Re: [newbie-it] xine e DeCSS
--- Brunini Alessandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Salve alla lista. Vorrei porvi un quesito forse (spero) banale. Ho installato l'ultima versione di xine, insieme al libcss. Poi ho installato il DeCSS (d5d), che aggiunge un plugin per vedere appunto i DVD criptati. Infatti sul menù di xine appare un pulsante d5d plugin. A parte il fatto che per aprire un file dal DVD device lo devo fare a mano (mentre il d5d dovrebbe supportare anche i menù), ogni file che apro, non viene decrittato e xine crasha ovviamente. :(( Non so come comportarmi. Sulla console ti da qualche messaggio? Cosi' su due piedi non saprei dirti. Io uso Xine con il d4d e il dvdnav e mi funziona bene, pero' io ho installato i sorgenti che ho scaricato da http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~jcm/skyblade/ che contengono gia' al loro interno i plugins, non li ho installati successivamente. Ciao! Steo. __ Iscriviti al gruppo ufficiale di Tomb Raider: http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/gruppoufficiale_tombraider/
Re: [newbie-it] Nuovo PC: Dubbi Amletici
Stefano Sebastiani wrote: Voglio cambiare PC. Ho visto su CHL quesa offerta: Versione Retail: - Olidata Vassant 7 Athlon XP 1700+ - CD di ripristino Olidata per WinXP Home Ed. - Casse, Tastiera e Mouse Olidata . Qualcuno mi può dare degli imput, che faccio.. Quasi sicuramente devi buttare il modem interno. Su questa ML nessuno ti potra` dire che fai bene a pagare una licenza XP. Al limite puoi vedere di fartela rimborsare (www.attivissimo.it/net/com ?) La scheda video a me funziona perfettamente con i driver scaricati da Nvidia Il resto non dovrebbe dare grossi problemi. Controlla comunque scheda madre e masterizzatore! ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Nuovo PC: Dubbi Amletici
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Andrea Celli wrote: Stefano Sebastiani wrote: Voglio cambiare PC. Ho visto su CHL quesa offerta: Versione Retail: - Olidata Vassant 7 Athlon XP 1700+ - CD di ripristino Olidata per WinXP Home Ed. - Casse, Tastiera e Mouse Olidata . Qualcuno mi può dare degli imput, che faccio.. Quasi sicuramente devi buttare il modem interno. Mi sembra di capire che e' un modem interno (cioe' un vero modem) non un winmodem. IN ogni caso chiedi dettagli. Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] ste' ikone kde!
ciao, A me non succede, tant'è vero che la mia disposizione è assolutamente libera; mi sembra però che il desktop KDE segua una logica di ordinamento verticale od orizzontale (colonne e linee per intenderci). Se non hai specificato un ordinamento verticale su opzioni desktop, KDE disporrà automaticamente le icone in senso orizzontale. Per cui, libero si, ma sempre per linee o colonne. Fabio - Original Message - From: Biss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie-It [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:22 AM Subject: [newbie-it] ste' ikone kde! non capisco perchè ma kde 2.2.1 ad ogni avvio non dispone le icone nella posizione in cui le avevo lasciate ma in modo automatico. Anche scegliendo in chiusura l'opzione di ripristinare la sessione al prossimo ravvio. Succede anche a voi? Come posso risolvere? grazie per la pazienza. Biss
Re: [newbie-it] Nuovo PC: Dubbi Amletici
Luigi De Pascale wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Andrea Celli wrote: Stefano Sebastiani wrote: Voglio cambiare PC. Quasi sicuramente devi buttare il modem interno. Mi sembra di capire che e' un modem interno (cioe' un vero modem) non un winmodem. IN ogni caso chiedi dettagli. ... Quando scrivono - Modem 56K V.90 Interno al 99,99% e` un softmodem. Se sei fortunato e` un Lucent o qualche altro che funziona anche con Linux. Ossia un linmodem, non un vero modem. Negli ultimi due anni non ho mai visto un PC preassemblato con un modem interno vero, ossia pilotabile con i comandi AT e che non richieda un driver/modulo apposito. Non credo vengano piu` prodotti i modem interni veri. Gli ultimi che ho visto erano schede isa. In genere questi grossi assemblatori (Olidata) comprano grossi lotti di componenti da varie ditte. Quindi probabilmente non possono neanche dirti se il soft-modem incluso ha chipset Lucent (perche' viene dalla partita presa in Corea) o Motorola (perche' viene da quella presa a Taiwan). Altrimenti specificherebbero marca e modello. Come noterai alcune componenti sono state specificate, altre no. L'unica cosa che ti possono assicurare e` che e` interno e che funziona a 56K V.90. Quindi, meglio aspettarsi il peggio e pensare che quasi certamente lo dovrai buttare. Poi, se sei fortunato ... :-) Se vuoi essere sicuro di quello che compri devi rivolgerti a un piccolo assemblatore e contrattare singolarmente tutte le componenti da inserire. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] NTFS
