[newbie-it] problemi con mandrake 8.1 e skeda audio
allora ho installato la mandrake 8.1 ...e sono iniziati i miei guai: ho una skeda audio integrata nella skeda madre (di marca siemens, per pentium II): la sk audio in questione è di processore crystal, e modello cs4235...un ottima skeda...per essere integrata e anke abbastanza vekkiama !!! Nella mdk 8.0 caricava il supporto sonoro come suono, e al boot vedevo la scritta (cs4235 ecc ecc), poi alla prima configurazione eseguivo sndconfig, me la riconosceva correttamente come "Crystal SoundChip CS4253: CTRL" e mi kiedeva di eseguire2 files campioni, ke suonava perfettamente. Nella 8.1 invece, la riconosce come "Crystal SoundChip CS4253: GAME", e quando si appresta ad eseguire il primo file, si blocca e dice ke non riesce ad accedere a /dev/audio, il dispositivo della skeda audio: allora mi kiede di far la configurazione manuale, io proseguo: mi presenta tutte le configurazioni delle porte IRQ DMA ecc ecc ecc...le imposto...mi rikiede nuovamente di poter suonare il file campione...e il circolo vizioso ricomincia Esplorando nel file system...scopro ke in /dev non c'è nessun file kiamato "audio" e deduco ke sndconfig si pianta xkè nel suo percorso di ricerca non trova il file cercato: effettivamente esiste in /dev una sottodirectory "sound" (dunque /dev/sound) dove risiedono5 file, per l'appunto audio, mixer, sequencer e altri 2 di cuinon ricordo il nome, giustappunto i file di sistema usati per il riconoscimento della sk audio... Mi viene allora l'illuminazione: copio i suddetti file direttamente in /dev: e invece no !, xkè, non si sa per quale arcano motivo, non riesco a scrivere in /dev (da ambiente grafico si kiude la finestra di konqueror, da shell dice "segmentation fault"). Ultima spiaggia: vado in windows, con l'intenzione di copiare quei file da winz in /dev, tramite il programmino explore2fs (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/), una semplice utility ke permette di accedere alle partizioni linux da winzozzo: entro in /dev, cerco la dir sound...e non c'è !! I file ke pensavo essere in /dev/sound sono GIA' in /dev... NO COMMENT...Com'è dunque possibile ke da linux mi vede i file in una sottodirectory...e da win nella directory superiore ??!! E come diavolo è possibile ke, aggiornandosi dalla mdk 8 alla 8.1 ci si regredisca ??!?! I'm disperato :( Grazie anticipatamente per l'aiuto :)
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con mandrake 8.1 e skeda audio
Il giorno 10:14, lunedì 19 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Esplorando nel file system...scopro ke in /dev non c'è nessun file kiamato audio e deduco ke sndconfig si pianta xkè nel suo percorso di ricerca non trova il file cercato: effettivamente esiste in /dev una sottodirectory sound (dunque /dev/sound) dove risiedono 5 file, per l'appunto audio, mixer, sequencer e altri 2 di cui non ricordo il nome, giustappunto i file di sistema usati per il riconoscimento della sk audio... Mi viene allora l'illuminazione: copio i suddetti file direttamente in /dev: e invece no !, xkè, non si sa per quale arcano motivo, non riesco a scrivere in /dev (da ambiente grafico si kiude la finestra di konqueror, da shell dice segmentation fault). Ultima spiaggia: vado in windows, con l'intenzione di copiare quei file da winz in /dev, tramite il programmino explore2fs (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/), una semplice utility ke permette di accedere alle partizioni linux da winzozzo: entro in /dev, cerco la dir sound...e non c'è !! I file ke pensavo essere in /dev/sound sono GIA' in /dev... NO COMMENT...Com'è dunque possibile ke da linux mi vede i file in una sottodirectory...e da win nella directory superiore ??!! Forse perchè li avevi copiati tu? Oppure il programmino non gestisce in pieno il file sistem EXT2... Hai verificato di nuovo da Linux dove ti vede quei files? E come diavolo è possibile ke, aggiornandosi dalla mdk 8 alla 8.1 ci si regredisca ??!?! Io sono passato alla MDK 8.1 da 3 o 4 giorni. Ho avuto un paio di problemi, finora (risolti anche grazie all'aiuto di questa fantastica ML). Per il resto devo dire che, una volta effettuati i corretti e dovuti settaggi e risolti i due problemi di cui sopra, la 8.1 è nettamente superiore alla 8.0 (mio modesto parere, ovvio). Magari (tirata d'orecchie alla MandrakeSoft) una versione beta o RC in più avrebbe eliminato anche gli ultimi errori... Comunque, venendo al tuo problema, prova a disabilitare DEVFS nel bootloader. Io, inoltre, ho eliminato - già in fase di installazione, ma lo puoi fare in qualsiasi momento dal Mandrake Control Center - KUDZU, che in passato mi aveva dato un sacco di problemi di questo tipo sulla 8.0 ... Ciao... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.1 e floppy
--- Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Data: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:28:51 +0100 (CET) Da: Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.1 e floppy A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- seygues [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Non c'è verso di usare il floppy con mandrake 8.1. Nessun problema con mandrake 8.0, ma nell'aggiornamento non funziona. Da terminale quando faccio il mount /mnt/floppy mi da' il messaggio errore di input/output. Da Kde mi dice che è impossibile aprire ilfile. Che dite formatto il tutto? Dai, datemi lumi o madatemi a quel paese della documentazione. :-) sperem. Mauro. Ciao Ciao Mauro, ...Scusami ma mi sono accorto di averti risposto privatamente. Re-inoltro per tutta la lista (magari puo' servire a qualcun'altro...) ...Aspetta prima di formattare, io ho installato la 8.1 e mi funziona! Hai controllato /etc/fstab? E' il file di configurazione dei mount-point di Linux. Dovrebbe contenere qualcosa tipo /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,auto[,...] Controlla che /dev/fd0 esista (dovrebbe essere un link) e che esista pure /mnt/floppy. Il floppy che hai cercato di montare ha un filesystem dello stesso tipo indicato in /etc/fstab? (se in /etc/fstab c'e' indicato ext2 e cerchi di montare un dischetto vfat ti da' un errore se non gli forzi il filesystem nel comando di mount). Potresti riportare esattamente l'errore che ti restituisce? Forse si riesce a capire meglio dove puo' stare il problema. Ciao! Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il Nokia Game è on line! Clicca qui per iscriverti e partecipare alla nuova avventura multimediale entro il 3 novembre. Vai alla pagina del gioco http://it.promotions.yahoo.com/info/nokiagame.html!
[newbie-it] mandrake 8.1 e floppy.
Grazie a Stefano e Daniele per le risposte e i consigli. Ma non ho risolto il problema. per la cronaca ecco il file etc/stab. Che è uguale per la versione 8.0 e la versione 8.1. perchè in una funziona e nell'altra no? Ho eliminato pure Kudzu. ho pure scritto devfs=nomount. In fin dei conti credo di aver fatto un bel po' di casino nell'aggiornamento. Bene, d'altronde volevo farmi le ossa con linux! Mi sembra che l'aggiornamento 8.1 non veda il floppy. /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=iso9660 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/cdrom2,fs=iso9660 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 Posso rifare l'aggiornamento? Grazie.
Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.1 e floppy.
