Re: [newbie-it] ancora di driver nvidia
salve all ml tornato dopo miniferie. allora il driver e nvidia. quello che volevo sottolineare è che ero convinto che mdk non lo includesse, invece sfruttando xfdrake lo ha trovato e installato da solo saluti piero Alle 23:26, venerdì 20 settembre 2002, Ale ha scritto: Non è che ora il driver in XF86Config-4 è fbdev?
Re: [newbie-it] script; Mozilla; wvHtml
Ho provato un'ìaltra strada antiword con questo script #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin cp $* $HOME/wvtemp/$* antiword $* $HOME/wvtemp/$$.txt 2/dev/null FILE=$HOME/wvtemp/$$.txt mozilla -remote 'openUrl(file://'$FILE')' rm -f $FILE da locale funzia da internet non và! Dove è che sc***o?!
Re: [newbie-it] Stampante Epson Stilus color 760
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:36, martedì 24 settembre 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Stampante Epson Stilus color 760, francesco manini ha scritto: La cosa che mi lascia perplesso è che sotto il nome c'è la seguente indicazione stato : inattiva . Vorrei sapere cosa possa fare per stampare. ciao! io ho una epson ed uso cups, ho avuto gli stessi problemi, e il problema l'ho risolto configurando per bene cups. per configurare cups, io uso l'interfaccia web. usa il tuo browser e digita l'indirizzo http://127.0.0.1:631 se cups è installato dovresti trovarti una maschera di richiesta di login e password.. guarda le impostazioni che hai nella sezione printers.. bye! - - jv - ~~~ mdk 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 l.u. # 245448 l.m # 126972 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9kYjzoD2O62YfgMARArekAJ4mRLlRNdSCdWhlL/GnNlSLGrGRKwCbBywZ UNMseq3xCtJri46ys38IxPo= =V6b9 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Stampante Epson Stilus color 760
Alle 23:36, martedì 24 settembre 2002, hai scritto: Ho installato Linux mandrake 8.2 con kernel 2.4.18-6 e KDE 2.2.2 ed utilizzo una stampante Epson Stilus color 760 collegata e funzionante con altro sistema operativo. Non mi riesce di stampare con Linux. Ho controllato in Mandrake control center che ha risposto alla ricerca sto leggendo i dati della stampante cheking installed software sto preparando printer drake dopo tale verifica la stampante risulta installata come lp Epson stylus color 760 on parallel port # (predefinto). Ho provato a stampare la pagina di prova senza esito (la pagina di prova è stata mandata alla stampante). tuttavia non riesco a stampare. Aprendo l'icona della stampante risulta che la stessa ha nome lp utilizza il sistema di stampa genrico unix lpd. La cosa che mi lascia perplesso è che sotto il nome c'è la seguente indicazione stato : inattiva . Vorrei sapere cosa possa fare per stampare. Grazie a tutti. Francesco Ciao Francesco, prova a cambiare il sistema di stampa: apri il Mandrake Control Center, ed accedi alla finestra stampanti che hai già descritto. Clicca su modo esperto, quindi su cambia il sistema di stampa; a questo punto impostalo su CUPS (da quel che ho capito, stai usando LPR) e conferma la scelta. Credo che questo dovrebbe risolvere i tuoi problemi... Facci sapere! Daniele PS: il fatto che sotto la stampante, quando non sta stampando, ci sia scritto inattiva è normale... :-)
Re: [newbie] File conversion
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:18:08 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote, Many thanks Sridhar, Can I run my results past you again. I copied the perl text to a text file called chcase and inserted it in /usr/local/bin, as follows, root]# cd /usr/local/bin bin]# ls chcasedivxPlayer* fsgrab*lexmarkz53@ mplayer* compupic@ divxPlayer.bin* gmplayer@ lxsetconf@ cvs_mplayer* e2recover* gxset* mencoder* bin]# cd root]# chmod 755 chcase chmod: failed to get attributes of `chcase': No such file or directory I do not understand ? what attributes ? That's strange. Are you still in the directory that contains the chcase file? Yes, /usr/local/bin/chcase. root]# # chmod 755 chcase The # signifies a root prompt. You are not meant to type it. If you do, it will ignore the command. That's what I thought, but it likes it, without it , rejection. It's odd. root]# It didn't seem to mind this.so, root]# cd /root/Desktop/mont mont]# ls DSCI0001.JPG DSCI0004.JPG DSCI0007.JPG DSCI0010.JPG DSCI0013.JPG DSCI0002.JPG DSCI0005.JPG DSCI0008.JPG DSCI0011.JPG DSCI0014.JPG DSCI0003.JPG DSCI0006.JPG DSCI0009.JPG DSCI0012.JPG All present and correct. mont]# chcase bash: /usr/local/bin/chcase: Permission denied So I went to directory mont and gave all the permissions,but, mont]# chcase bash: /usr/local/bin/chcase: Permission denied still permission denied I guess it is something to do with the way the first, chmod 755 chcase was rejected, while,# chmod 755 chcase was accepted , could this be correct do you think.Note the inclusion of the # Any further ideas ? Make sure chcase is owned by root: # chown root:root /usr/local/bin/chcase Then check its permissions: # ls -la /usr/local/bin/chcase Leave the # out when typing these (as I have explained above). You should get something like: -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 3921 Sep 25 2002 /usr/local/bin/chcase* Make sure the permissions are -rwxr-xr-x (as above), and that the owner and group are root. [root@localhost root]# chown root:root /usr/local/bin/chcase [root@localhost root]# ls -la /usr/local/bin/chcase -rw-r--r--1 root root 3921 Sep 24 15:29 /usr/local/bin/chcase This is not working. I suspect something is overriding the command and changing it back.It seems that it does not matter if I issue the above command , or go to the permissions window for /usr/local/bin/chcase and insert x in the right places. Something removes them. But, [root@localhost root]# cd /root/Desktop/mont (where the .JPG files are stored) [root@localhost mont]# chcase Setuid/gid script is writable by world. [root@localhost mont]# ls -la /usr/local/bin/chcase -rwsrwsrw-1 root root 3921 Sep 24 15:29 /usr/local/bin/chcase* This is Wierd, So lets try again, fresh terminal, [root@localhost root]# chmod 755 chcase chmod: failed to get attributes of `chcase': No such file or directory you don't think maybe it ought to be chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/chcase, so lets try, [root@localhost root]# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/chcase [root@localhost root]# that's better, [root@localhost mont]# chcase chcase 1.2 USAGE: chcase [-erdouqnl] [-s dir] [-x 'perl exp'] 'mask' -e : Print EXAMPLES - very helpful! -r : Rename recursively -d : Also rename subdirectories -o : Overwrite if file exists -u : Change to upper case (default is lower) -q : Quiet mode (no output) -n : No escape characters (for bold output) -l : Rename follow symbolic links (default is not to) -s dir : Specify starting directory -x 'perl exp' : Perl expression to operate on filename usually s/// or tr/// (yes you need the quotes) case of filename not changed when this option used you can supply multiple expressions 'mask' : Mask to rename (quotes are nice to have here) not case sensitive, you can use multiple masks -or- just supply the filename(s) on the command line [root@localhost mont]# now that's a lot better. So which is the correct option to rename in lower case ? I will try , since I am in the directory that contains the .JPG files, [root@localhost mont]# chcase -e chcase 1.2 EXAMPLES: chcase My.DOC *.JPG FileName.txt = these specific files are changed to lower case chcase -rd '*' = all files and sub dirs to lower case, start in current dir, recurse chcase -s pics '*.jpg' '*.gif' = rename .jpg and .gif files in pics dir to lower case chcase -rous /tmp/junk 'a??b*.txt' = starting from /tmp/junk and recursing, change files matching this mask to all upper case, overwrite if file exists chcase -x 's/99dec/jan2000/' -x 's/ /_/g' '*.doc' = renames *.doc files replacing 99dec with jan2000,
Re: [newbie] trouble configuring printer ...
