RE: [newbie] Easier reading
doesn't matter I don't like bottom posting either, but i respect peoples right to do it.. the reason I don't like it is because I am on 20 different mailing lists and get 500 emails a day or more from them.. don't like having to scroll to the bottom of each message to see what the response is.. if mail clients opened the mail starting at the bottom, then I'd go the other way and only like that.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Jacobs Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2001 12:00 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Easier reading I know many will dislike this idea, but I'm gonna keep track of the responses, and give the results when the thread is done. Please vote in your reply by clearly stating either OK, No Way!, or Doesn't matter in your reply. Would you care if most of the reply messages on _this_ list were top posted? The reason I'm asking is because unless I make my mail programs reading fonts incredibly tiny, I cannot get to the replies unless I take the time to scroll down the message. Incredibly time consuming action? Nope, unless you are 1,000 messages behind, or don't have alot of time to scroll down every message, it adds up pretty quick then. Look, I'm not trying to tell anybody what to do, I just think it would be helpful to more than just me to get a big majority of replies top posted for quicker reading. What do ya think? Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT Kinda: help with redirect script for apache?
I don't have time to write the script for you... but this is what I would do.. use Javascript to write a session only cookie, (meaning it expires when they close the browser) put that cookie on your index page.. then in the login page, put javascript to retrieve the cookie.. then if the cookie isn't present, use javascript to redirect them to the index page.. That would work, but only if they had cookies enabled. the other way would be with JS and a hidden frame, exactly the same thing, except that the info is kept in a hidden frame. that way it doesn't matter if the person has cookies enabled or not. all the code to do that is freely available at Js sites all over the internet. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Doe Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 5:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT Kinda: help with redirect script for apache? I want force visitors to enter my site through the index.html page. I have been seeing alot of them just bookmark the login page and it just irks me all the work I put into this site and they never even see the news or guestbook links cause they are bypassing them. I have no idea how to make a script that will do this, I assume it would somehow check the referer and redirect if the referer is anything but my site. I have searched all over for a script or way to do this and havn't found anyhting. I have in the past seen sites like this though, of course I can find none of them now. Does anyone know where I can get such a thing or be willing to write a script and tell me how to implement it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
I suggest Trinux.. fits on a floppy, or you can use the hard disk, its easy to install, has web admin, can do port forwarding and firewalling.. fantastic little product, ,it also has an easy config menu system, and you can also write protect your floppy, thereby hackproofing your install, it boots a ramdisk and loads itself to that, so if you got hacked, you just press reset, and low and behold, you have an unhacked version again.. very cool. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of g Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 6:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram? Eric Caron wrote: That's what I wanted for this box. Just a little firewall if all you want is a firewall, try coyote or another _firewall_ version of linux. you do not need all that is in a a standard os to run firewall. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Removing a second harddrive...how?
Greetings, I am refurbishing an older computer for a christmas present and would like to take my second harddrive from my linux machine and use it as the primary in the other. How should i go about telling linux that the drive is no longer there? Thanks, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] intruder?
well, are any of the users or computers called james or elite3?? if not , I would start worrying and check your firewall is one and whats open and look for trojans and backdoors on all windows box's and the linux box as well. do you run ftp or telnet? is it accessable to the world at large? If so, that may be a cause of your compromise if you have one. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Colin Jenkins Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 2:39 PM To: linux-newbi group Subject: [newbie] intruder? Hi all, Just had a problem when reebooting (lm8) lots of failures including X. did a du and found my drive was full... it turned out to be a 1.5G log file in /var/log/samba .. the file was logging my sons win98 box. I deleted the file and managed to boot up ok, except I seem to have lost kde and gnome (only have ice now) when I checked the log file had been recreated (log.elendil.old) and was rapidly growing. I deleted it a few times and things seem to have settled down... then I noticed 2 other log file for unknown user ..log.james and log .elite3 does this sound like an intruder or some other problem? Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, obviously you have no conception of the magnitude of the problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Removing a second harddrive...how?
Edit /etc/fstab and remove the lines that relate to the removed hard disk. ie: primary master= hda primary slave= hdb secondary master = hdc secondary slave = hdd if you have necessary directories like /var or /usr etc on that drive, then you have to move them.. so copy the directories onto one of your partitions on you other drive, and edit fstab to reflect the new location. I just removed a harddrive from my box, it had 3, I removed the middle one, and all I had to do, was edit fstab and change all lines saying hdc to hdb, then I shutdown and moved the hdc drive from secondary master to primary slave.. and rebooted, it all worked perfectly. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fireman71 Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 5:28 PM To: Newbie Mailing List Mandrake Subject: [newbie] Removing a second harddrive...how? Greetings, I am refurbishing an older computer for a christmas present and would like to take my second harddrive from my linux machine and use it as the primary in the other. How should i go about telling linux that the drive is no longer there? Thanks, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help me with Mandrake 8.1 bootloader and other problems
How do I adjust the volume in Mandrake Linux? I'm running KDE. The startup sound always blasts out of my speakers when I login. KMenuMultimediaSoundSoundmixer Set the volume level you like and FileSave current settings as default Is there a Task Manager in Linux, like there is in Windows2000? I typed top but there are too many processes to display in the window. How do I see all the processes? KMenuApplicationsMonitoringKDE System Guard select the process table TAB When it crashes, what do I do? Hit the reset button? It crashed, and I didn't know what to press. Crashes? That's a Windows thing. Linux doesn't crash. (well hardly) Applications can crash. If one does hit Ctrl+Alt+Esc and when the little skull+Crossbones appears then click over the crashed application and it will die. Alternatively looks at KDE system guard find the process ID number you want to kill and in a root terminal type 'kill idnumber' If KDE itself crashes, then hit Ctr+Alt+Backspace and KDE will die and return you to the graphical lockin. If you are in a full screen game and it locks up the Ctl+Alt+Back space sometimes does not work and the keyboard does not respond. In this case kit Alt+SysReq+R this should put the keyboard in Raw mode Then hit Ctr+Alt+F3 (or anything from F2 to F8) This should give you a console login. Login as root and then type shutdown -r now for a graceful system restart. If that does not work and you have another computer you can remotely log in with telnet, ssh, or a shell command in webmin and type 'shutdown -r now' Finally if NONE of these techniques work Hit Alt+SysReq+R go to raw mode Hit Alt+SysReq+E close open applications Hit Alt+SysReq+S Write all unwritten data to disc VERY Important Hit Alt_SysReq+b Reboot the computer immediately If you find yourself doing this procedure very often I suggest you make sure you are running a journalling file system, Ext3, XFS, or Reiserfs (I use XFS) these file systems are not vulnerable to 'non graceful' shutdowns like the default Ext2 system is. Is Kmovie buggier than hell? It won't play most of my music videos, and if I choose to open another movie file when I'm playing something, it crashes. Is there a better movie player for Linux? Try Mplayer or xine. There were posts on where to get them yesterday I think Why can I only use traceroute when I'm logged in as root? How do I allow normal users to use traceroute? Because traceroute works by manipulating the IP packet headers to 'spoof' the hop count. This requires something called 'raw headers' and is only possible under root. Windows XP allows all users to use raw headers. For a tirade on why this is really dumb go to www.grc.com When I click on the Home icon in my home directory, it goes to /mnt/cdrom2 for some reason. When in Konquerer, and I click the Home icon, it goes to my home directory though. How do I make it so when I click the desktop icon, it goes to /home/ddeham? Dunno Finally, I know this is asking a lot, but is there any way I can watch TV with my ATI All In Wonder Radeon card in Linux? Whaddya mean watch TV? You mean with a TV Tuner card? For sure you can. There is an application to do it. I dont remember the name. Try seaching sourceforge. There are gazillion projects there to do all sorts of things (There is a bookmark for it in Konqueror) If you mean watch web TV then get RealPlayer8 community edition. It works under Linux. Also go to www.codeweavers.com and get their crossover plug in demo, which will install Apple Quicktime for you, and you can watch TV in that. (They charge for the full version :-( ) Answers to any of these questions would be appreciated. Thanks, Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to view all Junk and control characters in a file.
