Re: [newbie] Thank you Poogle.
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:19, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I d/l'ed kdeutils from that link you sent, and it installed just fine. I've got the kedit/text editor again. Thanks much! Yes, thanks. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions
Dale Huckeby wrote: On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Marc Audard wrote: . . . It would make sense to try that, at least according to my quite possibly mistaken understanding of the logic of partitioning. However, RedHat has several times barfed on my Mandrake partitions, and I'm pretty sure I had had an hda1 primary at /, hda2 primary swap, hda3 primary at /home, and a primary extended into logical partitions hda5 at /usr and hda6 at /var (if I remember correctly). I wouldn't have thought that would be a problem, but it said each time that it couldn't read the partition table. I've been attributing it to the fact that the Mandrake partitions were ReiserFS, but I don't know. So you might still have to wipe. Of course, my analysis is probably full of holes, since I don't know much about partitioning except by trying to logic it out. Dale Huckeby All this has happened because of the differing ways that the old DOS fdisk notation can be set up. Whilst it is correct that you can create up to 4 primary dos partitions, few systems do, these days, this is because the prefered manner of doing things is to create One primary partition(the first one) then take all the rest of the drive, and designate it an Extended dos partition that itself can be devided up into as many Logical dos partitions as you care to create. In the aformentioned example something , probably diskdrake created 4 primary dos partitions, which Redhat it would seem does not like, while Mandrake is happy to work with it. The solution appears to be to recreate your partition table in the generally accepted one primary, one extended of any number of logicals because I know mandrake is happy to work with this configuration as well, indeed that is what I have, and it would seem RH likes it as well.Civileme say's diskdrake can be made to do that as well, which is fair enough, in case you don't have PM. I know the windblows newer partiton tools as well as PM create one primary, one extended of any number of logicals when they are used.It is only the old Dos fdisk programme and diskdrake that allow you to create up to 4 primary dos partitions, one extended of any number of logical dos partitions. It's about time really that the whole industry went over to the linux hardrive partitioning system, of hda, hdb, hdc, partitions1,2,3,4, etc etc.but the windblows world is stuck with the old dos fdisk , so there we are. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thank you Poogle.
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 04:19 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I d/l'ed kdeutils from that link you sent, and it installed just fine. I've got the kedit/text editor again. Thanks much! Glad I could help, usually when I see a post and think I can help with that, I see another that has already answered it. Re: your comments about Powerpack v D/L it does seem a likely explanation as my version is D/L. Poogle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fonts in KDE solved
You may remember that I asked how to get the added windows fonts available to KWord (they were visible in OpenOffice). During a considerable browsing session I came across this: 'If you wish to use Unicode fonts with KWord (so that you can access symbols such as smart quotes, and the Euro), then I suggest you use KDE's control centre to change the KDE fonts from Helvetica to Arial. Whilst this did not seem directly relevant, I though it might be a sensible move. It is then necessary to re-login to re-start KDE. Amazingly, when I then opened KWord all the fonts were there. Of course, my email looks rather ugly now, in Arial, but I can experiment with that, I think, now that I know. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Burning issues
Hi Isaac, I tried to use ERoaster and X-CD-Roast (just because they were the first two in the K Menu) but neither of them ever opened. The little disks spun in the taskbar for a few seconds, then just disappeared uneventfully. I checked my process manager and they weren't running in the background so I figured further efforts with them would be counterproductive. Gtoaster opened up fine and I was able to select the songs I wanted to burn, but when I chose Record it gave me a stream of errors in my Client output box. which I've copy-pasted below. What's up? GnomeToaster Recording Terminal Recording 773161200 bytes to CD couldn´t run client: Permission denied Child exited unexpectedly. couldn´t run client: Permission denied Child exited unexpectedly. Child exited unexpectedly. couldn´t run client: Permission denied snip fixating CDROM. couldn´t run client: Permission denied CD recording process finished. blanking CDRW. couldn´t run client: Permission denied CDRW blanking complete. First you might want to upgrade to the latest versions of cdrecord, mkisofs, cdrecord-devel and cdrecord-cdda2wav and your GUI programs. Next, try running them as root - kdesu -c your_GUI_program. The GUI programs usually need to be set up from the root account, allowing other users (you) to burn CDs, too. Smart programs set everything up themselves, you just need to say what user(s) you want to have the rights to burn CDs. Try and set it up, AFAIK X-CD Roast offers to setup a non-root mode right at startup. Exit and try again as normal user. If it doesn't work, try going into drakuser and add yourself to all groups which have something to do with CD (cdburners, cdrw, cdrom, etc.). Try again. :-) -- Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Anne Anne, well, look at it this way. it's not a total loss. you were, after all, able to get copy and paste to work in OpenOffice. thats quite an accomplishment. apart from that it merely sounds as though your X server crashed. i doubt you've got any serious file corruption. maybe to the files you had open if that. -- daRmaTTeR Funny thing, my computer acted similarly *In windows mind you blah* and if i tapped the monitor it shimmered. This went on for months... woke up last Saturday Morning almost had a heart attack! The computer was Off! I had left it on over night ;p so... why off? Well after 2 hours or so a lot of cursing *yes i do that alot when computers fuck up*. Ooops... see? Reflex. ;p Anyway turned out my powersupply had died overnight. ;\ Thank god i had a spare computer with a P/S in it I could use. :) Moral of the story: Check the p/s see if you are getting brownouts too ;p -- 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] Cooker updates - wget or curl?