Re: [newbie-it] aiuto: accesso negato a floppy e cdrom
Il 18:19, venerdì 14 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Perché non ci mandi il file /etc/fstab? Comunque, il supermount si attiva con supemount enable e si disattiva con supermount disable. Ciao, Andrea.
[newbie-it] Domanda su Xmame
Salve a tutti, vorrei chiedere un quesito . Qualcuno di voi conosce Xmame , l'emulatore di molti giochi per salagiochi? Ho trovato i file da scaricare su Linuxgames e sono anche compilati per Mandrake . Gli ho ho scaricati ed installati , tutto funziona i giochi partono , però sono solo due gli altri probabilmente sono da scaricare ed installarli ed è proprio questo il mio problema , cioè che non so come installarli e farli partire . Visto che ho la versione per windows è ho disponibile molti giochi circa 930 giochi ho provato a trascinare le rom . cioè i file di un gioco nella directory roms di Xmame . Però il non mi parte nulla , solo i giochi che ho scaricato assieme al programma . Se qualcuno ne sa qualcosa glie ne sarei grato. Ciao Lele. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie-it] ADSL - modem supportato
Alcatel Speed Touch Home Ethernet, oppure qualsiasi modem ADSL Ethernet, poi batsa che installi il pacchetto rpm e mandi adsl-setup, per connetterti adsl-start oppure adsl-connect. Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] openoffice da un utente diverso da root.
Ciao, Star office non l'ho mai provato, quindi non saprei consigliarti... Comunque per quanto riguarda openoffice è un programma buono. i vantaggi sono : è stabile(anche quando carichi file molto grandi), e ha delle funzionalita professionali ed è molto facile da usare. gli svantaggi : è pesantissimo !!! Il mio computer ci impiega + di un minuto x aprirlo ... Ciao a tutti, scusate se mi intrometto nell'argomento per parlare parzialmente d'altro. Vorrei un parere: io utilizzo lo StarOffice 5.2; sarei tentato di aggiornare all'OpenOffice. Vorrei però qualche consiglio da chi già lo usa: è stabile? ha dei miglioramenti rispetto a SO5.2? presenta particolari vantaggi/svantaggi? Come sempre, un grazie anticipato a chi vorrà rispondere... Daniele
[newbie-it] Fwd: problema con Xfree e scheda Matrox G450
Ciao a tutti, mi sa che il mio precedente post non è arrivato... allora, io ho un problema con la Mandrake 8 e la G450DH, più precisamente non riesco ad avere delle prestazioni decenti.le finestre si spostano sullo schermo a scatti e alcuni giochi (tipo Tuxrace) hanno una grafica pessima.. da quello che sono riuscito a capire leggendo quà e là il tutto dipende dal fatto che l'Xfree86 4.0.3 non supporta l'accellerazione HW della mia scheda, il problema si risolverebbe installando la versione 4.1 e quì sta il mio problema. premetto che sono molto newuser in linux. mi hanno detto di scaricare i file RPM da un sito FTP (un mirror cooker).io ho scaricato i suddetti file ma non si installano...o meglio dicono che mancano alcuni pacchetti necessari Voi avete idea di come possa risolvere il problema? o da dove possa scaricare tutto il necessario x l'aggiornamento? Ringrazio tutti quelli che mi sapranno dare una mano... ciao Christian
Re: [newbie-it] openoffice da un utente diverso da root.
On Saturday 15 September 2001 18:18, GiulioF wrote: Ciao, Star office non l'ho mai provato, quindi non saprei consigliarti... Comunque per quanto riguarda openoffice è un programma buono. i vantaggi sono : è stabile(anche quando carichi file molto grandi), e ha delle funzionalita professionali ed è molto facile da usare. gli svantaggi : è pesantissimo !!! Il mio computer ci impiega + di un minuto x aprirlo ... star office e' pure piu' lento. ma sopratutto l'ultima versione che ho visto di open office non aveva sil supporto per la stampa. ora com'e'? bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
[newbie-it] ADSL - modem supportato
Ciao a tutti, ho deciso di passare all'ADSL e vorrei farlo con Linux. Potreste consigliarmi un modem ADSL che funzioni perfettamente sotto linux e che, magari, venga anche riconosciuto e configurato automaticamente ;o) ... (ho passato due giorni a configurare l'audio del mio nuovo portatile e adesso ho una gran voglia di cose facili ... :o)) Grazie Marco mforti at iol dot it La mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una!
Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error
In reply to Seeun's words, written Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:45:17 Thanks guys for the help, but I got another question on the topic. The kernel then told me to run e2fsck. How do I let it run e2fsck automatically during bootup when it detects maximal mount count? Better check again when you boot. When a message comes up like that, it often means that there's a problem that the automated fsck can't fix. I am not sure if there's a way to do what you want. Better get that e2fsck done soon! Paul -- Bow before me, for I am root. 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] maximal mount count error
In this case it doesn't necessarily mean there is a consistency check required because a suspected disk problem. It imply means the maximal count without an FSCK has been reached, or the system has been set up to request an fsck every n months or whatever. You can change the frequency of the request or switch it off with the tune2fs, assuming it's an EXT2 partition. If it's reiser, I suspect the same command will help you out. For example, tune2fs -I 0 -c 25 /dev/dhc1 would disable the Time between checks function and set the maximal mount count to 25 for hdc1, only. Each disk can have its own definition. Tune2fs -l /dev/hdc1 will give you lots of lovely info about your file system including when it was last checked and when the next check will be asked for. It also tells you the mount count. Man tune2fs is your friend. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error In reply to Seeun's words, written Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:45:17 Thanks guys for the help, but I got another question on the topic. The kernel then told me to run e2fsck. How do I let it run e2fsck automatically during bootup when it detects maximal mount count? Better check again when you boot. When a message comes up like that, it often means that there's a problem that the automated fsck can't fix. I am not sure if there's a way to do what you want. Better get that e2fsck done soon! Paul -- Bow before me, for I am root. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.1 File: message.footer ** 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] burning iso
In reply to D.'s words, written Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:45:14 -0700 I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. It's like sin. But that exact word is attached to that ofter software ;) I have been lurking for months and enjoy this list. I installed 8.0 with no problems that haven't been addressed here until today, discounting my own bumbling. Just downloaded Raklet iso's and burnt cdroms, however result is a cdrom with the file mandrakelinux-8.1-raklet-beta3-cd1.i586.iso rather than a cdrom full of files. Where have I erred? An ISO file is a CD image. When you burn the ISO file to the cd, you just copy the file. You need to tell the program (Gtoaster, GCombust etc) to write a cd from the ISO. So point to the image file and create a cd from that. There's a fine difference, I hope you see it. I used neroburning (gulp) windows 98 Everyone's allowed one big mistake. You just used yours. heheheh!! Paul -- Bow before me, for I am root. 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
[newbie] Installing software problems
Ok, this is my first installation from a tar.gz file, so it's all a bit complicated. I decided to take on a nice easy simple installation that would really help me - imwheel - which enables the wheel on your mouse. So, I managed to gzip and then tar, which created a directory. I cd'ed into the directory and then did ./configure, which made a makefile. When I type make I get this error entering directory /home/adam/download/imwheel-1.0.0pre1 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -02 -c jax.c In file included from jax.c:2: jax.h:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xresource.h: No such file or directory Then I get Error1 and it leaves the directory - any ideas? And incidentally, is there a way to copy some of the session from Konsole, so that I don't have to type it in the email? Thanks in advance Adam ps remember, I'm only 3 days into Linux - !! hehe __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error
set back and let it run. that is the check that iss run when you reach the max count. kinda like in windblows when scandisk runs at boot when you don't shutdown correctly On Saturday 15 September 2001 04:45, you wrote: Thanks guys for the help, but I got another question on the topic. The kernel then told me to run e2fsck. How do I let it run e2fsck automatically during bootup when it detects maximal mount count? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Content-Type: text/plain; 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] Installing software problems
Sounds like you don't have the X development headers installed. Check on your Mandrake discs and install the RPM's. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Adam Cripps [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Installing software problems Ok, this is my first installation from a tar.gz file, so it's all a bit complicated. I decided to take on a nice easy simple installation that would really help me - imwheel - which enables the wheel on your mouse. So, I managed to gzip and then tar, which created a directory. I cd'ed into the directory and then did ./configure, which made a makefile. When I type make I get this error entering directory /home/adam/download/imwheel-1.0.0pre1 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -02 -c jax.c In file included from jax.c:2: jax.h:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xresource.h: No such file or directory Then I get Error1 and it leaves the directory - any ideas? And incidentally, is there a way to copy some of the session from Konsole, so that I don't have to type it in the email? Thanks in advance Adam ps remember, I'm only 3 days into Linux - !! hehe __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ File: message.footer ** 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] Installing software problems
Apologies, I'm dialled in to work and attempting to persuade an IBM
mainframe to play ball with me. I think I'm winning, but at the expense of
concise and clear answers to the list! :-(
If anyone out there has ever done any condition code processing in JCL,
they'll understand how twisted my mind is getting!