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:32 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 4:35 am, you wrote: hello, i followed the instructions in the user's guide and was not able to install my printer. when i put in my cd1 to install the packages, i get numerous 'error in fetching such and such file. i pressed skip because i couldn't think of anything else to do. tried auto-detection, manual, and expert modes and nothing. any advice? thanks (printer=epson stylus color 880) Give us more detail, Rainer. What make, model, parallel or usb and anything else you can think of. Anne and include the exact error message, what file, where was it being fetched from, how are you connected to the internet, do you have more than 1 cd device (ie.; a dvd as hdd, and writer as hdc?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another task bites the dust
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 1:29 am, you wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:01:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed Gqview, which allows browsing of my photo directories. This week I decided to try my elderly Camedia C1000L with Gphoto - it uses a serial connection, you can guess how old it is. No problem - program starts, camera is on list, program works! Great. All I lack, then, is a program to allow printing several photos to a page; I had two or three such in windows. Wait a mo, though - do I really need this? KWord is frame based and should do the job. And of course it does, no problems at all. It just shows, I've been using Mandrake for 6 months now, and pretty well full time for about four, but still I find myself thinking of the windows way of doing things, instead of simply analysing and attacking the problem. I'm pleased to say that most things are solved as easily as this, once the blinkers are off. It's sad, though, that there are still a few - very few - things that I can only do in windows. The day will come, though... Anne Anne, John Richard Smith and I were working on a script that uses ImageMagick's montage to automatically generate a composite image suitable for printing on a4 paper. The limitations right now are 1. images must all be the same size 2. images must all have the same orientation (unless you plan on separating them) It works on an entire directory. http://clevername.homeip.net/moco Todd I'll take a look at that. I'm puzzled about ImageMagick, though. My menu offers me ImageMagick Display, so I thought IM was installed, but selecting that does absolutely nothing. Is this just a module that's loaded to use with one of the other apps? Do I need to look for the full app on the disks? I'll explore this afternoon if I can get time, but I'm running out of that right now, as I am away for a good week from Friday. Anne Ann, ImageMagic is a command line app, it included Montage as well. I haven't a clue why anyone would give you a kstart menu entry tab. The scripts I've worked out for myself work well , but mine are for A4 sheet paper.If you use Letter , better ask Todd. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File conversion
Glad to see you've gotten chcase to run. I still don't know what the problem was -- it looks like a bug in the shell. As I mentioned in an earlier mail, chcase converts to lower case by default, so you don't need to use any options. Just run $ chcase * (note the asterisk at the end) to convert all files in the current working directory to lower case. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan You have no privacy. Get over it. -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File conversion
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Glad to see you've gotten chcase to run. I still don't know what the problem was -- it looks like a bug in the shell. As I mentioned in an earlier mail, chcase converts to lower case by default, so you don't need to use any options. Just run $ chcase * (note the asterisk at the end) to convert all files in the current working directory to lower case Many thanks Sridhar, Yes, hre is the result, [root@localhost root]# cd /root/Desktop/mont [root@localhost mont]# chcase * . |__ DSCI0001.JPG = dsci0001.jpg |__ DSCI0002.JPG = dsci0002.jpg |__ DSCI0003.JPG = dsci0003.jpg |__ DSCI0004.JPG = dsci0004.jpg |__ DSCI0005.JPG = dsci0005.jpg |__ DSCI0006.JPG = dsci0006.jpg |__ DSCI0007.JPG = dsci0007.jpg |__ DSCI0008.JPG = dsci0008.jpg |__ DSCI0009.JPG = dsci0009.jpg |__ DSCI0010.JPG = dsci0010.jpg |__ DSCI0011.JPG = dsci0011.jpg |__ DSCI0012.JPG = dsci0012.jpg |__ DSCI0013.JPG = dsci0013.jpg |__ DSCI0014.JPG = dsci0014.jpg [root@localhost mont]# Now that is what I call Good, doen't that just make you feel on top. Thanks for staying with me, Sridhar, I appreciate it, I'm a complete bash script newbie and make all the obvious newbie mistakes, the ones that are so obvious to the experienced but without explanation ,cause us to stumble. Now to find out what else chcase can do. John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Up running, but still need help
I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on my Compaq Presario 700 laptop in its own partition. My USB-based wireless mouse is working fine and I was even able to load Opera from an rpm download. I am running into a few issues yet that I hope to find help for: 1. My Brother MFC9200C printer isn't recognized by Linux. It is attached via my second USB port. 2. MY SpeedStream PCMCIA wireless network card is also not recognized. In addition to that, where do I go from here to learn 'all things Linux?' I am stumped beyond drilling into the various menus (I'm using the Gnome interface). Many thanks in advance. Steven Kopischke Green Bay, WI USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Up running, but still need help
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:59, Steven Kopischke wrote: I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on my Compaq Presario 700 laptop in its own partition. My USB-based wireless mouse is working fine and I was even able to load Opera from an rpm download. I am running into a few issues yet that I hope to find help for: 1. My Brother MFC9200C printer isn't recognized by Linux. It is attached 'uh oh' was my immediate thought here, and it's confirmed: http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html#brother Unfortunately, printers being designed on the assumption that they will always be connected to a Windows machine, thus using proprietary functionality therein which is not made public, is a notorious, insoluble problem. My Lexmark Z42 at least prints in black and white, but colour is not possible ... When the black and white cartridge on mine runs out, I intend to buy a new printer. Some manufacturers are more understanding: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Sounds scarey to me
On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 10:30 pm, you wrote: On Monday 23 Sep 2002 7:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Having looked through the update disk I can see a number of things that I would like to update, hoping that it would fix problems, but the whole thing looks really scarey. I mean, if I break one app that's not too bad. A little time lost, but I'll soon be up and running (fingers crossed), but talking about updating the kernel is a different cup of tea. If I break that I've had it. Just how risky is this? I presume it's necessary before doing any of the rest? First, do NOT upgrade the kernel. You must install the kernel - NOT upgrade it. Just install the new kernel with # rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.x-x.i586.rpm Final check before I go for it - If I follow Mandrake's instructions and do urpmi kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-2mdk.i586.rpm I will upgrade the kernel? If I do rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-2mdk.i586.rpm I will install a new kernel which can be used as an alternative OS from the menu? Have I got it? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'mgetting pretty p'ed off with...
Charlie M. wrote: On Tuesday 24 September 2002 4:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip I know it won't do anything except make me feel better. However this is a copy of an e-mail I sent to the AMD hardware support address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) earlier today with the subject line: AMD, Microsoft, Palladium, and the future. Very nicely put. I suggest you post it, or better, a link to it, widely (/., kuro5hin, general press etc.). OTOH, I'm still considering buying an Athlon chip in the near future. I don't want Intel, so what other choice is there? Sir Robin [quote] Since I have no idea to whom this should be directed I'll send it to the generic hardware support address. I have been reading in the tech press for some time regarding AMD's plans to include support for Microsoft and their Palladium or Trusted Computing initiative. I will state unequivocally that should this come to pass I will be a former customer of yours; as I was once a customer of Intel's, Microsoft's, Anti-Virus vendors (pick one), the music industry, the film industry, etc. I refuse to be bullied and indirectly accused of terrorism or thievery because I choose to play a compact disk or a DVD; that I purchased, on my computer. I refuse to allow Microsoft, the BSA, or any government agency, snoop through my personal files just because I might have kept a copy of a song from one of those disks in a compressed format on one of my hard drives for convenience. Once I have paid my money to use someone's Intellectual Property for an individual copy of the work I find it ludicrous that I must; in effect, request permission every time I wish to peruse the movie, listen to the recording, write a document, or boot the operating system of my choice on hardware that I own. Microsoft's Everlasting Usurious Lease Agreement is the primary reason I will never again load that corporation's software on a machine that is under my control. Your bowing to them in order to gain some soi disant advantages will be the reason I am no longer an AMD customer. It may be your undoing. Many of us read 1984 © and remembered what we read. Anything that smacks of Big Brother is so distasteful it's possible that it may become a cause celebre. Can you say Boycott? By every GNU/Linux user on the planet? Anything is possible. I know the thoughts a message such as this generate in the recipient's mind; he's one consumer, probably one of those Cancerous operating system users/advocates, a hermit that is socially inept and reclusive, with no friends or influence. Or possibly just a rabble rousing trouble maker. Probably doesn't spend all that much on hardware anyway, right? Guess again; and I'll answer that with this question: How many of us are there? Can you afford to offend us all? Charlie Mahan Edmonton Alberta Canada September 24, 2002 [\quote] I received an automated acknowledgement, I wonder if a human being will read it. Fire retardant suit applied. ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- 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] Sounds scarey to me
On Wednesday September 25 2002 08:41 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Final check before I go for it - If I follow Mandrake's instructions and do urpmi kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-2mdk.i586.rpm I will upgrade the kernel? No, if /etc/urpmi/inst.list has 'kernel' in it. Then the kernel will be installed, not upgraded. Here's my inst.list, yours is probly the same, # Here you can specify packages that need to be installed instead # of being upgraded (typically kernel packages). kernel kernel-smp kernel-secure kernel-enterprise kernel-linus2.2 kernel-linus2.4 kernel22 kernel22-secure kernel22-smp hackkernel If I do rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-2mdk.i586.rpm I will install a new kernel which can be used as an alternative OS from the menu? Have I got it? Anne Yes. You could use either urpmi or rpm -ivh. Just make sure to first check your inst.list file if you use urpmi. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with...
