Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:20:59 -0800 rob wrote: >Is there a semi-automated way to fetch packages? I used to use SuSe >Linux, and they had Yast which would go out and get the rpm's. I'm told >there is something similar in Mandrake, but I didn't find it after >fooling around for an hour or so. Thanks, Rob. It is called urpmi. Paul -- You can only predict things after they have happened. -Eugene Ionesco http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Getting and installing packages
Please don't flame me, but I'm an old FreeBSD user who is trying out Mandrake :) Is there a semi-automated way to fetch packages? I used to use SuSe Linux, and they had Yast which would go out and get the rpm's. I'm told there is something similar in Mandrake, but I didn't find it after fooling around for an hour or so. Thanks, Rob. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What is ICE and DCOP?
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 11:21, Burrows, Scott wrote: > > Hey all, > > Newbie question here. I have a MD8.1 system. > > What are the following files in my home folder for? If they are corrupted > or deleted what happens to > the system? > > 1) ICEauthority > > 2) DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain_0: > > > Thanks > > Scott Burrows Scott, Truthfully, I'm not sure about ICE. But DCOP is a process that allows desktop application interoperability under KDE. I run Enlightenment with the KDE compatibility mode enabled and DCOP runs a symlink in my home dir as well. It allows cutting and pasting between apps, among other things. HTH, LX _ 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] Master & slave drives
i can't speak for XP, but if you want to use lilo, the linux loader, generally you simply install. i have install several 7.1 through 8.2 installs for others on second disks with win95, win98 and win2k on the first. you just follow the instructions and generally everything works fine. the one time i have had it _not_ work was a 7.1 install with win95 on the other drive, and i thought i would check to see how the mandrake installer saw the win partitions. oops, having linux rewrite your windows partitions is not to smart. funny thing, while windows couldn't see the second partition, linux could so the data was saved. they may have even fixed it, still don't click the windows partitions in the installer. :-) On Friday 15 March 2002 19:48, Joe Barron opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > I,m greener than all getout.But what I,d like to know is setting up > bootmanager for XP on master Mandrake on slave ,what I,ve found are > partitioning the same drive. -- "We know what we are, but not what we may become" -William Shakespeare shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Master & slave drives
I,m greener than all getout.But what I,d like to know is setting up bootmanager for XP on master Mandrake on slave ,what I,ve found are partitioning the same drive.
Re: [newbie] Missing Locate Command
On Friday 15 March 2002 20:25, you wrote: > I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed on 1 laptop and 1 desktop. In > both cases, when I type locate somefile, i get bash: locate: command > not found. This happens both as user and as root. > > If I do which locate I get which: no locate in (numerous paths given in > parentheses). > > Is there such a thing as a linux system that does not have locate? > Why would Mandrake not have a basic command like locate? Sounds like you don't have the package slocate installed yet. Slocate is a secure version of locate. As root, urpmi slocate once installed do (still as root) slocate -u -c or updatedb -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Missing Locate Command
I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed on 1 laptop and 1 desktop. In both cases, when I type locate somefile, i get bash: locate: command not found. This happens both as user and as root. If I do which locate I get which: no locate in (numerous paths given in parentheses). Is there such a thing as a linux system that does not have locate? Why would Mandrake not have a basic command like locate? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
On 15 Mar 2002 12:07:05 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 22:30, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > I'm in Sydney, Australia [no Kangaroos here either, unless you travel a few > > hundred kilometres inland, or visit a zoo :) ]. It's 14:30 and 23 degrees > > Celsius (it's usually hotter, but we've had a lot of rain the past few > > days). > > > > -- > > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > > > "We like to think of ourselves as the Microsoft of the energy world" > > -- Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron > > > > Would a kangaroo make a good pet? Just curious > > ;) I wouldn't think so, unless you have a HUGE backyard for it to jump around in :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time." -- Bill Gates (from the Foreword to the OS/2 Programmers' Guide) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.
If your processor is capable of utilizing the DDR Ed it won't really matter how much SDRAM you stuff in the slots. It isn't a question of the amount of memory in place so much as a question of how it operates. The processor (Athlons, Durons) is able to access the data faster from DDR because data is read on every 'clock cycle'. "Rising and falling rather than rising only." That said; an article some time back on AnandTech showed only roughly 3 to 7 per cent speed increase in benchmarks. If you are using an older processor that isn't optimized for it you won't notice a difference anyway. AFAIK anything less than ~10% isn't detectable without instrumentation. I'd still go DDR but I'd wait for "333MHz" rather than using what is available now. The price is at somewhat of a premium right now as well. HTH Charlie ___ On March 15, 2002 07:56 pm, Ed spake thusly: I do expectt the ddr to be faster meg for meg, but I was hopping for som thoughts about how much more of sdr sdram would be required to equal the speed gained, in higher or middle of theram curve machines. I would also expect the differnce between 64 meg DDR and 90 megs sdr sdram to be about the same, depending on the application On Friday 15 March 2002 18:01, you wrote: > No question but that DDR is the better solution for any 'performance box.' > Think it through; DDR = Dual Data Rate. SDRAM is slower. > > If you'd like to "prove it" to yourself follow the links under the CPU > heading at: http://www.anandtech.com or http://www.tomshardware.com or > http://www.hardocp.com among others. They'll all have archives of reviews > of previous chip sets as well as the latest. > > HTH > Charlie > __ > On March 15, 2002 02:44 pm, Ed spake thusly: > I am building a box and the MOBO allows either ddr, or sdram. so in y'alls > experiance, wheich would be faster, 256mg ddr, or 320 sdram Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] partition
Arjan Petersen wrote: > hello, ive got a question. I trying to use my windows-xp partitions. > I've mounted them and in root i can use them. But when i want to use > the partition in let's say user: arjan > I get tthe error that i'm not able or i don't have the rights to use > the partition. How can i fix this? > > Another question, when i use realplayer in root i get the > errormessages that i can't play audio because the audiodevice is > already in use by another device. > > Please help me with these problems. > > arjan > > > _ > Join the world's 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 > Hallo, it won't help you but however I send it. I posted the same question some days ago and folks answered me: NO, they think that write to ntfs in mandrake 8.1 is disabled for safety YES, they think that you can write if you really want but you have to modify your kernel the discussion wento no further. ciao. paolo brusasco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.