Steve Flynn
NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
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-Original Message-
From: Marcin Jendrzejewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 12:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [newbie] Installing software problems
Erm, Steve Flynn's reply was correct although I felt perhaps a bit
brief
and lacking in detail in case others are wondering and not sure how
to
do it.
Firstly you'll need to insert your cds, and mount your cdrom ('mount
/mnt/cdrom' probably -- you may need to be 'root' to do it.) Then
you'll need to change to the rpms directory which I think from
memory
are /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ . You might want to check that. the
'ls'
command is your friend. Anyhow, you'll be looking for a .rpm file
along
the lines of XFree86-devel-something-something.rpm
I can't remember the specific name but it's something like that,
just then do
rpm -ivh Xfree86-devel-something-something.rpm
You'll probably need to be root to do this.
You should see something like
Xfree86-devel
Then go back and compile your package...
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Re: [newbie] burning iso
I don't know if my success with the burn or the instant good advice I recieved was the biggest thrill. Very much appreciated, all. Lee 9/15/01 4:14:28 AM, Jhun Bacala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try visiting this site: http://www.linuxiso.org/neroburning.html That should solve your problem. Jhun At 09:45 PM 9/15/01, you wrote: Hello list I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. I have been lurking for months and enjoy this list. I installed 8.0 with no problems that haven't been addressed here until today, discounting my own bumbling. Just downloaded Raklet iso's and burnt cdroms, however result is a cdrom with the file mandrakelinux-8.1-raklet-beta3-cd1.i586.iso rather than a cdrom full of files. Where have I erred? I used neroburning (gulp) windows 98 tia Lee Wiggers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Jhun Bacala New City Commercial Corporation MIS-Dept. Davao 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] Enlightenment vs Sawfish
Ok then, how do I run Sawfish or Enlightenment without Gnome altogether? X-Windows is not something I'm highly familiar with. Also, I d/l the rpm enlightenment-0.16.4-2.i386.rpm I'm sure there is a command to check the dependencies without actually installing it. Anyone know what it is, it isn't verify which is what I thought it would be. I'm a little hesitant to install the rpm, as I'm not sure I'll easily be able to put things BACK if I mess it up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD-player
Can anyone recomend a dvd viewer for Mandrake 8.0? xmovie needs kernel 2.4.7 and I only have 2.4.3. /jonas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StartX-problems
Thank You Frans! It's looks like I have no available space on the / partition: File system 1k-blocks UsedAvailable Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 1075176 1052980 0 100% / /dev/hda7 774040 992 733692 0%/home /dev/hda1 6131992 4434228 169776472% /mnt/windows How can I change the partition's size and the mount point? The home partition is to big and the / partition is to less. Thank for any suggestions. Seba fo friends Sybek. Frans Ketelaars wrote: Sebastian wrote: Your font server, xfs is not running. One reason for xfs not starting may be that you have deleted or moved the folders where all the fonts are stored. To verify that you still have fonts to load, open this file at the shell command prompt: vi /etc/X11/fs/config You ought to see some typing about halfway down that looks like this: 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:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 ...Those are all the folders that contain fonts. If none or some of these folders are missing or empty you must re-install your fonts. If you have more questions you can reply straight to me. Richie I have proofed this. The file /etc/X11/fs/config exists and the paths which are there exists too. Last time I have installed the system new but its take too long and I must configure everithing again, from new. Thank You for help. Seba Hi, IIRC another reason for xfs not starting up is an (almost) full partition it needs space on. Check with 'df'. -Frans 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] burning iso
On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:28, you wrote: In reply to D.'s words, written Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:45:14 -0700 I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. to hear Mr. Linus Torvalds say the name (and since he did make up the name, he can decide how it should be pronounced, you can (in a text console, as root) type sndconfig and check the settings on your sound card by hearing him say the way to pronounce linux is linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pdf
I have my printer set up using CUPS it prints text and kwd files fine but any other koffice file and pdf file will produce garbage. To print I just open using xpdf and click on the print icon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] subscribe Caswell
Re: [newbie] TEST! was I thrown off the newbie list? NO I are to fatheaded to read e-mail from my ISP
I owe everyone a large appology I had failed to change the pop server name in my k-mail configuration by the date my ISP said they would no longer have the old name in service. MY BAD. I am s verry sorry to have made such rash statements without Throroughly checking all other possibilities This list *is* supposed to be unmoderated after all. I have already created such a list on YahooGroups. Sridhar posted the URL. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GNUlinuxgrief Join and post away. Guaranteed unmoderated. The only rule is remain friends by forgiving each other's posts. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pan won't work anymore...
I've upgraded 9.6 to 10.0-5 (including all dependencies) and when i try to execute, it tells me this: ___ $pan Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Message: Pan 0.10.0 Started Message: Article cache contains 0.0 MB in 18 files Message: Loaded 2 groups for server `folders' in 0.0 seconds (2000 groups/sec) Message: Created folder pan.sendlater Message: Loaded 4 groups for server `News ADSL' in 0.0 seconds (4000 groups/sec) gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Object Activation Framework error: OAF problem description: '' aborting... Aborted ___ What's wrong?? Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Subscribing to newbie
Gonzalo wrote: Randy Kramer escribió: Thank you very much, Randy. Could you please tell me how to download LM 8.0? Gonzalo, You're welcome! I'm not sure what you need -- do you just need the link to the Mandrake 8.0 CD files, or do you need instructions on how to use FTP to download them? If the latter, tell me what operating system you are running, and one browsers or ftp clients you have available. Aside: If you speak primarily Spanish, you should know that the spanish that appears on the web page I referred you to earlier was not written by me -- I can read a little bit of Spanish, sometimes. Here's the link to a page leading to the Mandrake isos: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 If you need more help, write to the list -- I'll almost certainly see the message, and, if I can help, I will. PS: Shortly after I send this, I will start a new wiki page, http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/DownloadingLinuxDistributions. Initially it will contain only the link to Mandrake. As it appears appropriate, we can add other information or pages. PS: As it is a TWiki, you can easily learn how to edit the page to add information. See the about these pages link on that page. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modem question. not important
Hi, The init strings sent to the modem when you start a connection ALSO set the modem speaker volume. If you are using mdk8 and kde with the kde internet dialer, then if you press on setup, and go to the device tab, you will see a slider for volume level. move it to the right and you should hear the sounds that you grew accustomed to in windows. HTH David Charles On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, chris swain wrote: Just an offhand question. I dual boot to windows and when I used to connact through windows my modem made a series of beeps and sounds as it connected. In linux the modem is completely silent, though it contects fine and works better. Any reason for this.? 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] burning iso
Hi, I haven't used Nero/Windows in a while, but if I recall correctly, go to the file menu and choose burn image, then change the file type to all file types and find the iso image, press OK and choose RAW/2362 format and press OK, then if it says something about size being reported incorrectly let it correct it automatically, then start burning. What you did was burn the FILE that is the iso image, NOT the iso image to the disk. HTH David Charles On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, D. Lee Wiggers wrote: Hello list I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. I have been lurking for months and enjoy this list. I installed 8.0 with no problems that haven't been addressed here until today, discounting my own bumbling. Just downloaded Raklet iso's and burnt cdroms, however result is a cdrom with the file mandrakelinux-8.1-raklet-beta3-cd1.i586.iso rather than a cdrom full of files. Where have I erred? I used neroburning (gulp) windows 98 tia Lee Wiggers 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] Pan won't work anymore...
