[newbie-it] Qualita' di stampa
Ciao ! Ecco con cosa mi trovo alle prese questa settimana: ho una stampante HP600, vecchiotta e con un po' di problemi di cartuccia. Per farla breve, sotto linux funziona benissimo (nel senso che parte e stampa), pero' soltanto con stampe che, sotto win$, vengono dette di qualita' ottima. Ora, poiche' sbava come una dannata, e sputa inchiostro da tutte le parti (si', me la prendero' una laser, ma per ora mi devo arrangiare cosi'), sono costretta a lanciare le stampe in qualita' bozza. Ma sotto linux come si fa? Aggiungo che in genere lancio le stampe da Staroffice. -- A presto, Arwan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire
Allora... avevo installato anche da un mio amico Mandrake 8.1... e lui nella directory usr/bin ha tutto!!! Abbiamo lanciato l'installazione di LimeWire con un file bin e non mi chiede più di installare VM quindi quello che aveva detto FreeFred andava bene! Penso che domani o stassera provvederò a reinstallare Linux... Probabilmento ho fatto qualche pasticcio... Già che ci sono volevo chiedere se è possibile avere una rete casalinga dove il server è connesso a Internet con Win98 e condivide la connessione. Linux è in grado di vedere quella connessione e sfruttare la condivisione? Con linux posso vedere altri pc che hanno sistema Windows? Grazie ANDREA 04/05/2002 20.55.51, LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: -- On Sat, 4 May 2002, LukenShiro wrote: Tutto dipende da dove hai installato il .bin della JRE Ops, adesso vedo che avevi un .rpm. Per vedere i file che compongono il pacchetto sempre da root basta dare rpm -ql _nome- pacchetto_.
Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire
Alle 10:12, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Già che ci sono volevo chiedere se è possibile avere una rete casalinga dove il server è connesso a Internet con Win98 e condivide la connessione. Linux è in grado di vedere quella connessione e sfruttare la condivisione? Con linux posso vedere altri pc che hanno sistema Windows? Ciao Andrea, Io ho una rete di quel tipo solo ke il computer ke condivide la connessione ha Win Me (solo per la semlicità rispetto al 98 nell'installazione della condivisione connessione), linux è in grado di accedere a internet tranquillamente. Il problema io ce l'ho appunto nel vedere gli altri pc con la semplicità di win, per ora sono costretto a montare le cartelle che mi servono, se riuscirai a far di meglio fammelo sapere! Ciao Luca
Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire
Ciao che ci sono ti chiedo se sai qualche cosa su un misterioso problema che fa cancellare dal server gli utenti ADSL INFOSTRADA se su WIN XP hanno montato programmi come LIME WIRE, cioè per condivisione file... Grazie ANDREA Ciao Andrea, Io ho una rete di quel tipo solo ke il computer ke condivide la connessione ha Win Me (solo per la semlicità rispetto al 98 nell'installazione della condivisione connessione), linux è in grado di accedere a internet tranquillamente. Il problema io ce l'ho appunto nel vedere gli altri pc con la semplicità di win, per ora sono costretto a montare le cartelle che mi servono, se riuscirai a far di meglio fammelo sapere! Ciao Luca
Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire
Alle 11:23, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ciao che ci sono ti chiedo se sai qualche cosa su un misterioso problema che fa cancellare dal server gli utenti ADSL INFOSTRADA se su WIN XP hanno montato programmi come LIME WIRE, cioè per condivisione file... Grazie ANDREA Mi spiace ma nn posso aiutarti, io ho l'adsl di telecom che fino ad ora nn mi ha mai dato problemi di alcun tipo anzi, pur essendo un contratto per singolo è stato condiviso attraverso la normalissima condivisione di win e funziona tranquillamente. ciao Luca
[newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore
1) Ho cercato di configurare il mio pc in modo da poter masterizzare. Ho un masterizzatore Teac collegato come master sul primo canale ide (il comando cdrecord -scanbus lo rileva correttamente) Prima di configurare il pc, ricompilare il kernel e appendere hda=3Dide-scsi al file /etc/lilo.conf il link /dev/cdrom1 puntava a /dev/hda ed ero in grado di montare il masterizzatore. Adesso non riesco + a montarlo, anche dopo aver modificato il link e puntandolo a /dev/scd0 (o1,2,3, e' lo stesso).Quando cerco di montare il masterizzatore ricevo il messaggio che non e' un dispositivo a blocchi valido. Ho letto il cd writing how to ma non ho trovato la soluzione al problema. Grazie Gijii __ Con Yahoo! vinci viaggi per i Mondiali FIFA 2002 http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://lasfida.yahoo.net/
[newbie-it] Font Windos non supportati
Linux Mandrake 8.2 è complessivamente meglio dalla precedente versione, ma i programmi relativi ad Internet non supportano i font di Windows. C'è un modo per rimediare al problema? max __ Con Yahoo! vinci viaggi per i Mondiali FIFA 2002 http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://lasfida.yahoo.net/
Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire
On Sunday 05 May 2002 10:12, Andrea - Tamalandia wrote: Allora... avevo installato anche da un mio amico Mandrake 8.1... e lui nella directory usr/bin ha tutto!!! Abbiamo lanciato l'installazione di LimeWire con un file bin e non mi chiede più di installare VM quindi quello che aveva detto FreeFred andava bene! Penso che domani o stassera provvederò a reinstallare Linux... Probabilmento ho fatto qualche pasticcio... Già che ci sono volevo chiedere se è possibile avere una rete casalinga dove il server è connesso a Internet con Win98 e condivide la connessione. Linux è in grado di vedere quella connessione e sfruttare la condivisione? Con linux posso vedere altri pc che hanno sistema Windows? Grazie ANDREA 04/05/2002 20.55.51, LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: -- On Sat, 4 May 2002, LukenShiro wrote: Tutto dipende da dove hai installato il .bin della JRE Ops, adesso vedo che avevi un .rpm. Per vedere i file che compongono il pacchetto sempre da root basta dare rpm -ql _nome- pacchetto_. Allora, per la connessione ad internet ti consiglio di usare WinProxy, poi basta che imposti linux con ip fisso (tipo 192.168.1.2 se il Win98 ha 192.168.1.1) e poi sempre in linux imposti sia gateway che dns a 192.168.1.1 (l'ip del 98). Per vedere le risorse condivise di Win98 da linux ti consiglio di installare il pacchetto komba2 (dopo aver necessariamente installato quelli samba) e impostare lo stesso gruppo di lavoro (in Win98 saprai come si fa, in linux lo imposti in /etc/samba/smb.conf)
Re: [newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore
Un appunto: la riga in lilo.conf dev'essere cosi': append=... hda=ide-scsi ... (le virgolette devono esserci solo dopo l'uguale e alla fine). ehm era un errore di digitazione, la riga e', ohime', corretta ' Probabilmente il riferimento da mettere in fstab e' '/dev/sr0' (e ovviamente il device e' da creare se non esiste) gia' provato, con dev/sr0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 qualcuno sa perche' mi dice non dispositivo a blocchi valido thankz Gijii __ Con Yahoo! vinci viaggi per i Mondiali FIFA 2002 http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://lasfida.yahoo.net/
Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire
E usi LimeWire con XP? Hanno detto che da problemi con programmi del genere. Solo 2000 e XP. 06/05/2002 11.34.54, Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 11:23, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ciao che ci sono ti chiedo se sai qualche cosa su un misterioso problema che fa cancellare dal server gli utenti ADSL INFOSTRADA se su WIN XP hanno montato programmi come LIME WIRE, cioè per condivisione file... Grazie ANDREA Mi spiace ma nn posso aiutarti, io ho l'adsl di telecom che fino ad ora nn mi ha mai dato problemi di alcun tipo anzi, pur essendo un contratto per singolo è stato condiviso attraverso la normalissima condivisione di win e funziona tranquillamente. ciao Luca
Re: [newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore
Ciao Gigi, prova a guardare nella directory /dev/cdroms dovresti trovare i cdroms presenti nel tuo computer, sia che essi siano scsi o ide! prova montare i device che trovi in /dev/cdroms. Questa directory c' solo se ha abilitato il devfs (controlla nel lilo.conf i parametri passati al kernel!). Ciao ENx Gigi wrote: Un appunto: la riga in lilo.conf dev'essere cosi':append="... hda=ide-scsi ..."(le virgolette devono esserci solo dopo l'uguale ealla fine). ehm era un errore di digitazione, la riga e', ohime',corretta 'Probabilmente il riferimento da mettere in fstab e''/dev/sr0' (e ovviamente il device e' da creare se non esiste) gia' provato, con dev/sr0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7qualcuno sa perche' mi dice "non dispositivo ablocchi valido"thankzGijii__Con Yahoo! vinci viaggi per i Mondiali FIFA 2002http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://lasfida.yahoo.net/
[newbie-it] aggiornamento kde 2.2.2
Ciao a tutti, Ho finalmente scaricato kde 2.2.2 e LukenShiro e jv mi dicevano che per installarlo, mi suggerivano di farlo da init 3 o 1: jv: l'importante è che l'aggiornamento lo fai da init 3 (o 1) cioè con X giù... Lukenshiro: gli aggiornamenti falli dopo aver dato un init 3 o init 1, per evitare qualsiasi potenziale intralcio Volevo chiedervi semplicemente per sicurezza come di fatto dovevo agire dalla consolle, se digitare init 3 e poi installare o ci sono altri passaggi che sconosco da compiere? ciao, grazie
[newbie-it] driver modem
Qualcuno mi può dare una risposta definitiva? E' possibile che un driver di un modem usb(disponibile in pacchetti rpm e src.rpm) vada bene solo per una determinata versione del kernel e non funzioni per quelle successive?C'è un modo per ovviare alla situazione escludendo naturalmente l'ipotesi di cambiare modem?Se io mantenessi sul pc la mdk 8.0 che mi permette di usare il modem e la mdk 8.2 con cui non vi riesco è possibile montare sul filesystem della 8.2 quello della 8.0 in modo che il modem funzioni?(Probabilmente avrò detto una st..a). Se il mio driver si presenta come 2.04-00_20mdk ,il 20mdk che significa?E' determinante? Grazie infinite.
