Re: [newbie-it] Aggiornamento
Il giorno 01:49, venerdì 22 marzo 2002 hai scritto: 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 Ciao, ogni installazione prevede la possibilità di updatare la precedente versione ancora sul disco. Però (o almeno così era in passato, non so se l'ultima Mandrake abbia risolto) l'update spesso lascia qualche problemino irrisolto. Quindi credo convenga farsi un backup ed una nuova installazione da zero. Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] floppy
19:28, sabato 23 marzo 2002, Lele: Guarda che scandisk non brucia il file mbr dove c'è grub, comunque un dischetto di avvio ci vuole. Purtroppo non so consigliarti niente per crearne uno da win , sono un principiante anch'io. In tutti i primi CD delle distribuzioni ci sono istruzioni e programmi per creare un dischetto di avvio sotto dos. Se il computer è bloccato puoi anche andare a farlo da un amico... Comunque sul primo CD di Mandrake 8.1 trovi istruzioni in italiano nel file: /doc/install/it/install.htm ciao, Tommaso
[newbie-it] notifica lettura email
buongiorno o amorevole mailinglist, volevo sapere se su kmail c'è un modo per attivare tutte le opzioni da maniaco di outlook come sapere se l'email inviata a qualcuno è stata letta. Se kmail non lo fa, qualche altro programma per linux contiene queste opzioni? Grazie in anticipo ^_^
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Re: [newbie-it] floppy
tom wrote: Salve a tutti Ho un problema non da pocoil floppy non funziona benee non ho un dik di boot! quindi vorrei rimediare prima che winzow mi faccia partire uno scandisk e mi bruci il GUB In poche parole non riesco ne a scrivere ne ad aprire i floppy in linux, con win mi fa scrivere con dificolta(solita schermata blu ma poi i dati sono salvati)e legge normalmente. Mi sapreste dire che potrei fare per creare un dico di boot da scrivere sotto win? grazie per gli eventuali consigli Ciao , Tom se non riesci amontare il floppy (è questo il problema ??) metti nelle opzioni di avvio nobiospnp senza virgolette
Re: [newbie] Default OS and Internet Problems
I am so sorry that your entire computer screwed up. It is good you found out now that Windows was broken while it was still in warranty though. I'm not too sure what you mean by output of the ipconfig command on both machines, Sorry, I do not know much about computers, it's best if you use easy english This is what the ipconfig menu says in more detail. Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Bigpond: Connection-specific DNS Suffix.: nsw.bigpond.net.au IP Address.: (Numbers) Subnet Mask: (Numbers) Default Gateway: (Numbers) Ethernet adater LAN: Connection-specific DNS Suffix.: nsw.bigpond.net.au IP Address.: (Numbers) Subnet Mask: (Numbers) Default Gateway: (blank) ALL of the numbers are different, even the IP Addresses and Subnect Mask are different. I hope this answers your question. If not, would you mind giving me instructions to find out the data you need. Again, I'm really sorry about your computer. Thankyou for all your help. John (sorry for the delay I can only play on the computer at night.) From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Default OS and Internet Problems Date: 24 Mar 2002 17:13:16 +1100 John, First an apology for the long silence. As I said in the last message I needed to boot XP to refresh my memory on what to see you to look for. Went to do that and bang - dead system disk. Nasty rattles and not much else. So I am yet another victim of the now infamous IBM Deskstar disks. Now it's back at the supplier for warranty replacement and I have just got my system rebuilt to the point where I can access e-mail again. So, where were we? Oh yes - your ipconfig response does answer the question and verifies that we are good to go. Now, how are your addresses set up? i.e. What is the output of the ipconfig command on both machines? Once I have that, we can get into making them do something useful through linux. Brian On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 22:55, John Lynch wrote: BUGGER!! I'm sorry, but I can't check my network card connections. A giant cupboard is in the way, and I can't get to it. I am 80% sure this is how I am connected. 1 network card in each. telstra modem is connected to WINXP/LINUX, WINXP/LINUX is then connected to WIN98. OOH just got an idea. okay, when I go to the DOS prompt and type in ipconfig it says Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Bigpond: details Ethernet adater LAN: details I HOPE that answers your question. John From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Default OS and Internet Problems Date: 23 Mar 2002 22:42:05 +1100 Let's check the network card connections first. Follow the cable from the Telstra modem back to your computer. Where it connects wil be one network card. There is presumably another network card close by with a similar cable which connects to yet another network card in your W98 machine. i.e. XP/Linux box -- W98 box | | Telstra modem I now need to boot XP to refresh my memory on where to tell you to look next - happens so rarely these days I'm getting rusty on Windoze - and loving it! Verify we are right so far while I do that. Brian On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 22:26, John Lynch wrote: Thanks a lot Brain for helping btw. okay. THIS is going to take a lot, due to the fact i know NOTHING about computers (but I've gotten this far and learnt a lot, the main thing I've learnt is how little I know about computers, lol) - Yup I have 2 computers. NO IDEA about the network cards, how I do check that? is it important? - I have a cable modem. and Yes the lights are on, on my special modem that telstra supplied (or else this e-mail would be a miracle) - I don't think I have a hub (I've seen one before and I'm pretty sure I don't have one). I only have 2 computers so I am 99% sure my Dad just got a crossed cable between the 2. (I do know that my Windows XP/Linux computer has to be on for my Windows 98 computer to work =( it's annoying). Hope that's a help. From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK John, Let's take this a step at a time. First let's establish what you have - please correct any mistakes: - 2 computers, one with 2 network cards installed and the other with one. - a cable modem or adsl modem connected to a line and with lights on. - a hub to whci both computers are connected, or a crossed cable between the computers. Since I know you are in Sydney - same time zone as me - let's just establish that much first and go from there. Brian
Re: [newbie] Adding Text Input in a SELECT drop-down list
slap First off: This is an HTML problem not a Mandrake one. /slap Second: The usual proceedure is to have an other option followed by an INPUT TYPE=text ... You can save yourself the greif and follow the usual method, or not :) Michael other New Zealand Andre Dubuc wrote: I have written, in an html form, a drop-downlist that uses SELECT: i.e. SELECT NAME=state OPTION SELECTEDState OPTIONAL OPTIONAZ OPTION// and so on I would like a text input as the last option so that a user can type in a state (non-USA) and have this variable passed on. Is there any way of accomplishing this using html or php? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Tia, Andre -- Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l. -- Rita Rudner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:48:47 -0500 sda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/index.html I don't think it's intended to be anything but well, Scribus. You're not kidding about being in the early stages - have you actually tried it? It's quite `rough', and if it's trying to emulate PageMangler than that's just too bad. PageMaker is not a bonafide publishing app, and is targeted towards more of the office secretary market. Adobe has InDesign as their flagship layout app - not bad, v2 is quite elegant and intuitive, especially if one is used to Illustrator. I like it, but then I like Illustrator. I don't think Scribus is going anywhere in the next five years, if I remember correctly there's only one guy working on it. I gave it a workout a couple months ago - terrible, I'd rather use TeX. ;) I did try it briefly. I tried to import a text file and it hung. It might one day be quite useful for small businesses and home users who only need basic features. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb camera
On Saturday 23 March 2002 08:24 am, Lee wrote: And the correct answer was (in this case) edit fstabs and change default to user I know I didn't give enough info for anyone to take a stab at it. Figure I only have 12 hours invested in this one...I'm getting better. 8.2 smokes! Lee I know I have seen the answer to this, but I can't find it in my notes anywhere. I get the error message that says only root can mount /camera, and indeed root can open it nicely. I changed ownership to lee but still only root gets to see the pictures. What did I miss? TIA Lee -- Registered Linux abuser #223705 Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eroaster
SNIP Though I am sure I added cdwriter to groups for user 'curt' (I'm the only user) when I run 'cdrecord --scanbus' It tells me: No such file or directory exists. Cannot open SCSI driver For possible targets try cdrecord -scanbus. Which gives the same result. This is a good clue Curt. It is exactly what I got as well when I first tried using my burner. It seems for 'some' cd-writers you must diasable devfs before cdrecord will work. To disable devfs edit the file /etc/lilo.conf find the line that includes devfs=mount and change that to devfs=nomount save the file and then as root type /sbin/lilo It will then write the boot record. If you get an error message at this point you have probably got a typo in the lilo.conf file. DO NOT reboot until this command works without an error or else you may not be able to boot again! Now after a reboot you will (hopefully) be able to run cdrecord successfully. Disabling devfs may have an impact on desktop icons for scanners/zip drives etc. You may need to create the icons again. If you need help doing this let us know. Also check out that you can still play audio CD's OK. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMail 1.3 Mail Status
Hello, Is there any way to make Kmail automatically et the Status of a message to Read? (done m,anually by right-clicking, then selecting Set Status-Read). I know this is a bit counterintuitive to disable it, but I like a nice clean screen :-/ I currently have 33000+ posts in my Newbie folder so pressing K to select all and set status takes a while. TIA, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I'm Locked Out!
I just installed the new and improved Mandrake 8.2. It was harder to get my DSL up than with the 8.1. I've only been running Linux for about three weeks. I like the CDRom icons, but there is one problem. My Floppy, and my two CDRoms are locked. Even to super user. I thought it was a permission problem, but I can't get in. What should I do. By the way, thanks for answering my questions without flaming the heck out of me. I guess I'm used to some ruff newsgroups. Thanks, Don Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eroaster
On Sunday 24 March 2002 01:15 am, you wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 12:07 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Take a look in package manager and make sure that cdrecord and some of it's associated files are installed. Just to be sure. Dennis, cdrecord, cdda2wav, cdparanoia, mkisofs and readcd are what I was told should be there - they all are. Should there be others? Curt Nope, I think that is all you need. BTW even after permissions are set and cdwriter added to my groups, eroaster starts ok but then crashes when I try to do anything. So something else is not connected right. I think I will stick with gnome-toaster, I can get that to work. -- Dennis M. registered linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [Newbie] Help With Gateway/Router
Hello I have just been switched over from DSL broadband to PPPoE service and I am not able to get a working setup. I have tried Mandrake SNFno go I have tried Smoothwallno go and I have tried E-Smiths gateway and again no go. with SNF I wasn't able to get onto the internet at all. with E-smith the box I was setting up was on but none of my internal machines could access the net. there is obviously something wrong in what I am doing... here is all the detail I can think of to give... my box is: K6-2 300Mhz, 32MB or 64MB Ram, 3.2GB HD,no floppy drive(controller is dead), no cd-rom (I do use one when installing though), a tulip 10mbps Ethernet card, a 3Com 3C905b 10/100 Ethernet card, no mouse (serialcontrollers are dead), a Number Nine S3 base Video card, and of course a keyboard. I know what your first thoughts will be.OMG why would you use such a machineDead Floppy,dead serial LOL and I know it sounds crazy but I do not need any of those things working anyways if it is a dedicated router. all I need is external access to it via SSH and I'm good to go..if I have a web base management tools that's cool too. any suggestions as to what I should try next? please send me some help and if any more info I will gladly send it off. Oh I can connect to all three machines from my internal LAN and access the web interface. thanks a million C.Howe
Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!
