Re: [newbie] Web page design
FYI - 11K8410 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux Electronic Delivery $57.00 11K8409 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux Boxed software $66.00 11K8414 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux User's Guide $5.00 At 04:50 PM Thursday, 11/15/2001, Miark wrote -=> >IBM's Home Page Builder is Linux' only WYSIWYG >web authoring software that doesn't suck. >You can download a free trial, and then you >can choose to buy it for about $5 (if memory >serves). > >Miark > > >- Original Message - >From: "William R. Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> What program is the best to design web pages without knowing now to >> program. I have been using frontpage 2000. I'm trying to get away from >> windows and just use linux. next i need to change over my hp joranda 450 to >> use under linux and quicken then i can delete windows. >> >> thanks Bill Nash Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . You are here X Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]Cable Modems correction
Retracing my steps, that was a 3com 100mbps NIC that automagically installed and not the Linksys Gigabit. Sorry. I hope I didn't mess anyone up.:( It is still faster! The cable internet seems to come up automagically on LM7.2,8.0,8.1 if the NIC comes up.I have not tried it without the router in there, though. I started with LM7.2 because I read all the bad experiences on this list with 8, and I had purchased the 7.2 set of 8cd's. 7.2 cable net worked great the first time! Formatted the drive and loaded LM8.0 from the iso disk while not on cable. When I had cable, I ran the Mandrake Control Center from the icon on the KDE desktop and ran the Network and Internet autoconfig. This eventually worked after playing with it for half an hour, or so. Formatted the drive and loaded LM8.1 while I was on cable. It came up and worked properly with no changes. Sorry again. Jim Lynch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.
Gina, Gimp is there but you might have to run the software manager to install it if it didn't install initially. Linux ppc should work in any PPC mac, but not in 68k. Roy On Saturday 17 November 2001 00:10, you wrote: > One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with > gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of > libraries? > > Out of curiosity (my partner is a complete mac freak > -ok so I haven't looked at osX as of YET)- > > Can you run linux on (I should stress) older mac > architecture? > > > > Gina > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals > http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No Sound in Mandrake 8.1
I have never heard sound in Mdk 8.1. Linuxconf and SomethingDrake both recognize the card for what it is (Crystal something). I have the box checked for sounds at startup or whatever (in a different OS now). When I type "esd" at a command line, the output states: esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777. esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: /tmp/.esd/socket The socket is not accessible by esd. "esd -trust" is also unsuccessful. RealPlayer 8 gave an error message to the effect that the sound card or module could not be accessed and might be in use (by esd?). How do I get sound to work? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NFS mounts
Can anyone help me with NFS? I understand that NFS shares are created using /etc/export, but what do I put in there? Control Center then allows me to do NFS mounts - prompts for Server and shared resource. I presume that server is just the host name associated with an IP address and shared resource is whatever I put in /etc/exports??? Any help much appreciated! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] diagrams
i too am looking for a visio substitute on linux, but just doesn't seem like the s/w is there yet. kivio looks to be the closest, but they said that importing visio files is low on their priority list of things to do... :( pls let us know if u find something though. i will do the same... At 20:43 01/11/16 -0500, you wrote: >Hi... > > Can you help me? where do I find some app to make diagrams?? I look up >something like "visio" for windows... but I don't want "Dia" or "Kivio" >because this tools are't just that I want > >thanks >-- >Usuario Registrado >de Linux #232544 > >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] hmmm.. two questions.
One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of libraries? Out of curiosity (my partner is a complete mac freak -ok so I haven't looked at osX as of YET)- Can you run linux on (I should stress) older mac architecture? Gina __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh
It's quite easy, really. 1) On box 1 open X connections from box 2 by typing xhost +192.168.1.4 2) On box 1, ssh to box 2. 3) On box 2 via your ssh connection, type DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0 4) When you start X on box 2 via the ssh connection, it should pop up on box 1. Miark - Original Message - From: "antoine rivoire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ssh > On Friday 16 November 2001 5:54 pm, you wrote: > > * ssh has a configuration option for forwarding X11. > > Make sure that's not causing a problem. > > * Did you set "DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0" on box 2? > > * Did you "host +192.168.1.4" on box 1? > miark, > i haven't done any of that. could you give me a bit more details on how to > set that up. is there config files... or even better sittes or information > sources? > thanks > > > > Miark > > > > > hi all, > > > here i am again with my home network > > > > > > 3 boxes, 1 hub the 3 boxes are connected to the hub > > > box 1: main workstation, lm8.1, celeron 1.1ghz ip:192.168.1.2 > > > box 2: p120, lm8.1. i run xfce on this box ip:192.168.1.4 > > > box 3: my gateway, p120, diskless, runs linuxfw, connected to the hub and > > > cable modem ip:192.164.1.1 > > > > > > i can establish ssh connection from box 1 to box 2, but X not working. > > > here what i get when i try to run an app: > > > > > > Last login: Mon Nov 5 19:51:56 2001 from localhost.localdomain > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "home.97fx:10.0" in > > > "add" command > > > [root@home root]# xmms > > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for home.97fx > > > > > > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display > > > > > > now on the second line it says about bad display name and add command. i > > > don't have the first clue what that is or what config it might writte > > > that too... > > > > > > then it says about X11TransSocketINETConnect, same thing... i'm baffled. > > > > > > then when trying to connect from box 2 to box 1, i get a plain old > > > connection refused. > > > fair enough, but why? > > > > > > i have looked several faqs and ssh sites, no luck. > > > > > > any ideas? > > > > > > ps: this is supposed to be straight forward stuff, why doesn''it work for > > > me? > > > > > > :(( > > > > > > any help appriciated > > > > > > appart from that, linux, and mandrake rock. i get the confirmation > > > everytime i have to use window$ > > > > --- > >- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No music CD player sound?
Hi, I'm new here and hoping someone will have an idea about how to fix my problem. I have a Soundblaster live 5.1 sound card that I can't get a music CD player to work with. When running Grip it recognizes the music CD and plays it, but no sound can be heard. The internal system wave sounds seem to work fine and I did have the CDs playing on my old MO sound card, but I disabled it in the BIOS and have been trying to switch over to the Soundblaster only as I need it for recording purposes. Any ideas why it might not be working? Thanks in advance. Roy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem in MKL 8.1
DEar Linux friends, I am having trouble in loading MKL8.1 on my Adaptec SCSI controller. The machine simply hangs!Have any idea how to proceed? -- S.Ganesan Principal Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-625237 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help
You need to burn the .iso image, not the individual files. If you do so, you will have problems. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:55 PM 11/16/2001 -0800, you wrote: I downloaded the mandrake 8.1 ISO from one of your FTP sites. I used winimage to open the ISO and extract the contents to a empty folder. I need burned all of the contents to a CD. When I try to boot from the CD it tells me "searching for boot record" : None found I can't seem to get this installed, HELP! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help
I downloaded the mandrake 8.1 ISO from one of your FTP sites. I used winimage to open the ISO and extract the contents to a empty folder. I need burned all of the contents to a CD. When I try to boot from the CD it tells me "searching for boot record" : None found I can't seem to get this installed, HELP!