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:00:22 +0300 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nicely put. I suggest you post it, or better, a link to it, widely (/., kuro5hin, general press etc.). OTOH, I'm still considering buying an Athlon chip in the near future. I don't want Intel, so what other choice is there? It's not high-end, but the VIA C3 is very interesting: http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp It's causing quite a fuss when coupled with the new mini-ITX form factor motherboards: http://www.mini-itx.com/ The reason being that the resultant box is tiny, power consumption is extremely low and _no fans are required_. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Up running, but still need help
At 14:24 9/25/2002 +0100, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:59, Steven Kopischke wrote: I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on my Compaq Presario 700 laptop in its own partition. My USB-based wireless mouse is working fine and I was even able to load Opera from an rpm download. I am running into a few issues yet that I hope to find help for: 1. My Brother MFC9200C printer isn't recognized by Linux. It is attached 'uh oh' was my immediate thought here, and it's confirmed: Oh, well. The printer predated my foray into Linux, so I will need to go another route. I have an old HP DeskJet 540 and an Epson Stylus Color 740 that I will try to connect via the parallel port. Thanks for the URL. oldgnome Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise) On Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:19 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn over the 690MB's. The first 2 images contain data that is around the 693 and 699 MB's. I have mounted the 2 images, and see quite a few things I would never use. I only need to free up a few MB's per CD. How could I go about properly deleting these to bring down the ISO-sizes to burnable sizes? Mount the ISO, copy the files to a temp directory, delete the couple of files, then remake an ISO. But, how would I successfully go about making a bootable CD? Does anyone have any experience with re-creating Distro-CD's? I'm sure I won't be the only one with this problem, so any knowledgeable advice would be great :-) Greetings Ralph I can not access any servers in England and all the other mirrors are still showing the 9/18 rc3 versions on them so it looks like someone is spoofing or English mirrors have an exclusive the URL given earlier is not accessable any more, at least by my machine. We will have to wait another day or two? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 I was able to download the three isos in about 3 hours. I burned them all and installed. I am running Mandrake 9.0 on my box (along with windows). It didn't say anything about rc3 or beta. It looks really good. Unfortunately I am still quite a newbie and don't know everything that I can do with it! Doh!! I do like it, though! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with...
Well put. Now to spread the word :) -Original Message- From: Charlie M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with... On Tuesday 24 September 2002 4:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip I know it won't do anything except make me feel better. However this is a copy of an e-mail I sent to the AMD hardware support address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) earlier today with the subject line: AMD, Microsoft, Palladium, and the future. [quote] Since I have no idea to whom this should be directed I'll send it to the generic hardware support address. I have been reading in the tech press for some time regarding AMD's plans to include support for Microsoft and their Palladium or Trusted Computing initiative. I will state unequivocally that should this come to pass I will be a former customer of yours; as I was once a customer of Intel's, Microsoft's, Anti-Virus vendors (pick one), the music industry, the film industry, etc. I refuse to be bullied and indirectly accused of terrorism or thievery because I choose to play a compact disk or a DVD; that I purchased, on my computer. I refuse to allow Microsoft, the BSA, or any government agency, snoop through my personal files just because I might have kept a copy of a song from one of those disks in a compressed format on one of my hard drives for convenience. Once I have paid my money to use someone's Intellectual Property for an individual copy of the work I find it ludicrous that I must; in effect, request permission every time I wish to peruse the movie, listen to the recording, write a document, or boot the operating system of my choice on hardware that I own. Microsoft's Everlasting Usurious Lease Agreement is the primary reason I will never again load that corporation's software on a machine that is under my control. Your bowing to them in order to gain some soi disant advantages will be the reason I am no longer an AMD customer. It may be your undoing. Many of us read 1984 (c) and remembered what we read. Anything that smacks of Big Brother is so distasteful it's possible that it may become a cause celebre. Can you say Boycott? By every GNU/Linux user on the planet? Anything is possible. I know the thoughts a message such as this generate in the recipient's mind; he's one consumer, probably one of those Cancerous operating system users/advocates, a hermit that is socially inept and reclusive, with no friends or influence. Or possibly just a rabble rousing trouble maker. Probably doesn't spend all that much on hardware anyway, right? Guess again; and I'll answer that with this question: How many of us are there? Can you afford to offend us all? Charlie Mahan Edmonton Alberta Canada September 24, 2002 [\quote] I received an automated acknowledgement, I wonder if a human being will read it. Fire retardant suit applied. ;) -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. -- William F. Buckley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating Netscape 7.0 Kicker icon
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms On Wednesday 25 September 2002 03:52 am, Chris Edwards wrote: S, You're absolutely correct. Wish I had known about the Texstar version earlier. Do you have a url for that? OR download Texstar's netscape version and it puts an entry in the menus from which you can add a panel icon the traditional way. His also has java, flash, acroread real player plugins etc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some misconceptions regarding TCPA
I note the wrong end of the stick has been grasped on several occasions. The [ukcrypto] mailing list has noted that a mandatory feature of TCPA, the (cross-supplier) hardware architecture on which the (Microsoft) Palladium software architecture is based, is that any hardware security features _must be capable of being turned off in the BIOS_. And a feature of TCPA is that that BIOS will be secure, so nothing can hijack the BIOS. Of course, this might mean that software which requires those features will pop up a dialog box if they're disabled, but alternative operating systems will continue to work no matter their level of support for TCPA. There is a *very* competent person on the list who is a member of one of the TCPA steering committees: he is doing a good job of damping down the more strident rhetoric and half-baked ideas that are being proposed (sounds familiar ;) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding a new partition
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:02 am, Dennis Sue wrote: i have installed Mandrake 8.2 on a former Windows 20 gig harddrive. I have 1 partition set as / ( 1.4 gigs ), another set as /home ( 1.6 gigs ) I wouls like to make a couple more linux native partitions for storage, etc. Going through Mandrake control center I am able to do this, But here lies my question. I believe I want to set them mount point as /usr, and I am told this via a popup : Directory /usr already contains some data ( share, bin, lib, libexec, sbin...) My choices are as follows: Move files to the new partition ? Hide files ? What option do I want to check so as not to hose my system, or have to rebuild it again ? Probably the easiest way is use the diskdrake to make a new partition and call it /other or whatever. It will write an entry to fstab for it and mount it. Then just copy your /usr directory to it (or dd would probaby be better). Then edit your fstab renaming /other to /usr and try to rename /usr to /usr.bak. Then reboot and if all is well, delete old /usr (/usr.bak). hth, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'mgetting pretty pissed off with...
Barry Michels wrote: I'm trying to do the same thing in my company. I'll never be able to totally convert over to Linux because of the closed-source software we have to run is only available for Windows. But, I've installed a Linux machine as a router (up 83 days and counting). This week, I'm going to convert our old server into a file printer sharing server. Maybe one day I'll be able to replace our Exchange server with something under Linux... Slowly, but surely. Very true. I've had a Linux box in the office which has been tolerated but not exactly appreciated for a few years now (apart from missing MS Word, users are thrown by the fact that they have to - gasp - log in with a password). However, now I've started using it as a printer server and people can actually hit Print and not have to think I wonder if Network Neighborhood is working today, so they're coming round to my point of view. Of course printing was also a bit of a secret weapon as well, since it's a dual boot machine. In the past, people would reboot it into Windows (which I don't mind) and leave it there (which I do, since I also use it as an FTP server) - but of course if they do that now, they stop everyone from printing as well. More positively, I've found that installing Mozilla on the Windows boxes has reassured people a bit about using Linux, and I've even noticed a few people using OpenOffice rather than rebooting and using Word. Small steps, Sparks, small steps. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace 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: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?
