Re: [newbie-it] ICQ
icq e' un messenger molto carino che sotto windows puo' portare a qualche problema di sicurezza, per linux esiste licq e un altra versione di cui non ricordo il nome io personalmente non lo uso sotto linux, solo sotto win per via del fatto che principalmente lo usa mia moglie e con linux non ha proprio dimestichezza. il funzionamento e' molto semplice tramite una serie di motori di ricerca puoi trovare degli utenti che hanno interessi simili ai tuoi e mandare richiesta di essere aggiunto e/o aggiungere l'utente alla tua conctat list. comunque le pagine che ti possono speigare meglio tutto l'ambaradan sono: http://www.licq.org/ http://web.icq.com/ buon divertimento Pollo wrote: Ho sentito parlare di ICQ. Qualcuno potrebbe spiegarmi in poche parole come funziona e se è utilizzabile con linux... Grazie. -- Mario Vittorio Guenzi Zincometal S.p.A. c.so Europa Str.prov 34 20010-Inveruno (MI) tel: 02-979661 fax: 02-97966351 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zincometal.com Si vis pacem, para bellum
Re: [newbie-it] lan da konquero
Germano wrote: Il 10:42, venerdì 01 marzo 2002, hai scritto: che se riesco a usare 34GB da una macchina senza disco o da una con una partizione linux da 1.3GB significa che lo spazio nfs non viene addebitato alla mia macchina. 1) Come fai ad avere una macchina senza disco? mai sentito parlare di Xterminal o visto il mini-howto Diskless ? 2) Non ho detto che ti addebita l'altro disco ma soltanto la directory che hai in uso (non penso che la directory che usi sia di 34 Gb). E` la directory che contiene le home di mezzo istituto, in modo che chiunque, da qualunque macchina acceda, abbia immediatamente a disposizione la sua home. Quindi tutte le macchine dell'istituto la montano automaticamente. Questo semplifica anche le procedure di backup. 3) L'esperienza personale è che per sentire dei file MP3 sharati da altre macchine, poichè kmp3 non è come winamp (almeno per quanto ne sappia io) che ti permette di leggere tranquillamente files su altre macchine (Wind...), quindi ho dovuto montare la directory con smbmnt ( che comunque chiama mnt) ed essendo la directory montata di 2Gb è facile vedere se ci siano variazione nel mio disco. ... Di quanto ti varia lo spazio libero? Riesci (es du -ms /*) a capire da dove viene tolto? Non viene tolto, viene utilizzato quello libero. Ossia, dai df -h e questo ti dice che hai tot MB liberi sulla partizione Linux (diciamo sia l'unica), poi monti con smbmnt una partizione win e df -f ti dice che lo spazio libero su Linux si e` ridotto? mi senbra strano che avvenga in modo significativo. al massimo potrebbe averti aggiunto qualche file di servizio (tipo tabella indirizzamenti) o qualche file temporaneo con delle copie degli mp3 mentre li suoni. Per questo ti dicevo di lanciare du -ms /* per vedere dove avvenivano le variazioni. Probabilmente in /var, /tmp o /usr/tmp. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] MANDRAKE e SAMBA
MANDRAKE Dopo lunga e penosa malattia, sono riuscito ad installare MANDRAKE 8.0 (e solo quella) su un vecchio Pentium I. Ho riscontrato questo problema: scegliendo una istallazione text o expert o tutte e due il sistema di BootStrap da Floppy, non riconosceva il lettore CD. Aspettando invece la partenza automatica, tutto è filato liscio. QUALCUNO HA UNA SPIEGAZIONE ? SAMBA Sto cercando di installare SAMBA per far colloquiare una macchian WIN2000 con il suddetto server LINUX. Sono riuscito a far vedere la macchina Linux nele Risirse di rete, ma non riesco ad accedere alle risorse di quest'ultima. Qualcuno sa come si condividono risorse e quali problemi di sicurezza ci sono (se tento di accedere mi viene richiesto UID e PWD ma anche fornendone uno valido la connessione viene rifiutata) ? Sarei grato se qualcuno avesse risposte o mi consigliasse documentazione in merito. Grazie.
Re: [newbie-it] Documento Troff
e/tacc wrote: Mi sono imbattuto in un documento Troff con manpage macro Di cosa si tratta ? Con cosa posso leggerlo ? Ciao E` un modo di formattare i testi, ad esempio (unico ?) le pagine man In un certo senso e` simile al TeX o all'html Scrivi un testo normale e vi inserisci delle stringhe di controllo, ad es ul all'inizio di una riga significa che il resto della riga va sottolineato Per visualizzarlo si usa groff -m(libreria macro) file|less La macro delle man si chiama an, quindi devi dare groff -man filetroff |less c'e` un'opzione -t che serve a convertire in altri formati (ad es ps per la stampa) sugli unix commerciali, al posto di groff c'e` nroff e troff ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] shutdown improvviso
salve ragazzi...mi trovo una bella gatta da pelare... tempo fa avevo avuto problemi con il mouse...ad un certo punto aveva iniziato a bloccarsi, muoversi superlentamente...etc etc...visto che la cosa era un problema sia sotto linux mandrake, sia sotto suse, sia sotto uindos...ho dedotto fosse un problema hardware...e ho cambiato mouse tutto perfetto! ha ripreso a funzionare tutto alla perfezione...fino a una settimana fa... adesso se avvio linux mdk a volte si spegne improvvisamente che aurora non ha neanche finito, altre volte riesce ad avviarsi tutto regolarmente, ma dopo 5 minuti, qualunque programma io usi, o anche se non lancio nessun programma, mi si spegne improvvisamente lasciandomi di sale! per di più, a volte, questo non succede...volevo chiedervi...secondo voi dove posso trovare informazioni su quello che succede al pc? in qualche file è registrato l'errore che porta il pc a spegnersi da solo? ...io la butto li...ho l'impressione che si sia bruciata la ps/2 grazie dell'eventuale aiuto osva
Re: [newbie-it] shutdown improvviso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salve ragazzi...mi trovo una bella gatta da pelare... tempo fa avevo avuto problemi con il mouse.. adesso se avvio linux mdk a volte si spegne improvvisamente che aurora non ha neanche finito, preni l'abitudine di entrare senza aurora ( linux-nofb) oppure, subito dopo entra in modalita` rescue da CD di installazione o da floppy di boot, monta la partizione con / (se non e` gia` montata) e vai a vedere come termina il file /var/log/dmesg altre volte riesce ad avviarsi tutto regolarmente, ma dopo 5 minuti, qualunque programma io usi, o anche se non lancio nessun programma, mi si spegne improvvisamente lasciandomi di sale! ...in qualche file è registrato l'errore che porta il pc a spegnersi da solo? in questo caso in /var/log/messages o /var/log/X11.. ...io la butto li...ho l'impressione che si sia bruciata la ps/2 In quel caso, ti consiglio di cercare una nuova porta PS2 o USB da attaccare direttamente sulla scheda madre, non quelle da inserire su uno slot pci o isa. Sono riconosciute immediatamente e costano moolto meno. Il mese scorso, mi hanno chiesto 40 eur per una coppia di usb-pci e 6 eur per una copia da inserire sulla scheda madre :-0 ovviamente, devi andare in un buon negozio di componenti elettroniche e portarti dietro il libretto di istruzioni della SM, perche' i connettori non sono standard. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] ZIP
Salve a tutti Qunado vado ad aprire i file zip mi dice Spiacente , l'utilità zip non si trova nel tuo PATH Per favore installala o contatta ma la finestra di utiliy si apre regolarmenete Che significa?l'utente non ha il permesso di usare l'utility? che devo fare? Grazie delle eventuali risposte Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] ZIP