Hi, If I want to see all the junk and control characters in a file, How I can achieve this. Thanks and Regards, KIRAN K L WARNING: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. Thank you.- HCL Perot Systems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer gui failure
On Friday 09 November 2001 6:34 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I have mplayer installed now. Finally, it only took me 6 months. Anyway, I like a gui invironment and had no trouble with installing fonts but when I try to install a skin I get error message saying [app] skin configfile not found. I have looked in the skin file I downloaded and there is no config file with it. Big suprise. I know it should be within the mplayer program somewhere but I am not seeing it and don't know where to get it. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? Other than still working on command line that is. TIA for any suggestions. You need a directory in your home called .mplayer Inside that you need a directory called Skin inside that there should be a directory for each skin you have installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: [expert] Network problems caused by 'Tiny Firewall' GUI in MDK
Ok, I have read your post, I will see what I can find out.. you didn't run msec at any stage and increase the security level did you? if you did, that would explain alot.. try lowering it to 3 and see what happens.. that has fixed things for me before.. it may also explain why your sockets not working any more.. msec does some weird shit, like changing heaps of permissions (file and directory), deleting files, closing access to nearly everything via tcpwrappers and some other stuff I haven't figured out yet. I don't use msec anymore, close everything myself, it has caused to much hassle and is too poorly documented to be of any use I think. If anything is in need of a mandrake forum or user write up, then msec is definatly it. (there may be one, but I have not found it.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: Ben Nicolas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Network problems caused by 'Tiny Firewall' GUI in MDK Hey buddy, Thanks for e-mailing. I'm kinda new to these lists. I'm e-mailing you indivuidually and not back to the list because you're answer impressed me. It was nice to read because you're the first guy that seems like he might have an inkling of what my problem may be. Don't have an /etc/sysconfig/iptables file (don't know if that's cuz i'm running LM 8.0). I flushed the iptables anyway using iptables -F , anyway. I posting a copy of my original post for you at www.dailystaple.com/mdk. If u could take a look at it and tell me if you think of anything, you'd be the man! I have the 8.1 powerpack here, and it comes with a install and user manual and a reference manual.. I will have a look in there for the tiny firewall details.. I haven't looked back see your initial question, but you might try looking in /etc/sysconfig/iptables I think that may be where tiny firewall keeps its rules and stuff. I know one thing, for simple readability, ipchains beats the hell out of iptables.. I have still not found a simple script platform like pmfirewall that asks a bunch of questions in a console at install then writes a nice easy to read list of rules, one per line with nice comments on them, closes all the obvious gaps, and is really easy to modify and add to... I have a massive list of rules in my 7.2 box in ipchains and ipmasqadm, and I had the firewall setup to allow different ports open on 7 of my domains being hosted on that box.. Its tough to figure out how I am going to do it easily in iptables. I have a basic script, but nothing that does all that I want yet.. wish someone had written an online ipchains - iptables script with Javascript or something, that would be very handy. I only just figured out how to do port forwarding with iptables last night.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Craig Woods Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Network problems caused by 'Tiny Firewall' GUI in MDK Ben Nicolas wrote: You were right in assuming my basic topology consisted of 1 LM 8.0 server (acting as a gateway/router) with 2 nic's. Besides that all I have is one client machine running Win2K. Now that you mention it you're also right about not needing to have port 139 open externally to use samba betw. my server and client. Prior to this debacle I had never done any firewalling or used iptables/ipchains so my comment about needing 139 open earlier was due to lack of knowledge. Once I figure out what's preventing my client from accessing the internet and DBI from making to a connection to MySQL I will use iptables to secure up my network now that I understand how to create rules. For now I'm primarily concerned with figuring out why my server won't forward requests made to servers outside my internal micro-lan. I wish I could help you out with that Tiny crap stuff. I am just not sure what it has left behind, in view of the fact that you have cleaned it out from the usual directories. All I can say is dust off the old 'grep', and start a fine tooth search for any kind of Tiny or firewall string in any file located in all of the usual directories. BTW what does a netstat -rn output look like on your two machines? If you need some assistance with the gateway/router set up, you are welcome to call on me. I have set up this kind of thing before with Samba and name server running on a LAN with W2K. Do let me know what the resolution is to the Tiny (big) headache -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] intruder?
On Friday 09 November 2001 6:39 am, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all, Just had a problem when reebooting (lm8) lots of failures including X. did a du and found my drive was full... it turned out to be a 1.5G log file in /var/log/samba .. the file was logging my sons win98 box. I deleted the file and managed to boot up ok, except I seem to have lost kde and gnome (only have ice now) when I checked the log file had been recreated (log.elendil.old) and was rapidly growing. I deleted it a few times and things seem to have settled down... then I noticed 2 other log file for unknown user ..log.james and log .elite3 does this sound like an intruder or some other problem? I can't comment on an intruder, but your samba file should never get that large. By default a cron job runs once a day which will start logrotate Logrotate will compress and archive all the logs, and delete old archives. This is obviously not working in your computer. You can test logrotate with 'logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf' There is a config file for samba in /etc/logrotate.d You can set maximum file sizes for any log, and how many archives are kept. I had trouble with it because my syslog appeared in the config file twice and that caused it to never execute. If you are worried about intruders I recommend portsentry which will log all suspicious activity in the log, and another application called logcheck which will go through the logs each day and send you an email of anything suspicious. Both applications are on Sourceforge I think. Derek Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, obviously you have no conception of the magnitude of the problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] intruder? or FFE?
