Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?
--- Alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On 13-02-2002 13:51, Fatto anche questo..mentre lo istallo mi chiede le libpng.so.3 o una cosa del genere. Io forzo. Lui istalla. Lancio xine e mi cerca quelle maledette lib. Se provo a istallare le lib mi dice che andranno in conflitto con un po di robba e quindi io non le istallo. Ma che spono sti conflitti? Io ho le libpng2 e non gli piacciono ma non le posso disistallare se no si tirano 200 dipendenze...help che devo fare ; ( Scusa, ho appena risposto alla tua precedente mail consigliandoti anch'io la 0.9.8 perche' mi ero perso questo tuo messaggio... Non so dirti che tipo di conflitti siano, non mi e' mai capitato! Potresti postare l'output di ./configure quando ti chiede le libpng? ...E mi viene un dubbio: hai installato anche i sorgenti delle libpng? Xine ne ha bisogno per la compilazione... (il pacchetto libpng-develop o qualcosa di simile). Ciao! Steo. __ Dillo con una cartolina! http://it.greetings.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] Scanner USB Agfa e25
Il mer, 2002-02-13 alle 17:24, Mario Lodi Rizzini ha scritto:
Scusa se ti rompo, ma a questo punto ti chiedo cortesemente qualche
ragguaglio.
Quanto segue l'ho fatto seguendo quanto riportato in
snapscan.sourceforge.net
Ho installato i backends di sane 1.0.7
Poi ho definito lo scanner con mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48
Infine ho inserito in /etc/modules.conf la riga
options scanner vendor=0x06bd product=0x2095.
Ho fatto il reboot.
Se ora vado in Harddrake, lo scanner non c'è; al suo posto c'è una
periferica USB sconosciuta con ID 06BD2095 con la richiesta di inviare
a [EMAIL PROTECTED] i files sotto /proc/ (ora non ricordo
quale).
Se hai seguito un procedimento diverso, mi puoi indicare quale?
Grazie 1000
Mario
Mario Lodi Rizzini
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Mandrake 8.1 su Celeron 733
Ecco qua un aiuto come ti avevo promesso.
Come prima cosa ho installato Sane presente sui CD della mdk8.1 e tutti
gli altri rpm che gli servono compreso XSane.
Poi ho creato il device scanner come hai fatto tu con mknod
/dev/usb/scanner c 180 48 ed ho inserito in /etc/modules.conf le righe
options scanner vendor=0x06bd product=0x2095
post-install scanner chmod 666 /dev/usb/scanner
Poi ho scaricato il beckend 1.0.6 di Sane e il beckend per lo Snapscan
più recenti (nel mio caso 2001108). Dopo aver decompresso entrambi gli
archivi tar.gz, ho copiato i file decompressi del beckend dello snapscan
all'interno nella cartella beckend che si trova a sua volta all'interno
della cartella sane-beckends-1.0.6 creata precedentemente.
Inoltre ho modificato la riga 120 (o vicina) del file snapscan.h
mettendo: {SNAPSCAN e25, SNAPSCANE50}
Fatto ciò ho eseguito la solita procedura di installazione dopo essermi
spostato nella cartella sane-beckends-1.0.6:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
Non è ancora finita! Ho modificato il file /usr/etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf
mettendo # davanti a tutte le righe e aggiungendo le righe:
/dev/usb/scanner
firmware /home/pollo/Snape25.bin
Il file Snape25.bin lo puoi trovare nella partizione che hai lasciato a
windows nella cartella windows/system/. Se non hai una partizione con
windows penso che lo trovi da qualche parte sul cd con ScanWise.
Se non lo trovi dimmelo che te lo spedisco (sono solo 32Kbyte).
Ora è veramente finita! Se tutto è ok lanciando il comando scanimage -L
dovresti come output una riga simile:
device 'snapscan:/dev/usb/scanner' is a AGFA SNAPSCAN flatbed scanner
Se ti compare lancia a tua scelta xsane oppure xscanimage oppure
qualsiasi altra GUI per sane.
Il procedimento che ho seguito è questo...
...prova e poi fammi sapere.
Ciao, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?
On 14-02-2002 9:04, Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Marco Canapicchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alberto wrote: Di istallato ho le libpng2 ma se ne frega..e adesso che faccio? Levo le due e metto le 3?ma quei conflitti che mi dice darebber la libpng3 che cosa fanno? Non so che fare. Grazie ancora Ciao ciao alberto Mi sa che e' la versione 0.9.5 di xine a dare problemi.. una cosa simile me l'ha data anche a me Prova con la 0.9.8: io l'ho installata ed e' tutto ok. Va bene anche con gli RPM. Io la 0.9.5 non l'ho mai installata, ho anch'io la 0.9.8 che funziona e l'ho installata con le libpng della Mandrake 8.1. Ciao! Steo. Ma allora sono io che sono troppo fortunato? Che faccio ci metto ste libpng.so.3 anche se dice che da conflitti col mondo? Grazie Ciao Alberto __ Dillo con una cartolina! http://it.greetings.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?
Scusa, ho appena risposto alla tua precedente mail consigliandoti anch'io la 0.9.8 perche' mi ero perso questo tuo messaggio... Non so dirti che tipo di conflitti siano, non mi e' mai capitato! Potresti postare l'output di ./configure quando ti chiede le libpng? ...E mi viene un dubbio: hai installato anche i sorgenti delle libpng? Xine ne ha bisogno per la compilazione... (il pacchetto libpng-develop o qualcosa di simile). Ciao! Steo. Allora..quando configuro xine szr non ricordo male non mi chiede le lib..ma poi quando lo lancio dice che non le tyrvo Ho istallato anche 0.9.8 da rpm e me le chiede quando istalla..io forzo e noquando lo lancio mi chiede sempre le lib Le libpng/develop o qualcosa del genere le ho gia istsallate insieme alle libpng 2 ma proprio se ne frega L'unica é provare di istallare ste png3..ma poi mi funziona linucx o muore?; ( Help ; ( Ciao alberto __ Dillo con una cartolina! http://it.greetings.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Alberto wrote: Ciao! Steo. Ma allora sono io che sono troppo fortunato? Che faccio ci metto ste libpng.so.3 anche se dice che da conflitti col mondo? Grazie Ciao Alberto Direi di no. FInisce che dopo non ti funziona piu' niente. Potresti invece scaricare i surce (.src) e compilarli sul tuo computer. A quel punto le cose dovrebbero funzionare. 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] anti-aliasing
Alle 18:45, mercoledì 13 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: Qualcuno che ha applicato con successo l'opzione anti-aliasing saprebbe indicarmi che caratteri sta usando (ho la possibilità di sfruttare pure i caratteri win)? l'antialiasing io l'ho disattivato perchè mi dava degli errori e inoltre mi rallentava un pochino il sistema. ho installato i font win e tutto è migliorato notevolmente specialmente su internet su linuxC n. 21 nelle tips trovi il modo di installare i font win se non lo trovi spedisco in lista i comandi e le cose da fare. ciao a tutti Rodolfo
Re: [newbie-it] Galeon e java
Lele wrote: Usando Galeon mi imbatto in siti che richiedono java e il browser mi dice di scaricarne i plugins, cosa che ho fatto, ma sneza ottenere risultati. Dove sbaglio ? e poi, in netscape o mozilla non ci sono plugins adatti ? Se si dove posso trovarli ed eventualmente copiarli ? Grazie per le eventuali risposte Quando entri in siti che usano java non riesci a caricare le applet: se ho capito bene, è questo il tuo problema. I plugins java di cui tu parli sono contenuti all'interno del pacchetto java e fondamentalmente non ti servono per il caricamento delle applet. Ciò che ti serve è la sola installazione del pacchetto dopo la quale, se proprio lo vuoi fare, potrai procedere all'installazione dei plugins in essa contenuti. Cosa hai scaricato e installato? Il pacchetto JRE o quello SDK? Se non sei uno sviluppatore java, ti è sufficiente il JRE le cui dimensioni sono meno della metà di quelle dell'SDK (14Mb contro 35Mb). Una volta effettuata l'installazione credo che il tuo browser non riesca a leggere l'eseguibile java e questo perché non sa dove cercarlo: devi indicargli il path. Immagino (io non ho mai usato Galeon) che da qualche parte nelle impostazioni del tuo navigatore ci sarà una sezione dedicata alla configurazione java dove magari ti chiederà l'indicazione di un percorso per l'eseguibile java: se così è, allora cerca nel tuo filesystem una directory intitolata a java (te la dovresti ritrovare dopo l'installazione e generalmente in /usr, se non ricordo male) all'interno della quale dovrebbe esserci l'eseguibile che ti interessa. Indica a Galeon quel percorso. Per quanto riguarda la possibilità di sfruttare l'eseguibile java usato da netscape, anche a me piacerebbe sapere se è possibile usarlo ed eventualmente in quale oscuro luogo è nascosto: eviterei così di scaricarmi pacchetti java vari, visto che netscape devo comunque tenermelo in quanto il mio konqueror non può fare a meno di lui per il flash player della macromedia. Quanto sarebbe bello un Konqueror indipendente da netscape... ma questa è un'altra storia. Se non sono stao chiaro, chiedi pure, sempre che abbia ben capito il tuo problema... -- syd
[newbie-it] Internet
Ho un grosso problema per la navigazione in internet. Non sono ancora riuscito a trovare un browser veramente completo. Con qualcuno non funzionano gli applet java, con qualcun'altro non riesco a utilizzare tutte le funzioni di alcuni siti (tipo inviare sms ecc.), con altri non posso rivisitare off-line le pagine aperte quando ero on-line ed infine con qualcuno sono costretto a leggere i testi delle pagine web con una lente di ingrandimento. Qualcuno sa darmi qualche dritta in proposito? Io cerco un browser che mi permetta di aprire tutte le pagine web (anche con applet java) e che mi permetta di visualizzare off-line le pagine già visitate on-line. Vi ringrazio. Pollo.