--- seygues [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Grazie a Stefano e Daniele per le risposte e i consigli. Ma non ho risolto il problema. per la cronaca ecco il file etc/stab. Che è uguale per la versione 8.0 e la versione 8.1. perchè in una funziona e nell'altra no? Ho eliminato pure Kudzu. ho pure scritto devfs=nomount. In fin dei conti credo di aver fatto un bel po' di casino nell'aggiornamento. Bene, d'altronde volevo farmi le ossa con linux! Mi sembra che l'aggiornamento 8.1 non veda il floppy. /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=iso9660 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/cdrom2,fs=iso9660 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 Posso rifare l'aggiornamento? Grazie. Aspetta, credo di aver capito qual'e' il problema: questo /etc/fstab che hai mandato e' configurato per il supermount, che era compreso nella Mandrake 8.0 ma non nella 8.1!! Il supermount e' una patch (che non fa parte del kernel standard Linux) che la Mandrake ha incluso nei suoi kernel (fino alla mdk 8.0) che esegue automaticamente il mount della periferica quando un media (cd, dvd, floppy..) viene inserito nel sistema, cosi' come capita con windows, evitandoti di dare manualmente il comando di mount. Questa patch pero' da' problemi con le ultime versioni del kernel, cosi' la Mandrake non l'ha piu' inclusa nella 8.1. Probabilmente l'upgrade dalla 8.0 alla 8.1 non tiene conto di questo piccolo particolare e non ti ha modificato l'/etc/fstab che non e' comprensibile per il mount standard. Editando opportunamente il file dovresti risolvere il problema. Dovresti modificare le linee che riguardano i dispositivi rimuovibili: il floppy ed i cdrom. Stando a quanto scritto nel tuo vecchio fstab le righe /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=iso9660 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/cdrom2,fs=iso9660 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat 0 0 dovrebbero essere modificate cosi: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 ro,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy vfat sync,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0 Il primo parametro indica il dispositivo (1^ cdrom, 2^ cdrom, floppy...); il secondo parametro e' il mount point; segue il filesystem (e tutto questo c'era gia' nel tuo /etc/fstab ma in un altro formato). Delle opzioni che ci sono al fondo le piu' importanti sono ro,noauto,exec e user: indicano che il filesystem deve essere montato in sola lettura ([r]ead [o]nly), che non deve essere montato automaticamente al boot (noauto) altrimenti se avvii il sistema e non hai un cd nel lettore ti segnala un errore, che l'utente puo' eseguire i files sul media (exec) e che il mount non e' riservato a root ma che puo' essere eseguito da qualsiasi utente (user). Per informazioni (molto) piu' dettagliate puoi consultare man mount e man fstab. Con queste modifiche dovresti essere a posto, ma se avessi ancora problemi facci sapere. E' importante pero' indicare esattamente l'errore che ti segnala, perche' il messaggio spesso e' una grande fonte di informazioni. Ciao! Steo. __ Scarica Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 personalizzato Yahoo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina: http://it.ie.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Hi, Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap partition or can we just have a /. TIA. Hugo. - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 7:36 PM Subject: 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does Mdk 8.1 Use OSS or ALSA for Sound?
search this mailing list for my post on cs423x crystal sound. it might help - Original Message - From: James F. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:46 AM Subject: [newbie] Does Mdk 8.1 Use OSS or ALSA for Sound? I am having trouble getting my sound card (CS4237B + CS9236) to work. I cannot tell which sound system Mandrake 8.1 uses. Is it OSS or ALSA? How does one tell? -- Jim Marshall 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
Re: [newbie] Palm OS vs Windows CE
i believe sharp is going to release a linux based pda soon.. i have seen headlines to that sort recently - Original Message - From: Valerie Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 5:00 AM Subject: [newbie] Palm OS vs Windows CE I'm planning to buy a PDA. I'm wondering which is easier to setup w/ linux, Palm OS or Windows CE? Or, is Windows CE even able to be setup for syncing? Thanx. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How can I use gcc 3.01 instead of 2.96?
Hi! I know that I have installed both gcc versions - 2.96 and 3.01. I'd like to use the 3.01 version, but how? -- , (o o) +oOOO--(_)---+ || | H E L L M U T | || +---0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound problem
Hi all, Looks like LM8.1 has serious problems configuring sound cards.Out of the three sytems i have installed none of them configured sound to my satisfaction. 1)Dell optiplex GX110 (i810 motherboard with Ac97codec and AD 1881A on board PCIsound ).When i start KDE the sound comes out in breaks,but plays mp3 files with Xmms,some file it plays with little distortion and some files it plays fast.I tried to disable Devfs and try stiill the same results 2)Super motherboard BX chip set ,PIII 450,SBLive value board,it configured sound okay.Then i was bugged that there was no bass and treble controls,so installed the RPM from cooker for emu10k1 as per Mandrake Forum notes and got the controls i wanted.But now the sound does not come on when i start KDE,it starts working only after i mute and unmute the volume or pcm on the mixer and sometimes both...why is this? 2)An Intel FX motherboard with PII 333 overdrive processor,on board crystal CS4236(isapnp).Here i made the isapnp.conf file as per a writeout in Mandrake forum and i ran sndconfig,the sound come out on the first test,then it gives an error while trying to play the midi sound and goes for manual configuration which still does not help either.What i could make out is that sndconfig was trying to use the kernel driver for opl3.o and gives an error on modprobe.Icould not find a kernel driver for CS4236 in the list of kernel drivers.How can i proceed now... Thanks in advance -- Ivan Miranda General Instrument Engineer/IT Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] 971-4402524/4402773 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How can I use gcc 3.01 instead of 2.96?
if i remember it right you have to replace the command gcc with gcc-3.0.1 (assuming that you have the package installed with all the necessary dependencies). you can also check the info of the package because there is a mini-instruction there.. rpm -qi gcc-3.0.1 or whatever the packagename for gcc-3.0.1 is called (use rpm -qa | grep gcc to find out) HTH hellmut wrote: Hi! I know that I have installed both gcc versions - 2.96 and 3.01. I'd like to use the 3.01 version, but how? -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drakopt and 2.2.19-5.1 (or any 2.2 kernel)
Hi all, I just downloaded the src rpm for drakopt, rebuild and installed it on a mandrake 7.2 box.. when I ran it I got this message: [root@mail /]# drakopt Welcome to DrakOPT ['Linux', 'mail.mydomain.com', '2.2.17-21mdk', '#1', 'Thu', 'Oct', '5', '13:16:08', 'CEST', '2000', 'i686', 'unknown'] There is no way this program can run. The hdparm instruction will have no capabilities line. Kernel 2.4 must be in use Bye So I can't run drakopt on that machine, is there an alternative? I was getting 28 mb/sec from that box, but since changing motherboards I get 3.5mb/sec do I have an alternative method for 7.2 or do I have to make hdparm rules manually??? Its an IBM 7200 rpm 61.5gig on a ATA100 mb with ata100 cable.. anyone got some rules for that harddisk (or similiar)? rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] proxy servers..squid vs. apache ?