Ho un quesito per voi... Qualcuno sà dirmi se con *nix è possibile leggere una partizione NTFS e se si in che modo? Ringrazio anticipatamente chiunque mi risponda
[newbie-it] Chiamate ad un Proxy
Ciao a tutti, Ho installato MDK 8.2 su un server con un modem ISDN. Sul server ho installato squid. Se apro una connessione internet dal server tutto OK. Se apro la connessione da un client Windows non apre la connessione. Le schede di rete e tutto cio che riguarda le connessioni funzionano perfettamente. Cosa devo fare per far partire la connessione del modem anche dai client? Esiste qualche pacchettino software o qualche impostazione per far cio? Vi ringrazio moltissimo se mi rispondete perche sono veramente disperato. Ciao a tutti, Luca.
[newbie-it] errore in compilazione
salve a tutti, lanciando ./configure per compilare una gui per ping/traceroute/whois/nmap mi si presenta il seguente errore: checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log cosa faccio ? grazie
[newbie-it] Fwd: [Cooker] Re: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment
segnalazione : ot ? -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: [Cooker] Re: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:45:15 +0530 From: N.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kurt Pfeifle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:55 PM Subject: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment Off topic -- cross posting is deliberate... ## 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty to Linux Documentation Author -- ## for infringing comic character Obelix through free Laptop support Website MobiliX?? After having gotten a request (in June 2001) from German legal representatives of Les Editions Albert Rene (Paris), holder of the trademarks Asterix and Obelix, to unregister the name MobiliX, they now took legal action against Werner Heuser (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]), well-known amongst Linux-laptop users for authoring the Linux-Mobile-Guide (formerly called the Laptop-HOWTO), published by the Linux Documentation Project. MobiliX (http://mobilix.org/), his own website, is dedicated to Mobile UniX systems on laptops, PDAs, cell phones and more. It carries lots of useful hands-on information about installing and running Linux and BSD on laptops, PDAs and other mobile computer devices -- and of course it is free to use via the internet. It exists since five years and besides the famous site Linux on Laptops (http://www.linux-laptop.net) by Kenneth E. Harker it seems to be biggest resource on this topic. MobiliX is an acronym of the words mobile and UniX. To avoid legal trouble, Werner had registered this name at the German trademark register in 1999. It is a common practice to build new names for Unix related topics from a word naming the topic and adding the letters iX at the end. Some examples are: AIX, Eurix (Comfood), Sinix (Siemens-Nixdorf), SkroBelix, Skyrix, Ultrix, Xenix. The German computer magazine iX is even just named by these letters. The name Unix itself is a registered trademark of ATT, X/Open. The very name Mobilix is already registered for a German manufacturer of children furniture -- but don't seem infringed, because of the different industry they are in. Before the legal action, Werner didn't reference in any way towords comic characters Asterix or Obelix on his web pages. The name of his website MobiliX.org is supposed to be mistaken for Obelix, according to the charges. The trademark Obelix was registered by German lawyer Guenter Freiherr v. Gravenreuth. The legal charge is up to 250.000 USD or six months prison. The costs of the first instance are app. 15.000 USD. Werner Heuser has decided not to withdraw the name MobiliX. He is supported by the German lawyers Jaschinski, Biere und Brexl - JBB (http://www.jbb-berlin.de). This case is another one in the recent series of trademark troubles for Free Software projects (SAMBA, Kylix, Kilustrator, SELFHTML, SuSE, ..). Therefore this case is very important not only because many of these projects have names ending on iX. Current news about the case are at http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html Please support Werner to fight this attack. [submitted by Kurt Pfeifle [EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- +--+ | .--. CUPS + ESP PrintPro: | | | |o_o | | | | ~ |:_/ |Unix/Linux Printing made fun and easy | |° ° // \ \ http://www.danka.de/printpro/faq.html | |/V\(| | ) .~. Kurt Pfeifle, Danka Deutschland GmbH | | // \\ /'\_ _/`\ /V\Tel.: +49-172-715.7017| | /( )\ \___)=(___ )/( )\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | ^`~'^ ^^~^^ | | Network Printing Services: Consulting+Training+Workshops+Troubleshooting | +--+ _ http://list.linuxdoc.org/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---
[newbie-it] Compilatore GCC (o KGCC ?)
