Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!
civileme wrote: > FemmeFatale wrote: > >> Gues what I did >> >> I forgot my user password! OH JOY! >> >> HELLLP! >> >> how the hell do I login now!? >> >> got roots password just not my user one! ;\ >> >> ain't I just brilliant? >> >> Femme >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >> http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > Ummm, try the command line > > at boot splash screen hit F1 then type > > linux 1 > > (I say this because if your security is "Higher" or "Paranoid", you > won't be able to login as root from console or GUI anyway) > > When the prompt comes up you are root > > passwd > > is the command, and it will interact with you. > > Civileme > > *files the info for linux 1 away* TY :) Heh Martin beat you to the cmd but that other piece of info was good too! :) Merci luv Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!
martin wrote: > > --- FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Gues what I did >> >>I forgot my user password! OH JOY! >> >>HELLLP! >> >>how the hell do I login now!? >> >>got roots password just not my user one! ;\ >> >>ain't I just brilliant? >> >>Femme > > > if you have the root password, why don't you just > login as root and do > :- > > passwd user *whatever your username was) > > then fill in the new password > > Regards...martin Thx Martin. And to answer your question: Because I didn't think that would work? *SIghs* OK OK So i'm blonde today. ;0 The pink's wearing off on my hair and the blonde is coming through loud & clear I think :) Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!
--- FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gues what I did > > I forgot my user password! OH JOY! > > HELLLP! > > how the hell do I login now!? > > got roots password just not my user one! ;\ > > ain't I just brilliant? > > Femme if you have the root password, why don't you just login as root and do :- passwd user *whatever your username was) then fill in the new password Regards...martin __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, shane wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:57 am, RichardA did speak unto the huddled masses, > saying: > > > > Good news. Open Office 1.0 is on one of the CDs that comes with the > > > latest issue of Linux Format magazine. Don't know how widely throughout > > > the world it's available. Yes, and with Linux Magazine. Neither would install on my 8.1 system. > > > > Didn't the original poster want the source rpm, rather than the binary? > > i think the trouble is that he had the cd and it wasn't running. sometime > today or tomorrow he should be getting a small $4 package in the mail with > my 3 mandrake 8.2 cds as well as a 4th with office apps on it. Received, with grateful thanks to Shane. What a nice bunch of people you all are. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 11:55, Roland Hughes wrote: > I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp > will kill me, and I can not find out how. Sorry, I can't help you with how, but I'm sure they'll make it as slow and painful as possible :o) Good luck, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] let's keep it to the list to help others to OK?
> What you described involves more than 11 separate steps ... > and then I still don't know what to do > to crop the captured image to just the portion I want: Well, we'll leave cropping the image for now - one would still have to do that step even in windows, unless you want the whole screen, or the screen region you saved is off a little bit. Using gimp just to do a 'save screen' operation seems a bit excessive. There are other tools avaeilable to do the job - in the past, I use the little utility 'xwd' to dump the contents of the screen. Of course, even then you have to convert the data from the X window dump fotrmat to something more accessible, such as jpeg or tiff. Using gimp makes sense if you are doing many other operations in gimp and need a screen shot. You might want to do some experimenting, but it seems that: # xwd | xwdtopnm | pnmtotiff >wowie.tiff works well to create a tiff file of the screen contents. You can use other tools as well to generate the desired file. You just need to use the mouse in the xwd process to define the screen region - the other progs then take over to do the conversion in parallel. Saving an entire screen image (1280x1024x24 color) on an Athlon 1ghz is maybe 1 second or so. Note that the ppm/pnm etc files are part of the pbmplus series, which can pretty well convert files of any graphics format to any other one, with a lot of extra options. Compression to jpeg can be done by cjpeg, which seems to not be around. It's not on my Mandrake 8.1 - what happened to it? I remember having it before :(. > Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation
Thanks! That's what I love love about this group. Roly On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 20:28, Michael Adams wrote: > On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:55, Roland Hughes wrote: > > I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp > > will kill me, and I can not find out how. > > Roly > > No problem. Read > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 > > Bookmark this page for future reference as you never know when you will need > it. > > -- > Michael > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- "The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux!" Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 05:30 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Yes, very strange indeed. Funny how I only ever saw ONE Linux game on a > store shelf... Hmm... Go figure. i have seen a few, but not much. it boils down to the chicken and the egg. if nobody makes linux games, you buy win games and run them in linux, but then nobody is buying linux games, so why make linux games? personally, i support wine because they are doing something bigger than games, but i only buy games if they are for linux. i miss loki - -- "Also we should remember that unfortunately free software is not widely used because people prefers to have something to plug'n'play and not something to configure'n'work." - Pier Luca 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/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Ina+Bwq+ZwvIN/oRAhsPAJ9XVZNEvMBeGKmsnIKo2JX/CfOKuACcCOVh E6IVS18HweW7miv+1+6BRj0= =itAu -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
> My problem is that I have no idea how to use the tape drive. > > Could someone give me some pointers please. I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you just use the /dev/st0 (it is scsi, right?) or /dev/nst0 devises - the second is the no-rewind device. > > Is it worth playing with? Do yuo like to make backups? Or do you want to risk losing your data? :) > Which tape would work with it? My surestore drive uses 4mm DAT tapes - they are DDS-2 and capacity is 2 gigs uncompressed. When I got the drive, that was just right for copacity; nowadays it is a bit small. But I rarely need to back everything up. The tapes I've been using are Imation 4mm tapes - $5 bucks a pop when I got the drive. > What backup software could I use with it? Lots support tapes - since it is a device you can just use 'tar'. I've found that 'tar' is just as easy to use, and probably preferable over other backup software. Plus, Arkeia would need X, which translates to a pretty big system build before you could restore a tape. Tar can fit on a rescue diskette. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
et wrote: >On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:07 am, you wrote: > >>>how much memory do you have? >>> >>256 meg RAM >> >>>is it shared video mem? >>> >>Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. >> >>>how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) >>> >>It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: >> >>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >>/dev/hde2 3283000104844 3011384 4% / >>none127920 0127920 0% /dev/shm >>/dev/hde6 1007960267132689624 28% /home >>/dev/hde1 8210880 4533952 3676928 56% /mnt/windows >>/dev/hde5 7055648 2102708 4594524 32% /usr >> >>>also type cat /proc/interrupts and let us see that. >>> >> CPU0 >> 0: 649067 XT-PIC timer >> 1: 10128 XT-PIC keyboard >> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade >> 4: 143580 XT-PIC serial >> 5: 25506 XT-PIC usb-uhci >> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc >> 10: 215504 XT-PIC nvidia >> 11: 27166 XT-PIC ide2 >> 12: 11946 XT-PIC cmpci >> 15: 83 XT-PIC ide1 >>NMI: 0 >>LOC: 0 >>ERR: 0 >>MIS: 0 >> >>>did you install (clean, format all linux partitions?) or Upgrade? >>> >>It was an install, but I didn't format the /home directory (to keep my >>data, of course). Fairly certain formatted everything else. >> >>>try running top as the first thing when you see the slowdown. my guess >>>is no free hard drive space (in say /etc or /var), or a lost swap file. >>> >>Will do that and report back on it. >> >>Thank you for that, my main problem has been just trying to think of how I >>can figure out what's up. >> >>PJ >> >no problem, but since I did not see anything "glaring out at me right >there what does "free" say? and then are we sure it is in the OS and not >the hardware? have you tried cpuburn or memtest86? > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Something glares at me. can you set your BIOS for APIC instead of PIC? Do you get the same results for a linux noapic boot? What filesystem are you uising? And what NVidia drivers? I have noticed some instability, filesystem dependent, on the binary-only NVIdia drivers from the distro, somewhat but not completely removed by the more recent Mandrake-specific drivers from the site. The XFree drivers do not sem to be subject to this problem. I also don't see a network card on the interrupt scheme. If you have one I bet it is on IRQ 10 with the NVIdia card which can all by itself explain your problem. Solution is move the card to another slot and disable the freakin ACPI in the BIOS (which your windows won't like). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.
