoheader--- missing checking for gcc--- no checking for cc--- no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in #PATH Now what? Hi, install the following packages: autoconf-2.13-7mdk gcc-cpp-2.96-0.48mdk gcc-2.96-0.48mdk gcc-c++-2.96-0.48mdk -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] networking with linux
Hi, I want to network my linux box with my two other machines (win2k and win98), I want the linux box to act as a server on the network as it will eventually be connected to the internet and the other two shall access the net through it (hopefully). I have not configured the linux box at all as i am unsure about networking with linux. Where is the best place to start, anyone got any decent sites that cover this for the newbie? I am just unsure where to start with all this. thanks in advance lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking with linux
Try www.linuxnewbie.org , and look at the NHF (Newbie Help Files) for networking. Lanman On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:54 am, you wrote: Hi, I want to network my linux box with my two other machines (win2k and win98), I want the linux box to act as a server on the network as it will eventually be connected to the internet and the other two shall access the net through it (hopefully). I have not configured the linux box at all as i am unsure about networking with linux. Where is the best place to start, anyone got any decent sites that cover this for the newbie? I am just unsure where to start with all this. thanks in advance lee Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Not a happy bunny, see :o( Whats the point of giving me a mix of the two if the lower one brings the higher one down? Adrian Lynch -- United Kingdom http://www.thoughtbubble.co.uk/ Ph: +44 (0) 20 7387 8890 -- New Zealand http://www.thoughtbubble.co.nz/ Ph: +64 (0) 9 488 9131 The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s) . Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Thoughtbubble. This information may be subject to legal, professional or other privilege and further distribution of it is strictly prohibited without our authority. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorised to disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message. Please notify us on +44 (0) 20 7387 8890 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let's play a game!
The codeweavers version of Wine is not complied for OpenGL, so any 3D game is not going to work. You will have to dowload wine from winehq.org and complile it yourself. If you check out lhl.linuxgames.com you will find a detailed HOWTO on getting Half Life/Counterstrike working under wine. Good luck Derek On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:10, you wrote: THAT version does, u got to get the linux binaries to play it under linux as an alternative get codeweavers version of wine .. it supposedly can install windows based programs without needing a copy of windows on the hard disk - Original Message - From: Michael Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:44 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Let's play a game! Can you please give us some documentation source about how to install the Quake/Unreal ? Ihave the original disks, and thougt it can run only with Windohs Thanks in advance Michael Spivak -Original Message- From: Robert MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Let's play a game! I have quake 3 and unreal tournament on my machine and both run like a dream. www.linuxgames.com has a section on getting half-life to work which should mean that counter strike would work as well. If you need help getting Q3 or UT to run feel free to ask. HTH Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: [newbie] Let's play a game! Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing
have you tried to ping the winders machine ip? there is a lineighbothood in the KDE menu under networking other, also you might check out komba2. In Linux, it is neccassary to mount drives or shares and smbclient nameofwindersboxorIP should get a list of available shares on that windows box On Monday 10 September 2001 23:19, you had thoughts to the concept of: s wrote: What you need to do is ifdown eth0 first then dial up. (and ifup eth0 to restart it) -s Hey there! I was wondering about that. I've been trying to get my 3 computer systems setup with 2 windoze boxes and my Mandrake setup. I've configured a few things (with mucho help from etharp and others on this list). Anyways, I have to do the ifconfig eth0 down thingy to connect to my ISP as well. So, this is the normal/accepted way to do it? Now the hard question. How do I wind up actually getting to the Windoze machines? Its not like I can go into network neighborhood or anything like that! grin Etharp said to use samba. Have no experience with it. He also mentioned webmin, which I found. Very awesome looking setup! (more than I know what to do with. ;-) I'm posting some stuff here, maybe you and others can see what is (or is not) going on... Thanks! ;-) [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ su Password: [root@darkforce darklord]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:6D:19:C1:B3 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:21268 (20.7 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd800 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:8453 (8.2 Kb) TX bytes:8453 (8.2 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:209.209.188.185 P-t-P:209.209.170.33 Mask:255.255.255. UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1 RX packets:803 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:376171 (367.3 Kb) TX bytes:48689 (47.5 Kb) [root@darkforce darklord]# ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) from 127.0.0.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=103 usec 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=99 usec 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=97 usec 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=99 usec 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=99 usec --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.097/0.099/0.103/0.009 ms [root@darkforce darklord]# [root@darkforce darklord]# ping 192.168.0.1 PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) from 192.168.0.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=105 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=107 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=104 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=118 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=116 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=92 usec --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.092/0.107/0.118/0.008 ms [root@darkforce darklord]# Any ideas? Thanks! ;-) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [newbie] networking with linux
Lee Start off by teading the HOWTo's on Mandrake User Online http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/ Also check out the archive of this email list http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ Samba will get your Windows machines networked to the Linux machine. The Windows machines will be able to browse the Linux files with Network Neighbourhood. LISa will give you the ability to browse your windows machines from Konquerer just like Windows Network Neighbourhood. (Some old mails tell how about configuring LISa) IP Maquerading will allow the Linux box to be a gateway for the Windows machines. Tip: When configuring Samba to get networking between your Linux box and your Windows boxes. Don't forget to enable password encrption in Samba. That one catches everyone out. Derek On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:54, you wrote: Hi, I want to network my linux box with my two other machines (win2k and win98), I want the linux box to act as a server on the network as it will eventually be connected to the internet and the other two shall access the net through it (hopefully). I have not configured the linux box at all as i am unsure about networking with linux. Where is the best place to start, anyone got any decent sites that cover this for the newbie? I am just unsure where to start with all this. thanks in advance lee Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem
thanks for the tips, i've checked all of the filesystems but the come up clean, (when i reboot after the hang it does give some errors and cleans them ). would you say it was more than likely a hardware problem though rather than software ? (i.e. i want to get my boss to buy me a better PC ) thanks Jamie From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:40:41 -0400 On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:15, Jamie Kerwick wrote: how do i go about using fsck. I've tried fsck -A -C and it gave me a warning about mounted filesystems. Can i just unmount all of my partitions, fsck and then remount , or do i have to do it partition at a time? Jamie partition at a time... and of course you have to boot the rescue CD to check /. From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:57:00 -0400 On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:28, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Up until thursday night my linux box had been working perfectly now it keeps freezing up when i leave it on overnight. Now initially i thought it my be a cron job that was crashing it as it seemed to happen at similar times. From the cron logs the last entry was 3am everynight. So i tried manually running each of the daily cron jobs seperately and they all seemed to work fine (this was yesterday) now when i came to my desk this morning the box had frozen at 5.09 pm (the clock was visible). Basically what i would like to know is how to go about finding out what the problem is, ie what logs should i be looking at etc. (its a long shot but if anyone has any ideas please share, i don't expect any to though from such a vague, general description) cheers jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp updatedb or makewhatis My guess would be ide-hdd try to use an fsck check for your filesystem(s) and see what happens. The other obvious one would be memory, but usually that will show ALL the time. Civileme _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let's play a game!