Re: [newbie] Old Dell 466/L (OT)
On Friday 16 November 2001 20:14, you wrote: > Jon Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > sent Friday, November 16, 2001 6:04 PM > > :Iomega has a site listing lots of BIOS entry key commands. > > Yes, it does. And the Dell site has the correct answer. > > http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1012573 > > > Ken Marcy Thanks for all the replies, I did not find the pages you guys gave me in my original search. Funny thing is that when I tried the keys from the Dell site, no joy. And all other possible combinations don't work. I know the durn thing is usable cause it was loading an old Win 95 diskette version until it got to the Authentication code and I discovered that I have lost it. Bummer, so I may just pull the floppy and the 400Mb hard drive and trash the rest. If I can't get into the bios I may not be able to configure it to work for me. It was on a LAN in a doctors' office before. Thanks again for all the help. -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What is the long term plan for NS ans Mozilla
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:14:21 +1100 Neville Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does any one know what the long term plan is for Netscape 4.series, > 6.series and mozilla. Will Netscape 6.series replace the 4.series on > Mndrake some day? > > Nev Most web pages are still designed with only IE and Netscape 4 in mind. Until this situation improves, we will need Netscape 4. Red Hat announced some months ago that they will make Mozilla their default browser once it has reached a very usable state. I'm sure that Mandrake and other distros will do likewise. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Information Revolution will be fought on the command line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What is the long term plan for NS ans Mozilla
Does any one know what the long term plan is for Netscape 4.series, 6.series and mozilla. Will Netscape 6.series replace the 4.series on Mndrake some day? Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unclutter your cursor
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:14, Tom Brinkman wrote: | | ~ $ wprv `which xmkmf` | XFree86-devel-4.1.0-17mdk | | 'wprv' is an alias of mine for rpm -qa --whatprovides, but shows | that you need XFree86-devel installed. Without diggin way into it, | I don't know if a < 4.1 version will do. So if you're already runnin | XF-4.1, just install XFree86-devel off your CD's. You should then be | able to compile unclutter. | | If when you installed you didn't select 'development' options, | you're probly gonna run into lot'sa situations where compiles (which | is what rebuilding a src.rpm is) fail. I suggest sooner or later you | boot the install CD and do an 'upgrade, this time selecting the | development packages. Thanks Tom, that sorted it out. And its real handy having the cursor disappear when reading mail, docs, etc. Great little app! Yes, I hadn't selected 'development' options during LM install so I'll give the 'upgrade' a go. When doing an upgrade: 1. do I have to reselect all the same software packages or will the currently installed packages stay put? 2. will I have to reconfigure hardware settings (like reinstall the closed source nvidia drivers)? Not that it really matters I s'pose. I can always do a clean install if things don't work out. Thanks again Tom. 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] Nice new NEWBIE website for Linux users
Basicly all Linux's will have 99.99% the same commands. Now going to something like HP's Unix you will find that the commandline options are different sometimes. I use HP Unix at work. As for a website with the commands, I don't know off the top of my head. If I find anything in the next day or so I'll post it. >From: Grant Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Nice new NEWBIE website for Linux users >Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:57:20 -0800 > >So I realize that I'm going to have to give up and learn the command line >stuff :( >Does each distro have a different set of commands? >What book or website would you recommend? Keep in mind I do know DOS. > >Thank you, Grant > > >On November 16, 2001 05:34 am, you wrote: > > http://www.linux-tips.net/ > > > > _ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Content-Description: > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel source
I need to have a configured kernel source in /usr/src/linux/ before I can install my winmodem's drivers. (So says section 5 of the howto at http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html). LM 8.1 CD2 appears to have just what I need: \Mandake\PRMS2\kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm, which matches my installed kernel. But how? Software Manager can't see it. KPackage sees it, but aborts with a list of dependencies I must first install... and cannot find the dependenices. So I read man and info for rpm, but only confused myself. What's the command I need to rpm this source to where I need it? Thanks, Warren -- http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
I'm running great over 1 Gbit over Copper Switched LAN to Linksys Router to Toshiba analog Cable modem on Cox Cable Internet with LM8.1. LM8.1 recognized a linksys Gig over Cu NIC and installed the drivers automagically. It automagically recognized the router DHCP over the Lan and installed the internet configuration during the initial install. Internet access is faster than on 95,98,ME,XP home boxes on the same LAN! Need to get Samba working, if anyone has any suggestions, hint, hint...Maybe it automagically installs if one answers the right questions right on the install? I didn't know I needed Samba until after I finished the install and couldn't talk to the win machines... I don't have time to read the manual today because I'm trying to get the plugins for Netscape 6.2 to install. They're not automagical, either... LM8.1 is so fun!;-) Jim Lynch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unclutter your cursor
On Friday 16 November 2001 02:56 pm, skinky wrote: >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:34, Tom Brinkman wrote: >> [snip] > | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm > | > | I did a rpm --rebuild on it and installed the rpm it wrote. > I downloaded the above source rpm but can't install it. This is > what I did: > # rpm --rebuild unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm > Installing unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm > Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79663 > + xmkmf > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17024: xmkmf: command not found > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17024 (%build) ~ $ wprv `which xmkmf` XFree86-devel-4.1.0-17mdk 'wprv' is an alias of mine for rpm -qa --whatprovides, but shows that you need XFree86-devel installed. Without diggin way into it, I don't know if a < 4.1 version will do. So if you're already runnin XF-4.1, just install XFree86-devel off your CD's. You should then be able to compile unclutter. If when you installed you didn't select 'development' options, you're probly gonna run into lot'sa situations where compiles (which is what rebuilding a src.rpm is) fail. I suggest sooner or later you boot the install CD and do an 'upgrade, this time selecting the development packages. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nice new NEWBIE website for Linux users
So I realize that I'm going to have to give up and learn the command line stuff :( Does each distro have a different set of commands? What book or website would you recommend? Keep in mind I do know DOS. Thank you, Grant On November 16, 2001 05:34 am, you wrote: > http://www.linux-tips.net/ > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system
I'm sure there are many opinions about this, and what Dell calls a 'server' and what I think of as server components may not be the same, AND there are esoteric hardware distinctions that I do not know. Servers are optimized for speed and fault-tolerance. This means considering the type of processor, the chipset that controls data throughput on the motherboard, the hard drive sytem, and the LAN card. In general, a server box will have SCSI internals for its hard drives. It will have redundant power supplies. It will run a full-blown microprocessor (Pentium vs. Celeron, for example). It will have one, or better, two NICS at a minimum of 100Mbps (Dell is shipping servers with Gb Ethernet on the motherboard). Now, here's where my knowledge gets spotty. Motherboards. Some motheboards/chipsets are more efficient at moving data to and from the processor. Also, different types of memory are more robust/faster. A RAID 5 array (you need 3 hard drives, minimum) will give you better performance than simple mirroring, as well as uninterrupted fault-tolerance if one drive fails. -Paul Schwebel, Lab Facilitator San Dieguito Union High School District --- Paul Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What exactly differentiates server grade hardware and desktop grade? > > I ask this because checking out some Dell servers (just above the price > range for this project, but wrangleable) they seem to be pretty much the > same hardware I would find in a desktop computer. IDE drives for > example, and not even ATA/100/133 RAID. > > -Paul Rodríguez > > > > On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 13:55, Jim Dawson wrote: > > My only recomendation is to use 'server grade' hardware. 'Desktop' grade > computers are not designed to run 24/7. Unfortunately I don't know of any > server-grade computers that use AMD processors. > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Friday 16 November 2001 5:24 pm, you wrote: > i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would > almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u > can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. by two partition i meant swap and /. i ran in this problem recently. i had a root, swap and home on a small hd(2gig). icant remember how much space i allocated to / and /home, but swap was about 130mb. anyway, after a while i just found myself no more romm on / .. what to do then? well i reinstalled with just swap and / ... you cant afford more free space than you need in one partition, because it is likely that you will need it in the other one. that's my point really. however, if you use ext2, you can apparently resize partitions with parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ > On Friday 16 November 2001 4:54 pm, you wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: > > > I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before > > > I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a > > > P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a > > > number of partitions, namely: > > > > > > Root > > > Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) > > > > Thats actually called Swap > > > > > Data (presumably a number of data partitions) > > > > Generally, if you just had three partitions, it would be root swap > > home... > > > > > My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the > > > partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it > > > for me? > > > > No, DiskDrake will cut it up for you just fine, and you can either have > > it auto allocate the space, or you can tell it exaclty how much you want > > in each partition. It's very well laid out, and fairly self explanatory. > > > > Good luck! > > > > > > > > > > > > peace, > > > > Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh
On Friday 16 November 2001 5:54 pm, you wrote: > * ssh has a configuration option for forwarding X11. > Make sure that's not causing a problem. > * Did you set "DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0" on box 2? > * Did you "host +192.168.1.4" on box 1? miark, i haven't done any of that. could you give me a bit more details on how to set that up. is there config files... or even better sittes or information sources? thanks > > Miark > > > hi all, > > here i am again with my home network > > > > 3 boxes, 1 hub the 3 boxes are connected to the hub > > box 1: main workstation, lm8.1, celeron 1.1ghz ip:192.168.1.2 > > box 2: p120, lm8.1. i run xfce on this box ip:192.168.1.4 > > box 3: my gateway, p120, diskless, runs linuxfw, connected to the hub and > > cable modem ip:192.164.1.1 > > > > i can establish ssh connection from box 1 to box 2, but X not working. > > here what i get when i try to run an app: > > > > Last login: Mon Nov 5 19:51:56 2001 from localhost.localdomain > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "home.97fx:10.0" in > > "add" command > > [root@home root]# xmms > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for home.97fx > > > > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display > > > > now on the second line it says about bad display name and add command. i > > don't have the first clue what that is or what config it might writte > > that too... > > > > then it says about X11TransSocketINETConnect, same thing... i'm baffled. > > > > then when trying to connect from box 2 to box 1, i get a plain old > > connection refused. > > fair enough, but why? > > > > i have looked several faqs and ssh sites, no luck. > > > > any ideas? > > > > ps: this is supposed to be straight forward stuff, why doesn''it work for > > me? > > > > :(( > > > > any help appriciated > > > > appart from that, linux, and mandrake rock. i get the confirmation > > everytime i have to use window$ > > --- >- > > > 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] motherboard suggestion for stable system