Another source for Linux apperal (although I don't think they have anything Mandrake specific) would be thinkgeek.com -Original Message- From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:19:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing? On Tuesday 24 September 2002 05:46 pm, you wrote: I've looked all over and I haven't found anything that really catches my eye or has a catchy slogan or phrase. With all of the activity creating themes and everything else to personalize linux the way we want, I thought it would be easy to find tshirts that show my love for linux when I'm out and about... but no such luck. Thus I ask for your assistance in helping me track down some snazzy t's. I'd like t's that have something to do with Mandrake, Linux in general, anti-MS, or something along those lines. I currently have a Debian swirl shirt that I bought way back when I played around with Debian but it's getting a little faded (and I haven't used Debian in quite some time). TIA for your help!! Gary you have, of course, checked the nice tee shirts and hats at the mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] chcase
According to the helpfile, chcase can do :- Features/options include: * supports special characters * can recurse through subdirectories * can overwrite existing files * can use multiple file masks * operates on filenames with perl expressions like s/// and tr/// * search and replace strings in filenames (eg: remove all spaces) please can someone explain , * can use multiple file masks * operates on filenames with perl expressions like s/// and tr/// John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] amavis
Does anyone know how to edit the alert emails that are sent out in amavis? I have tried to edit the files in the: amavisd-snapshot-20020300/amavis/notify dir, and also the amavisd-snapshot-20020300/amavis/amavisd script itself? thoughts? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another task bites the dust
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:04:57 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 1:29 am, you wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:01:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed Gqview, which allows browsing of my photo directories. This week I decided to try my elderly Camedia C1000L with Gphoto - it uses a serial connection, you can guess how old it is. No problem - program starts, camera is on list, program works! Great. All I lack, then, is a program to allow printing several photos to a page; I had two or three such in windows. Wait a mo, though - do I really need this? KWord is frame based and should do the job. And of course it does, no problems at all. It just shows, I've been using Mandrake for 6 months now, and pretty well full time for about four, but still I find myself thinking of the windows way of doing things, instead of simply analysing and attacking the problem. I'm pleased to say that most things are solved as easily as this, once the blinkers are off. It's sad, though, that there are still a few - very few - things that I can only do in windows. The day will come, though... Anne Anne, John Richard Smith and I were working on a script that uses ImageMagick's montage to automatically generate a composite image suitable for printing on a4 paper. The limitations right now are 1. images must all be the same size 2. images must all have the same orientation (unless you plan on separating them) It works on an entire directory. http://clevername.homeip.net/moco Todd I'll take a look at that. I'm puzzled about ImageMagick, though. My menu offers me ImageMagick Display, so I thought IM was installed, but selecting that does absolutely nothing. Is this just a module that's loaded to use with one of the other apps? Do I need to look for the full app on the disks? I'll explore this afternoon if I can get time, but I'm running out of that right now, as I am away for a good week from Friday. Anne ImageMagick is more like a collection of programs that do different things--display (show an image), mogrify (resize), convert (change format and resize), montage (combine many to one). I set my stystem up so that clicking an image file opens it using display. Once an image is open, you can right-click it and get some options. I prefer using it for batch processing images. Man ImageMagick will give you the lowdown, or visit imagemagick.org. Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. (John W. Gardner) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
Anne Wilson wrote: I'm pretty sure it was the cups+Gimp-print setup that caused my problems. Is it worth changing this one to Foomatic+hpijs to see if it disappears? If it does, you could always re-think why you wanted the Gimp-print and see if you really need it or if alternative settings would help. Anne On Tuesday 24 Sep 2002 5:01 pm, you wrote: Dear Erik and Anne, Thanks for helping with this. I configured my printer with cups at the beginning then went to the www webmin admin to setup with one as lp using Foomatic + hpijs, and the other xpp using cups+Gimp-printv4.2.0. This setup always worked fine for me in earlier distributions of LM. Any suggestions? Erik wrote: Marcia and Anne: I may have missed it, but I haven't seen info on how the printer was set up originally? Did you set it up to use CUPS, Post Script or both in LM8.2? When I see HP, I immediately think Post Script, but I'm not that familiar with them in Linux...in Windows they can be a real PITA. When I set up my Epson 740 USB, I set it up in CUPS as Printer (printer0) and in Post Script as Printer1. Now, the only problems I have printing from the net or email is when someone includes emoticons with those, I have to select all, copy and paste into OO, remove the emoticon(s) and then print. HTH, Erik Marcia wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, this is a surprise. I will try it without cups then and see what happens. Thank you for the suggestion. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes
Dear Tom Tom Brinkman wrote: Since the 'nopentium' bandaid didn't fix it, let's start again Marcia. List the hardware involved, particularly mobo, psu, video, and what Mandrake version, which video drivers are used. Ram vendor, if you know? IIRC, it's Mdk 8.2, with an ECS mobo. Got the model/ revision/bios vendor and numbers? The link for my board is http://www.ecsusa.com/ and my motherboard is the L7VMM. I disabled the onboard lan because even though it worked it was grabbing the same irq as sound. The company sent me a new lan card which helped that it seems. This is an Athlon 1600+ XP with 512MB PC2100 DDR, 266 MHZ SDRAM, I had the cooler master added plus an extra case fan. This is a brand new machine. I have Win95 as a dual boot and Win does not have the problems that my Linux side has. Most of the specs are on the link page. A link to their website for the board would be best, and we can try an' figure it all out together. As you only mentioned 'onboard video', which? ...how much system ram does it use? If it's a ready made system, from who ? What was the original installed OS ? Also, while we're at it, what does cat /proc/interrupts cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 246531 XT-PIC timer 1: 3298 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 17745 XT-PIC eth0 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 7262 XT-PIC viaudio 11:154 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci 12: 87498 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 53126 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 ...and lspcidrake lspcidrake unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|CPU-to-PCI Bridge unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] tulip : ADMtek|ADM983 Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Bad:www.linmodems.org: Lucent Microelectronics|56k WinModem unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] unknown : unknown (5333/8d04//) unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Virtual|Hub [] scanner : Hewlett-Packard|ScanJet 4300C [] unknown : Hewlett-Packard|DeskJet 940C [Printer|Printer|Bidirectional] ...and lspci lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11) 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3147 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 23) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 23) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04 say? FWIW, your problem may not be video related at all, but hardware and/ or configuration in general. So, in the meantime, try takin the case cover off and point a table fan into it directed towards the cpu-hs/fan and the mobo's chipset. Does that reduce or eliminate the problem? It would help a lot if you have lm_sensors/gkrellm installed and report some temps under load. Another good report would be if you can run memtest86 overnite without errors (there's an rpm for it on your CD's). I'll warn you upfront tho, it's a hard, often lengthly process for anybody to diagnose hardware problems 'over the phone' (ie, not hands on). There is a temperature and performance utility in the bios. What are lm_sensors/gkrellm? I would gladly install this if needed. Thanks for your help here. I really appreciate your input. Thanks alot. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] backup system
Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. Jeanie __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes
Dear Tom, It is really acting up now. Mozilla messenger worked just fine until today and now it is not letting me send emails. It just freezes in the process. I had a nice email to send you and lost it so I am trying again. The link for my board is www.ecsusa.com and my board is the L7VMM. I have 512 MB PC2100 DDR, 266mhz SDRAM, a cooler master and extra fan. It is an Athlon 1600+ XP. The other info you asked for is below. Thanks for your help with this. I really appreciate this. I just bought this machine a couple of months ago. I want to mention also that I have a dual boot with Win95 and that seems to do fine. Do you think the text file I downloaded would help? I do not know what to do with it. Thanks again. Sincerely, Marcia cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 246531 XT-PIC timer 1: 3298 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 17745 XT-PIC eth0 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 7262 XT-PIC viaudio 11:154 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci 12: 87498 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 53126 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 $ lspcidrake unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|CPU-to-PCI Bridge unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] tulip : ADMtek|ADM983 Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Bad:www.linmodems.org: Lucent Microelectronics|56k WinModem unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] unknown : unknown (5333/8d04//) unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Virtual|Hub [] scanner : Hewlett-Packard|ScanJet 4300C [] unknown : Hewlett-Packard|DeskJet 940C [Printer|Printer|Bidirectional] $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11) 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3147 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 23) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 23) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF Question about non-auto configuration of a NIC
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:06:56 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK Wonderful I'm in the middle of installing SNF. Yay me. Everything is going great, got 2 NICs in there. Fine. First NIC a D-Link is auto configured... Next one a 3com905b Cyclone, Supported I might add, Will NOT auto configure. Fine. 'lspci -v' in ML9.0rc1 says I have a: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30). Seems the same one :) So the option says, want to configure manually...well OK I think i can do that ... WRONG! I switched my HDD to a spare 1 GB one and started to install SNF. I have only that one NIC and it was recognised and assigned an IP address. 'configure manually' only gave me options to change IP address etc. . Switching to VC2 (ctrl-alt-F2) gave me a # prompt and 'lspci -v' listed my NIC. 'dmesg' also mentioned recognizing the card. 'lsmod' listed the 3c59x module for the card. I get hit with this: SwitchDelay (?) [0x1,0x1,0x1,0x1,0x1,0x1] space for your fooked answer which doesn't make any sense to a Human being on this planet. Flow Control (?) [0x1,0x1,0x1,0x1,0x1,0x1] see above downport (?) [0x1,0x10x10x1,0x1,0x1] . BLAH! damnit full-duplex (?) [-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,] . yer kidding yes? I know what it means...but -1!? debug (i) [0x8] Help? media_select (?) [0,] OMG WTF IS THIS!? ARHG! OK thats it... NOW WHAT!? I think the above is about module options. I don't think the 3c59x module _needs_ options. I think something went wrong earlier during install with recognising your NIC. Maybe moving the NIC to another slot or trying another NIC? Or see what happens if you remove the D-Link NIC? Does the NIC work under LM8.2? In the BIOS is 'PnP OS installed' set to 'no'? I'm so stumped... ramming my head into a brick wall sounds more pleasant than configuring this by hand can i not just do the configuration by hand or by auto probe (which fails during the install) after its all installed!? Ty --- Femme Hey, good luck! (and thanks for your link about Creative's anti-piracy 'features': a soundcard which helps determine what you can listen to .) -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?