In reply to Naish's words, written Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:13:06 +0200 Hmmm. Did you ask the developers of Pan about that? Sounds like the smart thing to do. Paul I've upgraded 9.6 to 10.0-5 (including all dependencies) and when i try to execute, it tells me this: ___ $pan Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Message: Pan 0.10.0 Started Message: Article cache contains 0.0 MB in 18 files Message: Loaded 2 groups for server `folders' in 0.0 seconds (2000 groups/sec) Message: Created folder pan.sendlater Message: Loaded 4 groups for server `News ADSL' in 0.0 seconds (4000 groups/sec) gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Object Activation Framework error: OAF problem description: '' aborting... Aborted ___ What's wrong?? Thank you. -- Bow before me, for I am root. 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] Installing software problems
/home/adam/download/imwheel-1.0.0pre1 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -02 -c jax.c In file included from jax.c:2: jax.h:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xresource.h: No such file or directory It appears you didn't install the X development includes and libraries. You need to look for an X11-devel rpm and install it. Adam David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xmovie
In reply to Jonas's words, written Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:43:59 +0200 Huh? I run 2.4.3. and xmovie is working fine right out of the RPM that came on the cd. Perhaps you better reinstall xmovie again. Paul Why is xmvovie shipping with Mandrake 8.0 when it needs kernel 2.4.7 and Mandrake 8.0 is kernel 2.4.3? /jonas -- Bow before me, for I am root. 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] Pan won't work anymore...
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:13:06 +0200, Naish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've upgraded 9.6 to 10.0-5 (including all dependencies) and when i try to execute, it tells me this: ___ $pan Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Message: Pan 0.10.0 Started Message: Article cache contains 0.0 MB in 18 files Message: Loaded 2 groups for server `folders' in 0.0 seconds (2000 groups/sec) Message: Created folder pan.sendlater Message: Loaded 4 groups for server `News ADSL' in 0.0 seconds (4000 groups/sec) gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Object Activation Framework error: OAF problem description: '' aborting... Aborted ___ What's wrong?? Thank you. It appears as if the new version of PAN uses GConf, unlike earlier versions. Edit the path file in the directory $sysconfdir/gconf/1. This is what mine looks like: # This file stores the addresses of config sources for GConf # When a value is stored or requested, the sources are scanned from top to # bottom, and the first one to have a value for the key (or the first one # to be writeable) is used to load/store the data. # See the GConf manual for details # Look first in systemwide mandatory settings directory # (commented out until xml backend knows how to be read-only for users) xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory # Now see where users want us to look - basically the user can stick # arbitrary sources in a ~/.gconf.path file and they're inserted here include $(HOME)/.gconf.path # Give users a default storage location, ~/.gconf xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf # Finally, look at the systemwide defaults # (commented out for now) xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults Ensure you have a $sysconfdir/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults dir set up with the right permissions. Run: chmod -R 755 $sysconfdir/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults Be sure you have no applications depending on GConf (e.g. Galeon 0.12+) running and then run: gconftool --shutdown GConf will then restart when it is required. -- 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] DVD-player
On Saturday 15 September 2001 06:26 am, Jonas Jacobsson wrote: Can anyone recomend a dvd viewer for Mandrake 8.0? xmovie needs kernel 2.4.7 and I only have 2.4.3. /jonas xine, videolan, and mplayer are all pretty good. I prefer xine; videolan sometimes has problems with synchronizing audio and video, and mplayer doesn't have a gui. You can find xine and mplayer by going to freshmeat.net and searching for them there. You can get videolan at www.videolan.org. videolan is packaged in rpms as well as source, and as packaged contains everything you need to play encrypted dvds. The current xine, I think, only is packaged as source, but you can get rpms for older versions. mplayer, I think, is only packaged as source. With xine and mplayer, you need plugins to play encrypted dvds. You can get the xine plugin by going to the captain css link on the xine home page, and the mplayer site tells you what plugins you need and where to get them. I think there are some gcc issues when you try to compile mplayer that require you to use certain options with the ./configure command, but I can't remember what those options are. The easiest way to get something that works, I think, is to get the videolan rpms. If you're comfortable installing from source, I'd go with xine. If you're comfortable both with installing from source and a command line only program, then you might want to give mplayer a try. Hope this helps. -- Rich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] subscribe Caswell
D. Caswell wrote: I think you'll be able to figure out how to subscribe from this (sorry it's unsubscribing instead of subscribing): http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] apache question
Ok, at one time I had apache up and running and serving pages. For some reason now I always just get a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 443 error. What am I doing wrong? I want to setup SSL and have usernames and passwords for each user. The users are not on my network they will use Internet access to get the pages. Any help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] starting programs at boot
I know this has been asked thousands of times before, but a look throught the newbie archives doesn't come up with the answer. How do I set a program to start at boot time? Specifically, I would like rp-pppoe (the adsl connection program, requires root to start), to start and connect me to the internet whenever any user logs in. Ideally, it would be nice if there was some sort of popup error message if this fails. This is for my mother's computer, later for my grandmother's computer. I want it to connect to the DSL modem automatically so that they don't have to worry about su'ing to root and connecting etc. Just login and start surfing. Thanks a bunch! -Paul Rodríguez _ 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] DVD-player
I have thought about getting a DVD player for my system, but wonder. I have seen where they advise your processor be at least 300 MHz and I have a 450, but is that really enough? Rich Buckner wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2001 06:26 am, Jonas Jacobsson wrote: Can anyone recomend a dvd viewer for Mandrake 8.0? xmovie needs kernel 2.4.7 and I only have 2.4.3. /jonas xine, videolan, and mplayer are all pretty good. I prefer xine; videolan sometimes has problems with synchronizing audio and video, and mplayer doesn't have a gui. You can find xine and mplayer by going to freshmeat.net and searching for them there. You can get videolan at www.videolan.org. videolan is packaged in rpms as well as source, and as packaged contains everything you need to play encrypted dvds. The current xine, I think, only is packaged as source, but you can get rpms for older versions. mplayer, I think, is only packaged as source. With xine and mplayer, you need plugins to play encrypted dvds. You can get the xine plugin by going to the captain css link on the xine home page, and the mplayer site tells you what plugins you need and where to get them. I think there are some gcc issues when you try to compile mplayer that require you to use certain options with the ./configure command, but I can't remember what those options are. The easiest way to get something that works, I think, is to get the videolan rpms. If you're comfortable installing from source, I'd go with xine. If you're comfortable both with installing from source and a command line only program, then you might want to give mplayer a try. Hope this helps. -- Rich 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] DVD-player
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:58:40 -0400, you wrote: I have thought about getting a DVD player for my system, but wonder. I have seen where they advise your processor be at least 300 MHz and I have a 450, but is that really enough? I have a DVD player, and my processor is a 500mhz Celeron, so you prolly could. I've never tried it in Linux, only windont, but it seems to do the job there...stupid Compaq software problems notwithstanding... Rich Buckner wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2001 06:26 am, Jonas Jacobsson wrote: Can anyone recomend a dvd viewer for Mandrake 8.0? xmovie needs kernel 2.4.7 and I only have 2.4.3. /jonas xine, videolan, and mplayer are all pretty good. I prefer xine; videolan sometimes has problems with synchronizing audio and video, and mplayer doesn't have a gui. You can find xine and mplayer by going to freshmeat.net and searching for them there. You can get videolan at www.videolan.org. videolan is packaged in rpms as well as source, and as packaged contains everything you need to play encrypted dvds. The current xine, I think, only is packaged as source, but you can get rpms for older versions. mplayer, I think, is only packaged as source. With xine and mplayer, you need plugins to play encrypted dvds. You can get the xine plugin by going to the captain css link on the xine home page, and the mplayer site tells you what plugins you need and where to get them. I think there are some gcc issues when you try to compile mplayer that require you to use certain options with the ./configure command, but I can't remember what those options are. The easiest way to get something that works, I think, is to get the videolan rpms. If you're comfortable installing from source, I'd go with xine. If you're comfortable both with installing from source and a command line only program, then you might want to give mplayer a try. Hope this helps. -- Rich 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] apache question
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:02, Jon Doe wrote: Ok, at one time I had apache up and running and serving pages. For some reason now I always just get a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 443 error. What am I doing wrong? I want to setup SSL and have usernames and passwords for each user. The users are not on my network they will use Internet access to get the pages. Any help? Do you already have SSL installed, and have you generated a digital certificate? You won't get anywhere without that. Dave PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
if you highlight the text in konsole with a mouse and then middle(both click fro 2 button mice)click in your message the highlughted text should be pasted in, alternatively highlight and use ctrl-c and then click in your message and ctrl-v the former will often work where ctrl-etc doesn't, for example pasting into everybuddy chat windows requires a mouse middle(double) click bascule On Saturday 15 September 2001 12:41 pm, you wrote: And incidentally, is there a way to copy some of the session from Konsole, so that I don't have to type it in the email? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
