Re: [newbie-it] a un passo dalla soluzione...
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:24:35 +0200 Subject : [newbie-it] a un passo dalla soluzione... Salve... ;-) Devo fare un trova e sustituisci su un paio di file lunghetti (e mi rifiuto di fare il lavoro a mano!) in formato txt. Il problema e' questo: il carattere che voglio ottenere alla fine e' quello non stampabile di tabulazione. Come cavolo lo faccio capire al programma (ho provato quattro editor di testi diversi, senza risolvere nulla)? Ovviamente se sulla riga del sostituisci metto il tab il cursore si sposta, e so che c'e' modo corretto dando un'altra combinazione di tasti, o una sequenza di caratteri particolare. Ma non so quali... Gia' che ci sono: devo togliere degli invio, sono tutti preceduti da un =. Col trova e sostituisci, come dico di cancellare l'=invio? -- Arwan Credo che tu lo possa fare con il comando tr. Saluti Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.libero.it/mlodirizzini (o_ Membro del FoLUG //\ Forlì Linux Users Group V_/_ http://folug.linux.it Linux Mandrake 8.2 su Celeron 733
[newbie-it] nuovo arrivato ... con problemi di scanner
salve a tutti, sono appena entrato nel mondo di linux e i problemi da risolvere non mi mancano! In particolare ho istallato mdk 8.1 e la vesrione presente di sane (1.0.5) non riconosce ancora il mio scanner USB (MUSTEK 1200). Ho visto pero' che è supportato dalla versione 1.0.7 e ho provato ad istallarla (partendo dai files .tar.gz): mi escono pero' diversi messaggi di warning relativi a collegamenti a librerie e quando cerco di configurare il frontends mi dice che non triova le librerie. Ho provato a seguire qualche consiglio su modifiche a file di configurazione (come riportato nelle istruzioni) ma senza successo. Che faccio? mi devo procurare mdk 8.2? vi ringrazio per l'aiuto -- pigi === Versione LINUX installata: MDK 8.1 - kernel 2.4.8-26mdk versione KDE: 2.2.1 Processore:Intel Celeron (coppermine) 778MHz - cache 128 kB MotherBoard: Super - VIA Apollo PRO133T (VT82C694T) Chipset RAM: 128 MB HardDisk /hda: MAXTOR 20GB (con inst. win98) HardDisk /hdb: SAMSUNG 8GB (con inst. LINUX) CD/masterizz.: SONY CD-RW CRX 140E
[newbie-it] Pezza nel kernel per SM56 ?
Salve a tutti. Ok ho capito che se ho un modem motorola sm56 interno oltre a un certo kernel 2.4.x non ci sono i driver aggiornati... Infatti ho provato a installarlo sia su una mdk8.1 che su una 8.2 ma non c'è verso di farlo andare... Allora sono tornato alla altrettanto buona mdk8.0 e qui nessun problema. Quello che chiedo è : E' possibile installare per esempio la mdk8.2 o addirittura la 9.0 e poi mettere una pezza nel kernel? Cioè fargli vedere quei fatidici link ai simboli che funzionano solo nella mdk8.0? (scusate se ho le idee un po' confuse...ma sono un newbie :) ) Qualcuno può darmi un'idea? O un punto da cui partire? E' chiaro che voglio tenere quel modem...e non comprarne un altro :) anche se sarebbe tutto più semplice... Scusate se mi sono dilungato troppo! Grazie! Ciao!
[newbie-it] Mplayer
Ho installato la nuova versione di MDK9 e sto cercando di vedere come va... finalmente viene riconosciuta la porta USB2 per il mio scanner... ma non riesco a far funzionare un player per il files .AVI. Ho scaricato e compilato mplayer ( dopo aver installato xanim ) ma riesco a sentire solo l'audio e nessuna immagine . Ho provato con gli rpm ma mi compare messaggio di errore di KDE. Sarei felice se qualcuno mi aiutasse. Ciao, Francesco
[newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?