On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:35, Donald Everett Gulmire, Jr. wrote: I just installed the new and improved Mandrake 8.2. It was harder to get my DSL up than with the 8.1. I've only been running Linux for about three weeks. I like the CDRom icons, but there is one problem. My Floppy, and my two CDRoms are locked. Even to super user. I thought it was a permission problem, but I can't get in. What should I do. By the way, thanks for answering my questions without flaming the heck out of me. I guess I'm used to some ruff newsgroups. We're a bunch of kittens here ;-) Check /etc/fstab For your floppy you should have a line something like /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,exec,--,user 0 0 (that should all be one line, BTW) Note that's only a suggestion - things may be different in 8.2. Alternatively, open the Mandrake Control Centre, click Hardware - Mount Points - Removable Media - Options and check you have user and supermount checked. If that doesn't work, disable supermount and see if you can mount it manually. Robin Edit as necessary. -- Bravo Epictetus! - Epictetus Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!
Did you try to unmount the devices? Make sure you're not currently accessing something on either one, then run the commands: umount /mnt/floppy eject That should unmount the floppy so you can eject it manually. The eject command will unmount the CD, if it was mounted, before it ejects it. From there, put the floppy back in, and run the command: mount /mnt/floppy Then try to access the contents of the floppy. Similar steps with the CD-ROM. Insert the CD: mount /mnt/cdrom cd /mnt/cdrom ls -a I'm not sure how the automount works in 8.2. It may need to be tweaked a bit. But now I have a question. Why did you upgrade to 8.2? If 8.1 was working, and you weren't having any problems, why did you upgrade to 8.2? It seems a lot of people think that as soon a new revision comes out, they have to upgrade to the new rev. That's not the case. In previous revs that was needed. There was a good sized jump in kernel capabilities and hardware additions from 7.2 to 8.0. So there was a need to upgrade there. But from 8.1, to 8.2, I don't believe there is. I've noticed, more so this time then with the last two Mandrake revs, that people are upgrading merely because there's a new version. Micro$HAFT has conditioned people to think that a new version is out, and you have to upgrade. This is not the case with Linux. If you keep your apps and patches up to date, there's no need to upgrade. There are still people on the list that run on Mandrake 7.2. In my opinion it's still the most stable of Mandrake's releases. If you upgrade the kernel and apply safty patches and the like, there's still no need to upgrade. At the time I only went to 8.0 because of better hardware support. Hope my suggestions helped. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I just installed the new and improved Mandrake 8.2. It was harder to get | my DSL up than with the 8.1. I've only been running Linux for about three | weeks. I like the CDRom icons, but there is one problem. My Floppy, and my | two CDRoms are locked. Even to super user. I thought it was a permission | problem, but I can't get in. What should I do. By the way, thanks for | answering my questions without flaming the heck out of me. I guess I'm used | to some ruff newsgroups. | | Thanks, | | Don | | 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 Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:00:37 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, anyone here used TeXmacs? It claims to be much better than LyX and totally WYSIWYG (if recent /. posts are anything to go by) but I'm skeptical. TeXmacs is very, very impressive, but it is aimed squarely at the hard-core maths and science folks. Its similar to LyX in having classes such as book, article, letter etc,. and it does itemise, enumerate, description, tables etc just like LyX but without the easy to use pull-down menu. One thing that does stand out, compared with other Linux apps and especially LyX, is the interesting way it handles fonts. I haven't tried to use it to write a large text document, and from what I have seen, it would not be as easy to do it in TeXmacs as in LyX. Still, its one to keep an eye on, even if you are not a mathematician. Definitely give it a try. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Why upgrade? [was: Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!]
On Sunday 24 March 2002 17:34, Tim Holmes wrote: But now I have a question. Why did you upgrade to 8.2? If 8.1 was working, and you weren't having any problems, why did you upgrade to 8.2? It seems a lot of people think that as soon a new revision comes out, they have to upgrade to the new rev. That's not the case. In previous revs that was needed. There was a good sized jump in kernel capabilities and hardware additions from 7.2 to 8.0. So there was a need to upgrade there. But from 8.1, to 8.2, I don't believe there is. I've noticed, more so this time then with the last two Mandrake revs, that people are upgrading merely because there's a new version. Micro$HAFT has conditioned people to think that a new version is out, and you have to upgrade. This is not the case with Linux. If you keep your apps and patches up to date, there's no need to upgrade. There are still people on the list that run on Mandrake 7.2. In my opinion it's still the most stable of Mandrake's releases. If you upgrade the kernel and apply safty patches and the like, there's still no need to upgrade. At the time I only went to 8.0 because of better hardware support. Point taken (and I agree that 7.2 was a damn fine distro). Of course, if you take the trouble to upgrade your apps (and the necessary libraries) and choose the best kernel for them (not always the latest!) then you have no pressing reason to upgrade. OTOH, once you do that, you are in effect creating your own Linux system anyway. I usually upgrade my most-used apps to the point that I start getting serious conflicts, then upgrade the whole distro. It's just easier that way. I'd rather spend an hour upgrading my whole system than spend weeks tinkering with it. As for the analogy with Microsoft upgrades, I think if there's one thing MS taught me, it was _not_ to upgrade! Apart from my Linux box, the machines in my office run MS Office 97 on Win 98SE, except for one which is still on Win95 (in fact the upgrades to 98SE weren't my idea - they came when we had a hardware upgrade). Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eroaster
On Friday 22 March 2002 05:04 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Burner's an IDE, I don't care for SCSI drives in a desktop PC. I've turned off devfs a few times but only to test. I reckon devfs is here to stay, so I try and make things work with it. or get different things ;) Tom, can I butt in on this thread and ask why you don't like SCSI drives? I've got a DVD and CDRW that are both SCSI. It made it much easier to do disk to disk dupes since programs found the 2 devices on the chain easier. Also, when playing games, the SCSI's seem to outperform my old IDE CD-ROMs by far. (no powering down, then taking what seems like forever to spin backup). Of course, if you don't play any games then... ;-) That spin up/down you're citing is indicative of the marketing hype Civileme mentioned about the belief that faster is better, eg, 52x Cdroms vs. 8x. All Cdroms, burners, and HDD's, whether SCSI or IDE run on the 33 Mhz PCI bus. I was just curious about your reasons...Thanks! Sorry, poor choice of words on my part. I should'a just said 'I prefer IDE for a desktop PC'. Probly just prejudice on my part, but I don't believe the little real world performance increase (yeah, I know that _theoretically_ it's almost 20% increase), justifies the increased cost and the need for SCSI controllers. Surely SCSI is a good choice for production server systems, but many are run with IDE drives and provide near equal performance and reliability at lower cost. That's mostly HDD's tho. As for burners, a SCSI isn't gonna turn out CD's any faster than an IDE. Specially since I believe media (CDr's) are the limiting factor. If you want reliable CD's, don't burn 'em faster than 8x. When I make copies of Mandrake CD's for friends, I burn at 4x after 'dd'ing the iso to a HDD first. Now if you're working in a shop making 1000's of CD's, you should probly use a SCSI burner, but still have the source iso on a HDD ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache: /cgi-bin/test-cgi Forbidden
Hi, I can't get Apache to serve cgi pages on my 8.2 installation. Pointing Konqueror to http://localhost/ serves up the default Apache welcome page, but pointing it to http://localhost/cgi-bin/test-cgi yields the Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/test-cgi on this server message. I have not modified any of the /etc/httpd/conf files, seems like the defaults should work. I have changed the permissions of test-cgi to 755. Anyone know the minimum required configuration changes to run the test-cgi script under 8.2? TIA, Roger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.18.6
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:10:18 -0300 Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I need help. I am running mandrake 8.1 and I installed the 8.2's kernel through rpm -ivh the following package: kernel-2.4.18.6-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Also I had to upgrade mkinitrd and findutils to satisfy dependencies with: rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-3.1.5-28mdk.i586.rpm rpm -Uvh findutils-4.1.17-3mdk.i586.rpm Everything seems to be working fine but I get the following message when it starts booting: unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent I have just the same in LM8.2. I think it means the kernel does not have to setup that bridge. After that, it boots without any error. The other problems is that swap is not working. The fstab is below. /dev/hdb6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/WindowsME vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/Windows2000 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 noneswap exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0 I have: /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I think it's a difference between 8.1 and 8.2. Swap is not part of the filesystem (or maybe you should see it as a kind of very specialized filesystem (see 'man fstab'). It's not mounted but turned on or off (see 'man swapon') :) If I run the control center on kde, it will show my swap partition is mounted but If I type mount it is not shown as mounted. 'partions' mentions under mountpoint for swap: swap. Note: _no_ preceeding '/' . I think it's just a bit confusing GUI. 'mount' doesn't show swap on my system. Running process management I got a none tag in the swap field. I have the same, maybe it just means none of the swap space is used? Try 'top' and 'cat /proc/meminfo' to see swap. mount -a doesn't solve the problem and the same problem occurs when I boot the old kernel (2.4.8-26). What is wrong ? Do I have to upgrade some additional packages ? Thanks in advance, Rodrigo I don't think anything is wrong :) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vaio 505 install reaches 1st base - more questions...