that reads terribly, by 'both' and 'double' clicking i mean pressing both buttons of a 2 button mouse, at the same time, once bascule On Saturday 15 September 2001 7:38 pm, you wrote: if you highlight the text in konsole with a mouse and then middle(both click fro 2 button mice)click in your message the highlughted text should be pasted in, alternatively highlight and use ctrl-c and then click in your message and ctrl-v the former will often work where ctrl-etc doesn't, for example pasting into everybuddy chat windows requires a mouse middle(double) click Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache question
On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:33, you wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:02, Jon Doe wrote: Ok, at one time I had apache up and running and serving pages. For some reason now I always just get a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 443 error. What am I doing wrong? The apache faq addresses this problem over at www.apache.org. I had the same problem but unfortunately the faq's solution didn't work for me. If I try to move my html root out of /var/www/html (updating the configs to reflect the change) I get that error, but it's fine if I move it back. I haven't figured out the cause despite lots of reading. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Network Cards
On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:38, you wrote: Can anyone recommend a pcmcia network card that works well with Mandrake 8.0? My D-Link DFE-650 works perfectly under mandrake 8.0. It's about $40. I chose it off of the pcmcia compatibility list, and I'd assume most cards on that list will work. I dont have that list off hand, but a search for pcmcia linux should find it pretty easily. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache question
did you restart apache after moving the home page?? This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1000579545-7607-3901 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:33, you wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:02, Jon Doe wrote: Ok, at one time I had apache up and running and serving pages. For some reason now I always just get a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 443 error. What am I doing wrong? The apache faq addresses this problem over at www.apache.org. I had the same problem but unfortunately the faq's solution didn't work for me. If I try to move my html root out of /var/www/html (updating the configs to reflect the change) I get that error, but it's fine if I move it back. I haven't figured out the cause despite lots of reading. Matt =_1000579545-7607-3901 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1000579545-7607-3901-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Libarary compatibility
It's this particular one I'm having the problem with. libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm. I used it once in the past and it worked fine. I even had saved it on a zip disk, but my zip drive died. I downloaded it from Caldera's site and did the same thing I did last time, but this time it didn't work. I get a error message. If I unpack it from software manager, it tells me it is already installed, which I don't think it could possibly be. I have re-installed 8.0 since the time it worked and besides that WP8 will not install, as it did the last time. The only libraries on my system that I am aware of, would be what comes stock with 8.0. If I unpack it from Package manager, it does nothing. No big deal though, the main reason I wanted it was to print envelopes, because I was having trouble getting Star Office to print them right. I have since figured out what I was doing wrong there, so this was actually a blessing. I learned something new in the process. Now there is no hurry to get WP to work so, if I do it's just iceing on the cake. Thanx for your concern, not only on this, but on the info about GNOME you gave me in the past. I am now running Ximian exclusively and not having any major problems. I am also planning to get the powerpack when 8.1 is released, so I'll probably wait until then to *monkey with it any more. *notice the Ximian influence? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I did a quick search for libc at rpmfind.net and I found a number of Mandrake and Mandrake Cooker packages. What is the problem? On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:17:21 -0400, Charles A. Punch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:18:01 -0400, mcoady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my ongoing attempt to get Mandrake8 to accept an earlier version of WP8, I tried to install the earlier library libc5 via rpm. However I get the message: file /etc/nsswitch.conf from install of libc5-5.4.38-3 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.2-3.mdk Does this not mean that the older library cannot coexist with a newer one? Is the libc package a Mandrake 8.0 RPM? I am having a similar problem. The only RPM I could find was a Caldera one. This is the same one that I used before and it worked fine. WhenI try to unpack it, I get an error message. I have since made many changes to my system, so I am thinking that it may be another conflict within my system and not a problem with the RPM itself. Just guessing. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 If so, try this: 1. Make a backup of /etc/nsswitch.conf 2. Install libc5 3. Restore the old /etc/nsswitch.conf, in place of the new one 4. Install WP8. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pdf
chris swain wrote: Oh and while your at it does any one know how to delete printer cues :) 28 pages of pdf /junk I use -Kups -Manage Jobs once there, you can remove or hold any running jobs. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user 3217118 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] burning iso
Run sndconfig and listen to the way Linus Torvalds pronounces it. Hey, he wrote it, so I think he should decide. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user 3217118 Colin Jenkins wrote: Hello D., Saturday, September 15, 2001, 11:45:14 PM, you wrote: DLW Hello list DLW I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. DLW I have been lurking for months and enjoy this list. DLW I installed 8.0 with no problems that haven't been addressed here until today, discounting DLW my own bumbling. DLW Just downloaded Raklet iso's and burnt cdroms, however result is a cdrom with the file DLW mandrakelinux-8.1-raklet-beta3-cd1.i586.iso rather than a cdrom full of files. Where have DLW I erred? DLW I used neroburning (gulp) windows 98 DLW tia DLW Lee Wiggers Are you sure you selected CD-Rom (ISO) from the Nero menu ? I use nero, and have had no problem burning iso's (till my burner died yesterday :(( ) Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 Use your own judgement then do as I say 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] Enlightenment vs Sawfish
Hey Civil, Do we know when E 0.17 will be released? Will this be included in MDK 8.1? Or at least a beta release? tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 3:25pm up 5 days, 7:12, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | On Saturday 15 September 2001 19:53, Tim Holmes wrote: | Sawfish is a light WindowManager which can support GNOME as a desktop | manager. There are others not supplied by mandrake that can do the same, and | there is Enlightenment which can also rrun under GNOME. | | GNOME is a desktop environment designed to run with a compliant window | manager, not alone. | | Enlightenment is heavy on the eyecandy but surprisingly fast. Sawfish is | extremely fast which makes up for its lack of native features (except a nice | ability to run themes), so GNOME with Sawfish is much much faster than GNOME | with Enlightenment. As a result, many GNOME users would call E a resource | hog. | | Now we are approaching the time when E will have its own File manager, and | everything about E has been rewritten for reliability, modular organization, | code reuse and speed. The result is that we will likely have Four Desktop | environments to choose from, KDE, GNOME, Xfce and E version 0.17. | | The situation could be nicer for the user. We could have 5:-). | | Actually, I think the competition inspires innovation and I don't want to see | us (any of us) settle on one WM/DM any time soon. GNOME and KDE have | recently become both more and less friendly to newbies, doing more for them, | but offering a huge number of new options and a number of new features that | can best be characterized as engineer's toys. Now the new E promises a | lightweight, fast approach to doing most of the same things with the added | feature of some of the greatest eye candy available on a flat screen. | | Users will tell us by their usage patterns which idea is more viable. | | Civileme | | 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] starting programs at boot
by inserting the command to start the program in /etc/rc.d/rc.local as the LAST line. by putting it last it will give all the other commands a chance to load too. On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:30, you wrote: I know this has been asked thousands of times before, but a look throught the newbie archives doesn't come up with the answer. How do I set a program to start at boot time? Specifically, I would like rp-pppoe (the adsl connection program, requires root to start), to start and connect me to the internet whenever any user logs in. Ideally, it would be nice if there was some sort of popup error message if this fails. This is for my mother's computer, later for my grandmother's computer. I want it to connect to the DSL modem automatically so that they don't have to worry about su'ing to root and connecting etc. Just login and start surfing. Thanks a bunch! -Paul Rodríguez _ 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] PCMCIA Network Cards
Hi, By my own experiences I would suggest to you to buy 3COM Megahertz PC Card Bus... Please, don't buy REALTEK rtl8139(A) Card Bus... (I have spend already 3 months trying to make it work and nothing...) X - A - W - K - Original Message - From: Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 1:38 PM Subject: [newbie] PCMCIA Network Cards Can anyone recommend a pcmcia network card that works well with Mandrake 8.0? Thanks, Riker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- r e k l a m a Lista Plac [ http://listaplac.onet.pl ] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Attention for everybody
Now that I think about it. New York City can be viewed as the city of God considering all the prayers everyone is offering and people singing God Bless America. The brothers of course seen as the twin towers. The fortress being the U.S. The great leader . . . doesn't necessarily mean the U.S. president. Many Muslims in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia view Ossama Bin-Laden as a hero, if the suspicion is correct. Perhaps it will be the U.S. president who will succumb to ordering violence. The prophecy is now more disturbing than before the millennium... Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb , The third big war will begin when the big city is burning - Nostradamus 1654 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Grub problems
Just a Windohz warning, people with Windohz ME can't exit to DOS. Restarting in DOS mode is not an option. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of d What I am trying to say in all of this is I did NOT use a WinBlow$ boot disk, did it directly from DOS by just exiting to it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can't receive.
