[newbie-it] Re: Scusate... Multiple Network configuration fornotebook
Ciao, in teoria dovresti riuscire a gestire tutti i profili che vuoi dal control center sollo la voce rete. Crei un nuovo profilo per ogni insieme di parametri e via. Dico in teoria perche' in pratica io non sono riuscito a farlo funzionare e ogni tanto usando il profilo casa il computer cerca di usare l'IP che uso dal mio ufficio in universita'. Magari a te funziona e poi mi fai sapere. Ciao Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In effetti ho provato anch'io senza nessun risultato. Forse aggiornando a MD 8.1...
[newbie-it] Problema localhost...
Ciao, il problema è questo; è dalla mdk 8.0 che pur cercando di configurare nel miglior modo possibile LISA per sfogliare la rete, non arrivo mai a capo di nulla. L'unico errore che mi torna konqueror quando tento di sfogliare la rete è: Impossibile trovare localhost La cosa mi appare strana in quanto funziona tutto a meraviglia, anche tutti i configuratori che si appoggiano su apache e che ovviamente vengono contattati tramite http:\\localhost:n°porta. Ho provato a cercare errori nella tabella di routing, nel file di hosts, ma non trovo niente di anomalo. Qualcuno ha un'idea? Grazie. Luca
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem
io ho prelevato i sorgenti del driver su http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/ poi 1. scompattati : tar xvzf noemfile.tar.gz 2. la compilazione è piuttosto veloce (NOTA: deve aver installati gli header del kernel . io metterei anche i sorgenti - che kernel hai?) a) dai: ./build_module - ti costruisce i moduli b) poi: ./ltinst2 - che si occupa della installazione dei moduli (ti mette un lt_serial.o e un lt_modem.o in /lib/modules/versione_del_kernel_che usi) c) e' poi possibile lanciare un ./autoload che si occupa di farti partire i drivers in automatico (NOTA: dipende molto dalla distro che usi-- io ho saltato questo passo, utilizzando una slak- puoi ad. es mettere un modprobe lt_serial (è lt_serial il modulo che va caricato, che poi con il modprobe si porta dietro anche lt_modem) in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules - credo però che mdk usi degli scripts di avvio un po' personalizzati...prova con lo script ./autoload, se no fammi sapere... 3. a questo punto se non hai voglia di rebootare, dai un modprobe lt_serial e dovresti essere pronto!!! lo script ./ltinst2 dovrebbe crearti da solo il link simbolico a /dev/modem...cioè /dev/modem punta ad una device creata dal modulo che si chiama /dev/LT0 e sarebbe la seriale virtuale che stai utilizzando: quindi se dai una ls -la /dev/modem puoi verificare. Accertati poi che i permessi su /dev/LT0 siano giusti. Questi ultimi passaggi sono solo dei controlli...gli scripts di cui sopra fanno tutto piuttosto bene... Questo è quanto...spero di non essere stato troppo confusionario, cmq sono qua. NON predere la versione 6b del modulo, a me non funzionava, o meglio credo che sia un modulo di test e non ancora operativo...il file quindi è ltmodem-6.00a.tar.gz A disposizione per chiarimenti...buona giornata a tutti. Gino - Original Message - From: Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 9:56 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem Ciao Gino, direi che puoi parlarne direttamente qui del LTmodem. Io sono riuscito a connettermi ma questo non vuol dire che tutto filil bene. Leggero'con piacere i metodi. Solo ti prego: Scrivi for dummy. Step by step e facile. Ciao Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] emulatori windows + server X 4.0.3 + prg + filtri in Kmail
Il 14:29, mercoledì 03 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutta la ml! Ho una lista di domande a cui spero mi possiate rispondere --- Vorrei chiedere un consiglio: qual'è il miglior emulatore windows per Linux? Dove posso scaricarlo? Vorrei che fosse il più semplice possibile da usare dato che sono ancora alle prime armi. Ciao, io ho acquistato win4lin perchè molto più veloce di wmware. In linuxc di qualche tempo fa c'era una prova comparativa molto dettagliata. Dal sito www.netraverse.com puoi scaricarti la demo e/o acquistare la versione download che costa molto meno da quella distribuita in italia (mi pare dalla italsel). In mandrake 8 funziona la suite office, la rete ( è come avere un altro pc in rete), i programmi di navigazione, di posta, firewall (anche se è meglio lasciar fare a linux), aimster, ecc. ecc. ecc. L'unico programma che non sono riuscito a far funzionare e nero...poco male gtoaster va benissimo. Può essere un sistema per passare gradualmente a linux specialmente in ambienti di lavoroil mio caso appunto. ciao max
[newbie-it] Immagini ISO
salve, esiste un programma per navigare nelle immagini iso? Mi spiego: ho l'immagine iso di trinux80, vorrei apportare delle modifiche ad alcuni file di configurazione e rimasterizzare il tutto. Si può fare? saluti max
[newbie-it] problema di rete
Salve alla lista, io ci riprovo, forse non mi avete letto :)) Ho 2 PC che si vedono tranquillamente e si pingano alla perfezione uno con indirizzo 192.168.0.2, l'altro con IP 192.168.0.2. Al computer che si connette ad internet con ADSL (pppoe) è stata affiancata una seconda scheda di rete che sotto Mandrake 8.1 (per ora sotto windows 2000 ci ho rinunciato) l'utility di ICS dà l'IP 10.0.0.10, mentre per il modem non mi chiede niente. Anche sull'altro PC ho una MDK 8.1 che ha come default gateway 10.0.0.10 (indirizzo che tra l'altro pinga), ma il problema è che non mi apre le pagine web... Qualcuno ha dei suggerimenti? Ciao ;) PS: Siate chiari perchè sono un po' durognolo. PPS: Ma dove è il wizard per creare un server tanto decantato sul sito MDK, chiamato wizdrake? Ciao a tutti e grazie.
Re: [newbie-it] problema di rete
- Original Message - From: Brunini Alessandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: [newbie-it] problema di rete Salve alla lista, io ci riprovo, forse non mi avete letto :)) Ho 2 PC che si vedono tranquillamente e si pingano alla perfezione uno con indirizzo 192.168.0.2, l'altro con IP 192.168.0.2. Lo stesso? Al computer che si connette ad internet con ADSL (pppoe) è stata affiancata una seconda scheda di rete che sotto Mandrake 8.1 (per ora sotto windows 2000 ci ho rinunciato) l'utility di ICS dà l'IP 10.0.0.10, mentre per il modem non mi chiede niente. Anche sull'altro PC ho una MDK 8.1 che ha come default gateway 10.0.0.10 (indirizzo che tra l'altro pinga), ma il problema è che non mi apre le pagine web... Che vuol dire non mi apre? Puoi essere un po' piu' chiaro? Qualcuno ha dei suggerimenti? Ciao ;) PS: Siate chiari perchè sono un po' durognolo. PPS: Ma dove è il wizard per creare un server tanto decantato sul sito MDK, chiamato wizdrake? Ciao a tutti e grazie. Grazie GP
R: [newbie-it] problema di rete
Ciao io ho installato mandrake 8.0 e ho un modem adsl speedstream 4060 della Efficient (distribuito da Alcatel) fornito da tin.it Il mio problema è che non so come configurarlo per la connessione internet Anche io ho due pc collegati in rete ma non riesco a farli comunicare Puoi gentilmente dirmi come devo fare per configurare il tutto? Te ne sarei molto grato, la mia e-mail è: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aspetto tue notizie Grazie anticipatamente Ciao Salve alla lista, io ci riprovo, forse non mi avete letto :)) Ho 2 PC che si vedono tranquillamente e si pingano alla perfezione uno con indirizzo 192.168.0.2, l'altro con IP 192.168.0.2. Lo stesso? Al computer che si connette ad internet con ADSL (pppoe) è stata affiancata una seconda scheda di rete che sotto Mandrake 8.1 (per ora sotto windows 2000 ci ho rinunciato) l'utility di ICS dà l'IP 10.0.0.10, mentre per il modem non mi chiede niente. Anche sull'altro PC ho una MDK 8.1 che ha come default gateway 10.0.0.10 (indirizzo che tra l'altro pinga), ma il problema è che non mi apre le pagine web... Che vuol dire non mi apre? Puoi essere un po' piu' chiaro? Qualcuno ha dei suggerimenti? Ciao ;) PS: Siate chiari perchè sono un po' durognolo. PPS: Ma dove è il wizard per creare un server tanto decantato sul sito MDK, chiamato wizdrake? Ciao a tutti e grazie. Grazie GP
R: [newbie-it] problema di rete
Ho 2 PC che si vedono tranquillamente e si pingano alla perfezione uno con indirizzo 192.168.0.2, l'altro con IP 192.168.0.2. Lo stesso? No, mi ero sbagliato. Uno ha il classico 192.168.0.1 Anche sull'altro PC ho una MDK 8.1 che ha come default gateway 10.0.0.10 (indirizzo che tra l'altro pinga), ma il problema è che non mi apre le pagine web... Che vuol dire non mi apre? Puoi essere un po' piu' chiaro? Che non va su nessuna pagina web con nessun navigatore, nè pinga alcun indirizzo web. Grazie.
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem 2
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Gino wrote: che vuoi dire con non trova nessuna destinazione? che ti dice host sconosciuto o qualcosa del genere? se è così li il prblema non è più il modem, bensì i DNS, che si occupano di convertire i nomi di dominio in indirizzi ip..a seconda di ciò che usi per la connessione devi impostarli con quelli del tuo provider.. se vuoi tagliare la testa al toro e renderli disponibili al sistema devi inserire le seguenti righe in /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (gli indirizzi ip dei dns del tuop prov) nameserve = yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy (dns secondario che usualmente i provider forniscono).. Prova...se ho capito il problema Gino Be', diciamo che hai capito il problema. Il punto e' che non dispongo di questi dati in quanto sono assegnati in modo dinamico dal provider. (Ciaoweb) Cosa potrebbe essere che gli impedisce di farlo? Ciao Luigi
R: [newbie-it] Problema localhost...