Did you read the log files? could be savegames or similar from the excellent old classic game First Encounters aka Elite 3. I think the default commander name in that game is James. - Original Message - From: Colin Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-newbi group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:39 AM Subject: [newbie] intruder? Hi all, Just had a problem when reebooting (lm8) lots of failures including X. did a du and found my drive was full... it turned out to be a 1.5G log file in /var/log/samba .. the file was logging my sons win98 box. I deleted the file and managed to boot up ok, except I seem to have lost kde and gnome (only have ice now) when I checked the log file had been recreated (log.elendil.old) and was rapidly growing. I deleted it a few times and things seem to have settled down... then I noticed 2 other log file for unknown user .log.james and log .elite3 does this sound like an intruder or some other problem? Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, obviously you have no conception of the magnitude of the problem. 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] global login scripts?
Title: global login scripts? Hi, If I wanted all users to have the same environment vars set when they login, is there a central file I can stick this stuff into? Many thanks Mark
[newbie] Postfix Question
I have notice that some people running Postfix have an additionla message at the bottom of all the emails that pass through the server. How do you do that? Where is the file? Is it in the main.cf? Thanks for any help. -- Jody 'JoLinux' Harvey Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mounting CDRW/DVD Combo
Hello I am very new to Linux and also to this mailing list. I have a problem mounting my CDRW/DVD combo. For the time being I only want to mount this drive so that I can access CDs but would like in the future to be able to burn CDs as well. I have added to the /etc/fstab file the line /dev/hdc1 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0 but each time I attempt to issue the mount command I keep getting an error notifying me that there is a wrong fs type or too many mounted file systems. Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. P.S. if anybody knows how to mount an external USB Iomega Zip drive (100M) then I would appreciate that also. Thanks in advance.
Re: [newbie] How to view all Junk and control characters in a file.
ehhh,, have you tried more as in (in a text console, without the quotes) more filename.doc - Original Message - From: KL, Kiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:25 AM Subject: [newbie] How to view all Junk and control characters in a file. Hi, If I want to see all the junk and control characters in a file, How I can achieve this. Thanks and Regards, KIRAN K L WARNING: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. Thank you.- HCL Perot Systems 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] avi files
I decided to try this xmovie you're talking about since Mplayer is pretty ugly and it acts up when you try and resize the window while watching a movie. But I'm running into problems with the install. demux_qt.c:44:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory demux_qt.c: In function `quicktime_read_moov': demux_qt.c:3182: `z_stream' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3182: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once demux_qt.c:3182: for each function it appears in.) demux_qt.c:3182: parse error before `zstrm' demux_qt.c:3214: `zstrm' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3214: `alloc_func' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3214: parse error before `0' demux_qt.c:3215: `free_func' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3215: parse error before `0' demux_qt.c:3216: `voidpf' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3216: parse error before `0' demux_qt.c:3222: warning: implicit declaration of function `inflateInit' demux_qt.c:3223: `Z_OK' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3227: warning: implicit declaration of function `inflate' demux_qt.c:3227: `Z_NO_FLUSH' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3228: `Z_STREAM_END' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3239: warning: implicit declaration of function `inflateEnd' demux_qt.c: At top level: demux_qt.c:2638: warning: `quicktime_trak_init_audio' defined but not used make[3]: *** [demux_qt.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/software/tarballz/xine-lib-0.9.4/src/demuxers' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/software/tarballz/xine-lib-0.9.4/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/software/tarballz/xine-lib-0.9.4' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 Where do I get this Quicktime mess it's talking about. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | If you've got Mandrake8.1 there ia a program called xmovie. If you don't | have it go to sourceforge with the address http://xine.sourceforge.net and | download an excellent media player. It's still in beta, but it should help | you. Cheers and good luck. | | Craig Williamson | | -Original Message- | From: mnu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:12 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [newbie] avi files | | | | Does anyone know of any program that would allow me to view .avi files in | linux? | | Thanks | | Meg | -Uptime --- 6:28AM up 15 days, 19:08, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easier reading
like Franki, I read the top posted messages and may answer to them...the heading is only what I read in _every_ message - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:15 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Easier reading doesn't matter I don't like bottom posting either, but i respect peoples right to do it.. the reason I don't like it is because I am on 20 different mailing lists and get 500 emails a day or more from them.. don't like having to scroll to the bottom of each message to see what the response is.. if mail clients opened the mail starting at the bottom, then I'd go the other way and only like that.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Jacobs Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2001 12:00 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Easier reading I know many will dislike this idea, but I'm gonna keep track of the responses, and give the results when the thread is done. Please vote in your reply by clearly stating either OK, No Way!, or Doesn't matter in your reply. Would you care if most of the reply messages on _this_ list were top posted? The reason I'm asking is because unless I make my mail programs reading fonts incredibly tiny, I cannot get to the replies unless I take the time to scroll down the message. Incredibly time consuming action? Nope, unless you are 1,000 messages behind, or don't have alot of time to scroll down every message, it adds up pretty quick then. Look, I'm not trying to tell anybody what to do, I just think it would be helpful to more than just me to get a big majority of replies top posted for quicker reading. What do ya think? Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net 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] unable to log on after kernel upgrade.
Hi all, I just loaded kernel2.4.13-2 from cooker onto a dead standard 8.1 install (powerpack) I rebooted and now I can't log in.. (strangely enough the same problem I had yesterday.) anyone else come accross this? it authenticates my password, tells me when the last login was, but thats it,, it stops dead at that point. 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] unable to log on after kernel upgrade. (UPDATE, but still not solved.)