I set up postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. I can send messages out but I can't retrieve anything. Does anyone have ideas? thx! -w Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rm -r Confirmation
Hi, the -i is the opposite of -f (-i = interactive = prompt, -f = never prompt) David Charles On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, ryan_steffes wrote: Found it, ::blush:: RTFM rm -ifr turns out to be what I want. 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] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can't receive.
ehh, I just had a simalar problem, but mine was with the pop settings from my ISP mail server. but if you ain't recieving how you gonna get this? On Saturday 15 September 2001 18:38, you wrote: I set up postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. I can send messages out but I can't retrieve anything. Does anyone have ideas? thx! -w 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] NOTRADAMUS
You can find out all you want on this fake at urbanlegends.com not of it is true at all. From: jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NOTRADAMUS Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:06:19 -0400 I have a friend who has been studying French for years and translated verbatim what his interpertation means in english...it has nothing to do with the millenium, angels or twins. I will try and find the correct French verbatim and english translation to do away with this nonsense. -- 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 _ 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
[newbie] Deleted mail in KMail still there?
Hi everyone Recently I decided to try out Sylpheed (only to find that I prefer KMail :-) ) and found that when I imported my KMail folders into Sylpheed, approx 150 emails that I had deleted weeks before appeared. I have KMail set to empty the trash folder on exit. Could this have been caused by manually emptying the trash folder before exiting KMail? Weird... Any ideas anyone. TIA 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
[newbie]
Hi, I have just started a Java course and visited the sun website in order to download the development kit. I remember the last time I considered learning java JDK 1.2 was in vogue. Now I notice they have SDK. Can anyone explain the differences.? From the learning point of view can I install SDK while my course is going to be based on JDK? I am currently using Win 2000 platform but would like to progress to Linux when I feel comfortable with it. What is the difference ( from the point of view of the java toolkit ) in Java development on linux and/or windoz. Regards Siavash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Deleted mail in KMail still there?
On September 15, 2001 07:15 pm, you wrote: Hi everyone Recently I decided to try out Sylpheed (only to find that I prefer KMail :-) ) and found that when I imported my KMail folders into Sylpheed, approx 150 emails that I had deleted weeks before appeared. I have KMail set to empty the trash folder on exit. Could this have been caused by manually emptying the trash folder before exiting KMail? Weird... Any ideas anyone. TIA skinky Just a guess, but maybe the old emails were hiding in your other folder files, Inbox, Sent Intems, et al. yet they were only marked for deletion. When Sylpheed went to import, it ignored the 'deleted' marker next to these old emails and imported them anyway. Maybe compacting each folder before the import would really vaporize the emails. Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can't receive.
Etharp - I have other computers that receive mail just fine. I am getting your mail (otherwise there wouldn't be much point to being on a mailing list. . . ). However, using postfix and pine I cannot seem to receive on Mandrake 8.0. Anyone have constructive suggestions? -w - Original Message - From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can't receive. ehh, I just had a simalar problem, but mine was with the pop settings from my ISP mail server. but if you ain't recieving how you gonna get this? On Saturday 15 September 2001 18:38, you wrote: I set up postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. I can send messages out but I can't retrieve anything. Does anyone have ideas? thx! -w 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD-player
I have thought about getting a DVD player for my system, but wonder. I have seen where they advise your processor be at least 300 MHz and I have a 450, but is that really enough? Rich Buckner wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2001 06:26 am, Jonas Jacobsson wrote: Can anyone recomend a dvd viewer for Mandrake 8.0? xmovie needs kernel 2.4.7 and I only have 2.4.3. /jonas xine, videolan, and mplayer are all pretty good. I prefer xine; videolan sometimes has problems with synchronizing audio and video, and mplayer doesn't have a gui. You can find xine and mplayer by going to freshmeat.net and searching for them there. You can get videolan at www.videolan.org. videolan is packaged in rpms as well as source, and as packaged contains everything you need to play encrypted dvds. The current xine, I think, only is packaged as source, but you can get rpms for older versions. mplayer, I think, is only packaged as source. With xine and mplayer, you need plugins to play encrypted dvds. You can get the xine plugin by going to the captain css link on the xine home page, and the mplayer site tells you what plugins you need and where to get them. I think there are some gcc issues when you try to compile mplayer that require you to use certain options with the ./configure command, but I can't remember what those options are. The easiest way to get something that works, I think, is to get the videolan rpms. If you're comfortable installing from source, I'd go with xine. If you're comfortable both with installing from source and a command line only program, then you might want to give mplayer a try. Hope this helps. -- Rich 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
[newbie] Printing from emulator? figured it out
Printing form the emulator window lp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can't receive.
On Saturday 15 September 2001 17:38, you wrote: I set up postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. I can send messages out but I can't retrieve anything. Does anyone have ideas? postfix only sends mail. You need to use fetchmail to receive mail. From a command line try fetchmail. your.isppopserver.com You should get asked your login and password, then receive your mail. If that's the case, you can then set up fetchmail to get your mail automatically. But try that first. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can't receive.
Matt Greer Roger Sherman, Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you! I will immediately set to work on fixing this problem. Cheers! -w - Original Message - From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can't receive. postfix only sends mail. You need to use fetchmail to receive mail. From a command line try fetchmail. your.isppopserver.com You should get asked your login and password, then receive your mail. If that's the case, you can then set up fetchmail to get your mail automatically. But try that first. Matt 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] Deleted mail in KMail still there?