Too many problems. 1) I use a MS Intelli-mouse and just like in 8.2 if I select a wheel mouse the cursor goes nuts. 2) Whether I select cable or network my browser won't work. If I start with 2 nics and later try to reconfig with just one in the box it still won't access the internet. 3) While using Mandrake Control Center 9.0 to reconfig the network I notice I can change the monitor from generic to exactly what I have, a Princeton Ultra 92. After I set it as that the Xserver crashes. And I don't know what will happen next. I'm sorry to say this but I'm either going back to RH 7.3 or wait until I can get RH 8.0 and give that a try. I used to love Mandrake. Everything (sound and internet connectivity) just seemed to work right after installation. I suppose I should have downloaded one of the Betas and complained then. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cablemodem.
mån 2002-09-30 klockan 05.59 skrev Mark Berkwitt: I know this should be so simple, but Mandrake just doesn't get it. eth0 using tulip is connected to my cable modem. I have it set to dhcp as it should. On installation I have 2 nics. eth1 is for a nic I plan to use in the future, but it's not connected for now. During install I specified to use eth0 with a 'cable' connection. I gave mandrake some bogus host name mypc.myserver.me.com just to move on. There is no reason this didn't config itself. I only have one eth0, but it is also a tulip and connected to a cable modem. However, I haven't set it up using cable but lan. Works fine. Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cablemodem.
Then you chose the 'network' option when mandrake install asked for you to cofigure eth0? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bo Rosén Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 11:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cablemodem. mån 2002-09-30 klockan 05.59 skrev Mark Berkwitt: I know this should be so simple, but Mandrake just doesn't get it. eth0 using tulip is connected to my cable modem. I have it set to dhcp as it should. On installation I have 2 nics. eth1 is for a nic I plan to use in the future, but it's not connected for now. During install I specified to use eth0 with a 'cable' connection. I gave mandrake some bogus host name mypc.myserver.me.com just to move on. There is no reason this didn't config itself. I only have one eth0, but it is also a tulip and connected to a cable modem. However, I haven't set it up using cable but lan. Works fine. Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On 29 Sep 2002, Bo [ISO-8859-1] Rosén wrote: sön 2002-09-29 klockan 02.55 skrev Eric S. Dye: I am using Mozilla browser, which I assume is a derivative of Netscape. The other way aound is closer to the facts, I suppose. Netscape 6.x is based on the open source Mozilla 1.x. I am unable to get any sound when I open up web pages. I have downloaded flashplayer, but can't seem to get it functioning. Can someone tell me Mozilla doesn't use the same plugin directory as Netscape. Copy the two flash files (libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class) to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins/ and it should work. actually, i would use 'ln -s [target] [link]' to create a symoblic link instead. there is no since in wasting space on the drive. if it is still not working make sure that sound is properly configured on your machine using sndconfig. Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cablemodem.
mån 2002-09-30 klockan 08.35 skrev Mark Berkwitt: Then you chose the 'network' option when mandrake install asked for you to cofigure eth0? Eh, not sure, probably. I do remember it said lan though, but I used the installer in Swedish and don't know what minor differences in wording there may be. You can always go the mandrake control center and change the eth setup. Sorry, wish I could be more helpful. Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
Hi, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. Sridhar wrote this in August: On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:12:43 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ext2 partitions are now ext3 - I couldn't fathom the Control Centre route, but the command line couldn't have been simpler. For future reference - i.e. when I move on to Mandrake 9 - I get the impression that there are a number of problems with some of the file systems, with Reiser being probably the least problem. Is this right? I am not aware of any problems with Mandrake 9.0 specifically. I have read that XFS doesn't like certain kernel optimisations like preempt and low-latency, but Mandrake won't be including those anyway. I like to compile my own kernels with these patches included (they can make a big difference to system performance), so I avoid XFS. Otherwise, XFS appears to be a very reliable and fast filesystem. For most normal operations, ext3 is the slowest, even with only metadata journalling enabled (unlike the other journalling FSs, ext3 can journal _all_ of your data, which is safer but much slower). Its strengths are in database transaction speeds and its forward and backward compatibility with ext2. I personally think ReiserFS is the best for home systems. It is reasonably fast, being exceptionally speedy with small (sub-100K) files. It has had problems in the past, but they seem to have been ironed out in the more recent releases. JFS is very space-inefficient (each file takes about double the space), but is arguably the fastest FS. It also has problems with fragmentation, so you need to periodically defrag it (just like with Windows and FAT/NTFS). Of these filesystems, ReiserFS is probably the most complex (using features like B-trees, etc.). It is also the only journalling FS that has been designed from scratch, the others being the continuation of preexisting FSs. Nevertheless, it has proven to be quite robust in actual use, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] no sound in MDK9.0 with ESS1688 ISA card