Il giorno 14:59, martedì 5 marzo 2002 hai scritto: Salve a tutti Qunado vado ad aprire i file zip mi dice Spiacente , l'utilità zip non si trova nel tuo PATH Per favore installala o contatta ma la finestra di utiliy si apre regolarmenete Che significa?l'utente non ha il permesso di usare l'utility? che devo fare? Grazie delle eventuali risposte Ciao , Tom Ciao Tom, carica il Software Manager e cerca zip specificando la voce cerca nei file Troverai un pacchetto chiamato zip-23-7mdk (su Mandrake Linux 81): installalo Tutto qui Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] ZIP
tom wrote: Salve a tutti Qunado vado ad aprire i file zip mi dice Spiacente , l'utilità zip non si trova nel tuo PATH Per favore installala o contatta ma la finestra di utiliy si apre regolarmenete Che significa?l'utente non ha il permesso di usare l'utility? che devo fare? Avevo lo stesso problema che poi ho risolto installando il programma Cerca in software manager la voce zip ciao -- syd
Re: [newbie-it] ZIP
Alle 16:23, martedì 5 marzo 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: installalo Tutto qui Daniele Grazieora che è installato funziona che un piacere :) Ciao , Tom
[newbie-it] lilo
salve a tutti sul mio pc avevo sia win 2000 che mandrake 8.0 ho cancellato tutto per reistallare i due sistemi operativi ma alla partenza continua a partirmi lilo, come fare per eliminarlo? se gli dico di partire da floppy mi da errore 0x80 sia con disco linux che win autopartenti. se dico al bios di partire con il cd quello di linux parte quello win98 no. perche e lilo che non mi fa partire win 98 che prima partiva? cia caspar
[newbie-it] Aggiornamento del kernel : quanto serve ?
Ciao, faccio girare felicemente ( cioe' senza blocchi di sistema, ne' riavvii, riuscendo a fare praticamente tutto quello che mi serve, con tutte le periferiche che funzionano e questo grazie soprattutto a questa mailing list - grazie ! ) ) Mandrake 81 con kernel 248-26 Visto che sono stati rilasciati i kernel ufficiali di MDK 248-34 mi ( e VI ) chiedo : *) E' preferibile comunque et semper aggiornare all'ultima versione ufficiale stabile del kernel ? Se si' mi piacerebbe sapere il vostro parere sui pro e contro *) Oppure un kernel stabile che fa girare tutto cio' che mi serve è meglio ( visto che non possiedo dati sensibili che temano delle intrusioni ) ? *) Compilare gli srcrpm permette di ottenere un kernel un po' piu' ottimizzato ( cioe' val la pena farlo ) rispetto agli rpm ( e senza spingersi alla ricompilazione seria ) binari ? Il kernel e' un po' piu' performante ? In conclusione secondo voi se aggiorno c'e' il rischio che qualcosa che adesso funziona si impalli ? Ovvio che se bisogna fare alcune normali configurazioni non lo considero un' impallata Vi ringrazio anticipatamente Ciao == AMD Athlon 500 MHz - 650 MB Ram - 20G IBM + 40G IBM - Matrox G400 - Creative PCI 128
Re: [newbie-it] lilo
Alle 19:22, martedì 5 marzo 2002, hai scritto: salve a tutti sul mio pc avevo sia win 2000 che mandrake 8.0 ho cancellato tutto per reistallare i due sistemi operativi ma alla partenza continua a partirmi lilo, come fare per eliminarlo? Da DOS un buon vecchio fdisk /mbr e fai piazza pulita.. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] ICQ
Il mar, 2002-03-05 alle 10:05, jclark ha scritto: icq e' un messenger molto carino che sotto windows puo' portare a qualche problema di sicurezza, per linux esiste licq e un altra versione di cui non ricordo il nome io personalmente non lo uso sotto linux, solo sotto win per via del fatto che principalmente lo usa mia moglie e con linux non ha proprio dimestichezza il funzionamento e' molto semplice tramite una serie di motori di ricerca puoi trovare degli utenti che hanno interessi simili ai tuoi e mandare richiesta di essere aggiunto e/o aggiungere l'utente alla tua conctat list comunque le pagine che ti possono speigare meglio tutto l'ambaradan sono: http://wwwlicqorg/ http://webicqcom/ buon divertimento Grazie per l'aiuto! Ciao, Pollo
Re: [newbie-it] Il computer si blocca!!!
Secondo me e' un problema hardware: potresti dare qualche specifica in merito? Ciao Sarò molto sintetico: AMD Duron 700 Asus A7V Abit GeForce2 400Mx 64Mb Sound Blaster Live! 3 HD 1 Lettore Cd 1 Masterizzatore Ovviamente tutto ide
Re: [newbie-it] ICQ
Il mar, 2002-03-05 alle 20:22, Pollo ha scritto: io personalmente non lo uso sotto linux, solo sotto win per via del fatto che principalmente lo usa mia moglie e con linux non ha proprio dimestichezza. Per gnome esiste anche Gnomeicu e per KDE Kxicq, che era il mio lient preferito due anni fa; lo tenni anche quando passai a Gnome, poi però lo sviluppo di Kxicq2 procedette a rilento e passai a Licq; è il più completo (si disse che il clone aveva superato l'originale, tempo fa :-) ma è più semplice da usare dell'ICQ originale per Windows, non foss'altro perchè non ha 400 fra menù e sottomenù... :-/ Esistono poi molti client che permettono di connettersi tramite diversi protocolli: Gaim, Everybuddy, Gabber sono utili per connettersi con un solo programma alle reti di Yahoo, AIM, MSN e altre, seppure con meno funzionalità in totale (credo di questi tre solo Gabber permetta di scambiare files con gli altri utenti). Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] programma di diagnostica
On 4 Mar 2002 at 22:43, miKe wrote: From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie-it] programma di diagnostica Date sent: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:43:27 +0100 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Il 22:38, lunedì 4 marzo 2002, Claudio Duchi ha scritto: oltre alle schemate di bbot del kernel e kudzu non esiste un programma di diagnostica per Linux tipo Sandra pcdoctor di Win? cosa vuoi che faccia il programma? che ti indichi le risorse (in questo caso hai /proc da spulciare ) o che ti informi di conflitti o malfunzionamenti ? (/var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages, dmesg) il cipset installato il tipo di cpu gli irq etc
Re: [newbie-it] ICQ
Sisi.. anche su win.. e da lì non è mai un problema (o quasi) (ma molto meno spesso) Corrado wrote: Il mar, 2002-03-05 alle 22:11, Vittorio ha scritto: Licq però non mi funziona proprio alla grande... alle volte non riesco a comunicare con qcn online pur vedendolo.. i miei messaggi magari gli arrivano ma non arrivano i suoi a me o viceversa.. Quali sono altri programmi con lo stesso protocollo magari migliori di LICQ?? Devo dire che problemi del genere capitano più per problemi propri alla rete che non al programma; usi ICQ anche su Windows? Comunque la versione più recente (stabile) di Licq è la 1.0.4. Corrado
[newbie-it] Navigazione non in linea
Saluti a tutti. Volendo navigare non in linea ho selezionato, nel centro di controllo di kde- proxy e cache, la relativa casellina. L'opzione funziona a dovere però quando assegno un'indirizzo nuovo da visitare in linea mi comunica che non esiste. In definitiva se tengo la cache aggiornata posso navigare in linea ma non fuori, viceversa se seleziono navig. non in linea accedo ai siti visitati ma non a quelli in linea e compare il messaggio host sconosciuto. Sicuramente c'è qualche opzione che mi sfugge, potete indirizzarmi? Avrei bisogno anche della stringa per accedere ai msg. della lista. Grazie dell'aiuto Roby mdk 8.1
Re: [newbie-it] ICQ
Il mer, 2002-03-06 alle 00:21, Vittorio ha scritto: Sisi.. anche su win.. e da lì non è mai un problema (o quasi) (ma molto meno spesso) Bè, a questo punto vorrei sapere se qualcuno ha evidenziato problemi simili; comunque che versione hai installato? Corrado
[newbie-it] per Andrea
Ti avevo risposto per quei file audio da testare sotto KDE, ma il messaggio mi e' tornato indietro come se avvesse un indirizzo sbagliato. Dove mando la risposta? -- Arwanmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.