Tom's article about DDR from February 2000: http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q4/001030/index.html and a small tidbit for those of us that have trouble with all these blasted acronyms: http://www.acronymfinder.com. Duckin' and runnin' away real fast! Charlie __ On March 15, 2002 04:34 pm, Femme Fatale spake thusly: DDR *dedicated direct ram* IIRC is the acronym. Says it all However, SDRam is poised to take over, and is speccing faster, IIRC. Don't take my word for it though. See Tom's Hardware for a better idea. Femme ed tharp wrote: > > I am building a box and the MOBO allows either ddr, or sdram. so in y'alls > experiance, wheich would be faster, 256mg ddr, or 320 sdram > > > 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]: help with EXT3 & other Terms?
I don't remember if I wrote back to tell you things worked out. I basically did as Ed said, & tried to fiddle in the install with the settings. Seems to have helped. That and the Nvidia drivers may have helped too. Not sure. But everything seems good again. :) Thx Ed. Femme ed tharp wrote: > > to avoid this problem, install as "expert" and check the video configuration > durring install. what video card do you use? some cards are not supported in > xfree4.0 and I would bet the "respawning to fast" is related to the video > config setup. if you have the problem after you reinstall, then we can work > thru it, but I bet if you get the video setup durring install you wont' have > no problems. just remember to not install as "recommended" and do as "expert" > and check the video config during install > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.
DDR *dedicated direct ram* IIRC is the acronym. Says it all However, SDRam is poised to take over, and is speccing faster, IIRC. Don't take my word for it though. See Tom's Hardware for a better idea. Femme ed tharp wrote: > > I am building a box and the MOBO allows either ddr, or sdram. so in y'alls > experiance, wheich would be faster, 256mg ddr, or 320 sdram > > > 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] 8.2 Release date
tester wrote: > > On Thursday 14 March 2002 10:29 pm, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > Does Anyone know when will Mandrake Linux 8.2 Gold be officially released? > > I am very eager to purchase it. > > For most of you, pre-orders at www.mandrakestore.com are possible. Also, if > you decide to join Mandrake Club, you will likely find more of that > information. > > Civileme > > And, of course, Mandrakestore has burning/printing capabilities so they don't > have to wait a month for commercial CD pressing. > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com How do I pre-order 8.2? I see nothing at www.mandrakestore.com about 8.2. I also see nothing at the Mandrake club site. Thanks for the help Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Connection sharing reconfiguration.
I remember someone posted the same problem before. The problem has something to do firewall script or something over writing the connection sharing setting on startup. I cannot remember what the solution was. Try search the mail archive for it. Robin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Wei Wang > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Connection sharing reconfiguration. > > > One Mandrake box and a windows box sharing one IP address. IP > masquarading was > set up via Mandrake control center Connection Sharing. > Everything works fine > except that everytime after Mandrake reboot, the > configuration of Conneciton > sharing has to be done again. Is there any way I could keep > the configuration? > > Many thanks, > Wei > > > _ 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] Interrupts and being interrupted
On 15 Mar 2002 00:49:25 +1100 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a small issue that may be interrupt related. I have XMMS playing > (always). At a change of track, it will sometimes stop and issue a > message telling me that the sound card is not available and that I > should check that I have the correct plugin loaded. This may be related to 'extra features and configurability', see below, maybe you should use another plugin or configure it differently? > Click OK and play > again and I'm back in business. This can happens every third track, or > every third day depending on what mood it's in. Interesting problem, is this the emergence of Artificial Inteligence ;) > Now I have a couple of ideas on this. Anyone care to comment? > > 1. It only happens on change of track, so I guess XMMS does some > release/acquire of the sound card at that point. > > 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows: > > 10: 83875 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712 > > i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with the > usb interfaces. > > That's the only interrupt that is being shared. > > Now I know interrupts can be shared, but I wouldn't think that it's a > good thing for a sound card. > > So: > > 1. Any votes for or against the notion that this is likely to be the > cause of XMMS's hiccups? > > 2. How do I go about changing this? > > USB is not in use on this machine, so just disabling that is an option. > That is, it's not in use under Linux because there seems to be no way I > can get my scanner to work - not a SANE support device. No matter. > There has to be some reason to have that dual boot XP parition there > right? In other words, I am happy to dispense with USB as far as the OS > goes, but not disable it in the bios. How about disabling it once in the BIOS for testing if it's indeed an IRQ problem? I think it may be related to a soundserver you're running: artsd in KDE or esd in Gnome. > OTOH there are several interrupts free, so just moving either the USB or > the sound card is probably the better option. On my Asus P5A mainboard I can assign IRQ's for PCI slots in the BIOS, if you don't have that option try moving the soundcard to a different PCI slot. > One last point of info: This is a multi-channel sound card that requires > ALSA 0.9 beta5 or greater to work - I'm using beta 10. Forget about any > configuration of this card in any of the GUI's. They don't know about > it. You have an 'advanced' soundcard and are using the ALSA 0.9beta drivers. ALSA 0.9.x is part of the recent Linux 2.5.x development kernels :) Your card and the advanced drivers you are using result in extra features and configurability which is documented of course, I mean people are succesfully working on the documentation, but it's far from complete, help appreciated... Btw, there are more recent ALSA beta drivers. > TIA > Brian Good luck! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.
