Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Forse è il caso di rivalutare il buon vecchio win98, nonostante tutto.non vedi che le distro fanno acqua da tutte le parti ? al più win95... e poi con tutto quel plug and pray che c'è è un miracolo se qualcosa funziona, per esempio sul mio portatile win98 non c'è stato verso di installarlo (che computer intelligente che ho!) poi, scusa, se deve andare indietro nel tempo, basta scegliersi una versione di una distro di un paio di hanni fa...
Re: [newbie-it] Avvartimento
--- Renato [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 21:37, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 19:06, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Se non ti piace linux sei invitato cordialmente a cambiare ml e fraquentarne una per windows. Scusa Renato, ma con chi ce l'hai? Nicola. Con Vaiconlinux, leggi qua': Forse è il caso di rivalutare il buon vecchio win98, nonostante tutto.non vedi che le distro fanno acqua da tutte le parti ? Dimmi tu se c'e' bisogno di scrivere certe caz...e. Comunque copia di quasta mail l'ho mandata anche al diretto interessato. Ogni tanto ne arriva uno. Daai ragazzi, non ci scaldiamo per cosi' poco...! Personalmente non vedrei l'ora di sbarazzarmi di windows 98, perche' questo weekend ho dovuto reinstallarlo per l'ennesima volta (quando si incricca e' irrecuperabile!!), ma devo mantenerlo per via di due IMPORTANTISSIME ragioni: 1) I giochi - S, lo ammetto, sono un viscido amante del regno ludico! 2) I programmi di composizione musicale - Non ne ho ancora trovati allo stesso livello per Linux. Al di la' di questo pero', a cosa ti riferivi, Vaiconlinux, dicendo che le distro fanno acqua? E' vero che ultimamente sono saltati fuori un po' di allarmi dal punto di vista della sicurezza, pero' sappiamo che questi problemi affliggono ancora piu' pesantemente Windows e comunque Linux ha dimostrato di essere un sistema potente, affidabile e altamente configurabile. Che problemi hai incontrato? Ciao! Steo. __ Guarda il nuovo video di Anastacia su Yahoo! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.music.yahoo.com/anastacia/
[newbie-it] Salvare in html
Ciao a tutti! Scusate la domanda un po' idiota, ma voi come fate (se lo fate) a salvare, da un qualsiasi sito internet, su HD una pagina completa di tutte le immagini? Mi riferisco alla funzione Salva come pagina web completa di Internet Explorer? Io non ho trovato questa possibilita' in nessun browser (mozilla, netscape, konqueror), e salvare la pagina completa immagine per immagine a volte e' un po'... come dire noioso? Grazie. Steo. __ Guarda il nuovo video di Anastacia su Yahoo! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.music.yahoo.com/anastacia/
[newbie-it] driver Nvidia
Salve alla lista. Ho scaricato i sorgenti dei driver kernel dal sito ufficiale e ho dato il comando rpm --rebuild il file scaricato Poi ho scaricato il file GLX (non il sorgente). Quindi ho installato prima il file kernel ottenuto e dopo il file GLX. A questo punto sono andato nel Mandrake Control Center, ma non mi dà la possibilità di scegliere XFree4.2 con accelerazione grafica. Manca la voce... Come procedo adesso? Grazie alla lista. PS: la Mandrake è la 8.2 e stranamente va mlto più veloce della 8.1 Bye bye.
Re: [newbie-it] Salvare in html
Alle 10:15, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti! Scusate la domanda un po' idiota, ma voi come fate (se lo fate) a salvare, da un qualsiasi sito internet, su HD una pagina completa di tutte le immagini? Mi riferisco alla funzione Salva come pagina web completa di Internet Explorer? Io non ho trovato questa possibilita' in nessun browser (mozilla, netscape, konqueror), e salvare la pagina completa immagine per immagine a volte e' un po'... come dire noioso? Grazie. Steo. Se utilizzi kde, in konqueror, vai nel menu strumenti e scegli Archivia pagina web. Ti proporrà di salvarla in due formati: .war e .tgz Completa di immagini e componenti. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Emma e Gigi wrote: Salve a tutti!! Eccomi ancora qui :) :) Dunque il portatile è un Pentium 133 e 16 Mb di RAM. Pensavo che Mandrake andasse bene.. comunque mi cercherò qualche vecchia distribuzione. Se voglio passare a Linux anche con il portatile è perchè da anni utilizzo Windows ed è da anni che mi sono rotto Mi crea un sacco di problemi... Ora con Linux mi sono trovato benissimo!!! per cui ho pensato di utilizzarlo anche con il portatile. Per dire la verità anche con il computer (da tavolo) utilizzo Windows Billennium in quanto lo utilizzo per trascrizioni musicali ed ancora non ho trovato un programma per Linux tipo Finale a proposito qualcuno mi può dare consigli? Così do veramente l'addio allo zio d'America e ai suoi prodotti (a proposito, ho provato anche Windows XP. forse l'unica cosa non storta è. la X :) :) ) Ciaooo Gigi Ciao, sono certo che la red hat 6.2 dovrebbe andare bene. Qui in dipartimento abbiamo dei computer vecchi che teniamo in vita grazie a questa distribuzione. Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Salve a tutti!! Eccomi ancora qui :) :) Dunque il portatile è un Pentium 133 e 16 Mb di RAM. Pensavo che Mandrake andasse bene.. comunque mi cercherò qualche vecchia distribuzione. Ti consiglio di non unsare vecchie distribuzioni, ma nuove in configurazioni ridotte. Sono quasi sicuro che il kernel , cioè il cuore del programmam, non sia aumentato di dimensione nel tempo. Casomai è cresciuta l'abilità nella gestione delle risorse e la quantità di accessori, in particolare per quel che riguarda la grafica. In questo momento ti sto scrivendo da un 486 con 8 Mb di ram in modalità non grafica. Luca
Re: [newbie-it] Re: Avvertimento
Il 00:56, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Renato wrote: Se non ti piace linux sei invitato cordialmente a cambiare ml e fraquentarne una per windows. Rispondo all' Avvartimento (forse avvertimento ?) con il dispiacere di non essere stato capito o, più probabilmente, di essermi spiegato male. Per prima cosa, non è vero che non mi piaccia linux. Uso linux per hobby, ma ho fatto molti sforzi per cercare di usarlo e di capirlo, nei limiti del poco tempo libero e delle mie competenze informatiche. Del resto se sono qua non è solo per aumentare la bolletta telefonica. I motivi per cui non piaccia windows possono essere molti e possono essere condivisibili. Però non si può dire che faccia schifo, questa sarebbe un'idiozia. Basta un pò di attenzione col registro, col disco, evitare applicazioni che causano problemi e il sistema va bene e praticamente non si blocca mai. Sopratutto non si presentano tutte le difficoltà a cui si va incontro con linux e su questo non credo ci sia niente da obiettare. ... Una ML serve per scambiarsi opinioni riguardo al tema della stessa e, in questo caso (cioè di Mandrake), non necessariamente bisogna denigrare Win..ws. Ma se non sei sicuro (perchè come dici tu non sei esperto di Linux) che un problema possa essere risolto nell'ambito Mandrake-Linux allora non è corretto rispondere di usare Win..ws perchè questo è 1) Non corretto dal punto di vista del consiglio (visto che altri hanno risposto che probabilmente quel problema potesse essere risolto con Linux). 2) Non è corretto dal punto di vista dell ML perchè non siamo qui per sponsorizzare Win..ws ma per darci una mano l'uno con l'altro per infrangere il monopolio creato da Win..ws e per usare il più possibile questa distro in particolare. Scusate il discorso del tipo Padre Ralph. Ciao, Germano (1) P.S: Scusate ma non ce lo fatto a non cambiare il soggetto (2) P.S: (per vaiconlinux) Molto lodevole quello cha hai fatto (II parte della tua e-mail)
Re: [newbie-it] Salvare in html
--- Sandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Se utilizzi kde, in konqueror, vai nel menu strumenti e scegli Archivia pagina web. Ti proporrà di salvarla in due formati: .war e .tgz Completa di immagini e componenti. Ciao Sandro Grazie, non l'avevo proprio notato!! Ciao! Steo. __ Guarda il nuovo video di Anastacia su Yahoo! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.music.yahoo.com/anastacia/
Re: [newbie-it] driver Nvidia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A questo punto sono andato nel Mandrake Control Center, ma non mi dà la possibilità di scegliere XFree4.2 con accelerazione grafica. Manca la voce... Come procedo adesso? c'e` un README sul sito Nvidia, oppure http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hgforce.html. In pratica devi modificare/aggiungere un paio di righe in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 In piu` puoi mettere: Option CursorShadow yes Option NoLogo yes per avere il puntatore del mouse con l'ombra :-) e per eliminare il logo di Nvidia all'avvio di X. Comunque, controlla nel readme la sintassi, perche' ho citato a memoria. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] incredibile...
Vi comunico una novità... (magari già lo sapete). Nella Mandrake 8.2 non c'è traccia di Netscape. Ci sono Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror e gli altri. Un saluto.
Re: [newbie-it] driver Nvidia
Il gio, 2002-03-21 alle 13:48, Andrea Celli ha scritto: c'e` un README sul sito Nvidia, oppure http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hgforce.html. In pratica devi modificare/aggiungere un paio di righe in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 In piu` puoi mettere: Option CursorShadow yes Option NoLogo yes per avere il puntatore del mouse con l'ombra :-) e per eliminare il logo di Nvidia all'avvio di X. Comunque, controlla nel readme la sintassi, perche' ho citato a memoria. ciao, Andrea Mi sono commosso dall'emozione quando al riavvio del serverX tutto ha funzionato alla perfezione :))) Grazie mille. Avrei una seconda domandina. Mandrake 8.2 installa di default con tutti i plugin DVDNAV ad esempio) il programma xine. Per vedere i miei dvd è sufficiente installare il decss o devo fare qualche alchimia strana? Grazie ;)
[newbie-it] Avvartimento, cordiale e sincero.
Alle 00:56, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Renato wrote: Se non ti piace linux sei invitato cordialmente a cambiare ml e fraquentarne una per windows. Io non appartengo a nessuna elite, sono un newbie, do' consigli su argomenti che ho affrontato, dalla tua frase si e' capito solo che potevi essere un troll, e in maniera garbata e sincera ti ho invitato a frequentare altre liste. Ti invito a rileggere quello che hai sritto, della lunga mail che hai scritto ne ho letto solo alcune frasi, in quanto i tui chiarimenti sono inutili. Questa e' una ML per utenti Linux, se il massimo che sai fare e postare domande sui pacchetti software della Mandrake e consigli su come tornare ad usare Windows perche', secondo te, linux fa acqua da tutte le parti, ti consiglio di non postare piu' onde evitare futuri fraintendimenti, e fare domande per ricevere aiuto, se ti serve. Credo do avere chiarito la situazione. Vaiconlinux, leggi qua': Forse è il caso di rivalutare il buon vecchio win98, nonostante tutto.non vedi che le distro fanno acqua da tutte le parti ? viger -- Mandra 8.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]OpenBSD 2.9 Registered User #265623 - Registered Machine #149107 WWW.OpenBEER.it Beer OpenBSD User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Polemiche.
Carissimi, questa lista ha un discreto volume di traffico. Vi proporrei di limitarlo a quello di una certa utilita' pratica. Posso capire le posizioni di tutti voi ma non mi va di rientrare dal week-end e trovare la mail-box affogata. In ogni caso: Firmate le vostre lettere! Contate fino a 10 prima di spedirle. Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Polemiche.