On Sunday 16 September 2001 13:11, you wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:15:07 +1200 skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Hi everyone Recently I decided to try out Sylpheed (only to find that I prefer KMail :-) ) and found that when I imported my KMail folders into Sylpheed, approx 150 emails that I had deleted weeks before appeared. I have KMail set to empty the trash folder on exit. Could this have been caused by manually emptying the trash folder before exiting KMail? Weird... Any ideas anyone. = Had you compacted your folders??? Mike Yes, but I can't say when exactly. I compact the folders approx every 2 weeks. Does that make a difference? 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
[newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter
hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of buffering under KDE, but when I do open a new program such as netscape I eventually ran out of memory and need to use disk swap - which the buffer really doesn't help... could anyone help me on how to disable the memory buffering under KDE? My other question is that I tend to use disk defragmenter under windows, but after I switch over I realize I couldn't find anything like it under KDE... could anyone also help me how to run defragmenter with Mandrake? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 21:41, Lin wrote: hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of buffering under KDE, but when I do open a new program such as netscape I eventually ran out of memory and need to use disk swap - which the buffer really doesn't help... could anyone help me on how to disable the memory buffering under KDE? Hmm... Don't know much about this. My other question is that I tend to use disk defragmenter under windows, but after I switch over I realize I couldn't find anything like it under KDE... could anyone also help me how to run defragmenter with Mandrake? Linux uses a different filesystem than DOS/Win, called Ext2. This filesystem does not require defragmenting, because Linux maintains it real-time. You may occasionally need to run the filesystem checker (fsck), but you will be prompted to do so -- don't worry about running manually. Fsck is something like scandisk. Dave PGP signature
[newbie] Adobe Acrobat Reader
Hi all, I just installed Adobe Acrobat 4 Reader and can't get it to run in Netscape or Konqueror. I set it as a helper app but get the error Couldn't launch /user/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread I've tried it with the .sh extension and without. I tried running acroread from bash, but couldn't get that to work either. Any ideas? Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] disk scan/ disk defrag
Hello: This might be a silly question, but I installed LM8.0 on a disk partition, which it shares with windows 98se. As per instructions, I went ahead and did a disk scan and defrag on the hdd prior to installing linux. Now that I have installed LM, is it still safe to run diskmanager and defrag on the hdd? If it is, will it do the entire drive or only the win partition? Thanks. Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] disk scan/ disk defrag
installed LM, is it still safe to run diskmanager and defrag on the hdd? If it is, will it do the entire drive or only the win partition? Thanks. Well, you've just defragged the Win partition, so there's no need to defrag it again. The Windows defragger doesn't know about Linux, and can't handle Linux partitions, and even if it could there is no need to defrag ext2 and really no need at all to defrag reiserfs partitions, as fragmentation is rare in the first case, and practically impossible in the second. Dexter David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Deleted mail in KMail still there?
Yes, but I can't say when exactly. I compact the folders approx every 2 weeks. Does that make a difference? My impression was that kmail automatically compacted the folders when you exited it. Or do you just leave kmail running all the time? :) skinky David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter
buffering under KDE, but when I do open a new program such as netscape I eventually ran out of memory and need to use disk swap - which the buffer really doesn't help... could anyone help me on how to disable the memory buffering under KDE? There's no way to disable the buffering without rewriting the kernel, as it is a Linux function and has little to do with KDE. And I don't think you'd really want to. The buffers are just another memory resource, and linux will decrease the size of those buffers, turning the memory over to other processes as memory is requested -- as long as those applications aren't using the disk a lot for file reads/writes. Linux will try to balance the need for the buffers as disk usage (but non-swap disk usage) goes up and down. For instance, do a 'free' early in the morning after the nightly 'locate' jub runs, and you will likely see that your buffer usage according to 'free' is greater than 'normal'. And that's because the locate process does hit the disks pretty hard. But wait a while, or launch Netscape, and you will probably se that value go down. My other question is that I tend to use disk defragmenter under windows, but after I switch over I realize I couldn't find anything like it under KDE... could anyone also help me how to run defragmenter with Mandrake? Disk defragmentation is just not needed in Linux. Eric David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Attention for everybody
Now that I think about it. New York City can be viewed as the city of God considering all the prayers everyone is offering and people singing God Bless America. The brothers of course seen as the twin towers. The fortress Which just proves that people have to go to extremes to interpret what Nostradamus said, after the fact. At least you don't have to pay $3.99 per minute as with Miss Cleo. Reading goat entrails is just as reliable. Hans N. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-player
Jonas Jacobsson wrote: Can anyone recomend a dvd viewer for Mandrake 8.0? xmovie needs kernel 2.4.7 and I only have 2.4.3. /jonas My younger brother says that Xine works fine with 8.0 and his DVD drive. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eterm Backgrounds
Isaac Curtis wrote: I am finding all these BEAUTIFUL backgrounds in eterm when it starts up, but I'll try to go back to some of them at a later date and find that noen of them are in the list to choose from. I've tried every single background in both scaled and tiled sections to no avail. Where are all these beautiful backgrounds hiding? - Isaac Hi Isaac. You can find those pics in: /usr/share/Eterm/pix There are 2/3 files there that you can edit if you want to add or delete any pics. Do a man Eterm as well, for more useful info. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment vs Sawfish
ryan_steffes wrote: Which one do most of you prefer? Enlightenment is my window manager of choice, though I don't use it in conjunction with Gnome or KDE, other than very occasionally running GMC. E17 will take care of that, however. :) For starters, my X-Windows doesn't display menu's on a rightclick on the desktop. Enlightenment has three different menus which appear when you click on the desktop with the three different mouse buttons. Right-clicking brings up the maintenance menu. If that's what you're used to, it is part of E, not Gnome. Is that an option in Sawfish? Heck I can't even figure out how to change my background. I'd like to RTFM but all I can find is help for gnome, and I'm not sure which parts are gnome and which parts are Sawfish. Have you checked the Sawfish web site? www.sawfish.org Have you tried running Sawfish without Gnome? Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment vs Sawfish
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:54:36 -0400, ryan_steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which one do most of you prefer? I use gnome, and in Mandrake 7 it default installed Enlightenment and in 8 it defaulted to Sawfish. Enlightenment was the default WM for GNOME before GNOME 1.2. It is quite a good WM, and it works well on its own (i.e. without GNOME). It is most definitely the prettiest WM out there, but consequently is a bit of a resource hog when compared to other WMs like IceWM and WindowMaker. A new version has been in the works for quite some time, and aims to turn E into a desktop shell (more than just a WM, but not as heavy as KDE and GNOME). Sawfish has better integration with GNOME, and since GNOME 1.2 has been GNOME's official WM. On its own it is not as user-friendly or as feature-packed as E. It is very flexible, however, and boasts its own Lisp-like scripting language to add extra features. Its philosophy is to remain minimal, and rely on scripts and environments like GNOME to add functionality. It is one of the best WMs cosmetically (through its flexibility), but not as good as E. I'm not sure if the features I liked in Enlightenment exist and I don't know how to set them up, or whether they were features of Enlightenment. For starters, my X-Windows doesn't display menu's on a rightclick on the desktop. Is that an option in Sawfish? Heck I can't even figure out how to change my background. I'd like to RTFM but all I can find is help for gnome, and I'm not sure which parts are gnome and which parts are Sawfish. Tips, tricks, suggestions? As I mentioned above, Sawfish prefers to remain light, relying on external applications to manage non-essential functions. For example, GNOME can set your background image, as can apps like xv. Sawfish has a default pop-up menu when the desktop is middle-clicked. Click- and key-bindings are _very_ configurable in Sawfish, and can be modified in the configuration tool. -- 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
[newbie] pdf
Thanks I can now read the pdf files :) I now have a problem printing out pdf files :) When I click on the print option it thinks for some time then spits out a bunch of garbage. Any clues? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Recent Freezing Issue
One possibility worth trying would be to boot off the rescue disk and leave it in the command line. Don't login or type anything and see if it still crashes. If it does you could be dealing with a dodgy power supply, otherwise apart from linux config probs it may be worth checking your Ram out. If you've got 2 128Mb banks try running them individually to see if it's faulty Ram. (Also if you've got windows on the machine too try running running that to see if that does the same.) I've known overburdened or failing power supllies produce random crashes before. Especially when accessing devices such as CD drives or HD's. Have you added any new periperhals recently that are drawing power from the power supply. (USB potentially included in that) Antonio. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Isaac Curtis Sent: 14 September 2001 19:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Recent Freezing Issue I'm typing this very quickly because every time I've logged in to write this my computer has frozen before I could finish. I have 1600 backed up emails and haven't been able to write anything else to this list for help on other issues. The problem is that when logged in to my 7.2 box, the computer freezes after a varying amount of time. I haven't been able to isolate it because it happens so often I almost don't use the computer anymore. I believe it has all been happening either when it is idle or at most when the mouse is in use, I don't remember it occurring when the keyboard was typing. I always first notice it because the mouse won't respond, then I realize the keyboard won't either, and nothing will work except for turning off the power on the box. This has never happened in the first two months of using Linux but it has happened with paralyzing frequency for the last week or so. If it is relevant, I'm not dipping into swap at all, I've got 256MB RAM and not even half is usually used for active processes. I've got kpppstatistics, processmanager, 2 instances of Mozilla (1 browser 1 mail), everybuddy and an eterm open. What's going on? - Isaac PS: Peace, respect, and empathy to all those affected by this tragedy, both in America and abroad. My heart goes out to all of you and to those yet to be affected by whatever response my government ends up taking. I'm so sorry, this all seems so unreal... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] burning iso
Hello D., Saturday, September 15, 2001, 11:45:14 PM, you wrote: DLW Hello list DLW I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. DLW I have been lurking for months and enjoy this list. DLW I installed 8.0 with no problems that haven't been addressed here until today, discounting DLW my own bumbling. DLW Just downloaded Raklet iso's and burnt cdroms, however result is a cdrom with the file DLW mandrakelinux-8.1-raklet-beta3-cd1.i586.iso rather than a cdrom full of files. Where have DLW I erred? DLW I used neroburning (gulp) windows 98 DLW tia DLW Lee Wiggers Are you sure you selected CD-Rom (ISO) from the Nero menu ? I use nero, and have had no problem burning iso's (till my burner died yesterday :(( ) Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 Use your own judgement then do as I say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] burning iso
I say it as Lin-nux. Suite yourself, although Linus himself pronounces it like this. Sounds like you've burnt the ISO file directly onto a CD. It's an Image, so burnt it as one... Email me privately if you need instructions on using Nero to but the ISO, but it's really easy. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: D. Lee Wiggers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 1:45 PM To: newbie list Subject:[newbie] burning iso Hello list I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. I have been lurking for months and enjoy this list. I installed 8.0 with no problems that haven't been addressed here until today, discounting my own bumbling. Just downloaded Raklet iso's and burnt cdroms, however result is a cdrom with the file mandrakelinux-8.1-raklet-beta3-cd1.i586.iso rather than a cdrom full of files. Where have I erred? I used neroburning (gulp) windows 98 tia Lee Wiggers File: message.footer ** 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] pdf
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:50:15 +0800, chris swain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh and while your at it does any one know how to delete printer cues :) 28 pages of pdf /junk Point your browser to http://localhost:631/. -- 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] Installing software problems
Erm, Steve Flynn's reply was correct although I felt perhaps a bit brief
and lacking in detail in case others are wondering and not sure how to
do it.