No question but that DDR is the better solution for any 'performance box.' Think it through; DDR = Dual Data Rate. SDRAM is slower. If you'd like to "prove it" to yourself follow the links under the CPU heading at: http://www.anandtech.com or http://www.tomshardware.com or http://www.hardocp.com among others. They'll all have archives of reviews of previous chip sets as well as the latest. HTH Charlie __ On March 15, 2002 02:44 pm, Ed spake thusly: I am building a box and the MOBO allows either ddr, or sdram. so in y'alls experiance, wheich would be faster, 256mg ddr, or 320 sdram Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems
On Friday 15 March 2002 15:05, you wrote: > Guilherme Cirne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my > > home LAN. My setup is as follows: > > > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > > 192.168.0.2 > > > > - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip > > 192.168.0.1, gateway 192.168.0.2, DNS 192.168.0.2. This is how it is > > supposed to be done according to the Wingate manual. > > > > I can ping the Win98 box from LM and vice-versa. From the client machine > > I can also ping any ip on the internet. But I can't ping hostnames (i.e. > > ping www.linux-mandrake.com returns unknown host: > > www.linux-mandrake.com). So I think it has something to do with DNS. But > > what? > > > > My /etc/resolv.conf file has just one entry: nameserver 192.168.0.2 > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > TIA, > > > > > > - > >- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > I do not use windows except for trivial things but your setup is telling > your Linux box that the windows PC is a DNS Server. If it doesn't > fetch that information and pass it on to the Linux box then it will fail. > There is no reason why you need to use your local PC as a DNS Server > except for speed reasons. I doubt that a win98 PC would be good for that. > Your ISP will have DNS servers and I expect they will have supplied you > with the IP addresses for them. Just tell your Linux PC one of them as > the DNS Server to use and it should be fine. > When you get into using Linux I think you will find it better to use the > Linux PC as the gateway. > hth > norm To add to the previous post and this one, I agree, it seems to work better to use the linux computer as the gateway. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems
On Friday 15 March 2002 12:33, you wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my > home LAN. My setup is as follows: > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > 192.168.0.2 > > - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip > 192.168.0.1, gateway 192.168.0.2, DNS 192.168.0.2. This is how it is > supposed to be done according to the Wingate manual. > > I can ping the Win98 box from LM and vice-versa. From the client machine I > can also ping any ip on the internet. But I can't ping hostnames (i.e. ping > www.linux-mandrake.com returns unknown host: www.linux-mandrake.com). So I > think it has something to do with DNS. But what? > > My /etc/resolv.conf file has just one entry: nameserver 192.168.0.2 > > Any help is appreciated. > > TIA, IIRC when I used wingate I had to set the client up to have the gateway as my 192.168.0.1 machine which had the modem and then in the DNS IP addresses I put the same two IPs as the ISP gave me. like: 207.217.123.80 and 207.217.124.81 that is because the ISP is still the name server for you internet connection the other computer is just the gateway to the internet and may or maynot function as a DNS. Anyway, give that a try and see what transpires. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intermittent Sound
Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 for Intel on my laptop and my sound > is very intermittent. All sounds have dropouts. > > I have a laptop with a Cirrus Logic CS4299 sound chip. > > Can anyone help ? > Well maybe.In KDE try this : K --> Multimedia --> Sound --> Sound Mixer. Play a little with the sliders, especially the "PCM"-one and hear what happens. If that doesn't help try to disable ALSA. Fixed it for me. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] An apology and a round of virtual beer, OT
um... good question? in 'Doze, I use alt-130 for accent égue ;p Try it? Femme Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Au contraire, Femme Fatale ! - Excusez-moi ! - C'etait seulement une > jugement male.:-; > Oh shit, my french needs improvement too. BTW : how to type all those > french accents (egu, grave, circonflexe etc.) in a text-only > mail-program ??? > > Kaj Haulrich > Denmark > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xtart what bug civileme
On Thursday 14 March 2002 17:08, Civileme typed: > The safe way to start window managers from the console is probably > Xtart. There is a bug in the current one, and I am not sure > Xtart-1.1 has made it to mirrors so download at > > http://www.civileme.net/Xtart-1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm > > Then install with rpm -Uvh Xtart-1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm > > Civileme --- Friday 15 March 2002 -- 01:23hrs cst 67degF cloudy on a new moon. What bug Civileme? what problem does it cause? I use that program all the time and have noticed nothing bad? Xtart-1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm..rpm thank you for it... -- Olly P. Biloxi Mississippi Linux MDK 8.0 and 2.4.3-20 mdk Kmail 2.1.1 ATX Plll 600mhz Asus CUBX ...384m PC133ram Fri Mar 15 01:31:20 EST 2002 Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman. -- Kirk, "The Conscience of the King", stardate 2818.9 1:31am up 4 days, 22:33, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.03, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