OK, make my life intersting, I want to do both, Squid to cache and serve webpages to my home network, Apache to serve web pages to the external world. got instructions? On Monday 19 November 2001 01:05, you wrote: --- Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:57:28 -0500, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see apache has a proxy module..now an interesting choice here. What does the panel at large say about which one is preferable. I won't be serving any web pages,just a home network here. Any performance advantages of 1 over the other? Again,thank you all for your time,and of course..hava great week all :-) Lee Apache is primarily a web server; Squid is primarily a proxy app. It sounds like you need Squid, not Apache. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Lee, if it's consensus you need, I concur with Sridhar. Your question becomes interesting if you want to do both! Ron. __ 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] Ftp server
Could anyone tell me where I can find the information on setting up and configuring an ftp server. I thought one was installed by default in Mandrake but I could be wrong. If there is one installed by defaultcould someone point me to where I can find it. Thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] How can I use gcc 3.01 instead of 2.96?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:29:08 +0100, hellmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I know that I have installed both gcc versions - 2.96 and 3.01. I'd like to use the 3.01 version, but how? I'm assuming that you use bash for your shell (if you don't know what bash is, then you're most likely using it). Some apps don't like gcc 2.96. In that case, try switching compilers. To use gcc 2.96 (default): $ export CC=gcc-2.96 CXX=g++-2.96 To switch to egcs/kgcc: $ export CC=egcs CXX=egcs++ or $ export CC=kgcc CXX=kg++ To switch to GCC 3.0.1 (only in Mandrake 8.1, not 8.0): $ export CC=gcc-3.0.1 CXX=gcc-3.0.1 You obviously require the relavant gcc packages to be installed. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows is not done until Lotus 123 won't run. -- Old Microsoft internal slogan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How can I use gcc 3.01 instead of 2.96?
All you have to do is install 3.01 as well as 2.96 using Mandrake software manager. Then (it seems to be totally automatic) if you look at /bin/gcc you will see that it has become a symlink pointing to /etc/alternates/gcc which is itself a symlink to either /sbin/gcc2.96 or /sbin/gcc3.01 To switch between releases all you have to do is change this symlink. Derek On Monday 19 November 2001 09:29, you wrote: Hi! I know that I have installed both gcc versions - 2.96 and 3.01. I'd like to use the 3.01 version, but how? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wireless card with Dell Latitude
On Monday 19 November 2001 04:18, you wrote: what driver are you using for the linksys 802.11b pcmcia card? i thought that there were no linux drivers for it...? thanks. Check out http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ Looks like wvlan_cs is the driver being used. On a separate topic, can someone tell me the commands to mount an NFS volume on my LAN on my local machine? There is a step by step tutorial at www.mandrakeuser.org Andy Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] proxy servers..squid vs. apache ?
Ron Bouwhuis wrote: --- Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apache is primarily a web server; Squid is primarily a proxy app. It sounds like you need Squid, not Apache. Lee, if it's consensus you need, I concur with Sridhar. Your question becomes interesting if you want to do both! OK, then let's make it interesting! I want to do both. For a small computer school (teaching computers to mostly mature people who may never have touched a computer (teaching Windows, BTW, for the time being), I'd like to set up a server that will not be connected to the Internet, but will simulate the Internet so that we can connect to it from (Windows) workstations and do Internet things like surf the web, download (ftp) files, send and receive mail between workstations, and use IRC between workstations. For the browsing, I'm considering installing Squid, going online to surf and fill the cache, then switching to offline mode during class periods. (I may actually bring the server home to fill the cache and take it back to the school (a church) for class -- the church is reluctant to have a live connection to the Internet.) Since I know almost nothing about Squid, my first question was going to be do I need Apache. From this post, I infer that I do not. I'm also considering installing a wiki (TWiki) which works on top of Apache for a class notes application, so in the end I do need both Squid and Apache. I assume that I can install both and make them work independently. Until I learn more, we will probably use the raw tcp/ip address to browse the TWiki (i.e., urls like http://192.168.0.8/v/Abiword). I guess to do better I'd either have to set up a local DNS nameserver or put something in the hosts file of each workstation? Any other hints or suggestions? thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web page design
Michel Clasquin wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2001 22:34, you wrote: Hello, What program is the best to design web pages without knowing now to program. I have been using frontpage 2000. You probably already have two GUI setups on your system. Both Netscape 4.x and Mozilla contain a Composer module. Not the greatest, I know, but I thought I'd mention it so you'd have the whole range of possibilities. If you're using Netscape, upgrade to 6.2, as this produces cleaner HTML. Other possibilities for WYSIWYG web composition are Star Office (not wonderful HTML, but passable) and Amaya (from ther good people at W3C). Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 3Com/USR Professional Message Modem
Hi, I've finally found a way around the USR Professional Message Modem's inability to negotiate a successful ppp connection with the PMM answer machine facility disabled. As it happens this was done within two separate terminal sessions, though there's no reason (with the second ATZ removed) why it can't be accomplished within a single session: ATZ ATF1+MCA=0 ATW ATMCW ATZ ATS0=0 ATW AT+MCW Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mouse problems in x
Have Logitech MouseMan Wheel; When starting x mouse cursor shows up but doesn't move. Error codes when loading x are: (EE) xf860 OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such devices or address. (WW) Mouse1: cannot open input device Also tried a different mouse - albeit it was also a PS/2 mouse. Tried all variants of PS/2 mouse configs in drakxconfig. On forums seems to be a common problem - but can't locate info to resolve problem. I also made sure there was a symbolic link from /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux as that wasn't there to begin with either. I did notice that /dev/psaux also points to /misc/psaux. Any ideas? I'm a complete newbie so don't have much to go on! Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] netscape 6.2
Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: which only searches on the directories specified by your PATH variable. Anuerin, Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] newbie Has anyone settup a G3 Server with PPC LM in a school
Gidday All This Mac serves 14 iMacs and has 8.6 on it. I've got no software that I can track what the students are doing. I'm not allowed to spend the $1800 odd to upgrade so that I can use stuff to set filespace and printing quotas, track who was on what iMac doing what. Has anyone settup a G3 Server with PPC Mandrake with logging and hopefully even the ability to view what's happening on student screens? Thanks for your time max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs Linux Suse
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 18 November 2001 16:27, you wrote: I am using for quite a while LM. Personally I like Mandrake a lot, but I have been open toward other distributions also. It looks to me that the most popular distributions (imho) are: 1. Mandrake 2. Suse Dennis: I work at a large insurance carrier in the US and also do work for several ISP's. I can tell you the breakdown is as follows: Servers: Almost always Red Hat. The alliance with IBM and the support offerings have made Red Hat easier to get into the Enterprise. Red Hat has done a good job to provide administration tools, yet still allow you to tweak the OS as much as you need. Desktop: Here is where I am seeing Mandrake shine. People I work with who would never consider Linux before beg to have me install Mandrake for them. That can be good and bad. Good because I have always liked the Mandrake distro, bad because they sit and play with my good lap top all day. I was finally able to find Mandrake 8.1 Power Pack in the stores this weekend and I am happy to say I installed it in 30 minutes on my HP OmniBook 6000 lap top. To the crew at Mandrake you did an EXCELLENT JOB. As for Suse, it is a nice distro, and we have considered it here for running Oracle, but the biggest complaint I hear about them is the interface, especially during install. I have run all 3 of them. Currently I have Red Hat 7.2 on one machine, Mandrake 8.0 on another, Mandrake 8.1 on my lap top and I use Red Hat 7.1 on my server. Bottom line is, you might have to try each one and decided what is most comfortable for YOU. Me, I prefer Red Hat on my servers and Mandrake on my desktop. The best part is, you can download and try each one, then I HIGHLY encourage you when you pick the one you like to SUPPORT them and go and purchase the CD pack. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: running 'kylix' was Re: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix'