On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:27, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: > > Dear experts > > > > Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can > > interest others newbies) > > > > Linux home-user (not IT professional but above "dummy in computer" > > level), myself, that recently installed Mandrake 8.2 (2 cd's pack), with > > no time for formal course, with some initial difficulty, looks for: > > > > an excellent book (just one) of Linux with home-user approach, in style: > > step-by-step / self-study,based on Redhat or Mandrake preferably (if it > > is important), updated version, covering the basic topics from: linux > > installation, soft installation/upgrade; use of utilities (backup, > > anti-virus, firewall), hard/drivers upgradeuntil setting home network > > (at most), for learn and reference use. > > > > Thanks a lot in an advance > > > > > > Filipe Dutra > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A book called "Sam's Teach yourself Linux-Mandrake" is not bad for > starters. Then I would get "Running Linux" by O'Reilly publishing. HTH Online suggestions. http://rute.sourceforge.net/ http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/index.html http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 http://www.mandrakecampus.com The fdoc.php3 site is the home for the two Mandrake manuals for your distro. The campus site is a free online learning course, log in and give it a whirl. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation
On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:55, Roland Hughes wrote: > I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp > will kill me, and I can not find out how. > Roly No problem. Read http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Bookmark this page for future reference as you never know when you will need it. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file
Bob Read wrote: >I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 >in place >and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would >load >and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. > >I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another >insallation (8.1 to 8.2) Now SO 6.0 seemed to be running okay, but > >when I try to save a file I get this notice: > >StarOffice 6.0 > >Error saving the document Untitled1: >Wrong parameters >The operation was startted under an invalid parameter. > >Also, trying to run setup. it starts to load, and the icon hourglass >runs, and then it also disappears. > >An help will be greatly appreciated. > >Bob > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > You cannot upgrade to SO 6.0. System-wide upgrades are likely to cause some problems anyway but here is the method for SO 6.0 so that you can run it afterward It is not an upgrade artifact in this case but an improper installation. 1. Uninstall SO6 2. Look for two files named .sversionrc and .user60.rdb (note the leading dots!) and delete them if you find them (I found them in my home path) 3. In an xterm window, log in as root (su) 4. urpmi staroffice-en 5. /usr/lib/office60_en/setup to start the setup script 6. select the local (>200MB) installation. Change the path for this installation to /opt/staroffice6.0 7. complete the installation (btw, if you don't have a Java runtime environment installed, you can do so by clicking the INSTALL button on the JRE screen) 8. exit 9. execute the setup script again as a local user, and this time select workstation installation. If you do not activate it exactly this way, you will have permissions problems with saving backup files and such. Please not that you can login as another user and run the setup script (just click the menu button for Staroffice writer) to set it up as another workstation installation for that user. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel module loads manually but not on demand -SOLVED
Loading the module in /etc/modules fixes the problem. Thanks for the good idea. Warren On lun, 2002-07-01 at 20:00, mike wrote: > I had a similar problem with a Umax scanner and was having to insmod the > aix7xx module > each time I wanted to use the scanner > > I wanted to know how to make it permanent > > I got the following responses: ( hope it sheds some light ) > > > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > > In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be > better to have > > > the function of the module as it SHOULD be working (but isn't) > than to do it > > > the "proper" Mandrake way. The proper way seems to be failing in > this case > > > for some reason. > > > > > > Until figuring out why this is the case, there is no need to go > without the > > > module and its functionality nor is it necessary to manually > install the > > > module every time you bootup. It is a workable temp fix until > the real > > > problem can be determined. > > > > How can the real problem be determined ? > > > > What steps can I take? > > > > Or would it be better just to recompile the module into the kernel? > > > > Mike > > If the correct entries are in the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules > then you may want to preload the scsi device via initrd. > > mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as > Linux > initial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used for > preloading the block device modules (such as IDE, SCSI or RAID) which > are needed to access the root filesystem. mkinitrd automatically > loads > IDE modules, all scsi_hostadapter entries and all modules in a > probeall > scsi_hostadapter .. line in /etc/modules.conf, and raid modules if > the > system's root partition is on raid, which makes it simple to build > and > use kernels using modular device drivers. > > Any module options specified in /etc/modules.conf are passed to the > modules as they are loaded by the initial ramdisk. > > Ref: man mkinitrd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.
On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:22:29 -0300 Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear experts > > Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can > interest others newbies) > > Linux home-user (not IT professional but above "dummy in computer" > level), myself, that recently installed Mandrake 8.2 (2 cd's pack), > with no time for formal course, with some initial difficulty, looks > for: > > an excellent book (just one) of Linux with home-user approach, in > style: step-by-step / self-study,based on Redhat or Mandrake > preferably (if it is important), updated version, covering the basic > topics from: linux installation, soft installation/upgrade; use of > utilities (backup, anti-virus, firewall), hard/drivers > upgradeuntil setting home network (at most), for learn and > reference use. "Linux: The complete reference" is good. It's from Osborne. It's based on Redhat7.0 and Caldera2.4. It's still got a lot of relevant information. HTH. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] reiser? or something foolish?
i lost my root partition the other day. not sure why, but i am wondering if that is what was meant by some others when they warned against reiser. i tried to boot and it simply found no root partition. tried to rescue disk it and it said that partition was of "unidentified type." now it most likely was me truth be told. i took someones advice and tryed to use scsi emulation on my cd drive to fix another issue. i am sure i did it wrong. nothing like pulling the trigger yourself... chalk one up for the seperate partition arguement. i reinstalled and my /home, /data, and /backup pertitions are just fine. :) -- No one is free when others are oppressed. 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] Books suggestion.