Wally wrote: Would any of these editors have some sort of macro system, perchance? Nedit is the one editor I know of that has a macro system, and is my favorite editor in Linux for that and some other reasons (soft wrap (called continuous wrap), regular expression search and replace, some other things I don't recall right now). I'm trying to remember if I've actually recorded a macro -- I guess not, but here are some pages that might help (they are pretty rough -- the second reflects some things I did, the first is a copy of a post from the nedit mailing list): http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/NeditMacros http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/NeditRegularExpressions Like I said, nedit is my favorite editor on Linux, but it has its share of quirks. First of all, its appearance is based on lesstif | Motif, and it looks a little clunkier than I'd like. There is help, and more up to date help on the Nedit website, but, if you are a Windows refugee like me, you may find it (like a lot of Linux documentation) uses terminology and phrasing that doesn't immeditately make sense to you. I'd be particularly interested in something that will let me painlessly record quick'n'dirty keystroke macros. There is a Learn Keystrokes selection under Macro. How about some drop-down text mode menus Included. and way of making the colours look nice? Ahh, that's what I forgot to mention -- there is syntax highlighting in color, so I presume there are ways of adjusting the colors. Some things have to be done by doing something with the X resources (IIRC) -- I've never tried this. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vaio 505 install reaches 1st base - more questions...
PS: Forgot to mention: * Nedit is on the download CDs -- at least it was for 7.2, and I expect it is on since then -- I (accidentally) did not install it by default on my 8.1 installation, and have not looked for it yet. * I'm almost certain mc is midnight commander, because mc is the default name of the midnight commander executable. Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: Wally wrote: Would any of these editors have some sort of macro system, perchance? Nedit is the one editor I know of that has a macro system, and is my favorite editor in Linux for that and some other reasons (soft wrap (called continuous wrap), regular expression search and replace, some other things I don't recall right now). I'm trying to remember if I've actually recorded a macro -- I guess not, but here are some pages that might help (they are pretty rough -- the second reflects some things I did, the first is a copy of a post from the nedit mailing list): http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/NeditMacros http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/NeditRegularExpressions Like I said, nedit is my favorite editor on Linux, but it has its share of quirks. First of all, its appearance is based on lesstif | Motif, and it looks a little clunkier than I'd like. There is help, and more up to date help on the Nedit website, but, if you are a Windows refugee like me, you may find it (like a lot of Linux documentation) uses terminology and phrasing that doesn't immeditately make sense to you. I'd be particularly interested in something that will let me painlessly record quick'n'dirty keystroke macros. There is a Learn Keystrokes selection under Macro. How about some drop-down text mode menus Included. and way of making the colours look nice? Ahh, that's what I forgot to mention -- there is syntax highlighting in color, so I presume there are ways of adjusting the colors. Some things have to be done by doing something with the X resources (IIRC) -- I've never tried this. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pilot-link
I have been trying to get pilot-link correctly installed on working on my
system for a week. I also updated everything on the Mandrake side making
sure I had the most recent Kernal. Still no luck. When I tried to follow
the directions for the developer I am getting feedback that means nothing to
me:
[root@tower pilot-link-0.10.99]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@tower pilot-link-0.10.99]:
I wiped out my whole system before trying this above and I even formatted my
Linux partition and started over I had so many crap files I lost track. Now,
I don't have access to CVS anymore, and other little problems. I am using
su. What have I done? What have I done wrong? Maybe I should just wait for
a release that will have software that will automatically sync a palm over
USB...
Dan B
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Re: [newbie] 8.2 on Dell laptop
i also have a dell laptop but i have no sound are you having this problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Why upgrade? [was: Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!]
On Sunday 24 March 2002 10:51 am, Robin Turner wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 17:34, Tim Holmes wrote: But now I have a question. Why did you upgrade to 8.2? If 8.1 was working, and you weren't having any problems, why did you upgrade to 8.2? It seems a lot of people think that as soon a new revision comes out, they have to upgrade to the new rev. That's not the case. In previous revs that was needed. There was a good sized jump in kernel capabilities and hardware additions from 7.2 to 8.0. So there was a need to upgrade there. But from 8.1, to 8.2, I don't believe there is. I've noticed, more so this time then with the last two Mandrake revs, that people are upgrading merely because there's a new version. Micro$HAFT has conditioned people to think that a new version is out, and you have to upgrade. This is not the case with Linux. If you keep your apps and patches up to date, there's no need to upgrade. There are still people on the list that run on Mandrake 7.2. In my opinion it's still the most stable of Mandrake's releases. If you upgrade the kernel and apply safty patches and the like, there's still no need to upgrade. At the time I only went to 8.0 because of better hardware support. Point taken (and I agree that 7.2 was a damn fine distro). Of course, if you take the trouble to upgrade your apps (and the necessary libraries) and choose the best kernel for them (not always the latest!) then you have no pressing reason to upgrade. OTOH, once you do that, you are in effect creating your own Linux system anyway. I usually upgrade my most-used apps to the point that I start getting serious conflicts, then upgrade the whole distro. It's just easier that way. I'd rather spend an hour upgrading my whole system than spend weeks tinkering with it. As for the analogy with Microsoft upgrades, I think if there's one thing MS taught me, it was _not_ to upgrade! Apart from my Linux box, the machines in my office run MS Office 97 on Win 98SE, except for one which is still on Win95 (in fact the upgrades to 98SE weren't my idea - they came when we had a hardware upgrade). Robin -- Sport.Some play football..some upgrade 8.2 seems faster on my box, but my car runs better after a wash, too Lee Registered Linux abuser #223705 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Major problem with 8.2- crashing on internet connection
My problem is that having just installed Mdk 8.2 whenever I connect to the internet the computer either freezes or reboots. I can connect to my ISP fine but whenever I try to access a website almost as soon as it starts to retrieve information my system freezes. This happens regardless of what browser I am using. I deinstalled M8.2 and went back to M8.1- no problem. I then reinstalled M 8.2 using the upgrade packages option-same problem. I then rebooted using the oldlinux option in LILO- no problem. Has anyone had this problem? Is it a problem with the new kernel. Can anybody help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail 1.3 Mail Status
On Sunday 24 March 2002 06:42 am, _nasturtium opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Hello, Is there any way to make Kmail automatically et the Status of a message to Read? (done m,anually by right-clicking, then selecting Set Status-Read). I know this is a bit counterintuitive to disable it, but I like a nice clean screen :-/ I currently have 33000+ posts in my Newbie folder so pressing K to select all and set status takes a while. you could create a filter that marks everything, or select things as read but i don't think there is a switch to do it. -- If someone tells you they possess the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they possess the *only* truth, run for your life. 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] Uptime in signature?
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:02:02 -0500, Todd Slater wrote: I think you either have to use a shell script and use Kmail for your MUA, or you'll have to use a cron job to write the uptime to your .sig file every X seconds. I went around with this a while back, cause I like Sylpheed better than Kmail. In Kmail I used a simple script that does exactly what you want, but Sylpheed doesn't allow you to use a script for a signature, so I forgot about it. Now I use gensig, and I suppose if I knew C I could get it to insert the uptime or some other output. Todd Todd, If you use Sylpheed-claws you can use scripts in the sigfile. That's what I'm using right now. You just have to add a pipe '|' character to the start of the sigfile name and it will get executed rather than copied-in. HTH S -- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines 5:33pm up 45 days, 1:48, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.22 Registered Linux User #232457 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 and konq cursor oddity
ok, i have seen this on two machines now and read about it from two other people, so i am just curious as to the extent/cause. if you are running 8.2 open konqi anything browser or file manager or what ever. now choose open location so you have a text input box. type anything. does it leave small cursor shadows behind as you type so that your text looks kinda like th|is| t|e|xt| do|e|s??? now choose any other window, or change desktops. go back. is it all fixed? cool redraw, but why, and is this everyone or certain hardware or what? i have a fresh exept i kept home install and an ATI radeon. anything that may effect this? -- The only people who like Microsoft are those who don't understand. When people understand what Microsoft is up to, they're outraged. - Tim O'Reilly 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
[newbie] Re: [OT] [never-was-on] Living in someother world
On Sunday 24 March 2002 08:33 am, Robin Turner opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: On Sunday 24 March 2002 13:53, john rigby wrote: ** In a word, no. They were essentially manufactured by the West, the USA in particular. I did spend a considerable time going in and out of the country many years ago. Very simple people the Japanese. It was and is a feudal system. The economic Maybe John has more experience of Japanese culture, so I'm reluctant to pitch in here, but simple is the last word that comes to mind. Traditional Japanese culture is feudal in a sense, but we shouldn't forget that the word refers to a very specific social system in Europe, and doesn't transplant well. Japanese culture was heavily influenced by Confucianism, which incorporates some but not all add to that taoism as it filtered in by way of zen and combine it with the homegrown animism that is shinto and you get a wide mix. once again john has managed to skim only the thinest surface of something and proceeded to explain everything from his sample. As for the marketing side - well again I'm no expert. All I remember is that when I was a kid, Made in Japan was almost synonymous with shoddy, whereas now it's a byword for quality, there is an old story about a computer manufacturer who gave the early japaneses chip plants a try, but with a twist. they asked that only 1% of the chips have defects. at the time that was an outrageous thing to ask for, most american plants couldn't come close to that. when the shipment came it had a note with it that said we don't understand why you want 1% of your chips to not work, but we packaged them seperatly for you. -- Remember, to a tree being useful is a terminal illness. 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] 8.2 and konq cursor oddity
On Saturday 23 March 2002 08:33 am, you wrote: ok, i have seen this on two machines now and read about it from two other people, so i am just curious as to the extent/cause. if you are running 8.2 open konqi anything browser or file manager or what ever. now choose open location so you have a text input box. type anything. does it leave small cursor shadows behind as you type so that your text looks kinda like th|is| t|e|xt| do|e|s??? now choose any other window, or change desktops. go back. is it all fixed? cool redraw, but why, and is this everyone or certain hardware or what? i have a fresh exept i kept home install and an ATI radeon. anything that may effect this? My system does not exhibit the above phenom. I did the same fresh but kept home. No idea what causes that. Sorry. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] changing the bash prompt
Greetings -- I have modified my prompt with the following code: # prompt with colour PS1==\n\033[1;32m\]\d \t \n\033[1;31m\]\W\[\033[1;33m\]\n \u $ I like this, except for one thing -- for the directory it only shows one level. so if I am in /home/skippi/0data/csu my prompt looks like: Sun Mar 25 05:34:21 csu skippi What I want is: Sun Mar 25 05:34:21 /home/skippi/0data/csu skippi anyone know how to do this? thank you Skippi - Skippi On The Fly Photography http://204EastSouth.com Meditation -- Yoga -- Linux -- Muffins The Secrets of Life -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a C++ L++(+++) P E- W++ !N o? K- w--- o M+ PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP- t++ 5+++ X++ R+ tv-- b++ DI D+ G e+ h+ r- y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!