What exactly differentiates server grade hardware and desktop grade? I ask this because checking out some Dell servers (just above the price range for this project, but wrangleable) they seem to be pretty much the same hardware I would find in a desktop computer. IDE drives for example, and not even ATA/100/133 RAID. -Paul Rodríguez On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 13:55, Jim Dawson wrote: > My only recomendation is to use 'server grade' hardware. 'Desktop' grade computers >are not designed to run 24/7. Unfortunately I don't know of any server-grade >computers that use AMD processors. > > If possible go with a SCSI disk subsystem rather than IDE. IDE drives are made for >the desktop market and are generally not designed for 24x7 operation. If you can >afford it get a RAID controller (even if you are just mirroring, a RAID controller >can handle mirroring much better than the server itself.) and hot swappable drives. >it is also a good idea to have redundant (and if possible hot swappable) power >supplies and cooling fans. On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 12:24, Paul Schwebel wrote: > Tell your doctor that Data reliability and "cheap" don't go together. He/she > will have to choose. > > Mirrored drives, along with daily backups will give you some reliability. They > don't necessarily have to be hot swappable, unless downtime is not an option. > > I have run both Compaq and Dell servers in a public school environment > (Netware, not Linux). I prefer the Dells. > > My .02, > > -Paul Schwebel, Lab Facilitator > San Dieguito Union High School District _ 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] Evolution Qustions
> > A different topic on Evolution, what format is the address book in? can I import > address book from (say) Netscape 4.77 or OE5? > > Thanks > > Gordon Gordon, You can import mail and contacts from Netscape using Evolution's import feature. To import Outlook and Outlook express mail and contacts, you have to import them into a windows version of mozilla first and then evolution. I've included an explanation and directions on how to do this from Ximian's web site. They have a great search tool there. http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=k7DWVl*f&p_lva=&p_refno=010720-04&p_created=995655179&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTkmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1Ib3cgZG8gSSBpbXBvcnQgT3V0bG9vayBFeHByZXNzIGZpbGVzPyZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPTMmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9MiZwX2NhdF9sdmwxPX5hbnl_JnBfc29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li= -Paul Rodríguez "As my previous email client, I used Microsoft Outlook. How can I import my old email from Outlook? Answer You cannot import these files directly into Evolution because the .pst format is a proprietary format. However, Mozilla Mail on Windows can convert them into the mbox format, which can then be imported by Evolution. To start importing your Outlook mail to Evolution, run Mozilla Mail on Windows and select the Importer to begin: File > Import Then select that you wish to import Mail from Outlook. Once Mozilla has imported all your mail, reboot your computer into Linux. Mount your Windows partition in Linux and run Evolution to begin importing your mail. Select the Importer from the File menuto start importing: File > Import File... Set the file type to "MBox (mbox)" and click on [Browse] to select the file containing mail you want to import. If you are the only user on Windows, the mail files will be stored in /mnt/c/windows/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default//Mail/imported.mail/ where /mnt/c/ is your windows partition mount point and is some collection of numbers and digits ending in .slt. If there is more than one user, the file will be in /mnt/c/windows/Profiles/USERNAME//Mail/imported.mail/ where USERNAME is your Windows username. For each mail folder in Outlook, Mozilla will convert the folder into one mbox file. To import all your mail, import all the files without a .msf extension. Mozilla on Windows can access the .pst Outlook files because it can use the Windows MAPI.DLL library. Using MAPI.DLL is the only way to access .pst files, and it can be used under a Windows operating system." _ 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] unclutter your cursor
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:34, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm | | I did a rpm --rebuild on it and installed the rpm it wrote. Then | I used a text editor (your choice ;) to create a file I named | 'unclutter-start' (again, name is your choice) : | | #!/bin/bash | /usr/bin/kstart /usr/X11R6/bin/unclutter | | I 'chmod +x'd it to make it executable, and put it in my user | ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory. You can then either run (click on it) | 'unclutter-start', or the next (or any)time you start KDE, the cursor | will disappear after about 5 secs. of no mouse movement. IMO, this | should've been a KDE feature (option to enable) all along. I bet ya | other WM fans could find a similar way to start it. I downloaded the above source rpm but can't install it. This is what I did: # rpm -i unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm # cd /usr/local/src/unclutter # rpm --rebuild unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm Installing unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79663 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf unclutter + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/unclutter-8.tar.bz2 + tar -xvvf - drwxr-xr-x 127/666 0 1994-11-04 02:17:23 unclutter/ -r--r--r-- 127/666 11517 1994-04-12 03:40:47 unclutter/unclutter.c -rw-r--r-- 127/666 59 1991-04-10 02:14:15 unclutter/Imakefile -rw-r--r-- 127/6661996 1991-04-10 04:49:52 unclutter/Makefile -r--r--r-- 127/6663458 1994-04-12 03:40:48 unclutter/unclutter.man -r--r--r-- 127/6662863 1991-08-03 04:13:54 unclutter/vroot.h -r--r--r-- 127/666 945 1994-04-12 03:40:49 unclutter/patchlevel.h -r--r--r-- 127/6661804 1992-09-29 06:06:11 unclutter/README + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd unclutter + exit 0 Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17024 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd unclutter + xmkmf /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17024: xmkmf: command not found error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17024 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17024 (%build) I get the same error (last 4 lines) but different rpm-tmp.number (rpm-tmp.501:) when I do the following: # cd /usr/src/RPM/SPECS # rpm -bb --clean --rmsource unclutter.spec This results in no rpm in /usr/source/RPM/RPMS dir or subdirs. Does anyone know what the "xmkmf" bit is? Do I not have a necessary helper-app installed perhaps? This is the first time I've tried to install a source rpm so I've been following a HOWTO. Maybe I went wrong somewhere? 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] Laying Out Partitions?
For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or are there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and HAVE 8.1 PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing the horror stories). --- Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions
I'm running the .99 RC1 release. Installed it via RPM from Cooker off of RPMFind.net. The tab key seems to be disabled somehow or that the tab amount or something is not setup. One thing I should point out is that I'm using it in KDE. I wonder if that has something to do with it. I have Gnome installed... I'll have to try it in that and see if the tab key works. Hadn't though of that 'till just now. -Gary On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 13:19, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Hi, Gary, like most programs that automatically find the weather for your area, there are only a handful, maybe 7-15 cities per state or country on average. As far as I know there is no way to add your particular city. As far as evolution is concerned, which version of Evo are you running and which version of Mandrake? I'm using 0.13 in 8.1 and tabs work fine, same for 0.11 in 8.0. -Paul Rodríguez On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 12:58, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > That's strange that the tab works for you but not me. It works fine in > everything else. As for being able to add another city, I need to add > one that is not on the list. There is a close one on the list, but I'd > like to add my own. Was just wondering if anyone knew how to go about > this. I did a search of my system trying to find the file or files that > control how it retrieves weather data but wasn't able to locate it or > them. > > -Gary > > > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:07, Dave Sherman wrote: > > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > > > Two questions about Evolution: > > > > First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I > > hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, > > but not at all in Evolution. > > Tab works fine for me, so I would imagine it is a problem with your > setup... > > > Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area > > of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these > > questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered > > great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. > > >From the Summary view, select the Tools, menu, then Summary Settings. > Click the Weather tab in the resulting dialog, and add a city. > > Hope this helps, > Dave > -- > Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content > to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good > beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up > drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a > nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves > and the teacher says: "Imagine what it does to your TEETH!" So > Coca-Cola > was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to > improve ... > -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence" > _ 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] Laying Out Partitions?
> Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap > partition of about 130 MB or so. That's fine. > Is Root where the actual OS is > installed... The System Files, etc.? No, there are only directories in the root directory, and /root is basically the home directory of the root user. The OS, well, let's say the kernel, is located in /boot, and the rest of the configuration files, libraries, etc. are scattered in various other places. > Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? Typically, no. Home is just for personal data (letters, spreadsheets, etc.) and configuration files (KDE, Gnome, X apps, etc.). You could run smaller apps from your home directory. I, for instance, run the AudioGalaxy client from my home directory. But as a rule, apps go somewhere under /usr. > With a > Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 > MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will > DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase > Partition Magic? With a 2GB drive, I think Tom Brinkman's strategy is the best. Just make a swap partition (130MB is fine), and make the rest a single partition mounted at /. You'll save yourself a lot of space headaches. DiskDrake will do it. Don't both with PM. I've used version 7 (the latest), and it's caused great headaches for me. Plus, PM doesn't make ReiserFS partitions, which you'll probably want to use instead of Ext2. > Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this > all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. No apology necessary. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions
Paul Rodríguez wrote: > Hi, Gary, like most programs that automatically find the weather for > your area, there are only a handful, maybe 7-15 cities per state or > country on average. As far as I know there is no way to add your > particular city. As far as evolution is concerned, which version of Evo > are you running and which version of Mandrake? I'm using 0.13 in 8.1 > and tabs work fine, same for 0.11 in 8.0. > > -Paul Rodríguez > > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 12:58, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > > > That's strange that the tab works for you but not me. It works fine in > > everything else. As for being able to add another city, I need to add > > one that is not on the list. There is a close one on the list, but I'd > > like to add my own. Was just wondering if anyone knew how to go about > > this. I did a search of my system trying to find the file or files that > > control how it retrieves weather data but wasn't able to locate it or > > them. > > > > -Gary > > > > > > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:07, Dave Sherman wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > > > > > Two questions about Evolution: > > > > > > First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I > > > hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, > > > but not at all in Evolution. > > > > Tab works fine for me, so I would imagine it is a problem with your > > setup... > > > > > Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area > > > of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these > > > questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered > > > great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. > > > > >From the Summary view, select the Tools, menu, then Summary Settings. > > Click the Weather tab in the resulting dialog, and add a city. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Dave > > -- > > Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content > > to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good > > beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up > > drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a > > nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves > > and the teacher says: "Imagine what it does to your TEETH!" So > > Coca-Cola > > was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to > > improve ... > > -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence" > > > > _ > > 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 A different topic on Evolution, what format is the address book in? can I import address book from (say) Netscape 4.77 or OE5? Thanks Gordon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system