..nella richiesta di aiuto avevo scritto sbagliato. Il punto però non è questo, è lo sfoglio della rete che non riesco a fare con konqueror perche mi da come errore [Impossibile trovare localhost], qualcuno ci riesce? Luca -Messaggio originale- Da: LukenShiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: giovedì 4 ottobre 2001 13.49 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] Problema localhost... Nell'anno di grazia 08:42, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Merz Luca, avete scritto: L'unico errore che mi torna konqueror quando tento di sfogliare la rete è: Impossibile trovare localhost [...] contattati tramite http:\\localhost:n°porta. Non so se puo' servire (magari non c'entra), ma mi sa che l'errore e' solo di digitazione, dovrebbe essere http://localhost:n°porta Salux, Lk -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 Pure' allegro di MDK 8.0+8.1+8.2 in ordine sparso ;-)
[newbie-it] Kernel
Ciao a tutti. Sto leggendo gli appunti fi Giacomini e sono arrivato alla sezione compilazione kernel. Allora vorrei compilare il kernel (ovviamente ;-)). Ho prelevato il kernel 2.4.9 da ftp//:ftp.kernel.org. Da quanto ho capito, dopo aver scompattato il file è necessario copiare la directory linux in /usr/src/. Purtroppo quando lancio mrproper da /usr/src/linux la shell mi dà errore dicendo che non trova il Makefile (che si trova in /usr/src/linux/), perché lo cerca in arch/i386. Ho creato queste sub-directory e vi ho copiato il Makefile. A queto punto parte ma mi dà un sacco di warning e alla fine dà un messaggio del genere (+ o -): Makefile:XXX: no rules Makefile. XXX è un numero (che identifica l'errore credo, no?). Cosa devo fare? Grazie a che mi vorrà rispondere Adios CaMiX
Re: [newbie-it] problema di rete
i dns sono impostati? - Original Message - From: Brunini Alessandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: [newbie-it] problema di rete Salve alla lista, io ci riprovo, forse non mi avete letto :)) Ho 2 PC che si vedono tranquillamente e si pingano alla perfezione uno con indirizzo 192.168.0.2, l'altro con IP 192.168.0.2. Al computer che si connette ad internet con ADSL (pppoe) è stata affiancata una seconda scheda di rete che sotto Mandrake 8.1 (per ora sotto windows 2000 ci ho rinunciato) l'utility di ICS dà l'IP 10.0.0.10, mentre per il modem non mi chiede niente. Anche sull'altro PC ho una MDK 8.1 che ha come default gateway 10.0.0.10 (indirizzo che tra l'altro pinga), ma il problema è che non mi apre le pagine web... Qualcuno ha dei suggerimenti? Ciao ;) PS: Siate chiari perchè sono un po' durognolo. PPS: Ma dove è il wizard per creare un server tanto decantato sul sito MDK, chiamato wizdrake? Ciao a tutti e grazie.
Re: R: [newbie-it] Problema localhost...
Nell'anno di grazia 15:31, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Merz Luca, avete scritto: Il punto però non è questo, è lo sfoglio della rete che non riesco a fare con konqueror perche mi da come errore [Impossibile trovare localhost], A me da' impossibile collegarsi all'host localhost, ma credo perche' non c'e' nessun servizio in ascolto, dato che ho blindato tutto... Nel file /etc/hosts compare il riferimento per risolvere il nome localhost [127.0.0.1]? -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 Pure' allegro di MDK 8.0+8.1+8.2 in ordine sparso ;-)
R: R: [newbie-it] Problema localhost...
si, ma il mio problema è circoscritto allo sfoglio della rete tramite konqueror, come browser funziona benissimo e in qualsiasi altro caso localhost è pienamente attivo e risponde sempre, tranne che lì Luca -Messaggio originale- Da: LukenShiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: giovedì 4 ottobre 2001 15.46 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: R: [newbie-it] Problema localhost... Nell'anno di grazia 15:31, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Merz Luca, avete scritto: Il punto però non è questo, è lo sfoglio della rete che non riesco a fare con konqueror perche mi da come errore [Impossibile trovare localhost], A me da' impossibile collegarsi all'host localhost, ma credo perche' non c'e' nessun servizio in ascolto, dato che ho blindato tutto... Nel file /etc/hosts compare il riferimento per risolvere il nome localhost [127.0.0.1]? -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 Pure' allegro di MDK 8.0+8.1+8.2 in ordine sparso ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem 2
Nell'anno di grazia 14:53, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Luigi De Pascale, avete scritto: Il punto e' che non dispongo di questi dati in quanto sono assegnati in modo dinamico dal provider. (Ciaoweb) Allora ti conviene inserire l'opzione usepeerdns nel file /etc/options, dovrebbe risolvere il problema. P.S. cmq ho letto da qualche parte che si possono prendere benissimo i DNS di altri provider. Effettivamente ho fatto la prova, dato che il. dns di aruba lascia un po' a desiderare, inserendo quelli di ngi (194.185.88.5 - 194.20.8.1) funziona tutto perfettamente. Salux, Lk -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 Pure' allegro di MDK 8.0+8.1+8.2 in ordine sparso ;-)
[newbie-it] Re: kernel
Se il kernel che devi installare è diverso da quello precedente (cioè si trova dentro un dir diversa, ma gari dentro /usr/src hai linux-2.4.5 e 2.4.9) non credo sia necessario fare mrproper... Inoltre ti consiglio di rinominare la dir linux che ora contiene il kernel 2.4.9 e poi creare un link linux ad essa...mi spiego mv linux linux-2.4.9 ln -s linux-2.4.9 linux così per qualsiasi prob, basta che cambi il link e puoi ricompilart anche un kernel precedente e ti trovi nella situazione di cui sopra... io farei (anche se prbabilmente rispetto all'autore di quello che stai leggendo, io sono una sega..) cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig (o xconfig se usi X) make dep make clean make bzImage make modules cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /directory di boot (di solito /boot) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /directory dove hai l'immagine del kernel (io uso sempre /boot ma mi sa che mdk usa / - te ne puoi accertare guardando /etc/lilo.conf - io creerei un'altra voce cmq) (queste ultime due puoi sostituirle con make bzlilo - però non mi fiderei troppo di dove va poi a mettere i files di cui sopra) make modules_install lilo -v (ti aggiorna il bootloader) depmod -a 2.4.9 prova.. Ciao Gino P.S.: lo so che quando scrivo sono un po' confusionario..chiedo venia - Original Message - From: CaMiX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux ML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:46 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Kernel Ciao a tutti. Sto leggendo gli appunti fi Giacomini e sono arrivato alla sezione compilazione kernel. Allora vorrei compilare il kernel (ovviamente ;-)). Ho prelevato il kernel 2.4.9 da ftp//:ftp.kernel.org. Da quanto ho capito, dopo aver scompattato il file è necessario copiare la directory linux in /usr/src/. Purtroppo quando lancio mrproper da /usr/src/linux la shell mi dà errore dicendo che non trova il Makefile (che si trova in /usr/src/linux/), perché lo cerca in arch/i386. Ho creato queste sub-directory e vi ho copiato il Makefile. A queto punto parte ma mi dà un sacco di warning e alla fine dà un messaggio del genere (+ o -): Makefile:XXX: no rules Makefile. XXX è un numero (che identifica l'errore credo, no?). Cosa devo fare? Grazie a che mi vorrà rispondere Adios CaMiX
[newbie-it] Fwd: Kernel.