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 13 August 2002 7:52 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Has anyone updating to Cooker daily, noticed if updates are faster when urpmi uses either wget or curl as the back end? When I first installed my 9.0 I noticed that it was getting two packages, and then doing a relogin The continuous logging out and logging in was taking as long as the actual downloads. Then I realized that curl had not been installed by default and I was using wget for the downloads. Now I am using curl it no longer pauses between packages, but on the other hand sometimes it seems to take ages to log in. Strangely, I don't see any significant difference between the two (with Cooker at mirror.ac.uk and using ADSL). I actually prefer --wget as it provides _far_ more information (curl, bizarrely, doesn't say what package is downloading although it provides loads of other data ...). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WV1MdasIDb/2nMwRAn9oAJ99shij0l/lMGvLDrOjdx1rBtBKggCff69P IMQJlqonkqgllTlGuTRfPps= =Bhea -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 13 August 2002 7:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Very hard to tell although the usual caveats about hardware (in particular, the seating of DIMMs) come to mind. There could also have been a minor (mains) power glitch. If it's any consolation, this happening _repeatedly_ (in both Win2K and WinXP) was why I gave up Windows. The machine was gone over with a fine-tooth comb, to the extent of someone who knew their stuff applying a HP oscilloscope to the components and collecting and examining data, and we could never find out what was wrong. The possibility of work vanishing without warning was too much, and it was either 'ditch the machine or change to a completely different OS'. Thereafter, needless to say, M8.2 ran perfectly on the same hardware. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WV+idasIDb/2nMwRAgDTAJ0epIplrW6crijPHHgmXz8Ibd6TKACghkjf xSL9Y9Yw8uMQa3JYibjqbpA= =AnvE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fifth Open Source office suite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this, but Gobe Productive is going Open Source 'within the next 90-120 days' (the gap presumably being to get the source code cleaned up :) http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1520 http://www.gobe.com/ I've used it before on Windows, and it's _very_ nice - which is no surprise as it has been developed by former AppleWorks programmers. (The four existing suites are StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Hancom Office). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WWGMdasIDb/2nMwRAkM3AJ9hJ+a7gkl5zt7vYoCeqF1vAhY3fgCgiDtq fatNzaIRG9gfmZgTw6t5big= =XBB5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 8:35 pm, you wrote: On Tue 13 August 2002 7:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Very hard to tell although the usual caveats about hardware (in particular, the seating of DIMMs) come to mind. There could also have been a minor (mains) power glitch. If it's any consolation, this happening _repeatedly_ (in both Win2K and WinXP) was why I gave up Windows. The machine was gone over with a fine-tooth comb, to the extent of someone who knew their stuff applying a HP oscilloscope to the components and collecting and examining data, and we could never find out what was wrong. The possibility of work vanishing without warning was too much, and it was either 'ditch the machine or change to a completely different OS'. Thereafter, needless to say, M8.2 ran perfectly on the same hardware. Alastair I suppose that it is because Mdk is so stable that I was shocked. If it had been Win98 I would have cursed but not been the least bit surprised. Ah well - it probably isn't important. Annoyingly, though, when I cured the OO problems by getting a new profile I forgot to re-set the automatic save and save with backup. Both are back on now, so I should never lose more than 10 minutes' work. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Attn FemmeFatal!, Never appoligize for swearing @ a computer
It reminds them that we think we own them. kinda like cats. 8-[ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Anne Anne, well, look at it this way. it's not a total loss. you were, after all, able to get copy and paste to work in OpenOffice. thats quite an accomplishment. apart from that it merely sounds as though your X server crashed. i doubt you've got any serious file corruption. maybe to the files you had open if that. -- daRmaTTeR Funny thing, my computer acted similarly *In windows mind you blah* and if i tapped the monitor it shimmered. This went on for months... woke up last Saturday Morning almost had a heart attack! The computer was Off! I had left it on over night ;p so... why off? Well after 2 hours or so a lot of cursing *yes i do that alot when computers fuck up*. Ooops... see? Reflex. ;p Anyway turned out my powersupply had died overnight. ;\ Thank god i had a spare computer with a P/S in it I could use. :) Moral of the story: Check the p/s see if you are getting brownouts too ;p Hey Femme! good catch. I hadn't thought of that. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have heard reports of this under KDE with one of the optional themes--Platinum and RISC both Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Attn FemmeFatal!, Never appoligize for swearing @ a computer
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 04:14 pm, you wrote: It reminds them that we think we own them. kinda like cats. 8-[ do you know the difference between a professional tech, and a shade tree tech? The Professional know how to talk to it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] difficulties hooking into internet (ethernet card, cable modem, hub)
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK basically you cannot connect to the cable modem through a hub, or connect more than one computer at a time through it to be proper. The first one gets its IP address and there are no more to be given by the cable modem. If you want to connect multiple computers through a single cable modem, connect the Mandrake computer and then add a second interface to a hub for the other computers--eth0 to local and eth1 to cable then activate connection sharing The dhcp failure you are geting is most likely the connection misconfiguration. Thanks greatly for the straightforward answer. Never having had to deal with a home network before, I did not understand the difference between hub/switch and router/switch. Silly me. I'll pick up the other this week and make the switch. I'm planning on using a LinkSys BEFSR41 Router/Switch since there are three devices currently intended for connection. Aside from doing the MAC spoofing, is there anything else I should be aware of? Civileme Your advice is helpful, as always. Good luck with your employment situation. David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any hints on a postfix imap webmail setup?