I had the same thign with Kylix version 1, I upgraded to version 2 this weekend and it works fine. The matrix loads up in a few seconds now. From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: running 'kylix' was Re: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix' Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:17:12 +0100 Yeah, Mine started after a while as well (thanks). Dunno why tho, didn't leave this widget running all night though. Funny thing: I installed the crossover-wine and presto: all the icons were ther (they weren't before) on the taskbar. Then. I moved my /home/harm directory to another (bigger) partition and sh... :( there's the bl font matrix widget again! I'ts been sitting there for 4 hours now consuming about 80% of the cpu power. Apparently this has something to do with wine, anybody got any clues or hints?? Just some clues as to what is going on there!, anything? On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:46:32 +0100 Not exactly the same problem, mine installed fine on 8.1 (the borporetest refused to run though :o/?) but then: On startup, the fontmatrix setup widget appears and the proccess dies, leaving the widget there glaring at me :o( Is there anybody with a running Kylix on 8.1 out there? I have it running. I do not know what the deal is with the font matrix widget. My install did the same thing. I do not know what the deal is with the font matrix widget. I left it and went to bed, the next morning it was still there. I closed it. Did startkylic, just for the hell of it, and the program launched How long the wigets really needs, I do not know. Charles 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] Konqueror
I have weird problems with konqueror it will only start if i delete the rc file from .kde/share/config otherwise it will try for a while but not start. Also ever since i installed mdk 8.1 (actually it was same with 8.0 too) my mousewheel stops working in konqueror after about 10 minutes surfing. might have something to do with nsplugins . Ill attach xsessionerrors cause there are a few entrys that i dont quite understand ... sorry for the big post Florian ps: i didnt do any significant changes to the konqueror setup WARNING: imwheel is not checking/writing a pid file, BE CAREFUL! An imwheel may be running already. Two or more imwheel processes on the same X display, or simultaneously using a wheel fifo, will not operate as expected! INFO: imwheel started (pid=4201) /home/kernell/.imwheelrc: No such file or directory kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/flash_linux/README: file=/home/kernell/flash_linux/README.la: file not found kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/flash_linux/ReadMe.htm: file=/home/kernell/flash_linux/ReadMe.htm: /home/kernell/flash_linux/ReadMe.htm: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class: file=/home/kernell/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class: /home/kernell/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/README: file=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/README.la: file not found kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ReadMe.htm: file=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ReadMe.htm: /home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ReadMe.htm: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: file=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: /home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar: file=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: file=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: file=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header Creating link /home/kernell/.kde/socket-desktop.localdomain. Created link from /home/kernell/.kde/socket-desktop.localdomain to /tmp/ksocket-kernell iceauth: creating new authority file /home/kernell/.ICEauthority DCOPServer up and running. kdeinit: Shutting down running client. kio (KLauncher): ERROR: KLauncher: KDEInit communication error! Commiting suicide! - It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/kernell/.DCOPserver_desktop.localdomain_:0 and start dcopserver again. - KDE Daemon (kded) already running. kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/flash_linux/README: file=/home/kernell/flash_linux/README.la: file not found kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/flash_linux/ReadMe.htm: file=/home/kernell/flash_linux/ReadMe.htm: /home/kernell/flash_linux/ReadMe.htm: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class: file=/home/kernell/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class: /home/kernell/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/README: file=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/README.la: file not found kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ReadMe.htm: file=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ReadMe.htm: /home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ReadMe.htm: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: file=/home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: /home/kernell/.netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar: file=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: file=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: file=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header QObject::connect: No such signal KDockArea::docked() QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'view
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] cdrom and floppies! Again.. or yet?
On Saturday 17 November 2001 11:32 am, you wrote: Actually tis happens to me too, it is just a devfs trouble. (If I remember right they are writing the devfs from the scratch now) 2 solutions, Sorry dont remember the name, but someone had adviced to delete everything in /lib/dev-state , and reboot. Guess this works until you change the places of devices in your pc, just give it a try. Second one, I use this. Simply dont use devfs. How ? If you are using lilo, change the kernel option, that is in /etc/lilo.conf , devfs=mount to devfs=nomount. And dont forget to type lilo at the command prompt to make the new setting work as default. I dont know the grub type, but I guess it is easy to figure out :) Onur Kucuk What exactly is devfs? What is it used for? What does it do? -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician / Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture [EMAIL PROTECTED] 434 (or 804) 982.3047 - Registered Linux User #218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] UML diagram tool for Linux
check freshmeat.net or sourceforget.net... I think there is a nice one called Dia... -Original Message- From: Søren Neigaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] UML diagram tool for Linux Anybody know a good UML diagram tool for Linux? -- .. Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Søren Neigaard Registered Linux User #239437 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What applet is this?
I recently saw an X-applet in a screenshot on freshmeat that displayed cpu temp and some other values. Anyone know what this is? PBN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ipchains-fw configuration
Hi, I have to re-configure for a remote access vpn. Authentification seems to work so far over udp port xx. But I can't send data over 'IP protocol 50 bi-directional'. How is the ipchains syntax to open 'IP protocol 50 bi-directional' in my firewall rules? Thanx for your help! -- ciao Michael *** Macht's gut, und Danke für den Fisch ... *** --- 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] What applet is this?
Can't say for sure, but it may have been gkrellm Brandon On Monday 19 November 2001 12:31 pm, you wrote: I recently saw an X-applet in a screenshot on freshmeat that displayed cpu temp and some other values. Anyone know what this is? PBN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Business Survey
I haven't check out the survey yet, so I might be putting my foot in my mouth, but I'm not sure it's clear how to make linux or for that matter Mandrake Linux more than just a hobbist platform/OS. You often hear Linux has proven itself in the (web) server market but this is a misleading statement I think. Yeah, the linux kernel has proven itself as stable and robust and Apache has proven itself stable and robust but I think this is not analogous to the quote above. Anything beyond web, print, file sharing, and development environment is about it for large scale deployment of linux. Not that it couldn't be more, just folks are too scared to try. We use linux here for our UNIX development but when it comes time to production all code is ultimately compiled for Solaris only because none of the upper management trust that in the time of need that they will be able to get the support required if things should fail. The developers gripe and moan wishing to deploy linux for production and scrape solaris but linux doesn't generate warm fuzzies like solaris does as far as support. Is it possible to get professional g++ development support from Mandrake for mission critical development? We use an object database by FastObjects (www.fastobjects.com) that is available for Solaris, Windows, and Linux - but they don't support the linux version. And the only linux flavor they are comfortable answering questions about is Red Hat not Mandrake. So is it possible to get IT support from Mandrake that is comparable to what we get for SUN, especially if we are bold enough to use a product like FastObjects on a platform the vendor doesn't formally support? And then there's the the office products issue. Even though we build backend systems in UNIX we must interface with MS Office, specifically with Excel and Visio. It doesn't appear that any of the linux office products are on par with the MS stuff. Sure they work pretty good for personal stuff, but not very well for large scale use like we do here. It would be my greatest wish to go linux but I'm not sure how it could be done. It seems that MS has won the desktop battle at large. The only way to go the linux route is if everyone in your company is on board or if it has been mandated from the company's CEO or something. ps: I was thinking about this whole thing this weekend. You cannot market a product to the consumer because it will never take off, it must be marketed to the business sector and from there it'll trickle down to consumers. The reason why most people are running Windows or Mac machines is because they are running them at work (or at school). So how can linux (Mandrake) leverage itself in the market? It's not a desktop OS it's a server OS (that happens to have some reasonable desktop applications). It fits better in embedded devices and other service oriented products. I went to Home Depot this weekend to buy some crap and I hate going in there because I can't find anything and neither can the helper folks. I don't understand why they don't have a kiosk setup (running linux on one of those deprecated internet applicances) that