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 12:44 am, Dr. Evil wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! Go to www.lokigames.com They have a quake3, sof, descent3, Rune (not a shooter - more like a slicer), hg2, tribes2 and binaries for ut (this one's free). If you go to ebgames.com, you can find many of these for $10 (USD). We have been holding our breath waiting for DeusEx and FAAKK (due out any time). There are several others, Hyperion had put out Sin and Shogo. Go to tuxgames.com and find a few more too (like Hopkins FBI). If you get ut going, there's a mod out there which makes it possible to play UnrealGold using it's engine and there are several mods for quake3 out there (like urban assault). Also available are binaries for quake1 and 2, and doom. Now, go out there and have some fun! :-) -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
If you talking about how much ram is necessary, I feel there is never enough, I have 768meg of PC133, and Suse Still uses 400meg of swap. With 200 days+ up time its a little excusable, but if your building a server, that has a required uptime, Get the max you can afford! ~Brandon Caudle Adrian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Not a happy bunny, see :o( Whats the point of giving me a mix of the two if the lower one brings the higher one down? Adrian Lynch -- United Kingdom http://www.thoughtbubble.co.uk/ Ph: +44 (0) 20 7387 8890 -- New Zealand http://www.thoughtbubble.co.nz/ Ph: +64 (0) 9 488 9131 The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s) . Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Thoughtbubble. This information may be subject to legal, professional or other privilege and further distribution of it is strictly prohibited without our authority. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorised to disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message. Please notify us on +44 (0) 20 7387 8890 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?
Dude, read the whole article. The last paragraph is used to explain the joke. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just read this article and i am incredible disturbed by what i read. Either this guy (the one who wrote this article) is unbelievable stupid or he's a paid MS crony. Basically, what he's suggesting is to bark back at the dog that barks at you. Figure that one out!! What exactly is what the open source is trying to accomplish? Compete with M$ or be a better, more reliable option for people who use computers? mandrake 8, gnone, ximian, gnucash, staroffice are excellent examples of the way open source can outperform microshit products. Adopting, like the author suggests, microshit strategies will further alianate the few windows users interested in knowing more about linux. At best this is a bad idea with good intentions, and at worst, an attempted of ms cronies to divide the open source community skinky wrote: Got this link on another mailing list - thought someone might find it interesting. Not such a bad idea. http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/9787.html Cheers skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x /PPoE
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:57 am, Marius Schrecker wrote: Hello! Have followed Mandrake's rapid progress since 7.0 and now use 8.0 (waiting for 8.1) It's a real joy trying to keep up. A friend was also in on the 7.x series, but went back to the 'Evil Empire' after failing to get his PPoE/ ADSL internet connection configured. Kernel 2.4.x now has PPoE support, so a connection wizard like the excellent one for modem/ISDN/LAN connections doesn't seem so unlikely. If I could convince my friend of easy PPoE setup we'd have him back in no time (he's just tried XP and doesn't like it). Marius Well, there is a command line wizard (of sorts). Just type as root: adsl-setup and input your info, then: adsl-startto connect. Also there is a setup during install and in the mandrake control center. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch wrote: Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Not a happy bunny, see :o( Whats the point of giving me a mix of the two if the lower one brings the higher one down? Adrian Lynch To save money or they used what was on hand. I'd be pissed. I'd also be writing a letter to them demanding retribution. Even in this electronic communication age (or because of it) a single physical snail-mail letter gets more results than any number of phone calls or emails. Next time roll your own. :-) -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] route?
The IP 192.168.1.101 is a host address and the mask you are using specifies a class C network. If you want to establish a dedicated route to a specific host specify the gateway such as route add 192.168.1.101 gw 192.168.1.1 or route add 192.168.1.101 eth0 without a netmask, it will default to 255.255.255.255. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of nathan wainwright Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] route? okay now im trying to use route to config a way to the nfs... route add -net 192.168.1.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 it spits back, route: netmask doesnt't match route address... what does that mean? prev route addy destination 127.0.0.0 genmask 255.0.0.0 -- nathan _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading XFree
Can someone explain me how i can upgrade my XFree from 4.0.3 (came with PowerBox MDK 8.0) I have managed to knacker my mdk 8.0 inst several times trying to install XFree 4.1.0 - have given up and am just going to wait till 8.1 is out of beta (voodoo 5 here) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 486/66ST Vectra
Adrian,
Not sure if this will work for your box but worth a try. When booting
hold down any key. This should cause a keyboard error, as your BIOS
assumes there is a key stuck, etc. Usually the BIOS will then print
instructions to the screen on how to enter setup ('press 'F1' to enter
setup' or similar message). Good luck!
Anthony
Adrian Lynch wrote:
I'm hoping to get this machine working, it's a HP Vectra 486/66ST, just
bought some RAM for it, Two 16Mb SIMMs. It has a floppy(thank the lord), a
scsi HD(not sure how big, 500mb I think), scsi card, and the other
trimmings. Although not technically a Linux question, it willl lead to many
more, I want to put a lightweight Linux on this
(is lightweight the wrong term?) machine. I can't seem to get beyond the
start up menu, it runs through a check of the components, floppy, keyboard
ect. I get an error for System Configuration, I have tried booting from the
floppy, with various disks. Also the CD, I'm not even sure I can get into
the BIOS to have a tinker. What it all boils down to is, it asks for a
Diskette named Vectra #1, I thought I had downloaded the right thing from
a site, but all I get is the same message, insert diskette Vectra #1 into
drive A...press any key to continue
The error message prior to this says,
The record of your configuration that is saved in your CMOS memory does not
match the components that are installed on your computer
Can anyone tell me,
a) can I get into the BIOS
b) where can I get the disk Vectra #1 from (tried HP site but very little
info on what I have)
c) a place or person that can help me.
PS, I checked the floppy was working in another machine, so it shouldn't be
that.