I have an old ISA ESS1688-based sound card. That same audio card worked fine in MDK8.2. After MDK9.0 installations, I see that: - kernel detects an ISA PnP card, but does not seem to load the sound modules (at least, I do no see any specific message in /var/log/info or warnings) - there is no /dev/sound directory - Mandrake Control Center does not display any sound card. Any suggestions for what to look for? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound in MDK9.0 with ESS1688 ISA card
On Monday 30 September 2002 03:38 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have an old ISA ESS1688-based sound card. That same audio card worked fine in MDK8.2. After MDK9.0 installations, I see that: - kernel detects an ISA PnP card, but does not seem to load the sound modules (at least, I do no see any specific message in /var/log/info or warnings) - there is no /dev/sound directory - Mandrake Control Center does not display any sound card. Any suggestions for what to look for? thanks, raffaele If sndconfig is not installed, then install it and just run sndconfig. I just did a from scratch Mandrake 9 install and that's what I wound up doing. Cheers, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Monday, September 30, 2002 Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] msec question
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:10, shane wrote: On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:10 pm, Mohammed Sameer did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I've been using wvdial on my LM8.1 box to connect to my ISP. I've not been able to get a normal user account to be able to use wvdial. I keep on getting the error message Device or resource busy. I can use it fine if I su to root first. I've tried setting the permissions of the device to rwxrwxrwx, but the permissions always are changed to rwxr-xr-x when i use wvdial. I am pretty sure that msec is changing the permissions of the device when pppd is started. Any idea what changes I need to make to get wvdial to work for a normal user? for me, i just chmod +s /usr/bin/wvdial but that's the most stupid solution!!! and a very insecure thing you could always learn msec, and tell it to leave the permissions, but that would require some reading up at the mandrake site and finding all the files and such... msec is Customisable:- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/prog-msec.html This is for 8.2 but 8.1 isn't significantly different. Probably pay to print the whole chapter. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 16:44:40 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ordered the 9.0 Power Pack the other night, when it comes in what is the best way to upgrade? Install over the old 8.2 or backup my /home partition, clean off the drive, install 9.0 and then restore my home partiton. Also, does anyone know if 9.0 supports the HP Scanjet 4400c or will I still have to keep my windows drive active for scanning. Wipe completely then reinstall - backward compatibility of configurations is not a strong point when people upgrade their packages, and I had a number of glitches when I didn't wipe (particularly with Mozilla). On the scanner, it appears not, unless the 4100 beta sane driver happens to work with the 4400: http://www.mostang.com/sane/ Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] burning ISOs
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:57, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have attempted to burn the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs several times. In all occasions, the CD was not readable on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. The CD did, however, work on my desktop. When I put the CD in the laptop tray, it seeks for approximately 15 seconds before giving up. I have tried different CD media. I have tried using Gtoaster and cdrecord. I have tried changing the writing speed. I have tried using the -dao option in cdrecord. But nothing seems to make these CDs readable on my laptop. Please help. Hey, my neighbour has a DVD that will not read anything burned... only pressed. Perhaps your laptop CD has the same problem. Suggestion, borrow a cd burned by another writer and test it, even if you have to take it to a shop. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:24:14 -0700 Mark Berkwitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too many problems. 1) I use a MS Intelli-mouse and just like in 8.2 if I select a wheel mouse the cursor goes nuts. 2) Whether I select cable or network my browser won't work. If I start with 2 nics and later try to reconfig with just one in the box it still won't access the internet. 3) While using Mandrake Control Center 9.0 to reconfig the network I notice I can change the monitor from generic to exactly what I have, a Princeton Ultra 92. After I set it as that the Xserver crashes. And I don't know what will happen next. I'm sorry to say this but I'm either going back to RH 7.3 or wait until I can get RH 8.0 and give that a try. I used to love Mandrake. Everything (sound and internet connectivity) just seemed to work right after installation. I suppose I should have downloaded one of the Betas and complained then. On 1 I feel you used the standard (not expert) install. For some reason mice are tricky to auto-detect, and the expert install allows you to select a type and then test it*. Given that there's a problem, I also suggest you use the USB to PS/2 converter to plug the mouse into the PS/2 port; there were some oddities with USB mice in the beta testing. (Methinks this test should be included in the standard install; I suggested it was, but it didn't happen). Can't help with 2. On 3, you can use xf86config to set the monitor back to a generic default. Is anything added by using a non-generic setting? (Not here - 'flat panel 1280x1024' does the job although there are loads of iiyama-specific settings). Alastair * interestingly, the test results in moving the pointer round a box and the 'cursor going nuts' for a few seconds until it behaves itself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xtra cd's in powerpack?