Salve a tutti, ho installato il compilatore GCC quando lancio il comando "make" relativo ad un driver di una periferica, mi viene risposto: Kgcc: command not found Ho allora cercato su internet informazioni sul KGCC, sembra che molti lo installino, ma non ho capito perchè e soprattutto dove lo si prende. Ringrazio e saluto Marco Fortini
[newbie-it] USB Device Filesystem
Salve a tutti, (sono sempre alle prese con l'installazione del driver del modem ADSL Speedtouch dell'Alcatel) Premesso che parlo di Mandrake 8.0, Sulle istruzioni del drivermi viene spiegato (nel capitolo "Troubleshooting Information") che la applicazione necessita del usbdevfs filesystem. se questo non è presente o not mounted to /proc/bus/usb/ allora fallirà. per capire se durante il Boot veniva "mounted" il filesystem ho disabilitato Aurora e ho letto i massaggi: uno diceva: mount USB filesystem ... [OK] comunque in quella directory il file usbdevfs non riesco a trovarcelo (anzi, non lo trovo da nessuna parte). Domando : "USB filesystem" è la stessa cosa di "USB device filesystem" ? cosa devo fare per far "mountare" questo file in quella directory ? Ringrazio e saluto Marco Fortini
Re: [newbie] Can't read CD for hdlists [Solved; Sort of]
Andy Davidson wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2002 21:36, I wrote: I have no idea what this will do to cdrecord et al, but I guess I'll find out. :-) And at 08:49 PM 1/8/02 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: Andy, go to a console and type in cdrecord -scanbus and see if it still shows you your CDRW or nothing. If it shows the writer then the CD burning programs like gtoaster should still be able to find it. HTH Yup, that worked. 'cdrecord -scanbus' still shows the CDRW as the write device. Unfortunately, when I run xcdrecord, it wants to use that as the input device as well. Ah well, I reckon I can figure that out, too andy Andy, in your /etc/lilo.conf edit (as root) the append-line : append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount or something like that, depending of what hd(x) is your CD-rom. Save the file and issue the command : lilo to let the kernel know the changes. Then reboot and start using XCDroast, Kreatecd or whatever. Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File system
Yes, ext3 is a journaling filesystem. An article in Linux Magazine called 'Journaling filesystems' can be found at http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-08/journaling_01.html , which should answer your questions. Or for that matter, go to http://www.google.com, and do a search on 'Journaling Filesystems'. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:17 PM 01/09/2002 +0530, Amish K. Munshi wrote: Hi, I wanted to know what is journaling file system and how does it differ from the previous file systems. Also is ext3 also a journaling file system? Thanks. Bye. Attachment Converted: d:\mike\eudora\attach\munshiamish3.vcf 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] Is CGI set up ... FIXED -(permission related)
Exactly. That appears to be the case. And it's a good security idea, no? But very frustrating when you're a newbie and just following basic set up directions for cgi :). The solution I found, for my situation, is to just create the user account as root, and then log on as the user to create the public_html and cgi-bin directories. Then create the scripts, so the directories and scripts are all owned by the user from the start. That's what I did with the second account, and scripts ran fine. Of course, if the user doesn't know how to create directories, then create the directories as root right after creating the account, and then chown them to the user. Thanks! mitch Keith Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] u cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Subject: Re: [newbie] Is CGI set up ... FIXED -(permission related) newbie-owner@linux-ma ndrake.com 01/08/02 01:38 PM Please respond to newbie Mitch, I have not experienced the problem you're having. As a test I took a cgi script that I have running on my web server and changed both the owner and the group to root, and the script still executes. It might be possible that there is an entry