Cheers
Adrian Lynch
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Re: [newbie] Trying to automate aumix
That works when anybody logs in but is there a way to have it set before anybody logs in? The problem is that if I'm not here and the power goes and the system reboots it's hissing loudly until I log in. On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:54:17 -0400, Paul wrote: In reply to Robt.'s words, written Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:13:10 -0400 (EDT) I'm trying to automatically set my volume where I want it in KDE when the system comes up with the command.. aumix -L ..which works from a command line but it doesn't do anything in the rc.local file. Is there some special syntax that differs from the command line or am I putting it in the wrong place? Best that you put it in your ~/.bashrc Those commands are run when _you_ log in. Otherwise volume is set for Root. Paul -- You don't need eyes to see, you need vision. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Whats the point of giving me a mix of the two if the lower one brings the higher one down? It doesn't bring[s] the higher one down. pc66, pc100, and pc133 are mostly nothin more than marketing labels. What is important is the nano second rating (ns) and the cas latency rating (CL), and of course the quality and design of the PCB the ram chips are on. The pcxxx label is practically meaningless. A rough gauge is that the ram should be 1000/133.3 = 7.5ns to run at 133.3mhz. Better 133mhz ram will also be non-ECC, and CL2. BUT most ram sold under the pc133 marketing label is 8ns (really 125mhz), CL3, on less than the best quality/design PCB. Bottom line is ram is what'll do, according to what you set it to with bios settings. I've had ancient 66mhz ram, before the pcwhatever labels were invented, that would run reliably at 112mhz, CL3. I've been using an old 128mb stick of 8ns CL2 ram (pc100) flawlessly for years at 135mhz CL2. It's in my system right now mixed with 2 other sticks of pc133, all running together at 135mhz CL2 with -0- errors. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x /PPoE
Thanks! Just what I wanted to hear. Marius - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x /PPoE On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:57 am, Marius Schrecker wrote: Hello! Have followed Mandrake's rapid progress since 7.0 and now use 8.0 (waiting for 8.1) It's a real joy trying to keep up. A friend was also in on the 7.x series, but went back to the 'Evil Empire' after failing to get his PPoE/ ADSL internet connection configured. Kernel 2.4.x now has PPoE support, so a connection wizard like the excellent one for modem/ISDN/LAN connections doesn't seem so unlikely. If I could convince my friend of easy PPoE setup we'd have him back in no time (he's just tried XP and doesn't like it). Marius Well, there is a command line wizard (of sorts). Just type as root: adsl-setup and input your info, then: adsl-startto connect. Also there is a setup during install and in the mandrake control center. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
So it's just a case of me changing the BIOS from auto to 133? Does it really not matter what I get, surely there is some difference? I would still like one 128MB stick instead of two 64's! -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2001 14:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Whats the point of giving me a mix of the two if the lower one brings the higher one down? It doesn't bring[s] the higher one down. pc66, pc100, and pc133 are mostly nothin more than marketing labels. What is important is the nano second rating (ns) and the cas latency rating (CL), and of course the quality and design of the PCB the ram chips are on. The pcxxx label is practically meaningless. A rough gauge is that the ram should be 1000/133.3 = 7.5ns to run at 133.3mhz. Better 133mhz ram will also be non-ECC, and CL2. BUT most ram sold under the pc133 marketing label is 8ns (really 125mhz), CL3, on less than the best quality/design PCB. Bottom line is ram is what'll do, according to what you set it to with bios settings. I've had ancient 66mhz ram, before the pcwhatever labels were invented, that would run reliably at 112mhz, CL3. I've been using an old 128mb stick of 8ns CL2 ram (pc100) flawlessly for years at 135mhz CL2. It's in my system right now mixed with 2 other sticks of pc133, all running together at 135mhz CL2 with -0- errors. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trying to automate aumix
That works when anybody logs in but is there a way to have it set before anybody logs in? The problem is that if I'm not here and the power goes and the system reboots it's hissing loudly until I log in. Very weird. /etc/rc.local should be the place for that then. But you should then also have a place where the proper aumixrc file can be found. Perhaps there's a parameter you can pass aumix -L to find it. Paul On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:54:17 -0400, Paul wrote: In reply to Robt.'s words, written Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:13:10 -0400 (EDT) I'm trying to automatically set my volume where I want it in KDE when the system comes up with the command.. aumix -L ..which works from a command line but it doesn't do anything in the rc.local file. Is there some special syntax that differs from the command line or am I putting it in the wrong place? Best that you put it in your ~/.bashrc Those commands are run when _you_ log in. Otherwise volume is set for Root. Paul -- You don't need eyes to see, you need vision. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trying to automate aumix
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:13:10 -0400 (EDT), Robt. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to automatically set my volume where I want it in KDE when the system comes up with the command.. aumix -L ..which works from a command line but it doesn't do anything in the rc.local file. Is there some special syntax that differs from the command line or am I putting it in the wrong place? Load aumix as root and set your sound levels. Save your settings and reboot. Your mixer levels should be implemented right after the sound module is loaded into the kernel. -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let's play a game!
On 11 Sep 2001 05:44:39 -, Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! You can get native GNU/Linux versions of Doom, Quake, Quake II, Quake III and Marathon (a great FPS from the Mac). Of these, Doom, Quake and Marathon are now GPLed, and are still under active open-source development. You can get all kinds of interesting modifications that were never possible when they were closed-source. Quake II and III are still closed-source, but they can be bought very cheaply at GNU/Linux stores. Loki (http://www.lokigames.com) have a bunch of good games for GNU/Linux. If you intend to use WINE, it is a good idea to have a Windos installation so that WINE can use the Windos drivers. -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] silly question (OT)
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:00:36 +0100, Rick [Kitty5] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats with the 'message.footer' file attachment? (Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ) or is it just an OE thing Rick The list server seems to be adding the footer advert to every message. There's nothing to be concerned about. -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
on 9/11/01 8:23 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, Eric S. Raymond, the writer of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has written a little article explaining how to ask questions over Internet fora like mailing lists, newsgroups and IRC: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I've actually found the more you follow these guidelines the less likely you are to get an answer. The most open ended, incomplete questions tend to get the most attention on all forums I frequent. I'm not really sure why. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
coz everybody assumes if u can get that far u already know enough to answer ur own q - Original Message - From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way on 9/11/01 8:23 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, Eric S. Raymond, the writer of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has written a little article explaining how to ask questions over Internet fora like mailing lists, newsgroups and IRC: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I've actually found the more you follow these guidelines the less likely you are to get an answer. The most open ended, incomplete questions tend to get the most attention on all forums I frequent. I'm not really sure why. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center, twin towers, in Manhattan, New York. Another airplane has apparently crashed into the Pentagon. These have been attributed to terrorist attacks. PGP signature