Re: [newbie] odd screensavers [was Fw: Screen Savers]
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:26, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Along these lines, has anybody gotten those cool odd network aware screensavers to work, such as electric sheep or the one that plaays with files off the net? - Paul Rodriguez Do you mean WebCollage? If so yes. I have it working with xscreensaver under XFce. It needs the RPM libjpeg-progs. It looks really cool with random images from the web appearing every few seconds. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] Thank you Paul.
I didn't search the archives *Sheepish grin*. Mostly because I wasn't sure how to search for a Question like that. *Blushes* Learned my lesson I will check there first ;) Femme Paul Rodríguez wrote: One from the vault: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:28:21 -0700: i386 = intel 80386 and compatible. i486 = intel 80486 and compatible. i586 = anything built on intel Pentium technology, including Pentium MMX. i686 = anything built on intel Pentium Pro technology, including Pentium II/III and Celeron. The i686 should work fine. - Paul Rodriguez On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 23:42, FemmeFatale wrote: Is there a LM 8 ver that is optimized for P3 machines? Or is it the ones with the 586 in their RPM names? Thx Femme =_1015303173-31536-371 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] Mouse pointer
I just tried the Ctrl-Alt-Esc key combination that i read about from a thread on the list It is a new one on me Is the skull and cross bones mouse pointer normal when in this mode? Where do i read up on all these little tricks? I seem to just get them drip fed by following the list Michael -- Am I in GRADUATE SCHOOL yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Portmap ?
2/25/02 4:17:19 AM, jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Oestreicher writes: I have a bit of a problem with a new mandrake 8.1 installation that I have beem fighting for weeks with no success. Wen shutting down or rebooting my machine locks on shutting down portmap services. If I shut off portmap services it locks on shutting down internet services even though a dialup connection has not been made. This is on a P3 450 mhz machine with 64 MB of memory. Does anyone have any idea what is causing this lockup on shutdown? Thanks in advance Marc This sounds like the USB problem i've been having. Does turnig off the USB service eliminate the problem? jeff Thanks turning off USB service did solve the problem , but what effect will this have on my USB devices? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] odd screensavers [was Fw: Screen Savers]
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 10:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:26, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Along these lines, has anybody gotten those cool odd network aware screensavers to work, such as electric sheep or the one that plaays with files off the net? - Paul Rodriguez Do you mean WebCollage? If so yes. I have it working with xscreensaver under XFce. It needs the RPM libjpeg-progs. It looks really cool with random images from the web appearing every few seconds. Given the content of a lot of images on the web, I'd better not install it in my office, then! Robin -- Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth. 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://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] mid button of 3-button mouse.
Thanks, Dennis, I set the mouse to Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse instead It doesnt work at all at first The system gives warning sounds when I move the mouse around The cursor keeps moving at the edges of the screen Then I logout by Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace and relogin, then it works fine Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.0
What do you mean by the 486 optimized version? Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erylon Hines Sent: 01 March 2002 21:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.0 I've run the 7.0 486 optimized version on a P90 (packard hell) and it worked just fine. The only item built in was a 1M CL video card. So, the answer is probably, depending on what hardware you have plugged into your Olivetti. If your hardware is pretty standard stuff I'd say give it a try, if you have non-ide drives you might want to use another distro for easier setup. If you have the 486 optimized version I think you should use that one instead of the Pentium version--in my experience it works better with the sloow Pentiums. It'll be a learning experience because you're going to have to do a lot of work setting up your hardware. BTW, I have a working P75 with the 486-7.0 sitting in my garage, so it works on even slower machines. e. On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:24:01 - Tom Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Mandrake 7.0 would work on an Ollivetti Echo P90s? Please reply, Tom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] odd screensavers [was Fw: Screen Savers]
Thank you! I most wanted to try out WebCollage. What a cool program, no idea I needed libjpeg-progs (not the error i was getting) but looks great now. Thanks! What an interesting sociologiical tool. :) Running WebCollage with vidwacker says that I need to set an image directory in .xscreensaver, but right now it is set up for -standin, -standout, with the obvious place for setting a directory. Off the top of your head, you wouldn't know where I would do that do you? Any experience with electricsheep? - Paul Rodriguez On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 03:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:26, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Along these lines, has anybody gotten those cool odd network aware screensavers to work, such as electric sheep or the one that plaays with files off the net? - Paul Rodriguez Do you mean WebCollage? If so yes. I have it working with xscreensaver under XFce. It needs the RPM libjpeg-progs. It looks really cool with random images from the web appearing every few seconds. derek =_1015317830-31536-391 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://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] odd screensavers [was Fw: Screen Savers]
One mroe question: How come webcollage doesn't show up in the gnome configuration tool, and only in xscreensaver-demo? - Paul Rodriguez On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 03:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:26, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Along these lines, has anybody gotten those cool odd network aware screensavers to work, such as electric sheep or the one that plaays with files off the net? - Paul Rodriguez Do you mean WebCollage? If so yes. I have it working with xscreensaver under XFce. It needs the RPM libjpeg-progs. It looks really cool with random images from the web appearing every few seconds. derek =_1015317830-31536-391 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://wwwmandrakestorecom
RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.0
The different versions of Mandrake (and most RPM programs) are compiled for certain processors This means that the human-readable source code in which the program is written is translated into computer-readable bits and bytes in the language specific to each type of computer chip Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote a great explanation of this back in August that I still refer to (found here: http://wwwmail-archivecom/newbie%40linux-mandrakecom/msg75668html ) He wrote: i386 = intel 80386 and compatible i486 = intel 80486 and compatible i586 = anything built on intel Pentium technology, including Pentium MMX i686 = anything built on intel Pentium Pro technology, including Pentium II/III and Celeron The Pentium 4 is an entirely new chip, and for the moment has no specific compilers Since x86 chips are backwards-compatible, you can use i686 packages AMD Athlons and Durons have their own architecture (and even their own compilation options in gcc), but are also compatible with i686 The AMD K6 series is Pentium-class, and so is 1586 compatible Does this mean that my current distro doesn't use the full capacity of my cpu? Would the system run faster/better with the i686 edition? Usually the speed boost isn't large enough to make a real difference That doesn't stop me from compiling all my packages for i686, though :-) == To which i would add, that if you run across an rpm which says PPC, it is compiled for PowerPC processors (Macintosh), and if it says src, it is actually not compiled, but contains the instructions to compile it yourself, so would work on any type of chip Let me know if this makes any sense - Paul Rodriguez On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 11:28, Tom Harris wrote: What do you mean by the 486 optimized version? Tom _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoocom address at http://mailyahoocom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] Network card configuration