would allow me to do a search on the item I wanted and show me exactly where to go. They should put these in grocery stores, book stores, computer stores, etc. They should make the these kiosks internet enabled so I can access my Consumer Reports account so I can quickly compare items. And if not kiosks, why don't the helper folks have PDAs running linux so they can quickly identify where something (or someone) is so you don't have follow this guy for five blocks as he asks three other employees where something might be. I'm sensitive to the fact that it's hard to figure out how to make money -- especially on open source stuff, but it seems that most marketing is applied to the wrong folks. pps: this is probably blasphemous but I really would be willing to pay for linux applications if they were of the same caliber as all these Windows products (Quicken, DevStudio, MS Office Suite, etc..). Personally, I never use any services, I buy the product and that's it. Personally, I never call the support desk for either linux or windows or for any other product. I don't buy exteneded warranties. I just generally hate subscribing to services. I don't understand how anyone can make money selling services. Ximian's Red Carpet is fantastic, but I will never buy the upgraded version. But really I hate saying all this because I feel like I'm slapping some linux programmer in the face for all the hard work he or she volunteers to the movement. There are few examples of high quality free software. Usually you really do get what you pay for. I always try to buy linux software through donations but it's real hard to tell how helpful that is in the scheme of things. Again, I haven't check out the survey yet, so I might be putting my foot in my mouth. -Original Message- From: Yu Yu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:
Re: [newbie] Does Mdk 8.1 Use OSS or ALSA for Sound?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:38:06 +0200, Mohammed Arafa wrote: search this mailing list for my post on cs423x crystal sound. Do you have a specific post in mind? I did a search but the results were not helpful in the sense of giving steps to make sound work. -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster problems on Mandrake 8.1
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:14:10 +0100 Renato Tognaccini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 Sorry, I have no idea what's wrong. The line above makes the system try to load the sb module, while at boot you get a message that it fails. I would check with '/sbin/lsmod' which (sound related) modules are loaded and (if there are no conflicting modules loaded) try the ALSA drivers: 'su' to root and at the # prompt: # modprobe snd-card-sb16 # modprobe snd-pcm-oss # modprobe snd-mixer-oss [frans@amd frans]$ rpm -qf /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/alsa-driver-0.5.11/INSTALL kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk [frans@amd frans]$ So if you install the kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk package you can read the ALSA INSTALL file, it has an entry for your soundcard :) -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AVI files
I would test out the 'mplayer' I hope it works for you. Feel free to download my copy ftp://kittypuss.org/Software/MPlayer-0.50-0.pre1.2mdk.i586.rpm If that one does not work please test out the ones they have on their web page, they have all the original source code at the url below. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage Be careful, its beta software I think. I hope it all works out for you. On Monday 19 November 2001 12:30 pm, you wrote: Hey group, Does anyone know of a good avi player for Linux? Xmovie and xmms doesnt seem to support those files. I have some world trade center movies that I want to view. thnx! Xsturm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Business Survey
Well, I don't know about others, but we are using linux servers, (all mandrake now too) as Web, Mail, DNS, packet filters, Network Intrusion Detection, MASQ and filesharing servers,, sometimes on one machine... all over our company. you want a great open souce piece of software that is commercial quality, look at postfix. I am also working on using Bayonne to replace our current IVR system, and once that is done, I will also be working to replace our win2000/IIS ecommerce servers running JAVA servlets on Jrun with linux boxs as well, so we are working hard to move our entire network over to Linux, and one day all the windoze desktops as well... (once we get the users used to staroffice for windows...) It can happen, you just have to do it slowly. Simply showing some web pages that detailed how insurance companies don't want to insure IIS servers got the ball rolling for us... (although Solaris is a different story..) There are some problems that you detail very well, and I sympathise, the solution isn't a short term one.. not that long ago, there was hardly any sysadmins willing to consider linux at all, for the reasons you have detailed,, but the new generation is working their way in now, (and not just as sysadmins) and they are more performance based. I write ecommerce apps that have to run on ISP servers, and guess what the majority of those are??? Linux and NT/2000 so I write apps that work on those two, and so far its been flawless... it will happen, just not fast. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 3:25 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake Business Survey I haven't check out the survey yet, so I might be putting my foot in my mouth, but I'm not sure it's clear how to make linux or for that matter Mandrake Linux more than just a hobbist platform/OS. You often hear Linux has proven itself in the (web) server market but this is a misleading statement I think. Yeah, the linux kernel has proven itself as stable and robust and Apache has proven itself stable and robust but I think this is not analogous to the quote above. Anything beyond web, print, file sharing, and development environment is about it for large scale deployment of linux. Not that it couldn't be more, just folks are too scared to try. We use linux here for our UNIX development but when it comes time to production all code is ultimately compiled for Solaris only because none of the upper management trust that in the time of need that they will be able to get the support required if things should fail. The developers gripe and moan wishing to deploy linux for production and scrape solaris but linux doesn't generate warm fuzzies like solaris does as far as support. Is it possible to get professional g++ development support from Mandrake for mission critical development? We use an object database by FastObjects (www.fastobjects.com) that is available for Solaris, Windows, and Linux - but they don't support the linux version. And the only linux flavor they are comfortable answering questions about is Red Hat not Mandrake. So is it possible to get IT support from Mandrake that is comparable to what we get for SUN, especially if we are bold enough to use a product like FastObjects on a platform the vendor doesn't formally support? And then there's the the office products issue. Even though we build backend systems in UNIX we must interface with MS Office, specifically with Excel and Visio. It doesn't appear that any of the linux office products are on par with the MS stuff. Sure they work pretty good for personal stuff, but not very well for large scale use like we do here. It would be my greatest wish to go linux but I'm not sure how it could be done. It seems that MS has won the desktop battle at large. The only way to go the linux route is if everyone in your company is on board or if it has been mandated from the company's CEO or something. ps: I was thinking about this whole thing this weekend. You cannot market a product to the consumer because it will never take off, it must be marketed to the business sector and from there it'll trickle down to consumers. The reason why most people are running Windows or Mac machines is because they are running them at work (or at school). So how can linux (Mandrake) leverage itself in the market? It's not a desktop OS it's a server OS (that happens to have some reasonable desktop applications). It fits better in embedded devices and other service oriented products. I went to Home Depot this weekend to buy some crap and I hate going in there because I can't find anything and neither can the helper folks. I don't understand why they don't have a kiosk setup (running linux on one of those deprecated internet applicances) that would allow me to do a search on the item I wanted and show me exactly where to go. They should put these in
[newbie] Re: running 'kylix'
On Monday 19 November 2001 15:10, you wrote: I had the same thign with Kylix version 1, I upgraded to version 2 this weekend and it works fine. The matrix loads up in a few seconds now. Thanks a lot, that worked allright:) A worrying thing though: In the install (readme) it says very explicitly This product is NOT certified for use with Mandrake 8.1This product is NOT certified for use with Mandrake 8.1 :( So anybody know what's the deal? Everything looks alright though I don't have any projects far enough to really test that. As a matter of fact neither of my two projects (former Delphi3) can be slapped into any sort of life. But where there's life (again) there's hope:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: running 'kylix'
Well, thats a bummer, Kylix was on my list of things to install,, and I just sat through that big Borland survey as well, what a bummer... oh well, such is life... lifes a bitch and then I met my girlfriend :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 4:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: running 'kylix' On Monday 19 November 2001 15:10, you wrote: I had the same thign with Kylix version 1, I upgraded to version 2 this weekend and it works fine. The matrix loads up in a few seconds now. Thanks a lot, that worked allright:) A worrying thing though: In the install (readme) it says very explicitly This product is NOT certified for use with Mandrake 8.1This product is NOT certified for use with Mandrake 8.1 :( So anybody know what's the deal? Everything looks alright though I don't have any projects far enough to really test that. As a matter of fact neither of my two projects (former Delphi3) can be slapped into any sort of life. But where there's life (again) there's hope:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wine and Scriptwriting