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 05:13, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:43:02 +0500 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there all, Could anyone tell me what is on the xtra 4 cd's that comprise the powerpack edition, as compared to the standard or download editions...besides StarOffice 6? I don't need to know every package, but what is the bulk of the cd's taken up with? Is it things that a newbie like me would have need of? I can't decide if I need the 7 cd version or the standard. I'm on a dialup, so if the xtra cd's will provide packages that I may use, it would be worth the $'s to get them on cd, rather than enduring long downloads. Also, is the user manual in the powerpack the same as what is provided in the installed documentation from Mdk? Help please. TIA. I think you're asking about things which haven't yet been decided :) But I'd imagine: - the user manuals are essentially bound copies of the PDFs provided; - the extra CDs contain a combination of a snapshot of contribs (GPL packages constructed and contributed by the various Mandrake packagers in their spare time - definitely worth getting as there's a huge variety of stuff being built up); non-GPL, non-legally-dodgy freely distributable or specially licenced packages like Acrobat Reader, Flash, RealAudio, SO6, the various Java environments, drivers and so on (again very useful); commercial demos, currently available to Mandrake Club members (less useful, but you never know); other things up the Mandrake sleeve (TBD). Alastair I do know that full lists of packages on 8.2 were floated on the net (Mandrakes site) and the link given in this forum. They were given during the debate on missing packages for comparison purposes. Search archives to find the link for a ballpark idea (and possibly a newer list of 9.0) or hold your breath until the new CD owners tell you. Cant help much more, sorry. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
Wow, I'm being quoted :) I should elaborate a little upon what I wrote in August (quoted below). As I noted before, ReiserFS is very reliable. I believe SuSE use it by default. Just be sure to mount it with the notail parameter if you want to use it for /boot or if you want maximum performance at the expense of a little space efficiency (but ReiserFS would still be just as efficient as ext3 or XFS). XFS is better for large files, since it was originally developed by SGI for multimedia processing. Ext3 is better for mission-critical environments (if you use full data journalling) if speed isn't too important, and its database speeds aren't too bad either. On my main system, I use ext3 for /boot and /, and ReiserFS for /usr, /tmp, and /var. Ext3 and ReiserFS can be resized both positively and negatively, which makes them great candidates for EVMS (which is like software RAID and LVM combined, but better). On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:36:41 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. Sridhar wrote this in August: On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:12:43 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ext2 partitions are now ext3 - I couldn't fathom the Control Centre route, but the command line couldn't have been simpler. For future reference - i.e. when I move on to Mandrake 9 - I get the impression that there are a number of problems with some of the file systems, with Reiser being probably the least problem. Is this right? I am not aware of any problems with Mandrake 9.0 specifically. I have read that XFS doesn't like certain kernel optimisations like preempt and low-latency, but Mandrake won't be including those anyway. I like to compile my own kernels with these patches included (they can make a big difference to system performance), so I avoid XFS. Otherwise, XFS appears to be a very reliable and fast filesystem. For most normal operations, ext3 is the slowest, even with only metadata journalling enabled (unlike the other journalling FSs, ext3 can journal_all_ of your data, which is safer but much slower). Its strengths are in database transaction speeds and its forward and backward compatibility with ext2. I personally think ReiserFS is the best for home systems. It is reasonably fast, being exceptionally speedy with small (sub-100K) files. It has had problems in the past, but they seem to have been ironed out in the more recent releases. JFS is very space-inefficient (each file takes about double the space), but is arguably the fastest FS. It also has problems with fragmentation, so you need to periodically defrag it (just like with Windows and FAT/NTFS). Of these filesystems, ReiserFS is probably the most complex (using features like B-trees, etc.). It is also the only journalling FS that has been designed from scratch, the others being the continuation of preexisting FSs. Nevertheless, it has proven to be quite robust in actual use, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. -- HTH Roman -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Recently I bought Office XP. It was quite unpleasant feeling giving so much money for so buggy product. ... Solution: Uninstall Office XP and Windows. -- Georgi Guninski, security expert, http://www.guninski.com, 2001-07-12 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install freeze