Il 08:53, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Carissimi, Si, carrisimmo, carissimi. questa lista ha un discreto volume di traffico. L'ho pensato dal secondo giorno post iscrizione (ma non mi sono mai lamentato... tranne con `quelli' che chiedono spiegazioni sul come revocare l'iscrizione). Vi proporrei di limitarlo a quello di una certa utilita' pratica. La questione e' ancora piu' importante dei tecnicismi vari, perche' se uno non ha chiaro in mente che cosa e' e a che cosa serve il sofware libero non ha capito assolutamente niente. Posso capire le posizioni di tutti voi ma non mi va di rientrare dal week-end e trovare la mail-box affogata. Scusate del disturbo... provvederemo noi a ripulirle la linux-box. In ogni caso: Firmate le vostre lettere! Contate fino a 10 prima di spedirle. In ogni caso: 1) la firma e' un fatto facoltativo; nessuno puo' essere obbligato a firmare, tantomeno da te; 2) Io, personalmente, conto fino a cento e conosco anche persone che arrivano a mille, ma e' inutile perdere tempo perche' siamo esseri umani (a priori fallibili!). Ciao Luigi Ciao Ciao, gheblond
Re: [newbie-it] incredibile...
Il gio, 2002-03-21 alle 15:46, Germano ha scritto: Mi sembra strano, io a casa ho la 8.2 beta ed ho Netscape 4.79. Possibile che lo abbiano tolto proprio per la release finale? Ciao, Germano Dunque 1) Al termine dell'installazione ho notato che non veniva installato 2) Lancio da terminale netscape e mi torna un laconico command not found 3) Apro l'installer e non compare nè tra installabile ne tra installati 4) Guardo sul cd1 e non c'è. Non credo che sia sugli altri. Strana scelta di Mandrake, forse avranno notato dei bug sulla sicurezza all'ultimo minuto. Un saluto. Cmq. uso Galeon da mesi e devo dire che è una bomba.
Re: [newbie-it] Avvartimento
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : vaiconlinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:06:28 +0100 Subject : [newbie-it] Avvartimento Se non ti piace linux sei invitato cordialmente a cambiare ml e fraquentarne una per windows. Sono pienamente d'accordo! Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.iol.it/mlodirizzini (o_ Membro del FoLUG //\ Forlì Linux Users Group V_/_ http://folug.linux.it Mandrake 8.1 su Celeron 733
Re: [newbie-it] konqueror-netscape-mozilla-galeon
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:14:13 +0100 Subject : Re: [newbie-it] konqueror-netscape-mozilla-galeon metodo gorillesco ma forse funziona (mi sembra di avere fatto qualcosa di simile): prova a copiare /usr/lib/netscape/plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins tom wrote: Scusateche versione di netscape vien installata con mdk8.1 downlo ad editio?? Nella mia piena ignoranza ho fatto l'upgrade a 6.2.1 e ora sembra che fili tutto liscio.ho fatto la prova pure con siti che erano stati pres i ad esempio qui in ML e si vede tutto perfettamente ecetto uno in cui mi dice di scaricare un plugin per flash.che c'è gia. Ora come si fa per far condivider il tutto a mozilla?? Ciao , Tom Sarebbe meglio creare un link, così quando in futuro aggiornerai i plug- in di Netscape ti saranno automaticamente disponibili x Mozilla. Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.iol.it/mlodirizzini (o_ Membro del FoLUG //\ Forlì Linux Users Group V_/_ http://folug.linux.it Mandrake 8.1 su Celeron 733
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Il giorno 12:09, giovedì 21 marzo 2002 hai scritto: [CUT] In questo momento ti sto scrivendo da un 486 con 8 Mb di ram in modalità non grafica. Luca X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Qui qualcosa non torna... ;) Daniele
[newbie-it] Galeon does not run ?! :-)))
Buongiorno a tutta la ML. EccoVi il mio problema di oggi: di norma uso KDE ma oggi mi andava di provare Gnome, per cercare di capirci qualche cosa. Cercando di avviare GALEON, mi compare la scritta : Cannot find a schema for galeon preferencies.Check your gconf setup, look at galeon FAQ for more info.( e, sottinteso, Galeon non si avvia ) Premesso che sono un veryverynewbie, che galeon non si avvia e quindi le FAQ non posso leggerle, dove posso trovare gconf setup per controllarlo come mi viene richiesto ? ( ammesso poi che le mie conoscenze di linus me lo permettano) Ringrazio in anticipo e saluto tutti giocarra
Re: [newbie-it] Periferica Hub?
Alle 08:37, gioved 21 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Renato wrote: Alle 14:59, mercoled 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Hai caricato i module per l'usb? Penso di si tant' che il mouse usb collegato direttamente al pc ha sempre funzionato comunque : ismod usb.c (da Prompt). Ho fatto da terminale come root, ma un msg mi dice ismod command not found. Prova con rmmod noomemodulo : per scaricare i moduli gia caricati e renderlo pronto per accettare altri moduli. modprobe nomemodulo : adesso ricarica i moduli e li verifica . Il problema e' il nome esatto del modulo usb: per Red Hat e' usb_uhci o _uhic. Spero possa esserti utile, piu' o meno e' il procedimendo che ho usato per la scheda tv di un mio amico. Provae fammi sapere. ciao Renato -- Mandra 8.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]OpenBSD 2.9 Registered User #265623 - Registered Machine #149107 WWW.OpenBEER.it Beer OpenBSD User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Il gio, 2002-03-21 alle 16:11, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Il giorno 12:09, giovedì 21 marzo 2002 hai scritto: [CUT] In questo momento ti sto scrivendo da un 486 con 8 Mb di ram in modalità non grafica. Luca X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Qui qualcosa non torna... ;) Daniele ROTFL
Re: [newbie-it] driver Nvidia
Brunini Alessandro wrote: .. Avrei una seconda domandina. Mandrake 8.2 installa di default con tutti i plugin DVDNAV ad esempio) il programma xine. Per vedere i miei dvd è sufficiente installare il decss o devo fare qualche alchimia strana? Qui passo la mano: non ho un lettore dvd e ho finito 5 minuti fa di masterizzare il terzo CD della 8.2. Penso di installarla nel fine settimana :-) ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] incredibile...
Brunini Alessandro wrote: Vi comunico una novità... (magari già lo sapete). Nella Mandrake 8.2 non c'è traccia di Netscape. Ci sono Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror e gli altri. In effetti, sembra proprio mancare. Piu` che problemi di sicurezza, credo che abbia prevalso la considerazione che sia inutile sprecare decine di mega per un software commerciale, quando sono presenti il suo gemello open e altri sw GPL analoghi. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] driver Nvidia
Il gio, 2002-03-21 alle 16:25, Andrea Celli ha scritto: Brunini Alessandro wrote: .. Avrei una seconda domandina. Mandrake 8.2 installa di default con tutti i plugin DVDNAV ad esempio) il programma xine. Per vedere i miei dvd è sufficiente installare il decss o devo fare qualche alchimia strana? Qui passo la mano: non ho un lettore dvd e ho finito 5 minuti fa di masterizzare il terzo CD della 8.2. Penso di installarla nel fine settimana :-) ciao, Andrea Grazie mille sei sempre prezioso e gentile. ;) Ciao. PS: puoi confermare che Netscape non c'è?
[newbie-it] Problemi di stampa ... non stampa!
Hai provato a controllare dal centro di controllo-gestore stampa lo stato della stampante? Se vicino all'icona della stampante hai un punto esclamativo rosso e lo stato ti dice 'interrotta' devi riabilitarla (o dalla barra degli strumenti sopra o cliccando col puls destro). Probabilmente per fare questo devi essere root. Ad esempio sul mio sistema quando finisconoi le cartucce la stampante si disabilita e devo riabilitarla. beh in realtà sembra tutto a posto, ho anche provato il comando lpq ma dice che non c'è coda di stampa... mi viene in mente che l'unica cosa che ho fatto ... è eliminare la partenza automatica del servizio ldap ... c'entra qualcosa? come si fa a stampare da terminale? ciao! -- * * * Fratelli, perchè c'è bisogno del leone nello spirito? Perchè non basta la bestia da soma che rinuncia e venera? Creare nuovi valori - ciò non può fare ancora neanche il leone: ma crearsi libertà per un nuovo creare - ciò può la potenza del leone. (F. Nietzsche da Così parlò Zarathustra) Massimo Di Casola Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] incredibile...
Il 16:42, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Brunini Alessandro wrote: Vi comunico una novità... (magari già lo sapete). Nella Mandrake 8.2 non c'è traccia di Netscape. Ci sono Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror e gli altri. In effetti, sembra proprio mancare. Piu` che problemi di sicurezza, credo che abbia prevalso la considerazione che sia inutile sprecare decine di mega per un software commerciale, quando sono presenti il suo gemello open e altri sw GPL analoghi. Ma di cosa si parla: Netscape 4.79 o 6.x.x? Sul secondo sono d'accordo ma sul primo ho i miei dubbi che non ce ne sia bisogno o che comunque sia solo una copia. Non avendo la 8.2 definitiva, comunque, non metto più bocca. Ciao, Germano ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] incredibile...
Il 18:00, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Il 16:42, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Brunini Alessandro wrote: Vi comunico una novità... (magari già lo sapete). Nella Mandrake 8.2 non c'è traccia di Netscape. Ci sono Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror e gli altri. In effetti, sembra proprio mancare. Piu` che problemi di sicurezza, credo che abbia prevalso la considerazione che sia inutile sprecare decine di mega per un software commerciale, quando sono presenti il suo gemello open e altri sw GPL analoghi. Ma di cosa si parla: Netscape 4.79 o 6.x.x? Sul secondo sono d'accordo ma sul primo ho i miei dubbi che non ce ne sia bisogno o che comunque sia solo una copia. Non avendo la 8.2 definitiva, comunque, non metto più bocca. Ciao, Germano ciao, andrea forse dipende dal fatto che netscape 6 viene considerato da alcuni spyware. ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Re: Avvartimento
Alle 13:41, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, gheblond ha scritto: Posso essere daccordo con te (vaiconlinux)su diverse cose..come sul fatto che linux non sia proprio semplicissimo da utilizzare,configurare,personalizzareetc etc etc da parte di un nonesperto (come lo sono io) .Ma da qui a dire che win9x puo essere preso come alternativa per risolvere un dato problema, non sono affato daccordo .Se alla fine ti ritoverai con un sistema linux perfettamente funzionante o quasi(come nel mio caso) , non credo che proporrai ad un altra persona di prendere in considerazione un qualsiasi win. Anche io come te ho inizziato ad usare linux come passatempo circa 5 mesi fà ,e sbattendo la testa contro i problemi di linux ho deciso di abbandonare proprio quel win98 ,da me sempre lodato.Le motivazioni sono sicuramente quelle della magiorpare degli ex windowsiani, Poi per quanto riguarda l'attacorivolto contro di te lo ri tengo un po esagerato ma contestualmente giusto. Spero di non aver detto troppe ovvieta in questre 4 righe. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] fuso...orario
Alle 11:52, martedì 19 marzo 2002, Stefano Bigotta ha scritto: controllato.ho provato pure a sincronoizzare tutti e due gli os sul fuso orario di Mosca.ma nisba Ciao, verifica il fuso orario. Probabilmente uno dei due è errato grazie comunque Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] konqueror-netscape-mozilla-galeon
Alle 16:08, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, Mario Lodi Rizzini ha scritto: Sarebbe meglio creare un link, così quando in futuro aggiornerai i plug- in di Netscape ti saranno automaticamente disponibili x Mozilla. ok , grazie mille Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] incredibile...