[newbie-it] Dove ho sbagliato?
Ciao, ieri ho provato a installare staroffice 5.2. E memore di un consiglio l'ho installato da root con l'opzione net. Praticamente la directory era questa /home/root/staroffice/net Per non riuscivo ad aprire il prg da altri utenti (ho creato per provare 3 utenti su un pc singolo) in quanto la dir root era inacessibile non avendo i permessi. Ho cancellato il tutto e vorrei riprovare. Mi dite dove ho sbagliato? Forse la dir doveva essere /home/staroffice/net? A proposito anche adabas va installato in /net ? Grazie in anticipo della risposta Ku68
[newbie-it] permessi-proprietario
Ieri l'altro ho installato Ximian Gnome. Credo di aver fatto tutto per bene ( tanto è tutto in 'automatico' ) infatti, per quanto ne capisco mi pare vada tutto bene, ma mi ritrovo con il lettore floppy, col DvdCdRom e col masterizzatore che mi vengono negati. Infatti, guardando le loro proprietà ( su nautilus, tasto destro sull'icona mount ) mi vien detto che non posso variarle in quanto non sono il proprietario. C'è qualcuno che mi spiega ( usando l'interfaccia grafica e non il terminale ), come posso riappropriarmi dei miei dischi e dischetti ? Grazie in anticipo giocarra
[newbie-it] Opzione distruggi
Ciao a tutti, uso Mandrake 8.1; nella versione precedente, in KDE era possibile - cliccandoci su col pulsante destro - selezionare l'opzione distruggi oltre alle semplici elimina e cestina. In MDK 8.1, invece, questa opzione sembra scomparsa. Pensavo l'avessero rimossa. Invece mi sono accorto che l'opzione può essere inserita nella barra del Konqueror. E da lì funziona. La mia domanda, allora, è: com'è possibile far riapparire la voce distruggi anche nel menù che compare cliccando su un qualsiasi oggetto con il pulsante destro del mouse? Grazie in anticipo a chi vorrà rispondermi... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Kmail e allegati
Il giorno 08:46, mercoledì 13 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Salve, volevo sapere un paio di cose: 1) è possibile fare in modo che nell'elenco dei messaggi di una cartella kmail mostri l'icona della graffetta per quelli che hanno l'allegato? Ciao, credo che questo non sia possibile. Non so se questa caratteristica verrà aggiunta nelle future versioni di KMail. Potresti contattare il sito del KDE e proporglielo. In ogni caso, una delle colonne visualizza le dimensioni del messaggio. Già da lì, solitamente, è facile rendersi conto se quell'email possieda o no un allegato. 2) a volte oltre agli allegati soliti mi trovo anche il testo dell'email in html, che visualizzato mi restituisce il sorgente della lettera: si può eliminare? Dovresti disattivare la visualizzazione in linea degli allegati, tramite il menù visualizza. Grazie Ciao Prego. :) Ciao... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Cattiva qualità di stampa e problema con floppy
Il giorno 10:37, mercoledì 13 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Scusa, ma non avevi detto che l'installazione di Linux riconosce il tuo modello senza problemi? Quindi dovrebbe essere già installata, perchè devi nuovamente scegliere nell'elenco dei drivers? Con un altro prg la vede con kups no KUPS è solo un'utility di gestione del sistema di stampa CUPS. Quindi se la tua stampante non compare in KUPS, vuol dire che non è riconosciuta da CUPS. Qual è questo altro programma che riconosce la tua stampante? Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Dove ho sbagliato?
Il giorno 14:59, gioved 14 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Ciao, ieri ho provato a installare staroffice 5.2. E memore di un consiglio l'ho installato da root con l'opzione net. Praticamente la directory era questa /home/root/staroffice/net Per non riuscivo ad aprire il prg da altri utenti (ho creato per provare 3 utenti su un pc singolo) in quanto la dir root era inacessibile non avendo i permessi. Ho cancellato il tutto e vorrei riprovare. Mi dite dove ho sbagliato? Forse la dir doveva essere /home/staroffice/net? A proposito anche adabas va installato in /net ? Grazie in anticipo della risposta Ku68 Non devi installare StarOffice in una cartella NET, ma con l'opzione NET. Cio devi dare il comando di installazione seguito da: -net In questo modo il programma disponibile per tutti gli utenti. Ciao! Daniele
[newbie-it] Decomprimere i file zip
Non riesco a decomprimere i file zip. Mi dice:Spiacente l'utilità zip non è nel tuo PATH Questo è il contenuto della variabile PATH: echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games: Queste sono i programmi zip: /bin/gzip /bin/gunzip /usr/bin/bunzip2 /usr/bin/bzip2recover /usr/bin/bzip2 /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/gzip /usr/bin/bonobo-moniker-gunzip /usr/bin/mzip /usr/bin/funzip /usr/bin/unzip /usr/bin/unzipsfx /usr/bin/zipgrep /usr/bin/zipinfo Perchè non funziona? Grazie
[newbie-it] Inappropriate ioctl for device
Salve a tutti, sempre nel contesto dei miei tentativi di connettermi col modem ADL Alcatel; sapreste dirmi cosa è l' IOCTL ? Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Using interface ppp1Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Connect: ppp1 -- /dev/pts/3Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Modem hangupFeb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Connection terminated.Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Using interface ppp1Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Connect: ppp1 -- /dev/pts/3Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Modem hangupFeb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Connection terminated.Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Couldn't attach to PPP unit 1: Invalid argumentFeb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: Inappropriate ioctl for deviceFeb 11 22:21:02 localhost last message repeated 2 timesFeb 11 22:21:02 localhost pppd[4126]: Couldn't get channel number: Input/output errorFeb 11 22:21:02 localhost pppd[4126]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: Inappropriate ioctl for deviceFeb 11 22:21:02 localhost pppd[4126]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: Inappropriate ioctl for device -- grazie Marco Fortini
[newbie-it] Scaricare i file dalla rete
Non riesco a scaricare i file dalla rete. Indico il percorso dove scaricare, do l' OK e poi più nulla. Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Decomprimere i file zip
Il giorno 18:08, giovedì 14 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Non riesco a decomprimere i file zip. Mi dice:Spiacente l'utilità zip non è nel tuo PAT Perchè non funziona? Grazie Ciao, devi semplicemente installarla. Cerca zip usando il Software Manager: troverai un pacchetto chiamato zip-2.3-7mdk (o qualcosa del genere). Installalo e riprova ad usare il programma di archiviazione. Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Slackware e ISDN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 21:10, martedì 12 febbraio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Slackware e ISDN, syd ha scritto: Mi rivolgo a tutta la lista ma in particolare a chi usa una slack 8 (ciao mike!!): ciao! scrivo per conto di un mio amico con il quale circa un mese fa decidemmo di migrare su linux... io mdk, lui slack. Il suo problema attuale è questo: da quando ha installato non è mai riuscito a connettersi a causa della sua scheda ISDN winbond 6692. mm, non conosco la scheda, ma da quanto mi risulta, i TA ISDN sono pienamente supportati. ora, che chipset monta? credo che sul sito del produttore dovrebbe essere riportata la presenza di drivers per i vari S.O. Attualmente è alle prese con la ricompilazione del kernel (è la retta via?) e dire che sta soffrendo è davvero un eufemismo. se riesce a sapere che chipset monta la sua scheda il problema è sicuramente risolto al 90% se poi ricompila correttamente e include il supporto nel kernel, lo sarà al 100... ..circa.. - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8bDdtYp6jtgQnzC0RAmPjAJ9hlfisRG30aB4L/sq/vlwrHJwv8wCgphNo 6T6Uq3s2uhg4DInQ1kVqcsc= =EUyd -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Decomprimere i file zip
Alle 18:31, giovedì 14 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: Il giorno 18:08, giovedì 14 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Non riesco a decomprimere i file zip. Mi dice:Spiacente l'utilità zip non è nel tuo PAT Perchè non funziona? Grazie Ciao, devi semplicemente installarla. Cerca zip usando il Software Manager: troverai un pacchetto chiamato zip-2.3-7mdk (o qualcosa del genere). Installalo e riprova ad usare il programma di archiviazione. Daniele Non ho quel file e purtroppo non riesco a scaricarlo dalla rete, questo per ora è il secondo problema. Ciao e ti ringrazio
Re: [newbie-it] Decomprimere i file zip
Il giorno 00:45, venerdì 15 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Non ho quel file e purtroppo non riesco a scaricarlo dalla rete, questo per ora è il secondo problema. Ciao e ti ringrazio Che versione usi di Mandrake Linux?
[newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user capability, telnet (how many simultaneous sessions), file system comparison (journalling), crash recovery, users and group administration, etc. Rather than a philosophical comparison with praise or blame I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and contrast type. Many thanks in advance, Andrei _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Text Editing
I missed the begining of this string, so ignore me if I'm heading off in the wrong direction KWrite has a good find-replace function which allows regular expressions. Alternatively, if you need to do this operation a lot, then a Perl script might be the way to go. Robin On Thursday 14 February 2002 03:11, Randy Kramer wrote: Walter Logeman wrote: Yes i am familiar with the process you describe in Word. I wonder of Star Office has the same ability? I don't know -- I fooled around with Star Office for a little while, but never tried anything like this, but I would expect the ability to do search and replace on paragraph marks and similar. Good, i will see whatelse it does with line endings... Have fun! I asked on the nedit list about folding once (something like Word's collapsible outlining) -- they seemed receptive to implementing something in the future. I pay attention to the list and have seen no activity toward that end. That is the one thing I still need (in a word processor or an editor). Does Textpad have some better magic? Can you describe it or point to a link? It is very comprehensive. I can set different behaviousrs for different types of files eg txt or html etc. I can set it to add hard returns upon save - or not, and the word wrap is done independently form the line endings or the window size. I'll check it out! Thanks for the details on nedit... helpful. You're welcome! Randy Kramer -- Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted. Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] group permissions
What I really want to do is make every directory non-browse-able to the user anonymous. I want anonymous to only be able to browse its home directory. So I guess I would like to also change all subdirectories and the files within them as well. Something like: chgrp -R anonymous /etc/ Now the only problem I have is I don't know what's going on with a command like this. What would this (or whatever would be correct) do? Again, thanks for your time. Mithrilhall -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Viron Sent: February 13, 2002 11:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] group permissions This depends on what exactly you mean to do. Do you mean to change the group of all files / subdirectories of the directory? If so, you can use 'chgrp -R newgroup directoryname'. Do you want to change only the ownership of the directory itself? Use 'chgrp newgroup directoryname'. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 02:07 AM 02/14/2002 -0800, you wrote: Could someone post an example showing how to change permissions for a certain group. Example: I have a group by the name of anonymous with one user name anonymous belonging in the group. I want to be able to set permissions for group anonymous on certain directories. If someone could post an example I would greatly appreciate it. Mithrilhall _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? 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] Re: Salam :)
hello i m not very strong on linux nor hardware so i cant really help you .. however mandrake has a hardware compatibility page ..unfortunately it is not updated regularly but maybe u will find something there that will help you good luck salam - Original Message - From: Hanan Z. Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:54 AM Subject: Salam :) Salam Dear Mohammad, I was happy I found a muslim brother on the list :-D I just joined the list maybe 2-3 weeks ago, and I wanna ask you A Question, I'v posted it on the list twice yet no body seems to wanna answer it or is it not appropriate to ask here ?!! I dont know what is the problem !! anyway here is the Q as I posted it if you have any suggestion about it please advise me, otherwise just disregard it :-) Hi again, I am shopping for an external CD-RW drive for my notebook, one that I'd be able to use with my PC as well ( thats why I'm looking for ones with USB + pcmci interfaces ), I need some advise from you folks. will any CDRW drive with a pcmci interface work with Mandrake ?? or do I have to look for one that states specifically that it works with linux ? I checked the Mandrake hardware database but it mostly showed internal ones, and wasnt of good help. same thing for the USB interface...does it really need to secify that it works with linux ? ... Or shall I go for SCSI ?? ( if someone suggests that I go for SCSI please also advise with a good SCSI inteface card for notebooks ():-) any advise will be highly appreciated :) -- Hanan Z. Shargi Registered Linux User# 259916 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] group permissions
Hi Mithrilhall, What you need to do is audit your system permissions. Make certain that the all permissions are very restrictive. Here is an example: /home drwxr-x--x 15 root adm 4096 Feb 14 01:53 ./ drwxr-x--x 21 root adm 1024 Feb 9 01:18 ../ drwx--5 adminadmin4096 Feb 1 05:23 admin/ drwx--4 usr1 usr1 4096 Feb 1 05:30 usr1/ drwx--4 usr1$usr1$4096 Feb 9 00:26 usr1$/ drwx--4 usr2 usr2 4096 Feb 1 05:30 usr2/ drwx--4 usr2$usr2$4096 Feb 9 00:26 usr2$/ Here we can see that usr1 can only browse their home share while usr2 cannot see usr1's share. A good start is to move your system to msec level 4 or 5 after reviewing the documents in: /usr/share/doc/msec-xx Do Not forget that msec lvl 4+ introduces the ctools, ntools and xgrp group to restrict access to key files including ping and top/ps. Once the permissions are sanely set, then you need not worry about the anonymous user (assuming that the anonymous user cannot obtain r00t via your FTP, IMAP, etc. server). I would strengthen permissions on the home directories so that each user's home is chmod 700 or only readable, writable or executable by that user. Please remember that some files in /etc MUST be world-readable but individual home dirs, mailspools, etc. should not be group- or world- readable. You may also want to investigate creating a chroot jail for various services, but remember that a good cracker can break out of a chroot jail if the right tools are available. P.S. to alter the home permissions you may want to: Chmod 700 /home/* Or similar. HTH, Sam Stern Bethesda, MD, USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mithrilhall2000 What I really want to do is make every directory non-browse-able to the user anonymous. I want anonymous to only be able to browse its home directory. So I guess I would like to also change all subdirectories and the files within them as well. Something like: chgrp -R anonymous /etc/ Now the only problem I have is I don't know what's going on with a command like this. What would this (or whatever would be correct) do? Again, thanks for your time. Mithrilhall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall/re-install KDE Kmail (8.1)?
I am not sure at all either, but i recently used rpmdrake to delete another program. Note that the actual emails are in ~/Mail and you may wish to keep those. Walter On Monday 11 February 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: I have gotten the KDE Kmail setup all fouled up ... how do I uninstall and reinstall it ... I can't find the program in the control area ... just delete your ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc file to try and reconfigure it. But as far as uninstalling kmail and reinstalling it... I don't know if one can without doing the whole of kde. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition
I don't think ReiserFS is worth crying about since it doesn't get smaller than 32MB... A partition that small (such as /boot) isn't getting much activity anyhow. So using a non journel FS is fine. Or, like you seggested, ext3. Fsck on 32MB is hardly even noticable. On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 14:23, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2002 16:28, you wrote: For a partition so small why on earth would you even use a JFS? If you are never going to touch it make it ext2 and mount it ro. journal a FS that is going to undergo many changes (basically an active FS) when you mess with your kernel (or ar messing with something in /boot) just run /bin/sync several times before running lilo. more chances lilo screwing up then any fsck running on lilo... and running fsck on a 32MB drive is very very fast... no need to journal... Well, running ext3 FS on a 32mb drive is very very fast also, plus you eliminate the need for fsck. If you've got the ability available, I personally don't see any reason not to use it. What's the big deal, unless you just like typing /bin/sync ? _ 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 -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user capability, telnet (how many simultaneous sessions), file system comparison (journalling), crash recovery, users and group administration, etc. Rather than a philosophical comparison with praise or blame I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and contrast type. Many thanks in advance, Andrei Ok to save you some time the only differences are in the file system. Linux can use the ext2, ext3, JFS, ResierFS or XFS file systems. All except ext2 are journaling. Mac OS X can use the HFS+ (which is the recommended one) or the BSD UFS filesystem. At the moment there are no journaling capabilities available under OS X although FreeBSD's SoftUpdates are under consideration. As for the rest I'll run it down item by item Connectivity? What do you mean by that? Multi-tasking: Both Linux and Mac OS X have pre-emptive multitasking. Multi-user: Both OS's can have multiple users logged in at any one time. Telnet: Thats a setting that can be changed on either OS. Suffice it to say under normal circumstances no one will reach the limit on either OS. Crash recovery: What do you mean by this? It crashes, you reboot. You can use backup software/hardware with either OS. User and group administration: In addition to the normal Unix users and groups, you can use NIS on both OS's. OS X on its own has a unique Netinfo Domain Database system that can be used to admin networks consisting of clients of any OS. Additionaly SAMBA (SMB) can be installed and used on both to replicate Windows networking capabilities (PDC's BDC's...etc). Mac OS X is closely related to FreeBSD Unix (www.freebsd.org). The core of OS X (Darwin) inherited a lot of technology/features from FreeBSD. Since FreeBSD and Linux were already very similar (although not identical) the differences the user would see were already very little. This remains so on OS X. By comparing Mac OS X to Linux you're really just comparing one Unix to another, like Solaris to AIX or HP-UX to Tru64. What sets Mac OS X apart from other Unix's is its ability to run regular applications in addition to Unix apps. Things like Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, Internet Explorer, Quicken, and video games such as Quake, Doom, StarCraft, WarCraftetc that are all native to the platform. And no I don't know of any sites that have an exact comparison, if anyone else does please post a link to it! It really would be redundant though since more or less *NIX is *NIX. -- Blonde Klingons: Because it was a good day to dye! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Program with ./configure