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: > Dear experts > > Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can > interest others newbies) > > Linux home-user (not IT professional but above "dummy in computer" level), > myself, that recently installed Mandrake 8.2 (2 cd's pack), with no time > for formal course, with some initial difficulty, looks for: > > an excellent book (just one) of Linux with home-user approach, in style: > step-by-step / self-study,based on Redhat or Mandrake preferably (if it is > important), updated version, covering the basic topics from: linux > installation, soft installation/upgrade; use of utilities (backup, > anti-virus, firewall), hard/drivers upgradeuntil setting home network > (at most), for learn and reference use. > > Thanks a lot in an advance > > > Filipe Dutra > [EMAIL PROTECTED] A book called "Sam's Teach yourself Linux-Mandrake" is not bad for starters. Then I would get "Running Linux" by O'Reilly publishing. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 10:28, Warren Post wrote: > Thanks, that did it. The closest localedrake could get me was es_MX, but > that's close enough. Now when I install a new package or force an > upgrade of an existing package, it appears in Spanish. > > The only app I'm afraid to do this on is my email client, Evolution. If > I force an upgrade, will I lose my mail, address book, and the like? > hmm, i dont think your Evolution files will be lost cause it's in different directories. When I remove my yahoo messenger, it also removed the evolution and gkhtml RPMs I thought I was in trouble of losing my files. What I did was reinstall those two RPMS and presto, back as it was, nothing was lost. the problem is, my evolution and other word processor apps cant still display japanese characters, i dunno why. I still haven't fixed it yet, so i guessHelp? My envionment is in English, I just want to make Japanese available when I need it. > Warren > > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 02:48, g2 wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: > > > Warren Post wrote: > > > > How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system > > > > as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to > > > > change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make > > > > sense of the man page. > > > > hi! run #localedrake then choose the language you want to use. > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- g2 "intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent" RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pause while on vacation
I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp will kill me, and I can not find out how. Roly -- "The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux!" Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
Thanks, that did it. The closest localedrake could get me was es_MX, but that's close enough. Now when I install a new package or force an upgrade of an existing package, it appears in Spanish. The only app I'm afraid to do this on is my email client, Evolution. If I force an upgrade, will I lose my mail, address book, and the like? Warren On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 02:48, g2 wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: > > Warren Post wrote: > > > How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system > > > as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to > > > change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make > > > sense of the man page. > > hi! run #localedrake then choose the language you want to use. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!
FemmeFatale wrote: > Gues what I did > > I forgot my user password! OH JOY! > > HELLLP! > > how the hell do I login now!? > > got roots password just not my user one! ;\ > > ain't I just brilliant? > > Femme > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Ummm, try the command line at boot splash screen hit F1 then type linux 1 (I say this because if your security is "Higher" or "Paranoid", you won't be able to login as root from console or GUI anyway) When the prompt comes up you are root passwd is the command, and it will interact with you. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Books suggestion.
Dear experts Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can interest others newbies) Linux home-user (not IT professional but above "dummy in computer" level), myself, that recently installed Mandrake 8.2 (2 cds pack), with no time for formal course, with some initial difficulty, looks for: an excellent book (just one) of Linux with home-user approach, in style: step-by-step / self-study,based on Redhat or Mandrake preferably (if it is important), updated version, covering the basic topics from: linux installation, soft installation/upgrade; use of utilities (backup, anti-virus, firewall), hard/drivers upgradeuntil setting home network (at most), for learn and reference use. Thanks a lot in an advance Filipe Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 04:31 pm, you wrote: > there was a couple of companies making them. they went out of buis. go > figure. Yes, very strange indeed. Funny how I only ever saw ONE Linux game on a store shelf... Hmm... Go figure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
> We had a similar problem. We had weird symptoms such as a logger looked > like it was running away, find made the machine hang (had to use the > power button on that one) but only sometimes. Turned out to be flaky > RAM. As soon as we replaced it and doubled it, all was right with the > world. We used http://www.memtest86.com/ for testing the RAM. Mmmm. Normally I'd think the same thing, except that I've already been through the bad RAM episode last year with this computer. I had the RAM replaced and, as you said, all was well. I guess I should test it again anyway to be sure. The scary thing was that last time I used a RAMtester it didn't find anything, but the RAM _was_ corrupt. Yikes. Thanks :) Pippin -- "And I said 'Oh boy... right... again.'" - Laurie Anderson, "Let X=X" http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~chikken/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
We had a similar problem. We had weird symptoms such as a logger looked like it was running away, find made the machine hang (had to use the power button on that one) but only sometimes. Turned out to be flaky RAM. As soon as we replaced it and doubled it, all was right with the world. We used http://www.memtest86.com/ for testing the RAM. Jeanie -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:39 am, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort > for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I > am. > > My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking > for is ideas for establishing what the problem might be. > > Basically, I installed Mandrake 8.2 a few days ago, and it's crashed once > or twice a day since then. I was tolerating it, until this morning's crash > when my root partition was damaged. Now I want to get to the bottom of it. > > When it's crashed I can see that my CPU meter is suggest a very high CPU > load (around 4 lines high on a standard xload meter). Various things lock > up, generally my web browser. I'm suspicious of mozilla/galeon at present, > but don't really know for sure. > > Eventually the whole thing dies, and I can ctrl-alt-F1 etc to get to a > shell, but if I run anything (like pine) the whole thing stops, and > eventually I can't do anything (like login from another prompt). At that > point I have to reset my computer... > > As I said, this morning the disk was damaged by this, and I had to > manually run fsck to fix it up. Annoying. > > Anyone experience similar weird problems? > > I'm going to try not running any mozilla based browsers for a while, to > see if that helps at all. I'll let you know if it does. > > Thanks for any help you can offer me! > > Pippin Barr how much memory do you have? is it shared video mem? how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) also type cat /proc/interrupts and let us see that. did you install (clean, format all linux partitions?) or Upgrade? try running top as the first thing when you see the slowdown. my guess is no free hard drive space (in say /etc or /var), or a lost swap file. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started
To jump in here , I have had problems with LM_sensors in 8.2 as well. in 8.0 it works perfectly. under 8.2 only one of the sensors is seen, and it registers the a cpu temp of 127 degrees C. quite silly and wrong. I can make it read a correct value, but the value never changes. I would like to have this working properly, so I can move past 8.0 I have this setup on a Epox 8Kta3 Pro MB/ 1 gig athlon, 512 mg ram, three HDs and 32mg TnT video card ( not that that matters here ) Any observations or advice for me too would be nice Thanks !!! -- Mike McNeese currently running Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 Linux registered user # 248955 "If obstacles are all we see, then we've lost sight of our goal!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OO print to file (pdf)
I'm trying to write an OO.org doc to pdf. When I try to open it with xpdf, I get this error: Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway) Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary Error: Couldn't read xref table GV is able to open it, but when I switch between pages it takes forever to display the page. I need to write to pdf so I can print at another location. Has anybody else encountered this problem? Thanks, Todd -- Todd Slater How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. (Alexandre Dumas) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started