Si parla di Netscape 4.x Per questo il subject era ...incredibile... Un saluto
Re: [newbie-it] Salvare in html
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:15:02 +0100 (CET) Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti! Scusate la domanda un po' idiota, ma voi come fate (se lo fate) a salvare, da un qualsiasi sito internet, su HD una pagina completa di tutte le immagini? Mi riferisco alla funzione Salva come pagina web completa di Internet Explorer? io uso Opera e esiste questa opzione. -- saluti Alessandro __ | slackware 8.0 | | kernel 2.4.17 | |_|
[newbie-it] Programmi musicali. era: Installazione Linux su portatile
00:17, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, Emma e Gigi: Billennium in quanto lo utilizzo per trascrizioni musicali ed ancora non ho trovato un programma per Linux tipo Finale a proposito qualcuno mi può dare consigli? Se come trascrizioni intendi fare lo spartito da un file .mid, tempo fa avevo raggiunto ottimi risultati con il programma abc, passando attraverso abcMIDI http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/ http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/ spero che i link siano ancora vivi: è da un paio d'anni che non ci vado. Programmi per editare spartiti sotto linux: LilyPond MusiXTeX e Mup. Per sapere quali sono i più validi programmi musicali in generale per linux consiglio sicuramente (questo anche per Stefano Salari) il sito di Dave Phillips: www.linuxsound.at Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Il 12:09, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, in merito a R: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile, luca laghi ha scritto: ... In questo momento ti sto scrivendo da un 486 con 8 Mb di ram in modalità non grafica. ??? X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 ??? la tua linuxbox _non_grafica_ usa 'guardafuori' al posto di pine?? O.o bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 --
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Il 00:17, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile, Emma e Gigi ha scritto: Salve a tutti!! Eccomi ancora qui :) :) Dunque il portatile è un Pentium 133 e 16 Mb di RAM. Pensavo che Mandrake andasse bene.. comunque mi cercherò qualche vecchia distribuzione. se posso dare un consiglio: Rh 6.2 o mandrake 7.2 (non uso SUSE dalla 6.0 quindi, per ignoranza non mi pronuncio, e consigliare Debian non mi pare il caso) ..al limite, una slack 7.0? ;P bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 --
Re: [newbie-it] Re: Avvartimento
Il 00:56, giovedì 21 marzo 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Re: Avvartimento, vaiconlinux ha scritto: I motivi per cui non piaccia windows possono essere molti e possono essere condivisibili. Però non si può dire che faccia schifo, questa sarebbe un'idiozia. ok... allora facciamo un giro tra i nuovi PC appena arrivati da me, di 18 (tutti uguali, ma capaci di dare una serie disparata di errori) non ne gira uno decentemente, chiaramente le specifiche del bando di gara prevedevano hardware dell'ultima generazione, di ottime marche, con configurazione ed installazione a cura del fornitore e, quindi, ci sarebbe da supporre che la configurazione sia stata fatta bene, visto che altrimenti sarebbe stato necessario rimetterci mano... caso strano, installata (per prova) una RH7.2 su uno (particolarmente fortunato) sono spariti gli schermi blu.. Basta un pò di attenzione col registro, col disco, evitare applicazioni che causano problemi e il sistema va bene e praticamente non si blocca mai. i drivers li scarichi da www.lourdes.net?? ;P Sopratutto non si presentano tutte le difficoltà a cui si va incontro con linux e su questo non credo ci sia niente da obiettare. nulla, ma la difficoltà è degli utenti che quando vanno a stampare un documento, improvvisamente vedono blu e devono resettare, ad esempio.. E' questo che volevo dire. Ho un vecchio 486, si dice che va benissimo per linux, non è vero (lo so, esistono altri metodi, che però ne limitano le funzionalità).. Vado per installare Mandrake e non va perchè progettato dal pentium in su, altrove la scheda audio non è riconosciuta, questo non dipende certo da mandrake, il kernel non cambia, i moduli neanche la tale applicazione è meglio non usarla perchè non è stabile, quell'altra ha un bug e bisogna aggiornarla e via così. le beta non si dovrebbero usare neanche sotto win$ i bug 9 volte su 10 vanno corretti solo per motivi di sicurezza, ma a meno di gestire un server, su una macchina casalinga la stessa distribuzione può essere tenuta a vita Allora, se uno che può benissimo essere una persona ugualmente intelligente, dice di avere un mucchio di problemi nell'installazione e nell'uso di linux (come era il caso del messaggio all'origine della questione), non si può dirgli che può considerare l'uso di windows come alternativa ? guarda che conosco gente che non riesce neanche ad installare office, men che meno win$ 98!! le difficoltà sono relative, ai tempi del dos, era molto più complicato far funzionare un PC, con jumpers da settare, conflitti ecc. all'epoca cosa si poteva fare? insistere oggi, seppure esistono sistemi che si usano a suon di click (e reset) con un minimo di impegno si riesce comnque a fare quello che si vuole Mi sembra che il discorso sia molto chiaro e semplice. non lo condivido, ma rispetto le tue idee (ma sono pronto a fartele cambiare, se vuoi :-) Per quanto riguarda l'avvartimento, mi sembra veramente fuori luogo. su questo hai ragione, solo che, spesso, su altre ML sono 'passati' dei personaggi che si divertivano a sparare qualche idiozia su Win-vs-Lin per scatenare fiammate.. probabilmente sei stato trattato male più per levata di scudi che per quello che hai detto Saluti, Fer. bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 --
Re: Re[2]: [newbie-it] mi e' morto Linux
Il 19:35, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, in merito a Re[2]: [newbie-it] mi e' morto Linux, Arwan ha scritto: C Il dom, 2002-03-17 alle 08:36, Arwan ha scritto: ho fatto il loguot e, nel rientrare, mi ha seganlato che lo spazio e' insufficiente. Dopo il reboot, invece, nessun segno di vita. E ora? (Mike non ridere) Reinstallo??? C Vale per qualsiasi utente? Provato come root? E entrando in modalità C testuale...? L'unico avvio che riesco a fare e' il rescue; oppure parte l'installazione normale e, quando si deve avviare kde (dopo aver inizializzato tutto), linux continua ad accendere e spegnere il monitor, come se non fosse capace di far altro. allora, immaginiamo che la chiamata al tuo kernel si chiami semplicemente 'linux' all'avvio del sistema, appena ti appare la schermata di lilo, premi [tab] e digita linux single [invio] si avvierà il sistema in modalità monoutente ed avrai i privilegi di root a questo punto, nella tua home, ed in /tmp dovresti trovare l'immondizia generata dalla conversione degli mp3 rimuovi il tutto e senza riavviare entra in runlevel 3 così potrai controllare se i servizi si avviano correttamente, se tutto dovesse avviarsi come di consueto, loggati da utente classico e digita startx a questo punto dovrebbe partire il tuo VM predefinito se non parte, ti ritroverai in runlevel 3 e potrai leggere a video quali siano gli errori del server x (errori che ritrovi anche in /var/log... XFree86.0.log per X; messages e syslog per il sistema) facci sapere... bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 --
[newbie-it] ancora samba...
Salve alla lista as usual ho problemi con samba (o affini). In pratica il mio server casalingo mi permette di fare tutto ciò che voglio (FTP, Internet, ecc...) tranne la condivisione del disco con samba e della stampante. Il punto è questo: samba è (credo) correttamente configurato, visto che il smb.conf è identico ad una mia precedente configurazione (l'avevo stampato). Ho notato che se dal client cerco di accedere ai files condivisi con komba (una specie di risorse di rete di KDE), questo non vede NIENTE... I vari test sul server hanno dato esito positivo. Il server samba è up e condivide quello che glio ho detto di condividere. Perchè allora non vedo niente? Suggerimenti? Un saluto.
[newbie-it] Aggiornamento
Domanda da niubbo totale ho Mandrake 8.1 x aggiornarmi alla 8.2 posso farlo in qche modo automaticamente o devo cancellare quella vecchia installare quella nuova ecc ecc? grassie saluti -- Sostieni anche tu www.antijuve.com
[newbie-it] licq 1.1
ciao a tutti ^_^ ho un problema (spero) banale ma che davvero non riesco a risolvere: qualcuno riesce a far andare la versione 1.1 di licq su mandrake 8.2? il problema è che necessita dell'installazione di libssl.so.1 che mi sembra sia una libreria precedente a quella che ora c'è sul mio computer visto che ogni volta che provo ad installarla il messaggio che ricevo mi avverte che nel sistema ne è presente una più recente. Ho provato a forzare l'installazione di licq senza preoccuparmi della suddetta libreria ed il messaggio di errore che ricevo quando cerco di farlo partire è: licq: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory domanda n°1: c'è un modo per dire a licq di usare libssl.so.2 e non la versione preistorica che dice di volere tanto? domanda n°2: nel caso convincere licq sia impossibile, esiste un modo per installare il file necessario senza far saltare anche quello nella versione precedente? domanda n°3: perchè licq 1.0.4 funziona il licq 1.1 che ho scaricato è l'rpm di un cvs abbastanza recente... perchè mi richiede una libreria vecchia? se mi rispondete vi prego di spiegarmi cosa fare come lo spieghereste ad un bambino di 3 anni visto che sono davvero alle primissime armi con linux ^_^ grazie in anticipo!
Re: [newbie-it] Periferica Hub?