Hi again, I booted rescue, and modifed grub,, (menu.1st) so that it would boot 2.4.8-26mdk again, It worked, i can boot and login sucessfully, but only with that kernel, not with 2.4.13-2mdk. anyone know why? does this have anything to do with devfs? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 7:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] unable to log on after kernel upgrade. Hi all, I just loaded kernel2.4.13-2 from cooker onto a dead standard 8.1 install (powerpack) I rebooted and now I can't log in.. (strangely enough the same problem I had yesterday.) anyone else come accross this? it authenticates my password, tells me when the last login was, but thats it,, it stops dead at that point. 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] Easier reading
Ed Tharp wrote: like Franki, I read the top posted messages and may answer to them...the heading is only what I read in _every_ message - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:15 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Easier reading doesn't matter I don't like bottom posting either, but i respect peoples right to do it.. the reason I don't like it is because I am on 20 different mailing lists and get 500 emails a day or more from them.. don't like having to scroll to the bottom of each message to see what the response is.. if mail clients opened the mail starting at the bottom, then I'd go the other way and only like that.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Jacobs Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2001 12:00 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Easier reading I know many will dislike this idea, but I'm gonna keep track of the responses, and give the results when the thread is done. Please vote in your reply by clearly stating either OK, No Way!, or Doesn't matter in your reply. Would you care if most of the reply messages on _this_ list were top posted? The reason I'm asking is because unless I make my mail programs reading fonts incredibly tiny, I cannot get to the replies unless I take the time to scroll down the message. Incredibly time consuming action? Nope, unless you are 1,000 messages behind, or don't have alot of time to scroll down every message, it adds up pretty quick then. Look, I'm not trying to tell anybody what to do, I just think it would be helpful to more than just me to get a big majority of replies top posted for quicker reading. What do ya think? Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net 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 So if you jump into a thread half way through, how do you know what other people have said? -- Mandrake 8.0 User since 8 October 2001 Registered Linux User No 240308 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting CDRW/DVD Combo
On Friday 09 November 2001 11:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am very new to Linux and also to this mailing list. I have a problem mounting my CDRW/DVD combo. For the time being I only want to mount this drive so that I can access CDs but would like in the future to be able to burn CDs as well. I have added to the /etc/fstab file the line /dev/hdc1 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0 You should have /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom auto user,exec,noauto 0 0 hdc1 implies you have more than 1 partion on the drive which is of course not true. You also have not declared the file system type. auto allows the mounter to discover the file system type automatically. The 'user' argument allows 'non-root' users to mount the drive. The 'noauto' means the drive will not be mounted at boot or when a mount -a command is given. I'm surprised the Mandrake installer did not define this on install. Did you add the drive later? When you come to try burning discs you will probably become confused by the fact that linux can only write to SCSI discs. To mount your Atapi CD-RW as SCSI you need a special set up and the drive has to be defined twice in fstab. Once as ide and once as scsi. Reading old posts in this lists archives will help you. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ In Mandrake 8.1 CDs are not automatically mounted when you insert a disc (there should be a kernel update soon to fix this) When you insert a disc you must type 'mount /mnt/cdrom' Before a disc can be removed you have to type 'umount /mnt/cdrom' Alternatively right click on the CD icon on the desktop to mount/unmount Or use the kwikdisk utility to mount with a mouse click (kwikdisk will live in the system tray once you have started it) For general advice on setting up your system the mandrakeuser site is great http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php but each time I attempt to issue the mount command I keep getting an error notifying me that there is a wrong fs type or too many mounted file systems. Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. P.S. if anybody knows how to mount an external USB Iomega Zip drive (100M) then I would appreciate that also. Check out mandrakeuser Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to log on after kernel upgrade.
I tried and it kept respawning X before the log on screen. I was able to modify XF86Config-4 to use the 'nv' nvidia driver instead of the NVIDIA binaries and then I could load 2.4.13-2 and log on OK. Supermount worked, but I was unable to get the NVIDIA drivers to work even after recompiling for 2.4.13-2 Also on shutdown my USB drivers hung. So it was back to 2.4.8-26 for me :-) Are you using Nvidia? On Friday 09 November 2001 11:43 am, Franki wrote: Hi all, I just loaded kernel2.4.13-2 from cooker onto a dead standard 8.1 install (powerpack) I rebooted and now I can't log in.. (strangely enough the same problem I had yesterday.) anyone else come accross this? it authenticates my password, tells me when the last login was, but thats it,, it stops dead at that point. 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] Easier reading
If I don't know what the thread is about, I'll read it once, then I know... being forced to scroll down all of them is a pain, remember how many posts are in some threads.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gordon Burgess-Parker Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Easier reading Ed Tharp wrote: like Franki, I read the top posted messages and may answer to them...the heading is only what I read in _every_ message - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:15 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Easier reading doesn't matter I don't like bottom posting either, but i respect peoples right to do it.. the reason I don't like it is because I am on 20 different mailing lists and get 500 emails a day or more from them.. don't like having to scroll to the bottom of each message to see what the response is.. if mail clients opened the mail starting at the bottom, then I'd go the other way and only like that.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Jacobs Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2001 12:00 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Easier reading I know many will dislike this idea, but I'm gonna keep track of the responses, and give the results when the thread is done. Please vote in your reply by clearly stating either OK, No Way!, or Doesn't matter in your reply. Would you care if most of the reply messages on _this_ list were top posted? The reason I'm asking is because unless I make my mail programs reading fonts incredibly tiny, I cannot get to the replies unless I take the time to scroll down the message. Incredibly time consuming action? Nope, unless you are 1,000 messages behind, or don't have alot of time to scroll down every message, it adds up pretty quick then. Look, I'm not trying to tell anybody what to do, I just think it would be helpful to more than just me to get a big majority of replies top posted for quicker reading. What do ya think? Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net --- - 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 So if you jump into a thread half way through, how do you know what other people have said? -- Mandrake 8.0 User since 8 October 2001 Registered Linux User No 240308 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] unable to log on after kernel upgrade.
Nope, this box has an old S3 Virge 4mb nothing new or unusual about that... wish I knew what the problem was.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 8:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unable to log on after kernel upgrade. I tried and it kept respawning X before the log on screen. I was able to modify XF86Config-4 to use the 'nv' nvidia driver instead of the NVIDIA binaries and then I could load 2.4.13-2 and log on OK. Supermount worked, but I was unable to get the NVIDIA drivers to work even after recompiling for 2.4.13-2 Also on shutdown my USB drivers hung. So it was back to 2.4.8-26 for me :-) Are you using Nvidia? On Friday 09 November 2001 11:43 am, Franki wrote: Hi all, I just loaded kernel2.4.13-2 from cooker onto a dead standard 8.1 install (powerpack) I rebooted and now I can't log in.. (strangely enough the same problem I had yesterday.) anyone else come accross this? it authenticates my password, tells me when the last login was, but thats it,, it stops dead at that point. 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] How to view all Junk and control characters in a file.