I was wondering if anyone on the list is good at getting programs working under Wine? I have a program, MovieMaster, that I use to write movie scripts. I'm working on one now and need the program to write my drafts and final scripts. Problem is I can't get it to work under Wine, and I don't have a machine with Windows on it that I can access easily (I hate rebooting and who really wants to use Windows). If anyone knows of a site or people that might be interested in the challenge, please let me know. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Password On Grub/Lilo
Hey group, Does anyone know how to password lilo/grub on boot to where you have to have a passwd to boot whichever partition you want or to make any changes like as to boot into single user mode? Thank you, Xsturm -- It's a beautiful day...don't let it get away... ~U2~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nmbd
Hi frank try to disable DNS or WINS in your SAMBA.conf or use SWAT regs JAson PEARCE On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 01:52, you wrote: Hi All, Can't get nmbd to start. Any clues would be appreciated as I keep getting No Domain Servers appear to be able to... and this would probably be the first step Using Mandrake 8.0 Thanks in advance, Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; 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] Palm OS vs Windows CE
win ce? ya wanna stare at that damn hour glass all day you go right ahead... On Sunday 18 November 2001 19:00, you spoke unto me thusly: I'm planning to buy a PDA. I'm wondering which is easier to setup w/ linux, Palm OS or Windows CE? Or, is Windows CE even able to be setup for syncing? Thanx. -- I used to be confused, but now I am not that sure anymore.. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm OS vs Windows CE
Haha.. well... The reason why I can put up staring at that hour glass is because palm systems have that black area at the bottom of the screen... Which really really bothers me... because it doen't look nice. BUT, I ordered one that runs on palm os already neways... I'd rather put up w/ the black area then windows. shane wrote: win ce? ya wanna stare at that damn hour glass all day you go right ahead... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache config, was Help
* Frank McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09 16:04]: Thank you for replying. Best to reply to the list ... my phone was out for a couple of days and someone else might have answered. Also, I would recommend a better subject than Help ... it makes it hard to keep threads straight for those of us who have REAL email programs ;-) I am trying to set my 8.0 box to act as the DHCP, DNS, and Samba server to my home LAN right now OK. I thought that it would be nice if I could get Apache up and running as well. If you installed it when you installed Mandrake, it should be up and running ... what do you get when you open a browser window? Try entering: http://localhost/ and see if you get a Mandrake welcome page ... if so Apache is working. A former employer asked me for some ideas and asked me to create a model at home so I could demonstrate what I had in mind for their small LAN Look at the included documentation and let us know if you get stuck. Thanks again, Frank McKenna You'll find this list to be among the very best support groups around. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 7.2 glibc compatibility?
Hi, In Mandrake 8.0 there was an rpm that allowed programs compiled for 7.2 libraries to run on 8.0. Is it still around in Mandrake 8.1? I tried to search for it in rpmdrake but I couldn't find it. (I am trying to get Matlab 5 working on 8.1... if anyone has done this, please email me!) Thanks Justin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm OS vs Windows CE
try the visor, much nicer. love mine On Monday 19 November 2001 14:49, you spoke unto me thusly: Haha.. well... The reason why I can put up staring at that hour glass is because palm systems have that black area at the bottom of the screen... Which really really bothers me... because it doen't look nice. BUT, I ordered one that runs on palm os already neways... I'd rather put up w/ the black area then windows. -- When everyone agrees around here, it means that something must be wrong. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap partition or can we just have a /. Hugo, As far as I know, you must. And even if you didn't technically need one, you _should_ have one anyway. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm OS vs Windows CE
actually.. i ordered sony clie n760c already. i can't resist sony and the cute clie headphone and remote. (i'm a big sony fan - their designs are too cute.) shane wrote: try the visor, much nicer. love mine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm OS vs Windows CE
How about a Linux PDA ? There are 13 of them listed in this review http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html On Monday 19 November 2001 22:42, shane wrote: win ce? ya wanna stare at that damn hour glass all day you go right ahead... On Sunday 18 November 2001 19:00, you spoke unto me thusly: I'm planning to buy a PDA. I'm wondering which is easier to setup w/ linux, Palm OS or Windows CE? Or, is Windows CE even able to be setup for syncing? Thanx. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ftp server
i dont think one is installed by default. you have to manually select the rpms from the installation discs. proftd and wuftd are great (im using proftd). i think the ftp services are boot-enabled once installed but I may be wrong so double check using Mandrake Control Center-Services. HTH On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:10:13 -0800, E Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone tell me where I can find the information on setting up and configuring an ftp server. I thought one was installed by default in Mandrake but I could be wrong. If there is one installed by default could someone point me to where I can find it. Thanks in advance -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re: devfs
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:36:27 -0500, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What exactly is devfs? What is it used for? What does it do? snip on older linux systems, the /dev contains all the possible block devices that may be used to represent all the hardware on your computer. with the multitude of peripherals available on the market today you can just imagine what a mess the /dev would be. not all block devices are used but they are there 'just in case'. a device driver (its just an explanation so it may be other applications) that needs to say access the cdrom will first have to check the existing block devices in /dev to find the needed entry. it may have to communicate with dud devices until it finds the valid one. and then comes devfs. this scheme lets the kernel only load the needed block devices. this lessens the time an application/utility has to search for the appropriate block device. for a more detailed explanation go to www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/index.php and then go to the tips section. there is a post (i think it was by rolf) linking to the series of pages on ibm.com about reiserfs, tmpfs, devfs and others. check it out for its very informative. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm OS vs Windows CE
I posted a message a while ago asking if anyone knows when the consumer version of Sharp Zaurus will come out. (The developer's version comes out in this month.) That was the only Linux pda that I liked. But after comparing that with clie.. I decided on clie, since I really like their design and stuff... And I dun have to wait for it to come out. Derek Jennings wrote: How about a Linux PDA ? There are 13 of them listed in this review http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I change exec in fstab
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:05:15 +, cwclarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Mandrake 8 on my imac and am trying to install StarOffice. I have copied the file from the cd it came on to my tmp directory and changed the read, write, execute permissions. However, every time I try to execute the .bin file I get the error - cannot execute binary file. A glance at my 'dummies guide' suggests that the exec permission is not set in fstab but trying to reset this using linuxconf really messed up my system :-( Can someone please tell me if I am on the right track and explain how (using command line or whatever) to change fstab, or explain how I can execute binary files. hi, i dont think you need to change your fstab entries if you were executing from /tmp (btw, i tried installing from tmp but my tmp was not large enough so it aborted installation. i installed by creating a tmp directory in my home partition and installed from there). here is one of the entries that I have for mounting a fat32 partition /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat uid=501,gid=506,umask=007,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 it would be better if you can read the manpage but here is the basic dissection: /dev/hda5 is the device that corresponds to the windows drive D: /mnt/win_d is the mount point. i will access the files in drive D: through here. vfat is the file system type uid=501 is my userid.i have a multi-user system so I need to mount my windows drive in such a way that all files are owned by me. gid=506 is the groud id for a group that I created for the sole purpose of accessing this drive. umask=007 is the file permission on the drive. this removes all the permissions of users not belonging to the group. the rest you can read about in the manpages for fstab and mount. the mac filesystem may have other options but the uid, gid and umask is probably present. HTH -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hack My Linux
Hi! I have done some secure issue in my Linux Server. How can I know is it secure. Is there a tools to trying to hack my Linux Server ? Best Regards, SKLIM
[newbie] Joystick setup
Title: Joystick setup Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to set up a joystick under Linux. Also, does the throttle control and the VOP buttons work under Linux or is that just wishful thinking. I have an A4Tech Scrollfire SF-5 joystick. Please help.