I would like to connect my Win box to my current Linux box as the win box has all my documentation on it I have a NIC (Realtek 8139) in in each machine and a cross-over cable connecting them The win machine is running Win95 and the Linux one is on Mandrake 8 I get an error when starting Linux that eth0 cannot be found Is the eth0 module easily found on the 2 CD set and how do I find it? Can it just be copied across to 'replace' the non existent one? How can I go about configuring the card to talk to the Win box and use its separate internal modem to connect to the web? -- === Hylton Conacher on KDE 211 on kernel 243-20mdk#1 Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 mobo Licenced Windows user More hardware info on request === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.0
What is meant by optimized though? Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Rodríguez Sent: 05 March 2002 16:50 To: newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.0 The different versions of Mandrake (and most RPM programs) are compiled for certain processors. This means that the human-readable source code in which the program is written is translated into computer-readable bits and bytes in the language specific to each type of computer chip. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote a great explanation of this back in August that I still refer to. (found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/msg75668.html ) He wrote: i386 = intel 80386 and compatible. i486 = intel 80486 and compatible. i586 = anything built on intel Pentium technology, including Pentium MMX. i686 = anything built on intel Pentium Pro technology, including Pentium II/III and Celeron. The Pentium 4 is an entirely new chip, and for the moment has no specific compilers. Since x86 chips are backwards-compatible, you can use i686 packages. AMD Athlons and Durons have their own architecture (and even their own compilation options in gcc), but are also compatible with i686. The AMD K6 series is Pentium-class, and so is 1586 compatible. Does this mean that my current distro doesn't use the full capacity of my cpu? Would the system run faster/better with the i686 edition? Usually the speed boost isn't large enough to make a real difference. That doesn't stop me from compiling all my packages for i686, though :-) == To which i would add, that if you run across an rpm which says PPC, it is compiled for PowerPC processors (Macintosh), and if it says src, it is actually not compiled, but contains the instructions to compile it yourself, so would work on any type of chip. Let me know if this makes any sense. - Paul Rodriguez On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 11:28, Tom Harris wrote: What do you mean by the 486 optimized version? Tom. _ 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] odd screensavers [was Fw: Screen Savers]
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 11:40, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Running WebCollage with vidwacker says that I need to set an image directory in .xscreensaver, but right now it is set up for -standin, -standout, with the obvious place for setting a directory. Off the top of your head, you wouldn't know where I would do that do you? Sorry, meant no obvious place for inserting a directory. - Paul _ 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://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] 'ls' doesn't sort the way it used to?
On Monday 04 March 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: Why not try an alias in your bashrc file, so that ls does it YOUR way? That's a fair question I suppose. First, this is a multiuser operating system and I want to fix the problem where it exists, so that it fixes it for all new accounts that I create. Secondly, I did. But the default values aliased to 'ls' do not just go away. Rather any customization I make just gets _added_ in with the other values initialized from the /etc/profile (or where ever) directory upon login. I realize I could just moving the /etc/profile directory off my partition, and maybe look at building my own, but I am really only interested in one particular problematic feature. One in which I have spent a fair amount of time already trying to discover how it is set up, and have not been able to solve. So, if there is anyone who can tell me what part of the bash scripts in /etc/profile or elsewhere are causing this funky behavior, I would very much appreciate it. At 04:42 PM 3/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hello everyone: A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, 'ls' used to display directories and files in case sensitive order, prioritized by Directories, then directory names that start with capitals first. Now directories and files are sorted w/out respect to directory or file, and the first letter in the names are alphabetized w/out sensitivity to case. I guess not too many people liked this, but call me a geek, I found it kind of useful for organzing things. Can anyone help? Thanks so much, Steven 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
[newbie] dragon plus
Maybe this is OK http://wwwlinuxnewbieorg/nhf/intel/distros/mandrake/mdk_nvidiahtml -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] I have a proble with the mouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!!! I'm new in this S.O. I can say I use it in my work. Sometimes, when I'm doing my normal things, the mouse get a problem, i don't know what is it, it looks to be in other situation, i mean, when i try to click in one place, it does but 2cm left from i did. i can't know when it happens. if someone knows what is what i mean, and know the answer plear, i appresiate your help. If i have to be clearer please tell me, i don't know to speak english very well, i can speak spanish Soy nuevo en usar el S.O. trabajo con él, pero tengo un pequeño problema, cuanto intento hacer clic en alguna parte, lo hace pero corrido como 2 cm a la izquierda, no se que pueda ser, he intentado hasta cambiar el controlador del mouse por otro pero no funciona, esto no ocurre siempre y no he dado para identificar cuando ocurre. Agradezco su ayuda. Well, this problem comes up frequently, almost a FAQ. As I happen to have a copy of one of my answers, I'll just quote it below : Good news ! - I remember some people here on the list (or was it the expert-one ?) having big-time trouble with their Trident chipsets. It almost drove me nuts as well ! - The problem manifested itself only occasionally : the mouse-pointer got an offset, and couldn't be moved to the left rim of the screen, but stopped dead about 30 pixels from it. Furthermore, when clicking something, I had to point the cursor about those 30 pixels to the RIGHT of focus. Only cure was to reboot - and that's not something we linuxers like ;-) Well, I looked around on the net and found the answer to all my troubles on the S.u.S.E. - mailing list : http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/wessels_trident_mouse.html The solution is surprisingly simple : pass the option sw_cursor to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 In my case, only thing I had to do was to uncomment the line Option sw_cursor by removing the #-mark. This being a newbie-list, I'll show how I did it my way : 1. Open a console-window 2. type : su 3. enter your root-password 4. open Midnight Commander by issuing the command : mc 5. highlight the file /etc/X11/XF86Config and press F4 to edit it 6. search for the entry below ( or something very similar ) : # ** # Graphics device section # ** Section Device Identifier Generic VGA Chipset generic EndSection Section Device Identifier Trident CyberBlade (generic) VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown # Chipset CyberBlade # VideoRam4096 # Clock lines # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block # instead of the cursor! Option sw_cursor Option power_saver EndSection # ** # Screen sections # ** 7. either remove the #-mark in front of Option sw_cursor or simply add the line 8. save the file by pressing F2 9. exit Midnight Commander by pressing F10 10. back in the console-window, type exit twice , and you are done 11. restart the X-server or reboot. That's all, folks. And credit for this advice to the S.u.S.E. - people ! Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Sharing App
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 18:42, RichardA wrote: gtk-gnutella works. There used to be a Morpheus client for Linux, but the file was pulled for legal reasons - anyone know of another place to get it? And would the recent business about about blocking the Windows client affect it? I think you mean GiFT The file wasn't pulled, Kazaa who provide the technology Morpheus use deliberately blocked GiFT so it stopped working. The GiFT team are busy developing an 'OpenSource' alternative to Kazaa/FastTrack. Check out SourceForge for details. Morpheus have recently fallen out with Kazaa and have just started to use Gnutella as their file sharing system. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24281.html Another Gnutella client lots of people use is LimeWire www.limewire.com This one is Java based. Read the install instuctions carefully, lots of people have trouble getting it installed. Also check out this lists archives. Another alternative is AudioGalaxy www.audiogalaxy.com They have a Command Line Linux client called AGSatellite, and there is a GUI front end called XSatellite available on SourceForge. HTH derek Richard David, Monday 04 March 2002 22:48: Can anyone recomend a good filesharing app for my Mandrake box? Something for mpegs, mp3s, and things of that sort. tia Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] OK new question... ya i'm full of em.