It is possible that you have hardware failure. Any time someone tells me that they had a system that was working fine, than it stops doing so for no apparent reason, I suspect hardware failure (that is, if I am sure that the *problem* developed without accidental or purposeful human intervention) ;-) Probable hardware failures: 1) Bad or weak memory chip(s). 2) Hard drive has developed bad spots and/or is shows signs of beginning to fail. 3) Video card RAM memory failing or weak. 4) On-board cache failing or weak. These are the most common possibilities when everything else is not it. By this I mean you have not done something to change the system's hardware configuration recently or have not done anything to it to cause a change in the way it was before the problem occurred. There are other possible reasons for your sudden inability to run an earlier distribution, and then not be able to get beyond a certain point in the installation of a newer one, but these are the most common ones under the circumstances you mentioned. More information on your part would give better probable caused and solutions... T The Antiwesley wrote: I just joined the group in the hopes that someone will have an answer for me... I'm installing 9.0 and every time I try, it freezes somewhere in the install process, just before it's time to pick out my root password. It's done this 10 or so times, from everywhere from 15 minutes to 10 seconds complete. I had 8.2 on, and it worked fine, but the boot system stopped working, and seeing as 9.0 came out, I decided to upgrade. :) Any ideas on why it would freeze up? Thanks. Kris, aka The Antiwesley What utter dangerous rubbish. Dangerous because this person has mastered the tricks of the liberal muck-raker trade; Al Sharpton would be proud of him. - Bob Bernstein, CrackMonkey, 1/27/02 -- Get Warped! High Quality Web Hosting starting at $5/Month www.warped.com -- http://www.antiwesley.comICQ:24746540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- A Geek for all ages! - Dave Adler, PMEB mailing list, 3/14/99 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] Install freeze
well if it happens at the same spot each time,,, I would not think it to be hardware, unless there is some hardware accessed at that time that is not accessed eariler. I think a little more info might be in order tho, like what type of install (expert? recomended?) on what hardware with what settings. (500meg HD set to dma100? running ext3? or 50 gig HD, set to dma66, formated to ntfs running lin4win?) On Monday 30 September 2002 07:34 am, you wrote: It is possible that you have hardware failure. Any time someone tells me that they had a system that was working fine, than it stops doing so for no apparent reason, I suspect hardware failure (that is, if I am sure that the *problem* developed without accidental or purposeful human intervention) ;-) Probable hardware failures: 1) Bad or weak memory chip(s). 2) Hard drive has developed bad spots and/or is shows signs of beginning to fail. 3) Video card RAM memory failing or weak. 4) On-board cache failing or weak. These are the most common possibilities when everything else is not it. By this I mean you have not done something to change the system's hardware configuration recently or have not done anything to it to cause a change in the way it was before the problem occurred. There are other possible reasons for your sudden inability to run an earlier distribution, and then not be able to get beyond a certain point in the installation of a newer one, but these are the most common ones under the circumstances you mentioned. More information on your part would give better probable caused and solutions... T The Antiwesley wrote: I just joined the group in the hopes that someone will have an answer for me... I'm installing 9.0 and every time I try, it freezes somewhere in the install process, just before it's time to pick out my root password. It's done this 10 or so times, from everywhere from 15 minutes to 10 seconds complete. I had 8.2 on, and it worked fine, but the boot system stopped working, and seeing as 9.0 came out, I decided to upgrade. :) Any ideas on why it would freeze up? Thanks. Kris, aka The Antiwesley What utter dangerous rubbish. Dangerous because this person has mastered the tricks of the liberal muck-raker trade; Al Sharpton would be proud of him. - Bob Bernstein, CrackMonkey, 1/27/02 -- Get Warped! High Quality Web Hosting starting at $5/Month www.warped.com -- http://www.antiwesley.comICQ:24746540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- A Geek for all ages! - Dave Adler, PMEB mailing list, 3/14/99 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] Where to configure LAN bridge?