Strange problem I download the source code of PHP-4.1.1 and tried to compile it in my Mandrake Linux 8.1 This is my first time compiled a source code. I followed the instruction in INSTALL and execute ./configure. However, no matter how hard I tried, I could not run ./configure. I always got this error message: bash: ./configure: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Help me please, I am going to crazy! Also, can anybody tell me what is foo. I saw this word appeared quite often in Linux document but I don't understand what it mean. Thank you for help! Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1
First of all can I say its really good that 8,1 has added support for the Alcatel SpeedTouch modem. This has simplified things alot for me! Now onto my problem Ive installed a very small setup of Mandrake 8.1 with firewall support only. The intention is to run it as a firewall/Name Server/Proxy Server/Web Server on my small network at home. The ADSL modem I have setup is the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB. This seems to work however my routing tables dont seem to be setup correctly. When my machine starts it auto connects (everthing looks fine in /var/log/messages). However I cant ping my ISPs DNS server. When I run route to see the routes setup it hangs until I ctrl-break. If I then add a route to my DNS server I then get all these additional entries in my routing table. If I then add a default route via the device ppp0 everything seems to work from my linux box. Ideally I would like this to happen automatically on startup of the box. Any ideas? Thanks Claudio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program with ./configure
I download the source code of PHP-4.1.1 and tried to compile it in my Mandrake Linux 8.1 This is my first time compiled a source code. I followed the instruction in INSTALL and execute ./configure. However, no matter how hard I tried, I could not run ./configure. I always got this error message: If you do an ls, is the configure script there? Try giving it an absolute path like /tmp/foo/configure Also, can anybody tell me what is foo. I saw this word appeared quite often in Linux document but I don't understand what it mean. It's a nothing word. It is just a placeholder word. That's the simple explanation. Brendan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Another related question - iptables
I have setup firewall rules on my linux box. The iptables script I have used is: #!/bin/sh iptables -F iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.2/24 -i ppp0 -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport netbios-ns -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport netbios-dgm -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport bootps -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT #iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport auth -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp -j REJECT iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p udp -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-level warning --log-prefix fw: # MASQUERADING iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING DROP iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE My problem is that on my other machine on my small network I have setup a default rote to the linux box. The linux box has an ip 192.168.0.1 my other box has an ip 192.168.0.2. Now I can quite happily ping the linux box. However If I try to ping a box on the internet (my ISPs DNS server - this works from my linux box) I get 'Network unreachable'. So as a test I added the following iptables rule on my linux box: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j LOG This results in all my pings to 192.168.0.1 being logged but not the ones to the DNS server. Any ideas would be much appreciated Thanks Claude Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing a Downloaded File
Anyone, how can I install a downloaded file? Here are the filenames I download: gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar HID_fsbench.rar j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin kmemmon-0.2.tgz All of this files, when I view this in Linux, all their extension names are all ended with asterisk (*) eg. gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar*. __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program with ./configure
This is a permissions problem. I usually see it when attempting to run something I've put on an NFS mounted directory and I've somehow got the ownership screwed up. Try just copying the whole directory into your home directory and running it there. That seems to work for me as a quick bypass. Got to get round to understanding exactly what's going on here though! HTH Brian On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 20:33, Daniel Chen wrote: Strange problem I download the source code of PHP-4.1.1 and tried to compile it in my Mandrake Linux 8.1 This is my first time compiled a source code. I followed the instruction in INSTALL and execute ./configure. However, no matter how hard I tried, I could not run ./configure. I always got this error message: bash: ./configure: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Help me please, I am going to crazy! Also, can anybody tell me what is foo. I saw this word appeared quite often in Linux document but I don't understand what it mean. Thank you for help! Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] monitor
vasscon wrote: My monitor,a 15'' Proview PK-572 isn't listed if no other responce log http://www.google.com/ and run search for 'proview AND pk-572 AND linux' and you should get a few hits. drop 'linux' and you should get many hits. log proview site, search 'pk-572', pull tech specs, plug into config. you can also check linuxhardware site, [ http://???.??? ] and search for make/ model. good luck. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email, text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1
What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file before and after you get it working? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 20:48, Claudio Mio wrote: First of all can I say its really good that 8,1 has added support for the Alcatel SpeedTouch modem. This has simplified things alot for me! Now onto my problem Ive installed a very small setup of Mandrake 8.1 with firewall support only. The intention is to run it as a firewall/Name Server/Proxy Server/Web Server on my small network at home. The ADSL modem I have setup is the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB. This seems to work however my routing tables dont seem to be setup correctly. When my machine starts it auto connects (everthing looks fine in /var/log/messages). However I cant ping my ISPs DNS server. When I run route to see the routes setup it hangs until I ctrl-break. If I then add a route to my DNS server I then get all these additional entries in my routing table. If I then add a default route via the device ppp0 everything seems to work from my linux box. Ideally I would like this to happen automatically on startup of the box. Any ideas? Thanks Claudio 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] Installing a Downloaded File
You need to unpack the files ending with .tar Easiest way is to right click on them in konqueror and choose to open them with the archiver. Tell it to extract all the files, then check what's in the directory it creates. Hopefully there will be a readme or install file that documents how to go about installing. ./configure and make install are the usual two steps, but that doesn't always apply, so look for instructions. The .bin file should be directly executable. Just cd to the directory it lives in and type ./j2.bin without the quotes. The rar file - no idea! HTH Brian On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 21:56, Tonton wrote: Anyone, how can I install a downloaded file? Here are the filenames I download: gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar HID_fsbench.rar j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin kmemmon-0.2.tgz All of this files, when I view this in Linux, all their extension names are all ended with asterisk (*) eg. gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar*. __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] greek fonts
vasscon wrote: Does the latest distribution support greek fonts as well? should. saw it somewhere in 8.0, did not bother. intend to install when i up to 8.1. your need is special? tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email, text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= beauty of real is revealed only to those who persevere. old orthodox saying. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdrom can't accessed
hello lists,
I have unknown condition about my cdrom (ASUS 50X), suddenly it can't be
accessed either by user nor root. When I try to mount it error message is
bash : cd : /mnt/cdrom : Input/Output error --- in xterminal mode.
When I try it not in xwindow the error message is like this:
hdd : command error : status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hdd : command error : error=0x54
isofs_read_super : bread failed, dev=16 : 40, iso_blknum = 16, block = 32
bash : cd : /mnt/cdrom : Input/Output error
but I try my cdrom to play cd music (direct play on cdrom) it work well...
I think this serious for me (newbie :-( ), please help me...