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Kernel. Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:44:13 -0400 From: Renato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: .:enn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LinuxC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per compilare i kernel di servono i seguenti file: Kernel-doc*.rpm/tar.. Kernel-headers*. . Kernel-pcmca(forse di questo puoi fare ameno) Kernel-source*. ... Kernel-cfg*.rpm/tar.. *Al posto dell'asterisco troverai il numero della versione del kernel. Importante preleva i kernel con la dicitura i386 anche se hai un Pentium 4.(i vari 586 o 686 sono quelli precompilati, quindi a te non interessano). Quindi: Kernel-2.2.14-12.i386.rpm . Da terminale digita : #cd /usr/src/linux (per andare nella directory che contiene i sorgenti), dove dovrebbe trovarsi il link simbolico che porta alla vera directory dove sono i veri sorgenti in genere /usr/src/linux-x.x.x . Da questa directory /usr/src/linux digita make xconfig, che lancia un tool grafico per il questionario nel quale devi scegliere le parti del kernel che ti servono. Per ciascuna scelta hai due risposte possibili y (si) e n (no), e una terza m (modulo)e questo richiede una spiegazione a parte. Fatte le scelte e uscito e salvando il K devi verificare le dipendenze, altrimenti il Kernel non và, quindi dalla directory /usr/src/linux digita make dep, se durante la verifica dovesse presentarsi qualche errore non preoccuparti in quanto il kernel che stai usando continuerà a funzionare perché non è stato toccato. Se make dep non ha dato errori digita make clean per fare un pò di pulizia dai file temporanei prodotti finore, e questo sempre della directory /usr/src/linux. Da quì ti consiglio di preparare un floppy dove salverai il kernel, così da poterlo provare: 1-inserisci il floppy nel drive. 2-vai in /usr/src/linux e digita make bzdisk, in questa fase stai generando il kernel vero e prorpio, dovrai attendere qualche minuto. 3-alla fine della fase 2 , digita make modules. 4-quando ricompare il prompt della linea di comando digita make modules_install, questa fase è molto breve. 5-digita depmod -a. A questo punto avrai creato un file con i moduli che possono essere caricati (/usr/lib/modules/versionedelkernel/modules.dep). Se dà messaggi d'errore devi rivolgerti ad un linuxiano doc. A questo punto il kernel è pronto. Per provarlo lasci il floppy nel drive e riavvia Linux. Se ci sono messaggi d'errore non preoccuparti più di tanto, vuol dire solo che devi ottimizzarlo meglio. Se tutto va bene, apri un terminale e digita uname -a , dovrebbe comparire un messaggio che specifica la versione de kernel e la data di compilazione. Viger71. ---
[newbie-it] Mandrake 8.1 e floppy
Non riesco a far vedere il floppy alla mandrake 8.1 e ho qualche problema di riconoscimento dello zip 100 usb (mobo Asus Cusl2 intel 815e). Continua a ripetere che la periferica non esiste (il floppi sotto win e durante l'installazione funziona perfettamente). Per comodità vi riporto il link a un forum in cui ho chieso aiuto. Lì ho spiegato in dettaglio il problema e ho riportato l'uscita di vari comandi (tipo lsmod e altri...). http://forum.hwupgrade.it/showthread.php?s=threadid=139062perpage=20pagen umber=1 Altrimenti faccio un gigantesco copia e incolla qui. ~~~ Francesco Aldrovandi ~~~
Re: [newbie-it] Precisazione per KDE e MDK 8.1
kcpuload è il più discreto dal punto di vista visivo, si mette nella tool bar e neanche te ne accorgi. Ciao, Germano Il 12:39, mercoledì 03 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: On Monday 01 October 2001 21:58, Marco wrote: PS qualcuno conosce un prg che mi dica quanto la cpu stia frigendo? thx :P ci sono molti monitor, il piu' comune e' forse xosview, molto meglio, e' il gkrellm. Potresti averli gia' installati entrambi. bye
Re: [newbie-it] Kernel
No, i386 non è ottimizzato per i 386 ma è quello che puoi ricompilare, mentre i kernel targati i586 i686 sono quelli PREcompilati per i processori più comuni ma non per il tuo Duron piuttosto che K6. Viger71. +++ +++ Nell'anno di grazia 21:46, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer CaMiX, avete scritto: aver scompattato il file è necessario copiare la directory linux in /usr/src/. Purtroppo quando lancio mrproper da /usr/src/linux la shell mi dà errore dicendo che non trova il Makefile (che si trova in /usr/src/linux/), Nonostante quanto ho sentito e letto io ho sempre seguito il procedimento che illustrero' e non ho mai incontrato problemi di sorta :) 1) dato che /usr/src/linux sara' un link simbolico al kernel in uso, lo elimini [casomai non lo fosse, basta rinominarlo] 2) scompatti il tar.gz o il tar.bz2 direttamente nella directory /usr/src ... uscira' una nuova serie di directory che fa capo a /usr/src/linux 3) rinomini la directory linux in linux-2.4.9 o simile e ricrei il link simbolico di nome linux che punta a questa directory 4) entri nella directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.9 5) il make mrproper non serve se il kernel e' di una versione nuova, quindi puoi evitarlo. 6) procedi con la sequenza make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install 7) salvi da qualche parte il file .config in modo da non perderlo qualora servisse ricompilare. 8) copi System.map e arch/i386/boot/bzImage nella directory /boot e fai le modifiche necessarie al gestore del bootloader per rispecchiare il kernel appena compilato. Se usi l'ottimo grub, basta controllare che il file /boot/grub/menu.lst sia corretto. 9) metti un comando depmod -as in un file di avvio tipo rc.local, per sicurezza. Ciauz, Lk
[newbie-it] cambio display manager
Qualcuna sa indicarmi come cambiare display manager ( da kdm a gdm ) ? Grazie, Guido
Re: [newbie-it] Kernel
Nell'anno di grazia 00:23, venerdì 05 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer CaMiX, avete scritto: [cut] A me pero' sembra abbastanza strano, io ho sempre scaricato dal mirror italiano di ftp.kernel.org il file linux- x.x.x.tar.bz2 ed ho compilato piu' volte il 2.4.5, 2.4.7, 2.4.9 e ora ho il 2.4.10 ma problemi come questi non li ho mai avuti :O A me nella directory /usr/src/linux-249 appariva e appare sia Rules.make che Makefile e nella /usr/src/linux-249/arch/i386 deve esserci Makefile. Sembra che manchi (o che non sia stato copiato tutto il contenuto) e quindi non riesce a proseguire. Prova a scompattare _direttamente_ nella directory /usr/src, senza copiare niente da altre parti cd /usr/src tar xvjf linux-2.4.9.tar.bz2 e poi vai avanti col resto. -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 Shake di MDK 8.0+8.1+8.2 su 2.4.10 ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] Kernel
On Friday 05 October 2001 00:23, CaMiX wrote: Ora sto scaricando l'rpm kernel-2.4.10-1mdk.src.rpm. Provo a vedere cosa riesco a combinare. Cmq non è giusto scaricare l'src invece dell'i386? no, temo di no. non vorrei dire assurdita', ma nel tuo caso l'src non sta per i sorgenti del kernel (che puoi prendere in .tgz) ma per un rpm in forma sorgente. Ovvero, puoi ricompilarlo per la tua macchina con rpm --rebuild ma alla fine avrai un kernel in rpm, gia' compilato, che installerai con i classici comandi rpm. Non ho mai upgradato il kernel in rpm, quindi di piu' non so, ma se vuoi conmpilare il kernel per la tua macchina mi sa dovrai prendero in sorgenti. 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
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem 2
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, brain wrote: Gino ha scritto: C'è un parametro, che messo in /etc/ppp/options, svolge la funzione di farti assegnare dinamicamente i dns..no me lo ricordo, però forse adddefaultroute...ma mi sa che dico una str...ata. usepeerdns Ok, allora direi che quello e' il file giusto. il mio e' il seguente: lock noauth noipdefault usepeerdns Non pensate che una di queste righe blocchi qualcosa? CIao Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Kernel
Nell'anno di grazia 19:25, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer LukenShiro, avete scritto: [...] Mi scuso della risposta parziale; se vuoi installare i sorgenti in formato rpm e non scaricare i tar.gz/tar.bz2, dovresti scaricare ed installare i pacchetti kernel-headers-2.4.x- e kernel-source-2.4.x (non i src.rpm che dovresti ricostruire) -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 Pure' allegro di MDK 8.0+8.1+8.2 su 2.4.10 originale
[newbie-it] modem hamlet
Caro esimio listùn, abbiate pietà di un povero utentewindowspentito che non riesce a far riconoscere il suo Hamlet Silver Surfer 56k-V90 USB a Mandrake 8.0 appena uscito dal guscio. Il pinguino magico mi dice che il dispositivo è occupato... Che devo fare? (comprare un modem più serio a parte!) Io vi ringrazio già per la risposta (o per la colletta ;P) Tartalinux
[newbie-it] adsl
Ciao a tutti Io ho due pc e una connessione adsl tin.it con modem SpeedStream 4060 della Efficient (fornito da Alcatel) Il mio problema è che non riesco a configurare la connessione sotto mandrake 8.0 Qualcuno gentilmente può dirmi i passi per configurare la connessione e far dialogare i due pc? Il mio indirizzo è: [EMAIL PROTECTED] grazie anticipatamente a tutti coloro che vorranno rispondermi aspetto fiducioso un aiuto e grazie ancora
Re: [newbie-it] Problema localhost...
Nell'anno di grazia 08:42, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Merz Luca, avete scritto: L'unico errore che mi torna konqueror quando tento di sfogliare la rete è: Impossibile trovare localhost [...] contattati tramite http:\\localhost:n°porta. Non so se puo' servire (magari non c'entra), ma mi sa che l'errore e' solo di digitazione, dovrebbe essere http://localhost:n°porta Salux, Lk -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 Pure' allegro di MDK 8.0+8.1+8.2 in ordine sparso ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem 2
C'è un parametro, che messo in /etc/ppp/options, svolge la funzione di farti assegnare dinamicamente i dns..no me lo ricordo, però forse adddefaultroute...ma mi sa che dico una str...ata. In ogni caso, basta che metti i dns di un qualsiasi provider, la ricerca forse risulterà leggermente piu lenta... Io uso libero e net4free e sul primo (che li fornisce in automatico) ho messo quelli del secondo... Se ci vuoi provare sono: 212.24.2.129 212.24.3.129 Altrimenti prova a collegarti con kppp (se usi kde) o wvdial (da console) che ti fanno una configurazione ad hoc per loro e non vanno, se fornisci i dati in sede di configurazione di uno dei due programmi stessi, a leggersi le altre info sui files di testo di cui parliamo... Prova e fammi sapere.ho passato esattamente i tuoi stessi problemi qualche tempo fa..., Ciao GIno - Original Message - From: Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem 2 On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Gino wrote: che vuoi dire con non trova nessuna destinazione? che ti dice host sconosciuto o qualcosa del genere? se è così li il prblema non è più il modem, bensì i DNS, che si occupano di convertire i nomi di dominio in indirizzi ip..a seconda di ciò che usi per la connessione devi impostarli con quelli del tuo provider.. se vuoi tagliare la testa al toro e renderli disponibili al sistema devi inserire le seguenti righe in /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (gli indirizzi ip dei dns del tuop prov) nameserve = yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy (dns secondario che usualmente i provider forniscono).. Prova...se ho capito il problema Gino Be', diciamo che hai capito il problema. Il punto e' che non dispongo di questi dati in quanto sono assegnati in modo dinamico dal provider. (Ciaoweb) Cosa potrebbe essere che gli impedisce di farlo? Ciao Luigi
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem 2
che vuoi dire con non trova nessuna destinazione? che ti dice host sconosciuto o qualcosa del genere? se è così li il prblema non è più il modem, bensì i DNS, che si occupano di convertire i nomi di dominio in indirizzi ip..a seconda di ciò che usi per la connessione devi impostarli con quelli del tuo provider.. se vuoi tagliare la testa al toro e renderli disponibili al sistema devi inserire le seguenti righe in /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (gli indirizzi ip dei dns del tuop prov) nameserve = yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy (dns secondario che usualmente i provider forniscono).. Prova...se ho capito il problema Gino - Original Message - From: Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:39 AM Subject: [newbie-it] Mandrake+LTmodem 2 Ciao, io ho preso i miei moduli esattamente da quel sito. Ma in basso alla pagina ci sono anche quelli precompilati (rpm). NOTA: per chi lo chiedeva, ci sono anche quelli per la RED-HAT. Ovviamente ho preso quelli per la mia versione di kernel 2.4.3-20. Versione 6.0a. Adesso entro in rete (con i 5.99 non ci riuscivo). Ma ancora le cose non vanno bene perche' non trova nessuna destinazione. Ciao ciao Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Kernel
Innanzittutto grazie delle risposte. Allora, ho fatto quanto hai detto, ma il risultato è il seguente: [root@localhost linux-2.4.9]# make xconfig Makefile:233: arch/i386/Makefile: File o directory inesistente make: *** No rule to make target `arch/i386/Makefile'. Stop. Il fatto è che io, prima di scaricare il kernel 2.4.9, non ho trovato nessuna directory o collegamento in /usr/src che avesse il nome linux... C'era solo una dir di nome RPM... Quindi ho scompattato il pacchetto e ho copiato la dir linux in /usr/src. L'ho rinominata, ho fatto il link simbolico ma quando entro in /usr/src/linux-2.4.9 il risultato è quello sopra... Ora sto scaricando l'rpm kernel-2.4.10-1mdk.src.rpm. Provo a vedere cosa riesco a combinare. Cmq non è giusto scaricare l'src invece dell'i386? Quest'ultimo non è precompilato per 80386 e superiori? Adios CaMiX Il 10:07, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: Nell'anno di grazia 21:46, giovedì 04 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer CaMiX, avete scritto: aver scompattato il file è necessario copiare la directory linux in /usr/src/. Purtroppo quando lancio mrproper da /usr/src/linux la shell mi dà errore dicendo che non trova il Makefile (che si trova in /usr/src/linux/), Nonostante quanto ho sentito e letto io ho sempre seguito il procedimento che illustrero' e non ho mai incontrato problemi di sorta :) 1) dato che /usr/src/linux sara' un link simbolico al kernel in uso, lo elimini [casomai non lo fosse, basta rinominarlo] 2) scompatti il tar.gz o il tar.bz2 direttamente nella directory /usr/src ... uscira' una nuova serie di directory che fa capo a /usr/src/linux 3) rinomini la directory linux in linux-2.4.9 o simile e ricrei il link simbolico di nome linux che punta a questa directory 4) entri nella directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.9 5) il make mrproper non serve se il kernel e' di una versione nuova, quindi puoi evitarlo. 6) procedi con la sequenza make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install 7) salvi da qualche parte il file .config in modo da non perderlo qualora servisse ricompilare. 8) copi System.map e arch/i386/boot/bzImage nella directory /boot e fai le modifiche necessarie al gestore del bootloader per rispecchiare il kernel appena compilato. Se usi l'ottimo grub, basta controllare che il file /boot/grub/menu.lst sia corretto. 9) metti un comando depmod -as in un file di avvio tipo rc.local, per sicurezza. Ciauz, Lk
[newbie] Faxing form staroffice
How do I fax from staroffice or from Koffice? Geert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] did anybody test staroffice 6.0 beta?