Title: RE: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing? My wife and are are designing an I don't do windows line. Would anyone like to know when we're ready to release? Sorry if this seems like an unashamed plug for my own product-to-be, but it seemed to be on topic... --Matthew -Original Message- From: Jim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing? Another source for Linux apperal (although I don't think they have anything Mandrake specific) would be thinkgeek.com -Original Message- From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:19:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing? On Tuesday 24 September 2002 05:46 pm, you wrote: I've looked all over and I haven't found anything that really catches my eye or has a catchy slogan or phrase. With all of the activity creating themes and everything else to personalize linux the way we want, I thought it would be easy to find tshirts that show my love for linux when I'm out and about... but no such luck. Thus I ask for your assistance in helping me track down some snazzy t's. I'd like t's that have something to do with Mandrake, Linux in general, anti-MS, or something along those lines. I currently have a Debian swirl shirt that I bought way back when I played around with Debian but it's getting a little faded (and I haven't used Debian in quite some time). TIA for your help!! Gary you have, of course, checked the nice tee shirts and hats at the mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with...
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:12 -0400 Tommy Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well put. Now to spread the word :) On K5 it's been spread already ... http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/21/152527/963 Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?
On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 7:39 pm, you wrote: My wife and are are designing an I don't do windows line. Would anyone like to know when we're ready to release? Could be Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disturbing chkrootkit results
I recently ran chkrootkit on my system for the first time and got some disturbing results. Specifically the lines: Checking `ifconfig'... INFECTED Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... Possible t0rn v8 (or variation) rootkit installed Searching for Showtee... Warning: Possible Showtee Rootkit installed -- The t0rn v8 seems to flag off libproc.a, the Showtee is flagging off proc.h and file.h in /usr/include libproc.a seems to come out of the procps-2.0.7-9mdk rpm so I'm assuming the t0rn v8 flag is a false positive. I don't know what the two header files are or where they came from. Finally, the ifconfig check seems to be if the string /dev/tux is in ifconfig, but I don't see it... I'm not sure why its triggering Doing a ./strings -a /sbin/ifconfig | grep -i dev/tux manually doesn't return anything. Clues thoughts comments? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes
Thanks for your help with this. I really appreciate this. I just bought this machine a couple of months ago. I want to mention also that I have a dual boot with Win95 and that seems to do fine. Do you think the text file I downloaded would help? I do not know what to do with it. Thanks again. I am coming in extremely late to this thread, so if I'm repeating anything, I apologize. 1.) Remove all non-necessary components (modem, sound card, network card, etc.) 2.) Restart system and do normal things...If crashes persist, remove all ram but one stick and/or swap in spare ram (if you have it) 3.) Continue slimming down the possible variables until you check all of your hardware. If it comes to it, replace your motherboard and/or power supply and test again. Of course, if you're not comfortable with this, you might be stuck. Fiddling with settings is all well and good, but it usually masks hardware problems. Only when the hardware is excluded as the problem, can the software be tinkered with. Just my .02, Brendan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KNewsKicker
I am currently trying-out the KNewsKicker. However, when I click on a newsheadline nothing happens. I have explored the File Associations module in the Control Center but have not discovered a solution. How would one fix it so that URLs, when clicked, open in Opera? More information can be supplied if needed. Sincerely, Chris Edwards Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:22 am, you wrote: From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise) On Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:19 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn over the 690MB's. The first 2 images contain data that is around the 693 and 699 MB's. I have mounted the 2 images, and see quite a few things I would never use. I only need to free up a few MB's per CD. How could I go about properly deleting these to bring down the ISO-sizes to burnable sizes? Mount the ISO, copy the files to a temp directory, delete the couple of files, then remake an ISO. But, how would I successfully go about making a bootable CD? Does anyone have any experience with re-creating Distro-CD's? I'm sure I won't be the only one with this problem, so any knowledgeable advice would be great :-) Greetings Ralph I can not access any servers in England and all the other mirrors are still showing the 9/18 rc3 versions on them so it looks like someone is spoofing or English mirrors have an exclusive the URL given earlier is not accessable any more, at least by my machine. We will have to wait another day or two? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 I was able to download the three isos in about 3 hours. I burned them all and installed. I am running Mandrake 9.0 on my box (along with windows). It didn't say anything about rc3 or beta. It looks really good. Unfortunately I am still quite a newbie and don't know everything that I can do with it! Doh!! I do like it, though! Travis Crook Visions Beyond I am so very jealous Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty pissed off with...
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 03:48 pm, you wrote: Barry Michels wrote: I'm trying to do the same thing in my company. I'll never be able to totally convert over to Linux because of the closed-source software we have to run is only available for Windows. But, I've installed a Linux machine as a router (up 83 days and counting). This week, I'm going to convert our old server into a file printer sharing server. Maybe one day I'll be able to replace our Exchange server with something under Linux... Slowly, but surely. Very true. I've had a Linux box in the office which has been tolerated but not exactly appreciated for a few years now (apart from missing MS Word, users are thrown by the fact that they have to - gasp - log in with a password). However, now I've started using it as a printer server and people can actually hit Print and not have to think I wonder if Network Neighborhood is working today, so they're coming round to my point of view. Of course printing was also a bit of a secret weapon as well, since it's a dual boot machine. In the past, people would reboot it into Windows (which I don't mind) and leave it there (which I do, since I also use it as an FTP server) - but of course if they do that now, they stop everyone from printing as well. More positively, I've found that installing Mozilla on the Windows boxes has reassured people a bit about using Linux, and I've even noticed a few people using OpenOffice rather than rebooting and using Word. Small steps, Sparks, small steps. Sir Robin I am sure you know that it ain't no problem to prevent anyone from rebooting or shutting down that you don't want to. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File conversion
On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 10:20 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Make sure the permissions are -rwxr-xr-x (as above), and that the owner and group are root. [root@localhost root]# chown root:root /usr/local/bin/chcase [root@localhost root]# ls -la /usr/local/bin/chcase -rw-r--r--1 root root 3921 Sep 24 15:29 /usr/local/bin/chcase This is not working. I suspect something is overriding the command and changing it back.It seems that it does not matter if I issue the above command , or go to the permissions window for /usr/local/bin/chcase and insert x in the right places. Something removes them. But, [root@localhost root]# cd /root/Desktop/mont (where the .JPG files are stored) [root@localhost mont]# chcase Setuid/gid script is writable by world. [root@localhost mont]# ls -la /usr/local/bin/chcase -rwsrwsrw-1 root root 3921 Sep 24 15:29 /usr/local/bin/chcase* This is Wierd, So lets try again, fresh terminal, [root@localhost root]# chmod 755 chcase chmod: failed to get attributes of `chcase': No such file or directory you don't think maybe it ought to be chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/chcase, so lets try, [root@localhost root]# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/chcase [root@localhost root]# that's better, snip On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 10:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Glad to see you've gotten chcase to run. I still don't know what the problem was -- it looks like a bug in the shell. It looks like you weren't in the /usr/local/bin directory when issuing those commands thats why using the full path worked. Most likely because the file was not originally executable it was not recognised as being in your path? - so it was necessary to give the full path. If it sounds like I'm talking gibberish, never mind. I was trying to point out that its not likely a bug in your shell. Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 09:25 am, you wrote: Dear Tom Tom Brinkman wrote: Since the 'nopentium' bandaid didn't fix it, let's start again Marcia. List the hardware involved, particularly mobo, psu, video, and what Mandrake version, which video drivers are used. Ram vendor, if you know? IIRC, it's Mdk 8.2, with an ECS mobo. Got the model/ revision/bios vendor and numbers? The link for my board is http://www.ecsusa.com/ and my motherboard is the L7VMM. I disabled the onboard lan because even though it worked it was grabbing the same irq as sound. The company sent me a new lan card which helped that it seems. This is an Athlon 1600+ XP with 512MB PC2100 DDR, 266 MHZ SDRAM, I had the cooler master added plus an extra case fan. This is a brand new machine. I have Win95 as a dual boot and Win does not have the problems that my Linux side has. Most of the specs are on the link page. tell me you are not trying to use both SDram and DDR ram at the same time... please tell me that you are only using one or the other. and if you are have you tried memtest86? how much ram does windows see? (win 95 can not see more than 512 megs, and would not boot (if my memory serves me) with more than 512.) A link to their website for the board would be best, and we can try an' figure it all out together. As you only mentioned 'onboard video', which? ...how much system ram does it use? If it's a ready made system, from who ? What was the original installed OS ? Also, while we're at it, what does cat /proc/interrupts cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 246531 XT-PIC timer 1: 3298 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 17745 XT-PIC eth0 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 7262 XT-PIC viaudio 11:154 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci 12: 87498 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 53126 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 ...and lspcidrake lspcidrake unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|CPU-to-PCI Bridge unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] tulip : ADMtek|ADM983 Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Bad:www.linmodems.org: Lucent Microelectronics|56k WinModem unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] unknown : unknown (5333/8d04//) unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Virtual|Hub [] scanner : Hewlett-Packard|ScanJet 4300C [] unknown : Hewlett-Packard|DeskJet 940C [Printer|Printer|Bidirectional] ...and lspci lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11) 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3147 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 23) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 23) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04 say? FWIW, your problem may not be video related at all, but hardware and/ or configuration in general. So, in the meantime, try takin the case cover off and point a table fan into it directed towards the cpu-hs/fan and the mobo's chipset. Does that reduce or eliminate the problem? It would help a lot if you have lm_sensors/gkrellm installed and report some temps under load. Another good report would be if you can run memtest86 overnite without errors (there's an rpm for it on your CD's). I'll warn you upfront tho, it's a hard, often lengthly process for anybody to diagnose hardware problems 'over the phone' (ie, not hands on). There is a temperature and performance utility in the bios. What are lm_sensors/gkrellm? I would gladly install this if needed. Thanks for your help here. I really appreciate your input. Thanks alot. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] amavis
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:34 pm, you wrote: Does anyone know how to edit the alert emails that are sent out in amavis? I have tried to edit the files in the: amavisd-snapshot-20020300/amavis/notify dir, and also the amavisd-snapshot-20020300/amavis/amavisd script itself? thoughts? how did you try to edit them? as what user? and why? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup system
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:31:14 -0700 Schwenk, Jeanie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. The usual Free Software suspect is amanda: http://www.amanda.org/ There are Mandrake packages in contribs, for example: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/ (amanda-client ... and amanda-server ...). If you want something commercial bru (which I used 12 years ago on SunOS!) is the way to go: http://www.tolisgroup.com/ Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?