thank's
chris
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[newbie] Dual Head
Heyo, I'm interested in creating a dual head (dual desktop?) configuration for my computer. I currently have the 2 monitors required, as well as the 2 video cards (Geforce 2 GTS, Ati Rage Pro). Now, when I go into XFdrake, it asks me a series of questions. 1) Configure Heads independently 2) Use Xinerema 3) Config (vid card 1) 4) Config (vid card 2) Now, what should I do to have optimal dual head display? Do I use Xinerema or do I configure both heads independently? I'm relatively new to this, and this second monitor is for status monitoring (Gaim, gkrellm, e-mail, xmms) and will not have video running on it (why would I run video on the crappy 15 inch when I could run it on the 19 inch :) Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, NB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(8): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Hey, Do you know how GSM mobile phones became an international standard? The Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland) agreed on a common standard for mobile phone communications. The Nordic countries don't have the largest populations of any countries in the world, nor are they necessarily the most advanced countries in every area. The only reason that GSM became a standard was through mutual agreement, rather than competition in the mobile phone area. No other country could agree on another standard, because all the different companies' and countries' interests were too divergent. In the states, they have yet to achieve even a nationwide GSM coverage because of all of the competing standards. Talk about a nightmare scenario! Just to clarify, AFAIK the nordic countries established the NMT standard, which stands for Nordic Mobile Telecommunication (or Telephone?). GSM was created by the Group Speciale Mobile (sp?), later renamed to Global Standard for Mobile communication. Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] kernel sources
Hi, I found Kernel-source on the 8.1 CD that I had downloaded. It's on CD#2..I believe it's called kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm Terry the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the second installation CD. Alaa Thank you very much. BTW: How come the package is not mentioned anywhere in rpmdrake? Thanks again Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
Thanks for the info. This answers my question very well. Cheers, Andrei Ok to save you some time the only differences are in the file system. Linux can use the ext2, ext3, JFS, ResierFS or XFS file systems. All except ext2 are journaling. Mac OS X can use the HFS+ (which is the recommended one) or the BSD UFS filesystem. At the moment there are no journaling capabilities available under OS X although FreeBSD's SoftUpdates are under consideration. As for the rest I'll run it down item by item Connectivity? What do you mean by that? Multi-tasking: Both Linux and Mac OS X have pre-emptive multitasking. Multi-user: Both OS's can have multiple users logged in at any one time. Telnet: Thats a setting that can be changed on either OS. Suffice it to say under normal circumstances no one will reach the limit on either OS. Crash recovery: What do you mean by this? It crashes, you reboot. You can use backup software/hardware with either OS. User and group administration: In addition to the normal Unix users and groups, you can use NIS on both OS's. OS X on its own has a unique Netinfo Domain Database system that can be used to admin networks consisting of clients of any OS. Additionaly SAMBA (SMB) can be installed and used on both to replicate Windows networking capabilities (PDC's BDC's...etc). Mac OS X is closely related to FreeBSD Unix (www.freebsd.org). The core of OS X (Darwin) inherited a lot of technology/features from FreeBSD. Since FreeBSD and Linux were already very similar (although not identical) the differences the user would see were already very little. This remains so on OS X. By comparing Mac OS X to Linux you're really just comparing one Unix to another, like Solaris to AIX or HP-UX to Tru64. What sets Mac OS X apart from other Unix's is its ability to run regular applications in addition to Unix apps. Things like Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, Internet Explorer, Quicken, and video games such as Quake, Doom, StarCraft, WarCraftetc that are all native to the platform. And no I don't know of any sites that have an exact comparison, if anyone else does please post a link to it! It really would be redundant though since more or less *NIX is *NIX. -- Blonde Klingons: Because it was a good day to dye! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....
On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for ^M characters and swap them for their unix equivalent has anyone ever done this? PS, the only txt editor that allowed me to see the ^M's was vi, pico and others did not show them.. why is that? On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for ^M characters and swap them for their unix equivalent has anyone ever done this? PS, the only txt editor that allowed me to see the ^M's was vi, pico and others did not show them.. why is that? AFAIK KWrite doesn't show, but does give the opportunity to, say, search/replace regexps, and change the EOL character. I'm still finding I have the same problem - I converted a ton of Word documents ages ago (with noword, IIRC) but some control characters just won't go, no matter what kind of substitutions I run on them; e.g., s/t+//g; should get rid of tabs, but doesn't. Or maybe it's just that my Perl programming sucks ;-) Robin -- Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted. Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] kernel sources
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:42:48 +0100 Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hi, I found Kernel-source on the 8.1 CD that I had downloaded. It's on CD#2..I believe it's called kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm Terry the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the second installation CD. Alaa Thank you very much. BTW: How come the package is not mentioned anywhere in rpmdrake? Thanks again Roman hmmnn. i remember somebody (civileme?) mentioned that the rpmdrake does not show all the packages as it hides some so as not to overwhelm the new user. but its in the other tab (the list view). 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
[newbie] iptables
I'm a bit confused with the iptables installation in the MDK 8.1... There is in the /etc/sysconfig/ a rather cryptic iptables file called in the start up process. When trying to by-pass the call to the file for a self made file the call to iptabes commands. The commands give error codes requesting to do a modprob of the module first ? Am i missing a point, or is it just a PATH problem ? What is the best way to introduce my own rules in the iptables w/o having to learn the syntax of the file invoked per default ? Tx, Thomas, -- Thomas SMETS rue J. Wytsmanstraat 62 1050 Bruxelles yahoo-id : smetsthomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mount as a regular user
Hello all ! My problem is I don't manage to mount my cdrom and floppy as a regular user, neither through the command line, nor through the KDE desktop icons. I've changed the permissions of /bin/mount, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy in order to give me execution/write permissions. Also I've checked fstab and it has the option user. The message error I get is you must be superuser to mount. Does it have anything to do with the groups I belong to/the security level ? I checked these items as well and I only belong to my own group and my security level is medium. If someone knows what is wrong, please help me. Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] help with Alcatel USB ADSL drivers
Hi all, i'm having a problem with my new install of Madrake Standfard 8.1 - which i bought cos it runs these drivers out of the box .. but I'm getting two problems: The internet connection wizard reckons I need the second Commercial apps CD - true or not?? The connection script in /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh reckons itr can't see the Alcatel firmware, which is most definitely sat next to in the same directory. I've checked its permissions and it is definitely executable by all. Any help appreciated, Jim -- dylunio ar bapur a gwe web and paper-based design 1 Rhes Trefelyan Stryd Fawr Bangor Gwynedd LL57 1AX Ffôn / Phone +44 (0)1248 371941 Symudol / Mobile +44 (0)7941 794765 Ffacs / Fax +44 (0)7092012614 http://www.hebffinia.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] is there an easier way to install Gnone update?
Thanks Kipling but I think i may do it the hard way and use the RedCarpet Installer over the next few months! Nah, should only take a couple of days but I just though there may be a zip/tar file out there that I can download instead of all the individual rpm's as there's around 50 of them and i can only get a few each time before i get disconnected and have to start all over again but miss out the rpm's i've already got! bit fiddly, really. Oh, i've also found a great download manager integrated into Opera 5.2. It's not quite as good as GETRIGHT but not far off.. ProXy_ReD -Original Message- From: Kipling Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 February 2002 02:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is there an easier way to install Gnone update? * Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [13 Feb 02 20:24]: Trying to upgrade my version of Gnome to the latest from www.ximian.com/download with the suggested method of lynx - blah, blah, etc, etc. It works OK but my ISP disconnects me every two hours so I keep having to resume all the time. Can this be downloaded from anywhere else in an RPM format as I could then use the GETRIGHT download manager from my stupid ME partition to complete the download (sorry Guys, haven't found anything else as good as GETRIGHT for Linux yet!) 1. Don't know about Gnome on RPM, but I recall the Ximian script was interactive. No use if you can't finish the dl, though. 2. I use GTM (GTransfer Manager) for resumable dl's. Good Luck! * The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) are confidential and may be legally privileged. The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material permanently from any computer. * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Franki wrote: %_Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for ^M characters and swap them for their unix equivalent has anyone ever done this? PS, the only txt editor that allowed me to see the ^M's was vi, pico and others did not show them.. why is that? http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/2451.html -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user capability, telnet (how many simultaneous sessions), file system comparison (journalling), crash recovery, users and group administration, etc. Rather than a philosophical comparison with praise or blame I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and contrast type. Many thanks in advance, Andrei I have not seen my post, so I repost : The best article to me is this one : http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=421 Tales of the BeOS refugee I is written by a famous BeOS power-user. This is more a BeOS / MacOS X comparision, than a Linux / MacOS X one. However, this is quite complete : it compares BeOS/MacOSX/Linux/Windows. Enjoy. Nyco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ripping cds on laptop
Paul Rodríguez wrote: For some reason I cannot rip audio cd's on my dell laptop, never have been able to. Doesn't happen on the desktop. Anybody know why this would be? - Paul Rodriguez Isn't there a problem of mounting ? I've read that : - in order to play audio CDs, don't mount the CD (and cable it inside the box) - in order to get data out of a CD, mount it Anyone to confirm ? Nyco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
i DID see that post, i checked out the article you recommend, and it was PHENOMENAL !!! thought *slightly* slanted toward BeOS, it was one of the most informative comparison of operating systems I've seen ... thanks for the suggestion. kennM | | I have not seen my post, so I repost : | | The best article to me is this one : | http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=421 | Tales of the BeOS refugee | | I is written by a famous BeOS power-user. | This is more a BeOS / MacOS X comparision, | than a Linux / MacOS X one. | However, this is quite complete : | it compares BeOS/MacOSX/Linux/Windows. | | Enjoy. | Nyco | | | | 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] ripping cds on laptop
Nicolas VERITE wrote: Paul Rodríguez wrote: For some reason I cannot rip audio cd's on my dell laptop, never have been able to. Doesn't happen on the desktop. Anybody know why this would be? - Paul Rodriguez Isn't there a problem of mounting ? I've read that : - in order to play audio CDs, don't mount the CD (and cable it inside the box) - in order to get data out of a CD, mount it Anyone to confirm ? These are true statements. There may be a way to get around the need for the audio cable from the CD drive to the sound card. However: * I'm not sure how that relates to ripping -- can you (Paul) play audio CDs on the laptop (under Linux)? * If the problem is a missing cable, may be difficult to deal with on a laptop. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 11:30 AM, Mike Settle wrote: I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a chatroom, or something. Have you actually been reading the emails? This entire thread stopped talking about Mac OS dozens of messages ago and is now talking about the Linux hardware support situation. -- Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Mandrake Linux and Windows XP Pro are my OS's. I am GEEK, hear me roar. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?