Is staroffice 6.0 any good/still a load of bugs? Geert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Two Questions
I won't have access to my Linux box for a week more but this is a question I have if anyone can shed some light. 1.) I have a Sansdisk USB flash card reader, how do I get Linux to see it and access the .jpg photos I have on them? 2.) I have an HP external CDwriter hooked up by parallel port. It is between the HP printer and the computer via the parallel port. How do I access it through Linux. I am able to use the printer fine by Linux doesn't see the CDwriter. At this time I have no use for it since I am not considering backing up or burning anything in particular. This is mostly out of play and curiosity. Thanks to all who shed some light on these two issues for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sorry, this is a test
I sent a message over 12 hours ago, and it hasn't appeared. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Does computer with dual PIII 700MHz good enough to run Web mail server?
hell yes, I did that on a Pentium Pro 200 with 48 mb of ram, it ran without a reboot for 3 months.. and it hosted 50+ mb of html pages and images, it handled several shopping carts, it hosted 7 domains, and handled 3000+ emails a day, (also setup to scan emails for virus's to protect the winblows users connected to it.) worked great, but I have since replaced it with a Athlon 1.4 and a 60 gig hdd... Dual PIII 700's should piss it in... :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tuan Tran Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2001 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Does computer with dual PIII 700MHz good enough to run Web mail server? Can any one tell me if I can use dual PIII 700MHz to run web, mail intranet file server? How fast is it? My cable company provides 2MB download and 380Kps upload. Is it good enough to run web server with about 50 people access at a same time? Thank you Tuan _ 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] A Zip drive Icon problem
In 8.0 I have an icon for zip drive on each desktop. When I click the icon, I cannot access the zip drive, and I get an error message that says cannot mount - unrecognised device. If I right click on the icon and choose the device (?) tab, there are two lines - the first says device: /mnt/zip, the second says mount: /mnt/zip/. If I change the Device line to read /dev/sda4 , ok out and click the icon, hey presto! the zip drive is accessible. However, when I come to boot the machine back up, (the next day say) the device line has changed back to /mnt/zip and I have to go through the whole process again! Why won't it save the settings? Thanks Gordon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Swap Mempry
I don't agree about the 2x problem. I have 384Megs of Ram and a 128Meg swap file running M8 and it runs fine. I also had at one stage 384Megs of Ram and 64Meg swap file and it ran fine as well. IMHO the total about of ram (actual ram and swap file combined) varies between machines and what that machine does. if some one is simply going to use koffice then 256Megs of ram with no swap should be fine, A quake 3 server will need more ram and a swap IMHO for most workstations I say get about 512megs of total ram (preferbily all ram, but if not make the remainder up from swap). ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Spencer Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Swap Mempry On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06:50, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:28:30 +0300, Yuriy Temnyuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 256 Mb phisical memory, what size of Swap I must create? Thank, Yuriy The general rule-of-thumb is to have a swap size of 2x RAM. However, you typically won't gain much by having over 200MB of swap. If you need to use this much swap, your hard drive would be thrashing like crazy and your system would slow to a crawl. In this case, you should really look into buying more RAM (assuming that the problem hasn't been caused by buggy software). Excess RAM is not wasted in Linux, since it uses the surplus for hard drive caching. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, servers often require large volumes of swap space, as do serious software/graphical/multimedia development workstations. For the average desktop system, however, a maximum of 200MB is plenty. I've seen conflicting reports about this on this and other lists. Some say that anything over 200MB is not going to be useful, but others saying that there is a pathological condition in the 2.4 kernels (which is being worked on) that can cause system hangs if your swap is not 2x your physical memory. I've got 512MB physical memory, and a swap partition of 250MB at present. Since upgrading to LM8.0 I've had the machine lock up totally once (necessitating the reset button), so I've been thinking about creating another 800MB of swap to get to the '2x physical' recommendation. This would go on my secondary 80gig disk, so finding the space is not a problem, but is it worth going with this or not? TIA S -- -- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines Remove the fruit to obtain reply address: spencer at lasermount orange dot uklinux dot net 8:29am up 16 days, 20:46, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01 -- -- 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] 8.1 install problem
Yep, i hink you are right, it's a kernel, becouse, when i tried the MDK 8.1 Beta 1 , the 3dfx of mine worked perfect, and it was a different kernel (i think)... Its XFree 4.10. I installed a barebones Mandrake 8.0 and upgraded to 8.1 but kept XFree 4.03. The 2.4.8 kernel accepted the KM133 chipset/graphics fine. The problem is I can''t do a lot because there are a lot of packages that are dependent on Xfree 4.1 such as Drafconf, so I can''t configure my mouse or do anything with fonts. Mandrake 8.1 is not a lot of use to me in this state. Is there any way to get XFree86 4.1 to like a KM133A chipset with integrated onboard S3 SavagePro graphics? -- shipahoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 3D is so slow with LM8.1
Just installed LM8.1 on my PC with (AGP) ATI Radeon AIW 32MB. Normal applications seem fine but 3D app.s (i.e. games) are incredably slow (P100 kind of slow). The 3D tron-clone is achieving 1 frame/second and TuxRacer is also unplayable. I selected X 4.1.0 with 3D acceleration at installation and the OS seems to recognise that it`s an ATI Radeon on board (I think one of the games reported this). Any ideas what the problem is? Where do I find the relevant information/configuration? How do I fix this? Cheers, Rod. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons
[OT] This is my first letter to this list, so I'd like to write 'Hello' to all list subscribers. [OT] Hello David, on Thursday, October 04, 2001 at 9:46:19 AM, you wrote in subject of [newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons: DR Anyway, my problem is desktop icons in Gnome: after installation, they were all DR there - internet, control-centre, Mandrake this-and-that, etc. Then they suddenly DR disappeared: on logging in, a blank desktop and no reaction from the right mouse DR button I've got exactly the same problem, but with KDE (I haven't tried under another X manager). After upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 all my desktop icons and backgrounds are gone ;-( I've got a red desktop for my root account, and a blue for user. Also doesn't work right mouse button (and a little icon on taskbar to logoff). My hardware: Duron 750, Matrox G200 (8MB RAM)display card, 224MB RAM, VIA AC'97 sound (or sth like this...), A4Tech WWW-7 mouse with scroll. So, I'm also waiting for any suggestions... -- Best regards from Gdansk, Poland, Arek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need the libwrap.a file.
give rpmfind.net the first go u might also give mandrake.com a look maybe even under the cooker if it has the version u want - Original Message - From: Peter Marchetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 9:59 PM Subject: [newbie] I need the libwrap.a file. I thought I installed all the lib files offered on my ML8.0 PP distro, but I guess not. Anyone know where I can find them? Peter Marchetti Media Visions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Monitors and video cards
Is it possible to set a specific scan freq for a given resolution? The Control Center/Display doesn't allow this that I've seen. /*===*/ There are three types of lies... lies (You'll never need more than 64K), damn lies (Windows is more stable than Linux), and press releases (It will be released as scheduled). John Simmons (Redneck Techno-Biker) http://www.paddedwall.org/john John Simmons (Barbarian Diecast Collector) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast/diecast_index.html DeMONS/2, Nascar 4 Online Race Scheduler http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 /*===*/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does computer with dual PIII 700MHz good enough to run Web mail server?
and may I ask, how (who) does the dns for those domains, and what is the expense?? On Wednesday 03 October 2001 22:51, you had thoughts to the concept of: I run 3 domains/internal file server/mail server/sql server...all from a dual PIII 500 with 512meg of ram. And it barely stress's this machine. Your dual PIII 700 should be more then fine =) And i run this all off of a 2meg up and 4 meg down connection. h3rb On Wednesday 03 October 2001 21:54, Tuan Tran wrote: Can any one tell me if I can use dual PIII 700MHz to run web, mail intranet file server? How fast is it? My cable company provides 2MB download and 380Kps upload. Is it good enough to run web server with about 50 people access at a same time? Thank you Tuan _ 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
[newbie] KDE is hiding in LM8.1?