Re: [newbie-it] aggiornamento kde 2.2.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:20, domenica 5 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] aggiornamento kde 2.2.2, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Volevo chiedervi semplicemente per sicurezza come di fatto dovevo agire dalla consolle, se digitare init 3 e poi installare o ci sono altri passaggi che sconosco da compiere? andiamo passo passo: vai in consolle ti logghi come su digiti #init 3 a questo punto puoi aggiornare. immagino che avrai una cartella di nome rpm ed una di nome noarch... se è così vai nella cartella che contiene le directory e digita: # rpm -U /rpm/*.rpm /noarch/*.rpm con questa logica, aggiorni quello che è installato ed aggiungi quello che non è installato... dipendenze permettendo.. 'notte! - - jv - ~~~ mdk 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 l.u. # 245448 l.m # 126972 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE81Z7KoD2O62YfgMARAi2CAJ9rW7t4Jg3CmIuqMG22YdZhcVwUdQCgnVQe sRVf4gE00za2cFE0ndmxRRs= =avor -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] driver modem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 02:25, lunedì 6 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] driver modem, Augusto ha scritto: Qualcuno mi può dare una risposta definitiva? proviamo... ;) E' possibile che un driver di un modem usb(disponibile in pacchetti rpm e src.rpm) vada bene solo per una determinata versione del kernel e non funzioni per quelle successive? si, se il pacchetto è rilasciato solo per quella versione.. ti faccio un esempio in cui mi sono imbattuto poco tempo fa... ho installato la versione di iptables 1.2.4-mdk in pacchetto rpm su un kernel 2.4.18.. nulla da fare... questo perchè il kernel mdk esce già patchato in modo da supportare i pacchetti mdk. quindi un rpm-mdk su un kernel non mdk si aspetta di trovare qualcosa che in realtà non troverà... la soluzione? ricompilare. C'è un modo per ovviare alla situazione escludendo naturalmente l'ipotesi di cambiare modem? se il produttore mette a disposizione i sorgenti, ricompila. Se io mantenessi sul pc la mdk 8.0 che mi permette di usare il modem e la mdk 8.2 con cui non vi riesco è possibile montare sul filesystem della 8.2 quello della 8.0 in modo che il modem funzioni?(Probabilmente avrò detto una st..a). uhm.. io credo di non aver capito la domanda.. passo... Se il mio driver si presenta come 2.04-00_20mdk ,il 20mdk che significa?E' determinante? affermativo. Grazie infinite. spero di esserti stato d'aiuto - -- - - jv - ~~~ mdk 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 l.u. # 245448 l.m # 126972 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE81Z3HoD2O62YfgMARAj8PAJ9CyuwLtX3F+by2RfCdTESXHjl5VgCdEdVH cajU9xVchZb99C/5pHGh/Ig= =GF1g -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] aggiornamento kde 2.2.2
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Emiliano La Licata wrote: Ho finalmente scaricato kde 2.2.2 [..] Volevo chiedervi semplicemente per sicurezza come di fatto dovevo agire dalla consolle, se digitare init 3 e poi installare o ci sono altri passaggi che sconosco da compiere? Ti basta dare il comando init da un terminale in X. Prima assicurati solo di avere a disposizione tutti i pacchetti che dipendono direttamente da kde e i pacchetti che dipendono dai primi. Esemplificando: kde* arts* libarts* libqt2* qt2* ... e poi ce ne sono altri che al momento non ricordo; installali tutti in un'unica soluzione (sulla stessa riga di comando), almeno eviti eventuali dipendenze estemporanee. Per verificare precisamente da quali pacchetti o comandi/programmi/librerie dipendono i vari pacchetti di kde, dai un rpm -qpR _nome-pacchetto_ prima dell'installazione. O eventualmente (piu' immediato) anche nella sessione grafica _simuli_ un'installazione (con l'opzione --test), per sapere quali sono i pacchetti che ti mancano [piu' che altro ti dira' quali comandi/librerie servono, ma ci arrivi per intuizione :)], te li scarichi e procedi. -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata - krnl 2.4.18-6mdk Dopo un gran casino con un HD IBM un po' bacato, la Cooker impazzita e i backup inservibili, preferisco non testare piu' niente :P
Re: [newbie-it] driver modem
On Sun, 5 May 2002, jv wrote: Se io mantenessi sul pc la mdk 8.0 che mi permette di usare il modem e la mdk 8.2 con cui non vi riesco è possibile montare sul filesystem della 8.2 quello della 8.0 in modo che il modem funzioni?(Probabilmente avrò detto una st..a). uhm.. io credo di non aver capito la domanda.. passo... Cerco di interpretare, effettivamente e' un po' nebuloso. Praticamente ad Augusto occorrerebbe mantenere la corrispondenza pacchetto modulo binario del modem - versione del kernel prescritto. In linea teorica potrebbe tenere il kernel della 8.0 ed aggiornare nei limiti del possibile i vari pacchetti, ma non so se ne valga la pena (i primi kernel della serie 2.4 non sono il massimo ..). Io cmq proverei lo stesso a compilare e installare il modulo del modem con il kernel recente che hai a disposizione (il .src.rpm contiene appunto i sorgenti) Se il mio driver si presenta come 2.04-00_20mdk ,il 20mdk che significa?E' determinante? affermativo. Ehm, direi proprio di no ... 20mdk significa solo che e' la ventesima ricompilazione di quel modulo nella stessa versione (di solito perche' sono state applicate delle patch minimali a correzione di bug) -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata - krnl 2.4.18-6mdk Dopo un gran casino con un HD IBM un po' bacato, la Cooker impazzita e i backup inservibili, preferisco non testare piu' niente :P
Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire
Alle 19:39, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: E usi LimeWire con XP? Hanno detto che da problemi con programmi del genere. Solo 2000 e XP. No, ho usato anke win XP ke ho deciso di cambiare installandocci l'Me perchè si pianta di meno e, anke per il tipo di programmi che uso, mi da meno problemi! Mi spiace però nn poterti aiutare su limewire inquanto nn lo ho mai usato, anche se, il tipo di problema da te descritto mi sembra una diceria inquanto nn penso ke un client di condivisione file possa annullarti un abbonamento con infostrada o comunque un gestore di connessione adsl.
Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire
Non è una diceria: ADSL bloccata per una settimana!!! A me! Giurin giuretta! :-)) Si è bloccata esattamente 20 secondi dopo aver lanciato LimeWire. 06/05/2002 23.45.33, Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 19:39, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: E usi LimeWire con XP? Hanno detto che da problemi con programmi del genere. Solo 2000 e XP. No, ho usato anke win XP ke ho deciso di cambiare installandocci l'Me perchè si pianta di meno e, anke per il tipo di programmi che uso, mi da meno problemi! Mi spiace però nn poterti aiutare su limewire inquanto nn lo ho mai usato, anche se, il tipo di problema da te descritto mi sembra una diceria inquanto nn penso ke un client di condivisione file possa annullarti un abbonamento con infostrada o comunque un gestore di connessione adsl.
Re: [newbie-it] configurazione hardware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14:31, sabato 4 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] configurazione hardware, x ha scritto: 1) non riesco a far riconoscre al sistema un modem isdn. su isa plug e pray mi dice stringa (lectron winet express isdn), ... credo che il problema sia la stringa plug e pray, ma non so come fare a non farla leggere a linux oltre a connettere pregando :-P disabilita il PnP da bios e da LILO 2) scheda audio ectiva ev 1935 machone pci. non so come farla funzionare: la riconosce come scheda audio, ma resta muta puoi cercare la compatibilità hardware della tua scheda col pinguino, vedi di capire il chipset che utilizza e fai qualche ricerca $cat /proc/pci è un inizio per capire cosa monti 3) scheda satellitare b2c2 netsystem pci: viene riconosciuta come periferica sconosciuta non credo si possa usare, per ora 4) tastiera multimediale btc 9000 a : come configurare i tasti multimediali, di navigazione, di standby e di off? puoi cercare su google se qualcuno l'ha già fatto, altrimenti dovresti cercare di capire il codice restituito dai tasti multimediali ed a questi associare un'azione sotto kde/gnome 5) non riesco ad avviare il serverx contemporaneamente con 2 schede video (agp e pci), anche se xf86cfg si avvia con entrambe, le configura, ma quando parte il serverx mi dà errore, riprova e parte con una sola scheda. dicci quali schede hai e la sequenza con il quale il bios le abilita, allega anche il tuo XF86Config (-4) per capire se c'è qualche errore personalmente per usare le 2 schede ho settato tutto a mano dopo aver cercato in giro alcune dritte per la S3 (che in DH sembrava inutilizzabile) inoltre, per usare l'estensione xinerama devi esplicitarla al momento dello startx 6) per risolvere questi problemi vorrei usare vmware e la condivisione di winzozz, ma il vmware mi dà problemi di incompatibilità e di mancanze di files sui sorgenti del kernel - -vmware non è gratuito, - -se il sistema ospitante (GNU/Linux nel tuo caso) non riconosce l'hardware, non risolve il problema - -ti rallenta la macchina - -si trascina i difetti del sistema ospite bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE81V4SF/9fksDJ4y0RAiefAJ0VLUadVNEaDOReZ7552OJCxbWuqgCYyY6e msPOz99Xa+M3uUxpj8mEjA== =Vybd -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] kernel ricompilato e vfat: grazie
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 prova a cambiarlo così: /dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat defaults,users,noauto,showexec 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 idem come sopra Questo ha risolto il problema! Grazie per avermi evitato l'ennesima ricompilazione! biss
[newbie] help with ./configure
Im trying to install BitchX, i've downloaded it and un-tar'd it, and then the instructions say to run ./configure --with-plugins it says checking for gcc. no checking for cc. no checking for cl no configure: error: no acceptible C compiler found in $PATH so i guess my question is where do i get gcc, cc, or cl? TIA David __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making a script runnable
Thanks, that did the trick Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 04 May 2002 20:27:53 -0500 Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. Now that I've been able to get it to run, I get the error kinstalltheme: command not found I'm running Mandrake 8.2 and KDE 3. Anyone know what to do here? Sorry for being such a newb :-P Brian That is part of kdelibs 3, which I would assume gets installed when you install KDE. The script may be looking for kinstalltheme in the wrong place, though. Do a locate kinstalltheme in a terminal, and you'll see if a) you have it installed and b) where it is. If you don't have it installed, install it using software manager in the control center. If you do have it installed, look at the script in a text editor and see where it's looking for kinstalltheme, and change it to the correct location. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help with ./configure
You only need gcc and it is on your Mandrake discs. Just open Mandrake software Manager and seach for it. In 8.2 two versions of gcc are supplied 2.96 and 3.0 2.96 is the one your system is compiled with, so you should generally use that one. HTH derek On Sunday 05 May 2002 9:41 am, Head wrote: Im trying to install BitchX, i've downloaded it and un-tar'd it, and then the instructions say to run ./configure --with-plugins it says checking for gcc. no checking for cc. no checking for cl no configure: error: no acceptible C compiler found in $PATH so i guess my question is where do i get gcc, cc, or cl? TIA David __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. (for the 3rd time! :) ) My machine is on a university network. I frequently get a popup KWrited document on my desktop that is labeled listening on device /dev/pts/0 and the makes a long list of audio and font files
On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:47 am, db wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. (for the 3rd time! :) ) My machine is on a university network. I frequently get a popup KWrited document on my desktop that is labeled listening on device /dev/pts/0 and the makes a long list of audio and font files locating them on several of my partitions. The partitions are: the /dev/ ... (of my secondary drive that contains an alternate boot of Redhat 5.1) the /usr/share/ ... the /var/lib ... the /var/tmp ... I assume people used my machine's drives as a way station for napster like file transfer... I just poked around in the Control Panel and set my security to medium ... that seems to have stopped it. At least I am not getting any more KWrited listening docs popping up ... (I didn't do this before because during install I requested high security but it appears Crackers level somehow got installed anyway.) Am I right about what was going on and why? What, if anything, more should I do additionally? I saved a copy of the KWrited listing of files ... should I delete the files? Is there any chance there some kind of worm or trojan horse on my machine now? It's unlikely if the machine was being used as an ftp site, but see disclaimer at the end :) What you could do as a first shot is log in as root and: find / -name *.mp3 -print (and possibly find / -name *.ogg -print) and, if you find any MP3 or OGG files you don't recognise, move them elsewhere (don't delete them until you're sure there's no problem - it's unlikely that applications will use MP3 or OGG files to play their sounds, but you never know). Then: - download and install all 8.1 security updates (however that's done there; 8.2 uses an application called MandrakeUpdate to automate this); - run Bastille Linux, which may already be installed, if not run, and, if not, can be got from http://www.bastille-linux.org/ It 'hardens' an existing Linux installation to make it more resistant from attack by performing various operations (firewalling and so on). To run it type InteractiveBastille when logged in as root - note case). More sophisticated techniques will have to wait until someone more knowledgeable than me answers. Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem
On Sunday 05 May 2002 4:11 am, Pupeno wrote: I'm planing on buying Multitech MT5634ZPX-PCI-NV-V92 (they have a problem chosing model names), it's internal, PCI, fax, V.92, voice, any comments ? This is the info of the modem: http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/MultiModemZPX/ Thank you - -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pupeno.com.ar PS: do you know if I will be able to use V.92 capabilites ? Well I do not have experience of this particular modem, but looking at the spec it looks like an excellent choice. (BTW: Long ago in a former life I used to design modems) The manual is clear and very detailed. It contains a complete breakdown of the command strings so you will be able to create initialisation strings to make the modem act in the way you desire. It does not depend on any external software to control the modem. Everything is done simply through ASCII 'AT' command strings which makes it OS independent. There is even a chapter in the installation manual about using it under Linux. As for V.92, yes you should be able to use it. The manual states it will be autoselected if your ISP dial in server supports it. It is also designed with the international market in mind. Many modem manufacturers assume what works in the US will work elsewhere, which is simply not true. I wish more modems were spec'd like this. (Of course it might still be a terrible modem, but I cannot tell that by looking at the spec) HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help I Can't log in!!!