Firstly you'll need to insert your cds, and mount your cdrom ('mount
/mnt/cdrom' probably -- you may need to be 'root' to do it.) Then
you'll need to change to the rpms directory which I think from memory
are /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ . You might want to check that. the 'ls'
command is your friend. Anyhow, you'll be looking for a .rpm file along
the lines of XFree86-devel-something-something.rpm
I can't remember the specific name but it's something like that,
just then do
rpm -ivh Xfree86-devel-something-something.rpm
You'll probably need to be root to do this.
You should see something like
Xfree86-devel
Then go back and compile your package...
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Re: [newbie] TEST! was I thrown off the newbie list by Denis HAVLIK? is this a blow FOR Mandrake?
On Friday 14 September 2001 22:36, jennifer wrote: This was recieved by the list... I would like to extend the invitation to those would like to keep discussing our grief with members on this list to create a mailing list for that purpose. Email me and I will create a makeshift mailing list of those interested. Especially if you were accidently bumped (whatta jerk) off list by mr. havlik. This list *is* supposed to be unmoderated after all. I have already created such a list on YahooGroups. Sridhar posted the URL. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GNUlinuxgrief Join and post away. Guaranteed unmoderated. The only rule is remain friends by forgiving each other's posts. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment vs Sawfish
On Saturday 15 September 2001 19:53, Tim Holmes wrote: Sawfish is a light WindowManager which can support GNOME as a desktop manager. There are others not supplied by mandrake that can do the same, and there is Enlightenment which can also rrun under GNOME. GNOME is a desktop environment designed to run with a compliant window manager, not alone. Enlightenment is heavy on the eyecandy but surprisingly fast. Sawfish is extremely fast which makes up for its lack of native features (except a nice ability to run themes), so GNOME with Sawfish is much much faster than GNOME with Enlightenment. As a result, many GNOME users would call E a resource hog. Now we are approaching the time when E will have its own File manager, and everything about E has been rewritten for reliability, modular organization, code reuse and speed. The result is that we will likely have Four Desktop environments to choose from, KDE, GNOME, Xfce and E version 0.17. The situation could be nicer for the user. We could have 5:-). Actually, I think the competition inspires innovation and I don't want to see us (any of us) settle on one WM/DM any time soon. GNOME and KDE have recently become both more and less friendly to newbies, doing more for them, but offering a huge number of new options and a number of new features that can best be characterized as engineer's toys. Now the new E promises a lightweight, fast approach to doing most of the same things with the added feature of some of the greatest eye candy available on a flat screen. Users will tell us by their usage patterns which idea is more viable. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Cards, any good?
On Saturday 15 September 2001 02:06, Adrian Lynch wrote: I'm about to buy a new video card, either a 3D Prophet 4500 PowerVR KyroII 64MB AGP, or a VIVID! XS Kyro II 32MB AGP. Can anyone tell me what the compatability is like with these and Mandrake 8.0, or a place I can find out? Lovely Jubbly :o) Hey Ho...lets go Absolutely UNSUPPORTED. If it works at all, it will be under a framebuffer or a generic SVGA driver. And it will most certainly not offer any 3D acceleration. It is highly secret and windows drivers have been written but no others. If you want this Kyro or other PowerVR stuff, stick with windows. Got to www.powervr.com and confirm they offer only windows drivers. Go to www.xfree.org and confirm that they offer NO drivers. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] StartX-problems
I'd suspect that you have a very large error file somewhere - look in /var/log, /tmp/ and the other usual places for a very large files. For example, is there a particularly large .xsession-errors file anywhere (maybe in /root)? If you want to resize your partition, mybe FIPS will do it, or one of the *DRAKE programs - I've always used Partition Magic myself, as I always have a copy handy... either way, make sure you back anything important up first, just in case. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Sebastian [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] StartX-problems Thank You Frans! It's looks like I have no available space on the / partition: File system 1k-blocks UsedAvailable Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 1075176 1052980 0 100% / /dev/hda7 774040 992 733692 0% /home /dev/hda1 6131992 4434228 169776472% /mnt/windows How can I change the partition's size and the mount point? The home partition is to big and the / partition is to less. Thank for any suggestions. Seba fo friends Sybek. Frans Ketelaars wrote: Sebastian wrote: Your font server, xfs is not running. One reason for xfs not starting may be that you have deleted or moved the folders where all the fonts are stored. To verify that you still have fonts to load, open this file at the shell command prompt: vi /etc/X11/fs/config You ought to see some typing about halfway down that looks like this: 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:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 ...Those are all the folders that contain fonts. If none or some of these folders are missing or empty you must re-install your fonts. If you have more questions you can reply straight to me. Richie I have proofed this. The file /etc/X11/fs/config exists and the paths which are there exists too. Last time I have installed the system new but its take too long and I must configure everithing again, from new. Thank You for help. Seba Hi, IIRC another reason for xfs not starting up is an (almost) full partition it needs space on. Check with 'df'. -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com File: message.footer ** 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] burning iso
Take a look at the Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/linus/index.html), written by Eric Raymond. In point 3, there are two sound files available for download. They feature Linus Torvalds saying the same sentence, once in English and once in his native Swedish (Finnish is his _second_ language). The sentences include both Linus and Linux. On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:13:55 -, FLYNN, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I say it as Lin-nux. Suite yourself, although Linus himself pronounces it like this. Sounds like you've burnt the ISO file directly onto a CD. It's an Image, so burnt it as one... Email me privately if you need instructions on using Nero to but the ISO, but it's really easy. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: D. Lee Wiggers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 1:45 PM To: newbie list Subject:[newbie] burning iso Hello list I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. I have been lurking for months and enjoy this list. I installed 8.0 with no problems that haven't been addressed here until today, discounting my own bumbling. Just downloaded Raklet iso's and burnt cdroms, however result is a cdrom with the file mandrakelinux-8.1-raklet-beta3-cd1.i586.iso rather than a cdrom full of files. Where have I erred? I used neroburning (gulp) windows 98 tia Lee Wiggers -- 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
[newbie] xmovie
Hi, Why is xmvovie shipping with Mandrake 8.0 when it needs kernel 2.4.7 and Mandrake 8.0 is kernel 2.4.3? /jonas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StartX-problems
Thank You Steve I have looked everywhere for the file and i couldn't find it. I tried find command with -size, -name, -atime, -xdev, -print option combinations. I had a look for the files in the /var/log directory (errors, message, syslog) and I couldn't find anything interesting there. Now I will try to resize my partitions. Sybek Problems to run X-windows FLYNN, Steve wrote: I'd suspect that you have a very large error file somewhere - look in /var/log, /tmp/ and the other usual places for a very large files. For example, is there a particularly large .xsession-errors file anywhere (maybe in /root)? If you want to resize your partition, mybe FIPS will do it, or one of the *DRAKE programs - I've always used Partition Magic myself, as I always have a copy handy... either way, make sure you back anything important up first, just in case. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] apache question