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:14 am, Dave Sherman wrote: Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center, twin towers, in Manhattan, New York. Another airplane has apparently crashed into the Pentagon. These have been attributed to terrorist attacks. Yeah, been watching on the ole tv tuner. This could start a big ass debate/thread that will undoubted get ugly, so I'll keep my opinions to my self. As this is list has respected members from all over the world, let's try not to vent our frustrations and anger here. There are specific forums for that. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:30 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: So it's just a case of me changing the BIOS from auto to 133? Yes. You should post what the system is (cpu/mobo) and what bios it uses. Unless there's a facility on the ram PCB to signal the bios what speed to run the ram at, 'auto' doesn't have any effect. It's usually better to manually set the ram timings anyhow. Also, the quality and stabiity of the motherboard is, IMO, more important to ram performance, than what the ram is labeled. Does it really not matter what I get, surely there is some difference? I would still like one 128MB stick instead of two 64's! You probly have some gripe with the vendor. BUT I'll tell you right now that ALL ready made vendors, even the most popular ones like Dell, Gatway, Compaq, etc., routinely substitute lower spec parts into their systems. As I said below, most ram sold as pc133 really isn't 7.5ns ram. It's just capable of running at 133.3mhz, CL3. I suspect you've got 2 sticks of 8ns CL3 ram. Both of which will do 133mhz, regardless of the label on them. What you've run across is actually the best reason to learn about hardware, and build your own system. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2001 14:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Whats the point of giving me a mix of the two if the lower one brings the higher one down? It doesn't bring[s] the higher one down. pc66, pc100, and pc133 are mostly nothin more than marketing labels. What is important is the nano second rating (ns) and the cas latency rating (CL), and of course the quality and design of the PCB the ram chips are on. The pcxxx label is practically meaningless. A rough gauge is that the ram should be 1000/133.3 = 7.5ns to run at 133.3mhz. Better 133mhz ram will also be non-ECC, and CL2. BUT most ram sold under the pc133 marketing label is 8ns (really 125mhz), CL3, on less than the best quality/design PCB. Bottom line is ram is what'll do, according to what you set it to with bios settings. I've had ancient 66mhz ram, before the pcwhatever labels were invented, that would run reliably at 112mhz, CL3. I've been using an old 128mb stick of 8ns CL2 ram (pc100) flawlessly for years at 135mhz CL2. It's in my system right now mixed with 2 other sticks of pc133, all running together at 135mhz CL2 with -0- errors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
i just came home from work... i can't believe what i'm just seeing on cnn. whoever did this has caused a war i think. i'm shocked! -- , (o o) +oOOO--(_)---+ || | H E L L M U T | || +---0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
Cheers Tom, it's just I get conflicting information. I'll get them to sort the Ram out, set the BIOS to 133, cross my fingers, pray to God Almighty and read read read. I think it's well out of order for companies to do this, you expect to get what you paid for, but you are right, I'll be building my next one, so I know exactly what's in it. Thanks for the answer's, I know it wasn't exactly Linux related, but cheers anyway! -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2001 15:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:30 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: So it's just a case of me changing the BIOS from auto to 133? Yes. You should post what the system is (cpu/mobo) and what bios it uses. Unless there's a facility on the ram PCB to signal the bios what speed to run the ram at, 'auto' doesn't have any effect. It's usually better to manually set the ram timings anyhow. Also, the quality and stabiity of the motherboard is, IMO, more important to ram performance, than what the ram is labeled. Does it really not matter what I get, surely there is some difference? I would still like one 128MB stick instead of two 64's! You probly have some gripe with the vendor. BUT I'll tell you right now that ALL ready made vendors, even the most popular ones like Dell, Gatway, Compaq, etc., routinely substitute lower spec parts into their systems. As I said below, most ram sold as pc133 really isn't 7.5ns ram. It's just capable of running at 133.3mhz, CL3. I suspect you've got 2 sticks of 8ns CL3 ram. Both of which will do 133mhz, regardless of the label on them. What you've run across is actually the best reason to learn about hardware, and build your own system. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2001 14:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Whats the point of giving me a mix of the two if the lower one brings the higher one down? It doesn't bring[s] the higher one down. pc66, pc100, and pc133 are mostly nothin more than marketing labels. What is important is the nano second rating (ns) and the cas latency rating (CL), and of course the quality and design of the PCB the ram chips are on. The pcxxx label is practically meaningless. A rough gauge is that the ram should be 1000/133.3 = 7.5ns to run at 133.3mhz. Better 133mhz ram will also be non-ECC, and CL2. BUT most ram sold under the pc133 marketing label is 8ns (really 125mhz), CL3, on less than the best quality/design PCB. Bottom line is ram is what'll do, according to what you set it to with bios settings. I've had ancient 66mhz ram, before the pcwhatever labels were invented, that would run reliably at 112mhz, CL3. I've been using an old 128mb stick of 8ns CL2 ram (pc100) flawlessly for years at 135mhz CL2. It's in my system right now mixed with 2 other sticks of pc133, all running together at 135mhz CL2 with -0- errors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let's play a game!
Dr. Evil wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some games that will run under Mandrake 8.0. I have a reasonably fast machine, with some kind of usable graphics card and a fairly good soundcard. I'm looking for a 3D first-person shooter game. Something like Counterstrike would be absolutely perfect. Any sugestions? I would also take sugestions for Windows games which are known to work well with wine. I don't have any access to a Windows box, so if it can't run on Linux, I don't want it. I have never really played computer games before, but I want to give it a try now. Thanks! For a great military-like 1st person shooter, try Soldier of Fortune. Rune is a great 1st person shooter as well...if you are into Vikings! Descent3 has a wonderful sci-fi kinda feeling. Quake3 is great for some quick blow'em away action. Under Wine, Starcraft works well for me. Others have gotten more Windoze games to work... Try http://www.lokigames.com for lots more...and happy 'Nix gaming! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 10:11, you wrote: coz everybody assumes if u can get that far u already know enough to answer ur own q But if you can get that far you're also smart enough to realize you need help. If someone follows those guidelines then that shows they're asking their question as a last resort. It reminds me of the old usenet saying. If you need information from usenet, don't post a question. Post inaccurate information. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mixing 168 and 72 pin RAM
My motherboard is currently holding the maximum amount of SDRAM (the 168 pin stuff, in case I've got the wrong acronym) that it can (128 MB in two sockets, each of which can only handle 64 MB). There are sockets on board such that I could add some of the older (72 pin?) RAM, maybe as much as another 64 MB. I've assumed that doing so will make all the RAM as slow as the old 72 pin stuff, and thus is probably not worth trying (although I do have some 16 MB strips around). Anybody know for sure what would happen? Aside: the manual for the motherboard says mixing the two types of RAM is possible (as long as I don't populate the first slots for both types) but not recommended. Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Whilst this is all very touching (and no, I'm not being cynical), can please we *not* discuss it on the list. People agreeing with others that it's a terrible thing and their prayers are going out to the victims it all well and good, but irrelevant. Yes, I know it sounds cold, callous, etc. but I'm this will get done all over Usenet, the news, the papers and so on - the world is depressing enough without bringing the whole sad, sorry mess into here... F15's at dawn over Palestine then... :-( Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake SNF 7.2 internet connection trouble
Lanman wrote: Marc; Secure WEBMIN interface would not be port 84433, but 8443. That oughtta get you in. Lanman yes I know, the 84433 was part of me having sticky fingers. But my problem is not solved yet. I've done all my config using the secure webmin interface. Should I make a new post ? TIA Marc On Monday 10 September 2001 03:33 pm, you wrote: snipped Having done all that, my connection still can't get thru. While configuring with the secure connection (https://10.0.0.1:84433) a test with the www.linux-mandrake.com icon still gets me nowhere - just keeps waiting. Same thing when I'm not using the secure interface. I noticed that the certificate was outdated, something like the 18 of January. Hope this is not the problem. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x /PPoE