On Friday 09 November 2001 05:25, KL, Kiran wrote: If I want to see all the junk and control characters in a file, How I can achieve this. In a terminal type cat -A filename *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mkbootdisk error
does anyone else get this? [root@mycroft /]# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.13-1mdk Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press Enter to continue or ^C to abort: mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk/initrd.img': No space left on device Error ! [root@mycroft /]# this happens whatever floppy i use, /tmp has plenty of space but i rather think the error message is referrring to the floppy but as i said, it happens whatever floppy i use, funny thing is, even after the error appears on screen the drive keeps writing to the floppy for a while, ls on /mnt/floppy gives: [root@mycroft floppy]# ls initrd.img* ldlinux.sys* vmlinuz* does this look right? the reason i am doing this manually is because i got an error when making a bootdisk during the install bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE 8.1 INSTALL PROBLEMS
On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:07 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: AMD athlon 1.4 RAM, DDR 256MB Motherboard 2the Max 8KHA (this PC is now used as Windows Box having 20G ATA100 hard disc, running Win ME) Hoping that some guys on list could read my posting and shed me some comment. AMD Athlon? Configuration Info http://www.amd.com/us-en/ If that 2the Max 8KHA is the EPoX EP-8KHA it's on AMD recommended list for a 1.4g/266fsb. I'd suggest you also get a AMD appr'vd power supply and hs/fan. Use thermal grease, not a thermal pad. Pay more attention to power supply model numbers than brand names. EG, I have a 300w Powerman PS, but it's really made by Sparkle and is AMD appr'vd for my 1.4g. Case ventilation will be very, very important. Can Mandrake 8.1 work on AMD ? Or it only works on Intel ? Works better on AMD IMO ;) When you get it put together, run 'burnK7' ( http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ ) for at least 30 min. Hopefully you can pass without errors, and keep the cpu temp under 55C. If you start to go over 55C, abort (Ctrl+c) burnK7, and improve your cooling. If you can run burnK7 with no errors and at 52C or less, I promise you'll have a bulletproof Linux (or even Winblows ;) system. Then you can overclock it (I run mine at 1.55g, 1.82 Vcore ; -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] re: staroffice
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 23:15, Harry Ablejoy wrote: Dave i did default install and clicked on soffice still will not open like linux but installing software will take a little time for me. Thanks Can you run it from the command line? Open a console, and type in the full path to soffice, which would look like this on my laptop: [dave@dedannshae dave]$ /usr/local/staroffice6.0/program/soffice If Star Office launches, great! All you need to do is create a launcher icon on your desktop, that points to soffice. If Star Office does not launch, I would recommend uninstalling (just delete the whole staroffice6.0 directory), and then reinstall with the /net switch. This must all be done as root, of course. After StarOffice is installed, you can logout and login as a regular user, then run the setup program per my previous message, and choose the network install option to configure it for personal use. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Dave -- ... we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations. I do not doubt that natural selection acted in building our oversized brains -- and I am equally confident that our brains became large as an adaptation for definite roles (probably a complex set of interacting functions). But these assumptions do not lead to the notion, often uncritically embraced by strict Darwinians, that all major capacities of the brain must arise as direct products of natural selection. -- S.J. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man msg81115/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] ML 8.1 will not install
Stephen Liu wrote: Download the ISO Images to a folder/directory created in the Hard disk of your Windows box and then follow the instruction of the link which I sent to you previously to check the Images. You must check md5sum first before burning the CD. I am not aware how to check the CDs after burning. Ok, thanks! Maybe somebody else knows (for Windows)? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] global login scripts?
Hi, If I wanted all users to have the same environment vars set when they login, is there a central file I can stick this stuff into? Many thanks Mark /etc/profile Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
Rick [Kitty5] wrote: I tried to install mandrake linux on a pentium 100 with 24 megs of ram and I couldn't get to the end of the installation. The packages are installed, but either when configuring the network parameters or when installing lilo (depends on if I choose low, medium or high security), the installation dies with a segfault, saying I don't have enough memory. AFAIK from lurking on the cooker list, 32 mb ram is bare minimum to install Mandrake. Mandrake is a bit 'everything and the kitchen sink' in many respects, it may not be suitable for a low end PC where you will be looking for something a little leaner and meaner Rick Hey guys, what abou the 7.0 distro that is setup to run on a 486? Might that not be the answer to his problem? Just a thought... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] global login scripts?
Depends on which shell they are using. Bash - edit /etc/profile and / or /etc/bashrc csh - edit /etc/csh.cshrc and / or /etc/csh.login zsh - edit /etc/zshrc Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:52 AM 11/09/2001 -, you wrote: global login scripts? Hi, If I wanted all users to have the same environment vars set when they login, is there a central file I can stick this stuff into? Many thanks Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar.bz2
At 11:05 PM 11/08/2001 -0800, you wrote: Use: tar -xvjf *.tar.bz2 Barry That will work if he is using Mandrake 8.0 or later, on 7.2 the command would be 'tar -xvIf whatever.tar.bz2' . -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
Hey guys, what abou the 7.0 distro that is setup to run on a 486? Might that not be the answer to his problem? Did you mention this one to me when I was trying to install on my laptop?? I think so since I had to do a network install (laptop is OLD, P133 with floppy OR CD-Rom and no ability to boot from CD, and 24meg ram) In my case, it wouldn't work because mandrake needed/wanted 32meg ram. Of course it COULD have been 7.1. -- Not hitting on all pistons this morning. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
Carl Lafferty wrote: Hey guys, what abou the 7.0 distro that is setup to run on a 486? Might that not be the answer to his problem? Did you mention this one to me when I was trying to install on my laptop?? I think so since I had to do a network install (laptop is OLD, P133 with floppy OR CD-Rom and no ability to boot from CD, and 24meg ram) In my case, it wouldn't work because mandrake needed/wanted 32meg ram. Of course it COULD have been 7.1. -- Not hitting on all pistons this morning. Just this morning??? grin Seriously though, I don't remember...Didn't u also try the Linux on a floppy thing as well? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
Just this morning??? grin ha ha:) Seriously though, I don't remember...Didn't u also try the Linux on a floppy thing as well? Ive installed slackware on a floppy before but don't care to repeat the process of creating the floppies again. Thought there MAY be a way to install mandrake from zip carts but while my parallel port zip drive works with EVERY computer I have ever tried it on , it will NOT work with my laptop in DOS mode. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] uninstalling compiled porgrams
G'Day if you still have the directory with the souce code in it, you can try make uninstall, sometimes that works. If not have a look at the make file in your source directory and see where it installed your software and delete it and its directory. If you got rid of the source, do a tar -xzvf foo.tgz, cd foo, ./configure, make, make uninstall- if not then have a look at that make file. HTH Martin -Original Message- From: Paul Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 17:41 To: newbie Subject: [newbie] uninstalling compiled porgrams We've been over this before, but is there an easy way to keep track of programs that one installs usinng tarred source code? I'd like to have an easy way to uninstall a program after compiling and make install. -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
Carl Lafferty wrote: Ive installed slackware on a floppy before but don't care to repeat the process of creating the floppies again. Thought there MAY be a way to install mandrake from zip carts but while my parallel port zip drive works with EVERY computer I have ever tried it on , it will NOT work with my laptop in DOS mode. Umm, actually I meant the (literally) Linux on -one- floppy distro. ;-) BTW, u did know that Mandrake 8.1 is now available on a DVD, right? I've heard users say it works well... I'm gonna get me a DVD drive for Christmas...methinks. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Got Office XP?
You might want to look at this http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Got Office XP?
Sweet heavens. Microsoft needs to plug some security holes, eh?! --- Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 -Original Message- From: Rick [Kitty5] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Got Office XP? You might want to look at this http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Got Office XP?