Sabin, Matthew wrote: My wife and are are designing an I don't do windows line. Would anyone like to know when we're ready to release? Sorry if this seems like an unashamed plug for my own product-to-be, but it seemed to be on topic... Sounds good. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace 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] backup system
Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. Jeanie Depends on what your backup needs are. If they're extensive, run a search on any Linux software site for solutions; if they're simple, just write a little script to do the job using tar. The simplest would just be to tar and zip all home directories, then ftp to another computer or move to a backup device such as a zip drive. The following, for example, would back up all home directories to another machine (assuming you have ncftp installed, which I wholeheartedly recommend - it's far and away my favourite ftp client). tar zcf - /home | ncftpput -c -X /home/me/junk anotherbox.mycompany.com /home/me/backup.tar.gz In this case /home/me/junk is a file listing the types of file that you don't want included (you probably don't want to back up everybody's Netscape cache, for example). See man ncftpput for details. Sir Robin __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. LOL -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace 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
[newbie] Lilo
I've got a Compaq DP 4000 P166 which creates a partition with the software to change any CMOS settings (you push F10). After installing MDK 7.0 with LILO I can't get into the Cmos settings. Is there a way of pointing LILO to this partition. Luckily I still have the stiffy disks to change any settings. Thanks George Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] South Africa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with...
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:00 am, robin scribbled something about: Charlie M. wrote: On Tuesday 24 September 2002 4:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip I know it won't do anything except make me feel better. However this is a copy of an e-mail I sent to the AMD hardware support address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) earlier today with the subject line: AMD, Microsoft, Palladium, and the future. Very nicely put. I suggest you post it, or better, a link to it, widely (/., kuro5hin, general press etc.). OTOH, I'm still considering buying an Athlon chip in the near future. I don't want Intel, so what other choice is there? If you want something widely supported that is based on proven technology, I think AMD is the ONLY choice. I have two dual AMD MP 1900+ boxes that work beautifully. My only regret is not getting SCSI but I'm still not sure if it would make that much of a difference in speed since I don't do anything that is i/o intensive... but it would be nice to have. Anyway, IMO if you have the cash and need a fast machine, go with a dual AMD setup. -Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] backup system
There are literally hundreds of solutions out there ... a quick search at sourceforge is what prompted me to post in hopes of finding a backup utility quickly. Unfortunately many are alpha or beta releases. And it take quite a bit of time to wade through all the hits. Currently we have only one linux machine (sad isn't it, but I am working on it). Today the sysadmin was supposed to install legato's backup system ... then he read the documentation and mandrake-linux is not supported. I've got a big fat tarball on a machine that is backed up so I have that at least. I was hoping to find a backup system that did incremental backup and is preferably client-server. A nice interface would be nice. It's pretty hard to convince windows junkies that a non-gui based piece of software is worth using. Still reading ... Jeanie -Original Message- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] backup system Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. Jeanie Depends on what your backup needs are. If they're extensive, run a search on any Linux software site for solutions; if they're simple, just write a little script to do the job using tar. The simplest would just be to tar and zip all home directories, then ftp to another computer or move to a backup device such as a zip drive. The following, for example, would back up all home directories to another machine (assuming you have ncftp installed, which I wholeheartedly recommend - it's far and away my favourite ftp client). tar zcf - /home | ncftpput -c -X /home/me/junk anotherbox.mycompany.com /home/me/backup.tar.gz In this case /home/me/junk is a file listing the types of file that you don't want included (you probably don't want to back up everybody's Netscape cache, for example). See man ncftpput for details. Sir Robin __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. LOL -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace 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] amavis
I tried to do them with vi, as root. Just to add some more detail for the clients. Thanks Dan -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 25, 2002 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] amavis On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:34 pm, you wrote: Does anyone know how to edit the alert emails that are sent out in amavis? I have tried to edit the files in the: amavisd-snapshot-20020300/amavis/notify dir, and also the amavisd-snapshot-20020300/amavis/amavisd script itself? thoughts? how did you try to edit them? as what user? and why? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Stumped with Galeon KDE.=
I have loaded KDE Galeon alot... but in this recent install I found an extremely strange problem. Galeon, my fave browser, will crash instantly in KDE when i fire it up. Any other WM is just dandy! Any ideas short ofa reinstall of MDK Or Galeon? Tia --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [Newbie] Easy way to have 2 linuces (MDK) running on 2 diff partitions.
I did this a while bank... Loaded MDK all went fine. Loaded another MDK install on a totally separate set of partitions. I thought of sharing /boot for both of the installs. However I ran into a snag that says I don't have enough knowledge to do this. On installing the 2nd MDK, I found i could ONLY boot the silly test OS, the 2nd MDK install. The first one was not possible to boot. Is there a simple way to do this? Thx. --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stumped with Galeon KDE.=
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 03:13 pm, FemmeFatale scribbled something about: I have loaded KDE Galeon alot... but in this recent install I found an extremely strange problem. Galeon, my fave browser, will crash instantly in KDE when i fire it up. Any other WM is just dandy! If you start it on the command line, do you get any error messages when it crashes? What version of Galeon and KDE are you using? -Gary Any ideas short ofa reinstall of MDK Or Galeon? Tia --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disturbing chkrootkit results
On Thursday 26 Sep 2002 7:31 am, Ryan wrote: I recently ran chkrootkit on my system for the first time and got some disturbing results. Specifically the lines: Checking `ifconfig'... INFECTED Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... Possible t0rn v8 (or variation) rootkit installed Searching for Showtee... Warning: Possible Showtee Rootkit installed -- The t0rn v8 seems to flag off libproc.a, the Showtee is flagging off proc.h and file.h in /usr/include libproc.a seems to come out of the procps-2.0.7-9mdk rpm so I'm assuming the t0rn v8 flag is a false positive. I don't know what the two header files are or where they came from. Finally, the ifconfig check seems to be if the string /dev/tux is in ifconfig, but I don't see it... I'm not sure why its triggering Doing a ./strings -a /sbin/ifconfig | grep -i dev/tux manually doesn't return anything. Clues thoughts comments? I'm using ML8.1 and have procps-2.0.7-9mdk installed. Your mail prompted me to download and install chkrootkit-0.35-1mdk to try it out. My check resulted in nothing infected but I notice that whatever the t0rn entries refer to were not found (shown below) [quote] Checking `ifconfig'... not infected Searching for t0rn's default files and dirs... nothing found Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... nothing found [/quote] In addition my results make no reference to searching for Showteeso I guessed I was using a different version of chrootkit. I uninstalled the chkrootkit rpm and downloaded and installed the tarball from http://www.chkrootkit.org/ (after checking the MD5SUM). Results were again clear but this time it searched for Showtee with nothing found. I'm not sure how you should go about further investigation of your results - perhaps look them up at an antivirus website and go from there? Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?