On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:35 am, you wrote: Thanks for your assistance! I've got a couple of questions for you... In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, I've got the following in Section Module: # This loads the NVIDIA GLX extension module. # IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP NAME AS FULL PATH TO libglx.so ELSE # IT WILL LOAD XFree86 glx module and the server will crash. Load/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so Should I replace that with the Load glx that you suggested, or should I leave what's there? h. that must be a mandrake thing. What I'd do is comment that out and put the loadglx in there. and if I had problems, I'd uncomment it out and comment the load glx. But yeah, I'd use load glx first. Also, I previously installed the NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX from *RPM* without errors/warnings (before I got your email)... Is that a problem? Should I uninstall them and re-install from the tarballs as you suggested? if they were rpms, it would probably be best to uninstall them, yeah. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?
Thanks again for your help. I'll try these things out tonight (I'm not at my machine right now!) and let you know how it goes. I really appreciate your assistance! Do you know anything about ZIP drives? See below... ;-) I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it isn't recognized within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are still good. I've got a known good ZIP disk in the drive. * Here is my entire FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhid e 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 * And from dmesg (anything that looked interesting or remotely related is included here, the rest cut): Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 2731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001 Calibrating delay loop... 1064.96 BogoMIPS Memory: 254824k/262080k available (1086k kernel code, 6868k reserved, 397k data, 712k init, 0k highmem) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=791/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=6149/64/32, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 4.11 detected OK (220) Sound Blaster 16 (4.11) at 0x220 irq 7 dma 0 Sound Blaster 16 at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0,0 cdrom: open failed. /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: 0 cdrom: open failed. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 cdrom: open failed. I've tried: Mkdir /mnt/zip Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD -- it's the 2nd device on the 2nd IDE channel) ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device ...so I tried: Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide total 0 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ./ 10 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ../ 10620 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 21 11:28 cd/ 6770 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 20 14:50 hd/ 3650 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 10:32 host0/ 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 zip/ root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide/zip/ total 0 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 ./ 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ../ Any ideas? I hadn't noticed the /dev/ide/zip directory before, but it's empty... Don't know how to proceed! Some more information: mount -t vfat /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/p4 /mnt/zip Tried the following, with a known-good ZIP disk in the drive: root.drewvogel:~$ mount -t vfat /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/p4 /mnt/zip/ mount: special device /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/p4 does not exist root.drewvogel:~$ cd /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0 root.drewvogel:/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0$ ls total 0 0 disc 0 part4 0 zip/ root.drewvogel:/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0$ mount -t vfat /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/zip /mnt/zip/ mount: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/zip is not a block device root.drewvogel:/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0$ Stumped! --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === -Original Message- From: s [mailto:[EMAIL
Re: [newbie] xscreen saver
On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:42 pm, christiyono wrote: hi all, is it any tricks to put xscreensaver from another distro to be activated in my mandrake 8.0? let say I have xscreensaver rpm from redhat and how to do it? so I can select and activate it from mandrake control center. thank's a lot chris Install xscreensaver (in a terminal, cd to the directory containing the rpm and type (without the quotes) rpm -Uvh xscreensaver*); As a user, type (without the quotes) the following in a terminal xscreensaver-demo This will bring up the xsreensaver configuration tool where you can set up when and how the xcreensaver will come on. You'll also need to disable the default kde screensaver in the kde control center. Finally, add the following line (without the quotes) to your home .baschrc file: xscreensaver Xscreensaver should now be activated and ready to run everytime you log in as user. Hope this helps. Rich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Changing from KDM to GDM
Anyone know how to change from KDM to GDM? I like the look of GDM better, but couldn't figure out how to configure Mandrake to tell it to use GDM instead. Any suggestions? Thanks! Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1
The /etc/resolv.conf is as follows: nameserver 213.120.62.100 nameserver 213.120.62.101 search localdomain Ive now got something working by adding the following into my rc.local: route del default route add default ppp0 This is a bit quirky though and it smells like Im not doing something right! - Original Message - From: Claudio Mio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1 Ill need to check when I get home. But from memory I think it contains both the primary and secondary DNS servers. What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file before and after you get it working? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 20:48, Claudio Mio wrote: First of all can I say its really good that 8,1 has added support for the Alcatel SpeedTouch modem. This has simplified things alot for me! Now onto my problem Ive installed a very small setup of Mandrake 8.1 with firewall support only. The intention is to run it as a firewall/Name Server/Proxy Server/Web Server on my small network at home. The ADSL modem I have setup is the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB. This seems to work however my routing tables dont seem to be setup correctly. When my machine starts it auto connects (everthing looks fine in /var/log/messages). However I cant ping my ISPs DNS server. When I run route to see the routes setup it hangs until I ctrl-break. If I then add a route to my DNS server I then get all these additional entries in my routing table. If I then add a default route via the device ppp0 everything seems to work from my linux box. Ideally I would like this to happen automatically on startup of the box. Any ideas? Thanks Claudio 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] Changing from KDM to GDM
My /etc/sysconfig/desktop file contains the line DESKTOP=GNOME. I believe /etc/X11/prefdm checks this file and if DESKTOP is set to Gnome, GDM is run. So I think you change the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file - Kathy Terry wrote: Anyone know how to change from KDM to GDM? I like the look of GDM better, but couldn't figure out how to configure Mandrake to tell it to use GDM instead. Any suggestions? Thanks! Terry -- Unix fun: $ cat food in can cat: cannot open food in can Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lilo Problems
I installed windows 2000, after that linux 8.1, but I am with problems to initiate with lilo. The following error occurs, that I am not obtaining to decide, if somebody will be able to help. LI The First estage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?
On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:13 am, you wrote: Thanks again for your help. I'll try these things out tonight (I'm not at my machine right now!) and let you know how it goes. I really appreciate your assistance! Do you know anything about ZIP drives? See below... ;-) Well, some of that you tried was my advice and it didn't work out for ya. As a last resort, try editing lilo and putting no in front of mount on the line that says devfs=mount, so that it looks like devfs=nomount. Then try the mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /mnt/zip That was how mine was working in 8.1. But I dumped the zip recently, moved my burner over and things are a little better. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....
On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for ^M characters and swap them for their unix equivalent has anyone ever done this? Someone apparently did. Often enough to write a standard utility called dos2unix ... g http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=dos2unix there is also a unix2dos package to go with it -- 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 ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....
Robin, AFAIK KWrite doesn't show, but does give the opportunity to, say, search/replace regexps, and change the EOL character. I'm still finding I have the same problem - I converted a ton of Word documents ages ago (with noword, IIRC) but some control characters just won't go, no matter what kind of substitutions I run on them; e.g., s/t+//g; should get rid of tabs, but doesn't. Or maybe it's just that my Perl programming sucks ;-) In this one case, it would be the latter ;-) It would be s/\t+//g; Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Source
On 14 Feb 2002 05:56:23 -0500 Paul wrote: Ok well after some research it seem that compliing from source is always better then rpm's. Lets you get very specific on how you want the program setup and more so where it is install (woo who!). How do you determin dependencies for source? Thanks. When you compile from source, you first run ./configure. If you run ./configure --help you get a list full of options you can activate to set up the program in the way you want it. Paul -- I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin. When he smiled I realised I'd passed it on to him. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?
I believe you will find that CTRL - ALT - F7 will get you back ... Xwindows by default puts the GUI on F7. At 12:49 PM 2/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: Hi all, I've just installed MD 8.1. My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.. How do I get back to GNOME from there? How is this different then simply clicking the Open Terminal icon in GNOME? Thanks from a true newbie. Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support perotsystems(tm) Office: 407 804-3208 Pager: 407-400-0197 Fax:407-804-3340 E-Mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com o o o o o o o o [EMAIL PROTECTED] o _ o _| | .][__n_n_|DD[ _ | | (|__|_[_]_|___| _/oo O oo` ooo ooo 'o!o!o o!o!o` -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?