On Monday 01 July 2002 05:25 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 10:10, tom brinkman wrote: > > On Sunday 30 June 2002 03:37 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > > > > > sensors -s gives a "no sensors found" message. I looked at the > > > > > sensors.conf file and I know I need help in setting it up. > > > > > > > >Did you read the docs, run 'sensors-detect', and put the > > > > appropriate lines in modules.conf and rc.local ? > > > > > > I still have more reading to do. From the docs it looks > > > complicated. I recompiled a kernel here and there but not gotten > > > as involved in loading modules and manipulating rc.d files and > > > such. > > > > I'm beginning to suspect you're workin from a tarball. don't, > > and don't use those docs. No kernel recompile is neccessary. > > Mandrake kernels have had the i2c modules for a long time. Install > > the lm_sensors rpm, use urpmi as I don't remember if the > > liblm_sensors rpm is needed or not. Then it should be as simple as > > orun 'sensors-detect' and hit for each question it asks > > ocut'n paste the lines it generates into the appropriate > > modules.conf or rc.local file (detect tells you what goes where). > > Addi2c-proc to /etc/modules (not modules.conf) > > oEasiest thing is to reboot, tho it can be done without rebooting. > > oType 'sensors' in a term, and you should see sensor output. > > > > -- > > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > > > > >Tom, > > Sorry, my posts are incomplete. I did install an rpm of lm_sensors > > A first run of sensors-detect and it found my Pine tnt2 video card but > couldn't find the i2c-riva driver. I went to the url that was given but > got lost in the links. > > i2c-elektor.o.gz insmod failed and something about incorrect > module > parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ params. > i2c-elv.o.gz insmod failed same message as above. > i2c-phillips-par.o.gz loaded successfully > i2c-velleman.o.gz init_module: no such device and same errors as > above. > i2c-dev already loaded > > How do I check to see if some of these might already be loaded into the > kernel. I check the directory path to the files in quesiton and they > are there. > > scan ISA bus yes > bunch of error messages for chips that arn't on my board. > Summary of probes just done: > press enter to continue. << didn't print anything before this line? > I chose to use smbus for loading I2c modules. > > I then get the following: > > #cut here > # I2C adapter drivers > # I2C chip drivers > #cut here > > To make sensors modules behave correctly,add these lines to either > /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules: > > #cut here > # I2C module operations > alias char-major-89 i2c-dev > #cut here > > Sorry if I have sent incomplete info for your consumption. I will try > to be more vigilant in future exchanges. > > > Terry > > Terence Golightly > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry, the above lines, each after cut here, should should be copied into : /etc/rc.d/rc.local for the first one and then into the /etc/modules.conf for the second one. Do not include the cut here lines. Do include the # signs, which makes me wonder if the first for the rc.local file, is complete or correct, cause both lines are commented so no drivers are shown. What mother board do you have? and are you sure you copied the lines in their entirety? You can copy the lines with kedit or gedit text editors, probably the easiest is to navigate to the files and open with "advanced editor". HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:07 am, you wrote: > > how much memory do you have? > > 256 meg RAM > > > is it shared video mem? > > Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. > > > how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) > > It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hde2 3283000104844 3011384 4% / > none127920 0127920 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hde6 1007960267132689624 28% /home > /dev/hde1 8210880 4533952 3676928 56% /mnt/windows > /dev/hde5 7055648 2102708 4594524 32% /usr > > > also type cat /proc/interrupts and let us see that. > >CPU0 > 0: 649067 XT-PIC timer > 1: 10128 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 4: 143580 XT-PIC serial > 5: 25506 XT-PIC usb-uhci > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 10: 215504 XT-PIC nvidia > 11: 27166 XT-PIC ide2 > 12: 11946 XT-PIC cmpci > 15: 83 XT-PIC ide1 > NMI: 0 > LOC: 0 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 0 > > > did you install (clean, format all linux partitions?) or Upgrade? > > It was an install, but I didn't format the /home directory (to keep my > data, of course). Fairly certain formatted everything else. > > > try running top as the first thing when you see the slowdown. my guess > > is no free hard drive space (in say /etc or /var), or a lost swap file. > > Will do that and report back on it. > > Thank you for that, my main problem has been just trying to think of how I > can figure out what's up. > > PJ no problem, but since I did not see anything "glaring out at me right there what does "free" say? and then are we sure it is in the OS and not the hardware? have you tried cpuburn or memtest86? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
> how much memory do you have? 256 meg RAM > is it shared video mem? Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. > how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hde2 3283000104844 3011384 4% / none127920 0127920 0% /dev/shm /dev/hde6 1007960267132689624 28% /home /dev/hde1 8210880 4533952 3676928 56% /mnt/windows /dev/hde5 7055648 2102708 4594524 32% /usr > also type cat /proc/interrupts and let us see that. CPU0 0: 649067 XT-PIC timer 1: 10128 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 143580 XT-PIC serial 5: 25506 XT-PIC usb-uhci 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 215504 XT-PIC nvidia 11: 27166 XT-PIC ide2 12: 11946 XT-PIC cmpci 15: 83 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 > did you install (clean, format all linux partitions?) or Upgrade? It was an install, but I didn't format the /home directory (to keep my data, of course). Fairly certain formatted everything else. > try running top as the first thing when you see the slowdown. my guess > is no free hard drive space (in say /etc or /var), or a lost swap file. Will do that and report back on it. Thank you for that, my main problem has been just trying to think of how I can figure out what's up. PJ -- "And I said 'Oh boy... right... again.'" - Laurie Anderson, "Let X=X" http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~chikken/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:39 am, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort > for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I > am. > > My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking > for is ideas for establishing what the problem might be. > > Basically, I installed Mandrake 8.2 a few days ago, and it's crashed once > or twice a day since then. I was tolerating it, until this morning's crash > when my root partition was damaged. Now I want to get to the bottom of it. > > When it's crashed I can see that my CPU meter is suggest a very high CPU > load (around 4 lines high on a standard xload meter). Various things lock > up, generally my web browser. I'm suspicious of mozilla/galeon at present, > but don't really know for sure. > > Eventually the whole thing dies, and I can ctrl-alt-F1 etc to get to a > shell, but if I run anything (like pine) the whole thing stops, and > eventually I can't do anything (like login from another prompt). At that > point I have to reset my computer... > > As I said, this morning the disk was damaged by this, and I had to > manually run fsck to fix it up. Annoying. > > Anyone experience similar weird problems? > > I'm going to try not running any mozilla based browsers for a while, to > see if that helps at all. I'll let you know if it does. > > Thanks for any help you can offer me! > > Pippin Barr how much memory do you have? is it shared video mem? how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) also type cat /proc/interrupts and let us see that. did you install (clean, format all linux partitions?) or Upgrade? try running top as the first thing when you see the slowdown. my guess is no free hard drive space (in say /etc or /var), or a lost swap file. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Strange crashes when idle
Hi all, I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I am. My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking for is ideas for establishing what the problem might be. Basically, I installed Mandrake 8.2 a few days ago, and it's crashed once or twice a day since then. I was tolerating it, until this morning's crash when my root partition was damaged. Now I want to get to the bottom of it. When it's crashed I can see that my CPU meter is suggest a very high CPU load (around 4 lines high on a standard xload meter). Various things lock up, generally my web browser. I'm suspicious of mozilla/galeon at present, but don't really know for sure. Eventually the whole thing dies, and I can ctrl-alt-F1 etc to get to a shell, but if I run anything (like pine) the whole thing stops, and eventually I can't do anything (like login from another prompt). At that point I have to reset my computer... As I said, this morning the disk was damaged by this, and I had to manually run fsck to fix it up. Annoying. Anyone experience similar weird problems? I'm going to try not running any mozilla based browsers for a while, to see if that helps at all. I'll let you know if it does. Thanks for any help you can offer me! Pippin Barr -- "And I said 'Oh boy... right... again.'" - Laurie Anderson, "Let X=X" http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~chikken/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:29, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > Whatever. > > Why is it so hard to see that without Linux games, there CAN'T be a Linux > gaming market? How can we prove that we will buy games if there ARE NO > GAMES to buy? there was a couple of companies making them. they went out of buis. go figure. -- If I admit I was wrong, I am only saying I am wiser today than yesterday. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] queuing sounds