We're rough... to idiots. :) Webster won't agree with me on the definition of idiot but: Idiot: (noun) person who won't help themselves; to whit, someone who whines bitches about said software but refuses to help himself with it find a solution. (verb) usage of the word Idiot with regards to said Noun(s). (adverb) used to describe the behaviour of the above Noun(s). (adjective) description of the Noun above. :) HTH! Femme Donald Everett Gulmire, Jr. wrote: I just installed the new and improved Mandrake 8.2. It was harder to get my DSL up than with the 8.1. I've only been running Linux for about three weeks. I like the CDRom icons, but there is one problem. My Floppy, and my two CDRoms are locked. Even to super user. I thought it was a permission problem, but I can't get in. What should I do. By the way, thanks for answering my questions without flaming the heck out of me. I guess I'm used to some ruff newsgroups. Thanks, Don 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] Support?
El dom, 24-03-2002 a las 02:57, sda escribió: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, Damian wrote: criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about Limux-Mandrake, we do not need to hear it, and it's probably not really up to us to change it. if you want to tell someone how bad you feel about this distro, it's not the users you have to bitch at. you could send a letter to mandrakesoft or whatever. you won't get flamed by them. Who do you think you are? You have no right what-so-ever to say what's allowed here. Only the list mom does, and that's not you. i started my post with something like i'm gonna say just what i think. it's not my intention to TELL people what they can do or not. on the other hand, think about it. what was this place meant for? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 and konq cursor oddity
El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 11:33, shane escribió: ok, i have seen this on two machines now and read about it from two other people, so i am just curious as to the extent/cause. if you are running 8.2 open konqi anything browser or file manager or what ever. now choose open location so you have a text input box. type anything. does it leave small cursor shadows behind as you type so that your text looks kinda like th|is| t|e|xt| do|e|s??? now choose any other window, or change desktops. go back. is it all fixed? cool redraw, but why, and is this everyone or certain hardware or what? i have a fresh exept i kept home install and an ATI radeon. anything that may effect this? hmm.. doesn't happen here.. by the way, konqueror is working much better in 8.2 than it did in 8.1 .. now i can use it to display webpages containing Flash/Shockwave content, which used to cause an infinite flood of popups in 8.1 oh, just an idea. have you reconfigured your mouse settings? and didn't reboot since then? i noticed some really weird mouse behavior in some cases. for example my vmware draws only what's under the cursor and i have to move it all around until i figure where i am. this dissapeared if i rebooted after configuring my mouse... ( my mouse has a wheel so i had to change it from 2-button to ms-intellimouse compatible ) use mandrake control center to configure/reconfigure ( it has happened to me also that mouse settings were not remembered after installation and i had to re-check it on first boot ) and then reboot. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Interesting FAQ
This is now outdated slightly, but still contains information that was true in late 2000 though it has been superceded by information generally more favorable to GNU/linux and the Open Source business models today. The one area is business models. Some folks have decided since the dot coms went down and took confidence in Silicon valey with them, that the backlash of that into linux is proof that none of the open-source business models work, sidestepping the fact that the closed source linux companies have either lost money on linux and made money on other operations or have had to have a fairly hefty ($45 million) bail-out by some who depend on them for linux systems services. So is born the more modern FUD that linux can't survive as long as its code base is free. As a matter of fact, the Silicon Valley depression is affecting all companies dealing with computers to a greater or lesser degree, and those who have never been starving are dealing less well with it than those who know how to cut costs. http://fud-counter.nl.linux.org/fud-faq.html#0 Civileme Read the FAQ then decide for yourselves which posts here might qualify as FUD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Logitech Clicksmart 510 ......... WAS [newbie] [BUG?] [SOLVED?] opl3sa2 ISA PnP soundcard in 8.2 - yeah, I changed it!
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:31:56 -0700 Miark said onto me: Just a quick note to say I'm glad you got this working. Goes to show you that if Linux newbies exhibit the same patience you have, the answers will come. Many others would have given up by now. Miark GIVE UP? And do what, go back to the dark side? Forget about it. There is no way! I loved my Mandrake even withOUT sound. What gets me is that the answer was right under my nose the entire time. Even under 8.1, I could of had sound. I remember the alsa driver modules for my als4000 card being present on my system then. The modules were in the /etc/modules.conf file just not in /etc/modules! Simple! Next time on As my Linux Install Evolves...Webcams. Now all I got to do is get my webcam/digicam working and I can zap the other part of my dual-boot for good. Details: I have a USB Logitech ClickSmart 510 webcam/digital camera. Gphoto has no support for any Logitech devices. Gphoto2 has support for the 310 model but no other Logitech devices. Logitech themselves do not give support for their cameras for Linux. I have done multiple Google searches with various keyword combinations. The only help I found there were articles telling how to compile a kernel w/ USB support. I have working USB. Are there any other app for working with webcams? Does anyone out there have this same model of camera? Working? Does anyone have a webcam working that was not officially supported? tia Dave -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk KDE 2.2.2 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepagewww.davidlsteiner.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] °°° On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 20:57:11 -0500, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Frans, Thank you so much for your post. I now have sound on my machine too. That is one BIG step for me to being ms-free... Dave On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:15:11 +0100 Frans Ketelaars said onto me: After a fresh 'recommended' install of LM8.2 I got no sound and noticed this: [root@amd frans]# cat /etc/modules.conf alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias eth0 3c59x alias sound-slot-0 ad1848 I edited this file to read: [frans@amd frans]$ cat /etc/modules.conf alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias eth0 3c59x #alias sound-slot-0 ad1848 alias sound-slot-0 opl3sa2 After rebooting I have sound support :) pnpdump says: # $Id: pnpdump_main.c,v 1.27 2001/04/30 21:54:53 fox Exp $ # Release isapnptools-1.26 snip # Trying port address 0273 # Board 1 has serial identifier 81 ff ff ff ff 20 00 a8 65 # (DEBUG) (READPORT 0x0273) (ISOLATE PRESERVE) (IDENTIFY *) (VERBOSITY 2) (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING # Card 1: (serial identifier 81 ff ff ff ff 20 00 a8 65) # Vendor Id YMH0020, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0x81. # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0 # ANSI string --OPL3-SAX Sound Board-- # # Logical device id YMH0021 snip I had the same problem with LM8.1 and 'modprobing the ALSA driver' worked in 8.1 and 8.2. But now a simple edit of /etc/modules.conf seems enough :) Btw, neither DrakConf (complained about an isa-pnp module while ISA PnP support is compiled into the 'standard' kernel) or 'sndconfig' was able to get me sound support :( Btw2, I'm impressed by the ease of installing LM8.2, with a 'recommended' install, I just had to answer a few simple questions to get on the internet! -Frans -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk KDE 2.2.2 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws 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] LM8.2 - ScannerDrake and XSane
ehmEl sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 17:22, Joseph Braddock escribió: I just used the new scannerdrake with LM8.2 and it installed my old Mustek 600 III EP Plus without a hitch. Thanks Mandrake! I reported in Beta 1 that it didn't work and you guys fixed it! Kudos! My questions/problem is that after it installed the scanner, it installed Xsane, just like one would expect, but I can only run it as root (to which Xsane gives a warning against doing so). I noticed under /root, there was a .xsane directory, so I copied it to my home directory, but that didn't fix it. It works great as root, but I want it to work great as my userid. Anyone know what config file or permissions I need to change? TIA, Joe well.. did you change permissions to that .xsane directory and all it's contents? sometimes a permissions problem is reported as a file not found. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] REAL Newbies: looka here! AND Helpers
Hi folks, At Sridhars prompting - I went back to looking around - don't know WHY I never found this Site before - perhaps as I always searched mandrake.COM. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php DOCS!! General discussion etc. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php Tons of stuff to help you that has already been asked and answered many times in a very useable form for beginners. For you REAL Helpers - it would be good to remind new, new Users about this avenue. Would save you lots of repeats. (Searching archives is always daunting, even for experienced Users - they are never library organised by their very nature.) Cheers, John For Microsoft to succeed, it is only necessary for the rest of us to merely remain silent modified from whatisname. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Help With Gateway/Router
U... K You give new meaning to Headless/zombie Gateway ! Sheesh! Frankenstein would be proud! You don't say if you have: - A HUB/Switch/Router to the other terms on the LAN. - Speed of your preferred LAN *may be irrelevant, i'm just trying to CMA *Cover my ass* - What your current LAN topology looks like. Please diagram in detail write usa Ph.D. ;) Femme Chris Howe wrote: Hello I have just been switched over from DSL broadband to PPPoE service and I am not able to get a working setup. I have tried Mandrake SNFno go I have tried Smoothwallno go and I have tried E-Smiths gateway and again no go. with SNF I wasn't able to get onto the internet at all. with E-smith the box I was setting up was on but none of my internal machines could access the net. there is obviously something wrong in what I am doing... here is all the detail I can think of to give... my box is: K6-2 300Mhz, 32MB or 64MB Ram, 3.2GB HD,no floppy drive(controller is dead), no cd-rom (I do use one when installing though), a tulip 10mbps Ethernet card, a 3Com 3C905b 10/100 Ethernet card, no mouse (serial controllers are dead), a Number Nine S3 base Video card, and of course a keyboard. I know what your first thoughts will be.OMG why would you use such a machineDead Floppy,dead serial LOL and I know it sounds crazy but I do not need any of those things working anyways if it is a dedicated router. all I need is external access to it via SSH and I'm good to go..if I have a web base management tools that's cool too. any suggestions as to what I should try next? please send me some help and if any more info I will gladly send it off. Oh I can connect to all three machines from my internal LAN and access the web interface. thanks a million C.Howe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache: /cgi-bin/test-cgi Forbidden
Roger, I'm having the same problem. I think the test is actually printenv, but that's not working either, despite 755 permissions. I'm looking through the conf files now--I'll let you know if I find the answer. Please let me know ASAP if you find the solution first! Miark On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:32:27 -0700, Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: ... Anyone know the minimum required configuration changes to run the test-cgi script under 8.2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.18.6
Thank you Frans ! Your explanation clarified things to me. I corrected fstab and using the other tools I verified swap is there, on and working fine. Nothing is wrong :-) Thanks, Rodrigo Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:10:18 -0300 Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I need help. I am running mandrake 8.1 and I installed the 8.2's kernel through rpm -ivh the following package: kernel-2.4.18.6-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Also I had to upgrade mkinitrd and findutils to satisfy dependencies with: rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-3.1.5-28mdk.i586.rpm rpm -Uvh findutils-4.1.17-3mdk.i586.rpm Everything seems to be working fine but I get the following message when it starts booting: unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent I have just the same in LM8.2. I think it means the kernel does not have to setup that bridge. After that, it boots without any error. The other problems is that swap is not working. The fstab is below. /dev/hdb6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/WindowsME vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/Windows2000 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 noneswap exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0 I have: /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I think it's a difference between 8.1 and 8.2. Swap is not part of the filesystem (or maybe you should see it as a kind of very specialized filesystem (see 'man fstab'). It's not mounted but turned on or off (see 'man swapon') :) If I run the control center on kde, it will show my swap partition is mounted but If I type mount it is not shown as mounted. 'partions' mentions under mountpoint for swap: swap. Note: _no_ preceeding '/' . I think it's just a bit confusing GUI. 'mount' doesn't show swap on my system. Running process management I got a none tag in the swap field. I have the same, maybe it just means none of the swap space is used? Try 'top' and 'cat /proc/meminfo' to see swap. mount -a doesn't solve the problem and the same problem occurs when I boot the old kernel (2.4.8-26). What is wrong ? Do I have to upgrade some additional packages ? Thanks in advance, Rodrigo I don't think anything is wrong :) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt
Hi
Try this:
PS1==\n\033[1;32m\]\d \t \n\033[1;31m\]\${PWD/~}\[\033[1;33m\]\n \u $
Cheers,
J.