- Original Message - From: Renato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Periferica Hub? Cut Prova con rmmod noomemodulo : per scaricare i moduli gia caricati e renderlo pronto per accettare altri moduli. modprobe nomemodulo : adesso ricarica i moduli e li verifica . Il problema e' il nome esatto del modulo usb: per Red Hat e' usb_uhci o _uhic. Come faccio a trovare il nome del modulo? E se scarico i moduli gi caricati rischio qualcosa con il funzionamento del mouse o di altre periferiche? Tieni presente che vado alla cieca seguendo i tuoi consigli ;-) Ciao ku68
[newbie-it] Problema invio mail
Scusate, ma oggi non riesco più a inviare le mail con mozilla. MI spiego: al momento di inviare si apre la finestra mail-server password required. E' la prima volta che mi succede e ho provato a digitare tutte le passw possibili ma non c'è verso :-( La cosa curiosa è che le mail vengono ricevute regolarmente. Cosa posso aver combinato? Credo di aver toccato qualcosa nel linux conf ma niente a che vedere con il mail server (è un pc singolo). Mi potete aiutare? Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale risposta ku68
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
I have to say, you are far too harsh on yourself. You are one of few who has learn much in such a short time. You also have the best attitude for learning Linux that I have ever read on this list. I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to others - they are more screwed up than you think. - Original Message - From: Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2 *bashes her head against a wall* DAMNIT! I hate being silly...but frankly there are days I wonder where my brain left to go for lunch... so I can hunt it down kill it. Thx much Femme On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:14, Brian Parish wrote: Under View, select Hide Deleted Messages, then they're sort of gone - at least from sight. Brian On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 16:19, Femme wrote: OK I did all that ! God I feel stupid... I thought it out before I got this message. So I guess i'm not that stupid. ;0 Thx to everyone whos' helped. I got it working. I'm typing this email in Evolution as we speak. :) Now, if only I can figure out how to just put msgs into the trash instead of marking for deletion then having to manually empty the trash to do it. Femme On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 19:43, Miark wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:10:17 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I don't know... How would I go about doing so pls? I have never done it could use some guidance? Femme Tres facile: 1) Plug in a PS/2 mouse, and you're USB mouse. 2) Install 8.2, choosing the appropriate PS/2 mouse. 3) There is no step three. Proceed to the next step. 4) When all is installed, run the Mandrake Control Center. 5) Under Hardware, choose Mouse. 6) Open the USB list, and choose the appropriate mouse. (i.e. with or without scroll wheel). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com 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] Evolution, deleting msgs and using the spell checker
Don't sweat it - there's something not quite obvious about the way it's implemented. I think I was using it for about a week before I worked out that that was all I needed to do. I guess the problem is - what you want to do it DELETE messages, not just hide them, so you look for a way to do that...maybe if they renamed the option: Make deleted messages dissappear immediately or something...Anyway, you are not the first to ask this question (or the last). cheers Brian On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 18:59, Femme wrote: *is going to put a hole in a wall tonight ... eventually* I swear... if I get anything else thats staring me in the face pointed out to me I'm going to scream. *sigh* Thx Brian. I appreciate the response. Femme On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:40, Brian Parish wrote: Under View, select Hide Deleted Messages, then under Tools | Mail Settings | Other, select Empty trash folder on exit. Brian On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 16:44, Femme wrote: I went through the help files in Evolution. Nice little package. No joy on figuring out how to automatically delete something once I hit the Del key though. Nor does it mention how to automatically enable a spell-checker for my emails. Any ideas!? Come on! I'm 3/4 of the way there to not buggin the list again real soon! :) Oh shanes a cutie, thx love. Femme 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] Evolution, deleting msgs and using the spell checker
I said screw it. I'm on sylpheed now ;p Ya all in a matter of 30 mins. Yes I learn fast ;p *shrugs* besides, if something works better why not use it? And so far this does. Femme On 21 Mar 2002 19:22:05 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't sweat it - there's something not quite obvious about the way it's implemented. I think I was using it for about a week before I worked out that that was all I needed to do. I guess the problem is - what you want to do it DELETE messages, not just hide them, so you look for a way to do that...maybe if they renamed the option: Make deleted messages dissappear immediately or something...Anyway, you are not the first to ask this question (or the last). cheers Brian On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 18:59, Femme wrote: *is going to put a hole in a wall tonight ... eventually* I swear... if I get anything else thats staring me in the face pointed out to me I'm going to scream. *sigh* Thx Brian. I appreciate the response. Femme On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:40, Brian Parish wrote: Under View, select Hide Deleted Messages, then under Tools | Mail Settings | Other, select Empty trash folder on exit. Brian On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 16:44, Femme wrote: I went through the help files in Evolution. Nice little package. No joy on figuring out how to automatically delete something once I hit the Del key though. Nor does it mention how to automatically enable a spell-checker for my emails. Any ideas!? Come on! I'm 3/4 of the way there to not buggin the list again real soon! :) Oh shanes a cutie, thx love. Femme 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] Living in the real world - Win4Lin4 NO INTEREST TO GEEK FOLKS
I generally avoid these kinds of discussions but I feel compelled to respond. I have two computers, both of which use Linux (one dual boots WinXp so I can play games and use my SanDisk card reader as it's not yet supported under Linux). One runs 8.1 and the other 8.2rc1 (I see no reason to go full out to 8.2 because the beta works awesomely imo). Anyway, they both installed without a hitch and work perfectly. 8.2 even set up my printer and Zip Disk (Both USB) without any (except a couple of clicks) input. I only have minor problems, but no different than I would have under Windows - AND I didn't have to install ANY Drivers - it even recognized my Audigy sound card! Can't get much easier than that - dealing with Driver disks is always a gotcha for non-geeks. Linux runs and installs effortlessly. James _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: service start up WAS xfs....... slower than ext3??????
Mandrake control centre - System - Services Richard -- In the darkness I will shine Cast not shadows, nor define -- David, Thursday 21 March 2002 08:07: Yeah, I think its nothing. I did a hdparm on my different partitions; ext3 for /home and xfs for the rest, and they showed about the same thing. Even my fat32 partition measured in at about the same. I do think I got more services running/starting at boot. On that note, I forget the cmd to change what services start at boot. Is there a gui front-end for it? Dave On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:58:27 + RichardA said onto me: Now I'm worried ... how much is too much? Did you go from 8.1 to 8.2? If you reinstalled 8.2, is it the same version and are exactly the same services running? You have to compare like with like. Richard -- Wave, triangle, circle, square -- David, Wednesday 20 March 2002 22:49: Last evening I installed MD8.2, and reformatted my / and /usr partitions as xfs. Now, just about everything seems to be running slower then MD8.1 on ext3 partitions. Did I smoke too much grass in my younger years or is this a reality? Is there something I maybe did wrong? Is there a check of some type that I could perform to test this? What could be causing this? confused Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] configurators won't run
I had to link /dev/dsp from /dev/sound/dsp manually in 8.1. It's not related to your more serious problem. Richard -- I started out one day and I worked in a factory My mind went blank, I needed a battery -- David, Thursday 21 March 2002 07:58: I'm running MD8.2. After the install, all was well. Now, I must of done something to some libraries or something. I cannot run any conf apps including: drakconf, userconf, userdrake, harddrake, timeconfig, and drakfloppy. After running linuxconf I get the following: Missing configuration file /etc/devsfsd.config or service devsfsd At login, I get an error. Something to the effect of /dev/dsp cannot be found. Is this related? Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
On 20 Mar 2002 22:19:29 -0700 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: snippage Now, if only I can figure out how to just put msgs into the trash instead of marking for deletion then having to manually empty the trash to do it. = I'm a Sylpheed user, but I have played w/ Evolution and use it occasionally (it does filtering for IMAP accounts, which Sylpheed hasn't quite mastered yet). Check the various menues (I forget which one) and click on hide deleted (or marked as deleted) (I forget exact title, but something like that). HTH, Mike -- He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you., he really is an idiot. -Groucho Marx _ 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] dial-up access on network
Nick wrote: I recently reinstalled 8.1 and the dial-up access was working fine, but the NIC was not installed. When I installed the NIC, the dial-up access stopped responding. It will dial in and connect, but it is as if the computer is trying to send the internet traffic somewhere else. I have tried several times with redoing the internet access and sharing info in the control center to do avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! Hi Nick, I am have had the problem you describe. On my K7 motherboard I moved the NIC card between the PCI slots until the modem started working. Hope it helps you. When you figure out how to get the NIC and modem working at the same time mail me. Hope it works for you. -- === Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 mobo Licenced Windows user === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit
FemmeFatale wrote: *S* old debate...don't stir up the old hardware geeks :P IMHO, leave it on. Less stress on the HW. I'd leave it on as each time you power down you are causing the components in use to cool and shrink. When you power up again they expand again and of course heat up. The heating and contraction that goes on is a bad thing for the components so leave the machine/s on. At least running Linux you know you won't get the magic BSOD. Hylton Stojs wrote: I know this is out of topic, but with linux I have the choice not to turn the computers off or restart them to often. What is best for the psu, having the computer running constantly or turning it off everytime you don´t use it (several times a day)? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2
Stop the press, my Internet connection is working under Linux!!!, just disable the sound card in my bios and that was all.. Strange and I don't understand it. But anyway it works :-) The next step is setting up E-Mail and the Internet connection sharing. Greets and thanks, Drosera. Hi Civileme, Mandrake detects the 3c509 on a wrong way, it says it's on IRQ 5 and I/O 220. This is not true, it is on IRQ 10 (5 is my soundcard) and I/O is 0x2E0 when I change it manually it is talking about modprob and isa-pnp. Is it trying to reload the network driver in memory??? But with wrong parameters? In my BIOS I changed the PnP and assigned IRQ 10 to my ISA slot (have only 1 ISA card and slot). I tried another network card but that doesn't work togerther with my cable modem :-( What now? Greets and thanks in advance, Drosera! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.338 / Virus Database: 189 - Release Date: 14-3-2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two systems
Almost all of us either run dual booting machines, or used to before kicking the windows habit entirely. It's a breeze.. Just remember to defragment your Win98 drive first (and do not select the check box that offers to make programs load faster) This will free up space on your hard drive so a Linux partition can be added. Set your BIOS to boot from CD and insert the Mandrake disc. The auto install will then take care of everything else. Just select the default install. Mandrake will automatically create partitions for linux, and will install everything. Mandrake 8.2 came out this week. If you have access to broadband it is worth trying to download a copy. It is the best Mandrake version yet, and supports the most hardware. If you run into problems please consult the list archives before posting. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ derek On Thursday 21 March 2002 01:10, Ron Grace wrote: does anybody run both linux and windows on the same machine? how much trouboe was it to get to work. i am running windows 98se,and going to try to load mandrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ADSL, PPPoE, SpeedTouch USB and Portugal.
Hi there. I've got a doubt. I'm using Mandrake 8.1, and my Internet connection is an ADSL link with an Alcatel SpeedTouch USB. The protocol used by Telepac (my ISP) is PPPoE/Bridging. The thing is that in both instalation and in the configuration tool, the options you have are: 1. PPPoE - Won't do, because it assumes you have a modem with ethernet adapters. 2. SpeedTouch USB - Won't do because AFAIK, it assumes the protocol is PPPoA (and in the countries list, Portugal isn't there). A nice and working tutorial ia at http://www.zoftware.org/adsl-pppoe/. The problem is that I would have to get a non-mandrake kernel, which I can't do at this time, because of my video card drivers (they were compiled by the manufacturer to a small number of distros, and for the kernel in them). Does anyone had the same problem? Did you solve it?\ Although the site above has anything you could want to know, I'm available to give more detail, if necessary. Greetings, Miguel Duarte _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution, deleting msgs and using the spell checker
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 14:44, Femme wrote: Nor does it mention how to automatically enable a spell-checker for my emails. I had this problem at first, too. I solved when I realized that Evolution uses the Gnome Speller, which in turn uses Aspell. For ASpell to work, you have to make sure not only that the program is installed, but that the appropriate local language pack is installed--such as aspell-us, aspell-br, etc. I got mine through Red Carpet, but it should be on the Mandrake or Gnome cookers. Once set up, it works very nicely. Regards, Chuck -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution, deleting msgs and using the spell checker
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 00:01:54 -0700, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Sylpheed now. It's good, but utter shame I still miss the interface of Outluck Express. /utter shame Yes, it disgusts me to admit it, but I love OE usability. The version of Sylpheed included with 8.2 might be better, but there are several things I really hate about the one I'm running: * When you scroll through the message list, the currently highlighted message doesn't automatically appear in the preview pane. This is possible, but you may need to assign a key to it. Under the View menu, find the options for Prev Message and Next Message. Hover the mouse pointer over the option, and enter a keystroke to bind to the command. This should work n all GTK+ apps. * When you scroll highlight a message in the message list, you can't just press Backspace to nuke the message. Try pressing the Delete key. That works for me. * You can't abort message downloads gracefully (although I know this is fixed in the current release. * The program seems to totally freeze while you send messages. This amounts to a couple second delay, but it's annoying nonetheless. Yes, this 'feature' is quite annoying indeed. I hope they fix it soon. As soon as I get 8.2 installed I'll give Sylpheed another week and then try Evolution. I'm using Sylpheed Claws, which is a development version of Sylpheed. I strongly suggest that you give it a try. It contains many features that are not present in the official release, and is usually quite stable. Miark On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:00:36 -0500, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Well when I had problems doing what I wanted to do in Evolution, I switched to Sylpheed. A lot faster too. just an idea Dave -- Sridhar Dhanapalan You have no privacy. Get over it. -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Greg wrote: %_I never had much luck leaving the system running The most i could get was a week or to two weeks then the system would either be locked or would act funny until I rebooted Greg Then there is something wrong with your system. I have systems that have been running for 6 months or more, one of them 230 days. They are RedHat 6.2 servers, but I would expect the same from Mandrake. -- Gerald Waug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuring Samba
Sorry if this got posted twice I am finishing the smb.conf file on my Linux machine but I have come upon a problem. I have a couple of user accounts on Linux and I want to connect to them via Win 2k from my home network. When I double click on the Linux computer from Network Neighborhood, I get a popup asking me for my username and password. I supply the correct username and password, but I don't connect. However, if I don't enter a username and password, I will see all of the shares. The question: What do I have to insert into my smb.conf file in order for me to see my users home directories? My smb.conf file follows (don't worry, it's not that big...) Thanks, Paul - [global] workgroup = OLYMPUS server string = Athena's Blah Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat dns proxy = No printing = cups [Share] comment = Share Applications path = /shares/data volume = data-share writeable = Yes guest Ok = Yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browsable = yes writable = yes __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Uptime in signature?