Over the last few days I've been in a similar position, I needed to put together specifications on a new NetWare server for a very cost-conscious customer, so I learned quite a bit about ATA RAID and tape drives in a short amount of time. (Unfortunately I found that alghough ATA RAID is supported in NetWare 5.x but isn't quite mature enough to use on a production server yet, and although some people claim to have got IDE tape drives to work it doesn't seem to be officially supported.) You might want to take a look at the Dell PowerEdge 500C, the IBM x-Series 200 and Compaq Proliant ML330. All are 'Entry Level' servers which use IDE drives. The Compaq and IBM even have a 2-channel IDE RAID controller. As long as you are using Dell/Compaq/IBM's drives reliability shouldn't be a problem. Performance will not be at the level of SCSI drives however. Neither support hot swap IDE drives, but the Compaq can be adapted to support hot swap SCSI cards. (but it's a rather pricey option. You would probabally be better off buying a model that comes with a hot-swap cage.) If you build the server from components, Adaptec's ATA RAID 2400 controller does support hot swap IDE drives. I might be willing to try one of these in a Dell server, but as a rule you should never plug anything into a Compaq box that doesn't come from Compaq. However IMHO if the application is mission-critical enough to require hot-swap drives it's usually important enough to justify the expense of a good SCSI RAID controller, hot swap chassis and drives, redundant hot swap power supplies, redundant hot swap fans, etc. As far as the OS supporting hot-swapping in a (redundant) RAID configuration, if you are using hardware RAID the OS isn't even aware that it's a RAID configuration. As long as you have enough drives for the controller to reconstruct the data on the disks the OS may not even be aware that the drive has been removed or replaced. (NOTE: I have never actually used hardware RAID on a Linux box, my RAID experience has been with Windows and NetWare.) -Original Message- From: Paul RodrÃguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 Nov 2001 19:56:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system Thanks, Jim. Your reccomendations have been very helpful. I've been going over several options over the last few days. I'm afraid server grade components seem to be outside the price range of this environment. The doctor is looking for components in the $500 range. That being said, I'd like to know more about hot-swappable drives. Because of the importance of data reliability, I will definately be going for a RAID setup, probably just mirroring as you said. And because of price considerations I'm currently leaning towards integrated motherboard RAID controllers. Having never used removable hard drives, I need to ask whether or not this needs to be integrated into the case or can be added to later. My main concern about the RAID setup is many mixed reports regarding RAID and various controllers and Linux. Also, having a RAID 1 setup with removable drive cages on a Linux server/workstation, are the hard drives truley hot-swappable? Thanks for your help, Jim, Rog, and everybody on the list. -Paul RodrÃguez On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 13:55, Jim Dawson wrote: > My only recomendation is to use 'server grade' hardware. 'Desktop' grade computers >are not designed to run 24/7. Unfortunately I don't know of any server-grade >computers that use AMD processors. > > If possible go with a SCSI disk subsystem rather than IDE. IDE drives are made for >the desktop market and are generally not designed for 24x7 operation. If you can >afford it get a RAID controller (even if you are just mirroring, a RAID controller >can handle mirroring much better than the server itself.) and hot swappable drives. >it is also a good idea to have redundant (and if possible hot swappable) power >supplies and cooling fans. > > Compaq and IBM both sell very Linux-friendly server lines. Dell and (I think) HP >also support Linux on their server products. I personally would recommend the Compaq >Proliant line. > > -Original Message- > From: Paul RodrÃguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10 Nov 2001 17:02:19 -0500 > Subject: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system > > I am building a system for the doctor's private practice. Stabillity is > the number one concern. We will have windows and linux running on > separate hard drives untill we can tansition the database to Linux,dõ3E after which, >I'd like to have a RAID system for increased data > reliabillity. > > Do you have any suggestions on hardware I should be looking for or > staying away from? I'd like to use an AMD chip. Are there any special > considerations for having a mroe reliable system? > > -Paul RodrÃguez > > > > > > _ > > Do You Y
[newbie] half page printing
Hi, Somehow my network printers compress the page and print only on the top half of the sheet. This occasionally chops the first couple of lines of text. This error occurs in Wordperfect, StarOffice and all KDE apps while printing. Ideas? Regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: > Hello Miark, > > On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:47 AM PDT, you wrote: > > > You meant "swap" rather than "root", right Nick? > > Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap > partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is > installed... The System Files, etc.? Skidley said to make my Root 1 GB > which seems rather large if my entire Drive is only 2.1 GB. Besides, Win > 98 itself only occupies 350 MB. Is Mandrake 8.1 that much larger? > > Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? With a > Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 > MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will > DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase > Partition Magic? > > Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this > all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. > > > The Root partition is where the apps will be installed, in the /usr tree so you'll need quite a bit of space there. Most Mandrake installs are over a gig but doesn't need to be. You can select a bare minimum of packages if you want. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions
Hi, Gary, like most programs that automatically find the weather for your area, there are only a handful, maybe 7-15 cities per state or country on average. As far as I know there is no way to add your particular city. As far as evolution is concerned, which version of Evo are you running and which version of Mandrake? I'm using 0.13 in 8.1 and tabs work fine, same for 0.11 in 8.0. -Paul Rodríguez On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 12:58, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > That's strange that the tab works for you but not me. It works fine in > everything else. As for being able to add another city, I need to add > one that is not on the list. There is a close one on the list, but I'd > like to add my own. Was just wondering if anyone knew how to go about > this. I did a search of my system trying to find the file or files that > control how it retrieves weather data but wasn't able to locate it or > them. > > -Gary > > > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:07, Dave Sherman wrote: > > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > > > Two questions about Evolution: > > > > First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I > > hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, > > but not at all in Evolution. > > Tab works fine for me, so I would imagine it is a problem with your > setup... > > > Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area > > of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these > > questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered > > great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. > > >From the Summary view, select the Tools, menu, then Summary Settings. > Click the Weather tab in the resulting dialog, and add a city. > > Hope this helps, > Dave > -- > Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content > to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good > beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up > drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a > nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves > and the teacher says: "Imagine what it does to your TEETH!" So > Coca-Cola > was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to > improve ... > -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence" > _ 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] Laying Out Partitions?
Hello Miark, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:47 AM PDT, you wrote: > You meant "swap" rather than "root", right Nick? Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is installed... The System Files, etc.? Skidley said to make my Root 1 GB which seems rather large if my entire Drive is only 2.1 GB. Besides, Win 98 itself only occupies 350 MB. Is Mandrake 8.1 that much larger? Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? With a Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase Partition Magic? Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. -- Nick -=N.J. Andriash | Courtenay, B.C. Canada=- Win 98SE | GnuPG v1.06 (MingW32) | Becky v2.00.07 ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: > Hello antoine rivoire, > > On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote: > > > i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would > > almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u > > can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. > > I have no idea what /ot/home means, but if you say Mandrake will not be > able to auto-partition a 2.1 GB Drive, would you suggest I do it > manually, and if so just a Root and Data partition with the Root > partition being something like 2x my available RAM (64 MB)? Would I have > to use Partition Magic, or is this "DiskDrake" capable of doing for me > via manual means? > > > I'd suggest making a /(/ is the mount point for root) swap and /home with such little drive space. You'll want maybe a gig or so for root and pick the packages you want to install wisely and the size of home depends on what you want to do with the box. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: > I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I > start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, > 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number > of partitions, namely: > > Root > Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) > Data (presumably a number of data partitions) > > My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the > partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it > for me? > > You can partition yourself during an expert install or mandrake will partition automatically for a standard install. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions
That's strange that the tab works for you but not me. It works fine in everything else. As for being able to add another city, I need to add one that is not on the list. There is a close one on the list, but I'd like to add my own. Was just wondering if anyone knew how to go about this. I did a search of my system trying to find the file or files that control how it retrieves weather data but wasn't able to locate it or them. -Gary On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:07, Dave Sherman wrote: On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > Two questions about Evolution: > > First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I > hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, > but not at all in Evolution. Tab works fine for me, so I would imagine it is a problem with your setup... > Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area > of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these > questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered > great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. >From the Summary view, select the Tools, menu, then Summary Settings. Click the Weather tab in the resulting dialog, and add a city. Hope this helps, Dave -- Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: "Imagine what it does to your TEETH!" So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve ... -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"
Re: [newbie] ssh
* ssh has a configuration option for forwarding X11. Make sure that's not causing a problem. * Did you set "DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0" on box 2? * Did you "host +192.168.1.4" on box 1? Miark > hi all, > here i am again with my home network > > 3 boxes, 1 hub the 3 boxes are connected to the hub > box 1: main workstation, lm8.1, celeron 1.1ghz ip:192.168.1.2 > box 2: p120, lm8.1. i run xfce on this box ip:192.168.1.4 > box 3: my gateway, p120, diskless, runs linuxfw, connected to the hub and > cable modem ip:192.164.1.1 > > i can establish ssh connection from box 1 to box 2, but X not working. here > what i get when i try to run an app: > > Last login: Mon Nov 5 19:51:56 2001 from localhost.localdomain > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "home.97fx:10.0" in "add" > command > [root@home root]# xmms > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for home.97fx > > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display > > now on the second line it says about bad display name and add command. i > don't have the first clue what that is or what config it might writte that > too... > > then it says about X11TransSocketINETConnect, same thing... i'm baffled. > > then when trying to connect from box 2 to box 1, i get a plain old > connection refused. > fair enough, but why? > > i have looked several faqs and ssh sites, no luck. > > any ideas? > > ps: this is supposed to be straight forward stuff, why doesn''it work for me? > :(( > > > any help appriciated > > appart from that, linux, and mandrake rock. i get the confirmation everytime > i have to use window$ > > > 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] Laying Out Partitions?