Thanks, but this hasn't fixed it I'm afraid. I've discovered that I can log in if I startup in 'failsafe' mode (that's something I suppose!) but not if I startup normally. I can't log in as *any* user, not even root! Any more suggestions from anyone? Mark - Original Message - From: daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help I Can't log in!!! in that case you may want to check to make sure the IP address of the machine you're trying to connect to this box from isn't being blocked by port sentry. check the /etc/hosts.deny file for the IP address of that machine. If it's there you'll want to enter that machine's address into the hosts.ignore and hosts.allow file so this doens't happen any more. that happens to me at least once every time I setup a new box. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Window Manager Configurations
I've recently started checking out the lighter window managers - especially Blackbox and IceWM. On the whole pretty impressive but I am having one or two difficulties that I hope someone out there will be able to help me with: 1. When I change the theme in IceWM, the change is not retained thenext time I log in. Is there anything I can do about this? A configuration file needs tweaking perhaps? 2. I've added items to the menu, using Menudrake, but they don't come up in the Blackbox or IceWM menus. Why should this be andcan I do anything about it? 3. How does one change the background for Blackbox? That's probably enough to be going on with. Please point me in the right direction if you can. I am using Mandrake 7.2. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3 and Konqueror
On Sunday 05 May 2002 12:06 am, you wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 20:13, you wrote: Dennis , I had the same problem and found that I could not kill my modem also but I kind of stumbled by accident on to a little trick. if you have a wheel mouse try center clicking the wheel . I found by doing this I got a pop up that gave me all the running programs so that i could select the one to open or shutdown. You might get lucky like I did . Wangbo On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:26 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I decided to give KDE3 another try with the latest .mdk build on the mirrors. Now I have lost my ability to call up konqueror from a su console. It just sits there and says something about render. Happens in kde and kde3. Anyone seen this problem or a fix. I find nothing on the archive and have seen nothing on newbie. I seem to be the only one with a disfunctional kde setup. The install went smoothly with only two packages to fulfill dependencies. I also had to fix some permissions when I copied .kde to .kde3 but could not find the ~/.kde3/share/config/kpersonalizerrc file and could not create it in mc cause there's no create file only mkdir command. Any help before I reinstall and forget KDE3 for now. TIA OK, reinstall it is. The kicker panel doesn't show apps that are currently running and so I can't find a way to shut down the modem since kill pid does not do it . All sorts of ugly things going on with KDE3 installed. yuk! Sorry no one could help with this, I'll wait for the Mandrake release or 3.1 as someone else suggested to another newbie. Thanks, but I use a three button mouse, center button does same as your wheel click and oddly the kppp doesn't show up as a running app. Thanks for the effort though, I appreciate it. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help I Can't log in!!!
Mark; I don;t suppose you've considered re-installing? You could save your config files to a floppy, and leave your /home partition alone during the install, and that would solve the problem for sure! You'd have to name the home partition (create mount point for /home), and you'd have to make sure you don't format it during the install, but otherwise everything would be back again as soon as you login. It's just a thought, but assuming you've made a package list floppy, it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes, and look at how much time you've spent on this problem already! I realize that you're probably trying to solve the problem rather than re-installing Mandrake, but if you can't use it properly, then mabe it's time to take the plunge? Just a thought. Lanman - Original Message - From: Mark Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help I Can't log in!!! Thanks, but this hasn't fixed it I'm afraid. I've discovered that I can log in if I startup in 'failsafe' mode (that's something I suppose!) but not if I startup normally. I can't log in as *any* user, not even root! Any more suggestions from anyone? Mark - Original Message - From: daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help I Can't log in!!! in that case you may want to check to make sure the IP address of the machine you're trying to connect to this box from isn't being blocked by port sentry. check the /etc/hosts.deny file for the IP address of that machine. If it's there you'll want to enter that machine's address into the hosts.ignore and hosts.allow file so this doens't happen any more. that happens to me at least once every time I setup a new box. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.73 address book
On Sunday 05 May 2002 09:26, you wrote: First i gotta find it, then i can import it into KMail. What is the address book file called in Netscape. One way to do it is:- Netscape Communicator - Addressbook - file - export - anywhere you like to put it Then in Kmail, file - import - Kmail+Addressbookimput filters Vxx Chabge outlook express to import Netscape LDIF - Import from whereever you chose to put Netscape addressbook Let it trundle along,takes a while , all is acomplished. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations
On Sun, 05 May 2002 13:06:36 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently started checking out the lighter window managers - especially Blackbox and IceWM. On the whole pretty impressive but I am having one or two difficulties that I hope someone out there will be able to help me with: snip don't know IceWM 2. I've added items to the menu, using Menudrake, but they don't come up in the Blackbox or IceWM menus. Why should this be and can I do anything about it? In Blackbox, you have to edit the Menu file. This is located in ~/.blackbox. It is very simple to edit, just looking at the file you will see what you need to do. If not, man blackbox will give more explanation. 3. How does one change the background for Blackbox? bsetroot or bsetbg. One or both of these should be on your system. bsetroot has a man page. The Blackbox man page has a good description of how to create themes, which also talks about backgrounds (like if you want a solid color, gradient, or pattern instead of an image). That's probably enough to be going on with. Please point me in the right direction if you can. I am using Mandrake 7.2. I hope what I'm telling you is the same for 7.2 as for 8.1! HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater 10:25am up 10 days, 35 min, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.06 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Office V1.0 / Mandrake 8.2
I though I would take a look at what all the fuss was about and decided to download OOo_1.0.0_linuxintel_install.tar.gz which installed easily enough in my chosen directoy /usr/bin/001/ The only hitch during installation was some message about no Java and Javascript found, which I took to mean it didn't know where to find them,and since there are a lot of folders and directories with java in their title I chose not to provide info where it could find them,perhaps someone could suggest exactly which directory/folder I should tell it to go and look for. Now of course I need to create a subsection in Kstart-Office and some symlinks to the apps, I believe i know how to do that, my problem is I don't know where exactly the apps are , and indeed what they are called. So if any of you more accomplished OO1 users can point me at either the right java settlings, and / or , the apps location please do enlighten me. thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] free perl IDE
anyone know of a free perl IDE for linux or windows? Also come good documentation would be nice to get started.