in your configuration that prohibits scripts owned by root from being served. Keith Lynn Systems Administrator School of Computer and Information Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36608 Phone: (334) 460-6390 Fax: (334) 460-7274 Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/ On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the response, but this is really starting to get to me! What do I not have the hang of? Everyone acts like it's soo simple. But there's something else going on. Can someone explain why a cgi file WITH PERMISSIONS SET TO 755 ... would not run, but then would run IMMEDIATELY AFTER CHANGING OWNERSHIP FROM ROOT TO A USER? After the file would run, I changed ownership back to root and the file ***would no longer run***. Then, I changed it back to the user and the file ***would run***. Does anyone have an explanation? If not, that's cool. But please don't say Set the permisisons ... or Read about permissions. Please :) I'm getting to worked up. Lol. It's just that there's something here to understand that is escaping everyone somehow, and I want to understand it. If I'm totally missing something really simple, could someone explain it? whew ... thanks, mitch Anuerin G.Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: newbie-owner@linux-maSubject: Re: [newbie] Is CGI set up ... FIXED -(permission related) ndrake.com 01/08/02 08:32 AM Please respond to newbie On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:35:38 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's what is weird -- the permissions were set to 755. I just did a test. I ran the script, and it worked. Then I changed ownership to root, and it didn't work. I changed it back to mitch, and it worked. Before, when I had changed the ownership of the file with chown, I didn't stop to then modify the permissions. I just went to my windows machine, loaded the html page in the browser, and clicked on the link to the cgi file. And it worked. The only change I had made was ownership from root to the user account mitch.
Re: [newbie] File system
Amish K. Munshi wrote: I wanted to know what is journaling file system and how does it differ from the previous file systems. Amish, I'm a newbie too, but I'm going to try to answer your question so I can learn when somebody corrects me. (Based on other knowledge I think I have (of journaling in a database), ;-) a journaling file system keeps a record of the changes that have been made to the filesystem, complete with enough information to reconstruct them. (This is in addition to actually making the changes on the disk, or maybe this is until the changes are written from cache to the disk?) If anything occurs to indicate that there might be a problem (like an unexpected shutdown), the filesystem can be reconstructed from the journal entries. Thus, for example, if your computer goes down due to a power failure, instead of going through the fsck process, the journaling file system reviews its journal entries and reconstructs anything (that hasn't yet made it to the disk yet? -- see below). This process is much faster and more reliable than the fsck process. I glossed over some things above, so state the following as specific things I'm not sure about: * How does the journaling file system manage itself? (Perhaps it keeps the journal only for file system operations that might be in cache, and deletes those entries when that part of the cache is written to disk??) * Hmm, maybe if I know the answer to the previous item it answers most of my questions. Also is ext3 also a journaling file system? Yes. Also, I understand it is very compatible with ext2, you can change one to the other without too much trouble. Civleme (and others?) has posted good information comparing several of the journaling file systems for speed, reliability (maturity?), and so forth. Randy Kramer PS: I understand that the fsck process cannot always repair an ext2 filesystem after a power outage (unless you use repair in the Microsoft sense -- (IIUC) deleting a damaged file). I've switched to a journaling file system (jfs) in hopes that my data is much more secure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Home Network: What's Next?