Marius, when configuring the internet connection, you can choose pppoe. I believe it's somewhere in KDE's control panel where you can configure the network related stuff. Marc Marius Schrecker wrote: Thanks! Just what I wanted to hear. Marius - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x /PPoE On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:57 am, Marius Schrecker wrote: Hello! Have followed Mandrake's rapid progress since 7.0 and now use 8.0 (waiting for 8.1) It's a real joy trying to keep up. A friend was also in on the 7.x series, but went back to the 'Evil Empire' after failing to get his PPoE/ ADSL internet connection configured. Kernel 2.4.x now has PPoE support, so a connection wizard like the excellent one for modem/ISDN/LAN connections doesn't seem so unlikely. If I could convince my friend of easy PPoE setup we'd have him back in no time (he's just tried XP and doesn't like it). Marius Well, there is a command line wizard (of sorts). Just type as root: adsl-setup and input your info, then: adsl-startto connect. Also there is a setup during install and in the mandrake control center. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing
Now the hard question. How do I wind up actually getting to the Windoze machines? Its not like I can go into network neighborhood or anything like that! grin Go have a look for 'Komba' on www.rpmfind.net or www.tucows.com. I'm using it at work to do all of my networking as I haven't had much luck configuring any other tools (I'm not allowed to install Samba Server at the moment, the other tools I've tried may be counting on some tools that come with the Samba Server...). I did have some dependency problems at first, but RPMfind helped immensely. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mixing 168 and 72 pin RAM
mooseman wrote: it would likely vary per the motherboard. most motherboards that i have used or seen don't even allow mixing of the two types. they have had a jumper to select one or the other. maybe do a search at the motherboard homeworld (motherboards.org) to see if anyone can answer it. on the other hand, if you have 72 pin ram handy, stuff it in and see for yourself... what kind of machine is it? cpu? Moose, Thanks for the response! Actually I have several very similar motherboards, one manual is for a i430VX Mainboard (but all the drivers are for SiS), with a Cyrix 6x86MX PR233 cpu. Yeah, I can try it. Probably take a few days or a good benchmark to see whether the machine is actually slowed down or not. Might do it -- if I do, I'll post results to the list. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP-8200 CD-Writer doesn't work
Also my cd writer was found during th)e installation and all the cd-writing software detect the device. I tried all speeds from 1x to 4x and all operations(writing,rewriting and blanking) with both media(cd-r and cd-rw) and i had thesame result: after some time (it can be a minute or less),the device st)ops operating and the system hangs (I can't switch consoles and have to do nothing but power off the computer). Given that all works fine under RH71 i think it can be a matter of the kernel(RH71 has 2.4.2 and LM8 has 2.4.3) or of hard-drake. Ragno The Spider Stefano. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Dave Sherman wrote: On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 10:56, David E. Fox wrote: US needs to do something about this though - nuke Mecca Careful, David. We may have peaceful Muslims on this list, who would deplore today's events as much as anyone else. Dave Not to mention that negativity breeds negativity. We should be careful when fighting monsters, not to become one in the process, Simply nuking someone will not solve the entire problem, even if that is a reasonable part of the solution. Even then, it should not be taken lightly. There is more than one base of evil in the world and some of them are very well disquised. I think the people who are offering prayers are in the proper attitude to receive the wisdom to deal with this situastion. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked alread
As far as what the activation process does, I'm just going on the article I read a few weeks ago... Right or wrong when I read the articly it was the last straw for me and I'm glad I've taken a step away from the Microsoft universe. Yeah, I'm not planning on running it at home, either - and none of my Windows-only friends are planning on running it, either. :-). I'm a Sys Admin, tho, and so will have to support it at work. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked alread
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 14:21, you wrote: As far as what the activation process does, I'm just going on the article I read a few weeks ago... Right or wrong when I read the articly it was the last straw for me and I'm glad I've taken a step away from the Microsoft universe. Yeah, I'm not planning on running it at home, either - and none of my Windows-only friends are planning on running it, either. :-). I'm a Sys Admin, tho, and so will have to support it at work. ...Too true! I expect the same thing here (we tout ourselves as a 'Microsoft shop') although I'm hoping it will be a long time in coming. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accessing the floppy drive
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:22, you wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 02:37 pm, you wrote: Hi, I have recently installed mandrake 8, whenever I try to access the floppy drive when it has a disk in (tested on boot disk in case non linux file system was the problem) I get the message - Unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy. You do not have access rights to this location. I have not altered any settings since installing and this error is given even when logged in as root. Can anyone help? thanks in advance lee I had this same problem with my floppy drive and my CD-Rom drive. The solution that worked for me was to delete the desktop icon that mandrake supplied and create a new floppy device, then under the device tab I selected my floppy device and it worked fine. Hope its that easy for you. Hi Lee If the above doesn't work, go into Userdrake and add yourself to the 'floppy' group. skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Radeon AGP64MB
Thanks Charls, i will test my card with the upcoming LM8.1! Ragno The Spider Stefano. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nvidia drivers and 2.2.19-4.1mdksecure on MDK 7.2
Hi all, just wondering if there is anyone out there who has managed to get nvidia drivers working with with mandrake 7.2 with the updated 2.2.19-4.1mdksecure kernel... I would like to try using my TNT2 32mb card with tuxracer (be the first time I have used linux for games..) but no point in trying if it can't work due to kernel differences... just thought I'd ask rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A meaningfull Subject-line would help us all
I do something similar to what you are talking about. I roll my own help files, by saving those posts that I think will be of any help in the future. In the open source spirit, I read them or at least skim over them enough to get an idea of what to title them. I then save them as a file (with my new title and the ext _info). What you are suggesting, is probably not going to happen and even if it did, I would continue to make my own titles, so that they will have *my* idea of what they should be titled, rather than someone elses. After all, *I* will be the one that has to find it when I need it. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Idea.listBT wrote: Hi all As a 'taker' from this group rather than a contributer I suppose I have got a cheek commenting here. I do so in the hope that one day I might have learned enough to be able to contribute :-) I find this list very helpful in my struggle to learn Linux and even though some of the topics are rather advanced for me at the moment I save them all for future reference as, I am sure, many others do. The big problem is that, as a reference-archive, it sometimes stinks - wth subject headers such as 'Lets go' and 'Nearly got it' Why not pay this superb list the respect it deserves by supressing the comedian that lurks inside all of us and *always* use a meaningfull Subject description. Then, even in years to come, we could fairly easily find some obscure technical solution or whatever. All elementary really. If you disagree (perhaps you believe that Linux *should* be as difficult as possible to learn and that even these helpfull messages should be cryptic) then fair enough. I'm sorry I mentioned it. If, on the other hand, you feel that we might all benefit from this brilliant suggestion then why not give it a try. Oh yes - and tell a friend :-) Incidently, it's normal to courteously ask someone not to use HTML so why not ask them to use a meaningfull header line for future posts. Anything to make life easier. Dave S. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A meaningfull Subject-line would help us all