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:52:42 +0100 LtCdData <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can i stop sounds queuing on mandrake 8.2 > while online sounds like "you-have-post.wav" and "anyMsg.wav" > cannot play if i happen to have a movie playing at the same time. > By the time the movie is about 2/3 the way through there can be so many > sounds still unplayed the system can stop allowing any more apps to open. > > Dave AFAIK if the hardware and driver don't support opening multiple PCM streams for hardware mixing queing sounds is the normal behaviour. The 'standard' way to solve this in mandrake 8.2 would be to use the KDE arts soundserver which claims the card and applications should then connect to the soundserver. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MS Outlook
Dennis, If you just want to change the Outlook format on an individual basis, before you send, click Format/Plain Text - To change your default format, in the Outlook screen click on Tools/Options/Mail Format. You'll see a drop down arrow for HTML, Plain Text, et al. Mike S. vvwvv <(©¿©)> ~ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:28 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:10 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another installation (8.1 to 8.2) Now SO 6.0 seemed to be running okay, but when I try to save a file I get this notice: StarOffice 6.0 Error saving the document Untitled1: Wrong parameters The operation was started under an invalid parameter. Also, trying to run setup. it starts to load, and the icon hourglass runs, and then it also disappears. An help will be greatly appreciated. Bob Bob, if you know where the main files are for star office, and I suspect they are in /usr/local, go there and check permissions on the /usr/local/soffice file (or whatever it is called). If you don't know, do a slocate, or locate or whereis or[oops didn't finish) to find the file and check the permissions. The above seems to have gone out as HTML, can someone confirm. I am having a devil of a time figuring out how to get outlook to stop sending in HTML. Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:55, tom brinkman wrote: > On Monday 01 July 2002 04:25 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > > > scan ISA bus yes > > bunch of error messages for chips that arn't on my board. > > That's normal > > > Summary of probes just done: > > press enter to continue. << didn't print anything before this > > line? I chose to use smbus for loading I2c modules. > > Try again and choose ISA > > > > I then get the following: > > > > #cut here > > # I2C adapter drivers > > # I2C chip drivers > > #cut here > > Show stopper. sensors-dectect is failing to find any i2c hardware > to match a driver to, or v-versa. What motherboard ? (brand & model) SoYo Dragon Plus Athlon xp 2100 plus. > What's in /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/i2c/ ? You > should see somethin like > > i2c$ l > i2c-algo-bit.o.gz i2c-dev.o.gz i2c-isa.o.gz > i2c-via.o.gz > i2c-algo-pcf.o.gz i2c-elektor.o.gz i2c-philips-par.o.gz > i2c-viapro.o.gz > i2c-ali1535.o.gz i2c-elv.o.gz i2c-piix4.o.gz > i2c-voodoo3.o.gz > i2c-ali15x3.o.gz i2c-hydra.o.gzi2c-proc.o.gz > i2c-amd756.o.gzi2c-i801.o.gz i2c-sis5595.o.gz > i2c-core.o.gz i2c-i810.o.gz i2c-velleman.o.gz > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > > Check my attachments. thanks, Terry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-pcf.o: i2c pcf8584 algorithm module i2c-elektor.o: i2c pcf8584-isa adapter module i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module i2c-elv.o: i2c ELV parallel port adapter module i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module i2c-philips-par.o: i2c Philips parallel port adapter module i2c-philips-par.o: attaching to parport0 parport0: cannot grant exclusive access for device i2c-philips-par i2c-philips-par: Unable to register with parport. i2c-velleman.o: i2c Velleman K8000 adapter module i2c-velleman.o: Port 0x378 already in use. i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module i2c-core.o: driver i2c-dev dummy driver registered. i2c-via.o version 2.6.1 (20010830) i2c-via.o: vt82c586b not found i2c-via.o: Error while reading PCI configuration 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3099 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b099 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3074 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 1b) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 1b) 00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 1b) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3065 (rev 70) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 15) total 96 -rw-r--r--1 root root 4914 Sep 23 2001 i2c-algo-bit.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 3623 Sep 23 2001 i2c-algo-pcf.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 3382 Sep 23 2001 i2c-ali15x3.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 2660 Sep 23 2001 i2c-amd756.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 9037 Sep 23 2001 i2c-core.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 3680 Sep 23 2001 i2c-dev.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 2343 Sep 23 2001 i2c-elektor.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1691 Sep 23 2001 i2c-elv.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1462 Sep 23 2001 i2c-hydra.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 3731 Sep 23 2001 i2c-i801.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 2040 Sep 23 2001 i2c-i810.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1179 Sep 23 2001 i2c-isa.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 2015 Sep 23 2001 i2c-philips-par.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 3291 Sep 23 2001 i2c-piix4.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 4968 Sep 23 2001 i2c-proc.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 3253 Sep 23 2001 i2c-sis5595.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1586 Sep 23 2001 i2c-velleman.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1831 Sep 23 2001 i2c-via.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 3282 Sep 23 2001 i2c-viapro.o.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 2102 Sep 23 2001 i2c-voodoo3.o.gz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWOSent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:10 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another insallation (8.1 to 8.2) Now SO 6.0 seemed to be running okay, but when I try to save a file I get this notice: StarOffice 6.0 Error saving the document Untitled1: Wrong parameters The operation was startted under an invalid parameter. Also, trying to run setup. it starts to load, and the icon hourglass runs, and then it also disappears. An help will be greatly appreciated. Bob Bob, if you know where the main files are for star office, and I suspect they are in /usr/local, go there and check permissions on the /usr/local/soffice file (or whatever it is called). If you don't know, do a slocate, or locate or whereis or[oops didn't finish) to find the file and check the permissions. The above seems to have gone out as HTML, can someone confirm. I am having a devil of a time figuring out how to get outlook to stop sending in HTML. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another insallation (8.1 to 8.2) Now SO 6.0 seemed to be running okay, but when I try to save a file I get this notice: StarOffice 6.0 Error saving the document Untitled1: Wrong parameters The operation was startted under an invalid parameter. Also, trying to run setup. it starts to load, and the icon hourglass runs, and then it also disappears. An help will be greatly appreciated. Bob Bob, if you know where the main files are for star office, and I suspect they are in /usr/local, go there and check permissions on the /usr/local/soffice file (or whatever it is called). If you don't know, do a slocate, or locate or whereis or
[newbie] Wget
Hi, Could anyone advise me how to use wget? I am trying to download a whole directory of images, but directory brwosing is turned off :-( So wget can't follow them, does anyone know of any good sites that I can look at? I know wget *can* do this! Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk "> How do I read MIME files??? Quietly, while pretending to be trapped in an invisible box. :)" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!
Ron Bouwhuis wrote: > Femme, > > Just log in as root and go to user admin - reset that > user's password. Tres simple! > > Ron. > THank the gods someone on heres a genius! And sorry for hijacking this thread... Oops. :\ Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file
I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another insallation (8.1 to 8.2) Now SO 6.0 seemed to be running okay, but when I try to save a file I get this notice: StarOffice 6.0 Error saving the document Untitled1: Wrong parameters The operation was startted under an invalid parameter. Also, trying to run setup. it starts to load, and the icon hourglass runs, and then it also disappears. An help will be greatly appreciated. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Windows Games OT: Quake 2.