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Saturday 04 May 2002 12:38 pm, RichardA wrote: What a load of crap. I don't subscribe to this list to see pro gun zealots foaming at the mouth about murdering petty criminals. I dare say some of my political views would upset you. You'll notice I don't subject you to them. RichardA Oh, come on Richard ! - On my screen I see no foam at all. Lyvim was merely answering a naive question concerning the fact that I'm now a criminal, because I eradicated windows from my laptop. Furthermore, it seems that I'm a communist, because I use free software. I wonder if that holds for my children as well ? If THAT isn't crap, I don't know what crap is. Lyvim was kind enough to inform me that not all americans cave in to the evil empire. To quote my question : What happened to the land of the free ? We europeans (well, most of us) have great admiration for the United States of America. Mostly because you kicked the oppressors out, wrote a brand new Constitution - and took it seriously ! What you describe here makes me doubt : is USA becoming Europized ? Reverting to feudalism, pseudo-democracy, corruption, fraud and mob-rule ? If so, where can we find hope ? I still don't know. But I know that at least some americans stand up : judge Pennfield Jackson is still in office (as far as I know). Nader is still at large and Linus Skywalker, eh Thorvalds isn't knighted by emperor Bill yet. Lyvim can criticize his country's legislative system and Todd can even criticize its founding fathers. You can like their opinions or dislike them. But they have freedom of speech - and use it. Without risking incarceration. That's why I envy americans. And linux is about freedom. I don't think that's irrelevant here on this list. May the Force be with us ! Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Stocks
Dear All, Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office V1.0 / Mandrake 8.2
On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I though I would take a look at what all the fuss was about and decided to download OOo_1.0.0_linuxintel_install.tar.gz which installed easily enough in my chosen directoy /usr/bin/001/ The only hitch during installation was some message about no Java and Javascript found, which I took to mean it didn't know where to find them,and since there are a lot of folders and directories with java in their title I chose not to provide info where it could find them,perhaps someone could suggest exactly which directory/folder I should tell it to go and look for. Now of course I need to create a subsection in Kstart-Office and some symlinks to the apps, I believe i know how to do that, my problem is I don't know where exactly the apps are , and indeed what they are called. So if any of you more accomplished OO1 users can point me at either the right java settlings, and / or , the apps location please do enlighten me. The OO setup is poor and does only a fraction of what's needed with KDE :( There are a lot of files and folders with 'java' in their name which haven't got anything to do with the Java runtime environment. which is what you need. If you've installed it the most likely place is: /usr/lib/folder name related to Java version/bin Type 'locate java*' from the command line; that should return a whole screed of files and, if there are two named: /usr/lib/folder name related to Java version/bin/java /usr/lib/folder name related to Java version/bin/java_vm your Java runtime environment is there. If they aren't present you haven't installed Java before, the best thing to do is to download the Java runtime environment from Sun at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html (the 'Linux Red Hat RPM shell script'). Downloading and installing should put the Java runtime environment in: /usr/lib/jre_1.4.0/bin If you install OO to installation directory (I used /opt/openoffice) the executable files are in: installation directory/program and have cryptic names such as 'swriter', 'simpress' and so on. Icons are buried deep in: installation directory/share/kde/net/mimelink/share/icons Below that there are various icon sets (32x32 and 48x48 pixels, high colour and 256 colours). If you don't want to create shortcuts yourself you can drag precast '*.desktop' shortcut files from installation directory/share/kde/net/applnk/OpenOffice.org 1.0 to the desktop, but you'll have to add the appropriate icon yourself anyway (right mouse button on the '?' icon when it's on the desktop then select Properties ...). Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] free perl IDE
On Sunday 05 May 2002 4:25 pm, Michael Kovary wrote: anyone know of a free perl IDE for linux or windows? Also come good documentation would be nice to get started. When I used Windows (!) the best was Open Source: http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/ It has excellent documentation built in. For Linux you have one right in front of you installed as part of the Mandrake distribution; I haven't started with it in earnest yet, but KDevelop looks good and isn't just for C++ (there's syntax highlighting built in for Perl, and much else; I would use Python). Perl has probably the best documentation online of any language. Two sources are: http://www.perl.com/pub/q/documentation http://www.perldoc.com/ The classic 'starting off with Perl' printed source is the 'llama book', Beginning Perl by Schwartz and Phoenix: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001320/ref=pd_sim_books/103-2333940-9858206 Once you get going the 'camel book', Programming Perl by Wall, Christiansen and Orwant, is a (big) step up: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596000278/qid=1020620581/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_71_1/103-2333940-9858206 Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] celestia
There's been some discussion on OpenUniverse (I tried it, but had difficulties compiling in that many standard paths for headers were not put in the source) and by accident I was checking out a recent issue on the focus on linux website last night, and it mentioned a prog called 'celestia' which is purported to be a 3d space simulator prog. Anyway, I fetched the tarball last night, and compiled/installed it. I am pretty sure all the required 3d libraries are there (libglu[t], Mesa, and so forth). Configure went fairly well - it did bomb out on an error that it couldn't find some gnome shell file (it was looking in /usr/local/celestia/lib, which is mind-boggling, as it's not installed yet.) make/make install goes fine. The program appears to start OK, and I can just move the little planet (which is doubled) around a bit with the mouse, but that's about it. In a few seconds, my computer is locked up tight. Mouse cursor is there, and is movable, but I can't do anything else. I can't kill X. All I can do is shut the power off and reboot the computer. My graphics card is a Matrox G450 with 16 megs of RAM. Am I just out of luck with this card? It's supposed to be able to have some 3d abilities (probably not nearly as good as GeForce or what have you) but I haven't been at all successful with 3d on this card as of yet. Any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations
On Sun, 5 May 2002 10:32:41 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: snippage In Blackbox, you have to edit the Menu file. This is located in ~/.blackbox. It is very simple to edit, just looking at the file you will = Shouldn't that be ~/.blackboxrc ?? Mike -- A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. -- Mohammed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Saturdayen den 4 May 2002 05.41, you wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2002 03:46:15 +0200, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes me sad, Lyvim. What happened to the land of the free ? We europeans (well, most of us) have great admiration for the United States of America. Mostly because you kicked the oppressors out, wrote a brand new Constitution - and took it seriously ! What you describe here makes me doubt : is USA becoming Europized ? - Reverting to feudalism, pseudo-democracy, corruption, fraud and mob-rule ? If so, where can we find hope ? This seems to be some sort of cycle. England once thought itself as the freest and most democratic nation on earth, with an instilled duty to hold back the tides of despotism (with their old enemy France being the main target of this). They believed this right up to the American Revolution. So what had happened? The 'revolutionary' zeal that had taken England through a civil war only a century earlier had died down, and people had become more conservative. There was little interest in England of promoting democracy in the colonies. While there were some prominent members of parliament, most notably the Prime Minister Pitt (the Elder), who _did_ want parliamentary representation for the Americans, they were greatly outnumbered by the conservatives (IIRC, Pitt resigned because he didn't get it). At the same time, that revolutionary fervour that had to that stage been seen as distinctly English had been transported to the American colonies. It is this that fuelled the American Revolution, just as it had fuelled the English civil wars of the years preceding it. So you might say that the Americans were more 'English' than the English. Now, fast-forward to today. The actions of the US governmental bodies seems no different in principle from the English government of the 1780s. The circumstances are very similar: both are/were well-established bodies and both are/were the major world powers of their day. From their point of view, they have far more to gain by being conservative and preserving the status quo. As an Irani cleric (who now opposes the established theocracy) once said, Power is like water. If it does not flow it becomes stagnant. USA aint becoming Europized its becoming Burgerized Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?
On Saturdayen den 4 May 2002 09.21, you wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Makes me sad, Lyvim. What happened to the land of the free ? We europeans (well, most of us) have great admiration for the United States of America. Mostly because you kicked the oppressors out, wrote a brand new Constitution - and took it seriously ! What you describe here makes me doubt : is USA becoming Europized ? - Reverting to feudalism, pseudo-democracy, corruption, fraud and mob-rule ? Well frankly I prefer the euro system but thats me. And I won't debate further on this list the merits of both/either, thusly inciting a need for asbestos clothing. :) Otherwise I don't care at all : Next month I'll have to buy a brand new PC for my daughter. I Denmark it's impossible to get one without Windows preinstalled. First thing to do : format the whole kadoodle, use the M$-CD as a shining target for her rifle-practice and install Linux. She's really fond of Linux already, what with her boy-friends flocking around a she-guru. hm... ya men seem to enjoy girls who have brains. Surprised? :) If Microsjuft then wants to claim her beauty-box, let 'em try ! Kaj Haulrich Denmark Hoo-ya! you can say that again. Can I hear an Amen brother!? :) Sorry had to say it. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 All girls have brains, atleast in the present time Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server
I have ipchains firewall offending adresses. There is one address, I don't understand, HOW it can still hit my server. The address is 65.192.156.2 This is *impossible*!!! No address can hit your server if you have them ipchained out! Is there something wrong with ipchains? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server
On Sundayen den 5 May 2002 20.33, you wrote: I have ipchains firewall offending adresses. There is one address, I don't understand, HOW it can still hit my server. The address is 65.192.156.2 This is *impossible*!!! No address can hit your server if you have them ipchained out! Is there something wrong with ipchains? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Can anyone help me configure Ipchains? i read the man pages but i still cant understand how to do it please Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MandrakeUpdate, say what?
Hello, would anyone know why MandrakeUpdate cannot work at this time? I am running 8.2 Thanks you to all who answer. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server
On Sunday 05 May 2002 02:33 pm, Ibly Piblo wrote: I have ipchains firewall offending adresses. There is one address, I don't understand, HOW it can still hit my server. The address is 65.192.156.2 This is *impossible*!!! No address can hit your server if you have them ipchained out! they still hit your server, you just minimize there impact by dicarding the packet earlier... Talk to you upstream ISP and tell them to block the IP at their router. -- Gerald Waugh : Registered Linux user # 255245 http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com Front Street Networks LLC - ph. 203.785.0699 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, United States of America 2:45pm up 44 days, 22:13, 3 users, load average: 1.23, 1.16, 1.19 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????
Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into mandrake control center and added the hde which was the red hat partiion and then rebooted, The option was there but when i chose it i got all kinds of failure and it wouldnt boot up, so i wonder if i can run 2 distribution on the same harddrive and computer ? and also do i need 1 swap for each distrubtion or can they share swap? If its possible to run 2 i would be gratefull if you could tell me how to set it up. Best regards Adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] E-term problems under 8.2?
Has anyone else had problems with E-term under 8.2? I'm getting this (non-fatal) error when I start E-term: bash: TMOUT: readonly variable [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ I looked at .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .bash_history in my /home director but saw nothing that pointed to this... Thanks! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stocks
On Sunday 05 May 2002 12:50 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia Marcia: I've been tracking them at The Motley Fool (www.fool.com). Works fine for me with Konqueror. The deal is that once you've set up an account (username and password), you enter your portfolio. (Actually, you can set up several different portfolios on the same account, so that you could track securities kept in your 1040K, your brokerage account, in the bank and under the mattress as separate items.) Anytime that you sign on, you get an updated report on each stock, and links to any current news about each security. They don't do trading, though. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????
adrian wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into mandrake control center and added the hde which was the red hat partiion and then rebooted, The option was there but when i chose it i got all kinds of failure and it wouldnt boot up, so i wonder if i can run 2 distribution on the same yes. harddrive and computer ? and also do i need 1 swap for each distrubtion or can they share swap? If its possible to run 2 i would be gratefull if you They can share the same swap file. could tell me how to set it up. You tell us how you have it set up. Best regards Adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stocks
On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:50 pm, Marcia wrote:
Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are
you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least
inexpensive?
My British site advice is irrelevant ... but
http://www.selftrade.com/uk/ works well with Konqueror 3 and Mozilla.
However ... there's a small and very useful (multi-national) stock
ticker at:
http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html ('TclTicker')
Alastair
--
Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)
http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????
On Sunday 05 May 2002 04:48 pm, you wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into mandrake control center and added the hde which was the red hat partiion and then rebooted, The option was there but when i chose it i got all kinds of failure and it wouldnt boot up, so i wonder if i can run 2 distribution on the same harddrive and computer ? and also do i need 1 swap for each distrubtion or can they share swap? If its possible to run 2 i would be gratefull if you could tell me how to set it up. Best regards Adrian Adrian: There was a thread on this subject about two weeks ago. Look in the newbie archives for an April 20 posting by Civileme to the thread Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distro's. See also an April 13 posting by ai4a to the thread Dual Mandrake Boot Setup. HTH -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stocks
On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:50 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia The Lycos finance site http://finance.lycos.com/ has a Java stock grapher which works in real time if you subscribe or 15mins delayed if not. It works in Galeon/Mozilla and Opera. It used to work perfectly, but since they 'upgraded' the Java applet some of the analysis buttons no longer work. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gimp
Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am using 8.2, and it is the original install, Thanks for hints Klemm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: WineX was: OT over reacting
shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: i used to play quake II with the name i tend to die a lot but i haven't played III yet.. ;) I named myself in a similar fashion. I realized, quite abruptly, that while I do well in single player mode, I get creamed when going up against humans. I didn't bring death to others in multiplayer, they brought death to me! So I now I play as Grim_Reaped (noticed the final 'd'). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
right click on the image - it's in the menus there Klemm wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am using 8.2, and it is the original install, Thanks for hints Klemm 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] Gimp
On 05 May 2002 23:31:44 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am using 8.2, and it is the original install, Thanks for hints Klemm Nearly everything in Gimp is done by right-clicking in the image. So, right-click, file, save. -- Todd Slater 4:39pm up 10 days, 6:50, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.15, 0.05 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations
On Sun, 5 May 2002 14:26:13 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 May 2002 10:32:41 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: snippage In Blackbox, you have to edit the Menu file. This is located in ~/.blackbox. It is very simple to edit, just looking at the file you will= Shouldn't that be ~/.blackboxrc ?? Mike You can tell Blackbox to use a different menu file in ~/.blackboxrc if you want to, but on my system the actual menu gets built from ~/.blackbox/Menu. Todd -- Todd Slater 4:42pm up 10 days, 6:53, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.16, 0.08 2.4.8-26mdk A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. (Theodore Roosevelt) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server
On Sun, 5 May 2002, adrian wrote: Can anyone help me configure Ipchains? i read the man pages but i still cant understand how to do it please Adrian, What might help you is to get an understanding first of what ipchains are and what a firewall is. There is a HOWTO on your system, well actually there are a few that you should read to get started. At any rate the docs that you need to get started are already on your system. You can find them under the K menu - Documentation - HOWTo's... Or you can load this URL in your browser window: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html That should bring up the index page of all the howto's that are currently on your system. Among other things you may want to take a look at Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO, Linux IPCHAINS-HOWTO. These two that are already on your system should get you started fairly well in the right direction. There's also a neat little ipchains package on the net that will help you configure an ipchains firewall without acually knowing that much about them. It's called PMFirewall. You can find that package here: http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ As far as errecting a firewall nothing is more powerful then knowledge and actually knowing just how to do it yourself. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 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] Gimp
On Sunday 05 May 2002 11:31 pm, Klemm wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. There isn't such a thing as a stupid question on this list, ya know. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am using 8.2, and it is the original install, Thanks for hints Klemm Klemm, right-click anywhere on the image, then left-click save or save as. Regards Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDR
My oldish Sony 8x/4x/32x works fine using X-CD-Roast on a new 8.2 install. I did no extra configuration setup, other than getting into root and running X-CD-Roast to give my userid permission to burn CDs. I do find the interface very confusing and have to struggle a bit each time trying to remember how to identify the files I want to burn and then tell it to start burning. Roger On Saturday 04 May 2002 05:48 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote: Anybody got their IDE CDR to burn in 8.2? If so, how? Thanks, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
anyone knows the polarisation filter in photoshop ? is there anything like that in gimp ? i realy like the gimp , it's just great !!! Am Son, 2002-05-05 um 22.50 schrieb Kaj Haulrich: On Sunday 05 May 2002 11:31 pm, Klemm wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. There isn't such a thing as a stupid question on this list, ya know. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am using 8.2, and it is the original install, Thanks for hints Klemm Klemm, right-click anywhere on the image, then left-click save or save as. Regards Kaj Haulrich 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] Installation of Linux for Windows 6.5
Hi I am a fairly knowledgeable MS Windows user who has become interested in Linux. I have successfully installed Mandrake onto my PC and it is dual booting fine and working well. The problem is, I am having trouble installing Linux Mandrake for Windows 6.5 onto my laptop. I specifically want this program so that I do not have to partition my laptop drive and can just click into Linux. On rebooting I get: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:21 The setup is: Silicon Motion LynxEM Display 128Mb Ram 6 Gb Drive Regards Robert Mackie
Re: [newbie] help with ./configure
Head wrote: Im trying to install BitchX, i've downloaded it and un-tar'd it, and then the instructions say to run ./configure --with-plugins it says checking for gcc. no checking for cc. no checking for cl no configure: error: no acceptible C compiler found in $PATH so i guess my question is where do i get gcc, cc, or cl? TIA David __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well if you have any download distro since 7.1, you should have BitchX right on the CDs. But to answer your question, you need to install the development package, and that isn't just the compiler. It includes the files that say -devel in them if you are interested in compiling apps in their categories. Headers are very important, and the newer gcc compilers do not add standard headers to source code by default, so you may run into a problem with some older source which assumes that. urpmi gcc is a good start. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations
Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, 05 May 2002 13:06:36 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently started checking out the lighter window managers - especially Blackbox and IceWM. On the whole pretty impressive but I am having one or two difficulties that I hope someone out there will be able to help me with: snip don't know IceWM 2. I've added items to the menu, using Menudrake, but they don't come up in the Blackbox or IceWM menus. Why should this be and can I do anything about it? In Blackbox, you have to edit the Menu file. This is located in ~/.blackbox. It is very simple to edit, just looking at the file you will see what you need to do. If not, man blackbox will give more explanation. 3. How does one change the background for Blackbox? bsetroot or bsetbg. One or both of these should be on your system. bsetroot has a man page. The Blackbox man page has a good description of how to create themes, which also talks about backgrounds (like if you want a solid color, gradient, or pattern instead of an image). That's probably enough to be going on with. Please point me in the right direction if you can. I am using Mandrake 7.2. I hope what I'm telling you is the same for 7.2 as for 8.1! HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, editing the local menu file is a way to break compatibility. The menu editor will make blackbox changes too, just look at the GUI screen it offers... There you will see a checkbox for KDE or all or GNOME or all. Or look at the raw menufile entry--here are a couple of examples ?package(aumix): needs=x11 \ section=Multimedia/Sound \ title=Aumix \ longtitle=Audio Mixer \ command=aumix \ icon=sound_section.png That file shows on all menus ?package(gnome-control-center): command=/usr/bin/gnomecc icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/control-center.png longtitle=The Gnome configuration tool title=Gnome Control Center needs=gnome section=Configuration/Gnome The second one shows only on gnome. The menu editor on 7.2 to use is menudrake, NOT KMenuEdit, where entries will vanish. There are a couple of caveats. 7.1 used integrated desktop enus for the first time and had no editor so people had to make these menu files by hand. 7.2 had a menu editor called menudrake; however, it wasn't protected from user impatience. When one did a save, in the lower left hand corner of the window it said (saving...) And finally the message would change to indicate completion. But no ShowBusyCursor was implemented to lock out a user's quitting early, with a result of corrupted menu files. Now the menu editor also make changes either to local or to system. local changes were kept in /home/username or /root if root was editing. After running menu editor, it was a good idea to run, as root update-menus -v and hit the enter key after the last line of executing menu-methods. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server
adrian wrote: On Sundayen den 5 May 2002 20.33, you wrote: I have ipchains firewall offending adresses. There is one address, I don't understand, HOW it can still hit my server. The address is 65.192.156.2 This is *impossible*!!! No address can hit your server if you have them ipchained out! Is there something wrong with ipchains? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Can anyone help me configure Ipchains? i read the man pages but i still cant understand how to do it please Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It depends on distro how you do this, and more recent distros do not have ipchains but rather iptables. You can do this two ways... Method 1: iptables -A input -s 65.192.156.2 DROP or iptables -A input -s 65.182.156.2 REJECT The reject sends the packet back marked as a reject, the drop just drops it and lets the other end timeout before it does something else. But the packets will continue to hit, just get dropped or rejected. If you search about Code Red and Nimda on Google, you will probably run across a script that sends a shutdown to the IIS server trying to send you all the packets. It may be considered a hostile attack to do that, but then what are the packets in the first place? At least the shutdown script will drive the sysadmin at the other end to investigate why he's being shut down. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????
On 06 May 2002 08:48, adrian wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into mandrake control center and added the hde which was the red hat partiion and then rebooted, The option was there but when i chose it i got all kinds of failure and it wouldnt boot up, so i wonder if i can run 2 distribution on the same harddrive and computer ? and also do i need 1 swap for each distrubtion or can they share swap? If its possible to run 2 i would be gratefull if you could tell me how to set it up. Best regards Adrian I just installed redhat and had lilo/boot problems also. You only need the one swap partition. I have a separate /boot partition which I share between the distros - be sure NOT to format the /boot partition is you have the same setup. During the redhat install I chose not to install a boot loader - thought I would rather keep Mandrake's lilo going. When the rh installation finished I rebooted with the boot floppy (made during installation) and all seemed OK. I rebooted from the hard drive to Mandrake (with Mandrake's lilo) and edited lilo.conf to include the rh partition. However upon running lilo (# /sbin/lilo) I got an error about an older version. So I rebooted with the rh boot floppy, uninstalled lilo (rh had automatically installed lilo but /etc/lilo.conf did not exist), then reinstalled lilo. I edited the lilo.conf to include Mandrake and ran # /sbin/lilo. All is well but I don't like rh's boot loader (its ugly). From what Civileme said I think you need to install rh first then install Mandrake to use Mandrake's lilo. I might reinstall Mandrake later in the week - I'm getting faster at setting up apache, samba and twiki and upgrading all packages ; ). BTW rh is a lot slower than Mandrake on my machine! I'm still downloading all the updates (sloww dial-up internet connection). IMHO rh's installation is much cleaner/clearer than Mandrake's but I prefer Mandrake any day! I needed to try rh because I only have Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 and most of my friends who are keen to try linux have older i386/i486s. While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to Increase Keyboard Auto Repeat Delay
Ok... I'm whupped on this one. I've set my BIOS keyboard autorepeat delay to 3 seconds. I've set my XF86Config and XF86Config-4 Autorepeat option to 3000 10 But still, when I hit a key it starts autorepeating in well under a second. I would have to guess between 250 to 500 milliSeconds. Any thoughts? Have I missed some other config file? I am using a Dell keyboard by the way. Thanks, /Pen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloads
On Fri, 3 May 2002 00:32:50 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:32, you wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 4:32 pm, you wrote: Sometimes , while attempting to download a file , after clicking on the chosen file,instead of a download windowlet , the files seems to end up as programme code displayed on the website window, why is this and what do I do about it. John Well this depends on which browser you are using. If it is konqueror clicking on a download will normally open the dialogue saying 'Save Open or Cancel' 'Save' will save the file to your hard drive while 'Open' will open the file using the application associated with that file suffix defined in KDE ControlCentreFile BrowsingFile Associations If the application for that file type is 'embedded file viewer' then it will do as you describe and show the file contents in the konqueror window. It is real easy to alter the file associations and use a different application to handle that file type. IF you are not using konqueror of course, then everything I have just written is wrong ;-) derek Thank you all, yes it's konqueror, but in file assosciations it say's against .tgz=application-x-tgz-embedding-use setting for application group-archiver, which seems OK to me. So why should konqueror not want to save it as any other downloaded file, and displays it instead? John I remember, some time ago, you sometimes had to hold down the 'shift' key when clicking to download a file in Netscape. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Application launches from command line but not from menu
If I open a terminal and type display, Image Magick opens fine. But if I try to open Image Magick from the menu item, nothing happens. This is true in every window manager I have (KDE, IceWM, etc.), so it's not a window manager specific problem. MenuDrake shows me that the menu item for Image Magick is correct, so it's not a malformed menu item. (Nonetheless, I have also deleted and reinstalled the menu item -- no change.) I can find no reference to this problem in the documentation nor at imagemagick.org. Any idea as to what's wrong and how to fix it? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT over reacting
Where can i Get Winex 2.0 ? - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT over reacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't agree with anyone flaming someone because of the email signature. Who cares what their opinion is. Also he does have a right to his opinion especially if he lives in the USA, this is guaranteed by the 1st amendment in the Constitution ( As noted below). Also Microsoft does suck, I have used windoz products for a number of years now and I have just started to use Linux in the last year. I never have to reboot my Linux box, but I have to reboot any windoz box at least once a day. And the only reason I still use windoz is because I like to some games every now and then. If the damn game companies would port stuff to Linux I would get rid of windoz all together. Just my $.02 Have you tried Winex 2.0? Many of us swear by it now, and I can personally vouch for: Starcraft/Broodwars Diablo2/Lord of Destruction Jedi Knight 2 Baldurs Gate 2 Try it - dump Windog! (woof!) ;-) 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] OT over reacting
Where can i Get Winex 2.0 ? http://www.transgaming.com/download.php - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT over reacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't agree with anyone flaming someone because of the email signature. Who cares what their opinion is. Also he does have a right to his opinion especially if he lives in the USA, this is guaranteed by the 1st amendment in the Constitution ( As noted below). Also Microsoft does suck, I have used windoz products for a number of years now and I have just started to use Linux in the last year. I never have to reboot my Linux box, but I have to reboot any windoz box at least once a day. And the only reason I still use windoz is because I like to some games every now and then. If the damn game companies would port stuff to Linux I would get rid of windoz all together. Just my $.02 Have you tried Winex 2.0? Many of us swear by it now, and I can personally vouch for: Starcraft/Broodwars Diablo2/Lord of Destruction Jedi Knight 2 Baldurs Gate 2 Try it - dump Windog! (woof!) ;-) --- - 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] Stocks