so why don't you save Civilme's posts as html files, and post them on a free website like geocities?. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 14:12, you had thoughts to the concept of: I do something similar to what you are talking about. I roll my own help files, by saving those posts that I think will be of any help in the future. In the open source spirit, I read them or at least skim over them enough to get an idea of what to title them. I then save them as a file (with my new title and the ext _info). What you are suggesting, is probably not going to happen and even if it did, I would continue to make my own titles, so that they will have *my* idea of what they should be titled, rather than someone elses. After all, *I* will be the one that has to find it when I need it. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Idea.listBT wrote: Hi all As a 'taker' from this group rather than a contributer I suppose I have got a cheek commenting here. I do so in the hope that one day I might have learned enough to be able to contribute :-) I find this list very helpful in my struggle to learn Linux and even though some of the topics are rather advanced for me at the moment I save them all for future reference as, I am sure, many others do. The big problem is that, as a reference-archive, it sometimes stinks - wth subject headers such as 'Lets go' and 'Nearly got it' Why not pay this superb list the respect it deserves by supressing the comedian that lurks inside all of us and *always* use a meaningfull Subject description. Then, even in years to come, we could fairly easily find some obscure technical solution or whatever. All elementary really. If you disagree (perhaps you believe that Linux *should* be as difficult as possible to learn and that even these helpfull messages should be cryptic) then fair enough. I'm sorry I mentioned it. If, on the other hand, you feel that we might all benefit from this brilliant suggestion then why not give it a try. Oh yes - and tell a friend :-) Incidently, it's normal to courteously ask someone not to use HTML so why not ask them to use a meaningfull header line for future posts. Anything to make life easier. Dave S. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Well, Hell
Ahhh,,, come on if you at least give us some clues, we might be able to waste your time,,, err,, get you connected to the net, after all some of use are connected thru Mandrake to the internet. (damn how I wish I had gotten this mail when I had dual booted into winders, but ever since i quite being connected to the net in winders I hardly get any e-mail when in winders) On Friday 24 August 2001 07:15, John Simmons wrote: After pounding on LM8 for two weeks trying to get something other than ping to work (problems connecting to the internet), I tried reinstalling all over again. No dice, no workee. I guess I'm just not destined to run Linux. /*===*/ There are three types of lies... lies (You'll never need more than 64K), damn lies (Windows is more stable than Linux), and press releases (It will be released as scheduled). John Simmons (Redneck Techno-Biker) http://www.paddedwall.org/john John Simmons (Barbarian Diecast Collector) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast/diecast_index.html DeMONS/2, Nascar 4 Online Race Scheduler http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 /*===*/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-} *Tom Brinkman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
We Canadians have had terrorist attacks ...FLQ in Quebec province ..Air India bombing perhaps perpetrated by misguided people from my own city and community! Art Why is it that terrorists always attack you Americans; you do know that Canada has yet to be attacked by terrorists... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
I'm an athiest but this does not change the fact that my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones in this tragic (and cowardly!!!) attack. My thoughts are with all those involved. People all over the world are in total shock and disbelief. skinky I'm replying off list, because I think a good thing can turn bad if overdone and my intention is not to tick anybody off.I do thank you for your concern.It is that same kind of concern that we Christians as well as, other religions address in prayer. As human beings we have more in common than our differences can overcome. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
I apolagise for accidentilly posting this to this list, as it doesn't belong here. On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:13, you wrote: Go and stick your head back up the moose' backside where it obviously came from. The USA is not the only country that suffers from terrorist attacks, but they are the most powerful nation in the world and does not stand for the schoolyard bullying tactics from these extremist groups. The publicity from these attacks is what is sort. Get of your soap box and at least show a bit of sympathy for all the innocent victims. How would you feel if one of your family were involved? The On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 04:40, you wrote: Why is it that terrorists always attack you Americans; you do know that Canada has yet to be attacked by terrorists...of course we -- Canada -- didn't go and bomb Afghanastan -- I know I spelled that wrong -- so When? they have no reason to attack us?! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- David Registered Linux User #200514 No electrons were harmed in the production of this e-mail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
Let me state that as a Canadian I am horrfied by what I see and want to see these criminals bought to justice. My prayers and my familoes prayers go out to the victims. Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein Maurice Vold Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Corporate Information Services City of Saskatoon Work Web Page: http://www.city.saskatoon.sk.ca Family Web Page: http://communities.msn.ca/CathieMauriceandJulianna/homepage Work Phone: 306-975-8145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Park Sent: September 11, 2001 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK Go and stick your head back up the moose' backside where it obviously came from. The USA is not the only country that suffers from terrorist attacks, but they are the most powerful nation in the world and does not stand for the schoolyard bullying tactics from these extremist groups. The publicity from these attacks is what is sort. Get of your soap box and at least show a bit of sympathy for all the innocent victims. How would you feel if one of your family were involved? The On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 04:40, you wrote: Why is it that terrorists always attack you Americans; you do know that Canada has yet to be attacked by terrorists...of course we -- Canada -- didn't go and bomb Afghanastan -- I know I spelled that wrong -- so When? they have no reason to attack us?! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake over windows selection
Star Office is a resource hog. I gave up on running it on my laptop which only has 80MB RAM. Why not tell him to ditch SO and try Word Perfect for word processing and maybe some GNOME stuff (Gnumeric etc. ) for the other stuff. That was my solution. The new Abi suite that comes with Ximian GNOME i pretty nice too. They have made some improvements in the last couple of releases. Nice and lean too. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 warren11 wrote: Someone I am trying to help via email has installed Mandrake, one of the later versions, over his windoz. Now he has trouble cause it is evident he installed everything and he does not have enough memory. I think he mentioned 56meg but not sure. His big problem is StarOffice and the extreme slow bootup and action overall. He did manage to send me what his df replied, The main thing I noted he has a partition for lin4win (sp) and I wonder if that is what happens when installing over windows option ?? He tried doing a rpm -e staroffice and got an error. Is there anyway to remove the whole install and start over ?? Any help appreciated as I do not use Mandrake but RedHat. Warren --- * | Warren Hrach, San Diego, CA 92107 | * * | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux BBBS on an AMD K5 | * * | BBS at (619}224-4878 | * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:56 pm, Art Rowe escribió: We Canadians have had terrorist attacks ...FLQ in Quebec province ..Air India bombing perhaps perpetrated by misguided people from my own city and community! Attacks by misguided cowardly punk assholes affects the whole world, specially those that deserve it least. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi and rpm sig checking
it just occurred to me that using urpmi off the command line i have been installing rpms without checking sigs, unlike using rpmdrake, is this right? bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.