I just installed LM8.1 with many windows managers including KDE. However, when I boot up KDE is not an option. Is KDE hiding there? Or do I have to reinstall that part? What steps do I need to follow? Thanks, Rod. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MODEMS vs Winmodems
so, Joe, can we count on you to be the resident win-modem in Mandrake at newbie helper? what we REALLY need is someone to help out all the winmodem owner/newbies when they write. Can I give them your e-mail address should they not receive a positive responce within say 48 hours? bigga snip For the record, the purpose of my post was not to say that everyone should embrace soft modems. The tendency on the list has been to slam them outright instead of offering support to the person requesting help. That does a disservice to the person asking the questions, discourages them from seeking further help from this forum and ultimately discourages trying linux as an alternative. For the benefit of those who pay per minute for internet access and those with slow connections, I do think it is time to let this topic die off. Let's just agree to disagree. Joe It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-} *Tom Brinkman Ed Tharp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hello Everyone!!
ahhh... (humped back old crone, rubbing hands together stirring bubbling cauldren) another tasty newbie morsal, you'll never getaway now newbie.yuk, yuk, yuk, On Wednesday 03 October 2001 08:02 pm, Mark Wilson wrote: Hello List.. I am a new to Mandrake.. My name is Mark, and I have been using Linux for about 6 months.. I have loaded it on one machine and I am currently loading it on my other machine, as soon as I get my new Motherboard and processor.. I have been using Redhat Linux 6.2 for about 9 months now.. This is what we use at work.. I am a Systems Support analyst for a company, in Richmond VA, and I am sure not the most experienced Linux user out there, but I hope i will be able to help out someone, and vice versa.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Download accelerators for Linux?
Although this isn't for Linux, I'd heartily recommend GetRight. It allows you to remove the spyware, which is only there for the unregistered version, and even so, a carefully crafted HOSTS file prevents it from talking back to the spyware collector. In fact, I use quite a bit of spyware and *none* of it manages to talk back to any host other than the one I want it to! Anything the HOSTS file doesn't route to 127.0.0.1, the firewall stops getting out anyway. Getting off the point though - if you are pulling ISO images, and have to do so in Windows, you'll not go far wrong by using GetRight to help you out. Saved me gigs of bandwidth over the last few years, and I'm on a POTS where I pay by the minute (welcome to the UK, where you'll get robbed blind for a crappy service). -Original Message- From: Ralph Slooten [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Download accelerators for Linux? Yes, I know a VERY good alternative. ProZilla (prozilla.delrom.ro). There is a new GUI version, which not only supports ftp search, but also multiple site downloads. Supports almost everything that GoZilla does :-) Ralph On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, s wrote: On Monday 01 October 2001 11:21 am, Terry wrote: I've recently had my eyes opened to Go!Zilla on Windows while downloading the LM 8.1 ISO's, and was wondering if some equivalent existed for Linux. Would love to be able to download future versions of LM from within Linux at a rapid pace instead of having to boot into windows. Thanks! nt (aka Xdownloader or downloader for X - all the same thing), is great. True, I haven't tried too many - never needed one in my windows days. So with all this inexperience, I put nt to use with no learning curve. And it always gets it's file! No corruption, resumes on it's own, and enough little buttons and settings to keep a GoZilla veteran happy. And it comes with a nice gui too. :-) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=nt -s -- ICQ: 25543458Homepage: http://www.axllent.linux-dude.net/ PGP Public Key:http://prozilla.delrom.ro/RalphSlooten.asc 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] Monitors and video cards
In reply to John's words, written Thu, 04 Oct 2001 05:51:46 -0500 Is it possible to set a specific scan freq for a given resolution? The Control Center/Display doesn't allow this that I've seen. You could try xvidtune. Paul -- NEVER, BUT NEVER question the ENGINEERS judgement http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.2 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:46:19 +0100 David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I've just installed LM 8.1 and all was well for 24 hours apart from what I consider to be the usual Mandrake network setup nightmare! (Much better in 8.1 - at least it is no longer assumed that if you're on a LAN, that's how you want to connect to the internet!) Anyway, my problem is desktop icons in Gnome: after installation, they were all there - internet, control-centre, Mandrake this-and-that, etc. Then they suddenly disappeared: on logging in, a blank desktop and no reaction from the right mouse button. This has happened before, with LM 8.0 and Ximian gnome, but LM doesn't have a doorman-reset facility as in Ximian, so just what has gone wrong and how can I fix it? I'm running a laptop with a S3 Savage/MX display chip, Aureal Vortex au8810 sound, Pentium 700, 128MB RAM and in general Linux runs fine, tho' I need a separate sound driver. (Sound is fine in Gnome but nothing in KDE). I've tried reconfiguring XFree 4.1 but to no avail. Any suggestions? I am guessing that you had been using Nautilus and that it was drawing your desktop. At some point you must have exited the program or set it to Not draw and manage the destop. To correct this launch Nautilus, if your Icons reappear nothing else need be done. If not, select the Advance Setup buttom and then choose to have it draw your desktop. If you choose to use GMC it will also draw the desktop and create icons but be forwarned, there is a Gonome problem with GMC/Nautilus where other than the drive icons, all icons create by GMC wiil not properly function. This problem exist when 8.1 is done as a Clean install. It is not present if you do an upgrade install. Charles (-: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install from ISOs
if you have the space you could always mount the isos, copy the files to a directory on a partition that you don't need to mount during the install, use the paths on each of the cd's i.e. create RPMS and RPMS2 etc under .../Mandrake and put the appropriate files there, if that doesn't work you could try installing with all the rpms coppied to /Mandrake/RPMS, i would suggest not choosing a mount point for the partition with the files on during install as it is temporarily mounted by the boot floppy and this seems to confuse the installation later on, at least under 8.0 freq it did, i do feel Mandrake could be clearer about how to do installs using the hd boot floppy with more than one iso file, if this doesn't work you could look at trying to download the files from the ../i586/base directory on the ftp servers that have the distribution in non iso form, i believe this is the directory that has the info about the list of rpms and what directory they are in. clear? because i think i've confused myself! bascule On Wednesday 03 October 2001 9:29 pm, you wrote: How can I install Mandrake from ISO-files? If I boot from the HD-Install-Disk, I can only choose one ISO-file. The Installation-Program shows an error-message, if it tries to install files from cd2 or cd3. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] su not found?
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 11:50 pm, you wrote: | Try going to a terminal and typing su. If the command is found, you | should get prompted for a root password. If not, something sinister is | afoot. I do have su. I use it all the time. It seems like KDE can't find it, and I am wondering why. -- Christian Dysthe http://www.dysthe.net ICQ: 3945810 Registered Linux User #228949 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chromium
michael wrote: does anyone have any cheat codes for chromium??? what is the highest score you have gotten? -- ^-m-^ Haven't you heard? Chromium's design philosophy is that few survive beyond the first 5 mins! grin Don't remember my score, but 3rd level is about as far as I get. (hate those swarming bubble thingys!) ;-) Nice looking/sounding game though. I love putting some Metallica or early Def Lepard in the CD and using it for the soundtrack! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 8.1 ~ Floppy not working
Well, what does 'ls -al /dev/fd*' show? What appears in /var/log/messages when you mount the drive? -Original Message- From: Ralph Slooten [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] 8.1 ~ Floppy not working Hehe, thanks for the wise-ass comment... but that's not the problem :-) On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, mik wrote: there needs to be a floppy in your drive. mik On Monday 01 October 2001 22:48, you wrote: Well, I decided to reinstall, as I could not figure out what the problem is, but even after a fresh install, my floppy drive does not work :-/ Hasn't anyone has this problem yet? Whan I try mound the floppy, it just tells me it was unable to mount the floppy drive, and when I click details, : mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device. Trying it in the shell does not work either: mount /mnt/floppy/ mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device I try the other floppy devices, but this has to be the one I need, as it's just a standard 1044 floppy drive. I have for the sake of it re-reformatted my harddrive, this time without connecting my new Logitech USB mouse, leaving my computer the way it has always been, and still it didn't work :-( Maybe someone knows, or can explain just how this new system works with 8.1? Not that this is urgent today, but will be in the near future for me, so again, any info would be appreciated. Can the rest of you using mandrake 8.1 connect to your floppies? Greetings Ralph On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Ralph Slooten wrote: Could someone please help me here? I have just installed Linux-Mandrake 8.1, and everything works great, except for my floppy drive :-/ I have used Redhat, LM 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, and they have never given any problems regarding the floppy drive. I read on the mandrake site that 8.1 uses some new method to automatically configure devices, but I just can't work it all out. When I try mount the floppy to any of the floppy devices, I get : unknown device. Any suggestions are welcome :-) Thanks in advance Ralph -- ICQ: 25543458Homepage: http://www.axllent.linux-dude.net/ PGP Public Key: http://prozilla.delrom.ro/RalphSlooten.asc 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] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
try to change your Mandrake CD try buying agai.that is the good part of Linux it is very cheap.heheheheeheeh!When it not works e-mail me.TY! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com Stephen Liu wrote: Hi, Thanks for your further advice. Unfortunately I still encountered the same problem after repeated trials. My partition table as follows Native partition for /boot5 MB Swap260 MB (2 x 128 MB RAM) rest for root partition I even tried installing Mandrake 7.2 first. After it works successfully, then I installed/upgrade it to Mandrake 8.0 But I still could not get the later to work. At re-start following warning signal prompts ; Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Would it be the bug problem of my installer - Mandrake 8.0 ? ? ? Best Regards Stephen Liu At 11:30 AM 10/2/2001 -0700, you wrote: Dear Sir Stephen Lui before adding a / linux native root partition just add first a native partition /boot with 5MB needed then after press add again for the swap partion your swap partion must be 2x your memory so for example you have 64mB memory your swap partion must be at least 128MB. then add your / root pation then add an asterisk to Grow to fill this disk this will install your all your linux program in there Thanks and Good Luck! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com Stephen Liu wrote: Hi, Thanks for your response and advice. I only have 2 partitions in my hard disc, the native and the swap. I am sure I have added a mount point / to the native partition. Pls try this pls add a linux native with mount point /boot so you can divide your boot partition to your original mount point / Kindly explain how to add /boot to the native partition. Is it to add a boot partition on the hard disc, making 3 partitions, boot, native and swap and thereafter adding a mount point / to the boot partition ? How about the native partition whether a mount point / is still necessary ? Thanks in advance. B.Regards Stephen Liu which you originaly configured so it will not conflivt with your existing linux native. then dont forget to add a swap partition. I hope my little knowledge on this can help you. Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com The Technology Specialist Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all people, I installed Mandrake 8.0 to a new hard disk and encountered following problem when restarting the computer after installation completed. There was no other Operating System sharing the hard disk. Class of installation : Recommended When restarting the computer following error indicated VFS : cannot open root device 305 or 03:05. Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic : VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:50 I did try several times to restart the computer and also reinstall the software but with no improvement. Kindly help !!! Thanks in advance. Best Regards Stephen Liu 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] ICQ Java
Hi, I succesfully installed ICQ Java. However, when I run it, it gives me exception in main thread. Does anyone know why this is happening and how can I fix it? Thank you. Valerie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sorry, this is a test
On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:23:45 +0100 Gordon Burgess-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent a message over 12 hours ago, and it hasn't appeared. It has now...:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] chromium
does anyone have any cheat codes for chromium??? what is the highest score you have gotten? -- ^-m-^ Haven't you heard? Chromium's design philosophy is that few survive beyond the first 5 mins! grin Don't remember my score, but 3rd level is about as far as I get. (hate those swarming bubble thingys!) ;-) Nice looking/sounding game though. I love putting some Metallica or early Def Lepard in the CD and using it for the soundtrack! ;-) enya is also a good choice!! Relaxing so you are not jerking around :) Metallica BAD! Lars BAD!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Does computer with dual PIII 700MHz good enough to run Web mail server?