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 14:22, civileme opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: I know that this is not something a lot of people want to face, but a significant portion of this industry is sales hype. If you don't believe that, look at the processor speed ads of a few years ago where the system bus stayed at 66MHz and the pocessors got faster and faster. in the land of intel our clock speed is better cpus and micro look at all our innovations that for just $300 will let you do (slower) what you already can soft, we should be shocked? -- I struggle to be breif but manage to be obscure.- Horace shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Thank you Paul.
FemmeFatale wrote: I didn't search the archives *Sheepish grin*. Mostly because I wasn't sure how to search for a Question like that. *Blushes* Learned my lesson I will check there first ;) Femme Paul Rodríguez wrote: One from the vault: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:28:21 -0700: i386 = intel 80386 and compatible. i486 = intel 80486 and compatible. i586 = anything built on intel Pentium technology, including Pentium MMX. i686 = anything built on intel Pentium Pro technology, including Pentium II/III and Celeron. The i686 should work fine. - Paul Rodriguez On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 23:42, FemmeFatale wrote: Is there a LM 8 ver that is optimized for P3 machines? Or is it the ones with the 586 in their RPM names? Thx Femme Well look here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/ The real story of the switches (ixxx) is that regardless of compiler flags, they default to the architecture of the build platform unless the build space (the toplevel directory of the logged-in builder) has a file called .rpmrc which sets up a mapping. So an i686 in the build means it was built on an i686 machine, not that it was optimized for or requires that architecture (on the install side, of course it _does_ assume that the architecture specified _is_ required unless you use --ignorearch in the install switches). Here is my .rpmrc file... I still have to do another procedure to assure that the rpms are built for the i586 because I am using 3 K7s and one P-2, and two PPros, and one VIA C3, and one K6. [tester@v5 tester]$ cat .rpmrc buildarchtranslate: i386: i586 buildarchtranslate: i486: i586 buildarchtranslate: i586: i586 buildarchtranslate: i686: i586 Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] 8.1 Install
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 3:13 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I purchased Mandrake 8.1 to see what Linux was like. I have a very limited knowlage of window but I am quite adapt at pointing and clicking. I decide to install it on my lap top but did not have sufficent resources. The next move was the home computer. A 1 gig AMD KT7A/Riad (Riad disabled) with a TNT Vid Card and a Maxtor 30gig HD, 384 megs of ram. It also has a Surfboard phone up/cable dowm modem. WinME working it all.I settled in for what the book said would be an easy install. I lost C:, I zapped out DOS, I got Linux in. I lost Linux, I lost windows. I'm sure I saw a Penguin flip me off. I got windows back, to make a long story short here's where I am now. WinME running, Linux just left on it's own, my 30 gig drive reads in windows as 2 gig, when i look at in Linux install it shows blue/2 gigs for windows, the rest is a white bar. All in all I wasn't too unhappy since I don't store a thing on my drive but software, what's six hours to reinstall it. Oh did I mention that some idiot forgot he did his taxszapped...the wife really liked that one. I have come up with three conclusions to what may have happened 1. I have failed to pray to the God of LINUX correctly or not left enough fish at the penguins feet. 2. Bill Gates is evil and personally hates me. 3. I have no dang clue what I am doing any and all mistakes are my fault. I have opted for number threebut I have not ruled out the other two. I would love to try LINUX, I would also like my hard drive back. I guess what I need is a quick course in partitioning, spelled out idiot proof, and some simpler instructions on how to install this as a dual boot system. Any help would be appreciated, fish can also be arranged. ;-) Mike Thanks very much for that. Within a Windows context Partition Magic is a newbie proof solution to a dual boot system. However having never got Windows 98 to work properly I'm less and less inclined to bother with the genre. Recommending a Window based product on this mailing list may be slightly off scent but coming from Windows to Linux it gets over the first hurdle. Coming fron Linux to Windows...(why?) DiskDrake will do fine. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem OT- ET's favorite rant
That's strange. I've got half a dozen of them running in various windows and linux boxes and have never had a problem with them. On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:20:23 -0500 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just a personal opinion here, and I promise not to rant on forever... really. if you value your time as much as a fast food cook, then consider the time spent trying to make the HSP modem work correctly, and also consider that this modem (this is my personal experiance ONLY) may also be causing problems in Winder$ also, you just do not reliazer that the problem is related to the modem, since you thought the modem would not cause problems if it was only resting in the box. My feelings are that this modem (and the related software and drivers installed when you thought you were just installing drivers) causes problems that are not often sourced back to the modem and software, since the BSOD happend when the modem was not in use. I have been feed up with a win-box, sure the modem was at fault, but did not cure the problem untill I removed every instance of HSP I could find in the windows registry and deleted the software. Pulling the modem out did not help. I have experianced this in no lees than 15 different boxes ( It should be noted, I guess, that this was observed over 2 years ago, and hopefully the modem, drivers and software have improved, but since they are closed source binairys we can not know for sure (legally) if they changed at all. for the difference in my time between getting an HSP modem to work correctly in any OS and the cost of a real modem, the real modem wins everytime. On Monday 04 March 2002 14:51, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anyone here install the HSP56 drivers successfully? what mainboard? mainboard chip? pci board chip? new daughter board chip? [forget name for new io slot] tc,hago. g . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.1 Install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I purchased Mandrake 8.1 to see what Linux was like. I have a very limited knowlage of window but I am quite adapt at pointing and clicking. I decide to install it on my lap top but did not have sufficent resources. The next move was the home computer. A 1 gig AMD KT7A/Riad (Riad disabled) with a TNT Vid Card and a Maxtor 30gig HD, 384 megs of ram. It also has a Surfboard phone up/cable dowm modem. WinME working it all.I settled in for what the book said would be an easy install. I lost C:, I zapped out DOS, I got Linux in. I lost Linux, I lost windows. I'm sure I saw a Penguin flip me off. I got windows back, to make a long story short here's where I am now. WinME running, Linux just left on it's own, my 30 gig drive reads in windows as 2 gig, when i look at in Linux install it shows blue/2 gigs for windows, the rest is a white bar. All in all I wasn't too unhappy since I don't store a thing on my drive but software, what's six hours to reinstall it. Oh did I mention that some idiot forgot he did his taxszapped...the wife really liked that one. I have come up with three conclusions to what may have happened 1. I have failed to pray to the God of