You meant "swap" rather than "root", right Nick? Miark - Original Message - From: "Nick Andriash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? > Hello antoine rivoire, > > On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote: > > > i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would > > almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u > > can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. > > I have no idea what /ot/home means, but if you say Mandrake will not be > able to auto-partition a 2.1 GB Drive, would you suggest I do it > manually, and if so just a Root and Data partition with the Root > partition being something like 2x my available RAM (64 MB)? Would I have > to use Partition Magic, or is this "DiskDrake" capable of doing for me > via manual means? > > > -- > Nick > >-=N.J. Andriash | Courtenay, B.C. Canada=- > Win 98SE | GnuPG v1.06 (MingW32) | Becky v2.00.07 > ___ > > > > 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] netscape 6.2
Robin Turner wrote: > >As for browser wars - > >Netscape has two advantages - it's an integrated mail client and >browser, and it's cross-platform (the latter being the main >reason I use it - we only have one Linux box at work, so I'm >often working from Windows). 6.2 is not perfect, but much less >buggy than the appalling 6.0. AIM tends not to work, but that's >because AOL tends not to work. > >Robin > But can it find the Java machine? If so I might consider using it. If not it's just another pile of poo like 6.1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Hello antoine rivoire, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote: > i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would > almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u > can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. I have no idea what /ot/home means, but if you say Mandrake will not be able to auto-partition a 2.1 GB Drive, would you suggest I do it manually, and if so just a Root and Data partition with the Root partition being something like 2x my available RAM (64 MB)? Would I have to use Partition Magic, or is this "DiskDrake" capable of doing for me via manual means? -- Nick -=N.J. Andriash | Courtenay, B.C. Canada=- Win 98SE | GnuPG v1.06 (MingW32) | Becky v2.00.07 ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Problem is if you look at his output, both /dev/cdrom0 and /dev/cdrom2 are sym links to the same device. Something was setup wrong during install. By any chance did you pick a security setting other than "low" during install? I noticed that anything above low (medium, high) supposedly restricts the devices to specific groups (which in MHO doesn't work too well). Most of my problems (sound related) went away when I changed security back to low. -mm On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Hugo Ferreira wrote: > Ethan, > > Seems like yours is not a simple case. This surpasses my knowledge. > It seems you have two links to two mount point of type /dev/cdromx. where x is > a number. Do you have more than one CD-R/DVD/CD-RW Drive? If so, the player > must know which one to use. > > Hugo. > > - Original Message - > From: Ethan > To: Hugo Ferreira > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:13 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd > > > Here's the output: > > [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdrom > devfs: link of "cdrom" > devfs: link of "cdrom" > [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep CDROM > [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdrom > devfs: link of "cdrom" > devfs: link of "cdrom" > [root@Echelon dev]# ls -la /dev/cdrom? > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom0 -> >cdroms/cdrom0 > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom2 -> >cdroms/cdrom2 > > /dev/cdroms: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Nov 14 21:00 ./ > drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 1 1970 ../ > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Nov 17 2001 cdrom0 -> >../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Jan 1 1970 cdrom2 -> >../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd > > appreciate your help. > > Hugo Ferreira wrote: > > Ethan, > > What is the result of a: > > demsg | grep cdrom > > and a > > ls -la /dev/cdrom? > > Don't forget the question mark. > > Hugo. > > - Original Message - > From: Ethan > To:Hugo Ferreira > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:14 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd > > > > Hugo Ferreira wrote: > > Ethan, > > I have had the exact same problem and have finally solved it. > Anyone please feel free to correct or suggest a better way of doing this. > Try the following: > > 1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any other) X session, I'll assume KDE for >KMixer). > > 2. unmount the cdrom (just in case, and do as Sridhar indicated): > umount /mnt/cdrom > Do it twice to make sure it is not mounted. Make sure ypu have no > CD in the drive. > done. > > > 3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make sure it's there > > 4. If it is, you must now set a sym link from /dev/cdrom (which your player >needs) to > the "/dev/hdc" which is the device that you know works because the >/mnt/cdrom is also the > mountpoint of the /dev/hdc device and that worked for you. We will do the >same for "/dev/cdrom" > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom > [root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom > ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists > > > 5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to check the link. You should see that the >permissions will > enable anyone to use this mount point. > > 6. Place a CD and fire up your CD player. You should now have music. > > Still get permissions error. > > BTW, what does blinking white text over red background mean ?? > > i get:cdrom@ > [root@Echelon dev]# ls -l cdrom > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 16 Nov 17 2001 [cdrom -> >../cdroms/cdrom0 ] < blinking white over red background > > > > > 7. If you don't, fire up your KMixer and make sure the volume is up. Do the >same for > your speakers. If this does not work, you are out of luck. See below for >more hints** > > 8. Assuming you got this far and all is ok, then change the access for the >CDROM. > Do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdc".The "ls -la /dev/hdc" should confirm the >changes. > > 9. log out of root > > 10. Login as a user > 11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and KMixer) and enjoy. > > ** > Ok. If you did not make it, you have to make sure your sound card is ok >(only works if > you have the sound card connected directlly to your CD Drive). Place a CD in >the drive, > press the drive's play button. Launch the KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's >volume and > speaker's volume to check for sound. Works, ok no major hardware problem. > > Next. Test the cards driver. Here someone may help me. How can we do this. I >have an > ISA sound card ad used RedHat's sndconfig. After probing and set-up, this
Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system
Tell your doctor that Data reliability and "cheap" don't go together. He/she will have to choose. Mirrored drives, along with daily backups will give you some reliability. They don't necessarily have to be hot swappable, unless downtime is not an option. I have run both Compaq and Dell servers in a public school environment (Netware, not Linux). I prefer the Dells. My .02, -Paul Schwebel, Lab Facilitator San Dieguito Union High School District --- Paul Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Jim. Your reccomendations have been very helpful. I've been > going over several options over the last few days. I'm afraid server > grade components seem to be outside the price range of this environment. > The doctor is looking for components in the $500 range. > > That being said, I'd like to know more about hot-swappable drives. > Because of the importance of data reliability, I will definately be > going for a RAID setup, probably just mirroring as you said. And > because of price considerations I'm currently leaning towards integrated > motherboard RAID controllers. Having never used removable hard drives, > I need to ask whether or not this needs to be integrated into the case > or can be added to later. > > Subject: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system > > > > I am building a system for the doctor's private practice. Stabillity is > > the number one concern. We will have windows and linux running on > > separate hard drives untill we can tansition the database to Linux, > > after which, I'd like to have a RAID system for increased data > > reliabillity. > > > > Do you have any suggestions on hardware I should be looking for or > > staying away from? I'd like to use an AMD chip. Are there any special > > considerations for having a mroe reliable system? > > > > -Paul Rodríguez > > > > > > > > > > > > _ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > =_1005591342-1851-1811 > > 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 > __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. On Friday 16 November 2001 4:54 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: > > I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I > > start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, > > 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number > > of partitions, namely: > > > > Root > > Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) > > Thats actually called Swap > > > Data (presumably a number of data partitions) > > Generally, if you just had three partitions, it would be root swap home... > > > My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the > > partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it > > for me? > > No, DiskDrake will cut it up for you just fine, and you can either have it > auto allocate the space, or you can tell it exaclty how much you want in > each partition. It's very well laid out, and fairly self explanatory. > > Good luck! > > > > > > peace, > > Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi issues continued
if you browse the ../i586/Mandrake directory you will see a directory called /base and in there should be a file called hdlist.cz, the relative path is the path to the hdlist file form the RPMS directory, at a command line on your box youb probably know that typing 'cd ..' will take you to the directory above where you are at present typing 'cd ../someotherdirectory' will take you 'up' one directory and then back 'down' into /someotherdirectory. therefore the realtive path of .../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz to .../i586/Mandrake/RPMS is ../base/hdlist.cz so your example quoted should read: # urpmi.addmedia ftp ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz try that and see if it works, depending on how fat your connection is this will take a while, bascule On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 5:40 pm, you wrote: > Ok I entered this in my console to add a source to urpmi and it failed, > can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? > > [root@dhcppc3 ndptal85]# urpmi.addmedia ftp > ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirror > s/mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ with > ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/ma > ndrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz > > It always ends up with this error: > > unlink: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] can't configure joystick
Can someone out there help? I'm running Mdk8.0, and have a MS Sidewinder gamepad attached to a SB Vibra16 gameport. Sound works fine. I've downloaded and installed the js utilities package for testing the install. My /etc/modules.conf has this line added: alias char-major-13 joydev ns558 sidewinder But, /sbin/lsmod doesn't show anything about a joystick and #jstest /dev/js0 returns "jstest: no such device" So, I #modprobe joystick #modprobe ns558 #modprobe sidewinder And now /sbin/lsmod looks like this: Module Size Used by nls_iso8859-1 2848 1 (autoclean) isofs 17808 1 (autoclean) sr_mod 13952 1 (autoclean) sidewinder 8944 0 (unused) ns558 3024 0 (unused) gameport1520 0 [sidewinder ns558] input 3232 0 (autoclean) [sidewinder] sb 7136 0 sb_lib 33120 0 [sb] uart401 6224 0 [sb_lib] sound 54256 0 [sb_lib uart401] soundcore 3504 5 [sb_lib sound] 3c59x 24640 1 (autoclean) usb-uhci 20672 0 (unused) usbcore47248 1 [usb-uhci] supermount 32496 4 (autoclean) reiserfs 165760 2 advansys 85836 4 sd_mod 11048 3 scsi_mod 86036 3 [sr_mod advansys sd_mod] Still, jstest returns the "no such device" error, so I tried the following, removing the /dev/jsX and recreating them, then: #ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0 and did the same for js1,js2,and js3 I still don't have a gamepad, and would really like to know what I'm missing here. And, shouldn't my /etc/modules.conf load the js on startup? Feeling real dumb right now, eryl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI drives won't access for install
is ur scsi detected during boot process? it sould be one of the first things ihe installer looks for after keyboard and mouse if i can remember correctly. i know mandrake 8.0 i386 had issues with installing from a scsi cdrom. it might be one thing to investigate in the list archives.. hope it works for u, good luck On Friday 16 November 2001 12:40 am, you wrote: > Just burned a CD of the Mandrake 8.0 PPC .iso to put on a 300mhz > Powermac 8600 at work. I used the BootX app, extension and kernels > from the CD's miscellaneous folder. > > The install routine begins nicely, but when it asks where the install > files are, it says it cannot find a CDROM and then gives me a whole > long list (of ... drivers?) to try to use, with a subsequent window > asking for parameters (I put /dev/cdrom there). > > I've tried the obvious entries from the list, like anything > containing mac, mace or hfs but none works. > > Then I copied the CD onto an HFS drive. I tried to install off the > drive and the installer said it couldn't find the hard drive, again > giving me a long list of things to try. I did put /dev/sda5 in that > parameter, the location of the HFS partition where the CD was copied. > > I have also checked force Scsi in BootX. > > Is there a way to proceed? > > -ms Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: > I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I > start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, > 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number > of partitions, namely: > > Root > Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) Thats actually called Swap > Data (presumably a number of data partitions) > Generally, if you just had three partitions, it would be root swap home... > My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the > partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it > for me? > No, DiskDrake will cut it up for you just fine, and you can either have it auto allocate the space, or you can tell it exaclty how much you want in each partition. It's very well laid out, and fairly self explanatory. Good luck! > peace, Rog Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ssh