Dunno about the gentleman to who you fired that question at, I run a dns server at another location and whenever I see a host that the box connects to alot, I add it to /etc/hosts and it seems to run perfectly well for me... later on, when I get djbdns sussed, I will be putting a dnscache on the box to see how that goes speeding things up, but for now, it seems to run as quickly as the connection will allow it anyway... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2001 6:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Does computer with dual PIII 700MHz good enough to run Web mail server? and may I ask, how (who) does the dns for those domains, and what is the expense?? On Wednesday 03 October 2001 22:51, you had thoughts to the concept of: I run 3 domains/internal file server/mail server/sql server...all from a dual PIII 500 with 512meg of ram. And it barely stress's this machine. Your dual PIII 700 should be more then fine =) And i run this all off of a 2meg up and 4 meg down connection. h3rb On Wednesday 03 October 2001 21:54, Tuan Tran wrote: Can any one tell me if I can use dual PIII 700MHz to run web, mail intranet file server? How fast is it? My cable company provides 2MB download and 380Kps upload. Is it good enough to run web server with about 50 people access at a same time? Thank you Tuan _ 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] did anybody test staroffice 6.0 beta?
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:52:14 +0200, development [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is staroffice 6.0 any good/still a load of bugs? Geert It isn't bad, but IMHO not quite ready for production use (it's a beta, after all). Bloat-wise (installation/memory footprint, speed, etc.), it's only a little better than SO 5.2, although I'm sure that shall drastically improve for the final release. Besides the removal of the integrated desktop, there isn't much real aesthetic difference (most changes are under the hood), although the feature set has definitely been improved. I was a little disappointed to see that it hadn't been GTKised as had been previously announced. Well, that's why we have Abiword :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] All your numbers are belong to us
on 10/4/01 12:59 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it DOES offer us a great example of the dangers of overzealous patent and copyright protection, which directly relates to the open source/proprietary software debates. Hmmm, their number check page doesn't appear to have a form on it to enter your number. I've checked in netscape and IE (the only browsers I have at work). Is it temporarily down or are they using some odd java applet or something? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] did anybody test staroffice 6.0 beta?
On the other hand, OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) which is a scaled-down version of StarOffice works quite nicely on Windows (Yuck! Ptewey!) AND Linux. They've removed the email client, the web-browser and desktop (?) environment, cutting the size to about 40 Mb (for the download), so perhaps that's worth looking at. Same install GUI, same cross-application functionality, smaller footprint. Quite Stable. Lanman On Thursday 04 October 2001 09:40 am, you wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:52:14 +0200, development [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is staroffice 6.0 any good/still a load of bugs? Geert It isn't bad, but IMHO not quite ready for production use (it's a beta, after all). Bloat-wise (installation/memory footprint, speed, etc.), it's only a little better than SO 5.2, although I'm sure that shall drastically improve for the final release. Besides the removal of the integrated desktop, there isn't much real aesthetic difference (most changes are under the hood), although the feature set has definitely been improved. I was a little disappointed to see that it hadn't been GTKised as had been previously announced. Well, that's why we have Abiword :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does computer with dual PIII 700MHz good enough to run Web mail server?
A friend of mine runs 8 web-sites from a dual PIII-600 system as well as email and DNS with no hickups at all. Yours should be fine, but keep in mind that it will also depend on how many hits you get on your web-site and how large the files are, ie; if your users are moving large graphic files across your network on a regular basis, and you're hitting 250 consecutive connections on your web-server, you may want to stay ahead of the potential problem by loading up on ram, and setting up SCSI drives. It also can't hurt to make sure your running all your INTRANET users on 10/100 mbps network cards. I had that exact problem with a dual PIII-866 system, but those upgrades solved the problem, for now. Lanman On Thursday 04 October 2001 09:45 am, you wrote: Dunno about the gentleman to who you fired that question at, I run a dns server at another location and whenever I see a host that the box connects to alot, I add it to /etc/hosts and it seems to run perfectly well for me... later on, when I get djbdns sussed, I will be putting a dnscache on the box to see how that goes speeding things up, but for now, it seems to run as quickly as the connection will allow it anyway... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2001 6:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Does computer with dual PIII 700MHz good enough to run Web mail server? and may I ask, how (who) does the dns for those domains, and what is the expense?? On Wednesday 03 October 2001 22:51, you had thoughts to the concept of: I run 3 domains/internal file server/mail server/sql server...all from a dual PIII 500 with 512meg of ram. And it barely stress's this machine. Your dual PIII 700 should be more then fine =) And i run this all off of a 2meg up and 4 meg down connection. h3rb On Wednesday 03 October 2001 21:54, Tuan Tran wrote: Can any one tell me if I can use dual PIII 700MHz to run web, mail intranet file server? How fast is it? My cable company provides 2MB download and 380Kps upload. Is it good enough to run web server with about 50 people access at a same time? Thank you Tuan _ 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
[newbie] m8.1 iso URLs
Hi I'm having a problem getting the URL's for the M8.1 ISO files. The reason is that the FTP servers are very busy during the day, and this is the only time I have to go and get the urls. What I want to do is get the urls, and place them in my download manager and schedule them to download at night when I'm away from my machine and FTP servers are less busy. Can any one please help. Thanx ___ Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Swap Memory
On Thursday 04 October 2001 01:51 am, you wrote: ... IMHO for most workstations I say get about 512megs of total ram (preferbily all ram, but if not make the remainder up from swap). The general rule-of-thumb is to have a swap size of 2x RAM. Fry's has 512 megs for 39.95 US. Incredible. -- ^-m-^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS vs GM (Linux vs GM)
On Thursday 04 October 2001 01:49, Rick [Kitty5] spoke unto the masses thusly: if GM sold cars like Linux... upgrading the engine might speed up your car and improve your milage, but oddly break your stereo. you would later solve this by adding seemingly unrelated parts, ie the bolts with the -a setting. your car would have different abilities for each different key used to start it. the most important would be the root key which would do everything. if you didn't want your daughter to take the car to a certain persons house, you could simply disallow it in her profile. if you found you were missing a part or had a broken part, any other gm car owner could simply make a copy of their part and put it in your car and everything would work alright. everytime you started the car it would give the choice of what body type to use, ranging from gnome (a general commuter configuration) to kde (a larger more suv type) to enlightenment (a more spartin sports model) as well as many others. people who saw that you drove a gm car would assume that you knew how to build or fix any car, oddly, through your constant use you would in time actually learn this skill. the odometer would be replaced by an uptime readout. your car would be so good at running you where you need to go that you would set it up it to do things when you weren't even in it, ranging from going to the store to get milk for you on a weekly basis to searching for other life (seti-in-your-car) forms. -- ... and if you drown, die knowing you were headed for the shore. -from farenheight 451 shane http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] md5sums
Hi I'm assuming that the md5sum file with the m8.1 iso's is a crc type check thing? if so how do i use it? Thanx Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:38:33 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:46:19 +0100 David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I've just installed LM 8.1 and all was well for 24 hours apart from what I consider to be the usual Mandrake network setup nightmare! (Much better in 8.1 - at least it is no longer assumed that if you're on a LAN, that's how you want to connect to the internet!) Anyway, my problem is desktop icons in Gnome: after installation, they were all there - internet, control-centre, Mandrake this-and-that, etc. Then they suddenly disappeared: on logging in, a blank desktop and no reaction from the right mouse button. This has happened before, with LM 8.0 and Ximian gnome, but LM doesn't have a doorman-reset facility as in Ximian, so just what has gone wrong and how can I fix it? I'm running a laptop with a S3 Savage/MX display chip, Aureal Vortex au8810 sound, Pentium 700, 128MB RAM and in general Linux runs fine, tho' I need a separate sound driver. (Sound is fine in Gnome but nothing in KDE). I've tried reconfiguring XFree 4.1 but to no avail. Any suggestions? I am guessing that you had been using Nautilus and that it was drawing your desktop. At some point you must have exited the program or set it to Not draw and manage the destop. To correct this launch Nautilus, if your Icons reappear nothing else need be done. If not, select the Advance Setup buttom and then choose to have it draw your desktop. If you choose to use GMC it will also draw the desktop and create icons but be forwarned, there is a Gonome problem with GMC/Nautilus where other than the drive icons, all icons create by GMC wiil not properly function. This problem exist when 8.1 is done as a Clean install. It is not present if you do an upgrade install. Charles (-: Thank you - Nautilus wasn't drawing the desktop David -- David E Robertson FRCOG Director, Assisted Conception Unit The Esperance Hospital Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 3BG UK Tel/Fax +44 1323 410333 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web www.sussex-fertility.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] did anybody test staroffice 6.0 beta?