"Barran, Richard" wrote: > Morning all, > > I've received a very interesting "Mandrake Community Newsletter" this > morning. I'm including here the two most relevant paragraphs: > > " > Even though all of us here at MandrakeSoft are excited about the > upcoming release, we've also been distracted by financial concerns. > Despite continuous good reviews in the press; despite having millions > of users throughout the world; despite producing an award-winning Linux > distribution that is a solid competitor to both UNIX and Window$, the > Mandrake Linux distribution's short-term future is in jeopardy due to a > simple factor: money. > > As a company, we make our revenue by selling packaged versions of the > distribution and by delivering services such as consulting, training, > etc. -- but our development costs and community-based services are not > yet covered by income. It is estimated that we will "break even" by the > end of 2002, but it is unlikely that MandrakeSoft can remain unchanged > during these next few months without drastically cutting costs unless > additional revenue is generated quickly. > " > > The newsletter then goes on to urge people to sign up to Mandrake Club ASAP. > I received a newsletter from the Club yesterday which also hinted at > "financial troubles". > I haven't seen this mentioned yet by anyone on either this list or on the > expert list. Is this a bit of scaremongering or is Mandrake really in dire > straits? > > Regards, > > Richard > > PS Here follows a short message from my employer's legal department... > > *** > This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named > recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. > If they have come to you in error you must take no action based > on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of > their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the > sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from > your computer system. > > Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure > and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that > you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us > and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, > interceptions or corruptions. > > Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its > attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping > with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they > are actually virus free. > > Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs > to Littlewoods. > > Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, > obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains > inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. > Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not > necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. > > Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. > > Registered office: > Littlewoods Retail Limited, > Sir John Moores Building, > 100 Old Hall Street, > Liverpool, > L70 1AB > Registered no: 421258 > > http://www.littlewoods.com > *** > > >-- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com As a member of the club I receive a newsletter regularly. The last one said in part : This time we aren't asking for sweat or blood - all it takes to assure the development of Mandrake Linux in the future is the equivalent of one or two cinema tickets a month in the form of the "Mandrake Club" membership fee. Explain to them that they will not only receive the pleasure of assuring the future of the Mandrake Linux distribution, but they will even receive some special "club privileges": - Club-only download of commercial applications. - A place in MandrakeSoft's "Hall of Fame". - Possibility to ask questions (and receive answers) in "Ask Mandrake" series. - Direct trading of MandrakeSoft shares. - Special discounts on third party software (coming soon). There are millions of Mandrake Linux users out there, but "only" 2000 have joined the club so far. You are one of these 2000 people, and nobody can explain the reason why you did it better than you can. = I feel that I would have to pay much more by following the MS route. I believe I might easily be forced to pay out more and more as MS dictate rather than when I want or need to. By supporting Mandrake I feel I am at least putting something back for all of the stuff that's out there. If they do fold it
[newbie] mem opinion please.
I am building a box and the MOBO allows either ddr, or sdram. so in y'alls experiance, wheich would be faster, 256mg ddr, or 320 sdram Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 8.2 Release date
Do you think 8.2 will allow my CD burner and ATAPI ZIP drive to work (which they did under 8.0, but never have under 8.1)? > -Original Message- > From: tester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aryan Ameri > Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.2 Release date > > > On Thursday 14 March 2002 10:29 pm, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > Does Anyone know when will Mandrake Linux 8.2 Gold be officially > > released? I am very eager to purchase it. > > > For most of you, pre-orders at www.mandrakestore.com are > possible. Also, if > you decide to join Mandrake Club, you will likely find more of that > information. > > Civileme > > And, of course, Mandrakestore has burning/printing > capabilities so they don't > have to wait a month for commercial CD pressing. > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems
I'm using the Home version of Wingate so I'm not really sure how to do that. But what I can tell you is that when I'm running Windows on the client machine (I have dual-boot system) I can access the internet normally. Also when I had LM 8.0 a few months back everything worked perfectly with this same setup. On Friday 15 March 2002 04:08 pm, you wrote: > Guilherme, > > Did you enable DNS forwarding in WinGate? > > Miark > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:33:51 -0300, Guilherme Cirne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my > > home LAN. My setup is as follows: > > > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > > 192.168.0.2 > > > > - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip > > 192.168.0.1, gateway 192.168.0.2, DNS 192.168.0.2. This is how it is > > supposed to be done according to the Wingate manual. > > > > I can ping the Win98 box from LM and vice-versa. From the client machine > > I can also ping any ip on the internet. But I can't ping hostnames (i.e. > > ping www.linux-mandrake.com returns unknown host: > > www.linux-mandrake.com). So I think it has something to do with DNS. But > > what? > > > > My /etc/resolv.conf file has just one entry: nameserver 192.168.0.2 > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: ARTS / Audio Codec97 / and VT8233 Audio Chip configuration