LINUX correctly or not left enough fish at the penguins feet. 2. Bill Gates is evil and personally hates me. 3. I have no dang clue what I am doing any and all mistakes are my fault. I have opted for number threebut I have not ruled out the other two. I would love to try LINUX, I would also like my hard drive back. I guess what I need is a quick course in partitioning, spelled out idiot proof, and some simpler instructions on how to install this as a dual boot system. Any help would be appreciated, fish can also be arranged. ;-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com OK let's see Here is what you probably want /dev/hda1 FAT32 (Windows ME drive C--called windows_c in linux install) 2 G /dev/hda2 FAT32 (Windows ME drive D -- called windows_d in linux install) 8 G Note that you CAN install windows software to D: drive as easily as C. /dev/hda3 swap 500 M /dev/hda5 ext2 mount point / 250 M /dev/hda6 XFS mount point /usr 4 G /dev/hda7 XFS mount point /var 7G /dev/hda8 XFS mount point /home 6G /dev/hda9 XFS mount point /opt 2G Leave the rest of the disk blank for future use Use an EXPERT install and when disk drake comes up, make your own partitions--you will not need to wipe out windows. Make the extra windows partition right there with diskdrake, but be sure to format it using windows ME later before you try to use it. It may be that your numbering will be different. Express the following preferences as you create partitions Windows_d Primary swap Primary All Others Extrended If the windows currently installed is extended, then all partitions will be extended type and will be numbered differently--you do not have to do the numbering when using diskdrake. The numbering can get out of order if you make a mistake and erase and recreate a partition during your creation, but that won't really affect anything, so just make your partitions. I gave you inflated /var and /home partitions because you may find those expanding. The /opt is where commercial programs are supposed to install themselves, if they adhere to linux standards. It is important to make your windows partitions first, because extended partitons are stored in a look-up chain and a linux partition occurring in the chain before a windows partition will make the winpartition invisible to windows. ( Yes, windows stupidly stops searching as soon as it sees a non-windows partition.) Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse pointer
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:04 am, you wrote: I just tried the Ctrl-Alt-Esc key combination that i read about from a thread on the list. It is a new one on me. Is the skull and cross bones mouse pointer normal when in this mode? Where do i read up on all these little tricks? I seem to just get them drip fed by following the list. Michael That is the process killer. Click a window after hitting the Ctrl-Alt-Esc and it will shutdown the window. good for hung programs. Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem
What driver did you use for this modem? I've got half a dozen in various windows and linux boxes. I've had good success with the pctel-0.8.6.tar.gz and the older pctel-2.4.7.tar.gz drivers. You can get either of them by going to www.linmodems.org and then go to Jan's PCTel site. I just did an isnmod pctel.o and insmod ptserial.o, and they worked fine (no -f). Why are you trying to force the install? If you've upgraded the kernel, you will need to recompile and install the drivers. Joe On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 02:52:59 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anyone here install the HSP56 drivers successfully? I've been stuck for over a week, I'm not making any progress. This is what i get when I tipe isnmod -f pctel.o unresolved symbol bh_mash unresolved symbol etc etc please help me to make this work, I want to get rid of windows once and for all. Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mid button of 3-button mouse.
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:11:56 + Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Dennis, I set the mouse to Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse instead. It doesnt work at all at first. The system gives warning sounds when I move the mouse around. The cursor keeps moving at the edges of the screen. Then I logout by Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace and relogin, then it works fine. Wei Glad you got it going, I should have known to tell you to do a restart on the xwindow which is essentialy what you did with the keystrokes. Nice going! -- Dennis M. registered linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Buying hardware
Hi all. Is this of interest to anyone? Have there been any previous threads? When we buy our new laptop or PC many of us may have acquired a Microsoft OS. How much extra has this cost us? Have we paid for something we did not want? If we said to Dell, Dan, Gateway, Tiny et al; we like your hardware, how much discount are you going to give me if I buy it without an OS, what would they say? 50% off quoted price! If anyone has any experience of this I would be interested to hear of it. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] OK new question... ya i'm full of em.
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 23:22, you wrote: OK I feel better. I hope it wasn't at the expense of making you folk feel worse. -- You never do Civileme. I personally find your rants a very good read and humorous to boot:) Nice to have things put 'right' every now and then. -- Good hunting, Harm Bathoorn. One has authority, until it's called on Corto Maltese..Sign of the Capricorn;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Mouse pointer
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:04 am, you wrote: I just tried the Ctrl-Alt-Esc key combination that i read about from a thread on the list. It is a new one on me. Is the skull and cross bones mouse pointer normal when in this mode? Where do i read up on all these little tricks? I seem to just get them drip fed by following the list. Michael That is the process killer. Click a window after hitting the Ctrl-Alt-Esc and it will shutdown the window. good for hung programs. my KDE desktop has an XKill.desktop icon, Is that the same thing! -- Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Mouse pointer
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 12:30 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:04 am, you wrote: I just tried the Ctrl-Alt-Esc key combination that i read about from a thread on the list. It is a new one on me. Is the skull and cross bones mouse pointer normal when in this mode? Where do i read up on all these little tricks? I seem to just get them drip fed by following the list. Michael That is the process killer. Click a window after hitting the Ctrl-Alt-Esc and it will shutdown the window. good for hung programs. my KDE desktop has an XKill.desktop icon, Is that the same thing! It performs the same function, and I must assume KDE calls XKill when you press Ctrl-Alt-Esc . Jeff Feel free to correct me if I am wrong... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] pdf printing trouble
I searched the archive and found that many people seem to have this problem, but I did see a good answer Most involved try this or that prog One mentioned xpp which I tried as well So my problem is I can't print pdf I have to go to xpdf and output to postscript and then print it While this works I would like to be able to skip the extra step What I have tried so far: opened with PS and PDF viewer - print (using CUPS, xpp, or lpr) get client-error-bad-request msg opened with Ghostview - print (using lpr) = crash opened with Ghostview - print ( using xpp) = client-error-bad-request msg I have a HP DeskJet 670c that prints doc, ps and lots of others fine If anyone has some advice I would appreciate it Thanks, Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] 'ls' doesn't sort the way it used to?