I would like to suggest that as you start this idea, as well as making sure you are stepping on anyones trademark or copyright, that you create a mailing list server (sympa or majordomo) and add my name to the list of folks who want to see the stuff and maybe purchase some. I have a wonderfull reason to have some more linux wear. When I got my first Mandrake shirt, I had it on and went to BestBuy, and had a couple of strippers come up to me and press a business card into my hand, and asked if I might know how to set up a webcam, since you (I) know linux, and that is the stuff the internet runs on, right?. the one time in my life I ever brought both my wife and daughter with me to look at computer stuff. luckly they were off looking at washers and driers, but my wife was returning just as they gave me the card. she was not to keen on the idea of me setting up a computer and webcam for them, so I never called back, but damn if it wasn't about the only time that a stripper was willing to pay ME. Damn good thing my wife trusts me (somewhat). On Wednesday 25 September 2002 02:39 pm, you wrote: My wife and are are designing an I don't do windows line. Would anyone like to know when we're ready to release? Sorry if this seems like an unashamed plug for my own product-to-be, but it seemed to be on topic... --Matthew -Original Message- From: Jim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing? Another source for Linux apperal (although I don't think they have anything Mandrake specific) would be thinkgeek.com -Original Message- From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:19:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing? On Tuesday 24 September 2002 05:46 pm, you wrote: I've looked all over and I haven't found anything that really catches my eye or has a catchy slogan or phrase. With all of the activity creating themes and everything else to personalize linux the way we want, I thought it would be easy to find tshirts that show my love for linux when I'm out and about... but no such luck. Thus I ask for your assistance in helping me track down some snazzy t's. I'd like t's that have something to do with Mandrake, Linux in general, anti-MS, or something along those lines. I currently have a Debian swirl shirt that I bought way back when I played around with Debian but it's getting a little faded (and I haven't used Debian in quite some time). TIA for your help!! Gary you have, of course, checked the nice tee shirts and hats at the mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:38, et wrote: and went to BestBuy, and had a couple of strippers come up to me and press a business card into my hand, and asked if I might know how to set up a webcam, since you (I) know linux, and that is the stuff the internet runs on, ahem, do you still have that business card? my wife is a linux user, too, we could both help with setup. :-0 -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Easy way to have 2 linuces (MDK) running on 2 diff partitions.
On Thursday 26 Sep 2002 10:18 am, FemmeFatale wrote: I did this a while bank... Loaded MDK all went fine. Loaded another MDK install on a totally separate set of partitions. I thought of sharing /boot for both of the installs. However I ran into a snag that says I don't have enough knowledge to do this. On installing the 2nd MDK, I found i could ONLY boot the silly test OS, the 2nd MDK install. The first one was not possible to boot. Is there a simple way to do this? Your 2nd install must have overwritten the original LILO so I guess all you have to do is add the entry for your first installation to /etc/lilo.conf in your 2nd MDK. Just look for the correct vmlinuz in /boot and don't forget to run lilo after making the changes. BTW this is assuming you didn't format the /boot partn during your 2nd installation. Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] backup system
Might I suggest you take a look at Mondoarchive? Check out the website at http://www.mondorescue.com. With it, you can run differential backups as well as incremental. Rick On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:45, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: There are literally hundreds of solutions out there ... a quick search at sourceforge is what prompted me to post in hopes of finding a backup utility quickly. Unfortunately many are alpha or beta releases. And it take quite a bit of time to wade through all the hits. Currently we have only one linux machine (sad isn't it, but I am working on it). Today the sysadmin was supposed to install legato's backup system ... then he read the documentation and mandrake-linux is not supported. I've got a big fat tarball on a machine that is backed up so I have that at least. I was hoping to find a backup system that did incremental backup and is preferably client-server. A nice interface would be nice. It's pretty hard to convince windows junkies that a non-gui based piece of software is worth using. Still reading ... Jeanie -Original Message- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] backup system Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. Jeanie Depends on what your backup needs are. If they're extensive, run a search on any Linux software site for solutions; if they're simple, just write a little script to do the job using tar. The simplest would just be to tar and zip all home directories, then ftp to another computer or move to a backup device such as a zip drive. The following, for example, would back up all home directories to another machine (assuming you have ncftp installed, which I wholeheartedly recommend - it's far and away my favourite ftp client). tar zcf - /home | ncftpput -c -X /home/me/junk anotherbox.mycompany.com /home/me/backup.tar.gz In this case /home/me/junk is a file listing the types of file that you don't want included (you probably don't want to back up everybody's Netscape cache, for example). See man ncftpput for details. Sir Robin __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. LOL -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes
On Wednesday September 25 2002 08:25 am, Marcia wrote: Dear Tom Tom Brinkman wrote: Since the 'nopentium' bandaid didn't fix it, let's start again Marcia. List the hardware involved, particularly mobo, psu, video, and what Mandrake version, which video drivers are used. Ram vendor, if you know? IIRC, it's Mdk 8.2, with an ECS mobo. Got the model/ revision/bios vendor and numbers? The link for my board is http://www.ecsusa.com/ and my motherboard is the L7VMM. AMD apprv'd for your 1600+, unfortuntely, I have no experience with these new mico-boards (an i'm not an ECS fan). The lastest bios is 1.0a http://www.ecsusa.com/ecsusa/www.ecs.com.tw/download/l7vmm.htm 1. Remove CPU warning temp item in BIOS setup The ITE8705 chipset use the same high and low limit for CPU warning temp CPU shutdown temp 2. To fix Hynix 128M X 2 or Samsung 128M X 2 system will auto-restart when running either fix could be pertinent to your crash problem, so update if you don't already have 1.0a. Both are worrisome in that they deal with auto shutdowns (crashes), one for temp, the other for ram. I disabled the onboard lan because even though it worked it was grabbing the same irq as sound. The company sent me a new lan card which helped that it seems. This is an Athlon 1600+ XP with 512MB PC2100 DDR, 266 MHZ SDRAM, Yes, but who makes the ram. Two important points, the actual ram chips and the pcb (board) implemetation of the chips. IOW's Micron chips (good) on a generic pcb (bad) ... well two wrongs don't make a right ; Look in bios and see what the ram timings are. The most lenient are CAS 3-3-3, and if there's a setting for 'bank interleaving', disable it. At least till we tryin get your crash problem solved, go for lenient. 2-2-2 and 4-bank are the optimum, but only good ram on a good mobo with a good PSU can do it. Also it's 133 Mhz x2 ram. (the x2, and DDR are mostly maketing talk) Probly now's a good time to run the machine overnite booting to memtest86. Look on your CD's, or use SoftwareManager, you should find somethin like memtest86-3.0-2mdk . Install that rpm, it'll add a memtest86 boot option to lilo (or grub). When you re-boot, choose this option and let the tests run overnite. Plan B, if your machine doesn't like booting this option, then look in /boot. After installin the memtest rpm you'll see a file like memtest-3.0.bin. So put in a good floppy and type 'dd if=/boot/memtest-3.0.bin of=/dev/fd0' (caution your memtest version is probly differnet than mine). That'll make an memtest86 floppy you can boot from. Just choose 'floppy' from lilo. If you can't run memtest86 overnite with -0- errors, then we probly have found the problem ... the ram, or how well your motherboards gets along with it, or both. Could still be PSU tho. I had the cooler master added plus an extra case fan. This is a brand new machine. I have Win95 as a dual boot and Win does not have the problems that my Linux side has. Win9.x -- WinXP tolerates sloppy (win)hardware, actually encourages it IMO. Most all CoolerMaster hs/fans are AMD appr'vd, so we probly don't need to look there. I'd advise you tho, that it's probly usin a thermal pad to contact the cpu's die, and this will deteriorate over time, might even fail. Thermal grease is much better, now and later. cat /proc/interrupts | 11:154 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci What USB devices do you have? Appears two are sharing IRQ11 or it's possibly a double entry. Everything else looked good. There is a temperature and performance utility in the bios. What are lm_sensors/gkrellm? I would gladly install this if needed. Most common causes of random, occaisional lockups and reboots are faulty ram, or overheating. Even a lot of Windoze problems get blamed on M$, when these two culprits are really at fault (specially Winsux Registry errors). The temp you see in bios is really only good for verifying that you have hardware support for temp, voltage, fan monitoring. When you see this temp the system is not under load, and usually is comin from a cool state. Specially if it's been off for more'n just a few seconds. Processor core temp is _very_ dynamic. Also there's only a very few current mobo's that can really access AthlonXP internal diode core temps (Asus, Gigabyte). All other boards, including yours an' mine, measure the temp from an external probe. 'Bout like tryin to see if the electric wires inside a wall are too hot, by holding your hand against the sheetrock. Still it's somethin to go by. Figure your cpu core temp is 10 to 20C hotter than the probe reports tho. So we need lm_sensors. It's on your CD's, install liblm_sensors1-2.6.4-4mdk lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk ...or just type 'lm-sensors' into SoftwareManager. We won't fool with gkrellm just yet. After the rpms are installed, su to root and run 'sensors-detect'. All the default answers to
[newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
Guys! 9.0 is released. ( well you probably know this already ;oP ) but since the servers are pretty much jammed right now, how about this idea i read about in a comment in PcLinuxOnline: Any chance someone could put this up on edonkey, or other service which allows multisource transfers? how about it? i, for one, would pretty much apreciate it!! ( besides i do think it's a great idea ) ;o) thanks! Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:38:07 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: I would like to suggest that as you start this idea, as well as making sure you are stepping on anyones trademark or copyright, that you create a mailing list server (sympa or majordomo) and add my name to the list of folks who want to see the stuff and maybe purchase some. I have a wonderfull reason to have some more linux wear. When I got my first Mandrake shirt, I had it on and went to BestBuy, and had a couple of strippers come up to me and press a business card into my hand, and asked if I might know how to set up a webcam, since you (I) know linux, and that is the stuff the internet runs on, right?. the one time in my life I ever brought both my wife and daughter with me to look at computer stuff. luckly they were off looking at washers and driers, but my wife was returning just as they gave me the card. she was not to keen on the idea of me setting up a computer and webcam for them, so I never called back, but damn if it wasn't about the only time that a stripper was willing to pay ME. Damn good thing my wife trusts me (somewhat). I HATE when that happens!! ;) Mike -- Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. - Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gtk Errors
try wiping out /tmp Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Easy way to have 2 linuces (MDK) runningon 2 diff partitions.