How do I get the signature to show the total uptime of the system as well as how many users there are? I would assume with the uptime command but do not know the syntax to use from reading the uptime man page. TIA -- === Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 mobo Licenced Windows user === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?
daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, skinky wrote: Just a guess, but shouldn't the speakers be plugged into the green socket with the speaker next to it? skinky skinky, As a matter of fact you're correct. the line out for the speakers should be placed in the green plugin on the sound card. Great, that is where it is plugged but the volume is still very low and the unamplified speakers are turned to 100% in the KDE sound mixer. I have had suggestions regarding getting some amplified speakers but surely these should work? Comments as I currently have sound but at a VERY LOW volume? -- === Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 mobo Licenced Windows user === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reading ISO files.
Thursday, March 21, 2002, 7:49:11 AM, you wrote: SA Hi, SA I down loaded the LM 8.2 CD ISO files and I am about to do an upgrade from SA hard disk. I need to read the hd.img file from the first CD ISO and write it SA onto a floppy disk but I could not find out how. It was not obvious to me how SA to mount the ISO files; the mount man pages were no help. I read the messages SA on this list related to installing and upgrading and also the documents on SA the Mandrake web site and the linuxdoc web site and there was no explanation SA as to how to mount the ISO files. I used to mount ISO files on other OSs but SA not Linux. SA Can somebody please give me a hint? SA Thanks, SA Seedkum mkdir /tmp/myisofile mount /where-iso-is/mandrake-blahblah.iso /tmp/myisofile -o loop Regards, Onur Kucuk _ 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] 8.2 Major Display Bug
Hi I currently run the gigabyte KM133 board on my server/workstation computer and it doesn't display any of the mentioned artifacts. It has also seen every kernel since 2.4.8 as well, and no signs of these issues. NB On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:24, shipahoy wrote: Hi I installed Mandrake 8.2 in a fresh partition and am getting streaky, flickering lines across the screen. It worsens with heavy hard drive or user activity. This started during installation and continues after installation. I have tried various screen resolutions and colour depth settings, tried noframebuffers, and 3.3.6 XFree, but the same thing happens. I think this is the 2.4.18 kernel having a problem with my KM133 based mainboard. Duron 800 My mainboard is: Soltek SL-75MAV with KM133a chipset and Savage4 onboard graphics. I am using exactly the same hardware and settings I have for Mandrake 8.1 which still works flawlessly on this hardware setup. Any suggestions as to how to solve this problem? 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] Publishing in Linux
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 22:09, civileme wrote: Robin Turner wrote: If they accept postscript files, you might benefit by learning to use LyX. Most who do or who learn LaTeX just don't return to standard inflexible, do-everything-with-the-spacebar, WYSIWYG type of word processor. As a LyX fanatic, I was going to mention it, but Walter mentioned a brochure, which might require a lot of complex page-formatting. Sure, you can do that in LyX (people have used it for fanzines, for example) but you usually have to know a fair bit of LaTeX to get exactly the effect you want. Although I'm not keen on KWord, it does that kind of frame-based stuff pretty well. But for general-purpose writing, Civileme is absolutely right. On the occasions where I have to use normal word processors like Word or Starwriter, they drive me crazy now. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wine-windows emulator
Hi, I just installed mandrake8.0 and was trying to install wine, I followed the installation instructions but when I try and run an application I'm told wine:command not found. I'm sure I've failed to do something I should have seeing as how I'm as new as could be to linux, it only took me roughly 9 months and 7 or 8 reformats to get my cable modem to work. I installed the codeweavers version of wine and the setup works without a problem but beyond that I can't do a thing. Do I need to create any directories in my /home directory or should it be created when I installed the rpm? I've tried running applications in wine as a regular user, as root, I've tried it from my home directory and from the /mnt/windows directory. I'd totally uninstall it and start from scratch but don't yet understand the filesystem well enough to know exactly how to do it properly yet and I really don't want to go screwing it up now that I have the os running half way decent. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it, thanks. Howie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eroaster
Tom, How does this frontend compare to gcombust? Which do you like better, and why? I'm kind of curious as to wether you have a preference between mkisofs and mkhybrid also. One more question; did you end up using devfs, or do you even have an IDE burner? Cheers, LX On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 12:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: In a previous 'CD burning' thread the other day I mentioned I had problems with eroaster, but that it seemed to be a favorite of the Mandrake newsgroup crowd. I just got a rpm from Texstar that he said he 'fixed'. And yes, it fixed the problems I had. It's built for 8.2 and available here ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/ I used the i686, eroaster-2.0.12-3mdk I like the GUI, mainly 'cause it's straightfoward and simple, burner detection and configuration is automatic. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas _ 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] 8.2 Major Display Bug
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:23:58 - Andy Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have exactly the same issue, Posted this on the forum earlier this week. http://mandrakeforum.com/comments.php?lang=ensid=2006pid=28120#28134 New comment for Mandrake Linux 8.2: Your first impressions story Re: Mandrake Linux 8.2: Your first impressions ,by Andy70 First system is; Athlon 2100XP MSI 6340 ver 5 KM133 (BIOS = 6.1) Micron 133B1 PC 133 memory Seagate ST 320414A Toshiba SD-R1102 DVD/CD-RW Intel Pro/100 NIC. 32 MB Frame Buffer 32 MB AGP Aperture XFree = 4.2.0 Second System Athlon 1900XP MSI 6340 ver 5 KM133 (BIOS = 6.1) Micron 133B1 PC 133 memory (also tried Samsung memory but don''t have the model to hand) Seagate ST 320414A (different drive from the first) Samsung SD308 Combo drive Intel Pro/100 NIC. 8 MB Frame Buffer 32 MB AGP Aperture XFree = 4.2.0 Standard install on both, as I said you can see the problem almost from the begging of the install. The corruption is horizontal lines moving randomly across the screen that seem to show a distorted image of the current displayed screen. The weird thing is it only occurs if there is drive access. After the install finishes and you sit at the login screen everything looks OK. Until you login and the drive starts to access again. I thought it may be over aggressive BIOS timings, but there set to normal. I'll have a further tweak tomorrow to see if I can sort it. --- - I haven't had chance yet to try a graphics card in them yet, hopefully tomorrow. As for BIOS timings, I reduced everything to minimum and the issue remains. I installed kernel 2.4.8-34mdk under Mandrake 8.2 and the problem does not occur under that kernel., so there must be something in kernel-2.4.18 that is causing this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine-windows emulator
El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 11:13, Howie escribió: Hi, I just installed mandrake8.0 and was trying to install wine, I followed the installation instructions but when I try and run an application I'm told wine:command not found. I'm sure I've failed to do something I should have seeing as how I'm as new as could be to linux, it only took me roughly 9 months and 7 or 8 reformats to get my cable modem to work. I installed the codeweavers version of wine and the setup works without a problem but beyond that I can't do a thing. Do I need to create any directories in my /home directory or should it be created when I installed the rpm? I've tried running applications in wine as a regular user, as root, I've tried it from my home directory and from the /mnt/windows directory. I'd totally uninstall it and start from scratch but don't yet understand the filesystem well enough to know exactly how to do it properly yet and I really don't want to go screwing it up now that I have the os running half way decent. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it, thanks. Howie well, maybe your wine executable is not in your path. try running /usr/local/bin/wine ..or if you installed from an RPM you can use kpackage to search for installed RPM's, and when you find wine you push the installed files button you will see then, and it will list all files installed by wine and location for each of them. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Living in the real world - Win4Lin4 NO INTEREST TO GEEK FOLKS
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:16:48 +1000 john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snippage Even Civilme (the resident expert on the Newbie list) THOUGHT he was putting me in my place by telling me that in some Govt Dept they had some typistes*actually* using Linux and olde Star Office. BUT then went on and said they were *using* WorpdPerfect! (Sigh) A separate and quite expensive product(but very good) except that nobody I know outside of Civilme has ever got it to go on and work! = Nonsense!! I'm no geek..., just an OK user. Out of sheer curiosity, I intalled Mandrake 5.3 on one of our lab computers back in April of 1999 (I think?). I had NEVER used linux before. It installed OK (despite not fully supporting our S3 video card). I downloaded WordPerfect 8.0 for linux and got it successfully installed LONG before I understood anything about tar/configure, etc., etc. How? I *read* and *FOLLOWED* the directions. First try, I got it to work and even borrowed a fellow teacher's floppy (had to learn the mount comand real quick ;o) ) and opened her WordPerfect for Windows files flawlessly. AND printed them on an old HPDeskJet 695c. Lucky, I suppose, but I credit it to *reading* carefully and following the directions. I went on to loading Caldera 2.2 onto a Toshiba notebook w/o any problem and have since used a variety of distros on a variety of computers: desktops/server/and several notebooks. I believe you really need a Geek to get you online.=== Nope! Got home home computer and a notebook (that old Toshiba) hooked up with an external modem on the very first try. I just followed the directions shrug. At work, my ethernet card has ALWAYS been automagically configured (I wouldn't have had a clue!!) and worked immediately, even with that old Mandrake 5.3 version!!!snippage Cheers, Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. - Frank Zappa _ 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] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?