Hi guys, If I have Quake 2 for windows.. is there anyway I can get it running on a linux box?? If I understand correctly, all I really need from the win install is the .pak files.. the rest of them can be replaced with a free linux variant??? is that true? If so, where do I get it? Also, can the linux quake join a network game with windoze machines running on the same internal network? any tips id be great.. I have my two nephews coming over and they want to play network quake with me.. I have two windoze machines, and a linux box I can use for this.. and I was hoping to use them. I don't want them using my laptop.. (its for work.) any tips? rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
Whatever. Why is it so hard to see that without Linux games, there CAN'T be a Linux gaming market? How can we prove that we will buy games if there ARE NO GAMES to buy? On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:03 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 01 July 2002 05:24 pm, you wrote: > > > > > You can run your mouth about how I should order online like the rest of > > you, but it just so happens that I don't own a credit card, nor do I want > > one. And really, do Windows users have to buy their games online? No. I > > like to walk into a store, pay for my game, and then have the game in MY > > HANDS. I don't like to order over the internet from people I don't know, > > with no guarantee that I will actually ever see the product. > > > > > If thats true, then its obvious > > > there needs to be a much larger game playing user base under Linux to > > > get these companies attention and hold it. > > > > Let me tell you something. How the fuck do you expect the Linux gaming > > community to grow when THERE ARE NO FUCKING GAMES FOR LINUX? > > > > > I'll be the first to celebrate when that day arrives! :-) > > > > I doubt it. > > I don't know at what point this conversation turned the way it has, but as > far as I'm concerned its over. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:41 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:11:02 -0400, "D. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:46 am, you wrote: > > > But why would anyone buy the GNU/Linux version when you > > > can get the Windows version for the same price (sometimes cheaper) and > > > download the GNU/Linux binaries off the Internet? That way, you can > > > have the game working in both OSs. > > > > Well, AFAIK you can do the same with the Linux version of Q3A... Just > > download the Windows point release... So... Someone would NOT buy the > > Linux release because they are misinformed... > > But where can you find the GNU/Linux release? Most people buy their games > in stores, but the only store I've seen selling Quake 3 for GNU/Linux is > GNU/Linux-only. How often do you go to a GNU/Linux store? > > Many GNU/Linux users would know that Quake 3 binaries are available on the > Internet, so it doesn't matter which version they buy. These people would > then go to their local games shop and buy the Windows version. Why go out > of the way to some tiny GNU/Linux store when you can just go to a shop just > around the corner? > > It's sad but it happens. I know what you are saying, but that wasn't my point initially... You said "That way, you can have the game working in both OSs" and my point was that it didn't matter what version you bought, as they BOTH work in BOTH OSes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing (via ssh) PC Behind DHCP Server?
Sevatio, Yes, this is possible. I use dyndns.org. Basically what you do is setup a subdomain at one of the domain names they let you choose from, and then install a client on your server. Whenever the DHCP connection is refreshed, the new IP is sent to dyndns.org and the host record is updated immediately, therefore you can always connect to your machine via the subdomain. Have a look at dyndns.org, and they'll explain it more. HTH, Kevin On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 22:05, Sevatio wrote: > How do you ssh into a machine that is behind a DHCP server? For > example, linuxbox#1 has two NICs; eth0 is connected to the internet with > static IP, eth1 is serving DHCP & connected to linuxbox#2 (via crossover > cable). Is it possible to ssh into linuxbox#2 from another computer on > the internet at a different location? > > Thanks, > Sevatio > > > > > 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] k3b cd text again
okay, that still did nto fix it any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fixed k3b cd text
nevermind, I fixeed it, I changed the driver to generic-mmc-raw... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] k3b - cd text
k3b will not burn cd text to my cds. My cd burner is a BPRec, I am using generic-mmc as the cdcrdao driver...Whenever I try to burn cd text on my cds, ,I get the following errors: Cannot set write parameters modee page writing failed cdrdao returned some error sorry, no error handling yet... It works fine aas long as I am not trying to burn text. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:46 pm, robin wrote: > But surely the locale info you get when you type "locale" is > independent of the window manager. I have the Turkish locale package > installed, and localedrake sees it,it just won't make any changes. > Is KDE interfering, I wonder? It seems there are _two_ locales; the command-line/X one and the window manager one (presumably Gnome, which I don't have installed, has similar issues). I would guess that you have to log out and restart X before localedrake takes effect. > BTW, I can change things with "set", but they always return to the > default when I log in again. Should I be doing this as an export > line in bash_profile? It appears that you need a ~/.i18n file to fix the command-line/X language. This page looks useful for the general technique: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stefanss/japanese/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9IZjpCv59vFiSU4YRAs84AJ0RmL4uqVjaMm6+mlSyLZ7RAIrsowCfYSRd onpsOhdsiNJ1w9djfuWtdKk= =OzMj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
Alastair Scott wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 1:27 pm, robin wrote: > > >>I tried that - checked Turkish, but all my locale settings still >>read en_US. >> > > This is nearly as confusing as Windows ;) > > There are two components to the locale: > > - - the country, which contains all support other than actual translated > text; > > - - the language, which contains translated text strings. > > The country can be set straight off but, to set the locale, you need to > download and install the appropriate i18n package from the KDE3 > 'n0-architecture' folder (which is sometimes omitted or lost on > mirrors). Here's one: > > ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/noarch > > Then Personalisation | Country and Language automatically picks up the > new locale. (Not that there's much difference between the UK and US > translations that I can determine; no 'Oh, I say' when an warning box > pops up or 'What ho!' as a progress bar crawls across the screen, for > example ;) > > Unfortunately there's no ...tr... file, so the Turkish locale appears > not to be translated (your moment of immortality in the Open Source > movement awaits you :) This confirms it: > > http://i18n.kde.org/stats/doc/ > > If the languages you know are all supported this is brilliant; I can > switch between English, German and Russian effortlessly. Not being able > to do so was one of the principal reasons for my ditching Windows; > Microsoft's support for multiple locales, the user interface of which > KDE probably cop^H^H^Hborrowed, is bug-ridden and such switching, > although theoretically possible, never worked properly for me. > But surely the locale info you get when you type "locale" is independent of the window manager. I have the Turkish locale package installed, and localedrake sees it,it just won't make any changes. Is KDE interfering, I wonder? BTW, I can change things with "set", but they always return to the default when I log in again. Should I be doing this as an export line in bash_profile? Sir Robin -- "So I repeat myself? I am great, I contain tautologies." Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 1:27 pm, robin wrote: > I tried that - checked Turkish, but all my locale settings still > read en_US. This is nearly as confusing as Windows ;) There are two components to the locale: - - the country, which contains all support other than actual translated text; - - the language, which contains translated text strings. The country can be set straight off but, to set the locale, you need to download and install the appropriate i18n package from the KDE3 'n0-architecture' folder (which is sometimes omitted or lost on mirrors). Here's one: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/noarch Then Personalisation | Country and Language automatically picks up the new locale. (Not that there's much difference between the UK and US translations that I can determine; no 'Oh, I say' when an warning box pops up or 'What ho!' as a progress bar crawls across the screen, for example ;) Unfortunately there's no ...tr... file, so the Turkish locale appears not to be translated (your moment of immortality in the Open Source movement awaits you :) This confirms it: http://i18n.kde.org/stats/doc/ If the languages you know are all supported this is brilliant; I can switch between English, German and Russian effortlessly. Not being able to do so was one of the principal reasons for my ditching Windows; Microsoft's support for multiple locales, the user interface of which KDE probably cop^H^H^Hborrowed, is bug-ridden and such switching, although theoretically possible, never worked properly for me. Alastair PS Warning: UK English is ...en_gb... and the ...uk... package is actually Ukrainian (should be ua) ... - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9IXhSCv59vFiSU4YRAoq1AJ9OD3qek16JETS5ROKIb4/vhkh3gwCdEm5Q k2xxjX4nKHzhr4alAABof8s= =ydLR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Mozilla upgrade