hi all, here i am again with my home network 3 boxes, 1 hub the 3 boxes are connected to the hub box 1: main workstation, lm8.1, celeron 1.1ghz ip:192.168.1.2 box 2: p120, lm8.1. i run xfce on this box ip:192.168.1.4 box 3: my gateway, p120, diskless, runs linuxfw, connected to the hub and cable modem ip:192.164.1.1 i have Nfs working-ish (only works when bastille is turned off, by the way, has any body noticed tha in drakconf , services, bastille shows as not running, even when it is, or is it just me?, but i am degressing) now on to ssh. i can establish ssh connection from box 1 to box 2, but X not working. here what i get when i try to run an app: Last login: Mon Nov 5 19:51:56 2001 from localhost.localdomain /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "home.97fx:10.0" in "add" command [root@home root]# xmms _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for home.97fx ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display now on the second line it says about bad display name and add command. i don't have the first clue what that is or what config it might writte that too... then it says about X11TransSocketINETConnect, same thing... i'm baffled. then when trying to connect from box 2 to box 1, i get a plain old connection refused. fair enough, but why? i have looked several faqs and ssh sites, no luck. any ideas? ps: this is supposed to be straight forward stuff, why doesn''it work for me? :(( any help appriciated appart from that, linux, and mandrake rock. i get the confirmation everytime i have to use window$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] identd & obtaining connection username
OK, here's the story, I'm doing the companys' intranet server, based on mdk8.0 running apache. I want to be able to authenticate users based on their NT usernames (nt4.0) so instead of the user's logging into the intranet i want to get their NT username automatically. (I don't want to get NT to authenticate, i will do authentication). The main use is for doing questionnaires, surveys. basically anything that requires them filling in a form. we want to stop them from filling out a form more than once. We can't do it based on IP as people use each other's PCs, (and also DHCP is being introduced so IP addresses themselves might change. Now i'd seen identd as doing this, what i want to know is how to install/use identd to pass the username to a php script. OR any other ideas that people have to do this. thanks for any comments, suggestions etc. cheers Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number of partitions, namely: Root Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) Data (presumably a number of data partitions) My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it for me? -- Nick -=N.J. Andriash | Courtenay, B.C. Canada=- Win 98SE | GnuPG v1.06 (MingW32) | Becky v2.00.07 ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom and floppies! Again.. or yet?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Onur Kucuk wrote: Hi, there! thanks Kucuk... but >RCdOF> cdrom: it was originally set to /dev/hdb and /mnt/cdrom >RCdOF> I tried to emulate scsi, just as cd-rw! >RCdOF> Both are detected by 'cdrecord -scanbus' >RCdOF> cd-rw: I cannot mount it! Although I can 'burn' cd's!! >RCdOF> The error is always the same: "you have to specify the file system..." >RCdOF> But, if I do that, such as, "mount -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom2" nothing >RCdOF> happens but a help page for 'mount' >RCdOF> any idea, direction? >RCdOF> []s Ricardo Castanho > >This is normal, because you tell mount where to mount, but it does not >know what to mount. Normally >mount your_device_name to_where_you_want_to_mount >Assuming your cdrom is /dev/hdb , and you want to mount it to >/mnt/cdrom, and nothing is "already" mounted to /mnt/cdrom, the >correct command is >mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom >I dont think you will even need to define the type, but if you will >want or need > >mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom >will be the answer :) > Onur Kucuk I've tried that too! ;-( Oops! now I got it permissions problem!;-/ I think there is a problem with the links When I eject the 'cdrom' the cdrom2 is ejected, like: eject cdrom (cdrom2 is ejected!) to eject cdrom I have to give the full path... Any idea? I'm not worried about 'ejecting' but, to have correct links []s Ricardo Castanho - -- == Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iEYEARECAAYFAjv1O7oACgkQ9I0k95pf9XtJCACeOfDloXVgYwFqJ5IFswweyS7e U8kAoI6hwhZmWrAQX4G37lnxxwzAZY1l =mHB8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [newbie] Setting up the Firewall to work with SAMBA
Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting up the Firewall to work with SAMBA Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:51:32 + From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you edit the file /etc/rc.local (as root) and add this line at the end sh /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh then firestarter will start up automatically and over ride any other firewall which you may have defined. You do not need the gui running in order for the firewall to work. The GUI needs to run as root if you intend to change the firewall settings, or as a normal user if you simply want to observe hits on the firewall. You can make applications run as root by defining a desktop icon with the 'run as user' box checked, or by starting them in a root terminal. (Right click 'Link to application') to create an icon On Friday 16 November 2001 11:45, you wrote: > great stuff... no i forgot about that firestarter option you mentioned > before.. however, I have one more thing to ask .. when my server boots up > bastille gets started automatically.. now should i try to stop this > happening (and if so how?)? Control Center > System > Services make sure Bastille and iptables are not running, and un check the start at boot button. or will firestarter override it somehow? I > want it to be all set up each time i boot up rather than faffing around > with settings each time before I can run particular services.. > > ta again - you've been a good help > > Neil > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Linux Newbie > Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting up the Firewall to work with SAMBA > > > Neil > > Did you try firestarter? (get it at downloads www.pclinuxonline.com) > The introductory wizard should recognise that you have a lan interface > connecting to your XP box (yuck) and an internet interface to the > internet. > It should then offer to apply the firewall only on the internet interface. > The reason I like firestarter is because when it is running, and for > example you find you cannot ping to your Linux box, then an alert will pop > up in firestarter telling you that the XP box has been trying to ping, and > then simply by right clicking on the alert you can open up that service, or > the entire IP address. > > > Alternatively if you use InteractiveBastille and select advanced networking > options then you can elect to run the firewall on specific interfaces. > > On Friday 16 November 2001 09:28, Neil R Porter wrote: > > Hi Derek > > > > I followed > > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtopic.php?topic=2189&forum=6&17 and > > got everything set up and working great!.. The problem is this, I had no > > ping from the XP box to the linux server until I followed the advice in > > the above link and killed bastille (/etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall > > stop). However, this enables samba to work but disables the net sharing > > (ip masquerading etc etc) > > (I have linux on the net and serving the XP machine)... I'd basically > > like to know a way of setting up bastille or something else that will > > work as a firewall and let samba work too as I can't seem to have the > > two on at the same time and I really don't want the situation that > > everytime I boot the linux server up that I have to kill bastille and > > then run net connection sharing daemon to get that up again. > > > > Please advise this hopeful(less) newbie. > > > > Ta > > > > Neil -- >From end of October my cwcom account will no longer function Please update your address book . --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: > > Two questions about Evolution: > > First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I > hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, > but not at all in Evolution. Tab works fine for me, so I would imagine it is a problem with your setup... > Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area > of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these > questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered > great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. From the Summary view, select the Tools, menu, then Summary Settings. Click the Weather tab in the resulting dialog, and add a city. Hope this helps, Dave -- Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: "Imagine what it does to your TEETH!" So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve ... -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence" msg81719/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Evolution Qustions
Two questions about Evolution: First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, but not at all in Evolution. Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. Thank you! Gary
Re: [newbie] Java & Konqueror
On Friday 16 November 2001 10:39 am, Jason Pearce wrote: > Hi list , > I am having some trouble getting java applets > to work in konqueror. > I have set the path in .bashrc > export PATH=$PATH:'/opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin' > and also set the path in konqueror. > before i set the path in .bashrc I was getting the > error unable to find java blahblah > now I get loading applet in the applet window > but nothing else. > I am running mandrake 8.0 > on 266 p2 with 320meg Ram. > any help would be appreciated > cheers Jason I got blackdown and set the Path to java executable in Konqueror, but my PATH env was such a mess with lots of things appearing twice that I never added java to it cause I couldn't figure out where ut was being set. Konqueror still loads java apps just fine, although I don't suppose i could use java for anything else. -- Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Ethan, Seems like yours is not a simple case. This surpasses my knowledge. It seems you have two links to two mount point of type /dev/cdromx. where x is a number. Do you have more than one CD-R/DVD/CD-RW Drive? If so, the player must know which one to use. Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To: Hugo Ferreira Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd Here's the output:[root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdromdevfs: link of "cdrom"devfs: link of "cdrom"[root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep CDROM[root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdromdevfs: link of "cdrom"devfs: link of "cdrom"[root@Echelon dev]# ls -la /dev/cdrom?lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom0 -> cdroms/cdrom0lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom2 -> cdroms/cdrom2/dev/cdroms:total 0drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 14 21:00 ./drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 ../lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 17 2001 cdrom0 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cdlr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Jan 1 1970 cdrom2 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cdappreciate your help.Hugo Ferreira wrote: 028f01c16e8d$9106f180$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> Ethan, What is the result of a: demsg | grep cdrom and a ls -la /dev/cdrom? Don't forget the question mark. Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To:Hugo Ferreira Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd Hugo Ferreira wrote: 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> Ethan, I have had the exact same problem and have finally solved it. Anyone please feel free to correct or suggest a better way of doing this. Try the following: 1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any other) X session, I'll assume KDE for KMixer). 2. unmount the cdrom (just in case, and do as Sridhar indicated): umount /mnt/cdrom Do it twice to make sure it is not mounted. Make sure ypu have no CD in the drive.done. 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make sure it's there 4. If it is, you must now set a sym link from /dev/cdrom (which your player needs) to the "/dev/hdc" which is the device that you know works because the /mnt/cdrom is also the mountpoint of the /dev/hdc device and that worked for you. We will do the same for "/dev/cdrom" ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom[root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdromln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to check the link. You should see that the permissions will enable anyone to use this mount point. 6. Place a CD and fire up your CD player. You should now have music.Still get permissions error.BTW, what does blinking white text over red background mean ??i get:cdrom@[root@Echelon dev]# ls -l cdromlr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16 Nov 17 2001 [cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0 ] < blinking white over red background 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 7. If you don't, fire up your KMixer and make sure the volume is up. Do the same for your speakers. If this does not work, you are out of luck. See below for more hints** 8. Assuming you got this far and all is ok, then change the access for the CDROM. Do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdc".The "ls -la /dev/hdc" should confirm the changes. 9. log out of root 10. Login as a user 11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and KMixer) and enjoy. ** Ok. If you did not make it, you have to make sure your sound card is ok (only works if you have the sound card connected directlly to your CD Drive). Place a CD in the drive, press the drive's play button. Launch the KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's volume and speaker's volume to check for sound. Works, ok no major hardware problem. Next. Test the cards driver. Here someone may help me. How can we do this. I have an I