On Thursday 21 March 2002 07:41 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, skinky wrote: Just a guess, but shouldn't the speakers be plugged into the green socket with the speaker next to it? skinky skinky, As a matter of fact you're correct. the line out for the speakers should be placed in the green plugin on the sound card. Great, that is where it is plugged but the volume is still very low and the unamplified speakers are turned to 100% in the KDE sound mixer. I have had suggestions regarding getting some amplified speakers but surely these should work? Comments as I currently have sound but at a VERY LOW volume? Hylton: There's a jumper on some sound cards to select/deselect the card's internal amplifier. IIRC, the default setting is to bypass the card's amplifier on the assumption that the speakers contain their own amplifier. Otherwise, there will be some very loud pops during power on. HTH -- -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring Samba
try creating samba users with the same user name and password as those on your win2k machine using the command: smbpasswd -a username the username also needs to be defined in /etc/passwd (in other words, username has to have a linux system account also) after typing in the above command, you will then be prompted for the password for the user. again, make this the same as your win2k user's password and you should no longer have the problem with win2k asking for a uname and pw... At 05:00 02/03/21 -0800, you wrote: Sorry if this got posted twice I am finishing the smb.conf file on my Linux machine but I have come upon a problem. I have a couple of user accounts on Linux and I want to connect to them via Win 2k from my home network. When I double click on the Linux computer from Network Neighborhood, I get a popup asking me for my username and password. I supply the correct username and password, but I don't connect. However, if I don't enter a username and password, I will see all of the shares. The question: What do I have to insert into my smb.conf file in order for me to see my users home directories? My smb.conf file follows (don't worry, it's not that big...) Thanks, Paul - [global] workgroup = OLYMPUS server string = Athena's Blah Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat dns proxy = No printing = cups [Share] comment = Share Applications path = /shares/data volume = data-share writeable = Yes guest Ok = Yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browsable = yes writable = yes __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards$B-k(B http://movies.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
[newbie] CDROM problem in GNOME, OK in KDE and console
Hi, I've been trying to work out a CDROM issue I have in Mandrake 8.1 but I'm stuck :( CDROM or DVDROM or CDRW all work fine at the console and in KDE...but When I launch GNOME I can mount the drive and view all the files on the CD, however when I try to copy any file from the CD to the Hard drive it shows a blank file with 0 bytes (but gives the file name). I'm logged in as Root and have full permission to the desktop or other directories I've tried to copy files to. I'm currently using a Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-114 (well tested in Win98 2k and XP, and works fine at console and KDE) Things I have checked and tried; dmseg reports the correct drive model Also reports - hdc: ATAPI DVD ROM drive, 512kb Cache, UDMA (33) lilo.conf - append= devfs=mount quiet fstab - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro Default was - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user, iocharset=iso8859-1, umask, sync, exec, codepage=850, noauto 0 0 cat /proc/devices - Block devices 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 cat /proc/filesystems - does not list iso9660 from boot. If I mount the drive iso9660 is then listed. I've not added or removed any programs or services from the standard install. My guess is that there must be some sort of config file for GNOME stopping it working, but I haven't a clue what or were. Hope someone can help :) Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARRRRRGH Big stinky MESS!!!! (was : Xwindows and RPMdrake problems}
Thanks!!! :o) PV. - Original Message - From: Jussi Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ARGH Big stinky MESS (was : Xwindows and RPMdrake problems} Hi Paul There is a way recovering lost/destroyed partition table. When you are done with your partitioning and installing necessary OS'es, do 'fdisk -l /dev/hdX' from command line.With Linux fdisk, not the DOS one (replace X with a for ide1, b ide2 etc.). Then write the output down or print it. That way you have something to start with if the tables get lost again. Remember to update the info if you modify the partitions after installation. For recovery you have to have somekind of media to run Linux from, a rescue floppy or rescue-CD. For example the Mandrake installation CD includes rescue mode IIRC. That is of course if the BIOS supports bootable CD-ROMs. I have used this method couple of times with success, once Window$ decided it's not happy with current partitions and ate the partition table. So I booted Linux (with floppy) from the other hard disk and restored the partition table with the info provided by fdisk. The important sections from fdisk -l output are Device, Boot, Start, End, Id and System. 'man fdisk' for additional info. Cheers, J. On Wednesday 13 March 2002 05:37, you wrote: Is it just *ME*!? I tried the suggestion for doing an update install of the Mandrake 8.1 and the whole thing went *HAYWIRE*! For some reason, it still wanted to mess around with *partitions*! I got mixed up and must've clicked the wrong button and it destroyed my partitions set up... Totally unrecoverable!... My regular windows boot couldn't even *see* the C:\ drive! 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] CDROM problem in GNOME, OK in KDE and console
El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 12:09, Andy Napier escribió: Hi, I've been trying to work out a CDROM issue I have in Mandrake 8.1 but I'm stuck :( CDROM or DVDROM or CDRW all work fine at the console and in KDE...but When I launch GNOME I can mount the drive and view all the files on the CD, however when I try to copy any file from the CD to the Hard drive it shows a blank file with 0 bytes (but gives the file name). I'm logged in as Root and have full permission to the desktop or other directories I've tried to copy files to. I'm currently using a Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-114 (well tested in Win98 2k and XP, and works fine at console and KDE) Things I have checked and tried; dmseg reports the correct drive model Also reports - hdc: ATAPI DVD ROM drive, 512kb Cache, UDMA (33) lilo.conf - append= devfs=mount quiet fstab - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro Default was - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user, iocharset=iso8859-1, umask, sync, exec, codepage=850, noauto 0 0 cat /proc/devices - Block devices 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 cat /proc/filesystems - does not list iso9660 from boot. If I mount the drive iso9660 is then listed. I've not added or removed any programs or services from the standard install. My guess is that there must be some sort of config file for GNOME stopping it working, but I haven't a clue what or were. Hope someone can help :) Andy what kind of files is it? looks like what happens when you try to copy sound tracks from a cd, maybe that cd has some sort of anti-copy protection? just guessing here, but have you tried this with several cd's so you know the problem is in the drive and not in the media? other than that, it beats me Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] divx and THANX FOR ANOTHER GREAT DISTRO!
El mié, 20-03-2002 a las 20:14, Florian escribió: Hi im just trying mdk8.2 on a Gericom notebook (8.2 is the first ever to work here =) cause of X 4.2 im having a sis630 grafix chip) Its even accelerated, runs nicely. So first of all i have to say my impression is extremely positive GOOD JOB! But im having a little humhum howtodo... Thing is i have installed xine (my favoured player) and the rpms necesary from penguinliberationfront to play divx (d4d divx etc...) now xine plays mpgs very well but as soon as i try an avi (divx/opendivx) it turns just blue (the xine screen ofcourse, not like in winshit lol) now i dont have a dvd around to try if its the same but i assume it will be aswell the same bluescreen (i can hear the sound though) does anyone experience the same on a laptop with the sis630 chipset? Ill be happy about suggestions. Thx Florian well.. have you downloaded and installed divx codecs from www.divx.com ? maybe you should try another player? mplayer is working here with almost any single kind of video file with no problems. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tech tip - address search
Just got this cool tech tip from Linux Journal. If like me, you hate to open
an app just to get an e-mail adress that you can't remember, then this trick
works great (and I suppose you could use your imagination here and setup up a
list for just about anything, not just e-mails). Hope you like it. ;-)
Put this in .bashrc (/home/user, of course):
addy ()
{
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
grep -i $1 $HOME/.mail_aliases | mawk '{ print($3) }'
else
echo Usage: addy searchstring
fi
}
Now, use your fav. text editor and create a file named .mail_aliases (or
whatever - but you'll have to change that entry in .bashrc to match).
Enter your data in the following format (this is like mutt, I think?):
alias username [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So for example, if I have an entry like:
alias ron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Note that ron hall would not work, it needs to be a single name, nick, or
abbreviation)
Then from a term/shell, typing in addy ron will return:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Neat, huh? ;-)
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Re: [newbie] CDROM problem in GNOME, OK in KDE and console
Sorry forgot to mention the type of CD's Tried several CD's including CD-R and CD-RW formatted to ISO 9960 with Joliet (using Nero). Tried original CD's from various sources. Even tested the Mandrake ISO images I burnt for Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2. I know Linux use to have a problem with Joliet but this was sorted quite a few Kernels back + it wouldn't work in KDE if that was the problem. And I haven't used any of the CD's in packet format, so I'm stumped. Andy - Original Message - From: Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lista de Mailing Linux-Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CDROM problem in GNOME, OK in KDE and console El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 12:09, Andy Napier escribió: Hi, I've been trying to work out a CDROM issue I have in Mandrake 8.1 but I'm stuck :( CDROM or DVDROM or CDRW all work fine at the console and in KDE...but When I launch GNOME I can mount the drive and view all the files on the CD, however when I try to copy any file from the CD to the Hard drive it shows a blank file with 0 bytes (but gives the file name). I'm logged in as Root and have full permission to the desktop or other directories I've tried to copy files to. I'm currently using a Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-114 (well tested in Win98 2k and XP, and works fine at console and KDE) Things I have checked and tried; dmseg reports the correct drive model Also reports - hdc: ATAPI DVD ROM drive, 512kb Cache, UDMA (33) lilo.conf - append= devfs=mount quiet fstab - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro Default was - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user, iocharset=iso8859-1, umask, sync, exec, codepage=850, noauto 0 0 cat /proc/devices - Block devices 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 cat /proc/filesystems - does not list iso9660 from boot. If I mount the drive iso9660 is then listed. I've not added or removed any programs or services from the standard install. My guess is that there must be some sort of config file for GNOME stopping it working, but I haven't a clue what or were. Hope someone can help :) Andy what kind of files is it? looks like what happens when you try to copy sound tracks from a cd, maybe that cd has some sort of anti-copy protection? just guessing here, but have you tried this with several cd's so you know the problem is in the drive and not in the media? other than that, it beats me Damian 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] Living in the johns world
ROTFLMAO! On Wednesday 20 March 2002 23:16, john rigby opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Hello Non-geeks, hello list spammer Win4lin is to release a new product soon which will release more memory nobody cares! why tell us? I almost fell off my highchair when I learned you mean horse? Even Civilme (the resident expert on the Newbie list) THOUGHT he was putting me in my place by telling me that in some Govt Dept they had some typistes *actually* using Linux and olde Star Office. BUT then went on and said they were *using* WorpdPerfect! (Sigh) A separate and quite expensive product (but very good) except that nobody I know outside of Civilme has ever got it to go on and work! i hope this isn't an example of your book research! i can point to literally hundreds of companies and cities that use linux all over. just yesterday someone on this list thanked me for helping them get WP installed, and all i did was give them a file name! you need to pull your head out and look around. You will need to consider some of the Doze options for some time to come, in my *practical applications* opinion. but your opinion as we have already found isn't worth the typeface you send it in. 1. There is nothing like even FrontPage98 in the Linux world that I thank goodness! next you will want IE and virus compatability 2. If you are a serious business user, you NEED to be moving toward voice recognition as you know. really? your blanket statements never cease to amaze, (Nobody I personally know has been able to get Mandrake any distro to work properly, you see, so this is heresay... ) you and your mother/landlord are hardly a representative group though. 3. I don't think *statement edited to demonstrate truth of matter* 4. Sensible backups to CD? Forget it! I have learned that this is a non-event for Win4Lin for the forseeable future. so simply use linux, why win4??? get half a clue. we know you have never even attempted an install or you would give actual errors and we could help! 5. The 8.2 Mandrake had terrific writeups in the press - but in the light of the failures being experienced by the geek contingent on this list already, it is a loong way off being real-world ready. It is actually trashing many previously hard-won working installations! do i even need to go over this? 6. It appears to me to be still the most fabulous Server System in the world and great fun for the hobbyist/masochist, but I am still highly motivated by the continual failures of the MS OS and their draconian plans for the future, so will keep coming back in hopes. we wish you wouldn't troll DON'T DO ANYTHING NOW. Unless you can dedicate a lot of non-producing time to the project, it is still early days. By all means, get a standby machine and have a go. But, don't attempt serious business integration for some time yet. i agree, i wouldn't install windows XP unless i had _tons_ of time and another running machine. they can't even make microsoft mice run on that POS! I believe that someone of (business) maturity will take over in Mandrake, certainly that means you are out of the running. person) to apply for a trial subscription to the Newsletter REALITY, which does focus on getting the best out of the Internet *for business all this for a plug? NOTE: Because of the problems caused by Spammers, all email addressses also they should not include any known address of john the mandrake list spammer. can we get him blocked from the whole list? this is pointless! -- I used to be confused, but now I am not that sure anymore.. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine-windows emulator
El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 13:47, David escribió: On 21 Mar 2002 12:01:05 -0300 Damian said onto me: El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 11:13, Howie escribió: Hi, I just installed mandrake8.0 and was trying to install wine, I followed the installation instructions but when I try and run an application I'm told wine:command not found. I'm sure I've failed to do something I should have seeing as how I'm as new as could be to linux, it only took me roughly 9 months and 7 or 8 reformats to get my cable modem to work. I installed the codeweavers version of wine and the setup works without a problem but beyond that I can't do a thing. Do I need to create any directories in my /home directory or should it be created when I installed the rpm? I've tried running applications in wine as a regular user, as root, I've tried it from my home directory and from the /mnt/windows directory. I'd totally uninstall it and start from scratch but don't yet understand the filesystem well enough to know exactly how to do it properly yet and I really don't want to go screwing it up now that I have the os running half way decent. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it, thanks. Howie well, maybe your wine executable is not in your path. try running /usr/local/bin/wine ..or if you installed from an RPM you can use kpackage to search for installed RPM's, and when you find wine you push the installed files button you will see then, and it will list all files installed by wine and location for each of them. HTH Damian Another option, which is what I do is # updatedb # whereis wine hth Dave yes, but whereis wine would work only if wine is in the path and you can call it from anywhere... Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Sound and 8.2
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:29:17 +0100 Frans Ketelaars said onto me: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:54:22 -0500 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sndconfig say the same thing... correct identification, but not supported. The IO range for the card, under KDE Control Center Information IO Ports is (again it is recognized correctly) b000-b07f. This entry is for the card name. Directly under this is the chipset itself and reads b000-b03f. Under KDE Control Center Information Interupts its reads: 11: 3379 asl4000. Under KDE Control Center Information Sound it reads: Card Config: Avance Logic asl4000 soundcard, DSP v3.2 at 0xb000 irq 11 Audio Devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Synth Devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG I think you have an ALSA driver (if you have it should be mentioned in the same window). The 'NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG' lines are about the _current_ state of ALSA's OSS emulation. The OSS emulation modules should be automagically loaded when needed. I think all you have to do is use a mixer and unmute and raise volumes for the relevant channels. any ideas Dave snip Btw, this is the first message with this subject on the list I saw. Where earlier messages offlist or did I just not get them or lose them? -Frans Yes, it says: Installed Driver: Type 10: ALSA Emulation I used a mixer to unmute and raise volumes first. It didn't help. This is a piggy-back off of Miark's sound post. Offlist I also stated that in Drakconf under sound I get the card identified correctly but it reads: Kernel Module: Unkown What does this mean? tia Dave -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk KDE 2.2.1 Sylpheed 0.7.2 David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepagewww.davidlsteiner.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This got bounced don't remember subject
On March 20, 2002 03:42 pm, Femme (alias Heather) spake thusly: Of course you're paranoid; but are you paranoid ENOUGH??? major whacks ...basic firewall... The first one. I'm paranoid ;) And I learn quick so what the hell? Thx I'll take the advice be careful. Mucho gracias ;) Femme My messages are all bouncing as undeliverable the past two days. Almost as bad as the local LUG that I can't send to because of some 'open relay' crap at one of my ISP's mail server that I don't even want to understand. Good luck. Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uptime in signature?