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 18:01 pm, you wrote: On Monday 04 March 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: Why not try an alias in your bashrc file, so that ls does it YOUR way? That's a fair question I suppose First, this is a multiuser operating system and I want to fix the problem where it exists, so that it fixes it for all new accounts that I create Secondly, I did But the default values aliased to 'ls' do not just go away Rather any customization I make just gets _added_ in with the other values initialized from the /etc/profile (or where ever) directory upon login I realize I could just moving the /etc/profile directory off my partition, and maybe look at building my own, but I am really only interested in one particular problematic feature One in which I have spent a fair amount of time already trying to discover how it is set up, and have not been able to solve So, if there is anyone who can tell me what part of the bash scripts in /etc/profile or elsewhere are causing this funky behavior, I would very much appreciate it At 04:42 PM 3/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hello everyone: A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, 'ls' used to display directories and files in case sensitive order, prioritized by Directories, then directory names that start with capitals first Now directories and files are sorted w/out respect to directory or file, and the first letter in the names are alphabetized w/out sensitivity to case I guess not too many people liked this, but call me a geek, I found it kind of useful for organzing things Can anyone help? Thanks so much, Steven Try /etc/profiled/aliassh HTH Regards Pete -- 12:36am up 13:45, 2 users, load average: 015, 012, 004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] pdf printing trouble
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 19:38, you wrote: I searched the archive and found that many people seem to have this problem, but I did see a good answer Most involved try this or that prog One mentioned xpp which I tried as well So my problem is I can't print pdf I have to go to xpdf and output to postscript and then print it While this works I would like to be able to skip the extra step What I have tried so far: opened with PS and PDF viewer - print (using CUPS, xpp, or lpr) get client-error-bad-request msg opened with Ghostview - print (using lpr) = crash opened with Ghostview - print ( using xpp) = client-error-bad-request msg I have a HP DeskJet 670c that prints doc, ps and lots of others fine If anyone has some advice I would appreciate it Thanks, Jeff Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; name=messagefooter Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Hi Jeff, I've had the same frustration Try opening XPP, click 'Browse, enter the file name, then 'Print' Finally, I got print-out If you've already tried that sigh! Hth, 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://ebhartnet/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms
Bizarre. Guess it's a bug? or what? Femme ed tharp wrote: yep, it's how mine allways has been On Monday 04 March 2002 23:38, you wrote: Ya but that Term with the Hooks msg, looks as if it has hung, and won't go further. Is that normal!? Its the F12 Term IIRC. Femme Ed Tharp wrote: this is normal to the best of my knowledge. linuxconfig hooks should be the last message - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms I'm saying I can change from Term to term but one (F12) in particular is showing a screen of linux booting Getting stopped at: Linuxconf ... something enabling hooks. The other terms some work some don't, like f1 works through to f5. I can get back to KDE/Xwindow (whatever) with ctrl-alt-f8 I believe. I'm clueless? Btw, F6, F7, F9-11 don't function completely. F10 Gives me a blank screen with a cursor blinkin in the upper left corner? Femme ed tharp wrote: are you saying that you can not get back to the gui (Xwindow) reguardless of which f(num)? key? I do no longer have quickly available the original post. some messages are normal in other terms at some times. depends on the setup and if you allow remote terms to run X (etc.) - --- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.1 Install
If you can afford the program use Partition Magic ver 6 or 7. They're a godsend for dualbooters :) I use it with few problems except the ones I've caused myself. Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I purchased Mandrake 8.1 to see what Linux was like. I have a very limited knowlage of window but I am quite adapt at pointing and clicking. I decide to install it on my lap top but did not have sufficent resources. The next move was the home computer. A 1 gig AMD KT7A/Riad (Riad disabled) with a TNT Vid Card and a Maxtor 30gig HD, 384 megs of ram. It also has a Surfboard phone up/cable dowm modem. WinME working it all.I settled in for what the book said would be an easy install. I lost C:, I zapped out DOS, I got Linux in. I lost Linux, I lost windows. I'm sure I saw a Penguin flip me off. I got windows back, to make a long story short here's where I am now. WinME running, Linux just left on it's own, my 30 gig drive reads in windows as 2 gig, when i look at in Linux install it shows blue/2 gigs for windows, the rest is a white bar. All in all I wasn't too unhappy since I don't store a thing on my drive but software, what's six hours to reinstall it. Oh did I mention that some idiot forgot he did his taxszapped...the wife really liked that one. I have come up with three conclusions to what may have happened 1. I have failed to pray to the God of LINUX correctly or not left enough fish at the penguins feet. 2. Bill Gates is evil and personally hates me. 3. I have no dang clue what I am doing any and all mistakes are my fault. I have opted for number threebut I have not ruled out the other two. I would love to try LINUX, I would also like my hard drive back. I guess what I need is a quick course in partitioning, spelled out idiot proof, and some simpler instructions on how to install this as a dual boot system. Any help would be appreciated, fish can also be arranged. ;-) Mike 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] LILO substitute?
First: http://wwwtuxedoorg/~esr/faqs/smart-questionshtml Second: http://wwwlinuxdocorg/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoshtml Brendan Is there any way or substitute to load Linux instead of using LILO? because I'm afraid that I will have trouble again in using Windows when I put back LILO in my system If there is no other way to substitute LILO, please give me a safe, detailed and simple instructions on how to put back LILO in my system TY __ wwwedsamailcom =_1014385811-2752-42 Content-Type: text/plain; name=messagefooter Content-Disposition: inline; filename=messagefooter Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom =_1014385811-2752-42-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] OK new question... ya i'm full of em.
A decent enough answer thank you for the info :) Femme civileme wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: Is there a LM 8 ver that is optimized for P3 machines? Or is it the ones with the 586 in their RPM names? Thx Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom No, there isn't a LM 8 for P-III machines At this juncture, it is easily demonstrable that one loses more than he gains by optimizing for 686 code There is some evidence that optimizing for K7 can produce some gains, but it is still being discussed whether the significance of those gains is worth the effort rant Part of this is the compilers available and their limited use of the code But a large part of it should be attributed to ingenious marketing departments who tell you that activating some trash codes (which may have been there in slightly different form in earlier processors) will get you into the internet instead of on it In other words extra instruction codes are not necessarily an improvement except in the eyes of the sales staff Computer architecture may have changed in the automated digital implementation of instructions a great deal, but, in the sense of defining instructions to make a computer both edfficient and a pleasure to program, well that is still an art And adding useless instructions is a common technique for meeting deadlines or improving sales It is just about like 56x CD-ROMs versus 8x The 8x are often faster on single look-ups and definitely do not wear the media as much, but the 56x gives users the impression that they have something smokin' (well, maybe, but not the sort of smoke you want to see) I know that this is not something a lot of people want to face, but a significant portion of this industry is sales hype If you don't believe that, look at the processor speed ads of a few years ago where the system bus stayed at 66MHz and the pocessors got faster and faster A P133 laptop routinely outrperformed the P150 laptop of the same brand and model except perhaps on number-crunching because the 150 was on a 60MHz Bus and the 133 on a 66 SO the throughput of the 133 had 10 more bandwidth to play with in accessing other parts of the system besides the processor And of course a little old company named Cyrix beat the tar out of the P200 for real-world apps with a processor that barely kept from burning itself up at 150MHz, simply by boosting bus speed 14% from 66 to 75MHz As consumers became wise to the gimmick, the marketeers had to let the engineers boost bus speeds and today we see 200, 266, 333 on the Front-Side Bus But that doesn't mean the management of most companies doesn't look for a neat way to play up a cheap or even useless feature to sell more product Look at the Hardware IDE-RAID, which isn't hardware at all /rant OK I feel better I hope it wasn't at the expense of making you folk feel worse Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Program with ./configure
I once had the same problem and posted it and got replies similar to what you're getting. I insisted that I did cd to the directory that held the tar file before running './configure ' Eventually, I did an ' ls -aF' and discovered that the tar file was not there. Then I remembered, I had created a temp directory the previous day and put the the tar file there.. When I did another cd to that temp directory, './configure ' worked fine.. Daniel Chen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Yes, I do cd into the directory Just for clarification. Did you 'cd' into the directory and type./congifureDaniel './configure'? All that stuff without quotes.BillOn Friday 15 February 2002 04:14 pm, Daniel Chen wrote: Yes, I am sure the configure file is in the same directory and it is setto executable. Also, I am sure the first line of the file is lookedlike #!/bin/shI tried to type in/bin/sh configureand I got the result like this:: command not found: command not found: command not found: command not found: command not found: command not found(repeat many many times..:-): command not found: command not found: command not found: command not found'onfigure: line 837: syntax error near unexpected token `in'onfigure: line 837: ` case X$UNAME inSo, does anyone have idea of what happening with my Mandrake 8.1?BTW, thank you very much for your guys' help!Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, program to rescue your info
- RIP! Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a floppy boot/rescue/backup system It has support for a lot of filesystem types (reiserfs, ext2/3, XFS, JFS, UFS, MS DOS, umsdos, and vfat) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery It might also be possible to install and boot it from a LS-120 floppy drive It has been designed for non-networked stand-alone home PC hard drive booting and rescue There's also a bootable CDROM version available at the site Only the cd version has XFS and JFS filesystem support - I found this on a linux CD i got from a UK magazine Sounds like a good utility for even newbies to recover from partioning disasters Any comments/experience with it? Thx sorry if this kind of question isn't well received here Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] kernel-2.4.17.17mdk
[root@gail kernel-2417]# rpm -Uvh kernel-241717mdk-1-1mdki586rpm error: failed dependencies: iptables = 124-1mdk conflicts with kernel-241717mdk-1-1mdk I have installed this kernel on another system, but never had this problem I guess I veen a version of iptables 124-1mdk Is that correct? TIA -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Defrag, Scandisk utilities on linux?