WOW, I can't believe it!... lol... hmmm, solution: uninstall Office and Windows. Here goes... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick [Kitty5] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Got Office XP? You might want to look at this http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Got Office XP?
On Friday 09 November 2001 10:50 am, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: You might want to look at this http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html Rick This XP flaw appears to be much more serious http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/11/flight.html ;- -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easier reading
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: So if you jump into a thread half way through, how do you know what other people have said? It depends -- I'm not advocating top posting to every message -- but I prefer it when possible. It's also useful to snip things so a minimum is quoted. If you really want to read what everyone has said, consider going back to the original post and rereading the entire thread. Usually, with a few hints in the way of on point quotes from the email someone is responding to, I can get my head back into a thread if I've read the previous posts. It gets harder the more messages you receive. just another of my $.02, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wp8 network printing
Hi, Thanks to responses from the list, I now have WP8 functioning on Mandrake 8.1. Next question, has anyone managed to get this to print to a network printer. Particularly, a HP2200dn StarOffice has no problem picking up the configured printer but WP always has been a bear. TIA, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] make: command not found
Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: you have either of the following scenarios: 1) you dont have the make utility. try to look for it in the following directories /usr/bin /usr/local/bin if its not still there then install the package (if you dont have the installation cd then go to rpmfind.net adn search for 'make'). 2) you have it and dont have execute permissions. if this is the case then change the file attrributes by using the chmod command (i think you have to be root). chmod 766 /location/of/the/file/make This gives read-write permission, read-execute is 0755 i beleive. 3) make exists in your system with the appropriate permission but isnt in your path. try adding the following in your .bashrc file: export PATH=$PATH:insert directory containing make here or if make is (usually ) installed in /usr/bin , reverse the order of $PATH and the directory containing make. HTH. g.sanders wrote: while trying to compile a program, I ran into this: theano@localhost pari]$ make gp bash: make: command not found how do I fix this? -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = 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] Got Office XP?
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 04:07, Tom Brinkman wrote: | On Friday 09 November 2001 10:50 am, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: | You might want to look at this | | http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html | | Rick | | This XP flaw appears to be much more serious | | http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/11/flight.html | | ;- Very serious indeed. Looking out the window now, there's not much action around here. Perhaps Kiwis haven't got XP yet... but then again Kiwis can't fly can they? skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wizdrake
I'm trying to set up my LAN (Ethernet, 2 LM 8.1 boxes). The LM reference manual tells me to use wizdrake. I installed it on both machines, but upon running it all I get is a Linux Mandrake logo and graphic and a close button. Something's wrong, but what should I try to fix it? Thanks in advance, Warren -- http://sites.netscape.net/srcopan/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email
Hi All People, I encounter another problem in running Mandrake 8.1 Each time when I check mail in Kmail, a warning pop-up saying Error, incorrect password. But it can send emails without problem. I am quite sure the password entered in configuration is correct. Any guy on the list came across such strange thing ? B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ways for users to change passwords
On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 07:16, Dave Sherman wrote: | Dave | -- | I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. -- Chico Marx hehe...well did she hear what you said? skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM
Hi all I am about to upgrade the hw in my pc. I currently have: 1 x 128MB PC133 SDRAM crappy 1MB S3 PCI graphics card AC97 onboard sound Changing the above with: 2 x 512MB PC133 SDRAM (not sure whether to leave the old RAM in also) nVidia GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP graphics card Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound card If I boot linux after doing the following, is the new hardware likely to be recognised? : - ensure harddrake and kudzu run on boot, - shut down the computer - swap the RAM modules - install AGP graphics card - install sound card - boot into BIOS settings and - - - disable onboard sound - - - enable AGP graphics Or should I install one thing at a time? Is there anything tricky I need to know about installing RAM? I'm just trying to avoid reinstalling LM8.1. Other relevant bits are: Soltek SL-KAV75 mobo and Athlon TBird 1.0GHz CPU. TIA skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi files
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:31, Tim Holmes wrote: | I decided to try this xmovie you're talking about since Mplayer is | pretty ugly and it acts up when you try and resize the window while | watching a movie. But I'm running into problems with the install. [snip] Tim, xmovie-1.9-4mdk.i586.rpm is on the 2nd CD if you have LM8.1. I have it installed and it works but just this morning I downloaded and installed xine from rpmfind.net which I like better. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wizdrake
On Friday 09 November 2001 15:38, you wrote: I'm trying to set up my LAN (Ethernet, 2 LM 8.1 boxes). The LM reference manual tells me to use wizdrake. I installed it on both machines, but upon running it all I get is a Linux Mandrake logo and graphic and a close button. Something's wrong, but what should I try to fix it? Thanks in advance, Warren Warren, did you install all of the wizard files? There are 6 or 8 of them. I had the same problem untill I installed all of them and I am not sure which one fixed it. Just installing the wizarddrake won't do it, that must be the frontend or something. -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM
Some machines cannot handle more than 512mb of memory, or run out of cache for more than 512 megs of RAM. You may want to try with one 512mb strip first, then work up from there. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of skinky |Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:12 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM | | |Hi all | |I am about to upgrade the hw in my pc. I currently have: | |1 x 128MB PC133 SDRAM |crappy 1MB S3 PCI graphics card |AC97 onboard sound | |Changing the above with: | |2 x 512MB PC133 SDRAM (not sure whether to leave the old RAM |in also) nVidia GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP graphics card |Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound card | |If I boot linux after doing the following, is the new hardware |likely to |be recognised? : | |- ensure harddrake and kudzu run on boot, |- shut down the computer |- swap the RAM modules |- install AGP graphics card |- install sound card |- boot into BIOS settings and |- - - disable onboard sound |- - - enable AGP graphics | |Or should I install one thing at a time? Is there anything |tricky I need |to know about installing RAM? I'm just trying to avoid |reinstalling LM8.1. | |Other relevant bits are: Soltek SL-KAV75 mobo and Athlon |TBird 1.0GHz CPU. | |TIA |skinky |-- |But what ... is it good for? |(Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, |commenting on the microchip) | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing WordPerfect 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1
The installation fails. install.wp yields file not found. ./install.wp fails to prompt for installation directory, reports file not found repeatedly, and creates multiple empty directories at the top level. What is the trick? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux 8.1 in a Thinkpad 380ED; BIOS?