A former client of mine is a day trader. I set him up with 3dstockcharts.com for tracking (US$9.95/month) and ameritrade.com for trading. He recommends them both. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Sun, 5 May 2002 12:50:53 -0400 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X problems
Hello, I have Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop (Compaq 1200) and have had no problems for months. After a clean shutdown, I tried to log back in, but my X server will not start. It has problems trying to set the FontPath to unix/:-1. Has anyone experienced a problem like this before? What was the resolution? Thanks. Keith Lynn Systems Administrator School of Computer and Information Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36608 Phone: (251) 460-6390 Fax: (251) 460-7274 Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
Right click anywhere on canvas of the image window (not the tools window, the image window). A menu will appear. Select File | Save or File | Save as... It's so easy, and yet it took me a while to find it, too. ;-) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On 05 May 2002 23:31:44 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Gimp
Does anyone know how to save a picture as a BW bump map (2 colours)? Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in ensuring clients achieve superior value in the Digital Economy SAG Account Vision * EDS becomes the clear supplier of choice to South Australian based customers for all IT services and needs, regardless of contractual obligations -Original Message- From: Warren Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 6 May 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gimp Right click anywhere on canvas of the image window (not the tools window, the image window). A menu will appear. Select File | Save or File | Save as... It's so easy, and yet it took me a while to find it, too. ;-) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On 05 May 2002 23:31:44 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
On Mon, 6 May 2002 09:50:29 +1000 Mcleod, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to save a picture as a BW bump map (2 colours)? Right-click, Image, Mode, Indexed, Use Black/White palette. -- Todd Slater 7:54pm up 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.30, 0.17 2.4.8-26mdk Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Multi Booting
I had the problem of buying a HP Pavilion with XP pre-installed. I wanted to install 98SE to solve some compatibility issues, and I also wanted to install Mandrake. So I added a second HD to accommodate all this. The ideal way to solve the XP/98 issue would be to uninstall XP install 98 and re-install XP. But HP does not supply any installation media, just a hidden restore partition which only contains an image of the factory setup. So that was out. After seeking advice, I got a variety of answers that involved disconnecting drives, switching the bios boot sequence, etc. But I figured there must be an easier way. What I ended up doing was, as follows: I created a bootable FAT32 partition on the 2nd HD, leaving the 1st HD entirely NTFS, downloaded a 98se boot disk from bootdisks.com. Then I copied all the bootdisk files to that partition. Then I installed Mandrake and made sure that the 98 partition was included in lilo.config. I booted into the 98 partition, slapped in the 98 CD and installed 98se. When the install finished...everything worked( As far as booting is concerned still need some updated drivers for newer hardware). Lilo comes up will boot whatever system you want. This is what worked for me, no guarantee it will work for everyone. It seems like it should also work with grub, both lilo and grub seem to make each partition belive that they are boot partition. Oh yeah, just to be safe I did do a complete drive image backup before I started the 98 install. Richard *** Richard Hackwith Sacramento CA[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????
Adrian, I'm running RH 7.2, Mandrake 8.2 and Win98. Email me privately and we'll see what configuration files you need to tinker with. Terry Smith On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 16:48, adrian wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into mandrake control center and added the hde which was the red hat partiion and then rebooted, The option was there but when i chose it i got all kinds of failure and it wouldnt boot up, so i wonder if i can run 2 distribution on the same harddrive and computer ? and also do i need 1 swap for each distrubtion or can they share swap? If its possible to run 2 i would be gratefull if you could tell me how to set it up. Best regards Adrian 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] E-term problems under 8.2?
darklord wrote: Has anyone else had problems with E-term under 8.2? I'm getting this (non-fatal) error when I start E-term: bash: TMOUT: readonly variable [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ I looked at .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .bash_history in my /home director but saw nothing that pointed to this... I addressed the expert list on one problem: namely I can't save my settings using the Save Button. :( But no bombing sorry. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stocks
Marcia, Seeing Carroll's and Alastair's replies about the internet.I also use the portfolio tracker on Quicken.com. And I have used The Motley Fool's tracker as well. I can recommend both. I was referring to an onboard portfolio manager...and still find that useful. Terry Smith On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 12:50, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia 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] Compatible Video Cards
Hi all, Work has decided to buy me a new desktop box. They're pushing a Dell OptiPlex GX240 w/Pentium 4 1.7 ghz, etc., etc. I may try to talk them into a custom box from Monarch or Micronux where I think I can get a little more linux bang for the buck.. but my question relates to the Dell graphics card...an ATI Rage Ultra 128...If memory serves this is fairly common card, been around a while... Anybody got it running under 8.2? Any problems? TIA. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making a script runnable
On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:08, Brian wrote: Hi, I have a .sh script that I ned to run to install a theme, but it doesn't run when I type ./ before it Last time this happened I had to type some command to make it so ./ worked. Any suggestion? chmod +x filename *** 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
[newbie] mail
I am running a small isp. For mail, I am using postfix and gnu-pop3d. I am unable to find the info I need to fix a problem. If a user comes on to pickup his mail and for some reason hangs up before he is done, there is a lock file left behind. I don't know how long it takes for this file to be removed and is there a config file to set the time before the lock file is removed. BTW I am running Mandrake linux 8.2. Richard D. Bonebrake Asquith Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
On Sunday 05 May 2002 17:31, Klemm wrote: How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Right click on the image itself. You will get a menu that lets you save. *** 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] X problems
On Sunday 05 May 2002 16:30, Keith Lynn opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Hello, I have Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop (Compaq 1200) and have had no problems for months. After a clean shutdown, I tried to log back in, but my X server will not start. It has problems trying to set the FontPath to unix/:-1. Has anyone experienced a problem like this before? What was the resolution? Thanks. best i can tell you is that i have had it happen to me and recall a FAQ on it. if i recall the solution i was told was to edit the XF86Config file to comment out the line, ie # FontPath unix/:-1 as a temp fix, but i don't recall what the final fix was. i could be wrong. :) -- After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 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] KDE3 and Konqueror
You might want to try renaming any .kde .kde2 .kde3 (etc) and qt directories in your home directory to something else (i.e. mv .kde .kde-old). Do this while you are not in KDE. After doing this, start KDE3 and it should rebuild all the directories and settings it needs. Joe On Sat, 4 May 2002 21:13:37 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:26 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I decided to give KDE3 another try with the latest .mdk build on the mirrors. Now I have lost my ability to call up konqueror from a su console. It just sits there and says something about render. Happens in kde and kde3. Anyone seen this problem or a fix. I find nothing on the archive and have seen nothing on newbie. I seem to be the only one with a disfunctional kde setup. The install went smoothly with only two packages to fulfill dependencies. I also had to fix some permissions when I copied .kde to .kde3 but could not find the ~/.kde3/share/config/kpersonalizerrc file and could not create it in mc cause there's no create file only mkdir command. Any help before I reinstall and forget KDE3 for now. TIA OK, reinstall it is. The kicker panel doesn't show apps that are currently running and so I can't find a way to shut down the modem since kill pid does not do it . All sorts of ugly things going on with KDE3 installed. yuk! Sorry no one could help with this, I'll wait for the Mandrake release or 3.1 as someone else suggested to another newbie. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations
Correct. The easiest way is to use the configuration tool icepref, which ought to be on your menu or can be launched from the command line. Select your favorite theme in icepref, press save and then press restart. If you like trying out different themes for IceWM, you might want to check out the collection that Freshmeat has -- over a hundred. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Sun, 05 May 2002 13:06:36 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I change the theme in IceWM, the change is not retained the next time I log in. Is there anything I can do about this? A configuration file needs tweaking perhaps? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
Sometimes the answer is the most obvious one. Generally, speaking people usually don't see or ignore the obvious. It took me a while before figuring that out. I won't say how long since I am still embarrassed by it. - Original Message - From: Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Gimp Right click anywhere on canvas of the image window (not the tools window, the image window). A menu will appear. Select File | Save or File | Save as... It's so easy, and yet it took me a while to find it, too. ;-) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On 05 May 2002 23:31:44 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). 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