Burrows, Scott wrote: My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.. How do I get back to GNOME from there? Press CTRLALTF7 (or occasionally, I've had to press F8). Pressing ctrlaltF2 took you to a virtual console (one of six -- F1 thru F6) but left your X applications (GNOME) running in ...F7. How is this different then simply clicking the Open Terminal icon in GNOME? Don't use GNOME, but I believe it is the same as what happens in KDE -- in one case (Open Terminal) you open an X-based terminal within KDE (Konsole), in the other case you open a non X-based virtual terminal. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Source
Paul Kraus wrote: Ok well after some research it seem that compliing from source is always better then rpm's. Lets you get very specific on how you want the program setup and more so where it is install (woo who!). How do you determin dependencies for source? Thanks. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well that is the problem... You can install something that doesn't work because it needs something else or like windows games that often arrogantly install their own version of DirectX (even though yours may be more recent), you may break things. Some makefiles allow make -n install to look at the files list and then you can see if you have any of thise files already there. Uninstalling is generally impossible unless you have the files list. Hence the packaging methods like .deb and .rpm . Better yet is to find the source rpm it would look like Xtart-1.1.-6mdk.src.rpm You can install that as user in your own rpm tree -- say put mkdir -p ~/rpm mkdir -p ~/rpm/BUILD mkdir -p ~/rpm/SOURCES mkdir -p ~/rpm/SPECS mkdir -p ~/rpm/RPMS mkdir -p ~/rpm/SRPMS And make sure you install _all_ the rpm tools Then in your home directory rpm -i Xtart-1.1-6mdk.src.rpm The source tarballs drop into rpm/SOURCES the all-important specification of customization drops into /rpm/SPECS and now you can edit with emacs the .spec file to suit your needs then rpm -ba Xtart.spec and if you have exit 0 status, you can pick the binary from the i586 subdirectory for rpm/RPMS and install it as root with rpm -ivh. Most alien rpms do _not_ get on the mandrake menus, so if that is important pull a couple of mandrake rpms that do get on the menu and install them to your rpm build directories and see how it is done. This is much safer than using the tarballs directly. There is a full howto on it at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/ Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Memory
Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Full Screen in Vmware2.04
I now have vmware 2.04 running Windows95 in my LM8.1. I am very thrilled about that however I cannot get it to full screen mode. I was able to run it full screen with 2.03 in LM8. Is there something I can do to remedy this? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:26:50 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Marcia, you should be able to run just fine on your 200Mhz machine, and one can never have too much RAM. Except if you're running Windows98 and you've got more then 512MB. Winders98 can't see any more then that. Linux can see up to 4GB of RAM on the other hand. At home I'm running an AMD K6 233 with 160MB of RAM. That is one solid machine. have at it. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 3:05pm up 4:48, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.12, 0.10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com you have a point in that, in a pentium 200 you whould notice only a small difference in speed, it's not worth it because you can upgrade your cpu and motherboard and going to 256mb but rambus that is even faster than the standard pc133 dimm's. Good valentine's for you to Afonso Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Full Screen in Vmware2.04
Marcia wrote: I now have vmware 2.04 running Windows95 in my LM8.1. I am very thrilled about that however I cannot get it to full screen mode. I was able to run it full screen with 2.03 in LM8. Is there something I can do to remedy this? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com why can't you do that ??? p.s.- if you configure your virtual machine resulution to the same as your MDK resolution it will be at full screen! Afonso Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?
Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, I've just installed MD 8.1. My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.. How do I get back to GNOME from there? How is this different then simply clicking the Open Terminal icon in GNOME? Thanks from a true newbie. Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support perotsystems(tm) Office: 407 804-3208 Pager: 407-400-0197 Fax:407-804-3340 E-Mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ctrl-alt-f7 gets you back It is different in that the logged-in device is a console rather than a pty, and you do not have the DISPLAY variable set. You can make a terminal window behave almost identical to a console by unset DISPLAY The other major difference is that your foreground/background control is only from the command line since you can't just move the mouse to the GUI windows and do something else but have to use ctrl-alt-fx (where 1 =x =7) to go to a different window. Note also that it is unwise to use ctrl-alt-f1 becaue that is where X is launched. Use 2-6 for additional consoles It is a good skill to be able to use consoles--when some program freezes X, you can slip away with ctrl-alt-f2 from the frozen screen, login, call up the processes list with ps ax|less and probably discover the process causing you problems--note its name or number and try kill (number) or killall (name) or kill -9 (number) Then ctrl-alt-f7 will take you back to an unfrozen GUI That's how the folks using linux a while get uptimes of hundreds of days... Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Marcia wrote: %_Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? run top if you are doing a lot of swapping then the RAM will help else it won't Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory
Marcia wrote: I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? No, IME, additional RAM is often more significant than increased processor speed in influencing the overall speed of your computer. It depends partially on what you do with your machine. Do you keep a lot of windows open? Is your machine using swap now? How much? How often do you reboot? Do you notice your machine slowing down after you start using swap? If so, adding RAM will certainly help. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The RAM upgrade is always helpful--the system will use it as quickly as possible for buffer and cache if programs are not using it and this speeds throughput. Even more helpful is kernel 2.4.17 or later because the virtual memory algorithm thrashes the disk much less. This was the big slow-down for the changeover to kernel 2.4 Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory
ram is the biggest bottle neck on a machine. installing ram will help out alot by improving most software preformace and reduce the read-write caching to your hard drive roy - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:26 PM Subject: [newbie] Memory Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?
Thanks Randy! Scott -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you? Burrows, Scott wrote: My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.. How do I get back to GNOME from there? Press CTRLALTF7 (or occasionally, I've had to press F8). Pressing ctrlaltF2 took you to a virtual console (one of six -- F1 thru F6) but left your X applications (GNOME) running in ...F7. How is this different then simply clicking the Open Terminal icon in GNOME? Don't use GNOME, but I believe it is the same as what happens in KDE -- in one case (Open Terminal) you open an X-based terminal within KDE (Konsole), in the other case you open a non X-based virtual terminal. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem PCTel
On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:09 am, you wrote: Does anyone know any driver for the PCTel Platinum V90 HSP Micromodem that works in Mandrake 8.1 ? Thanks, Rodrigo Rodrigo: Try linux.nf/pctel.html HTH -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Netscape 6.2 Installation
Maybe I'm paranoid, but to install Netscape using NetscapeInstaller involves downloading from the net. I've no problem with that, but I do take issue that, in order for the install to succeed, the files must go into /usr/local/netscape. Now, unless I'm mistaken /usr/local has root:root permissions. So, in effect I have to download as root? Sounds like a Windows-come-and-get me install?? My gut feeling is that I must be mistaken, and/or I don't understand the perrmission thing with /usr/local/ . . . Since no-one else has complained about this, how can I download it as user? I get error messages about pipeline being broken or such. How I love being a newbie -- just got back onto the list. Great to be back! Tia, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easier way to install Gnone update?
You should have a look at the X-Downloader at http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo. This app amazed me: it's a beauty, it works very well and even has sound events. Guy. Nick wrote: Trying to upgrade my version of Gnome to the latest from www.ximian.com/download with the suggested method of lynx - blah, blah, etc, etc. It works OK but my ISP disconnects me every two hours so I keep having to resume all the time. Can this be downloaded from anywhere else in an RPM format as I could then use the GETRIGHT download manager from my stupid ME partition to complete the download (sorry Guys, haven't found anything else as good as GETRIGHT for Linux yet!) Thanks ProXy_ReD * The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) are confidential and may be legally privileged. The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material permanently from any computer. * 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] DVDRom problem
Thanks for help so far. I have tried several things. The dmesg reported: hdc: Toshiba DVD-ROM SDC2502, ATAPI CD-DVD ROM drive I did a ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/hdc as root and got /dev/hdc already exists Doing ls -l /dev/cdrom I get lr-xr-xr-x 1 rootroot 16 Feb 14 10:09 dev/cdrom -- ../cdroms/cdrom0 Something keeps reseting /dev/cdrom back group=root after I set permissions to myself as group Here is /etc/fstab: /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 /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 fs=auto,dev=/dev/hdc,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid,exec,ro,noauto,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid,exec,noauto,nodev,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 What am I not doing? Thanks for ongoing help. Andy On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 07:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Andy Gay wrote: My DVD Rom which I use for the CD Rom functions works fine on installation and package management, but not for audio or data file access either as root or myself. I get something like Could not access /dev/cdrom or no audio cd detected. Make sure you have correct file permissions. error message when using KDE cd audio player, or any other. I have added myself as group with rw rights to /dev/cdrom and various other symbolic links of Mandrake 8.1. But I guess ownership is not the problem since root usage doesn't work either. Appreciate any help. Andy Andy, not sure about the data problem, but as far as audio goes, sometimes you have to make a symbolic link. Try this: ln -s /dev/cdrom whatever your actual device is For example, in my case my DVD drive is /dev/scd0 so mine was: ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0 Do a dmesg |less or dmesg dmesg.txt (and read the resulting text file) to see just what you DVD is listed as... Hope this helps! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc
Brendan wrote: # ./man2txt umlug.1x.txt | less Brendan, Thanks for this! Where did you find man2txt. It seems to not be installed on Mandrake 8.1 with the selection I made, and although I found a man page for it on the internet, I haven't, so far, found a place to download it. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo Problems
can you give allot more info? like how many disks? scsi? ide? mixed? how is the partitions? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:33, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote: I installed windows 2000, after that linux 8.1, but I am with problems to initiate with lilo. The following error occurs, that I am not obtaining to decide, if somebody will be able to help. LI The First estage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:35:35 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your assistance! I've got a couple of questions for you... In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, I've got the following in Section Module: # This loads the NVIDIA GLX extension module. # IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP NAME AS FULL PATH TO libglx.so ELSE # IT WILL LOAD XFree86 glx module and the server will crash. Load/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so Should I replace that with the Load glx that you suggested, or should I think you should replace it. cheers, alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Retry timeout exceeded?