Arik Ashepa wrote: are there any? Arik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom It depends on the filesystem for defrag Reiser, XFS, ext2 and ext3 hardly need them because they set up files in such a way that fragmentation is kept very low (Look on the expert list archives for my article on this) JFS does have a defrag, and there is an old one for ext2 which worked usefully with the ext filesystem, but was hardly worth running with ext2 (no speed gain) All have a scandisk which has the generic name fsck (filesystems check) Some of these are very very very quick, like 10 G in 3 seconds because they write a journal of what they are doing and simply play it back until it doesn't match, which is where they know it was left off (The journal is written to disk ahead of the actual disk operation) Ext2 can take a while to do an fsck, but the fact that it scatters superblocks across the partition in which it is defined usually assures that glitches can be rebuilt without serious data loss Yes, even if the master superblock is corrupted, there are several backups ext3, XFS, Reiserfs, and JFS are called journaling filesystems and they have fairly high data integrity and fast rebuild times except for ext3, they are rather fast on everyday applications ext2 is an older filesystem equal in speed to journaling filesystems or even a bit faster in some circumstances Its major slowness is in rebuilding a big partition All 5 filesystems are built for facilitating the design and implementation of high security, and only JFS really allows fragmentation to occur My ext2 partitions have something like 17% fragmentation on the average and seem to hang right there regardless of how many files I add or take away With really radical test programs (forming and resizing 100,000 tinu files 2k to 10k in size, I managed to push fragmentation up to 313% but then it dropped when I deleted those contrived files Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing
Paul, The user name mapping is done in /etc/samba/smbusers You can edit this file as root or use swat or webmin to set up the access If you haven't checked out webmin, I can recommend it Not too much you can't control from there! HTH Brian On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 05:15, Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul I futzed with /etc/smbusers (added username map = line to smbconf) and still no success (Yes, I restarted the smb service too) thanks Paul Yes, Samba is what does it, but don't be concerned about getting that going There's not much more to it than turning it on Just post again here if you have any problems with it Do I need to set up samba in order to get printing from a windowz thing to the printer on a decent Linux computer working? If not, what is the way to go then? -- Keep your promises to yourself -David H Fink http://nlpagannet - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 80 - Sylpheed 073 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Portmap ?
Try setting your USB line on /etc/modules.conf as follows: alias usb-interface uhci There is a known usb related system hang on shutdown problem that this fixes. Not sure if this is yours, but it's worth a try. HTH Brian On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 23:16, Marc Oestreicher wrote: 2/25/02 4:17:19 AM, jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Oestreicher writes: I have a bit of a problem with a new mandrake 8.1 installation that I have beem fighting for weeks with no success. Wen shutting down or rebooting my machine locks on shutting down portmap services. If I shut off portmap services it locks on shutting down internet services even though a dialup connection has not been made. This is on a P3 450 mhz machine with 64 MB of memory. Does anyone have any idea what is causing this lockup on shutdown? Thanks in advance Marc This sounds like the USB problem i've been having. Does turnig off the USB service eliminate the problem? jeff Thanks turning off USB service did solve the problem , but what effect will this have on my USB devices? 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] Mouse pointer
Jeff Quandt wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 12:30 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:04 am, you wrote: I just tried the Ctrl-Alt-Esc key combination that i read about from a thread on the list. It is a new one on me. Is the skull and cross bones mouse pointer normal when in this mode? Where do i read up on all these little tricks? I seem to just get them drip fed by following the list. Michael That is the process killer. Click a window after hitting the Ctrl-Alt-Esc and it will shutdown the window. good for hung programs. my KDE desktop has an XKill.desktop icon, Is that the same thing! It performs the same function, and I must assume KDE calls XKill when you press Ctrl-Alt-Esc . Jeff Feel free to correct me if I am wrong... Doesn't bring up the same mouse pointer though. Perhaps XKill is different. By the way getting the tips drip fed over time works quite well too. I mean, if you are reading through docs it is very easy to overlook a useful pointer when you are following a train of though set by the author Michael -- (o_ //\ V_/_ Standard Penguin Borrowed from http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/pqr/penguins.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet Connection Problem
I have a problem with Mandrake 8.1 If anyone is familiar with Mandrake please offer some advice (offer it even if your not). When I used to click on the Internet icon on the desktop it would prompt for the root password. It still does this but when I enter it the window that would normally show the connection never finishes loading. It sits there like it were a web browser that isn't able to fully download a page and only shows some things on it. I had this working fine before then one day I decide to reboot and it didn't work after that. Well, I figured maybe it was an upgrade I did so I reformatted the hd and reinstalled Mandrake fresh. Same problem. So, now I install Mandrake on a different hd and still the same problem. So, now I think...maybe it's a graphic card problem since it seems to be choking on the display of the Internet window. So I installed a Geforce 2, which is working fine, but I am having the same problem. The last thing I can think might possibly be the problem is the NIC. But I am really stumped here. It was working fine one day, then I do a reboot and it just sits there. Very odd. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Mithrilhall * * Mithrilhall's Linux* * Server * * AMD-K2 350MHz* * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net * * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