have you enabled htaccess (override) files? if so, you need to configure the file properly... you seem to have just denied access, it should be asking for a password... if you can't figure it out, I will look up my settings for you tomorrow. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Doe Sent: Sunday, 16 September 2001 1:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] apache question Ok, at one time I had apache up and running and serving pages. For some reason now I always just get a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 443 error. What am I doing wrong? I want to setup SSL and have usernames and passwords for each user. The users are not on my network they will use Internet access to get the pages. Any help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NOTRADAMUS
On Saturday 15 September 2001 01:07 pm, you wrote: In a message dated 9/12/01 2:34:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nostradomus died in the 1500's, this is a hoax. Nostradumus' Younger Brother Ignoramus Also Made Predictions- He Just Wasn't Very Good At It Ask most people about Nostradumus, and they will tell you he made some predictions a long time ago, and some of them may have come true. Ask the same people about Ignoramus and they will say who? Most people don't realize that Ignoramus, the younger brother of Nostradumus, also made predictions, but he failed miserably at it. So much so, that his name has become synonymous with doing something really stupid. http://www.foolbrain.com/featurestories/ignoramus.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment vs Sawfish
On Saturday 15 September 2001 21:28, Tim Holmes wrote: Hey Civil, Do we know when E 0.17 will be released? Will this be included in MDK 8.1? Or at least a beta release? tdh Heeheehee I fear that it will not be so my friend. We will serve no wine before its time, is an apropos quote for E and the philosophy they seem to be following. I am watching the CVS and I would say definitely not. Maybe the next release, but they are taking extreme care to do the project right the first time and provide a platform to expand and enhance for a long time. You should see it before KDE 3.0, though, with luck. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rm -r Confirmation
Found it, ::blush:: RTFM rm -ifr turns out to be what I want. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rm -r Confirmation
Gah the i and f cancel out. rm -rf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File access- Me?,Machine?, Manual?
Michael, Thank you and wow! To try and explain I was frustrated, kept typing in correct commands and getting a response of no such file no such directory. So, I opened up the KDE module, open up the Root Directory, over half way down is a root with a lock on it. That was what I meant by my root has a root. Just following the visible tree. What it all means is I opened up the directory which leads to the root, and more. I do take things I read literal - My thinking was ROOT Directory was the root, not directory to the root. Thanks again! Kathy What you said makes sense. Except for one item, Root directory - key word is directory not root. The one item is if I am SU, does this automatically open the root file or the directory? Assuming I have it set for all access. If you 'su' without the dash, you become the root user (ie, user 'root'--basically the account which has all privileges) but it does not change to root's home directory (/root). (as stated in the man page for su: Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.) for example: mviron@wsdo ~ $ pwd /home/members/mviron mviron@wsdo ~ $ su Password: [root@wsdo mviron]# pwd /home/members/mviron [root@wsdo mviron]# whoami root [root@wsdo mviron]# whereas with su - (or -l or --login) mviron@wsdo ~ $ pwd /home/members/mviron mviron@wsdo ~ $ su - Password: [root@wsdo /root]# pwd /root [root@wsdo /root]# If you use -, -l, or --login username su acts as if you had just logged into the machine directly as username. There are three different 'root's on a unix platform which mean 3 totally different things: 1. The root directory (/) under which all other directories connect. 2. The root user, also known as the Super-User, which has permission to do whatever you want to do (including removing all files on the hard drive), and is typically used for system administration (adding users, editing configurations and so forth). 3. The home directory for the root user (/root/) under which root's shell initialization and configuration settings are stored. The question then becomes which root are you talking about? As far as I am aware, there is no root file (unless you are considering the /root/ directory as a file). HTH, Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida 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] freezes on 3d rendering with my nVidia drivers
I have a Hercules Prophet II MX PCI card, after installing the nVidia drivers (tarred versions) the system comes up fine (showing the little nVidia logo too), but when I try to run a 3d app, even a mesa demo, my system freezes. What's up? -Paul Rodríguez _ 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] Libarary compatibility
Thanx, that sounds like it ought to do it. I must have had those installed before, but didn't realize it. I'll give it a go. ShalomOut Chal Elder Pcusa Registered Linux user #217118 Charles A Edwards wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A. Punch Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:06 PM To: Sridhar Dhanapalan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Libarary compatibility It's this particular one I'm having the problem with. libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm. I used it once in the past and it worked fine. I even had saved it on a zip disk, but my zip drive died. I downloaded it from Caldera's site and did the same thing I did last time, but this time it didn't work. I get a error message. If I unpack it from software manager, it tells me it is already installed, which I don't think it could possibly be. I have re-installed 8.0 since the time it worked and besides that WP8 will not install, as it did the last time. The only libraries on my system that I am aware of, would be what comes stock with 8.0. If I unpack it from Package manager, it does nothing. No big deal though, the main reason I wanted it was to print envelopes, because I was having trouble getting Star Office to print them right. I have since figured out what I was doing wrong there, so this was actually a blessing. I learned something new in the process. Now there is no hurry to get WP to work so, if I do it's just iceing on the cake. Thanx for your concern, not only on this, but on the info about GNOME you gave me in the past. I am now running Ximian exclusively and not having any major problems. I am also planning to get the powerpack when 8.1 is released, so I'll probably wait until then to *monkey with it any more. To install WP on either 8.0 or 8.1 you need to install 2 additional pkgs. libc-5.3.12-35mdk ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk Both are Cooker pkg but the easiest way to find them is using www.rpmfind.net libc will now install with no conflicts. When you install ld.so set it to upgrade and Replace both files and pkgs. I am using WP on both an 8.0 Ximian system and a system with 8.1 Beta3. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. And for too many there are now no tomorrows. 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] NOTRADAMUS
On September 15, 2001 04:08 pm, you wrote: Even so, he still made that very same prophecy Read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Pay close attention to the chapter where the mysterious Aglie is being interviewed at his own home. Then pay close attention to the ending and see what becomes of people who listen to prophecies! Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Deleted mail in KMail still there?
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:15:07 +1200 skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Hi everyone Recently I decided to try out Sylpheed (only to find that I prefer KMail :-) ) and found that when I imported my KMail folders into Sylpheed, approx 150 emails that I had deleted weeks before appeared. I have KMail set to empty the trash folder on exit. Could this have been caused by manually emptying the trash folder before exiting KMail? Weird... Any ideas anyone. = Had you compacted your folders??? Mike -- One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God. -- J. Gustav White _ 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] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can'treceive.
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, WCBaker@home wrote: Etharp - I have other computers that receive mail just fine. I am getting your mail (otherwise there wouldn't be much point to being on a mailing list. . . ). However, using postfix and pine I cannot seem to receive on Mandrake 8.0. Anyone have constructive suggestions? This may be a silly question, but have you tried using fetchmail with pine? peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NOTRADAMUS
no. he did not even speak english. On Saturday 15 September 2001 16:08, you wrote: Even so, he still made that very same prophecy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NOTRADAMUS In a message dated 9/12/01 2:34:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Nostradamus 1654 Nostradomus died in the 1500's, this is a hoax. 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