NOTE: I can't get this to work with Ximian Evolution. my script looks like this echo - James A. Peltier echo - Site-FX Networking echo - Web : http://www.site-fx.net echo - E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo /usr/bin/uptime when I compose a message it just shows the script and not the result. On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 07:38, Olly P wrote: On Thursday 21 March 2002 07:36, Hylton...typed: How do I get the signature to show the total uptime of the system as well as how many users there are? I would assume with the uptime command but do not know the syntax to use from reading the uptime man page. -- Thursday 21 March 2002 Here is a piece of a message I ripped from Tom to do mine with Hylton... . Tom Said: You can create a text file and 'chmod -x' it to run any suitable executable, eg, /usr/bin/uptime. I do this with kmail by making my sig executable and placing /usr/games/fortune in it as the last line. So while it probly varies with email clients, it should be easy to do. my sig: echo Tom Brinkman _ South Texas, USA_ echo /usr/games/fortune here is my complete executable file in /home/olly/sigprog ... #this is a ollymade sig file for e-mail echo Olly P. Biloxi Mississippi Linux MDK 8.0 and echo 2.4.3-20 mdk Kmail 2.1.1 echo ATX Plll 600mhz Asus CUBX ...384m PC133ram echo /usr/games/fortune echo /usr/bin/uptime ... just put the path to this script in your kmail... here is the result ...neat huh? pay attention to (echo) - -- 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 Thu Mar 21 10:36:30 EST 2002 taxidermist, n.: A man who mounts animals. 10:36am up 1 day, 4:19, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 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] Living in the real world - Win4Lin4 NO INTEREST TO GEEK FOLKS
Since nobody on this list is a non-geek in your mind, isn't your message a colossal waste of your time? ZZZzz . . . *plonk* -- Todd Slater What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau) On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:16:48 +1000 john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Non-geeks, Good news - but like the Curate's egg, only - quite good in parts :-) [and lots of other shit] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eroaster
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 10:45 pm, Damian wrote: El mié, 20-03-2002 a las 16:37, Pena Family escribió: I am interested in eroaster or similiar. Can you tell me what CD burner your using under this built? It shouldn't make a difference, but I am curious just in case there is another hardware specific issue involved. IMO, the best :) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W8432T' '1.09' Removable CD-ROM It's old, but I've flashed it to the latest firmware updates (ie, 1.09) as they became available. well, please someone correct me if i'm wrong, but all of these burning tools ... aren't all of them -including eroaster- GUI interfaces for cdrtools command-line burning program? i think eroaster detects hardware by cdrecord --scanbus command, just like all others, so there should be no problem with it. Damian Well, gcombust is reliable, but many of the options and configuration items are beyond my understanding, even with it's 'tool tip' explainations ;) Fortunately the defaults work for everything but bootable ISO burns. It also auto-detects the CD-RW, but get's it wrong with every version I've tried. Simple enough to change tho. Many other GUI's fail to detect my CD-RW, or error out when I try to use them. I suspect this might be a devfs issue, but usin 'devfs=nomount' isn't any better. I don't fool with 'em past that, I just go to a GUI that does work. My previous problem with eroaster was that it wouldn't add some files to the burn list, complaining wrongly that they didn't exist. When I did mange to get them added, then the burn wouldn't start. Whatever Texstar fixed (he didn't say), resolved the problem. Cooker's eroaster-2.0.12-2mdk from the src.rpm had the problems, Tex's eroaster-2.0.12-3mdk.i686 works fine. It could well be just an Eroaster ML8.2 problem, and not an issue with 8.1 or older. http://66.69.182.59:8080/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1661 I used to really like Koncd, 'cause like Eroaster it's simple and intuitive to use. But for some time now it's also had problems adding files, erroring out. So yes, while all the GUI's are just frontends for cdrecord and mkisofs, they're not all created equal ;) And then it's just me, I prefer to copy CD's or burn ISO's from the CL, but I like usin a GUI for data and audio CD's, the simpler the better. Eroaster fits the bill. YMMV ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring Samba
Make sure you are using encrypted passwords. If I remember right the steps to do so are as follows: 1) add system accounts for your users to your samba machine 2) run 'mksmbpass' (I think thats the right name) to convert an existing passwd file for use with encrypted password samba 3) use smbpasswd to set the passwords for each account. That should do the trick. Ken --- tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try creating samba users with the same user name and password as those on your win2k machine using the command: smbpasswd -a username the username also needs to be defined in /etc/passwd (in other words, username has to have a linux system account also) after typing in the above command, you will then be prompted for the password for the user. again, make this the same as your win2k user's password and you should no longer have the problem with win2k asking for a uname and pw... At 05:00 02/03/21 -0800, you wrote: Sorry if this got posted twice I am finishing the smb.conf file on my Linux machine but I have come upon a problem. I have a couple of user accounts on Linux and I want to connect to them via Win 2k from my home network. When I double click on the Linux computer from Network Neighborhood, I get a popup asking me for my username and password. I supply the correct username and password, but I don't connect. However, if I don't enter a username and password, I will see all of the shares. The question: What do I have to insert into my smb.conf file in order for me to see my users home directories? My smb.conf file follows (don't worry, it's not that big...) Thanks, Paul - [global] workgroup = OLYMPUS server string = Athena's Blah Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat dns proxy = No printing = cups [Share] comment = Share Applications path = /shares/data volume = data-share writeable = Yes guest Ok = Yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browsable = yes writable = yes __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awardsë http://movies.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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions
On Thursday 21 March 2002 02:47 am, Mandrake Newbie wrote: When I'm about to install SNF in my old Intel Pentium 166 at 32MB RAM using BTC 40x IDE CD-ROM drive it asked me what modules shall I use for my CD-ROM drive? Also, the GUI installation is very poor and very slow. I've also got a BTC 40X. I bought it some time ago in an pinch 'cause I could pick it up locally. It's not a very good drive (el cheapo). I keep threatening to replace it, but then all of a sudden it'll start cooperating ;) It often has problems with install CD's. Many times taking several attempts and a many threats to get it kick started. I'd imagine that 32mb would be slow. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tech tip - address search
But you have to keep a separate list specially for this. Wouldn't it be
better to use a more complicated mawk command and use it on
~/.kde/share/apps/kab/addressbook.kab? (or wherever your mailer keeps
addresses).
Richard
--
It's like a radio you can't switch off
--
Ronald J. Hall, Thursday 21 March 2002 16:02:
Just got this cool tech tip from Linux Journal. If like me, you hate to
open an app just to get an e-mail adress that you can't remember, then this
trick works great (and I suppose you could use your imagination here and
setup up a list for just about anything, not just e-mails). Hope you like
it. ;-)
Put this in .bashrc (/home/user, of course):
addy ()
{
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
grep -i $1 $HOME/.mail_aliases | mawk '{ print($3) }'
else
echo Usage: addy searchstring
fi
}
Now, use your fav. text editor and create a file named .mail_aliases (or
whatever - but you'll have to change that entry in .bashrc to match).
Enter your data in the following format (this is like mutt, I think?):
alias username [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So for example, if I have an entry like:
alias ron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Note that ron hall would not work, it needs to be a single name, nick,
or abbreviation)
Then from a term/shell, typing in addy ron will return:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Neat, huh? ;-)
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Re: [newbie] Uptime in signature?