s wrote: I feel the urge to show off. Anyone want to see mine as an example of multiboot? -s Now lets see someone top that! -- Mike McNeese currently triple booting win98lite Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 and testing 9.0 beta 3 - 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] Constant computer crashes
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:25 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday September 25 2002 08:25 am, Marcia wrote: Dear Tom Tom Brinkman wrote: Since the 'nopentium' bandaid didn't fix it, let's start again Marcia. List the hardware involved, particularly mobo, psu, video, and what Mandrake version, which video drivers are used. Ram vendor, if you know? IIRC, it's Mdk 8.2, with an ECS mobo. Got the model/ revision/bios vendor and numbers? The link for my board is http://www.ecsusa.com/ and my motherboard is the L7VMM. AMD apprv'd for your 1600+, unfortuntely, I have no experience with these new mico-boards (an i'm not an ECS fan). The lastest bios is 1.0a http://www.ecsusa.com/ecsusa/www.ecs.com.tw/download/l7vmm.htm 1. Remove CPU warning temp item in BIOS setup The ITE8705 chipset use the same high and low limit for CPU warning temp CPU shutdown temp 2. To fix Hynix 128M X 2 or Samsung 128M X 2 system will auto-restart when running either fix could be pertinent to your crash problem, so update if you don't already have 1.0a. Both are worrisome in that they deal with auto shutdowns (crashes), one for temp, the other for ram. I will update the bios then for starters. I have never done this so what is the procedure for doing this? I disabled the onboard lan because even though it worked it was grabbing the same irq as sound. The company sent me a new lan card which helped that it seems. This is an Athlon 1600+ XP with 512MB PC2100 DDR, 266 MHZ SDRAM, Yes, but who makes the ram. Two important points, the actual ram chips and the pcb (board) implemetation of the chips. IOW's Micron chips (good) on a generic pcb (bad) ... well two wrongs don't make a right ; Look in bios and see what the ram timings are. The most lenient are CAS 3-3-3, and if there's a setting for 'bank interleaving', disable it. At least till we tryin get your crash problem solved, go for lenient. 2-2-2 and 4-bank are the optimum, but only good ram on a good mobo with a good PSU can do it. Also it's 133 Mhz x2 ram. (the x2, and DDR are mostly maketing talk) Probly now's a good time to run the machine overnite booting to memtest86. Look on your CD's, or use SoftwareManager, you should find somethin like memtest86-3.0-2mdk . Install that rpm, it'll add a memtest86 boot option to lilo (or grub). When you re-boot, choose this option and let the tests run overnite. Plan B, if your machine doesn't like booting this option, then look in /boot. After installin the memtest rpm you'll see a file like memtest-3.0.bin. So put in a good floppy and type 'dd if=/boot/memtest-3.0.bin of=/dev/fd0' (caution your memtest version is probly differnet than mine). That'll make an memtest86 floppy you can boot from. Just choose 'floppy' from lilo. If you can't run memtest86 overnite with -0- errors, then we probly have found the problem ... the ram, or how well your motherboards gets along with it, or both. Could still be PSU tho. I had the cooler master added plus an extra case fan. This is a brand new machine. I have Win95 as a dual boot and Win does not have the problems that my Linux side has. Win9.x -- WinXP tolerates sloppy (win)hardware, actually encourages it IMO. Most all CoolerMaster hs/fans are AMD appr'vd, so we probly don't need to look there. I'd advise you tho, that it's probly usin a thermal pad to contact the cpu's die, and this will deteriorate over time, might even fail. Thermal grease is much better, now and later. cat /proc/interrupts 11:154 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci What USB devices do you have? Appears two are sharing IRQ11 or it's possibly a double entry. Everything else looked good. I have a usb HP 4300 scanjet scanner and a HP 940c usb printer. There is a temperature and performance utility in the bios. What are lm_sensors/gkrellm? I would gladly install this if needed. Most common causes of random, occaisional lockups and reboots are faulty ram, or overheating. Even a lot of Windoze problems get blamed on M$, when these two culprits are really at fault (specially Winsux Registry errors). The temp you see in bios is really only good for verifying that you have hardware support for temp, voltage, fan monitoring. When you see this temp the system is not under load, and usually is comin from a cool state. Specially if it's been off for more'n just a few seconds. Processor core temp is _very_ dynamic. Also there's only a very few current mobo's that can really access AthlonXP internal diode core temps (Asus, Gigabyte). All other boards, including yours an' mine, measure the temp from an external probe. 'Bout like tryin to see if the electric wires inside a wall are too hot, by holding your hand against the sheetrock. Still it's somethin to go by. Figure your cpu core temp is 10 to 20C hotter than the probe reports tho. So we need lm_sensors. It's on your
Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 06:55 pm, Marcia wrote: I will update the bios then for starters. I have never done this so what is Be careful. This is something messed up by even advanced users. What we typically do for this at work is to write a DOS floppy and then write an autoexec.bat with the `flash BIOSname` command in there, replace flash with the exe file given to you, and the BIOSname replaced by the ROM or BIN file they give you... I'm sure google can do better at an explanation than I can... At work, we actually have to have a machine dedicated to this (the only one with Windows installed)... B Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Change browser startup page
Hello I am trying to change the webpage that Konqueror starts up with. I would like to start the browser and go directly to www.google.com. Presently, it sends me to a Mandrake html page stored on my computer. I'm sure this is possible but I cannot figure out how to do it. Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Easy way to have 2 linuces (MDK) runningon 2 diff partitions.
On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:52 pm, mike wrote: s wrote: I feel the urge to show off. Anyone want to see mine as an example of multiboot? -s Now lets see someone top that! it used to be worse than that not too long ago until I trimmed it (and /boot) down to one kernel per install. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi list?
Is there a way to display available packages in/with uprmi? thnx, -srlinuxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [expert] re: mandrake.com closed incident #30224
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 09:03 am, you wrote: RE: Hp Colorado drives and errors reading data on Mardrake 8.0 x86 2.4.3 kernel. this problem is already solved? By following this link: http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/showarchive.php?arc=30224 you will find a description of an often reported problem with reading data from HP Colorado/Travan type magnetic tape drives. this incident is closed however the solution is not described therein (is this on purpose?). anyway the last entry is: == Nickrgv : 30/08 06:35 : More info provided This worked perfectly. Just the lilo.conf and rc.local to edit and everything looks good. Many thanks, you are indeed an expert! Cheers Nick == this is also my problem. what is the solution? regards, shane P.S. two follow on questions: 1. my HP Colorado 20GB is an IDE drive. why does mt status report it as SCSI2? scsi2? or scsi? many IDE devices have to be scsi emulated and editing lilo's append statement is one way to pass that info and the specs to the Kernel, like how a cdwriter is scsi emulated. remember to rerun /sbin/lilo after you edit lilo. I am not sure about the scsi2 tho. maybe an entire different ball of wax. I am guessing that based on the Just the lilo.conf and rc.local to edit statement. rc.local is short for /etc/rc.d/rc.local a text file many folks consider to be somewhat like autoexec.bat in a DOS computer, that is, the last file called as the computer is booting up. this is where I would put any command line that I wanted to be run after most every driver (module) is loaded, but before XFree86 starts. 2. i can only write (and read with error) to /dev/nht0. if i use /dev/ht0 an error is reported as if there's no such thing. why? what is the error? (see note below) if it reported there was no such thing, chances are either there is no such thing, or the user does not have permission to see the thing. a soft link could do it for you (I believe) if you really _need_ a /dev/ht0. NOTE below; unlike some of our experiences with other OSs, the error messages in GNU-linux very often contain information that may be of some help in troubleshooting the malfunction, so an exact copy of the error message is often a big help in diagnostics. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