Hi, All; When I access my BIOS, I can find no options. I want to install an etherfast PC card but without access to the options in my BIOS, Linux isn't detecting it. Anyone have a similar situation with a fix that worked for your machine? Thanks in advance, Dave -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easier reading
* Dan Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011109 16:11]: Would you care if most of the reply messages on _this_ list were top posted? I'll have to vote AGAINST top posting. As you can see, bottom posting is fine if you take the time to edit the quotes. Top posting encourages sending the entire thread in each reply, and there are those of us who still pay high costs for very limited bandwidth. Judging by experience, though, you'll never get people to agree on either approach. The only thing you can get agreement on is that people SHOULD edit quotes down to the bare minimum. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:09, Tom Brinkman wrote:
| On Friday 09 November 2001 05:11 pm, skinky wrote:
[snip]
| If I boot linux after doing the following, is the new hardware
| likely to be recognised? :
|
| - ensure harddrake and kudzu run on boot,
| - shut down the computer
| - swap the RAM modules
| - install AGP graphics card
| - install sound card
| - boot into BIOS settings and
| - - - disable onboard sound
| - - - enable AGP graphics
|
| Or should I install one thing at a time? Is there anything tricky
| I need to know about installing RAM? I'm just trying to avoid
| reinstalling LM8.1.
|
|
| You should be able to put 'em all in at once, including the old
| ram if you want. Jeezz, if I understand you're gonna have 1.25 gigs
| of ram! Which (maybe besides the SB Live!) is gonna be sort of a
| problem. 'Regular' kernels will only address 'bout 900+ mb of ram.
| So if you want to use all that ram, you'll need to install a
| -enterprise kernel (it's on your CD's or you can get the latest from
| cooker). You might later find you'd settle for havin less ram
| recognized so you can use a regular kernel tho. The -enterprise
| edition (Big Mem enabled) has issues of it's own from what I've read.
|
| Mandrake 8.x will see the GeF2 and set it up great... 2d only tho
| with the Linux open source drivers. You might find it difficult to
| get the nVidia closed source drivers goin with an -enterprise kernel.
| I dunno, you'll just haft'a see. Sb Live! could be problems too.
| There's been a lot of noise about Lives!'s havin/causing problems
| with various hardware combo's, specially some mobo's, any OS. For
| the ram, if you keep the old stick, I'd put it in the first slot, put
| the new ram in slots 2 3.
Firstly, Dennis, Jose and Tom thanks to you all for your replies.
Tom, when you say 'regular' kernels will only address 'bout 900+ mb of
ram does that mean I can install all of the ram but only 900+ mb will be
recognised - or is LM8.1 ('regular' kernel) not likely to work anymore?
I'm not keen on using the enterprise kernel so if my system won't work I'd
rather just leave the 128mb and add (1x) 512mb stick. And in which case,
that'll teach me for not doing my homework first won't it?! I guess I can
save the other 512mb stick for another pc.
skinky
--
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commenting on the microchip)
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[newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mouse wheel won't work
Hi all Perhaps a trivial question, but I can't get my genius mouse wheel to work. I'm using mandrake 8.1 and it won't scroll in any application at all. ta for any help Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
I've got an athlon 800 and found problems with 8.0 and USB - would not load on install. However with 8.1 all works fine. Nwv = tek1 wrote: just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
Neville: Hmmm... I've also got an athlon 800 running LM 8.0 with USB mouse and keyboard, and it all works just fine (except for all of the operator errors, of course). ABIT KT-7, 256 mb RAM, Matrox G200, Maxtor 15 and 20 gb drives, CD and CD-RW, internal Zoom ISA modem. Go figure. Regards, Carroll Neville Cobb wrote: I've got an athlon 800 and found problems with 8.0 and USB - would not load on install. However with 8.1 all works fine. Nwv = tek1 wrote: just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel won't work
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:01, Neil R Porter wrote: | Hi all | | Perhaps a trivial question, but I can't get my genius mouse wheel to | work. I'm using mandrake 8.1 and it won't scroll in any application at | all. | | ta for any help | | Neil Install imwheel - its on the CDs skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1
It appears that the solution is to install the following: (a) libc5-5 (b) ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk I already have libc5.3.12-35mdk, which takes care of (a), right? When I tried to install (b), GnomeRPM reported two conflicts. Even when I said ignore these conflicts, the installation failed. What more must I do to install WP 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1? I paid for the commercial version of WP 8.0 a couple of years ago. I don't see any runme file. -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kzip configuration
Whenever I tried to open a zip file I get a message about that the zip utility it is not in my path. How can I get rid of this problem? Which is the zip utility the message referes to, bzip? Thank you in advance for your help. Rafael Lepra Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Some machines cannot handle more than 512mb of memory, or run out of cache for more than 512 megs of RAM. Some motherboards handle less than that -- the TX-Pro II motherboards I use can only handle 64 MB in each of two sockets for a maximum total of 128 MB (although I can also add some 72 pin memory, not sure how much). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easier reading
Jan Wilson wrote: Top posting encourages sending the entire thread in each reply, and there are those of us who still pay high costs for very limited bandwidth. I'm not sure bottom posting does any better. The only thing you can get agreement on is that people SHOULD edit quotes down to the bare minimum. Absolutely Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1
ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm and libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm were both needed to install wp 8 under 8.0. i suspect you will find this is the case in 8.1 also. you can find them at rpmfind or i think i may have them and can mail them to you. good luck. On Friday 09 November 2001 15:12, you spoke unto me thusly: The installation fails. install.wp yields file not found. ./install.wp fails to prompt for installation directory, reports file not found repeatedly, and creates multiple empty directories at the top level. What is the trick? -- Brain on vacation, body on autopilot. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ 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] re: staroffice
i had the same problem at first but got it to work.. finally. first, i tried opening it from the konsole, it did nothing. just like pushing enter on an empty line. then i remembered that at the end of the install it said some package was not installed, ( adaba ) .. so, what the heck, i went to their webpage again and downloaded that adaba stuff and installed it. now it works just fine. i configured the link on my desktop to run the link from a console, and it starts ok. note: i did not have this startup problem until i installed JRE. at first i installed Soffice without their JRE and it worked fine From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake-newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] re: staroffice Date: 09 Nov 2001 08:03:49 -0600 On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 23:15, Harry Ablejoy wrote: Dave i did default install and clicked on soffice still will not open like linux but installing software will take a little time for me. Thanks Can you run it from the command line? Open a console, and type in the full path to soffice, which would look like this on my laptop: [dave@dedannshae dave]$ /usr/local/staroffice6.0/program/soffice If Star Office launches, great! All you need to do is create a launcher icon on your desktop, that points to soffice. If Star Office does not launch, I would recommend uninstalling (just delete the whole staroffice6.0 directory), and then reinstall with the /net switch. This must all be done as root, of course. After StarOffice is installed, you can logout and login as a regular user, then run the setup program per my previous message, and choose the network install option to configure it for personal use. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Dave -- ... we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations. I do not doubt that natural selection acted in building our oversized brains -- and I am equally confident that our brains became large as an adaptation for definite roles (probably a complex set of interacting functions). But these assumptions do not lead to the notion, often uncritically embraced by strict Darwinians, that all major capacities of the brain must arise as direct products of natural selection. -- S.J. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man attach3 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing a second harddrive...how?