> > >> >> >> I still don't know about all the pluggins, Mozilla and Netscape seem >> to have so many. My old mozilla had java realtime as an rpm and I >> guess this serves again, and does not need changing ? > > > John... glad to hear that you've gotten everything installed and > working. I'm sure as you're already discovering that Mozilla has come > a long way just from version 0.9.8 to version 1.0. as for the plugins > you're going to have to download java, and flash, macromedia, and > realaudio plugins for Mozilla 1.0. you will have to do this as root, > otherwise they won't install. I like what I see, not had time to really use it yet. I have alrerady downloaded from mozilla.org , javs, flash and macromedia ,though not real audio, I guess these will not do since they are for mozilla.org's own tar bar install. Yes ? > > > the way I normally do the plugin install is if I come upon a page that > requires a plugin be installed, I'll copy the URL to the clipboard or > write it to a file, shut down mozilla, and restart it from a terminal > window where and run Mozilla as root. load the URL and then go through > the plugin install. in the case of the flash player plugin, that comes > in a tarball and the files are quickly and easily copied to the > /usr/local/mozilla/plugins directory. I noticed with Mozilla 0.9.8 when the app comes across a need that is not yet installed while on the web it throws up a warning message " XYZ is needed by Mozilla to , view, enable whatever, would you like to install now from here - " And sometimes I did so. your basically saying copy the url and install later , I think. > > >> Also , a check with the rpm package manager reveals :- >> >> nautilus-mozilla 1.0.6-15mdk >> 10.85mb >> Mozilla-irc-0.9.8-10mdk >> 0.115mb >> mozilla-mail-0.9.8-10mdk >> 4.216mb >> mozilla-0.9.8-10mdk >> 30.0mb >> java2html.1.7-2mdk >> 0.15mb >> >> What should I do with these , how many dare I remove do you think.I >> don't want to loose functionality. >> > > As for the old Mozilla packages you can feel free to uninstall them > all with this command: > rpm -e --nodeps Mozilla-irc-0.9.8-10mdk > rpm -e --nodeps mozilla-mail-0.9.8-10mdk > rpm -e --nodeps mozilla-0.9.8-10mdk > the other packages you've listed above should probably be left alone > since removing them could have adverse affects on other programs. > their presence won't bother the new version of Mozilla you've got on > your system since the tarball you've installed was a selfcontained > version and didn't require any other packages to work correctly. OK , will do > > >> One further thing, I still don't seem to have an outbox, to save >> messages to for transmission later. >> Ctrl+shift+return = "unable to save your message to send later,please >> veryifythat your M+NG a/c settings are correct+try later" >> I doubt that my M+NG setting are wrong, but perhaps . >> > > It's telling that the sent folder isn't pointing to the correct place > in your home directory. check out the image i've attached for seeing > 'where' the settings are defined. > > daRcmaTTeR > > > OK, this is in Windows(formerly Tasks) - Mail+Newsgroup - View Settings for this Account - Copies+Folders , and like you I have , ( dot ) Send folder on |fsnet.co.uk | ( dot ) Drafts on |fsnet.co.uk | ( dot ) Templates on |fsnet.co.uk | alternates are `local folders ' I could go, ( dot ) Other | Sent folder on ---> fsnet.co.uk, atlt : `locat folders ' dito , Drafts, Templated, but on these settings I have difficulty in getting composer to store for later transmission. Mozilla does not have a default "outbox", I guess it is supposed to end up being stored in Drafts. Clearly it is meant to work, something more needs to be got right. It is not obvious to me at the moment. Keep throwing ideas at me.. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] root login
--- Roy Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Robt. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Drake Zero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:11 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] root login > > > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Drake Zero wrote: > > > > > I installed 8.2 a few days ago and I'm trying to > login as "root" (I > think that's what it > > > is) from a command line from the KDE desktop. > When I installed Mandrake > I recall setting > > > the root password but not a name. Is there a > default name for use to > login as root or will > > > I have to install all over again (not a big > deal)? > > > > It asked you for the root password during the > install. > > > > > > > > -- > > (o< Powered by SuSE Linux > > //\ Virusproof. Crashproof. > > V_/_No MS products were used > > in the creation of this message.. > > > > 11:10pm up 1 day, 9:38, 24 users, load > average: 1.08, 1.15, 1.16 > > processes 133880 > > > > > > > Name would be root > > Please note that while yes, the root password is associated with a user called "root" (no quotes), this is what you would type in when faced with a log-in dialogue (either gui or character, er, "chui"?). The original poster was asking about from a command line in a KDE desktop - presumably from a terminal session. To become root in this case, you would use "su -" (no quotes). This is "substitute user" and if you don't specify a user, it goes for root (the hypen means run that user's login script(s) - so you can use su without the hyphen). It will then ask for the root password and you will be all powerful! HTH, Ron. __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:01:20 -0500 (CDT), Brian R Koppe ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hey everyone, LILO is gone! Basically, the story is that I have a dual >>boot WinXP and Linux Mandrake - and I've reinstalled WinXP before with no >>problem. This time, I guess it decided to actually write over the MBR. I >>know, if I have a Linux boot disk then I could use it and type LILO and >>it'll rebuild LILO and all should be good.but I have no such boot disk >>:( I just never thought I'd need it! So, anyone know of any way to get >>LILO back?? One of my friends directed me to a boot disk available on the >>internet, but somehow it was too big for a floppy :-\ >> >> > >Do you have a Mandrake CD? If so, just boot with it and type 'rescue' at the >LILO prompt. > > You could also download a floppy image if you don't have the CD. Sir Robin -- "We're clouds over the sea, or flecks of matter in the ocean when the ocean seems lit from within. I know I'm drunk when I start this ocean talk." - Rumi Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
g2 wrote: >On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: > > >>Warren Post wrote: >> >> >>>How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system >>>as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to >>>change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make >>>sense of the man page. >>> >>>Warren >>> >>> >>I would also like to know more about changing locale. KDE 3 relies on it >>to correctly encode characters (I don't know why don't they encode >>everything into Unicode). So any help would be appriciated. >> >>-- >>Live long and prosper! >> >> >> > >I had the same problem once, but I was wanting to install Japanese. Try >to install kinput2 and freewin RPMS but I think these are for Japanese. >Spanish use roman letters right? if yes then you dont have to install >another set of fonts. In my case I installed Japanese fonts. > >Run localedrake it runs either on the command line or in xwin. > >HTH > I tried that - checked Turkish, but all my locale settings still read en_US. Sir Robin -- "We're clouds over the sea, or flecks of matter in the ocean when the ocean seems lit from within. I know I'm drunk when I start this ocean talk." - Rumi Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: > Warren Post wrote: > > How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system > > as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to > > change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make > > sense of the man page. > > > > Warren > > I would also like to know more about changing locale. KDE 3 relies on it > to correctly encode characters (I don't know why don't they encode > everything into Unicode). So any help would be appriciated. hi! run #localedrake then choose the language you want to use. HTH (Hope This Helps) > > -- > Live long and prosper! > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- g2 "intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent" RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X windows