PS. Friday , 15.03.2002, GMT , upon first bootup to dektop, to my suprise I find that the CD player is now working, and not only that but putting up other programmes like sound mixer does not hault it either as it used to when ARTS was running things. Why this should be so today, but not last night , I haven't a clue. Perhaps someone can suggest a reason. Anyway thats the good news, the bad news is that I cannot play cashed(to hard drive) audio files in X-CD-Roast, that is in the Roast's own audio player programme. A configuration problem ? Any suggestions would be welcome. I cann't live without my Audio CD Writer in full working order. Please help John On Thursday 14 March 2002 10:27 pm, you wrote: > Where to begin, > > My KT7266 Pro2 DDR with raid motherboard comes with a > Via technologies VT8233 sound chip with AC (audio codec )97 > contoller. > > At first desktop the KDE jingle plays, for a short while, > that is until any other audio programme is engaged, > whereupon it drops out never seemingly to return. > The CD player only works on first bootup after a period > of computer rest. As soon as any audio programme > is engaged it too, fails. > > I have been advised that I need to disable ARTS, which > I found you can do in control centre. I guess ARTS is a > programme for connecting sound equipement with a > sound driver , and I am guessing that AC97 (built into the > sound chip) does much the same thing , and that is > why I am advised to remove ARTS ? yes/no > > Well I have done that and still nothing has really changed, > I feel that there is more to configure. It would seem to me > that I still need to configure something so that the sound driver > and all the sound equipement are connected properly. > > In control center - Audio IO Slave , > I don't know whether to have > an | X | in Determine device automatically, > or remove the X and leave the default only > setting /dev/cdrom, when surely the correct > entry is /dev/hdc, if you are going to be specific. > Unfortuneately deleting /dev/cdrom and typing > /dev/hdc is replaced automatically with /dev/cdrom. > > Please can someone help me. thanks, > > > John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems
Guilherme Cirne wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home > LAN. My setup is as follows: > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > 192.168.0.2 > > - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip 192.168.0.1, > gateway 192.168.0.2, DNS 192.168.0.2. This is how it is supposed to be done > according to the Wingate manual. > > I can ping the Win98 box from LM and vice-versa. From the client machine I > can also ping any ip on the internet. But I can't ping hostnames (i.e. ping > www.linux-mandrake.com returns unknown host: www.linux-mandrake.com). So I > think it has something to do with DNS. But what? > > My /etc/resolv.conf file has just one entry: nameserver 192.168.0.2 > > Any help is appreciated. > > TIA, > > >-- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I do not use windows except for trivial things but your setup is telling your Linux box that the windows PC is a DNS Server. If it doesn't fetch that information and pass it on to the Linux box then it will fail. There is no reason why you need to use your local PC as a DNS Server except for speed reasons. I doubt that a win98 PC would be good for that. Your ISP will have DNS servers and I expect they will have supplied you with the IP addresses for them. Just tell your Linux PC one of them as the DNS Server to use and it should be fine. When you get into using Linux I think you will find it better to use the Linux PC as the gateway. hth norm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Release date
On Thursday 14 March 2002 10:29 pm, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Does Anyone know when will Mandrake Linux 8.2 Gold be officially released? > I am very eager to purchase it. For most of you, pre-orders at www.mandrakestore.com are possible. Also, if you decide to join Mandrake Club, you will likely find more of that information. Civileme And, of course, Mandrakestore has burning/printing capabilities so they don't have to wait a month for commercial CD pressing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted
as an FYI, windows hasn't used the BIOSes PNP stuff for years, not since w98. NT, 2k, XP, etc won't look at it. They ignore it. So, in essence its irrelevant. :) Same for IRQ's, unless its an ISA card. If so, then yes windows will look at it, determine if it HAS to obey the BIOS (i.e., you force the IRQ via Bios), and if not will issue its own IRQ for the device. *Shrugs* And ppl wonder why we hate M$. Femme Jussi Aalto wrote: > > On Friday 15 March 2002 02:09, you wrote: > > > > That seemed the best way to go to me too. But how are the interrupts > > set? Are you talking bios settings here? I guess not as W$ would > > inherit them too. I have set this stuff in W$, but not in Linux. > > > > thanks again > > Brian > > > > On my system the BIOS (Award) offers the possibility select whether there > are PNP-OS'es installed or not and all IRQs can be set manually if > needed. But since you have XP installed it may be better use the Plug 'n > Pray method (I'm not familiar with Bills latest inventions so I can't > tell what happens if XP can't get the PNP info from BIOS, probably it > freaks out and will blow up, burn your computer, your house, all of the > neighborhood, gas stations nearby explode, etc. etc. ). > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] xfice
On Thursday 14 March 2002 09:22 pm, Colin Jenkins wrote: > Hello civileme, > > Friday, March 15, 2002, 8:56:19 AM, you wrote: > > c> Colin Jenkins wrote: > >>It looks like I have really stuffed something up here. (lm8.1) > >>I followed some instructions I came across for booting up with Xfice > >>(I was using kde). > >>everything appeared to work ok, but when I next rebooted, I was no > >>longer able to start kde or gnome. > >>if I use startx kde -- :1 it still starts xfice. > >>Where do I start looking to fix this? > > c> If you have 8.1 load Xtart and you have access from console to all wms > > c> Civileme > > There is a new version which will run on 8.0 up at http://www.civileme.net/Xtart-1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm That is a direct download. Civileme >Thanks for the answer civileme, I will note that down for next time > >:) > >I finally reinstalled to fix it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] An apology and a round of virtual beer
FemmeFatale wrote: > > The rest I won't argue. But English!? > > I am not Sir ;0 Je suis partiellement francais, c'est vrai. I blame my > upbringing for me being only being half-french. And I did grow up in a > french community I assure you Kaj. > > Oh & I don't speak my native (though I suppose english is as much my > native tongue) much now for lack of a french community where I am. > > :) > > Sorry I just had to respond...unless that was meant to provoke me... > > Femme > Au contraire, Femme Fatale ! - Excusez-moi ! - C'etait seulement une jugement male.:-; Oh shit, my french needs improvement too. BTW : how to type all those french accents (egu, grave, circonflexe etc.) in a text-only mail-program ??? Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze?