I have a server with 3 LAN cards; eth0 is for ADSL, eth1/eth2 are two LAN segments what I want to use as bridge ports to make WIN clients visible for all others (tried routing, IP was OK but WIN network did not work). What is the right place (config file) to set up the bridge to have it defined when the SHOREWALL firewall starts? Bela Markus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] md5sums WinXP
Hi all, I am going to download Mdk 9, but I have to use a WinXP box to do it and the cd burning. ( I don't have broadband ) My question is, how to check md5sums on a WinXP box? Many TIA's. --Angus Live for today...but with a hope for tomorrow.--A.A. Reg. Linux User #278931 -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hello (X problems)
Before I proceed, I would like to greet averyone on this list. I am new to the list, so if I make any mistakes : a. Bare with me b. Tell me where I went wrong Here goes my problem. I've been having issues with mandrake 8.2 (tried to upgrade from 8.1), so I decided to install my freshly downloaded copy of linux Mandrake 9.0. Everything went fine up to the X-window part. Installation went smoothly and linux asked my resolution for X. I have an Eizo 19 monitor and a Kyro Hercules 4000 with 32Mb of RAM, so the system thought it would be a good idea to suggest 1240X1024 16-bit colour. When installation finished I got the above resolution which is not the best for my eyes, so I tried to tweak the res with the help of XFdrake but to no avail. I , now, lost all X-windows and the only thing I did was to change the boot resolution on /etc/lilo.conf from 1240x1024 to 800x600 (note: that's the vga= part on lilo.conf). I suspect that something went wrong there and the system will no longer launch X-windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any given docs for XF86-4.x Looks like it's very different from previous versions of XF86 (say 3.3.6). Thank you for your time and patience, Spyros Tsiolis - I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise - Vangelis _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sums WinXP
Angus Auld wrote: Hi all, I am going to download Mdk 9, but I have to use a WinXP box to do it and the cd burning. ( I don't have broadband ) My question is, how to check md5sums on a WinXP box? Many TIA's. Use MD5Summer: http://www.md5summer.org/ -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sums WinXP
Go to http://www.md5summer.org/download.html site to download a WIN version. - Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: [newbie] md5sums WinXP Hi all, I am going to download Mdk 9, but I have to use a WinXP box to do it and the cd burning. ( I don't have broadband ) My question is, how to check md5sums on a WinXP box? Many TIA's. --Angus Live for today...but with a hope for tomorrow.--A.A. Reg. Linux User #278931 -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze 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] Broadcast 2000/Cinelerra
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:06, Damian Gatabria wrote: DISCLAIMER : I have never used cinelerra. now, when you start a project in cinelerra, i suppose it asks you which kind of movie file do you want as output? ( i.e. framerate, resolution, color depth, audio channels ) if it does, first thing to do would be: make it a BIG movie, ( i.e. 800x600 ) This is to avoid losing quality when the program downscales it. And, second, make the frame rate slow, ( like one frame every ten seconds? ) BTW is adding one frame ( or image ) multiple times an option? probably you could workaround your speed problem inserting and copy/pasting the needed frame 300 times or so... if you cannot alter framerate, anyway, you can use mplayer/mencoder to achieve this. man mplayer will show you an option to specify delay in seconds between frames ( explicitly declared useful for presentations ) which you could re-encode later with the new, altered framerete... just an idea. Damian Hello, (Sorry, haven't checked email for a week!) 320x180x16, 1 audio track and 15 fps (there's a transition stuck somewhere) I've found i can edit the project file directly, and set that the picture lasts for 60 frames, or whatever i like. But the PNG picture still gets downgraded to JPEG quality, and then when i encode the movie it will be even worse - most of the slides are full of text. I'll try mencoder when i find my mandrake CDs...hopefully tomorrow. Thanks, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sums WinXP