How should i go about telling linux that the drive is no longer there? You'll need to check a couple of things. First, is the other drive housing a root or boot partition? If so, you'll need to reconfigure grub or lilo to make sure it's not using that drive, and if so you'll also have to move the corresponding data over from the second drive to the first. Check your /etc/fstab for references to the second drive (mount points, swap partition, etc) and adjust them so that only one drive is used. If you have any data / partitions etc mounted on the second drive you have to move them over to the first drive. What I usually have done in the past when relocating partitions is to tar/compress the partition into an available space someplace (i.e., the first drive), remake the partition if necessary, adjust the mount point(s), and then untar into the new partition. Of course, you need enough space to hold the partition temporarily. It's not all that difficult to do this - at least compared to Windows where you have to fix up all programs because they depend on drive letters ;(. Ian David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Terrorists strike at my Netscape mail?
On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:22:34 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: yeah, but what happened to the original poster's mail? thats what i want to know. It's probably on John Ashcroft's desk along with a lot of others. He's way behind in his reading; monitoring everyone's e-mail is more work than he thought. (Just kidding, John.) -- Carroll Oooo...good dig! :P -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 I had to ask my professor not to grade me on a curve, when he asked why, I replied it will produce inaccurate results in my case, as I am only capable of linear thinking author Vic alias tigerclaws Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM
Once again this should have gone listwise. I can't pay attention. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 21:31:51 -0600 From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 09 November 2001 16:11, you wrote: Hi all I am about to upgrade the hw in my pc. snip 2 x 512MB PC133 SDRAM (not sure whether to leave the old RAM in also) nVidia GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP graphics card Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound card If I boot linux after doing the following, is the new hardware likely to be recognised? : snip Other relevant bits are: Soltek SL-KAV75 mobo and Athlon TBird 1.0GHz CPU. If this is the same board as listed on the soltek site as a SL-75KAV then as you look at the attached URL you see that your board will take up to 1.5G. I see three slots so that means you can put all of the sticks in and have a screamer. HTH http://www1.soltek.com.tw/English/home/01.htm -- Dennis M. --- -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM
On Friday 09 November 2001 06:34 pm, skinky wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:09, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Regular' kernels will only address 'bout
| 900+ mb of ram. So if you want to use all that ram, you'll need
| to install a -enterprise kernel (it's on your CD's or you can get
| the latest from cooker).
Firstly, Dennis, Jose and Tom thanks to you all for your replies.
Tom, when you say 'regular' kernels will only address 'bout 900+
mb of ram does that mean I can install all of the ram but only
900+ mb will be recognised
Yes
- or is LM8.1 ('regular' kernel) not
likely to work anymore?
The regular kernel will work as always, it just won't see more'n
about 900+mb of ram.
--
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Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM
On Friday 09 November 2001 10:17 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Some machines cannot handle more than 512mb of memory, or run out of cache for more than 512 megs of RAM. Some motherboards handle less than that -- the TX-Pro II motherboards I use can only handle 64 MB in each of two sockets for a maximum total of 128 MB (although I can also add some 72 pin memory, not sure how much). Randy Kramer I was curious 'bout that too. Currently most motherboards can handle 256mb modules, 3 or 4 slots. When stinky said he had 512mb sticks I went to the Soltek site an looked at his motherboard. 3 slots, capable of 512mb each for a 1.5 gig total. Soltek's a great board, but I'd stil be a little leary of 512mb modules -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
On Friday 09 November 2001 04:55, you wrote: just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks. I've got Mandrake 8.0 runing on an Athlon-750 and can point you to one problem which you might want to watch out for--appearantly there was some sort of problem between the kernel and the BIOS which caused it to fail booting; it'd lock up right after the INIT 2.78 message. Easy enough to fix; just make sure you install the older version of the kernel as well and if the new kernel turns out to be a problem, go for the old one. :) N. 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
[newbie] mandrake/linux and upgrading cpu+motherboard
i currently have mandrake8.1 running on a very old system (emachines cyrix mII 366 processor) and was wondering if my existing mandrake installation will work as is if i upgrade the cpu to say a athlon1600+ (and appropriate motherboard)? my windows system (sorry) didn't work when i tried this before b/c the existing windows installation seemed to have been bound to the specific cpu/motherboard. just wondering if this is also the case with mandrake8.1/linux systems? thanks. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] intruder? or FFE?
Hello PBN, Friday, November 09, 2001, 9:10:37 PM, you wrote: P Did you read the log files? P could be savegames or similar P from the excellent old classic game First Encounters P aka Elite 3. I think the default commander name P in that game is James. Nope, dont have any games installed ( this box operates as a logon server, print server and internet gateway, but is only a 686 with 80M ram... havn't found any games that will run on it yet :) Anyway, I have just formatted and reinstalled, and have Bastille running correctly now, I'll just wait and see what hppens in the next few days. P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.-- Lily Tomlin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] midi problem
Good Day Everyone, Lately, I've noticed problems with playing midi files while visiting web sites. I get the error messge: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer Probably there is another program using it. When I see this message, I'm only running Konqueror Web Browser at that moment! FYI, the default player is KDE Media Player (noatun) It also used to play JPEG files as well, but this seems to cause a crash when loading JPEG's anymore. Anyone have any ideas about this? BTW, I just installed xmms and I'm working with that at the presentshould I just forget about KDE Media Player and make xmms my defualt media player? TIA Roger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] midi problem
See my previous posts about setting up a SoundBlaster Live Mini Howto. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R C |Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 1:28 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] midi problem | | |Good Day Everyone, | |Lately, I've noticed problems with playing midi files while |visiting web |sites. I get the error messge: | | Couldn't open /dev/sequencer | | Probably there is another program using it. | |When I see this message, I'm only running Konqueror Web |Browser at that |moment! | |FYI, the default player is KDE Media Player (noatun) |It also used to play JPEG files as well, but this seems to |cause a crash when |loading JPEG's anymore. | |Anyone have any ideas about this? | |BTW, I just installed xmms and I'm working with that at the |presentshould |I just forget about KDE Media Player and make xmms my defualt |media player? | |TIA | |Roger | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
I have a 1.4gig athlon, and is working fine on that.. and by tuesday, I will be upgrading to a AthlonXP 1800+, I am not expecting problems with that either. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2001 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems? Neville: Hmmm... I've also got an athlon 800 running LM 8.0 with USB mouse and keyboard, and it all works just fine (except for all of the operator errors, of course). ABIT KT-7, 256 mb RAM, Matrox G200, Maxtor 15 and 20 gb drives, CD and CD-RW, internal Zoom ISA modem. Go figure. Regards, Carroll Neville Cobb wrote: I've got an athlon 800 and found problems with 8.0 and USB - would not load on install. However with 8.1 all works fine. Nwv = tek1 wrote: just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