On Friday 15 March 2002 10:57, Lyvim Xaphir opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 12:25, Bill Davidson wrote: > > I think it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop > > shipping windoze. maybe, but the roads of IT are paved with the corpses of people who thought MS couldn't succeed selling a crappy product. marketing is wonderful ain't it? they ship the xbox at a loss. why is that do you think? here is an idea. 4-5 years from now, can you see an xbox, or "windows server" at the center of every home serving windows "xxps 2007" or whatever poor name they come up with, serving video, audio, and web content to thin clients? i bet MS can. but they can't afford to ship windows anymore. darn unreasonable DOJ. so they only sell their OS with their hardware, but you buy it cause that is the only way to have IE, and office, and everyone and their dog run those, besides, if you have an xbox you won't have crashes, right? just like you got 95 to avoid those dos crashes, and 98 cause 9 crashed, and and how else do you use your MS tablet pc to control your home? sounds silly, but if you told 6 years ago that ms would take over the browser market by shipping a poor excuse for a browser with all windows versions, i would have laughed. MS has dictated hardware policy for years. they are lossing that now, to a degree. why not crush the hardware makers like they crushed OS2, BeOS, Dr.DOS.. it is a long list. and people upgrade their hardware all the time, right? > What people need to realize is that there are liars, damn liars, and > Microsoft marketing reps. Windoze is a product of posturing, > perception, and ignorance; in short, marketing. As such, there is > vanishing little of technical value in their OS. You will see more lies > in court as M$ defends itself than you will ever see anywhere else. > This includes the removability issue surrounding Internet Exploiter. i have admit, i am confused as to how they submitted false evidence, later admitted it, and yet there is still a question about the case? an even better question, why does the american government buy software from criminals they are in court with? > I recommend the following book: > > Barbarians Led by Bill Gates > ISBN 0-8050-5754-4 thanks, will look it up -- We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems
Guilherme, Did you enable DNS forwarding in WinGate? Miark On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:33:51 -0300, Guilherme Cirne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home > LAN. My setup is as follows: > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > 192.168.0.2 > > - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip 192.168.0.1, > gateway 192.168.0.2, DNS 192.168.0.2. This is how it is supposed to be done > according to the Wingate manual. > > I can ping the Win98 box from LM and vice-versa. From the client machine I > can also ping any ip on the internet. But I can't ping hostnames (i.e. ping > www.linux-mandrake.com returns unknown host: www.linux-mandrake.com). So I > think it has something to do with DNS. But what? > > My /etc/resolv.conf file has just one entry: nameserver 192.168.0.2 > > Any help is appreciated. > > TIA, > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] translucent shell window
Check out the man/help pages for aterm and Eterm. aterm -tr That should give you a transparant background. Eterm 0.8.*, ~I BELIEVE~, gives you a transparant background by default. But I don't know if that's the case. I do know that with the right tags, or by clicking through the menu you can easily have a transparent background. You can also add tint to those and the like. I'd create a screen shot of some examples, but that's not that easy from here at work. If you're interested in some more information and or examples, feel free to email me directly. Transparent *terms are pretty sweet. I use a lot of them at home. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I was wondering how I could get the shell window to appear translucent. | | Thanks in advance, | Mithrilhall | | * | * Mithrilhall's Linux* | * Server * | * AMD-K2 350MHz* | * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net * | * | | | | _ | 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze?
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 12:25, Bill Davidson wrote: > Actually, I believe that M$ might have tied in the code for IE with > windoze so that they could say 'See, look what happens when you remove > IE'. They think everyone is dumb and they can just paint their own picture > of how things are and that's the way it will be. Of course that's their > problem and they'll have to rework windoze if that's in fact true. I think > it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop shipping windoze. > > Bill > > They did tie it in, this is true. But even that part of their own approach was screwed up, because the Internet Exploiter was indeed removeable, even without access to the source code, partly because they never expected anybody to get access to that. Shane Brooks proved the removeability of IE quite some time ago: http://www.98lite.net/ I have been using 98lite for winblows customers for quite some time. I still use it if for some reason I need access to native winblows, which occurs less and less every month that goes by. What people need to realize is that there are liars, damn liars, and Microsoft marketing reps. Windoze is a product of posturing, perception, and ignorance; in short, marketing. As such, there is vanishing little of technical value in their OS. You will see more lies in court as M$ defends itself than you will ever see anywhere else. This includes the removability issue surrounding Internet Exploiter. I recommend the following book: Barbarians Led by Bill Gates ISBN 0-8050-5754-4 _ 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] Network Printer on Win98
Hi, I have samba-client installed and managed to configure a network printer installed on a Win98 box using Kups. If the printer is shared on the Win98 box with no password then printing works perfectly. But if I have it setup with a password then I can't print to it. When I send a test page nothing happens, it just sits there and there is no error message. Obviously this happens because I haven't entered a password to connect to the printer. But where do I have to enter this password. TIA, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet Connection Problems
Hi, I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home LAN. My setup is as follows: - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip 192.168.0.2 - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip 192.168.0.1, gateway 192.168.0.2, DNS 192.168.0.2. This is how it is supposed to be done according to the Wingate manual. I can ping the Win98 box from LM and vice-versa. From the client machine I can also ping any ip on the internet. But I can't ping hostnames (i.e. ping www.linux-mandrake.com returns unknown host: www.linux-mandrake.com). So I think it has something to do with DNS. But what? My /etc/resolv.conf file has just one entry: nameserver 192.168.0.2 Any help is appreciated. TIA, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: RE: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze?
That's like Osama Bin Laden threatening to kill himself if the US millitary doesn't get out of Afghanastan... -Original Message- From: "Tom Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:51:03 - Subject: RE: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze? The funniest thing about all this is that they're "threatening" to stop shipping it. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Davidson > Sent: 15 March 2002 17:26 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze? > > > On Friday 15 March 2002 11:47 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 19:07, Bill Davidson wrote: > > > Anyone think they would do it? > > > > > > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > It is a smokescreen to "scare" everybody (snicker) and also an obscenely > > blatant posture posed to gain sympathy for their "case". > > > > If the DOJ hadn't been bought off by Republican lobbying by M$, (they > > spent 24 million on the republicans, btw) it's entirely probable that > > they would have been broken up by now. There have been three judges on > > this case; and in every case, Microsoft (through its MSNBC news services > > and other means) have been able to push the view that these judges were > > biased. This trend is unparalleled as far as I know. Judge Colleen is > > probably going to be the last stop; the "biased judge" routine was old > > before it started. > > Actually, I believe that M$ might have tied in the code for IE with > windoze so that they could say 'See, look what happens when you remove > IE'. They think everyone is dumb and they can just paint their > own picture > of how things are and that's the way it will be. Of course that's their > problem and they'll have to rework windoze if that's in fact > true. I think > it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop shipping windoze. > > Bill > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] laptop
I would be interested too, as I recently bought 8.1 only to find it wouldn't work on my ancient laptop. I am currently having to use doze 3.1 *shudder* > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane > Sent: 14 March 2002 06:25 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] laptop > > > does anyone know a good place to buy older/used laptops online? and any > recommendations as to what to get? > > i am only looking for a pent II or equiv, and it has to run mandrake 8.1 > (shocked aren't you?) but othere than that i am open to suggestions? > recommended brands, resellers, refurbs, etc. > > thanks! > > -- > Veni, Vidi, Linux. I came, I saw, I got a real OS > > 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://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Resend: KDE does not come up.