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:33:14 +0800 Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip s/w used postfix courier imap squirrelmail the results --- 1. email for local real users accessible thru imap and webmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] maildir in ~/Maildir, accessible locally as well snip 2. squirrelmail is extremely easy to install and configure. snip I tried squirrelmail a few months ago with courier imap and kept getting an error (permission denied?) when trying to read mail for my local accountl. I didn't pursue it since I was just playing and prefer to check my mail with mutt via secure shell when I'm away from home. Did you have a Mandrake rpm for it, or did you compile it yourself? Any other gotchas with squirrelmail? Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. (Bertrand Russell) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fifth Open Source office suite
Well, staroffice is a sun enhanced version of openoffice, so I don't think you can say they are completely separate, Michael At 08:44 PM 8/13/2002 +0100, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this, but Gobe Productive is going Open Source 'within the next 90-120 days' (the gap presumably being to get the source code cleaned up :) http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1520 http://www.gobe.com/ I've used it before on Windows, and it's _very_ nice - which is no surprise as it has been developed by former AppleWorks programmers. (The four existing suites are StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Hancom Office). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WWGMdasIDb/2nMwRAkM3AJ9hJ+a7gkl5zt7vYoCeqF1vAhY3fgCgiDtq fatNzaIRG9gfmZgTw6t5big= =XBB5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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] Uninstalling
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:07:31 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcia wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:13:28 +0100 Dear John, Thank you for your answer. I installed with from a vmware rpm plus Peter's Patch which was tarred. I have deleted all that I could find so far but something tells me there is more. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, Does anyone know how I can totally uninstall my vmware? I have already deleted alot of the files but some I think are still hiding somewhere. I wish to start over with this and have a better install next time. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia It depends how you installed, rpm, tar balls, or internet install. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess then that you know about the rpm uninstall methods. Basically , it is easiest in the rpm package manager. but the command line looks like this, Install, rpm -i (options) packages or, rpm -install (options)package and to upgrade, rpm -u (options) packages or, rpm -upgrade (optionss) package and to remove rpm -e package rpm --erase package if you feel the need you can specify --nodeps, and --test, There are very many more options, look in rpm --help. Tar balls cannot be removed , as such. You have to cherry pick them from each directory, Finding all the directories is not easy. I tend to leave them on and remove the binaries only. In your case the rpm erase command is likely to remove all that is necessary. It does not sound as though the tar ball patch did much more that correct an entry or two. So I should leave it be. After you have reinstalled the rpm, that is if you intend to, you can compile and install the tar ball patch again it will merely overwrite the previous install.You can do that any number of times it makes no difference. Hope this helps. By the way what is this programme vmware ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear John Thanks alot for all of this terrific information. VMware is an emulator that runs other operating systems. It will run on Linux running any Windows OS or on Windows running linux and or other OS'S. It works very well and of course one of the advantages is you do not have to reboot to get into Windows if you still need to use that operating system. When I purchased it the price was reasonable but I do not think it is very reasonable at $299.00, however that is just my opinion. Thanks for the help. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:18:12 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Anne When I first installed 8.2 I immediately downloaded and installed the mdk KDE 3.0 rpm's. After just a couple of days I took it all out as KDE 3.0 was making some problems - the biggest was the spontaneous logout. After reading on Mandrakes site that KDE 3.0 was really only for testing I decided to wait for 3.1 as recommended by some folks. Nigel Ridley. I AM Bible Studies and Resources http://www.i-amfaithweb.net Messianic E-Cards http://www.i-amfaithweb.net/cardcenter.htm OliveRoot Ministries http://www.oliveroot.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] orinoco driver for linksys WAC PC v3
Has anyone been able to get their linksys wirless PC card to work with the orinoco driver and hermes.conf file with Mandrake 8.2? I've been having some problems getting the driver to bind to the card. If anyone had sucessfully been able to get their linksys card working and wouldn't passing their knowledge onto the list that would be awesome. - Rob B.