To everyone- Goal: -I want to convert my Win2k ICS network to a Mandrake 8.1 Network -I want Printer and Drive sharing for all -I want Internet access for all -I want a firewall -I want a webserver Problem: -I don't know how to get my network and internet setup with Mandrake 8.1 for other drives and PCs on the network. Specs: -I have a PIII 500 Intel box dual booted win Win2K and Mandrake 8.1 as my server. -I have a Motorola Surfboard USB Cable Modem installed and working-connected to server. -I have 2 laptops and an AMD 1.4ghz on the network. -My old network had all these PCs, printers, and drives, shared and working fine through an Ethernet/USB hubs and Orinoco RG for the laptop I don't know what my next step is. I need to know about IP Masquerading, firewall, IP tables (chains), and I have to be able to have the server drives accessible by all of the above PCs, as I have a lot of storage on the server (80GB). What do I do? Thanks. -Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSH problem
I used to get something similar when I tried to run MicroEmacs using the stock MS telnet client. Try setting a different terminal emulation. Miark - Original Message - From: Allen May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:50 AM Subject: [newbie] SSH problem I can SSH from home to my office machine without problem, but when I try to SSH to my home from the office, it will lock up on me when the screen scrolls. I can get a connection and can move around on the machine, but if I vi or do a ls -la on a long list the session just locks up. Any idea why this would be happening? Thanks -Allen May 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] problems with my installation
to anyone I'm It Manager DSI of Casino Estoril , i buy Mandrake Linux Standard Edition 8.1 yet, i have a problem! i have a Compaq PIV a 1500 Mhz with 128 Megabytes RAM. On installation startup i have this message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03 The system just stopped, but i try on another machine Pentium II 333Mhz and it works! Linux don't work on Intel P4 1500Mhz??? best regards for all Agrijo! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] the opposite of startx
just discovered that ctrl-alt-backspace restarts x - Original Message - From: Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] the opposite of startx | On Wednesday 09 January 2002 21:40, Kenn Yahoo wrote: | okay, i realize i should be able to find it, but | | i know about startx ... but i need to stop and restart x, and i can't | find the command to stop it ... can someone help? | | This is really crude, but I once managed to kill a stalled X with killall | startx | | | -- | Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm | This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC | | f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn | | | | | 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] modem errors-Solved 'partly'
Thanks to all the people who posted about my modem errors. I am now not receiving errors when I connect up although there are a few things listed at the bottom of this email I would appreciate you looking into, if anyone feels like helping there. The solution was obtained from the cmd 'cat messages' in the /var/log directory. Just before the modem hung up the files said that the username and or password were incorrect and that was stopping me being authenticated. After trying several option I settled on making my username the same as my email address, although it apparently isn't according to my ISP. Darn modem connected up first time and I was able to surf the Net. Items which still need attention are: 1) How I can get modem lights showing my modem is active. I have searched he mdk software manager for most things to do with lights, modems etc. but have not been able to confirm or deny it is or isn't installed. If it was installed, how would I get it to display when the modem is in use? - SOLVED 2) Why does the modem not show up under the Mandrake Control Centre hardware tab under modems? How do I get it to show there? modem is an ISA USR Sportster 56k with no jumpers attached and PnP disabled in the BIOS and running on Mdk 8.0. TIA -- == Hylton Conacher Registered Linux user # 229959 Licenced Windows user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] the opposite of startx
While we are talking about startx, I have a question. Lets say I use console mode and I want to write a bash script to automatically startx using blackbox (startx /usr/bin/blackbox -- :0 ) and I want it to automatically execute the_sims. If i try and do: #!/bin/bash startx /usr/bin/blackbox -- :0 the_sims I won't start the sims until the have closed black box, how do I get this working ?? #!/bin/bash startx /usr/bin/blackbox -- :0 the_sims run in background Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I connect to netzero from my linux box???
It can be perfectly done, in fact I am using it to write this email... --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, i didn't think you could use ICS with a dial-up connection. u know? w/ something like net zero. can this really be done? joe __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I connect to netzero from my linux box???
well, that is very cool! soon as i find my other NIC card. i'm gonna try it! Joe
Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.