Civilme, I rm'd the ~/.kde folder as you suggested and I deleted the DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain_:0 file as well. Issued a startx (which I dont have any reason to believe is the problem) and I got the same error screen from KDE. My .xsession-errors file says: "iceauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/scott/.ICEauthority KCrash: crashing crashResursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = ksplash path = pid = 2586 IO error opening ICE Connection! IO error opening ICE Connection! kdeinit: DCOPserver could not be started, aborting." It sounds like the the .ICEAuthority file is corrupted. Should I rm it and try KDE again? Scott Scott Burrows Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Resend: KDE does not come up. Burrows, Scott wrote: >Civilme, > >I was foolishly snooting around my MD8.1 system, which was working fine, >as root and now KDE wont come up. Never had a problem before with it. >It stops with a message at the splash screen. > >"The application The KDE Splash Screen (ksplash) crashed and caused >the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)." > >The .xsession-errors file says: >kdeinit: DCOPSserver could not be started, aborting. >IO error opening ICE Connection! > >The system boots fine. Its only after I issue the startx command do I have >a problem >and I can get out of by ctrl-alt-backspaceing. > >What did I do to it and what can I do to get it working again? > >Also, at the text prompt outside of X how can I install something? >Do I need to mount the CDRom drive first then issue an >RPM command? > >Thanks > >Scott Burrows >GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support > OK let me think... Hmmm try rm -r ~/.kde -f then startx The safe way to start window managers from the console is probably Xtart. There is a bug in the current one, and I am not sure Xtart-1.1 has made it to mirrors so download at http://www.civileme.net/Xtart-1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm Then install with rpm -Uvh Xtart-1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm Civileme > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze?
The funniest thing about all this is that they're "threatening" to stop shipping it. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Davidson > Sent: 15 March 2002 17:26 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze? > > > On Friday 15 March 2002 11:47 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 19:07, Bill Davidson wrote: > > > Anyone think they would do it? > > > > > > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > It is a smokescreen to "scare" everybody (snicker) and also an obscenely > > blatant posture posed to gain sympathy for their "case". > > > > If the DOJ hadn't been bought off by Republican lobbying by M$, (they > > spent 24 million on the republicans, btw) it's entirely probable that > > they would have been broken up by now. There have been three judges on > > this case; and in every case, Microsoft (through its MSNBC news services > > and other means) have been able to push the view that these judges were > > biased. This trend is unparalleled as far as I know. Judge Colleen is > > probably going to be the last stop; the "biased judge" routine was old > > before it started. > > Actually, I believe that M$ might have tied in the code for IE with > windoze so that they could say 'See, look what happens when you remove > IE'. They think everyone is dumb and they can just paint their > own picture > of how things are and that's the way it will be. Of course that's their > problem and they'll have to rework windoze if that's in fact > true. I think > it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop shipping windoze. > > Bill > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted
On Friday 15 March 2002 02:09, you wrote: > > That seemed the best way to go to me too. But how are the interrupts > set? Are you talking bios settings here? I guess not as W$ would > inherit them too. I have set this stuff in W$, but not in Linux. > > thanks again > Brian > On my system the BIOS (Award) offers the possibility select whether there are PNP-OS'es installed or not and all IRQs can be set manually if needed. But since you have XP installed it may be better use the Plug 'n Pray method (I'm not familiar with Bills latest inventions so I can't tell what happens if XP can't get the PNP info from BIOS, probably it freaks out and will blow up, burn your computer, your house, all of the neighborhood, gas stations nearby explode, etc. etc. ). So you'll just have to do some experimenting, you could start by letting the BIOS be as it is now and check isapnptools and it's documentation. pnpdump should give you the info you need to set up the sound card correctly. You didn't mention what version of Mandrake you have (or I missed it) so I suggest downloading the latest version of isapnptools and maybe XMMS too and all the related stuff. Cheers, J. -- A certain amount of opposition is a help, not a hindrance. Kites rise against the wind, not with it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
cool history lesson, thanks! On Friday 15 March 2002 09:05, Lyvim Xaphir opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > Where did you hear that the University of Cal at Berkeley invented Unix? i knew that bell labs did it, but i was under the impression that "bezerkely" was in on it from very early on, like 1970. funny thing is i have heard that joke from several ppl out here guess i have a new project, learn unix history. ;-) -- For more than 4 generations the IT Professionals were the guardians of quality and stability in software. Before the dark times. Before Microsoft.. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze?