Steve wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:36:02PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: etharp wrote: LOOOK A TOP POSTER!! just me getting my... yayas out. I have had a problem sendin from -kmail for about a week now. and since I personally do not like to scan throu the whole e-mail for the latest info, I will keep on posting at the top and welcome any one it bothers to either hit the delete key, or add me to the filters list, just don't expect to learn from that what you can not see. In my very humble opinion, this e-mail list is one of the best sources of support you are likly to find for any OS and if help can be had, you is likely to find it here. but first, we need som more info about the problem. which type of install did you chose? (recomended or expert? server, developer or workstation/desktop? As far as the support thing goes with this list I whole-heartedly agree. THE best support of any OS in the free world. Or unfree world for that matter. As for top-posting...i thought that was the norm seeing as how most of the time i'm exclusively a Pine user. Only thing that is different at the moment is i'm giving Netscape 6.1's Email client a test drive and while I can get it to start above the quoted text if i want to use a signature i've to start the reply below to match my reply to the sig_file at the end. Unless of course i want to cut/paste my sig everytime i send a message. thats a pain... Set pine up to insert your signature at the bottom. M/S/Config... good heavens! why in the world would i want it to do that? I like the fact that it not only inserts my reply at the top, but also puts my signature there as well. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions. Author unknown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Come on!! don't blind your eyes!
Hi ... Come on men Try to think just for a moment in the bifurcations of what had happened today... sit down and relax, get a beer from the fridge or any kind of drink and just for a moment... get out our fucking minds from computers and those kind of things. Moreover, I will ask to you some questions, not to response to meto only think them in your minds.. Do you realize thay maybe you or me could not be here tomorrow or maybe the next week due to the possible fact or a 3rd World War? In any fucking part of the world where you or me lives exists the danger of a suddenly dissapear of my country or of yours too. Come on men, get your mind out from bytes and those things and get into the possibilitie of the major threat of the millenium. This is by now what I can bring to you If I survive in the next days i will post another opinion God bless you all God bless America Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDRW compatability
is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mixing 168 and 72 pin RAM
Joseph Braddock wrote: I have an old pc running Mandrake 8.0 that has both 168 pin (DIMM) and 72 pin (SIMM) modules installed. While I can't answer your question of if the 72pin RAM makes the 168 pin run slower, I know the whole system runs faster with the additional ram (64MB) in the 72pin slots. Joseph, Thanks for the information -- sounds like it's worth a try (since I do have some 16 MB strips from other machines). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 07:15 pm, Franki escribió: There were alot of IT companies based in those towers, and some banks, this could effect the world ecomomy... especially if the US goes into a rescesion because of it... they were on the brink already... rgds frank My Thoughts had nothin to do with money, any denomination. The world runs on people and their thoughts, not just their produce materially. So I say again. Attacks by misguided cowardly punk assholes affects the whole world, specially those that deserve it least. Even this world's most unfortunate children took a big hit today. Those in the USA, and specially those suported worldwide by http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/ I doubt the zealot cowardly asshole mass murders who acted today were thinkin about anybody but themselves, and what they want. They left many chilren dead, or without parents ... or support. As much as I feel for today's victims, the children of the world are in greater need. Please help if you can God bless -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:56 pm, Art Rowe escribió: We Canadians have had terrorist attacks ...FLQ in Quebec province ..Air India bombing perhaps perpetrated by misguided people from my own city and community! Attacks by misguided cowardly punk assholes affects the whole world, specially those that deserve it least. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Come on!! don't blind your eyes!
.and I break my own rule on commenting on off topic posts on this list.. First off..as of right now we have absolutely no FACTS that state that this attack was caused by anybody outside the US. This could very well be disgruntled americans or canadians for all we know at this time. We have no right to assume it was another nation. And Nicolas, My post is not only directed to you but to the whole of what i have read. And I don't think that cuss words are a grammatically correct use of adjectives. Nor do they make your point any more emphatic. Thirdly, Come on men (and women) stop thinking and be with your families. Be glad you have them and pray that you will have them along time. Extend your sympathies to the all of those affected by this tradegy, no matter how far removed from the victims. fourthly, forgive me for breaking going back on my word and posting this-but if we are going to discuss something like this off topic I would hope that everyone could keep their chin and spirits up and not sucomb to doomsaying or hatred. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 20:46, Nicolás Gómez wrote: Hi ... Come on men Try to think just for a moment in the bifurcations of what had happened today... sit down and relax, get a beer from the fridge or any kind of drink and just for a moment... get out our fucking minds from computers and those kind of things. Moreover, I will ask to you some questions, not to response to meto only think them in your minds.. Do you realize thay maybe you or me could not be here tomorrow or maybe the next week due to the possible fact or a 3rd World War? In any fucking part of the world where you or me lives exists the danger of a suddenly dissapear of my country or of yours too. Come on men, get your mind out from bytes and those things and get into the possibilitie of the major threat of the millenium. This is by now what I can bring to you If I survive in the next days i will post another opinion God bless you all God bless America Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Nice to see people banding together to help for 1 cause. My sympathy also goes out to those affected by this tragedy. There is more than enough room for THIS exception. From: Jeremy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:52:12 -0500 snip I don't know if you believe that prayer actually accomplishes anything, but if you do, would you really want someone who benefitted from these OT prayers to be deprived of the positive results, just because they were off topic? snip I agree with the above response from Charles. Prayer can be and is very important. If you've never seen what it can do, you haven't seen anything yet (I mean that in a positive way). As for being off-topic, I know this isn't what this message board is officially for, but considering the circumstances, perhaps an exception can be made? Jeremy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] What are we coming to?