I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place would be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be greatly appreciated. 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? 35 2. What is your age? 20 3. Sex? M 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? Dial up 5. How many computers do you own? 2 TezcatlipocA This is for a Elementary Statistics course for a project I am doing. It's a wintersession course and I need to collect this information ASAP. I need a total of 50 people to respond. Thanks again if you decide to answer these questions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] (g)unzipping
Hi, I have downloaded the Maragda linux on a CD file. It is titled maragda-2000-10-05-i386-RAM64Mb-redhat-6.2.raw.gz When I try to open it in Archiver it fails with an error message about valid file type. When I try to gunzip -d it says 'not in gz format'. The file is a full distro length of 650 megs. I'm wondering if it is corrupt or maybe I just don't know how to decompress it. Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File spliter?
Jon Doe wrote: I am looking for a program or instuctions on how to split up a 750mb home movie file. I tried to use rar but can't seem to figure out how to split it in half. Is there a way to do this platform indepedent? My father uses Widnows and he will want this home movie. I did a search on freshmeat but didn't come up with anything. Have you looked at split? See man split -- don't know if it will handle a file that big, but don't know that it wouldn't either. Disclaimer: I know nothing about splitting movie files -- I'm assuming that you want to split it to smaller sizes for transport, and then rejoin it for use. If not, there may be other things you have to do that split won't handle. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 7.2, 8.0 won't detect my 3c450 NIC
I'm running a Pentium II 166 MHz with 128 MB RAM and a 3c450 ethernet card. I have used this computer before with LM 7.2 and everything worked like a charm. Now after a recent reformat/reinstall (tried to upgrade to 8) it won't detect the NIC. Everything else works just fine, but no luck with the card. I even tried uninstalling 8 and having a go at it with 7.2 again but it was to no avail. I've tried configuring the card both at install (every single 3Com driver fails) and through DrakConf. Harddrake doesn't even show any NIC and obviously ifconfig doesn't yield anything either. Any advice? I've got a basic working knowledge of Linux including command line and I've got Running Linux + Net Admins Guide + Nutshell so you can refer me to any of those if it'd make things any easier for you. Thanks to anyone who can help. Peace, Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File spliter?
Miark wrote: Well, there is the split program ;-) Check out the man page. It's a very easy program to use. As for putting it back together again on a Windows machine, I dunno. There must be a simple program out there that can glue file together. Yup, there is. Usually you just use copy to join the files together. I forget the exact syntax, but it's something like copy a + b c (to copy files a and b to c) (and, I think you may have to use the /b switch). Look up copy in dos help, or just do copy /? at an MS Dos command prompt. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No Soundcard after boot
Hi all I've got a slight problem i'd like to read some opinions about, here it goes. After i boot up, ( or reboot ) my soundcard does not work, if i open the Kmix soundmixer it says invalid mixer 'Ensoniq ES1370' .. but i discovered that i can make it work by going to HardDrake and running the sound configuration tool. then i just push the ok button, i don't change anything, and then it just starts working again. At first i did not really care about it, but i'm getting tired of making my sound start working every time... just a wild guess: would devFS have anything to do with it? Anyway, how do i disable it? what would happen if i do?... etc etc. ;oP thank you all very much in advance. Damian _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (g)unzipping
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:10:17 -0500 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the Maragda linux on a CD file. It is titled maragda-2000-10-05-i386-RAM64Mb-redhat-6.2.raw.gz When I try to open it in Archiver it fails with an error message about valid file type. When I try to gunzip -d it says 'not in gz format'. The file is a full distro length of 650 megs. I'm wondering if it is corrupt or maybe I just don't know how to decompress it. Thanks and regards, Bill W. have you tried unzipping it in the commandline? just use gunzip maragda-2000-10-05-i386-RAM64Mb-redhat-6.2.raw.gz and see what happens. i dont know about the raw format though. maybe thats the reason archiver refuses to process that file. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, 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] (g)unzipping
Hi, Yup, tried that.same error message..'file not in gzip format' I'm wondering if it got corrupted. Thanks for the advice, tho. Regards, Bill W. On Thursday 10 January 2002 09:19, you wrote: gunzip maragda-2000-10-05-i386-RAM64Mb-redhat-6.2.raw.gz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cron