On Sunday 24 March 2002 17:44, you wrote:
Greetings -- I have modified my prompt with the following code:
# prompt with colour
PS1==\n\033[1;32m\]\d \t \n\033[1;31m\]\W\[\033[1;33m\]\n \u $
I like this, except for one thing -- for the directory it only shows
one level. so if I am in /home/skippi/0data/csu my prompt looks like:
Sun Mar 25 05:34:21
csu
skippi
What I want is:
Sun Mar 25 05:34:21
/home/skippi/0data/csu
skippi
anyone know how to do this?
thank you
Skippi
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Skippi
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Meditation -- Yoga -- Linux -- Muffins
The Secrets of Life
-BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-
Version: 3.12
GAT d-(?) s: a C++ L++(+++) P E- W++ !N o? K- w--- o M+ PS+ PE++ Y+
PGP- t++ 5+++ X++ R+ tv-- b++ DI D+ G e+ h+ r- y++
--END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
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Re: [newbie] Major problem with 8.2- crashing on internet connection
Try a fresh install, keeping /home if you must :) Works better it seems. Femme Peter Nguyen wrote: My problem is that having just installed Mdk 8.2 whenever I connect to the internet the computer either freezes or reboots. I can connect to my ISP fine but whenever I try to access a website almost as soon as it starts to retrieve information my system freezes. This happens regardless of what browser I am using. I deinstalled M8.2 and went back to M8.1- no problem. I then reinstalled M 8.2 using the upgrade packages option-same problem. I then rebooted using the oldlinux option in LILO- no problem. Has anyone had this problem? Is it a problem with the new kernel. Can anybody help. 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] Support?
On Sunday 24 March 2002 00:57, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, Damian wrote: criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about Limux-Mandrake, we do not need to hear it, and it's probably not really up to us to change it. if you want to tell someone how bad you feel about this distro, it's not the users you have to bitch at. you could send a letter to mandrakesoft or whatever. you won't get flamed by them. Who do you think you are? You have no right what-so-ever to say what's allowed here. Only the list mom does, and that's not you. no butt... I am (however) the self appointed list A$$hole, and my wife and children told me I could be...so all you other Kinder just cut it out, or I am going to tell my wife. (you think the list mom is a pain) no body else better try and be a bigger a$$hole than me Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error message on boot up
El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 22:55, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, I saw in the mail archive a question from you asking about the followin error at the boot: change root to /initrd: error -2 I was wondering if you have any idea to solve it. In the archive, the person that answer your question was pkoch and told you to do a search in the newsgroup. I tried but didn't find nothing.. If you did find that mail, may i ask you to forward to my email address? Thank you in advance. well, an error 2 is file not found .. you you have a /initrd dir? HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vaio 505 install reaches 1st base - more questions...
Well... Now you're asking for the world aren't you!? Just weren't happy with what I gave ya were you! Sheesh*grumbles about unrepentant users* K.. Well heres the QD response. Yes. ;) Basically they are all available on the CD's. Kate installs as a default editor *as does the Advanced Editor* In KDE. Joe is on the Cd's. powerful program so I understand imitates things like wordstar should you wish. Cooledit is on there too, again more power, more hassle though. You've been warned. You want the ultimate in Macros Stuff use Vi or Emacs. Personally, I gag on both. I hate em, too complex for what I need. However most linux geeks use one or the other of those last two. Why? I haven't the faintest clue...well, I do have a clue: Bragging rights. ;p Femme Wally wrote: - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] I so far use Kate or Advanced editor. Joe is good *but I have yet to figure it out* So is cooledit. *Ditto*. Midnight commander has an editor too...reminiscient of WP 5.x or so. Very nice, WSYWIG doesnt' crash. Are all of these available in the set of RPMs that come in the 3-CD download? Haven't gotten around to installing RPMs at the command line, but it'll happen soon. Managed to read/write to mnt/windows, and also got the CD drive mounted, so I don't need to dump stuff to the windows partition to install. (I also fiddled with the NIC settings, got dongle lights, and managed to ping the cable modem - this is good!) Would any of these editors have some sort of macro system, perchance? I'd be particularly interested in something that will let me painlessly record quick'n'dirty keystroke macros. How about some drop-down text mode menus and way of making the colours look nice? 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] Webmin Other tools
OK I asked this Q once, never got an answer or my ISP ate the email. *likely the latter, I will have to kill them soon I think.*. I need to know only this: If I use say, Komba2 or SAMBA or whatever for my LAN, do I *need* webmin/swat/whatever to help run it??? Any all URLs/help/donations of a monetary nature accepted *sorry no tax receipts, I'm not a charitable organization...yet. :)* Thx Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2
Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers from NVidia site for my GeForce2 GTS using the usual method explainded in the Nvidia README file: - Downloading the source files. - Compilling and installing: $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz $ cd NVIDIA_kernel $ make install $ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX $ make install - And modifying the X config file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 with: Device section and replace the line: Driver nv with Driver nvidia In the Module section, make sure you have: Load glx You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore if they exist. I recently installed Madrake 8.2 and this method didn't worked for me. All these steps worked fine with no error messages. I restarted the X (via the Control + Alt + Backspace keys) and the nvidia screen was displayed before the X restarted. After this the X started and worked fine. So the nvidia driver worked. The proble is when rebooting the computer: The X was not unable to start. Does anyone knows how to solve this problem??? Thanks! Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Support?