i will second that, open office has been running great for me for some time. go, download, install, rejoyce. On Thursday 04 October 2001 07:50, Lanman spoke unto the masses thusly: On the other hand, OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) which is a scaled-down version of StarOffice works quite nicely on Windows (Yuck! Ptewey!) AND Linux. They've removed the email client, the web-browser and desktop (?) environment, cutting the size to about 40 Mb (for the download), so perhaps that's worth looking at. Same install GUI, same cross-application functionality, smaller footprint. Quite Stable. -- Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue... shane http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] md5sums
Good afternoon Robert; You can find the list of sites providing 8.1 iso's @ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#586 Ingo -Original Message- From: Robert MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] md5sums Hi I'm assuming that the md5sum file with the m8.1 iso's is a crc type check thing? if so how do i use it? Thanx Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] All your numbers are belong to us
On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:18:30 -0500, Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/4/01 12:59 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it DOES offer us a great example of the dangers of overzealous patent and copyright protection, which directly relates to the open source/proprietary software debates. Hmmm, their number check page doesn't appear to have a form on it to enter your number. I've checked in netscape and IE (the only browsers I have at work). Is it temporarily down or are they using some odd java applet or something? Matt It uses Flash. After entering your number, it shows the musical score of that key sequence and even plays it for you. Since they have copyrighted the keytones made by all the numbers between 0 and 100 billion, your number is guaranteed to be there, complete with country and area codes. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows is not done until Lotus 123 won't run. -- Old Microsoft internal slogan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sums
Robert, at the command promt type: md5sum filename where filename is the name of the downloaded file you wish to check. This will spit out a character string, which should match what is in the md5sums file, which is a text file. hope I helped, and didn't confuse! Fred At 05:34 PM 10/4/01 +0200, you wrote: Hi I'm assuming that the md5sum file with the m8.1 iso's is a crc type check thing? if so how do i use it? Thanx Robert 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: Fwd: Re: [newbie] shift causes beep?
I don't think that is it, well, didn't, until I tested that theory while I was responding to this post... which crippled my keyboard. Doh. *grin* Any thoughts on how I can un-map shift as a typematic? I do indeed have a strange keyboard though, a micro inovations keyboard with a built in touchpad, which I've been using for some time (long enough to wear the nub off the 'j' key. I really don't know. Have you tried it with a different keyboard plugged in? Steve. ...in a world without walls or fences, we wouldn't need windows or gates. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help
Dear Mr., Could you tell if the OpenGL libraries have been integrated with Mandrake8.1, or I don't download any other thingin order to use OpenGL? Thanks, Ulend
Re: [newbie] md5sums
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:34:53 +0200, Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm assuming that the md5sum file with the m8.1 iso's is a crc type check thing? if so how do i use it? Thanx Robert Yes. It uses checksumming to verify the integrity of your files. Put it in the same directory as the ISO binaries, and type: $ md5sum -c md5sum The second md5sum is the filename. For more info, type man md5sum. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. -- Bill Gates (from the Foreword to the OS/2 Programmers' Guide) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: 2.4.10 kernel-update
On Thursday 04 October 2001 10:45 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I've been using 2.4.10 all day and I can't see any difference from Mandrake 8.1's 2.4.8 kernel. The VM is just as bad as before: $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 249229 19 0 9 84 -/+ buffers/cache:136112 Swap: 200103 96 As can be seen in the above free -m output, I am using 103MB of Swap even though I have 112MB of RAM free (excluding cache). This is mine just now (everything under / is RieserFS, 2.4.10): total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 500492 8 0 61 285 -/+ buffers/cache:146354 Swap: 180 0179 I've never used any /swap since some kernel MM problems in the early 2.4.1 (IIRC) kernels. 'top Shift+m' (sort by mem) shows 1543 root 12 0 109M 28M 1996 S 0.1 5.7 8:12 X only using 28 MB (objectprelink'd KDE2.2.1) as the biggest memory user. 1783 tom 18 0 22092 21M 3316 S 0.0 4.3 17:36 gqview Gqview is running a fullscreen slideshow (48,500+ files, 8 sec ea.) as my background on all 4 desktops is next at 21 MB. Next users of any consequence are: 2196 tom9 0 17660 17M 7516 S 0.0 3.4 0:00 kppp 9782 tom9 0 15720 15M 12288 S 0.0 3.0 0:09 kmail 1793 tom9 0 15408 15M 11292 S 0.0 3.0 0:32 kdeinit 1787 tom9 0 11092 10M 9572 S 0.0 2.1 0:02 kdeinit 9495 tom 12 0 10636 10M 9048 R 0.5 2.0 0:02 kdeinit 1993 tom9 0 10136 9.8M 8780 S 0.0 1.9 0:00 kdeinit I believe any work station system with = 128 MB ram, and getting into swap more than just a touch or even at all, probly has hardware and or configuration problems. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Admiral Yamamoto: I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help
Hi Ulend, Yes, OpenGL is supported in 8.1 (and 8.0, and 7.2, and 7.0, etc.) by the Mesa library which you'll find on your install CDs. Miark - Original Message - From: Ulend [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Help Dear Mr., Could you tell if the OpenGL libraries have been integrated with Mandrake8.1, or I don't download any other thing in order to use OpenGL? Thanks, Ulend Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two Questions
On Thursday 04 October 2001 00:42, PENA FAMILY spoke unto the masses thusly: 1.) I have a Sansdisk USB flash card reader, how do I get Linux to see it and access the .jpg photos I have on them? got one myself, moved it to my 8.1 box to see. the usb sees it, but when i try to mount it as a drive from the control center it reports an unknown file system. windows reports it as a fat (16 i assume) but 8.1 says no. could it be i am missing an important setting? the sandisk sight claims if you have a kernal higher than 2.4 it will simply work if you plug it in errr, not yet. :) -- He who laughs, lasts. shane http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice font display
I've got OpenOffice on one machine running 8.0, and on another running 8.1. The fonts look great in 8.1, but in 8.0, it's as bad as StarOffice 5.2. Now why is that? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Broadcast 2000 performance
I'm hoping this isn't too off-topic -- the software is packaged with LM8.0. I'm currently having trouble getting any decent performance out of Broadcast 2000 on my T-bird box. Particularly, I can't seem to get video capture to work without dropping more frames than are captured. I know my system (HD speed, proc, mem) are up to it as I can do it in win. I'd really like to get Bcast to work as I don't feel like spending $200+ for a real video editing program like Premiere (I'm currently managing with a collection of freeware apps). Here are my system specs: Athlon T-Bird 1.113Ghz 256MB RAM 30GB HD (~8GB for Linux) Asus GeForce2MX vid card Hauppauge WinTV-GO PCI capture card (detected in LM8.0 at install -- Brooktree chipset) Creative Labs Ensoniq PCI sound card (works fine) I'm trying to capture at 640x480@30fps -- can do it in win if my HD's defragged. 'Would appreciate any ideas. Jeremy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] shift causes beep?
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Steve Borrett wrote: I don't think that is it, well, didn't, until I tested that theory while I was responding to this post... which crippled my keyboard. Doh. *grin* Yea, shift, as you said, is not supposed to be typematic! Any thoughts on how I can un-map shift as a typematic? I do indeed have a strange keyboard though, a micro inovations keyboard with a built in touchpad, which I've been using for some time (long enough to wear the nub off the 'j' key. I really don't know. Have you tried it with a different keyboard plugged in? Cripes, you expect me to properly troubleshoot this :?) Good call, willdo soon... just lost a fan on my Slack server, so the fun goes on... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] did anybody test staroffice 6.0 beta?
I downloaded StarOffice 6.0Beta, saw how well it worked, and decided to go for OpenOffice since the source project typically works better than the commercial offshoot, ie Mozilla. I was right. OpenOffice is better. Get OpenOffice. On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, shane wrote: i will second that, open office has been running great for me for some time. go, download, install, rejoyce. On Thursday 04 October 2001 07:50, Lanman spoke unto the masses thusly: On the other hand, OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) which is a scaled-down version of StarOffice works quite nicely on Windows (Yuck! Ptewey!) AND Linux. They've removed the email client, the web-browser and desktop (?) environment, cutting the size to about 40 Mb (for the download), so perhaps that's worth looking at. Same install GUI, same cross-application functionality, smaller footprint. Quite Stable. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] turning off hard disk optimisation... (in mdk7.2)
Hi all, I have (you would all know this by now :-) a 60 gig hard disk in my main web/mail server, it is running postfix on a reiserfs partition (all partitions except /boot are reiserfs) and I have been getting annoying messages about the mail server being unable to write to open files... That shouldn't be possible so it appears to be a corrupted file system again, (in /var) Also, Wietse Venema the guy that wrote postfix said that it was definatly a file system error... having never had problems with reiserfs before, I am thinking that the only thing I can think of that might be the problem is that I selected file system optimisation when I was installing 7.2 onto this system..,. So my question is this, if choosing that adds some hdparm parameters somewhere, Where are they so I can turn them off, reformat /var and see if that makes a difference... (I looked in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and they are not there...) any suggestions would be much appreciated... rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does computer with dual PIII 700MHz good enough to run Web mail server?