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, James A. Peltier wrote: %_NOTE: I can't get this to work with Ximian Evolution. my script looks like this echo - James A. Peltier echo - Site-FX Networking echo - Web : http://www.site-fx.net echo - E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo /usr/bin/uptime when I compose a message it just shows the script and not the result. You need a backwords tic (on the ~ key) echo `\usr\bin\uptime` -- Gerald Waugh 9:28am up 30 days, 21:20, 1 user, load average: 0.43, 0.52, 0.53 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Living in the real world - Win4Lin4 NO INTEREST TO GEEK FOLKS
On Thursday 21 March 2002 02:50 am, James Thomas wrote: I generally avoid these kinds of discussions but I feel compelled to respond. Thanks for not including the original troll ;) Best way to handle is to put 'em on ignore. One runs 8.1 and the other 8.2rc1 (I see no reason to go full out to 8.2 because the beta works awesomely imo). Well, I'm been usin 8.2 since the Christmas cooker thanks to a good friend on the list that sent me the CD's before Cheapbytes had 'em. Absolutely no problems even with that alpha version. Some non-Mandrake software apps need to catch up a little, but NBD. Now I've got 8.2b2, but with 100's of MB's of cooker updates. Still no problems, but I ordered 8.2 final CD's anyway. Nice to have 'em, and not need to archive lot'sa update rpm's. 'Sides, it's a good way to get current, clean up (ie, fresh install), and then start addin in newer cooker updates again ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This got bounced don't remember subject
This last one appeared on the list. Go figure! If I knew how to set up a mail server I could (apparently) alleviate the problem with my local user group but I don't think that's exactly what should be required to post to a Help List, do you? Charlie On March 21, 2002 10:07 am, Anuerin spake thusly: Charlie wrote: snip My messages are all bouncing as undeliverable the past two days. Almost as bad as the local LUG that I can't send to because of some 'open relay' crap at one of my ISP's mail server that I don't even want to understand. Good luck. Charlie same here. my mail provider is that Exchange server running at the server area. it seems happy at making my mails with linux in the addresses bounce after a day or two (the longest was a week). i thought this was intentional but seeing your post with the same keywords i am led to believe that this is a problem of the MS Exchange servers. a global domination plot perhaps? ;-) ciao! PS this email will be a case in point. it will reach you but there is a 95% possibility that the list wont even see this one. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uptime in signature?
Is the file executable, and is the first line '#/bin/bash'? (KMail also has a box to check saying The file is s program). Richard -- You laugh but no-one's joking The Dreamer's turned you round -- James A. Peltier, Thursday 21 March 2002 17:10: NOTE: I can't get this to work with Ximian Evolution. my script looks like this echo - James A. Peltier echo - Site-FX Networking echo - Web : http://www.site-fx.net echo - E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo /usr/bin/uptime when I compose a message it just shows the script and not the result. On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 07:38, Olly P wrote: On Thursday 21 March 2002 07:36, Hylton...typed: How do I get the signature to show the total uptime of the system as well as how many users there are? I would assume with the uptime command but do not know the syntax to use from reading the uptime man page. -- Thursday 21 March 2002 Here is a piece of a message I ripped from Tom to do mine with Hylton... . Tom Said: You can create a text file and 'chmod -x' it to run any suitable executable, eg, /usr/bin/uptime. I do this with kmail by making my sig executable and placing /usr/games/fortune in it as the last line. So while it probly varies with email clients, it should be easy to do. my sig: echo Tom Brinkman _ South Texas, USA_ echo /usr/games/fortune here is my complete executable file in /home/olly/sigprog ... #this is a ollymade sig file for e-mail echo Olly P. Biloxi Mississippi Linux MDK 8.0 and echo 2.4.3-20 mdk Kmail 2.1.1 echo ATX Plll 600mhz Asus CUBX ...384m PC133ram echo /usr/games/fortune echo /usr/bin/uptime ... just put the path to this script in your kmail... here is the result ...neat huh? pay attention to (echo) - -- 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 Thu Mar 21 10:36:30 EST 2002 taxidermist, n.: A man who mounts animals. 10:36am up 1 day, 4:19, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 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] vi: Symbol `ospeed' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
Hi, all, Once I run vi, it complains that 'vi: Symbol `ospeed' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking'. Is there any way to solve this? Thank you, /Jun Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uptime in signature?
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote: %_On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, James A. Peltier wrote: %_NOTE: I can't get this to work with Ximian Evolution. my script looks like this echo - James A. Peltier echo - Site-FX Networking echo - Web : http://www.site-fx.net echo - E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo /usr/bin/uptime when I compose a message it just shows the script and not the result. You need a backwords tic (on the ~ key) echo `\usr\bin\uptime` Damn, I can't believe I put those '\' in their, and I thought I lost all my bad M$ habits. II had to put the tics in to get it to run from the command line, but look at my sig?? Runs from the command line fine. -- echo Gerald Waugh echo http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com echo New Haven, CT United States of America echo `/usr/bin/uptime` Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] If xcdroast is on my computer, where might I find it?!
First post, a test run if you will, hopefully it goes through! I've been fooling around with my newly installed 8.1 OS with all the packages from the PowerPack installed... I've really had an easy time finding all the comparable tools I'm used to in the Winderz world here in Mandrake except for any CD burning programs. The one I did find was cdparanoia but I'm trying to stay GUI for the most part currently and thought that xcdroast would probably be installed along with my OS. I can't find a menu entry for any burning stuff under Apps or Office etc. so I'm assuming they exist and just don't have shortcuts/menu entries for them... Any suggestions on where to look in my files for GUI burning programs? I'm also on the hunt for a GUI audio extraction tool (or GUI front-end to cdparanoia), extra credit if it's one that might be on the application discs I recieved with Mandrake 8.1 as I don't have a modem currently installed in the Linux PC. Also, I've had friends who speak of Apple computers running Toast where extraction isn't neccesary at all to get *exact copies* of audio CD's! This isn't the same for Linux is it? I'm assuming not since programs like cdparanoia exists but if I can save the time of extracting my audio first it'd be just one more bonus to Linux over Windows..! Thanks for your help much appreciated! Take care, Nick ~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) http://www.forwardhall.com http://db.etree.org/npsinboro The wind of pleasure and pain will not stir me, for I am silently in harmony with the Path. - D.T. Suzuki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:14:23 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is weird... I made the following changes to my system, based on emails from Charles Dennis... * edited the line in /etc/fstab to read (notice that rw is removed): /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 (now my /etc/fstab has the following lines for the ZIP drive: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip1 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 ) * added the following append in /etc/lilo.conf (added the hdd=ide-floppy): image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 append= devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi read-only I then re-ran lilo without problems. When I got home last night, I rebooted (with a known-good ZIP disk in the drive). Once the system had booted, I logged in and typed: root.drewvogel:/usr/sbin$ mount /mnt/zip mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device root.drewvogel:/usr/sbin$ mount /mnt/zip1 mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist Andrew Run Hardrake and see how many listings there are for your Zip drive. It will be under the floppy heading. You should have 2. One as /dev/hdd and one as /dev/sda. If you only have the one, /dev/hdd then you will need to do the following. Open a terminal and su to root: # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV sda\* Do not enter the # that is only a notation for the prompt. The above will create the special device files for sda and you should then be able to access your zip through sda4 using /mnt/zip1. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Powerdown problem
Hi, When I execute the command halt linux starts shutting everything down, but in the end it just stops and freezes and doesn't turn off my pc. This is a problem for me because I can't turn off my PC at the touch of a button, I have to pull the plug. My PC is a Compaq Presario 7990 -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Living in the johns world
El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 13:50, shane escribió: ROTFLMAO! On Wednesday 20 March 2002 23:16, john rigby opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Hello Non-geeks, hello list spammer Win4lin is to release a new product soon which will release more memory nobody cares! why tell us? I almost fell off my highchair when I learned you mean horse? Even Civilme (the resident expert on the Newbie list) THOUGHT he was putting me in my place by telling me that in some Govt Dept they had some typistes *actually* using Linux and olde Star Office. BUT then went on and said they were *using* WorpdPerfect! (Sigh) A separate and quite expensive product (but very good) except that nobody I know outside of Civilme has ever got it to go on and work! i hope this isn't an example of your book research! i can point to literally hundreds of companies and cities that use linux all over. just yesterday someone on this list thanked me for helping them get WP installed, and all i did was give them a file name! you need to pull your head out and look around. You will need to consider some of the Doze options for some time to come, in my *practical applications* opinion. but your opinion as we have already found isn't worth the typeface you send it in. 1. There is nothing like even FrontPage98 in the Linux world that I thank goodness! next you will want IE and virus compatability 2. If you are a serious business user, you NEED to be moving toward voice recognition as you know. really? your blanket statements never cease to amaze, (Nobody I personally know has been able to get Mandrake any distro to work properly, you see, so this is heresay... ) you and your mother/landlord are hardly a representative group though. 3. I don't think *statement edited to demonstrate truth of matter* 4. Sensible backups to CD? Forget it! I have learned that this is a non-event for Win4Lin for the forseeable future. so simply use linux, why win4??? get half a clue. we know you have never even attempted an install or you would give actual errors and we could help! 5. The 8.2 Mandrake had terrific writeups in the press - but in the light of the failures being experienced by the geek contingent on this list already, it is a loong way off being real-world ready. It is actually trashing many previously hard-won working installations! do i even need to go over this? 6. It appears to me to be still the most fabulous Server System in the world and great fun for the hobbyist/masochist, but I am still highly motivated by the continual failures of the MS OS and their draconian plans for the future, so will keep coming back in hopes. we wish you wouldn't troll DON'T DO ANYTHING NOW. Unless you can dedicate a lot of non-producing time to the project, it is still early days. By all means, get a standby machine and have a go. But, don't attempt serious business integration for some time yet. i agree, i wouldn't install windows XP unless i had _tons_ of time and another running machine. they can't even make microsoft mice run on that POS! I believe that someone of (business) maturity will take over in Mandrake, certainly that means you are out of the running. person) to apply for a trial subscription to the Newsletter REALITY, which does focus on getting the best out of the Internet *for business all this for a plug? NOTE: Because of the problems caused by Spammers, all email addressses also they should not include any known address of john the mandrake list spammer. can we get him blocked from the whole list? this is pointless! this kind of stuff IS rather new, isn't it? someone faking a problem/solution in order to spam? btw, nice goin' shane put him in his place . LOL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Powerdown problem
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:43:27 +0100 (MET) Jesper Nyholm Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I execute the command halt linux starts shutting everything down, but in the end it just stops and freezes and doesn't turn off my pc. This is a problem for me because I can't turn off my PC at the touch of a button, I have to pull the plug. My PC is a Compaq Presario 7990 Try using the command: shutdown now -h Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] anyone using dyndns for postfix and still accepted by Mandrake mail servers?
Hi people, This is my first post in ages and I am forced to do it from my yahoo account.. mostly because my ISP hasn't set their mail server up correctly, and my Dyndns domain name is not suitable for sending mail now that mandrake does mx lookups.. Is anyone on this list using dyndns for their domain name? if so, can you send mail to the list? if so, how did you set it up so mandrakes server doesn't reject your mail because of your mail server? This is driving me nuts, I have written heaps of answers to questions and not one got through this month.. when they come from my own mail server, I get rejection messages, but when I use my ISP's server, they just disappear into the void.. so I am lost hoping someone has a tip for getting dyndns.org domains accepted by mandrakes servers... I have Mandrake 8.1 (I am downloading 8.2 now) using ddclient for dyndns on dialup... rgds Frank __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Living in the real world - Win4Lin4 NO INTEREST TO GEEK FOLKS
On Thursday 21 March 2002 16:45, Michael Scottaline wrote: [snippet] Nope! Got home home computer and a notebook (that old Toshiba) hooked up with an external modem on the very first try. I just followed the directions shrug. I think Mike hit the nail on the head there. OK, there are plenty of real problems with hardware configuration, but most problems occur because people don't follow the directions, or in pther words RTFM (don't let that put anyone off posting problems though - RTFM is one reply that isn't tolerated on this list!). People woh don't follw the directions (i.e. click on the first thing they see) also have problems installing Windows, or anything, for that matter. BTW, the reason Mdk didn't support the S3 card in 1999 was probably that virtually nothing did. Win95 doesn't support the S3Trio (though you can download drivers). It's a truly disguting piece of hardware. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