Re: [newbie] error emails to root (cron jobs i think)
> I have tried issuing a 'service inn stop' i just got unrecognised service. > there are 2 hourly and 1 daily cron jobs setup referring to inn, how do i > get rid of them ?? Try removing files (or renaming them) in /etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.hourly relating to inn. For instance, there's an inn-cron-expire in /etc/cron.daily which first checks if innd is running and then issues an expire. > Jamie 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] netscape 6.2
tek1 wrote: > At 19:05 01/11/15 -0500, you wrote: > >Questions: > >1)how do I find where something installed to? > > i usually try something like: > > > find / -name netscape > > explanation: find [dir to search in] -name [name of program/file looking >for] You can also try which, like: which netscape. On my system I got a positive response to "which konqueror" (/usr/bin/konqueror) but I got a negative response to "which netscape", probably because netscape is not installed, but the response was something like "which: no netscape in" and a list of paths, so maybe which only searches certain locations. hope this helps, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cat5 cable again
I think the problem is the rj5 connector. However my cards (with realtek 3591c chip) and originally they had the autonegotiation on i had to force the 10Mbps to let'em work Thanx again - Original Message - From: "David Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cat5 cable again >The connector is critical to achieve the rated speed of the cable. > > -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sei in cerca del tuo negozio di fiducia anche sul web, dove comprare di tutto? I migliori negozi on line con i migliori prezzi li trovi su Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=133&d=16-11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] Setting up the Firewall to work with SAMBA
Neil Did you try firestarter? (get it at downloads www.pclinuxonline.com) The introductory wizard should recognise that you have a lan interface connecting to your XP box (yuck) and an internet interface to the internet. It should then offer to apply the firewall only on the internet interface. The reason I like firestarter is because when it is running, and for example you find you cannot ping to your Linux box, then an alert will pop up in firestarter telling you that the XP box has been trying to ping, and then simply by right clicking on the alert you can open up that service, or the entire IP address. Alternatively if you use InteractiveBastille and select advanced networking options then you can elect to run the firewall on specific interfaces. On Friday 16 November 2001 09:28, Neil R Porter wrote: > Hi Derek > > I followed > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtopic.php?topic=2189&forum=6&17 and > got everything set up and working great!.. The problem is this, I had no > ping from the XP box to the linux server until I followed the advice in > the above link and killed bastille (/etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall > stop). However, this enables samba to work but disables the net sharing > (ip masquerading etc etc) > (I have linux on the net and serving the XP machine)... I'd basically > like to know a way of setting up bastille or something else that will > work as a firewall and let samba work too as I can't seem to have the > two on at the same time and I really don't want the situation that > everytime I boot the linux server up that I have to kill bastille and > then run net connection sharing daemon to get that up again. > > Please advise this hopeful(less) newbie. > > Ta > > Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ./configure cannot find QT libraries
No I did not... but they did not help :-( On Friday 16 November 2001 09:54, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Do you have the qt2-Xt and qt2-Xt-devel packages installed as well? > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:50:47 + > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep i've tried pointing --with-qt-libraries to /usr/lib/qt2/ and > > /usr/lib/qt2/lib > > > > On Friday 16 November 2001 01:12, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:15:37 + > > > > > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anyone else having trouble with configure in 8.1? > > > > > > > > I cannot get through ./configure with any application that requires > > > > QT I get an error message > > > > > > > > "checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (libraries) > > > > not found. Please check your installation!" > > > > > > > > I have tried with 3 different sets of source files. > > > > > > > > I have libqt2-2.3.1-14mdk, and libqt2-devel-2.3.1-14mdk loaded, and > > > > have tried defining --with-qt-libraries variable in configure > > > > > > > > I have tried with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.01, no difference > > > > > > > > Is there something else I should have loaded? > > > > > > > > Derek > > > > > > Is the --with-qt-libraries tag pointing to the right place? It should > > > be pointing to /usr/lib/qt2/. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Here's the output: [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdrom devfs: link of "cdrom" devfs: link of "cdrom" [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep CDROM [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdrom devfs: link of "cdrom" devfs: link of "cdrom" [root@Echelon dev]# ls -la /dev/cdrom? lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom0 -> cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom2 -> cdroms/cdrom2 /dev/cdroms: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 14 21:00 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 ../ lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 17 2001 cdrom0 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Jan 1 1970 cdrom2 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd appreciate your help. Hugo Ferreira wrote: 028f01c16e8d$9106f180$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Ethan, What is the result of a: demsg | grep cdrom and a ls -la /dev/cdrom? Don't forget the question mark. Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To:Hugo Ferreira Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:14AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Musiccd Hugo Ferreira wrote: 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> Ethan, I have had the exact same problem and have finally solved it. Anyone please feel free to correct or suggest a better way of doing this. Try the following: 1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any other) X session, I'll assume KDE for KMixer). 2. unmount the cdrom (just in case, and do as Sridhar indicated): umount /mnt/cdrom Do it twice to make sure it is not mounted. Make sure ypu have no CD in thedrive. done. 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make sure it's there 4. If it is, you must now set a sym link from /dev/cdrom (which your player needs) to the "/dev/hdc" which is the device that you know works because the /mnt/cdrom is also the mountpoint of the /dev/hdc device and that worked for you. We will do the same for "/dev/cdrom" ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom [root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc/dev/cdrom ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to check the link. You should see that the permissions will enable anyone to use this mount point. 6. Place a CD and fire up your CD player. You should now have music. Still get permissionserror. BTW, what does blinking white text over red background mean?? i get:cdrom@ [root@Echelon dev]# ls -lcdrom lr-xr-xr-x 1 rootroot 16 Nov17 2001 [cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0 ] < blinking white over redbackground 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 7. If you don't, fire up your KMixer and make sure the volume is up. Do the same for your speakers. If this does not work, you are out of luck. See below for more hints** 8. Assuming you got this far and all is ok, then change the access for the CDROM. Do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdc".The "ls -la /dev/hdc" should confirm the changes. 9. log out of root 10. Login as a user 11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and KMixer) and enjoy. ** Ok. If you did not make it, you have to make sure your sound card is ok (only works if you have the sound card connected directlly to your CD Drive). Place a CD in the drive, press the drive's play button. Launch the KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's volume and speaker's volume to check for sound. Works, ok no major hardware problem. Next. Test the cards driver. Here someone may help me. How can we do this. I have an ISA sound card ad used RedHat's sndconfig. After probing and set-up, this utility samples two files. You should here the sound. Any other way to do this? I got my CDPlayer working thanx to DaveF who is a Mandrake expert (see http://www.mandrakeexpert.com ). If all else fails, try creating an incident here. HTH, Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan
Re: [newbie] ./configure cannot find QT libraries
Do you have the qt2-Xt and qt2-Xt-devel packages installed as well? On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:50:47 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep i've tried pointing --with-qt-libraries to /usr/lib/qt2/ and > /usr/lib/qt2/lib > > On Friday 16 November 2001 01:12, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:15:37 + > > > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone else having trouble with configure in 8.1? > > > > > > I cannot get through ./configure with any application that requires QT > > > I get an error message > > > > > > "checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (libraries) not > > > found. Please check your installation!" > > > > > > I have tried with 3 different sets of source files. > > > > > > I have libqt2-2.3.1-14mdk, and libqt2-devel-2.3.1-14mdk loaded, and have > > > tried defining --with-qt-libraries variable in configure > > > > > > I have tried with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.01, no difference > > > > > > Is there something else I should have loaded? > > > > > > Derek > > > > Is the --with-qt-libraries tag pointing to the right place? It should be > > pointing to /usr/lib/qt2/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam. No windows, no gates. Apache inside. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Ethan, What is the result of a: demsg | grep cdrom and a ls -la /dev/cdrom? Don't forget the question mark. Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To: Hugo Ferreira Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd Hugo Ferreira wrote: 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> Ethan, I have had the exact same problem and have finally solved it. Anyone please feel free to correct or suggest a better way of doing this. Try the following: 1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any other) X session, I'll assume KDE for KMixer). 2. unmount the cdrom (just in case, and do as Sridhar indicated): umount /mnt/cdrom Do it twice to make sure it is not mounted. Make sure ypu have no CD in the drive.done. 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make sure it's there 4. If it is, you must now set a sym link from /dev/cdrom (which your player needs) to the "/dev/hdc" which is the device that you know works because the /mnt/cdrom is also the mountpoint of the /dev/hdc device and that worked for you. We will do the same for "/dev/cdrom" ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom[root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdromln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to check the link. You should see that the permissions will enable anyone to use this mount point. 6. Place a CD and fire up your CD player. You should now have music.Still get permissions error.BTW, what does blinking white text over red background mean ??i get:cdrom@[root@Echelon dev]# ls -l cdromlr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16 Nov 17 2001 [cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0 ] < blinking white over red background 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> 7. If you don't, fire up your KMixer and make sure the volume is up. Do the same for your speakers. If this does not work, you are out of luck. See below for more hints** 8. Assuming you got this far and all is ok, then change the access for the CDROM. Do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdc".The "ls -la /dev/hdc" should confirm the changes. 9. log out of root 10. Login as a user 11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and KMixer) and enjoy. ** Ok. If you did not make it, you have to make sure your sound card is ok (only works if you have the sound card connected directlly to your CD Drive). Place a CD in the drive, press the drive's play button. Launch the KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's volume and speaker's volume to check for sound. Works, ok no major hardware problem. Next. Test the cards driver. Here someone may help me. How can we do this. I have an ISA sound card ad used RedHat's sndconfig. After probing and set-up, this utility samples two files. You should here the sound. Any other way to do this? I got my CDPlayer working thanx to DaveF who is a Mandrake expert (see http://www.mandrakeexpert.com ). If all else fails, try creating an incident here. HTH, Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:Hugo Ferreira Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd my cdrom is not mounted and umount gives:- umount: /dev/cdrom: not foundI still cannot figure out why I cannot play the music CD. normal CDs I am able to see and work with pls help. thanks, /ethanSridhar Dhanapalan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite">Assuming that your CD-ROM drive is /dev/cdrom: # umount /dev/cdromThis should be done as root. Once done, try playing your CD.On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:24:23 -"Hugo Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sridha,How do you do this?H.F.- Original Message -From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Ethan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mandrake Newbie List"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:53 PMSubject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:45:42 +0800Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of EthanSent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cdHi all,I am trying to play Music CDs under Mandrake 8.1 but the error fromthe CD player says: CDROM read or ac