Gerard, Thank you for your prompt reply and inspired suggestion of using 'mcc'. I did'nt know that existed on the command line! Another reply suggested 'drakxconf' which seems to be the same, although I am not sure that it is. Having used that tool, after the Xwindow Test a box, it reads :- An error has occurred: could not open default font 'fixed'. Using 'startx' creates the fo;;owing message:- Font TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'. As I have LM 8.2 on two separate root partitions, I can transfer my Nokia 447V + S3 86C386 TRIO 3D/2X graphics card with 4 mg + display 1024 x 786 24 bit screen, details from one which works to the other which held the same details and did work. Why it's corrupted, I have no idea, and what do you think the message means? Thank you for your kind trouble. Malcolm Candlish. On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:58:52 -0700 "Gerard G. Dangca II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have you tried to run #mcc then edit the lilo? > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: > Warren Post wrote: > > How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system > > as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to > > change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make > > sense of the man page. > > > > Warren > > I would also like to know more about changing locale. KDE 3 relies on it > to correctly encode characters (I don't know why don't they encode > everything into Unicode). So any help would be appriciated. > > -- > Live long and prosper! > I had the same problem once, but I was wanting to install Japanese. Try to install kinput2 and freewin RPMS but I think these are for Japanese. Spanish use roman letters right? if yes then you dont have to install another set of fonts. In my case I installed Japanese fonts. Run localedrake it runs either on the command line or in xwin. HTH > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- g2 "intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent" RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:01:20 -0500 (CDT), Brian R Koppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, LILO is gone! Basically, the story is that I have a dual > boot WinXP and Linux Mandrake - and I've reinstalled WinXP before with no > problem. This time, I guess it decided to actually write over the MBR. I > know, if I have a Linux boot disk then I could use it and type LILO and > it'll rebuild LILO and all should be good.but I have no such boot disk > :( I just never thought I'd need it! So, anyone know of any way to get > LILO back?? One of my friends directed me to a boot disk available on the > internet, but somehow it was too big for a floppy :-\ Do you have a Mandrake CD? If so, just boot with it and type 'rescue' at the LILO prompt. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "... the main beneficiaries of mergers in the computer industry have been competitors" -- Ben Rosen, Chairman of Compaq Computer Corp., 1991. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel module loads manually but not on demand
I had a similar problem with a Umax scanner and was having to insmod the aix7xx module each time I wanted to use the scanner I wanted to know how to make it permanent I got the following responses: ( hope it sheds some light ) > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be better to have > > the function of the module as it SHOULD be working (but isn't) than to do it > > the "proper" Mandrake way. The proper way seems to be failing in this case > > for some reason. > > > > Until figuring out why this is the case, there is no need to go without the > > module and its functionality nor is it necessary to manually install the > > module every time you bootup. It is a workable temp fix until the real > > problem can be determined. > > How can the real problem be determined ? > > What steps can I take? > > Or would it be better just to recompile the module into the kernel? > > Mike If the correct entries are in the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules then you may want to preload the scsi device via initrd. mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as Linux initial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used for preloading the block device modules (such as IDE, SCSI or RAID) which are needed to access the root filesystem. mkinitrd automatically loads IDE modules, all scsi_hostadapter entries and all modules in a probeall scsi_hostadapter .. line in /etc/modules.conf, and raid modules if the system's root partition is on raid, which makes it simple to build and use kernels using modular device drivers. Any module options specified in /etc/modules.conf are passed to the modules as they are loaded by the initial ramdisk. Ref: man mkinitrd Larry -- Mike McNeese currently running Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 Linux registered user # 248955 "If obstacles are all we see, then we've lost sight of our goal!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X windows
Frank, Thank you for your prompt reply and inspired suggestion of using 'drakxconf'. I did'nt know that existed on the command line! Another list member suggested 'mcc', which apears to do the same thing; up pops the same wonderful box to sort out lifes many problems. It's amazing. Having used that tool, after the Xwindow Test a box, it reads :- An error has occurred: could not open default font 'fixed'. Using 'startx' creates the fo;;owing message:- Font TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'. As I have LM 8.2 on two separate root partitions, I can transfer my Nokia 447V + S3 86C386 TRIO 3D/2X graphics card with 4 mg + display 1024 x 786 24 bit screen, details from one which works to the other which held the same details and did work. Why it's corrupted, I have no idea, and what do you think the message means? Thank you for your kind trouble. Malcolm Candlish. On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:36:50 +0800 "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you need to supply more info for a diagnosis.. > > 1. video card, memory on it. > 2. Monitor type, and attributes. > 3. PC type. > > have you run: drakxconf > > from the command line and setup that way? > > > rgds > > frank > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Malcolm Candlish > Sent: Monday, 1 July 2002 2:42 PM > To: Mandrake-newbie > Subject: [newbie] X windows > > > Sirs, > > Having Mandrake 8.2 and using it extensively, it was a nasty shock to find I > could no longer boot into X windows. My boot-up drops me into level 3 and if > I startx it crashes and returns me to the Terminal. I have tryed xf86config > with all the correct entries without success and I have also reinstalled > (without reformatting), but no X windows. > > Has anyone any ideas please. > > Malcolm Candlish. > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
Warren Post wrote: > How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system > as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to > change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make > sense of the man page. > > Warren I would also like to know more about changing locale. KDE 3 relies on it to correctly encode characters (I don't know why don't they encode everything into Unicode). So any help would be appriciated. -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enabling quota
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:40:55 -0500 (CDT), Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to enable userquota on my /home partition. I > added the following script to a file in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d > directory: > > # Check quota and then turn quota on. > if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotacheck ] > then > echo "Checking quotas. This may take some time." > /usr/sbin/quotacheck -avug > echo " Done." > fi > > if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotaon ] > then > echo "Turning on quota." > /usr/sbin/quotaon -avug > fi > > I get the following error: > > Jul 1 23:10:49 localhost quotaon: quotaon: using > /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda6: Invalid argument > Jul 1 23:10:49 localhost rc.sysinit: Enabling local > filesystem quotas: failed Jul 1 23:10:50 localhost > quotaon: quotaon: using /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda6: > Invalid argument > > I get this "Invalid argument" error even when I try to > enable userquotas using webmin. > > Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here ? Is your /home partition ReiserFS? ReiserFS needs to be patched to support quotas. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!
Femme, Just log in as root and go to user admin - reset that user's password. Tres simple! Ron. --- FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gues what I did > > I forgot my user password! OH JOY! > > HELLLP! > > how the hell do I login now!? > > got roots password just not my user one! ;\ > > ain't I just brilliant? > > Femme > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