[newbie] hostname
Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
/etc/hosts (must be root) On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. -- 1:48am up 3:13, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.49, 0.88 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
hi, i dont know specifically but you can change it using linuxconf. are you trying to change your hostname through a script/application? ciao! NDPTAL85 wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is the only thing in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 02:48 PM, Mark D'voo wrote: /etc/hosts (must be root) On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AVI files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, Does anyone know of a good avi player for Linux? Xmovie and xmms doesnt seem to support those files. I have some world trade center movies that I want to view. thnx! Xsturm -- It's a beautiful day...don't let it get away... ~U2~ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi there. Mplayer and Aviplay both work fine with AVI files... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AVI files
I find xine that came with Mandrake able to play all the media files I encoutered so far.. including avi and asf files and it's pretty good too. Ronald J. Hall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, Does anyone know of a good avi player for Linux? Xmovie and xmms doesnt seem to support those files. I have some world trade center movies that I want to view. thnx! Xsturm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
Nope I'm just trying to edit it manually. In FreeBSD there is rc.conf and on OS X there's hostname but on Mandrake I can't seem to find the right file. On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 08:55 PM, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: hi, i dont know specifically but you can change it using linuxconf. are you trying to change your hostname through a script/application? ciao! NDPTAL85 wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Afternoon All, New Solarisinstallation,missed steptoadd todomain. Was hoping someone could tell me where default location for domain namefor manual insert should beplease. May thanks
Re: [newbie] hostname
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. You can change it using the command hostname whatever and it will change it for you. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Joystick setup
Hi Craig, Are you using alsa drivers? If so go to: http://www.alsa-project.org/ and do a search for your joystick. You'll find lots of questions and answers there. BTW until last week my e-mail address was [EMAIL PROTECTED], so hi from a freshly ex ericssonite! cheers /Brian On Tuesday 20 November 2001 12:15 pm, you wrote: Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to set up a joystick under Linux. Also, does the throttle control and the VOP buttons work under Linux or is that just wishful thinking. I have an A4Tech Scrollfire SF-5 joystick. Please help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is the only thing in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Sure there is it says your hostname is localhost.localdomain. But I don't believe that is where you set your hostname as I recall. I remember changing my hostname and having to change the hostname in /etc/hosts so that X would work correctly. Just use the command hostname as root -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Warren Cameron wrote: Afternoon All, New Solaris installation, missed step to add to domain. Was hoping someone could tell me where default location for domain name for manual insert should be please. May thanks And what does that have to do with a newbie list for Linux-Mandrake? -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Joystick setup
Title: Message What type of soundcard/joystick interface do you have? -JMS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Williamson (ENZ)Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:15 PMTo: 'Mandrake Newbie'Subject: [newbie] Joystick setup Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to set up a joystick under Linux. Also, does the throttle control and the VOP buttons work under Linux or is that just wishful thinking. I have an A4Tech Scrollfire SF-5 joystick. Please help.
RE: [newbie]
Apols if incorrect forum, but was told this was most likely area for quick response. -Original Message- From: skidley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 14:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Warren Cameron wrote: Afternoon All, New Solaris installation, missed step to add to domain. Was hoping someone could tell me where default location for domain name for manual insert should be please. May thanks And what does that have to do with a newbie list for Linux-Mandrake? -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Terminus (game) problems.
Tom Brinkman wrote: I've never used it, but I believe 'cpio' is would do that. Also 'mc' (Midnight Commander) will. Both are probly already installed, if not they're on your CD's, see 'man cpio' and 'man mc' -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Hi Tom. Thanks for the reply. Another user pointed out that the particular file I needed is already on the 8.1 CD's in file: egcs-c++-1.1.2-53mdk (wonder how he knew that? smile). I would still like to know how to pull a particular file from an RPM/archive, so I'll look at cpio and MC's man files. MC in particular looks very capable. That other user also mentioned using alien to accomplish the same thing. Thanks to everyone for their help! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hack My Linux
http://www.mycgiserver.com/~kalish/ This link was posted nov 5. Be afraid Be very afraid On November 19, 2001 05:04 pm, you wrote: Hi! I have done some secure issue in my Linux Server. How can I know is it secure. Is there a tools to trying to hack my Linux Server ? Best Regards, SKLIM Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video Card Purchase?
Hi All, I've been reading all the messages about video card compatability. I currently have a NVidia GeForce MX 2 installed on my AOpen AK73 series MB w/an Athlon 1000mhz processor. (dual boot w/win98 se) I do plan on upgrading my linux version in the future and I read where my card, even if upgraded w/new drivers, will most likely not work on the new Linux version. So, w/out looking at the educational benefits of this process, I'd rather just install a new card that works! Since I'm not exactly strapped for money, does anyone have any suggestions for a new video card? Also, is there a web site that offers information on, ie: compatability w/linux, and recommendations? (like the modem site) TIA Roger -- Registered Linux User 244036 Since August 2001 - LM8.0 Open Source = Freedom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Solaris issue
hi, no apology should be necessary as this is a 'community-help' site. its just that majority of subscribers here are using Mandrake and only a few have knowledge about Solaris/Unix Administration. you would generally find better and quicker response through other lists (maybe unix administration-oriented ones) or searching at deja.com or at any search engine. a colleague here suggested looking at /etc/defaultdomain sorry if i cant help you more. ciao! On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:05:24 +1100, Warren Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apols if incorrect forum, but was told this was most likely area for quick response. snip -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC
Dear Steve, Thank you for your great help. I will be waiting to work on this until I get my new LM8.1 installed. I found the LM8.1 Power Pack when I was out shopping today, so I will be installing it within the next few days. After I get that up and running I will begin setting up the VNC. I may have a few more questions about it at that time. It sounds like a great program. Thanks for the explicit steps. At least I will be setting it up on 8.1 now which may work much better than 8 for it. Thanks again and I will let you know my progress. Sincerely, Marcia On Saturday 17 November 2001 18:42, you wrote: Marcia: VNC is like PCAnywhere, which allows you to remotely administrate a computer. You can actually see the other computer in a window on your desktop. It's pretty cool, but slow over the Internet, so it's very benificial for LANs. I can't say that I've had any luck with VNC and 8.0; I'm currently working on it. I finally achieved success with 8.1, and it works well. Let me give you a few recources and then I will tell you what I did. This is the place there it actually comes from and is a big help - http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ This site was also a help and may help you in the future for other things - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history.php Now on to what I had to do. I will try to do this step by step. 1. Install VNCServer in the Software Manager if you haven't already. 2. Open a konsole and tye this: vncserver You will be asked for a password and then verify it. You will then see it creating directories and such. 3. This is where things are different from 8.0. I had to navagate to /etc/sysconfig in 8.1 and open the vncserver file; it will look something like this # The VNCSERVERS variable is a list of display:user pairs. # # Uncomment the line below to start a VNC server on display :1 # as my 'myusername' (adjust this to your own). You will also # need to set a VNC password; run 'man vncpasswd' to see how # to do that. # # DO NOT RUN THIS SERVICE if your local area network is # untrusted! For a secure way of using VNC, see # URL:http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html VNCSERVERS=1:yourpassword (put the password you chose in place of yourpassword) Save changes. You will have to be root to do it. Now, again, if were using 8.1 all you would have to do is go to another machine that has the viewer, and open the viewer. If you are in Linux, you will probably have to open it from a command line: vncviewer. When the little windows pops up, just type in the IP address of the machine and the konsole number whish is the 1 you see in the VNCSERVER line. Like this Little windows pops up - 192.168.1.5:1 Then you will be asked for the pass word you entered and off you go! Now, with 8.0, I'm not sure. I installed the server and then went to the command line and typed in vncserver and then put in the password. I then go to my other machine and follow what I did for 8.1. Unfortunetly, It only gives me a very meek XWindow manager, not KDE which I prefer. I don't see the vncserver file like in 8.1. I'm still working on what I have to do to get the full desktop, and if I find anything else out, I will forward the information. Please let me know if this has been any help to you. Steve On Saturday 17 November 2001 03:33 pm, you wrote: Dear Steve, I am interested in using VNC. I have LM8 on my desktop and Windows 98/LM8 dual boot on my laptop. Is this like using IP masquerade or is it very different from that? Exactly what other information did you research to learn how to set it up? What line did you edit and exactly how? I am quite the newbie when it comes to any kind of networking. Thanks alot. Sincerely, Marcia On Saturday 17 November 2001 14:53, you wrote: Thanks! Actually, I found the site and some others that were helpful and now I have it up and running on my local network as well as over the net. It works pretty good for what I need it for. All I had to do was edit one line and I was up and going. Oh, yeah, had to change the router to allow outside entry. Not too difficult. Again, thanks. Steve On Saturday 17 November 2001 12:33 pm, you wrote: Hi, try this one: http://www.uk.research.att.com/ Has anyone tried running a VNC server with Mandrake 8.1? I've tried but have had no luck, not that I claim to know what I'm going. But if anyone could point me to a site or where I could find some information, I would be thankful. Ivo :) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer
[newbie]
Hello all, I have samba running ok (logon, file and print sharing)and when I run the 11 tests in diagnosis.txt, everthin works fine except.. 1. I can ping from win98 to linux server using host names, but can only ping from linux to win98 by ip address. 2. nmblookup -B ACLIENT '*' returns the address of the server, not the workstation. both these errors point to dns not being configured correctly, but I was under the impression that DNS is only used on 'real' servers, not home lans. btw. I am also using dhcp, so I can use my laptop at work and home, when I last asked a similar question, it was suggested I use a host file, but don't see how that is possible with dhcp. thanks... Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 To be or not to be is true. Or maybe not. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Card Purchase?