On Friday 15 March 2002 11:47 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 19:07, Bill Davidson wrote: > > Anyone think they would do it? > > > > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html > > > > Bill > > > > > > It is a smokescreen to "scare" everybody (snicker) and also an obscenely > blatant posture posed to gain sympathy for their "case". > > If the DOJ hadn't been bought off by Republican lobbying by M$, (they > spent 24 million on the republicans, btw) it's entirely probable that > they would have been broken up by now. There have been three judges on > this case; and in every case, Microsoft (through its MSNBC news services > and other means) have been able to push the view that these judges were > biased. This trend is unparalleled as far as I know. Judge Colleen is > probably going to be the last stop; the "biased judge" routine was old > before it started. Actually, I believe that M$ might have tied in the code for IE with windoze so that they could say 'See, look what happens when you remove IE'. They think everyone is dumb and they can just paint their own picture of how things are and that's the way it will be. Of course that's their problem and they'll have to rework windoze if that's in fact true. I think it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop shipping windoze. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 22:30, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > I'm in Sydney, Australia [no Kangaroos here either, unless you travel a few > hundred kilometres inland, or visit a zoo :) ]. It's 14:30 and 23 degrees > Celsius (it's usually hotter, but we've had a lot of rain the past few days). > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > "We like to think of ourselves as the Microsoft of the energy world" > -- Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron > Would a kangaroo make a good pet? Just curious ;) _ 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] Shame we live in diff countries and all
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:11, shane wrote: > On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:26, Myers, Dennis R NWO opened a hailing > frequency and transmitted: > > > LoL... ever hear of Pigdog? Being a Sanfranciscan and all. > > fraid not, but i have only been here 2 years. :-P > > i have learned there is a reason berkely invented both UNIX and LSD > though. :-D > > -- > "He who laughs, lasts." Where did you hear that the University of Cal at Berkeley invented Unix? Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie developed the first version of Unix at Bell labs in Murray Hill, NJ circa 1969. (same year that men walked on the moon, btw) They developed the OS so they could run a game on a less expensive PDP-11 minicomputer (computer time was expensive in those days.) They made the OS portable by using a variant of the "B" programming language (authored by Ken Thompson) called "C" (based on B, but basically authored by Dennis Richie). The reason they wanted to port the OS was so they could run a game called "Space Travel." In 1975, Unix was made available to educational institutions at minimal cost by Bell Labs. Among those that got it was the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of Cal at Berkeley. The distro forked into BSD. _ 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] Installing a program via a shell script
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Mark Licker wrote: > > I'm trying to install a program I downloaded (faxview, as mentioned on > > Freshmeat). The download was a whopping 92 K shell script named > > faxview-2.0b. While in the directory containing the download, I su'ed to > > root and gave the command: > > > > faxview-2.0b > > > > and recived the error message "bash: faxview-2.0b: command not found" > > > > You mentioned that the program was downloaded as a shell script. Did you > try making it executable before running (chmod +x [file])? > Mark > > That would fix a permission denied error, not a file not found error. -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M$ to stop shipping windoze?
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 19:07, Bill Davidson wrote: > Anyone think they would do it? > > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html > > Bill > > It is a smokescreen to "scare" everybody (snicker) and also an obscenely blatant posture posed to gain sympathy for their "case". If the DOJ hadn't been bought off by Republican lobbying by M$, (they spent 24 million on the republicans, btw) it's entirely probable that they would have been broken up by now. There have been three judges on this case; and in every case, Microsoft (through its MSNBC news services and other means) have been able to push the view that these judges were biased. This trend is unparalleled as far as I know. Judge Colleen is probably going to be the last stop; the "biased judge" routine was old before it started. _ 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] Can't install on Dell (Kaj)
Hello Kaj, I´m in the middle of a exam-period so I haven´t been enable to read all my mails, I have too much to do. That means that I haven´t touched my new machine either. I just want to thank you for the help. I´m going to follow your advice, I will post my question to the expert list and hope for the best. /Edvard _s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Anmäl ditt intresse för Spray ADSL bredband! http://www.spray.se/adsl/intresse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What is ICE and DCOP?
Hey all, Newbie question here. I have a MD8.1 system. What are the following files in my home folder for? If they are corrupted or deleted what happens to the system? 1) ICEauthority 2) DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain_0: Thanks 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
[newbie] [somewhat OT] Descent3 again
OK, I've got Descent3 running now (my curiosity was piqued by earlier posts). It runs, but with no sound (this is using Mdk 8.0 and a Creative AWE64 card). The documentation boiled down to "If you don't have sound, then either your speakers aren't plugged in, or you don't have sound in Linux. If other Linux apps are producing sound, then it looks like you've got a problem". Anyone else have this problem? Anyone fixed it? Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren Post > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 6:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script > > > I'm trying to install a program I downloaded (faxview, as mentioned on > Freshmeat). The download was a whopping 92 K shell script named > faxview-2.0b. While in the directory containing the download, I su'ed to > root and gave the command: > > faxview-2.0b > > and recived the error message "bash: faxview-2.0b: command not found" > > What am I doing wrong? And recommendations for fax frontends gladly > accepted. > -- > Warren Post > Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras > http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ > > Warren, try ./faxview-2.0b at the prompt and see if that doesn't get it > going. Also Hylafax should be on the CDs and have a decent front end. HTH > > Dennis M. > You mentioned that the program was downloaded as a shell script. Did you try making it executable before running (chmod +x [file])? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Connection sharing reconfiguration.
One Mandrake box and a windows box sharing one IP address. IP masquarading was set up via Mandrake control center Connection Sharing. Everything works fine except that everytime after Mandrake reboot, the configuration of Conneciton sharing has to be done again. Is there any way I could keep the configuration? Many thanks, Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script
Title: RE: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren Post Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 6:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script I'm trying to install a program I downloaded (faxview, as mentioned on Freshmeat). The download was a whopping 92 K shell script named faxview-2.0b. While in the directory containing the download, I su'ed to root and gave the command: faxview-2.0b and recived the error message "bash: faxview-2.0b: command not found" What am I doing wrong? And recommendations for fax frontends gladly accepted. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Warren, try ./faxview-2.0b at the prompt and see if that doesn't get it going. Also Hylafax should be on the CDs and have a decent front end. HTH Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish
That's OK Civileme, it makes the rest of us feel better to know you are not quite perfect. Thanks Alan - now I have another command with which to baffle myself and others ;-) Brian On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 13:38, civileme wrote: > Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > >Brian Parish wrote: > > > >>Civileme, > >> > >>Hmmm. I can see that bdflush is running on my system, but > >>bdflush is not found either as root or as a normal user. > >> locate can't track it down either. Software Manager says > >>it's installed, but all I find is the man pages. Looking > >>at these, the command is certainly documented as you > >>suggest. > >> > >>Any ideas? There's no problem here, but I get curious when > >>little inconsistencies like this come up. > >> > >>Brian > >> > > > >Brianthe bdflush executable is named 'update'. :) > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > Darn! I forgot I had it aliased > > Civileme > > > > > > > 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