FWIW I'm running this on a Dual PII 266, and it never breaks a sweat. Also add to that, printer server, smb, firewall, and DNS. The CPUs are idle most of the time. Ric Tuan Tran wrote: Can any one tell me if I can use dual PIII 700MHz to run web, mail intranet file server? How fast is it? My cable company provides 2MB download and 380Kps upload. Is it good enough to run web server with about 50 people access at a same time? Thank you Tuan _ 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 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] did anybody test staroffice 6.0 beta?
On Thursday 04 October 2001 13:10, Dave Sherman spoke unto the masses thusly: How are the MS Word/Excel filters? Can OpenOffice save files to those formats? I was under the impression that OpenOffice could not use i have not had much experience opening files from open office into ms, but those few have worked fine. i have never had any trouble opening ms files in open office, and i do a lot of that. -- Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive. shane http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] soundrecording
Dear Frans, I installed the libqt2-devel and it has made no difference. I, also, need the qt libraries for another program. I thought I had them all downloaded and installed but I continue to get the same error message which is: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt = 1.42 (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! Would anyone know where I can get the correct qt libraries for my LM8? What versions would I need exactly? I already installed the ones from my CD but they are not making a difference. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marcia On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:26, you wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been trying to install krecord but it requires the qt libraries which I supposedly have, but when I go through compiling it says there are no header files for qt. Would anyone know what I am missing when it comes to qt and how to get it? Thanks for your help. I think you need libqt2-devel from the first CD. -Frans Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and LM8.1
That happened to me as well. When I ran Control centre and went into the advanced Hardware/Display settings it told me I was running XFree ver 3 even though I had expressly selected 4.10 in the install. After selecting XFree4.10 it all worked OK. I am beginning to think 8.1 could have done with a few more weeks of testing. I also had problems with my scanner. An icon was automatically put on my desktop for my usb scanner. except it did not work. I had to put another icon on myself. Derek On Thursday 04 October 2001 11:02 pm, Ron Burns wrote: Hi folks I have installed the latest Nvidia drivers avilailable on Mandrake User. Everything goes as expected and I see the Nvidia Logo when X starts. When I start an opengl game or gears, I get kicked out of the x-server and it restarts bringing me back to the login screen. Any suggestions anyone? Thanks :) Ron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chromium
Carl Lafferty wrote: Nice looking/sounding game though. I love putting some Metallica or early Def Lepard in the CD and using it for the soundtrack! ;-) enya is also a good choice!! Relaxing so you are not jerking around :) (humming sail away, sail away...something Orinoco Flow) Metallica BAD! Lars BAD!!! Yes, but BAD is GOOD! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bastille adventure
Hello: Setting up the bastille firewall is turning into an adventure. Although I pretty much having it do what I want, there are some nagging issues I am hoping somebody can assist me. 1. Background info: Running LM8.0 in a dell 4100 series pc using an 800 mhz pIII processor with 384meg of RAM. 2. Most annoying: I keep loosing my lan connection to my win box. I will have everything running (meaning my lan, the firewall, and my internet connection) pretty good. I will then walk away from the computer, and come back, say an hour later. When I return, I can no longer access the c drive in my win box. If I try, I get a input/output error. To get it back, I must shut down the firewall, unmount and remount the c drive and restart the firewall (by firewall I mean Bastille). FWIW, I don't loose my samba connection. I suspect the firewall, because if the firewall is down, and I leave for 2 hours or more, the network is just fine when I return. I have checked the bastille-firewall.cfg file and I don't see anything involving some kind of network time out variable. Could it be related to one of the icmp variables? 3. Not so annoying: Thekernel modules to masquerade option in InteractiveBastille has the default setting of ftp raudio vdolive. To the list I added irc. When I load bastille-firewall I get the error messages could not find ip_nat_raudio and ip_nat_vdolive. I searched in my system for both files (used the command find / ip_nat_raudio* -print) and I could not find them. Any ideas where they might be? Either in my system or on some web page? I assume ip_nat_raudio is for realplayer. I have been able to do a workaround by dedicating a couple of ports to real player. Imho, it is not the best solution, but it should do until I am able to find the nat file for it. I have no idea what is vdolive? Again, if somebody can suggest where I might find it, I would appreciate it. 4. Not annoying but still: I use IRC and in order for the servers to identify my client, I must leave port 113 open. Is there a way where I can shut down the port after the server has identified my client? I had to install identd in my system for the i.d. process to work properly. Thanks in advance Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 problem
Hi Sridhar Lot of thanks for your response and time spent. Both /boot and /root are in Ext2. I also tried with only /root partition in Ext2 and the result was the same. Still I could not understand what mistake I have committed. Linux-Mandrake 7.2 runs great in the same PC and Hard disc. I was a little bid tire of trying Linux-Mandrake 8.0 continuously without any result. Then I turned to Linux-Mandrake 8.1. Having its ISO images download from the website I started installation with CD thus prepared. It went through smoothly and the mouse was alive. However after re-starting the mouse die. I started /configuration/hardware/HardDrake. All devices on its window did not show any description including the mouse. I attempted to evoke the file on the menu bar, such as File, Options, Tools and Help but without response. I tried Ctrl/Alt/Shift and f/i/l/e combination key. Unfortunately it did not work. I logout and re-started the PC. During exiting follow error messages pop-up - /dev/psaux : No such device or address - Link error messages pop-up - Mainloop returned Console Init : No such device or address - INIT : no more process left in this runlevel The PC hanged on forcing me to re-boot the PC No improvement made after re-starting. I tried twice re-installing Linnux-Mandrake 8.1 with the same result Could any guy on the list shed me some light. Thanks in advance. Best Regards Stephen Liu At 03:24 PM 10/4/2001 +1000, you wrote: I don't think it's a bug, since most people have had no problems installing 8.0. More likely, it is some kind of incompatibility with your system. I have a feeling that the problem is due to ReiserFS. Try making only Ext2 partitions and see what happens. Alternatively (and even better), you should try installing Mandrake 8.1. On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:54:03 +0800, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all people, Have any guy on the list encountering the same problem in installing Mandrake 8.0 I tried several days to install Mandrake 8.0 but met with frustration. My partition table is as follows: (It is a blank hard disc of 3.3G for running Linux-Mandrake 8.0 only) - Native partition for /boot 5 MB - Swap 260 MB (2 x 128 MB RAM) - Rest for root partition Each time after installation completed and re-starting, following warning message prompts: Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 I even tried installing Mandrake 7.2 first. After it worked successfully, then I installed/upgraded it to Mandrake 8.0. But I still could not get the later to work. At re-start the same warning signal prompts. Would it be the bug problem of Mandrake 8.0 ? ? ? Best Regards Stephen Liu -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
Hi Lot of thanks for your response and time spent. Still I could not understand what mistake I have committed. Linux-Mandrake 7.2 runs great in the same PC and Hard disc. I was a little bid tire of trying Linux-Mandrake 8.0 continuously without any result. Then I turned to Linux-Mandrake 8.1. Having its ISO images download from the website I started installation with the CDs thus prepared. It went through smoothly and the mouse was alive. However after re-starting the mouse die. I started /configuration/hardware/HardDrake. All devices on its window did not show any description including the mouse. I attempted to evoke the file on the menu bar, such as File, Options, Tools and Help but without response. I tried Ctrl/Alt/Shift and f/i/l/e combination key. Unfortunately it did not work. I logout and re-started the PC. During exiting follow error messages pop-up - /dev/psaux : No such device or address - Link error messages pop-up - Mainloop returned Console Init : No such device or address - INIT : no more process left in this runlevel The PC hanged on forcing me to re-boot the PC No improvement made after re-starting. I tried twice re-installing Linnux-Mandrake 8.1 with the same result Could any guy on the list shed me some light. Thanks in advance. Best Regards Stephen Liu At 09:01 PM 10/4/2028 +0800, you wrote: try to change your Mandrake CD try buying agai.that is the good part of Linux it is very cheap.heheheheeheeh!When it not works e-mail me.TY! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com Stephen Liu wrote: Hi, Thanks for your further advice. Unfortunately I still encountered the same problem after repeated trials. My partition table as follows Native partition for /boot5 MB Swap260 MB (2 x 128 MB RAM) rest for root partition I even tried installing Mandrake 7.2 first. After it works successfully, then I installed/upgrade it to Mandrake 8.0 But I still could not get the later to work. At re-start following warning signal prompts ; Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Would it be the bug problem of my installer - Mandrake 8.0 ? ? ? Best Regards Stephen Liu At 11:30 AM 10/2/2001 -0700, you wrote: Dear Sir Stephen Lui before adding a / linux native root partition just add first a native partition /boot with 5MB needed then after press add again for the swap partion your swap partion must be 2x your memory so for example you have 64mB memory your swap partion must be at least 128MB. then add your / root pation then add an asterisk to Grow to fill this disk this will install your all your linux program in there Thanks and Good Luck! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com Stephen Liu wrote: Hi, Thanks for your response and advice. I only have 2 partitions in my hard disc, the native and the swap. I am sure I have added a mount point / to the native partition. Pls try this pls add a linux native with mount point /boot so you can divide your boot partition to your original mount point / Kindly explain how to add /boot to the native partition. Is it to add a boot partition on the hard disc, making 3 partitions, boot, native and swap and thereafter adding a mount point / to the boot partition ? How about the native partition whether a mount point / is still necessary ? Thanks in advance. B.Regards Stephen Liu which you originaly configured so it will not conflivt with your existing linux native. then dont forget to add a swap partition. I hope my little knowledge on this can help you. Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com The Technology Specialist Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all people, I installed Mandrake 8.0 to a new hard disk and encountered following problem when restarting the computer after installation completed. There was no other Operating System sharing the hard disk. Class of installation : Recommended When restarting the computer following error indicated VFS : cannot open root device 305 or 03:05. Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic : VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:50 I did try several times to restart the computer and also reinstall the software but with no improvement. Kindly help !!! Thanks in advance. Best Regards Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] terminal games?
Does anyone know of any action games that are done in the console (probably using ncurses)? I mean games that use text characters to produce all the graphics, you could run the game without X installed at all. I keep downloading games that claim to be console games, compiling them, then running them and they pop up in kde as a graphical game. Getting frustrating :) Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