[newbie] Java & Konqueror
Hi list , I am having some trouble getting java applets to work in konqueror. I have set the path in .bashrc export PATH=$PATH:'/opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin' and also set the path in konqueror. before i set the path in .bashrc I was getting the error unable to find java blahblah now I get loading applet in the applet window but nothing else. I am running mandrake 8.0 on 266 p2 with 320meg Ram. any help would be appreciated cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Hugo Ferreira wrote: 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Ethan, I have had the exact same problem and have finally solved it. Anyone please feel free to correct or suggest a better way of doing this. Try the following: 1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any other) X session, I'll assume KDE for KMixer). 2. unmount the cdrom (just in case, and do as Sridhar indicated): umount /mnt/cdrom Do it twice to make sure it is not mounted. Make sure ypu have no CD in the drive. done. 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> 3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make sure it's there 4. If it is, you must now set a sym link from /dev/cdrom (which your player needs) to the "/dev/hdc" which is the device that you know works because the /mnt/cdrom is also the mountpoint of the /dev/hdc device and that worked for you. We will do the same for "/dev/cdrom" ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom [root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> 5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to check the link. You should see that the permissions will enable anyone to use this mount point. 6. Place a CD and fire up your CD player. You should now have music. Still get permissions error. BTW, what does blinking white text over red background mean ?? i get:cdrom@ [root@Echelon dev]# ls -l cdrom lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16 Nov 17 2001 [cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0 ] < blinking white over red background 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> 7. If you don't, fire up your KMixer and make sure the volume is up. Do the same for your speakers. If this does not work, you are out of luck. See below for more hints** 8. Assuming you got this far and all is ok, then change the access for the CDROM. Do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdc".The "ls -la /dev/hdc" should confirm the changes. 9. log out of root 10. Login as a user 11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and KMixer) and enjoy. ** Ok. If you did not make it, you have to make sure your sound card is ok (only works if you have the sound card connected directlly to your CD Drive). Place a CD in the drive, press the drive's play button. Launch the KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's volume and speaker's volume to check for sound. Works, ok no major hardware problem. Next. Test the cards driver. Here someone may help me. How can we do this. I have an ISA sound card ad used RedHat's sndconfig. After probing and set-up, this utility samples two files. You should here the sound. Any other way to do this? I got my CDPlayer working thanx to DaveF who is a Mandrake expert (see http://www.mandrakeexpert.com ). If all else fails, try creating an incident here. HTH, Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:Hugo Ferreira Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:49AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Musiccd my cdrom isnot mounted and umount gives:- umount: /dev/cdrom: not found I stillcannot figure out why I cannot play the music CD. normal CDs I am able to seeand work with pls help. thanks, /ethan Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> Assuming that your CD-ROM drive is /dev/cdrom: # umount /dev/cdromThis should be done as root. Once done, try playing your CD.On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:24:23 -"Hugo Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sridha,How do you do this?H.F.- Original Message -From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Ethan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mandrake Newbie List"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:53 PMSubject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:45:42 +0800Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of EthanSent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cdHi all,I am trying to play Music CDs under Mandrake 8.1 but the error from the CD player says: CDROM read or access error, make sure that you haveaccess to
[newbie] /dev/hdb for ls120 missing
Hi to everybody, I moved from MDK 7.1 to MDK 8.1 by reinstalling everything. I have a scsi computer but I also have a spcial ide device (LS120 120Mb floppy drive) which was automatically recognized by MDK 7.1. At boot of my new 8.1 system the device is recognized as before, since at boot I receive the message: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hdb: LS-120 F200 08 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdb: No disk in drive hdb: 123264kB, 963/8/32 CHS, 533 kBps, 512 sector size, 720 rpm The device has also been declared in the automatically built /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 But when I try to mount the device I receive the message: mount: special device /dev/hdb does not exist Indeed the file /dev/hdb does not exist! I see that in MDK 8.1 the organization of the directory /dev has changed a lot with respect to 7.1, now all devices declared in /dev are symbolic links, but I have not found ide devices even in the /dev/ide subdirectory. Have you suggestions? Thank you Renato Tognaccini Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
well, when I type mount, I get: /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) devfs on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda6 on /home type ext2 (rw,noatime) /proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43) So I don't see the cdrom mounted. Am I missing something here ? thanks. /ethan Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> My mistake...As root, type # umount MOUNTPOINTWhere MOUNTPOINT is where your CD-ROM drive is mounted. Usually this is/mnt/cdrom.On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:49:16 +0800Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my cdrom is not mounted and umount gives:- umount: /dev/cdrom: not foundI still cannot figure out why I cannot play the music CD. normal CDs I am able to see and work with pls help. thanks, /ethanSridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Assuming that your CD-ROM drive is /dev/cdrom: # umount /dev/cdromThis should be done as root. Once done, try playing your CD.On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:24:23 -"Hugo Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sridha,How do you do this?H.F.- Original Message -From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Ethan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mandrake Newbie List"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:53 PMSubject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:45:42 +0800Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of EthanSent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cdHi all,I am trying to play Music CDs under Mandrake 8.1 but the error from the CD player says: CDROM read or access error, make sure that you haveaccess to /dev/cdrom the permissions are root:root but ls -lL doesnot give any output... pls help how can I play CDs on the CDrom? BTW, I can mount a normal CDROMthanks,.ethanEthan, are you using something like CDplayer or Alsaplayer? You cannot mount a audio CD, it is just put in the CDROM and then started >from the CDplayer. Not being well versed in command line I use the players I installed on the KDE desktop so am not shure how you use anaudio player from command line. But if you use KDE click on thekpanel>multimedia>sound and pick alsaplayer and then click on thefolder icon on the left of the gui and your CD should start. HTH I am using CD player from the KDE>multimedia option. Not using from thecommand line. It does _not_ work like I said, it gives the errorabove. pls help. thanks, /ethan Make sure that the CD-ROM drive is not mounted, as has been mentioned above. Supermount shouldn't give any trouble, but sometimes it helps to disable it.
Re: [newbie] ./configure cannot find QT libraries
Yep i've tried pointing --with-qt-libraries to /usr/lib/qt2/ and /usr/lib/qt2/lib On Friday 16 November 2001 01:12, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:15:37 + > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else having trouble with configure in 8.1? > > > > I cannot get through ./configure with any application that requires QT > > I get an error message > > > > "checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (libraries) not > > found. Please check your installation!" > > > > I have tried with 3 different sets of source files. > > > > I have libqt2-2.3.1-14mdk, and libqt2-devel-2.3.1-14mdk loaded, and have > > tried defining --with-qt-libraries variable in configure > > > > I have tried with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.01, no difference > > > > Is there something else I should have loaded? > > > > Derek > > Is the --with-qt-libraries tag pointing to the right place? It should be > pointing to /usr/lib/qt2/. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] netscape 6.2
Try /usr/local - that's where mine ended up. "Installed so fast" sounds suspicious though - normally a download instalation takes ages. As for browser wars - Netscape has two advantages - it's an integrated mail client and browser, and it's cross-platform (the latter being the main reason I use it - we only have one Linux box at work, so I'm often working from Windows). 6.2 is not perfect, but much less buggy than the appalling 6.0. AIM tends not to work, but that's because AOL tends not to work. Robin poweredbysun wrote: > > I downloaded Netscape 6.2 so I could use a > "full featured" browser, that supports the > latest plug-ins, etc. I followed the directions > on the Netscape site and installed it from root > from the command line because I did not see any > way to install from the LM Software > Manager or Program Manager. > > It seemed like it installed from root, but it > installed so fast I can't see where it was > installed. The Netscape site is not clear > where the default directory is. It says to go > to the directory it is installed in and run > the program from the command line. Running > LM Find Files and Gnome Search Tool under root > do not seem to find the new netscape program. > I see an install log, but nothing in it about > Netscape 6.2 I can find. > > Questions: > 1)how do I find where something installed to? > > 2)is there a way to install something like > Netscape 6.2 under the LM Software Manager, > so I can simply check it off and let LM8.1 do > everything itself? > > Thank you, all, for all the informative posts. > > Jim Lynch > > - > 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] Monitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello group, > > I have installed Mandrake 8.1 and I would really like the > annoying sleep mode or shutting down of my monitor to > stop.' > > anyone have any great ideas?? > > > thnxXsturm Xsturmas root, load the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 into an editor and make this line (line #219): Option "DPMS" "on" look like this: #Option "DPMS" "on" the addition of the # at the beginning of the line is called 'commenting it out' and disables that line, thus disabling DPMS. :) -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster problems on Mandrake 8.1
On Thursday 15 November 2001 08:17 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:00:01 +0100 > > Renato Tognaccini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I moved fropm Mandrake 7.1 to 8.1 by reinstalling everything. > > Everythinh worked fine except I am not able to > > install soundblaster which was workinf fine on 7.1. > > OK, if it worked with LM7.1 it should work with LM8.1 . And there are the > ALSA drivers as an alternative to the OSS/Free (AKA kernel) drivers. You > didn't change any hardware before installing LM8.1 which could have caused > conflicts? > No , as far as I remember > > At boot I have the following message: > > > > Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 > > sb: Creative ViBRA16X PnP detected > > sb: Sound Blaster Vibra16X sb config failed (out of resources?)[-2] > > This seems to be the problem. I wonder, you can't set up your card with > either MCC or sndconfig but during boot the sb driver tries to load. Are > there any sound related entries in your /etc/modules.conf file? > these are the contensts of /etc/modules: pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias eth0 3c509 alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias sound-slot-0 sb Thank you Renato Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