Ed I replied to your last email offlist, did you receive it!? Or do I strangle my ISP!? Femme ed tharp wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 00:57, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, Damian wrote: criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about Limux-Mandrake, we do not need to hear it, and it's probably not really up to us to change it. if you want to tell someone how bad you feel about this distro, it's not the users you have to bitch at. you could send a letter to mandrakesoft or whatever. you won't get flamed by them. Who do you think you are? You have no right what-so-ever to say what's allowed here. Only the list mom does, and that's not you. no butt... I am (however) the self appointed list A$$hole, and my wife and children told me I could be...so all you other Kinder just cut it out, or I am going to tell my wife. (you think the list mom is a pain) no body else better try and be a bigger a$$hole than me 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] Laptop suspend problems
Hi again folks, just wondering if anyone has got suspend and standby working reliably on their laptop? I'm trying to get it going on a Dell Latitude CPi and it works about 50% of the time. If I trigger it with the lid closing, about every second time it goes into suspend, the other 50% into standby. If I trigger it by a button press or by apm --suspend, about 50% of the time it works, the other 50%, X seems to hang and eventually (after about 5 minutes) it wakes up briefly, and then suspends. Anyone got any clues for me? Thanks folks. Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sheesh already--
Hello Civilme folks, You are a good supporter of the system, Civilme, and a good techo, you are also an atrocious psychologist/philosopher - a true Geek! :-) BTW: Do you know what this symbol means? :-) I keep forgetting many people don't, especially Geeks for some reason Now, if you were to re-read your post to me carefully and calmly, you would find that it precisely supports my contention! E.G. The partial-joke quote from Voltaire: He wasn't the first to use it - it is thousands of years old - Indian in origin, just like the Desiderata. THIS was and is, the substance of my contention. Freedom of Speech. Only those without substance cannot, will not listen to reason ... in case they become convinced and thus valueless because they were wrong. Another old quote from the Ku a'la Yes, the one thing Mr Gates DOES understand is marketing, as does Mr Jobs. It should be mandatory for all Geeks to read a couple of books before espousing the proven unworkable tenets of Communism/Socialism. (Anarchy has a better chance.) I am happy from my own area of experience to suggest some eye-opening fascinating stuff, if anyone is interested. My contribution toward a bridge of understanding between two alien-to-each-other cultures. But please, no more rhetoric. Evidence. Like I produce. A case to put forward and answer. Reason, not gratuitous insults to intelligent discourse. By the way, in international activity, only the Laws of France are considered as unjust as most 3rd World States in my humble opinion and in my professional peer group majority. BTW: The wonder of it all is that with today's technology, we can, individually, elect not to associate with anyone specifically for whatever reason. I do. A year or so ago, I simply stopped receiving information from a couple of people on this very list. Not just because I disagreed with their ideas, but because I could see that they were unreasonable people - fanatics as we call them. But I still have some fascinating correspondence with a man who stoutly maintains that the Holocaust never happened. He is also a devout Christian/Catholic. He would like to see Barbara Thering crucified and burnt.. She is an heretic, admittedly... It is a beautiful morning here in paradise, the birds are singing, the display of the rainbow Lorrikeets outside my study is distracting I think I'll go for a walk in the morning sunshine. Bless you all. Cheers, John - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 5:53 AM Subject: [newbie] Sheesh already-- OK, I fail geek 101--my filter didn't work. Why oh why do I always take the bait? Yes, John, make your own group off the list where you can all agree with each other. If your ideas do not find immeduiate acceptance here and people do disagree with you or even dispute your possession of the facts, it would be safe for you to make your own group, where you can filter anyone who decides to dispute your rhetoric. Of course you can do that here as well, but then you cannot refute their replies because you can't see them. BTW, more correctly, I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Tr from French) -- Voltaire And whence does Mandrakesoft originate... That same hotbed of radical liberty-seekers, France. That might be a clue why you will not be removed from this list. Now if list members trash you, you probably didn't substantiate your claims to their satisfaction. Don't ask us to interfere with their freedom, either. You will receive the same answer those who thought you should not be on this list were given. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt
So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat? Where can I do tweaky stuff? I'd like to get ls to remember my preferred settings (colour, wide dirinfo display), but it wouldn't take a set command from the command line. How can I make this kind of thing stick? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2
I had the same issue. After alittle searching on the net. I found this answer and it worked for me. For the folks having issues with the module not inserting. If so, can you change /etc/modules.conf to read /dev/nvidia* instead of /dev/nvidia/*? - Original Message - From: Gregorio Pérez Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 8:48 AM Subject: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2 Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers from NVidia site for my GeForce2 GTS using the usual method explainded in the Nvidia README file: - Downloading the source files. - Compilling and installing: $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz $ cd NVIDIA_kernel $ make install $ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX $ make install - And modifying the X config file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 with: Device section and replace the line: Driver nv with Driver nvidia In the Module section, make sure you have: Load glx You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore if they exist. I recently installed Madrake 8.2 and this method didn't worked for me. All these steps worked fine with no error messages. I restarted the X (via the Control + Alt + Backspace keys) and the nvidia screen was displayed before the X restarted. After this the X started and worked fine. So the nvidia driver worked. The proble is when rebooting the computer: The X was not unable to start. Does anyone knows how to solve this problem??? Thanks! Gregorio 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] Webmin Other tools
On Sunday 24 March 2002 07:47 pm, you wrote: OK I asked this Q once, never got an answer or my ISP ate the email. *likely the latter, I will have to kill them soon I think.*. I need to know only this: If I use say, Komba2 or SAMBA or whatever for my LAN, do I *need* webmin/swat/whatever to help run it??? Any all URLs/help/donations of a monetary nature accepted *sorry no tax receipts, I'm not a charitable organization...yet. :)* Thx Femme Komba2 doesn't need webmin either. But Komba2 won't show you windows shares without SAMBA, so in order to KOMBA you gotta SOMBA. Ha, sometimes I just kill myself. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: COMMUNITY: Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?
John: Enough, already! This list is NOT intended for philosophical discussions of Life, the Universe and Things Like That; it is a _technical_ support list for Mandrake newbies. (Source: Mandrake home page -- pretty damn authoritative, IMHO). If you wish to examine your navel, or someone else's navel, or engage in other meaningless activities can find plenty of other places on the web to do so. This is not the place. (You might try slashdot [snicker, snicker]). Yes, we do sometimes wander from time to time, and I'll admit to more than my share of transgressions. But, John, these great long diatrabes of yours are totally out of place. We aren't stupid, and we aren't wandering around in the wilderness looking for a saviour. So stop wasting our bandwidth. (Just in case you didn't know, many of the people on this list are on metered service -- every damn byte that comes down the pipe hits them in the wallet in addition to wasting their time.) Like you, I've got some miles on the odometer. I'm a retired mechanical engineer; I worked for both very large and very small companies. I spent some of those years in management. As a consequence, I've had to sit through way too many really stupid presentations, and I've been forced to engage in way too many stupid programs. Two side effects of all of that wasted time are that (1) I regard Dilbert as not satire, but reality and (2) I begin to shake and tremble whenever I hear words like paradigm. John, you may not have used those exact words, but your postings are sufficiently close to bring back those awful memories. Cease and desist! OK, I'll admit that you may have accomplished one useful purpose: I've resolved to learn how to set up e-mail filters. But then, I've never felt the need for them until now. Nasty flame to follow. -- cmg On Sunday 24 March 2002 04:28 pm, john rigby wrote: Hi Damian, A reasonable comment: BUT if the people do not speak up - out of fear of reprisal - how is change ever going to happen? The Newbie list *IS* the only place to have reasonable discourse on the product. It is NOT supposed to be a Geekfest. Maybe a good solution would be to have an internal code on Replies: GEEK USER COMMUNITY ( for community discussion) Then fanatics could avoid any challenge to their tiny world, Geeks could talk unintelligbly away from the rest of us real Newbies :-) , Users could get simple help on getting it to go usably and those good souls who like to help, as distinct from those here to display their arrogance/cleverness/oneupmanship, could dip into the anguish of the User area and help real beginners who have never cooked anything except lunch. It could work you know, with a bit of support. The Geeks have no idea how off-putting and terrifying the complex matters typical on this list are! Users cannot even understand the questions, much less the answers and for many it is the very first exposure outside the MS/Apple GUI world. Cheers, John - Original Message - From: Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 4:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Support? El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 10:02, john rigby escribió: Hello Sal, WOOPS!! NOW you'll get it! Rule #1 on this list has become : THOUGH SHALT NOT SPAKE A SINGLE WORLD OF CRITICISM AGAINST THE ONE TRUE THING --note: what i'm going to say here may apply to you or not, i'm just going to say what i think about some very recent 'angry' posts made by several ppl. well.. this is a newbie list, it's supposed to be a place where you ask questions, get answers, read questions, and give answers. criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about Limux-Mandrake, we do not need to hear it, and it's probably not really up to us to change it. if you want to tell someone how bad you feel about this distro, it's not the users you have to bitch at. you could send a letter to mandrakesoft or whatever. you won't get flamed by them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] For the brazilian fellow looking for comp parts.
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: TKS, anyway! If I change my mind to Asus ;-) thanks again for the time and effort! Ricardo Castanho I got an answer it was mostly for Asus motherboards Couldn't find out much else. Sorry Femme -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Support?
On Monday 25 March 2002 11:35 am, Carroll Grigsby opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Ed: I don't want to appear argumentative, but you aren't even close. The top ten: 1. John Rigby 2. John Rigby checking my own list i have Ed at #15 (often informative a$$hole) does that sit well with everyone else? ;-) -- If I admit I was wrong, I am only saying I am wiser today than yesterday. 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] changing the bash prompt
Well Wally: investigate alias, it is a part of bash man bash. Several already exist in your ~/.bashrc definition of ~/.bashrc ~ = Your home directory ~/ = inside your home directory . = any file starting with a period is a hidden file Wally wrote: So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat? Where can I do tweaky stuff? I'd like to get ls to remember my preferred settings (colour, wide dirinfo display), but it wouldn't take a set command from the command line. How can I make this kind of thing stick? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. -- Yates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printerdrake freezing??
Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM, TNT2 video card, SB 16 soundcard. Also, I have an *ancient* sIDE-4HP multi-port card that I use for a parallel port connected scanner in Windows (don't have any Linux drivers for it), plus a Lucent Windmodem (also only for faxes in Windows). (BTW, I hate Windows. I'm about 99.9% independent of Windows.) I did not have my printer connected when I installed Mandrake, shouldn't be a problem, I thought, I'll run Printerdrake later. I cannot get Printerdrake to run. It starts up, asks for Disc 1, churns for about 30 seconds and then freezes my computer solid. Only the reset button responds. Has anyone had a similar experience? any suggestions? any thoughts on my parallel port card? -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2
On Saturday 23 March 2002 07:48 am, you wrote: Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers snipped The proble is when rebooting the computer: The X was not unable to start. Does anyone knows how to solve this problem??? Thanks! Gregorio when it falls back to console, so a lsmod and see if NVdriver is loaded. If not, modprobe NVdriver as root. Then startx as user. If that's it, put: NVdriver in your /etc/modules file. if this don't do it for you, let us know. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 msec question
What can I do to get msec not to change the autologin to no in /etc/sysconfig/autologin everynight on 8.2 running bastille? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail Phantom account
Hi all, I did something during the install of 8.2 that left me with a phantom account in Kmail. It has no name, but will not allow me to modify or delete it. Whenever I check mail, it asks for the password for this account, but since it doesn't exist, I just click cancel and go on. Any ideas on how to clear out this phantom account? Thanks, -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printerdrake freezing??
Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM, TNT2 video card, SB 16 soundcard. Also, I have an *ancient* sIDE-4HP multi-port card that I use for a parallel port connected scanner in Windows (don't have any Linux drivers for it), plus a Lucent Windmodem (also only for faxes in Windows). (BTW, I hate Windows. I'm about 99.9% independent of Windows.) I did not have my printer connected when I installed Mandrake, shouldn't be a problem, I thought, I'll run Printerdrake later. I cannot get Printerdrake to run. It starts up, asks for Disc 1, churns for about 30 seconds and then freezes my computer solid. Only the reset button responds. Has anyone had a similar experience? any suggestions? any thoughts on my parallel port card? -Linus --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: COMMUNITY: Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?