On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:17 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 09 January 2002 06:24 am, Mark D'voo wrote: I have a bash script that I want run every hour as my regular user, how do I setup cron to do this? mark easiest put the script in the /etc/cron.hourly directory. hmm, i put it in that directory and it never ran, YES i do have the cron daemon running, is there anything special that needs to be in the script ?? I finally just set it up using gts which seems to work fine mark Gerald -- 9:18pm up 4:01, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Floppy accessing - not
Hi folks am running dual boot MLN 8.1 and w98 Mandrake has formatted a floppy ok but I can't access it. I've been trying, on and off, for weeks and it's a good thing that I'm a masochist otherwise it would be driving me nuts. Any advice would be very much appreciated. I took Tom Brinkman's advice and visited http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3#floppy where it said:- -Error scenario: The floppy drive is not accessible for use. -Why: The PNP_BIOS does not initalize the floppy controller like the -BIOS. Because of this, you may have difficulty access the drive with -applications like mount or dd, and will receive errors such as -/dev/fd0: No such device or address or Input/output error. -Solution: Boot your kernel with the nobiospnp option specified at the -boot command line. I've tried two methods and niether work. Firstly (as suggested in this group)- I've interupted the lilo boot process with ESC so that it stops and displays the prompt 'BOOT:' I then enter as: BOOT:linux nobiospnp and Linux boots as normal but still cannot access the floppy. Second try - I've tried amending the Lilo config file (and entering 'lilo' after saved) and still cant access floppy. I don't know if I've done this correctly - I've put 'nobiospnp' in the 'append' lines. This is the lilo.conf text - boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append= hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet nobiospnp vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 append= hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount nobiospnp read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append= hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda Many thanks Dave S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] java again
There should be a symlink/usr/java pointing to your java executable. Yours appears to be pointing to the kaffe executable. just delete it and remake it with the correct destination. 'whereis java' will tell you where any symlinks or executables are on your system. Kaffe sometimes gets installed as a dependency without you intending it. The server wizards for example list kaffe as a required dependency. derek On Sunday 06 January 2002 01:28, Eric McClure wrote: For some reason I had to install jre to get konqueror to see my apps. but when i type in 'java -version' kaffe comes up! it use to read j2sdk1.4.0 what gives? also I've tried to modify my .bashrc but it seems the changes don't take affect. what is the permissions for .bashrc? Is it 755? thanks, eric l. Mcclure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to hook up printer in a router/printer server?
Hi, I recently set up a linux system with Mandrake Linux 8.1 I use a 4-port Cable/DSL router to connect my local network and to the Internet. The router I am using an Asante FR3004LC. This router has a network print server function, so I plug my NEC SuperScript 1400 laser printer on the router through a standard parallel port. The printer server worked perfectly with my Windows system by installing the special driver from Asante. Now, I try to install this printer in my Linux but I don't know how. According to the router's manual: For UNIX/Linux computers, the standard LPR driver will work with the router. No additional software is required. I have tried to use CUPS and LPRng but neither of them worked. Actually, it did not even send any signal to the printer. I tried to search the Internet but there is no information related to this situation. Can anyone help me, please! Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] a real newbie
Hi - I've just got hold of Linux Mandrake 6.1 on disks. I'm trying to install it on a Laptop in a dual boot configuration. However . it won't let me create a boot floppy , or install Lilo, or Bootmagic! Help! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File spliter?
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:57:54 -0500, Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a program or instuctions on how to split up a 750mb home movie file. I tried to use rar but can't seem to figure out how to split it in half. Is there a way to do this platform indepedent? My father uses Widnows and he will want this home movie. I did a search on freshmeat but didn't come up with anything. If you want to split up an MPEG and keep the ability to view the individual parts, take a look at http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/ Otherwise: http://www.linux-tips.net/article.php?sid=75 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan One World, One Web, One Programme -- Microsoft Promotional Ad. Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer -- Adolf Hitler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] the boot disk problem
It seems to go through the process of crating a boot disk but then I get an error message: An error occurred during step Install bootloader of the install .. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