I have found that you must send emails to this list from the email account registered. Any other sending address is just bounced right back. Hope this help! On Wednesday 13 February 2002 14:48, you wrote: I haven't received messages from newbie since Sunday. I've received four failed mail deliveries ( returning message to sender, indicating it's a permanent error) with the message above. I can receive/send messages to other lists. What should I do to correct this? All other lists work. What should I do to correct this? Tia, Andre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mount as a regular user
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:28:34 + rsch77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hello all ! My problem is I don't manage to mount my cdrom and floppy as a regular user, neither through the command line, nor through the KDE desktop icons. I've changed the permissions of /bin/mount, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy in order to give me execution/write permissions. Also I've checked fstab and it has the option user. The message error I get is you must be superuser to mount. Does it have anything to do with the groups I belong to/the security level ? I checked these items as well and I only belong to my own group and my security level is medium. If someone knows what is wrong, please help me. Thanks in advance, Rodrigo check the inside of the fstab file, make sure that for the cdrom and floppy entries have the word 'user' in the options. if they are missing, (as root) add them and run mount -a to have the changes reflected immediately. 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] DVDRom problem
FINALLY WORKS with kssd As advised on list, I edited the ~/.kde/share/config/kscdrc for CDevise=/dev/hdc That did it! Thanks to everybody! Now if I can get XMMS to work. I really like that one. Andy On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 06:17, Andy Gay wrote: My DVD Rom which I use for the CD Rom functions works fine on installation and package management, but not for audio or data file access either as root or myself. I get something like Could not access /dev/cdrom or no audio cd detected. Make sure you have correct file permissions. error message when using KDE cd audio player, or any other. I have added myself as group with rw rights to /dev/cdrom and various other symbolic links of Mandrake 8.1. But I guess ownership is not the problem since root usage doesn't work either. Appreciate any help. Andy =_1013429826-23306-790 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] Retry timeout exceeded?
Thanks Mark, That's probably what did it. Just after the 7th my IP changed providers, and with it, of course DNS addresses. I've had to change a few things at this end. Then I noticed the mail slowed down, and stopped entirely from N@L-M. Good to know, in hindsight. Nice to be back though! Regards, Andre On Wednesday 13 February 2002 16:00, you wrote: I have found that you must send emails to this list from the email account registered. Any other sending address is just bounced right back. Hope this help! On Wednesday 13 February 2002 14:48, you wrote: I haven't received messages from newbie since Sunday. I've received four failed mail deliveries ( returning message to sender, indicating it's a permanent error) with the message above. I can receive/send messages to other lists. What should I do to correct this? All other lists work. What should I do to correct this? Tia, Andre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1
Hi, I've got the same modem as you but the routing is set up correctly. I used drakconf to configure my setup. I see in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts that ifup sets the default route and ifup-ppp deletes any existing route prior to that. It's quite complicated. I'm also planning of setting up a fw using fwbuilder as a front-end. Do you think it is possible to define the external interface in our case since the address we have is not fixed and the interface, ppp0, dissappears from time to time. I haven't looked into it I must admit but if you have any experience... Guy. Claudio Mio wrote: The /etc/resolv.conf is as follows: nameserver 213.120.62.100 nameserver 213.120.62.101 search localdomain Ive now got something working by adding the following into my rc.local: route del default route add default ppp0 This is a bit quirky though and it smells like Im not doing something right! - Original Message - From: Claudio Mio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1 Ill need to check when I get home. But from memory I think it contains both the primary and secondary DNS servers. What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file before and after you get it working? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 20:48, Claudio Mio wrote: First of all can I say its really good that 8,1 has added support for the Alcatel SpeedTouch modem. This has simplified things alot for me! Now onto my problem Ive installed a very small setup of Mandrake 8.1 with firewall support only. The intention is to run it as a firewall/Name Server/Proxy Server/Web Server on my small network at home. The ADSL modem I have setup is the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB. This seems to work however my routing tables dont seem to be setup correctly. When my machine starts it auto connects (everthing looks fine in /var/log/messages). However I cant ping my ISPs DNS server. When I run route to see the routes setup it hangs until I ctrl-break. If I then add a route to my DNS server I then get all these additional entries in my routing table. If I then add a default route via the device ppp0 everything seems to work from my linux box. Ideally I would like this to happen automatically on startup of the box. Any ideas? Thanks Claudio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ripping cds on laptop
Yes, I can listen to cd's fine on my laptop, but when I try to rip the cd, grip just stands there. - Paul Rodriguez On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:52, Randy Kramer wrote: Nicolas VERITE wrote: Paul Rodríguez wrote: For some reason I cannot rip audio cd's on my dell laptop, never have been able to. Doesn't happen on the desktop. Anybody know why this would be? - Paul Rodriguez Isn't there a problem of mounting ? I've read that : - in order to play audio CDs, don't mount the CD (and cable it inside the box) - in order to get data out of a CD, mount it Anyone to confirm ? These are true statements. There may be a way to get around the need for the audio cable from the CD drive to the sound card. However: * I'm not sure how that relates to ripping -- can you (Paul) play audio CDs on the laptop (under Linux)? * If the problem is a missing cable, may be difficult to deal with on a laptop. Randy Kramer =_1013705565-13086-676 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] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
Hello! Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user capability, telnet (how many simultaneous sessions), file system comparison (journalling), crash recovery, users and group administration, etc. Rather than a philosophical comparison with praise or blame I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and May I remind you that the first philosophical comparison with praise / blame etc... came from you? Are expressions like I don't think, I don't trust objective / technical / factual for you? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even open source with their next OS is anything but opportunism born out of dire need. As for their OS - look at Linus T's comments about it in his book. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and ontrast type. Many thanks in advance, Andrei Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ripping cds on laptop
Paul Rodríguez wrote: Yes, I can listen to cd's fine on my laptop, but when I try to rip the cd, grip just stands there. Paul, Sorry, I don't have any ideas -- maybe somebody else? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] (OT) AT or ATX
I know this isn't the place to ask this question, but I just have a quick question: I have an old (1997) pc case that I want to use for a new pc. How do I tell whether the case is AT or ATX? The mobo currently in it is a J-656VXD (Intel VX chipset) with a Socket 7 200MHz CPU and 200W power supply. I have the mobo manual but it doesn't mention anything about AT-anything. I've been given a good price on an Asus A7VL133VM mobo with an AMD Duron 1000MHz CPU but it requires an ATX case. When I asked the supplier about using my old case he said he would have to see it. Unfortunately he is in Auckland and I'm in the Bay of Islands (3.5-4 hour drive). The pc is for surveillance and will be hidden in a cupboard which is why I want to use my old case (its only 330mm high). The smallest (in height) that the supplier has is 460mm. Is there an easy way of telling what the form factor the case is? Any help is greatly appreciated. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:30:17 -0600 Mike Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a chatroom, or something. no disrespect meant, but the thread (while long and numerous) was very informational. No,this is not a Mandrake forum , it is a newbie-list (pun intended. ;-). The original question was _i think_ valid since it was looking for sources on comparison between Mac OSX and Linux. For somebody who have never touched a Mac, this exchange brought me a lot of info and insights. i also understand that this may be take a little time to some subscribers which some have none to spare. I also find myself on that boat quite frequently, so may I introduce my two trusty mail companions: filters and delete. ;-) sorry if some of my comments may seem smart-alecky but they were done in good humor. have a good day! -- 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
[newbie] [OT] saw this one in Sridhar's sig
snip -- Sridhar Dhanapalan After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 hey, is this for real? if it is then i think it's funny because the way i understood it is that the only one limited by the password is the Admin... i dont know if i really understood it correctly but is it like to a man holding the only key to his frontdoor while others are entering the house from the backdoor which is wide open? *grin* 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] Installing a Downloaded File
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:56:45 +0800 Tonton [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Anyone, how can I install a downloaded file? Here are the filenames I download: gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar HID_fsbench.rar j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin kmemmon-0.2.tgz All of this files, when I view this in Linux, all their extension names are all ended with asterisk (*) eg. gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar*. hello 'tsong, most of the files are 'compressed' files. gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar --- tar file. unpack using tar xf [filename] HID_fsbench.rar --- rar file. i dont have a decompressor for rar files in linux but there is a rar package in the installation CDs. use that and read the man page. j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin --- binary file. execute by typing ./j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin kmemmon-0.2.tgz --- gzipped tar file. unpack using tar zxf [filename] packed files (tar) are like zipped filed but without comperssion. basically its a group of file joined together. the common contents of tar files are the source codes. you may find a configure script, a makefile, and some readme files inside thought not all or maybe nothing at all may be present depending upon the package. be sure to read the the readme files first. then run the configure script (prepend ./ to the filename) to create the makefile. then the last steps will be to compile the source codes using make and, if the make install option is present, install using make install. in the absence of a make install, you may have to place it in your system manually. the asterisks when you do a ls command means that they are executables. you can invoke them using ./[filename]. [for tonton only] kung me di ka pa maintindihan, pwede mo akong i-email offlist at tingnan natin kung magagawan natin ng solusyon. or hintayin mo na lang yung mga ibang sagot dito, depending on the speed of the list. [/end] welcome aboard. 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