On Sunday 24 March 2002 04:28 pm, john rigby wrote: Hi Damian, A reasonable comment: BUT if the people do not speak up - out of fear of reprisal - how is change ever going to happen? i made my post as an answer to someone complaining about people not being able to post because they are afraid of getting flamed. or something like that. i absolutely agree with you, but my point is that no one with a genuine problem and looking for a solution is ever going to get flamed here. people looking for help should most certainly NOT be afraid to ask. i just think this is not the place for complainig, but for asking. The Newbie list *IS* the only place to have reasonable discourse on the product. It is NOT supposed to be a Geekfest. of course not. this is a newbie list after all. Maybe a good solution would be to have an internal code on Replies: GEEK USER COMMUNITY ( for community discussion) well, not quite... geeks usually have better answers for newbie questions. so i would mix user and geek together Then fanatics could avoid any challenge to their tiny world, Geeks could talk unintelligbly away from the rest of us real Newbies :-) , Users could get simple help on getting it to go usably and those good souls who like to help, as distinct from those here to display their arrogance/cleverness/oneupmanship, could dip into the anguish of the User area and help real beginners who have never cooked anything except lunch. It could work you know, with a bit of support. The Geeks have no idea how off-putting and terrifying the complex matters typical on this list are! Users cannot even understand the questions, much less the answers and for many it is the very first exposure outside the MS/Apple GUI world. Cheers, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!
On Sunday 24 March 2002 09:28 pm, you wrote: *shrugs* Whatever guy. Ya i'll tone it down just was excited having fun in the event you still don't like my posts, don't read em. I'm just enjoying myself if I sound 14, oh well...Sorry that bugs you. Femme Well, I've noticed that you respond to just about every thread there is, and many many times you say, well, I can't help or I don't know, but what is the weather like in Australia or something equally as relevant; and I wonder, 'why is she even posting then'. Or you butt in and ask what is something that you would be better off googling about. You have been getting on my nerves too. You act like this is the femmelist or something. And yeah, I too was shocked to see a professed newbie - who can't really help - posting on the expert list. I realize you're all proud of yourself and all getting linux up and running - but who the hell can't get mandrake 8.x going? We're not impressed with you. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uptime in signature?
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:35:07 + Spencer Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use Sylpheed-claws you can use scripts in the sigfile. That's what I'm using right now. You just have to add a pipe '|' character to the start of the sigfile name and it will get executed rather than copied-in. Awesome, thanks! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error message on boot up
Hi Damian, Thank you for responding to my message. For your question, no i dont have a /initrd dir... I heard that doing so, the error is gone...hip hip houray Can you tell me the way to do so. Thank you in advance Song The error was exactly (at the boot) : change root to /initrd: error -2 Is the minus 2 (-2) the same?? It all started when i update my kernel-2.4.8.31.2mdk on a ML 8.0. Le Dimanche 24 Mars 2002 16:15, vous avez écrit : El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 22:55, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, I saw in the mail archive a question from you asking about the followin error at the boot: change root to /initrd: error -2 I was wondering if you have any idea to solve it. In the archive, the person that answer your question was pkoch and told you to do a search in the newsgroup. I tried but didn't find nothing.. If you did find that mail, may i ask you to forward to my email address? Thank you in advance. well, an error 2 is file not found .. you you have a /initrd dir? HTH Damian Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt
What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.local ? Miark On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:53:08 -0900, civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Wally wrote: So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat? Where can I do tweaky stuff? I'd like to get ls to remember my preferred settings (colour, wide dirinfo display), but it wouldn't take a set command from the command line. How can I make this kind of thing stick? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hmmm, well you have many choices... For systemwide stuff, edit /etc/rc.local. For local, try ~/.bashrc Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt
On Sunday 24 March 2002 11:41 pm, you wrote: What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.local ? Miark /etc/rc.local is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc.local -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?
On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:28, Damian wrote: well.. this is a newbie list, it's supposed to be a place where you ask questions, get answers, read questions, and give answers. criticism is out of order here I see no reason why criticism should be considered out of order (not that I have any, by the way. I have 8.1 and enjoy it very much). Criticism can generate fruitful discussion just like questions can. If people make unfair criticisms, they will be shut up by many people refuting them. On the other hand, if the criticisms are justified, then we have identified an area that needs more work, and that is beneficial. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt
Next time I'll do a ls -l (emphasis on -l) before asking. Thanks, Miark On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:45:50 -0600, s [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: On Sunday 24 March 2002 11:41 pm, you wrote: What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.local ? Miark /etc/rc.local is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc.local -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!
Fine. I'll just lurk shut my mouth End of story Femme s wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 09:28 pm, you wrote: *shrugs* Whatever guy. Ya i'll tone it down just was excited having fun in the event you still don't like my posts, don't read em. I'm just enjoying myself if I sound 14, oh well...Sorry that bugs you. Femme Well, I've noticed that you respond to just about every thread there is, and many many times you say, well, I can't help or I don't know, but what is the weather like in Australia or something equally as relevant; and I wonder, 'why is she even posting then'. Or you butt in and ask what is something that you would be better off googling about. You have been getting on my nerves too. You act like this is the femmelist or something. And yeah, I too was shocked to see a professed newbie - who can't really help - posting on the expert list. I realize you're all proud of yourself and all getting linux up and running - but who the hell can't get mandrake 8.x going? We're not impressed with you. -s 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] ftp to share files
Hanan, You can find out if it's running with the command (as root): service bastille-firewall status If it is and you want to try stopping it: service bastille-firewall stop (and of course .start to restart it) I suspect that this is not the problem however. How are your IP addresses and subnet masks set up? Oh, and there are much better ways than FTP - Samba would be the way to go. HTH Brian On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 14:16, Hanan Shargi wrote: Hi everyone I have a fe questions here: I would like to be able to access the files on the LM 8.1 machine from the w2k machine ( 2 machines are on a LAN sharing DSL connection with Linux machine being gateway ) I read a few days ago a post about somebody using FTP to share files in a similar situation, and somebody else saying that this would be a security threat ( because of the 2 machines being on the net ) yet I understand ( and I really dont understand much about these things ) that there is an option you can set in your firewall that makes the ftp unaccessable from the net ( dont ask me why I just heard ) !! My question is :I would like to use ftp to share files between the 2 machines, but the first bump is that I cannot ping the linux machine from the w2k and I'm assuming this have to do with a firewall setting. Now, I stopped the tiny firewall from my system ( by allowing everything through the firewall, I couldnt find an option to stop it all in all , so i just allowed everything ) to see if it is causing this ping problem, but still i cant ping !! Could there be another firewall running ? In /etc/Bastille there are the following files: bastille-firewall.cfg bastille-firewall.cfg.orig bastille-firewall-early.sh* but I dont remember setting any Bastille firewall ever since I installed LM 8.1 !! is it set by default ? how do I know If there is a firewall running ?!?! excuse the stupidity Best Regards, - Hanan AL-Shargi 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] error message on boot up
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 02:40, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi Damian, Thank you for responding to my message. For your question, no i dont have a /initrd dir... I heard that doing so, the error is gone...hip hip houray Can you tell me the way to do so. Thank you in advance Song you mean how to make /initrd dir? just su to root and make it, it's all there is to it. [user@localhost user]#su Password: ( enter your root password here ) [root@localhost user]# ( notice the prompt, you are root now ) [root@localhost user]# mkdir /initrd note: i just checked, i looked at my /initrd ( done this before long time ago, just didn't remember ) it has a file on it README.WARNING which reads (mkinitrd) Don't remove this directory, it's needed at boot time, in the initrd, to perform the pivot_root. i hope this solved your problem. ;o) Damian The error was exactly (at the boot) : change root to /initrd: error -2 Is the minus 2 (-2) the same?? It all started when i update my kernel-2.4.8.31.2mdk on a ML 8.0. hmm should be the same.. dunno honestly. Le Dimanche 24 Mars 2002 16:15, vous avez écrit : El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 22:55, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, I saw in the mail archive a question from you asking about the followin error at the boot: change root to /initrd: error -2 I was wondering if you have any idea to solve it. In the archive, the person that answer your question was pkoch and told you to do a search in the newsgroup. I tried but didn't find nothing.. If you did find that mail, may i ask you to forward to my email address? Thank you in advance. well, an error 2 is file not found .. you you have a /initrd dir? HTH Damian Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: 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] Printerdrake freezing??
Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM, TNT2 video card, SB 16 soundcard. Also, I have an *ancient* sIDE-4HP multi-port card that I use for a parallel port connected scanner in Windows (don't have any Linux drivers for it), plus a Lucent Windmodem (also only for faxes in Windows). (BTW, I hate Windows. I'm about 99.9% independent of Windows.) I did not have my printer connected when I installed Mandrake, shouldn't be a problem, I thought, I'll run Printerdrake later. I cannot get Printerdrake to run. It starts up, asks for Disc 1, churns for about 30 seconds and then freezes my computer solid. Only the reset button responds. Has anyone had a similar experience? any suggestions? any thoughts on my parallel port card? -Linus --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It is not likely your parallel port card per se, but I would recommend INSTALL the printer completely before running it. It could be a problem reading the CD. If it is your parallel port card, the thing most likely is an attempt to share an ISA Interrupt, but I would worry about 14 Megs of install first. The foomatic driver package plus CUPS plus drivers is huge. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 msec question
s wrote: What can I do to get msec not to change the autologin to no in /etc/sysconfig/autologin everynight on 8.2 running bastille? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Set your msec level a little lower, ore modify the msec scripts that do that. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt
Miark wrote: What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.local ? Miark On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:53:08 -0900, civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Wally wrote: So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat? Where can I do tweaky stuff? I'd like to get ls to remember my preferred settings (colour, wide dirinfo display), but it wouldn't take a set command from the command line. How can I make this kind of thing stick? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hmmm, well you have many choices... For systemwide stuff, edit /etc/rc.local. For local, try ~/.bashrc Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com /etc/rc.local is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc.local Check your directory with ll Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error message on boot up
Hi, Just to be sure: do I create the /initrd dir in the /boot dir? Would it matter if i have the same your README.WARNING file in it? Maybe i don't get it but why is a simple text file in /initrd would take that error message away? Is it related to the fact that i changed the kernel for a new one (kernel-2.4.8.31.2 on ML 8.0) Thanx. Song Le Lundi 25 Mars 2002 01:08, vous avez écrit : El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 02:40, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi Damian, Thank you for responding to my message. For your question, no i dont have a /initrd dir... I heard that doing so, the error is gone...hip hip houray Can you tell me the way to do so. Thank you in advance Song you mean how to make /initrd dir? just su to root and make it, it's all there is to it. [user@localhost user]#su Password: ( enter your root password here ) [root@localhost user]# ( notice the prompt, you are root now ) [root@localhost user]# mkdir /initrd note: i just checked, i looked at my /initrd ( done this before long time ago, just didn't remember ) it has a file on it README.WARNING which reads (mkinitrd) Don't remove this directory, it's needed at boot time, in the initrd, to perform the pivot_root. i hope this solved your problem. ;o) Damian The error was exactly (at the boot) : change root to /initrd: error -2 Is the minus 2 (-2) the same?? It all started when i update my kernel-2.4.8.31.2mdk on a ML 8.0. hmm should be the same.. dunno honestly. Le Dimanche 24 Mars 2002 16:15, vous avez écrit : El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 22:55, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, I saw in the mail archive a question from you asking about the followin error at the boot: change root to /initrd: error -2 I was wondering if you have any idea to solve it. In the archive, the person that answer your question was pkoch and told you to do a search in the newsgroup. I tried but didn't find nothing.. If you did find that mail, may i ask you to forward to my email address? Thank you in advance. well, an error 2 is file not found .. you you have a /initrd dir? HTH Damian Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 02:51, Bryan Tyson escribió: On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:28, Damian wrote: well.. this is a newbie list, it's supposed to be a place where you ask questions, get answers, read questions, and give answers. criticism is out of order here I see no reason why criticism should be considered out of order (not that I have any, by the way. I have 8.1 and enjoy it very much). Criticism can generate fruitful discussion just like questions can. If people make unfair criticisms, they will be shut up by many people refuting them. On the other hand, if the criticisms are justified, then we have identified an area that needs more work, and that is beneficial. yeah..but i guess it's more complex than it seems.. there are different kinds of criticism. OT topics are never gonna dissapear and most of the time i enjoy them, but when some guy starts the mandrake sucks because it didn't recognize my third wheel on my second mouse on my new computer, so linux is crap way, it's hard to make fruitful discussion out if that. yes, you can get that ppl to shut up eventually, when/if they start getting the proper response to those posts... i would change a thing or two about the looks of MDK myself, but if i should ever decide to do something about it, i don't think my first step would be to make a pissed-off post about how crappy this or that looks. criticism can be good. that is perfectly true. but sometimes you get to read opinions that hardly qualify as criticism... they are rather bitching and this is what i think is useless and a total waste of time especially to this, a support list. i think i said about enough. feel free to disagree with me, i'll drop the discussion here. ( kinda feel it got too long ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] REAL Newbies: looka here! AND Helpers
thanks for the help john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, At Sridhars prompting - I went back to looking around - don't know WHY I never found this Site before - perhaps as I always searched mandrake.COM. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php DOCS!! General discussion etc. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php Tons of stuff to help you that has already been asked and answered many times in a very useable form for beginners. For you REAL Helpers - it would be good to remind new, new Users about this avenue. Would save you lots of repeats. (Searching archives is always daunting, even for experienced Users - they are never library organised by their very nature.) Cheers, John For Microsoft to succeed, it is only necessary for the rest of us to merely remain silent modified from whatisname. -- Dalton Roberts Jr email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage:http://www.geocities.com/technodancer101 __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error message on boot up
This is obvious to an old hand. When a directory name starts with / that means the top directory. It is the one that contains /bin, /etc, /home, /root and /var. That is why you can only write a new directory in it as root or su (super user). Michael Song Sourisak wrote: Hi, Just to be sure: do I create the /initrd dir in the /boot dir? Would it matter if i have the same your README.WARNING file in it? Maybe i don't get it but why is a simple text file in /initrd would take that error message away? Is it related to the fact that i changed the kernel for a new one (kernel-2.4.8.31.2 on ML 8.0) Thanx. Song Le Lundi 25 Mars 2002 01:08, vous avez écrit : El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 02:40, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi Damian, Thank you for responding to my message. For your question, no i dont have a /initrd dir... I heard that doing so, the error is gone...hip hip houray Can you tell me the way to do so. Thank you in advance Song you mean how to make /initrd dir? just su to root and make it, it's all there is to it. [user@localhost user]#su Password: ( enter your root password here ) [root@localhost user]# ( notice the prompt, you are root now ) [root@localhost user]# mkdir /initrd -- Anti-trust laws should be approached with exactly that attitude. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error message on boot up
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 03:21, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, Just to be sure: do I create the /initrd dir in the /boot dir? Would it matter if i have the same your README.WARNING file in it? Maybe i don't get it but why is a simple text file in /initrd would take that error message away? Is it related to the fact that i changed the kernel for a new one (kernel-2.4.8.31.2 on ML 8.0) Thanx. Song nope, initrd is in the root dir ( / ) so that's why you type mkdir /initrd ( note the slash at the beginning of the dir's name ) my comment about that textfile was just to ensure the need for this dir. simply disregard it if you found it confusing. you just need that directory on your /. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache: /cgi-bin/test-cgi Forbidden
Roger, I found the culprit. Near the beginning of the commonhttpd.conf, you'll find a section that sets directory options for the website as a whole: Directory / [blah, blah] Deny from all /Directory The Deny from all tells Apache to disallow anybody to connect from anywhere unless individual directories specifically allow it. By default, the HTML directory is set to allow everybody in, and it looks like the cgi directory is too--except Apache assumes you'll put your stuff in /var/www/perl rather than /var/www/cgi-bin. No idea why. The cgi-bin directory is still set to deny from all. So there are two possible solutions: 1) If you're not worried about security, you can replace the deny with allow in that in the Directory / section. 2) The better method is to replace the deny with allow in the Directory /var/www/cgi-bin section. Either way, don't forget to /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd reload as root after you make the change. Miark On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:32:27 -0700, Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Hi, I can't get Apache to serve cgi pages on my 8.2 installation. Pointing Konqueror to http://localhost/ serves up the default Apache welcome page, but pointing it to http://localhost/cgi-bin/test-cgi yields the Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/test-cgi on this server message. I have not modified any of the /etc/httpd/conf files, seems like the defaults should work. I have changed the permissions of test-cgi to 755. Anyone know the minimum required configuration changes to run the test-cgi script under 8.2? TIA, Roger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] REAL Newbies: looka here! AND Helpers
Dalton wrote: thanks for the help john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, At Sridhars prompting - I went back to looking around - don't know WHY I never found this Site before - perhaps as I always searched mandrake.COM. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php DOCS!! General discussion etc. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php Tons of stuff to help you that has already been asked and answered many times in a very useable form for beginners. For you REAL Helpers - it would be good to remind new, new Users about this avenue. Would save you lots of repeats. (Searching archives is always daunting, even for experienced Users - they are never library organised by their very nature.) Cheers, John For Microsoft to succeed, it is only necessary for the rest of us to merely remain silent modified from whatisname. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Don't forget that there are a thousand or more articles on MandrakeForum ( www.mandrakeforum.com ) as well. Many are HOWTO, and many are discussions on the same topics as here. Of course the forum is more appropriate, but there is some moderation present--uninteresting posts can be moderated down by readers, and abusive posts/trading flames are occasionally elimitnated. For example, one group yelling, GNOME sucks! and Another saying, When did they start allowing 3-year-olds to post? both got cut off one discussion. But generally, the OT stuff here is welcome there because we don't have a lot of list members paying a metered rate for email over there, since it is a web site. And www.MandrakeExpert.com has a number of experts registered who sometimes answer questions. I seem to recall the figure was at 700. I am not there since 700 was about the number of questions I was seeing per day. You can even offer to pay for a guaranteed answer, or just take your chances on the goodwill of others. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2
On Sunday 24 March 2002 18:00, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:21:54 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: There is an RPM for OpenOffice on the 8.2 discs. That should go in OK derek Derek, What's the font support like in the OpenOffice package on the Mandrake Cd? I've seen a noticeable difference between OpenOffice and Star Office as far as doc appearence on screen where the fonts are concerned. I have installed both OO and SO6beta and on my machine the fonts were identical. Maybe you observed a difference because you had imported your system fonts with one product and not the other? To import your system fonts in SO6 as a user cd ~/staroffice6.0 (or whatever your local directory is called) ./spadmin select fonts and add from your /usr/share/fonts directory select softlinks to avoid wasting disc space. To add fonts in Open Office cd to ~/.openoffice and do the same thing. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding Text Input in a SELECT drop-down list
Hi Michael, I stand slapped and corrected : Perhaps it was lack of sleep, but I sort of figured I should try another list, but everyone seems so helpful and knowledgeable on the newbie list. Sorry about that! At any rate, I've tried what you suggested -- and from other lists, I found that it can't be done. Sigh. Thanks for your idea, though. Regards, Andre On Sunday 24 March 2002 06:05, you wrote: slap First off: This is an HTML problem not a Mandrake one. /slap Second: The usual proceedure is to have an other option followed by an INPUT TYPE=text ... You can save yourself the greif and follow the usual method, or not :) Michael other New Zealand Andre Dubuc wrote: I have written, in an html form, a drop-downlist that uses SELECT: i.e. SELECT NAME=state OPTION SELECTEDState OPTIONAL OPTIONAZ OPTION// and so on I would like a text input as the last option so that a user can type in a state (non-USA) and have this variable passed on. Is there any way of accomplishing this using html or php? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Tia, Andre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Koffice in catalan language?
Hallo! I'm using catalan language (-ca) under kde but koffice appears in english because no koffice-i18n-ca package exists. It doesn't make me worry but i'd prefer koffice to use spanish language instead of english (and koffice-i18n-es is installed). Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2
Thanks guys, the speed of response is amazing. I've now installed the rpm, should I now continue on with the install and update to the newer version, or is this dangerous? Ta Peter -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 24 March 2002 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2 On Saturday 23 March 2002 05:36 pm, you wrote: Hi folks, I just tired to follow the directions to install openoffice on a new 8.2 installation from the .tar file and the setup failed with a message saying. glibc version: 2.2.4 /tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Any idea how I fix this please. Thanks. Peter. You can also go to rpmfind.net and get the libstdc rpm file and install it first. Then install open office. That's the way I did it and it works ok, but the rpm on the d/l discs installs to the Kpanel and puts icons in the right places. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail Phantom account
Try editing ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc by hand HTH derek On Monday 25 March 2002 04:04, Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I did something during the install of 8.2 that left me with a phantom account in Kmail. It has no name, but will not allow me to modify or delete it. Whenever I check mail, it asks for the password for this account, but since it doesn't exist, I just click cancel and go on. Any ideas on how to clear out this phantom account? Thanks, -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