i have had very good luck under linux and windows both with all of the ati cards i have used, thought the windows drivers tend to be a little buggy in the first few versions the hardware seems to be outstanding and the drivers always catch up a few months later. anyone else? On Monday 19 November 2001 19:28, R C spoke unto the masses thusly: Since I'm not exactly strapped for money, does anyone have any suggestions for a new video card? -- One of the surest signs of intelligent in outer space is that it hasn't contacted us yet. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Need sample modules.conf for cs423x sound card
I can't figure it out. Would some who has a cs423x sound card working under Mdk 8.1 and alsa please post their /etc/modules.conf file? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] EFAX Viewer for Linux
I am looking for a program to view my efax documents. EFax.com states that I could use any TIFF Image viewer to open these documents. But all The fax software might store the pages in separate files (like fax.1.g3, fax.2.g3, etc.) I am not sure if this is the case here, though. Fax format, as far as I know, isn't quite TIFF: it's in a format called g3. I'm not sure what the differences are. If you have imagemagick and/or the netpbm packages, there should be something that would let you convert g3's to something else. Ghostview may also be useful here, since I'm pretty sure that ghostscript can convert (using the dfaxhigh printer) from fax format to PostScript. John Turek 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] Re: running 'kylix'
I run kylix at home on my m8.1 box. no problems, all is good until i met my girlfriend ;) ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Re: running 'kylix' Well, thats a bummer, Kylix was on my list of things to install,, and I just sat through that big Borland survey as well, what a bummer... oh well, such is life... lifes a bitch and then I met my girlfriend :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 4:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: running 'kylix' On Monday 19 November 2001 15:10, you wrote: I had the same thign with Kylix version 1, I upgraded to version 2 this weekend and it works fine. The matrix loads up in a few seconds now. Thanks a lot, that worked allright:) A worrying thing though: In the install (readme) it says very explicitly This product is NOT certified for use with Mandrake 8.1This product is NOT certified for use with Mandrake 8.1 :( So anybody know what's the deal? Everything looks alright though I don't have any projects far enough to really test that. As a matter of fact neither of my two projects (former Delphi3) can be slapped into any sort of life. But where there's life (again) there's hope:) -- -- 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] Strange Directory Listing
Hi All, I was playing around in the terminal located in the bottom window of konqueror, issuing commands, and generally looking around and trying to get comfortable using a terminal. I gave the following command: ls -aop -in my home directory. One particular file caught my eye because it was highlighted in flashing red w/white letters. lrwxrwxrwx 1 username 43 Nov 13 19:48 .#RMAIL - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1005694765 It seems to be a link to somewhere else but even looking under file properties was unsucessfulunknown ! BTW, I use KDE's mail client, KMail, on LM8.0 Can I get rid of it...or should I get rid of it? Is it normal/problem? TIA Roger -- Registered Linux User 244036 Since August 2001 - LM8.0 Open Source = Freedom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hack My Linux
Strange you never find a portscanner that can scan all your ports, have your ever seen souch one? /Søren On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 05:25, Grant Fraser wrote: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~kalish/ This link was posted nov 5. Be afraid Be very afraid On November 19, 2001 05:04 pm, you wrote: Hi! I have done some secure issue in my Linux Server. How can I know is it secure. Is there a tools to trying to hack my Linux Server ? Best Regards, SKLIM Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: =_1006230218-1851-3515 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- .. Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Søren Neigaard Registered Linux User #239437 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] UML diagram tool for Linux
also try: www.magicdraw.com At 12:39 01/11/19 -0600, you wrote: check freshmeat.net or sourceforget.net... I think there is a nice one called Dia... -Original Message- From: S$BS(Ben Neigaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] UML diagram tool for Linux Anybody know a good UML diagram tool for Linux? -- .. Med venlig hilsen/Best regards S$BS(Ben Neigaard Registered Linux User #239437 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] Hack My Linux
Thats a good question. I did a google search for 'test all ports' and found http://scan.sygatetech.com They have various tests you can try. Grant On November 19, 2001 11:16 pm, you wrote: Strange you never find a portscanner that can scan all your ports, have your ever seen souch one? /Søren On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 05:25, Grant Fraser wrote: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~kalish/ This link was posted nov 5. Be afraid Be very afraid On November 19, 2001 05:04 pm, you wrote: Hi! I have done some secure issue in my Linux Server. How can I know is it secure. Is there a tools to trying to hack my Linux Server ? Best Regards, SKLIM Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: =_1006230218-1851-3515 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Card Purchase?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, R C wrote: I have had 2 different NVidia GeForce2 cards. With Mandrake 8.0, it was a Hercules Prop. II (32 MB). It ran with zero problems. I just recently upgrade that card to a GeForce2 GTS Pro (64 MB). And again zero problems with it running on Mandrake 8.1. That is my experiences. Anyone play witha GeForce3 card yet on Mandrake? Hi All, I've been reading all the messages about video card compatability. I currently have a NVidia GeForce MX 2 installed on my AOpen AK73 series MB w/an Athlon 1000mhz processor. (dual boot w/win98 se) I do plan on upgrading my linux version in the future and I read where my card, even if upgraded w/new drivers, will most likely not work on the new Linux version. So, w/out looking at the educational benefits of this process, I'd rather just install a new card that works! Since I'm not exactly strapped for money, does anyone have any suggestions for a new video card? Also, is there a web site that offers information on, ie: compatability w/linux, and recommendations? (like the modem site) TIA Roger -- Jody 'JoLinux' Harvey Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