I second that. Siavash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Art Rowe Sent: 11 September 2001 23:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What are we coming to? Thank God for bridges of reason and mutual help which stretch beyond national boundaries and communities, such as our Linux friendships and our Mandrake groups. Art - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] What are we coming to? With 4 planes hijacked and crashed... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
At 08:59 AM 9/11/01, you wrote: on 9/11/01 8:23 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, snipity snip snip I've actually found the more you follow these guidelines the less likely you are to get an answer. The most open ended, incomplete questions tend to get the most attention on all forums I frequent. I'm not really sure why. I have not read this yet, but; I for one need all the HELP I can muster, even do not know how to ask most questions I need answers with/for. I rather LURK and let others ask them for me, I get better answers and for some reason understand them better as well. Matt Also one other thingy, I cannot post incomplete questions nor give any inaccurate information, I do NOT know any. TIA, 'd' [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Antonio, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake over windows selection
LURKER again, the first thingy I would tell that other person is DO NOT use the LIN4WIN or what ever it is called. If WinBlows BSD then LINUX is DEAD also, at least that has been my experience with that setup. I tried that and went to LILO as fast as I could re load. My $00.02.3 worth. At 05:47 PM 9/11/01, you wrote: Someone I am trying to help via email has installed Mandrake, one of the later versions, over his windoz. Now he has trouble cause it is evident he installed everything and he does not have enough memory. I think he mentioned 56meg but not sure. His big problem is StarOffice and the extreme slow bootup and action overall. He did manage to send me what his df replied, The main thing I noted he has a partition for lin4win (sp) and I wonder if that is what happens when installing over windows option ?? He tried doing a rpm -e staroffice and got an error. Is there anyway to remove the whole install and start over ?? Any help appreciated as I do not use Mandrake but RedHat. Warren --- * | Warren Hrach, San Diego, CA 92107 | * * | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux BBBS on an AMD K5 | * * | BBS at (619}224-4878 | * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com TIA, 'd' [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Antonio, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
really? hmmm. i'll have to check on those then. i had a philips but it died. it was an older model and a SCSI, but worked real good, until death that is. and i saw that some other sony model numbers close to the 160 worked (they are on the mdk list) so i was going from that point. i will check out the plextor and yamaha options. thanks Tom, and to others who have replied to me on this topic. adrian In a message dated 9/11/01 7:30:14 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Firstly I would just like to say that my prayers go out to all the families on this dark day in America. I don't personally know anyone that was injured today. But to show just how much this affects people in many other ways, here is my story. My brother-in-law was working on a military base in NY today. He was on the roof of a building when it happened. He didn't hear or see it, but was told by the military that they had to leave. He couldn't contact us all day today, his first message wasn't until 6pm tonight. My sister was married on Sept. 1st of this year to a Marine. She is 19 and they moved to NC. This is her first time away from home. Her husband was called to the base tonight and the base was on lockdown, which means he can not go home to his wife, my sister. She is sitting at home all alone not knowing the future of her husband of 10 days. Lets not point fingers just yet. Lets first save those who can be saved and console those who are scared and have lost loved ones. Lets search and find the parties responsable for this terrible days attacks. Then we can punish them (the correct people) and anyone who tries to harbor them. Me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Charles A. Punch wrote: I'm replying off list, Charles, Your off list replies seem to be appearing on the list. ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: really? hmmm. i'll have to check on those then. i had a philips but it died. it was an older model and a SCSI, but worked real good, until death that is. and i saw that some other sony model numbers close to the 160 worked (they are on the mdk list) so i was going from that point. i will check out the plextor and yamaha options. thanks Tom, and to others who have replied to me on this topic. adrian I am set up with a dual boot - Windoze98, and LM8. I just installed a Plextor 12/10/32 over the weekend. I bought this drive base on input from several people knowledgeable in unix, linux, and windoze. I can tell you that it is a very good, solid drive. I have it set up under W98, but the drivers are established for linux, and I'll tackle the setup in Mandrake in the next few days. Being a recovering windowsaholic, this may or may not go well. I still know very little about linux, and the learning curve is steep for me, but I'm convinced it is a far superior OS, and I will do what it takes to rid myself and my family of the dreaded windows virus. Anyway, my point being that if the setup of the plextor goes well, I will post results... if not, I will post many questions. And not to make light of the current situation here, but while we are all praying, thank God for this list. Peace, Stan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
* Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010911 19:43]: IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either I agree with Tom about Yamaha ... but I can't recommend Plextor. I tried to return a CDRW that crapped a month short of the 1 year warranty. Since it was over one year from manufacture date, I had to fax them my invoice. They subsequently LOST my fax, and after many emails back and forth I finally gave up and bought a Yamaha to replace it. The Yamaha works fine. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
My bad! That's weird, I'm using the reply button (rather that reply all) in Mozilla. Good thing I have nothing to hide eh? Sorry, I don't mean to clog up the list, but it seems that I am not alone in that today anyway. I guess I'll have to cut paste the address to send a new message and get it to go off list . If this one goes on list, it's definitely my browser. If it don't, I must have hit the wrong button last time. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Randy Kramer wrote: Charles A. Punch wrote: I'm replying off list, Charles, Your off list replies seem to be appearing on the list. ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ethernet card/modprobe/irq problem
I have a quick question, how do you get a module to work that needs to get a correct parameter passed to it, such as irq? I have this ethernet card which I got to work, then I repositioned it in a different slot, getting it its own unique IRQ, but now modprobe 8139too returns (this is a realtek 8139 card): invalid parameter parm_irq if I set parm_irq correctly, I bet I'll be back in business with the home network. How do I do it? Thanks in advance, Ben Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Need help with Squid
I've been working on this for days, I swear it looks right based on the FAQ and Google searches. When I try to connect from a workstation I get.. access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time I'm trying to connect from a workstation with the address 10.2.1.77 and port set to 3128. Many thanks for any help with this! .. my squid.conf with the rems removed is.. icp_port 3130 acl internal src 10.2.1.0/255.255.255.0 http_access allow internal http_access allow all acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl SSL_ports port 443 563 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow myclients http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager httpd_accel_host virtual httpd_accel_port 80 httpd_accel_with_proxy on httpd_accel_uses_host_header on # Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 16:33, you wrote: My bad! That's weird, I'm using the reply button (rather that reply all) in Mozilla. Good thing I have nothing to hide eh? The mailing list has set up a reply-to: header so hitting reply will stick in the ml's address. If you select to view all headers you can see it stuck in there. The easiest solution, IMO, is to reply all then remove the ML's address for private replies. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tcp port blackjack found open?
Blackjack is the yahoo instant messenger then? What a relief. It sounded sinister. Thought I might have had a virus or something. Thanks! Ben On Monday 10 September 2001 10:25 pm, you wrote: Do you use yahoo instant messanger? On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:08, Ben Bayer wrote: Hi everyone, I found these ports open this morning: tcp port 1024, blackjack, 6000, ssh udp port router, xdmcp What is blackjack? Should this port be open after setting my machine up for high (server-level) security, and setting up tinyfirewall to close everything but ssh ports? Thanks in advance, Ben Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Thanx Matt Greer wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 16:33, you wrote: My bad! That's weird, I'm using the reply button (rather that reply all) in Mozilla. Good thing I have nothing to hide eh? The mailing list has set up a reply-to: header so hitting reply will stick in the ml's address. If you select to view all headers you can see it stuck in there. The easiest solution, IMO, is to reply all then remove the ML's address for private replies. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