Hello Angus, Monday, September 30, 2002, 9:50:36 PM, you wrote: AA Hi all, I am going to download Mdk 9, but I have to use a WinXP box to do it and the cd burning. ( I don't have broadband ) AA My question is, how to check md5sums on a WinXP box? put md5sum.exe in the same dir as the iso and run (from the command line) md5sum filename -- Best regards, Colinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB Scanner
This is probably a long shot. I'm trying to get a Primax Colorado 9600 USB scanner working with Mandrake 8.2. Hardrake detects it, it shows up under dmesg output, but Scanimage can't find it and Xsane reports that no devices have been found. Has anyone been down this road before. If so, how did you do it? -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing VNC Server
I have a MDK 8.2 box onto which i would like to install VNC Server. What VNC variant is the best / easiest to install? Ta Jamie _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ICS and firewall in 9.0
Hmmm. I have a small server/firewall to build and thought I might try the GUI's for setting it up. For previous boxes I've just used Bastille. Anyway, having got the ADSL connection happening and run the Internet Connection Sharing wizard, all looks fine. Run the firewall wizard - no more internet access. Switch off ICS - access is back. Switch on ICS, but switch off firewall - access is back. I have not delved into this, but it looks like this is an either/or option. Looks like it's back to Bastille or gShield or whatever. Not a problem for me, but for those without experience setting up LANs and ICS, not pretty. ...and aren't those the very people these wizards are designed to help? I still like just about everything else about 9.0 though. Nice job! cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] md5sums WinXP (Thnx ppl!)
Thank you all for the help! And thanks Bela for the program! This list is super! Makes learning fun and easy. --Angus This is the Earth School..always in session. Now is the right time to learn, and teach.--A.A. -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
I installed 9.0 and skipped the network setup. I then booted into mandrake and placed mgmt.o into /usr/share/speedtouch Then I went to configure network settings. I tried to configure alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. It requested cd 1 and installed files, and then completed. However the connection wouldn't work. Now as mandrake has a specific option to install the alcatel speedtouch adsl modem, I assume that this works fairly well.. and that therefore it is something I am missing. What should I do to get my adsl connection working? Many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive
On Monday 30 September 2002 09:55 am, et wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 10:26 am, you wrote: Tom, Your comments bring up a question... In Windows, enabling DMA for CD-ROMs (and it variants) is considered a 'no-no' and will cause problems most every time. really? my DVD wants DMA to work at all in winders cause it is much faster I've tried to check mine a couple of times (when this topic comes up) and hdparm always says it's not support on my drives if I use /dev/scdX and if I use /dev/hdx I get input output errors. Could this be because I have them set up under scsi emulation? Any other thoughts? thanks, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive
On Monday September 30 2002 09:26 am, Technoslick wrote: Tom, Your comments bring up a question... In Windows, enabling DMA for CD-ROMs (and it variants) is considered a 'no-no' and will cause problems most every time. In many cases, Windows will automatically deactivate it if you set it on. How is it different in the Linux O/S, and what advantages are received by using Direct Memory Access in Linux over just using an IRQ to gain the attention of the CPU? DMA has to do with faster disk IO. I don't know what you mean by just using an IRQ to gain the attention of the CPU? On my mobo, as with most all of 'em, the ide1 (second ide) is on IRQ 15. Enabling or disabling DMA doesn't change this. IO improvement such as DMA is very important since all drives, ide or scsi run on the 33 mhz PCI bus. Also PIO modes (no DMA) go thru the cpu, DMA bypasses the cpu and does data tranfers directly to memory. The various types of DMA, eg, for my CD drive, (hdparm -i) UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2, employ some gimmicks to improve goin thru the 33 mhz PCI bus. Much the same as AGP compared to PCI for video. Therorectically AGP doubles it from 33 to 66 mhz, actually it provides less than 10% boost. It's more important for disk IO tho. While udma2 might get 12mb/sec, udma5 will get around 40mb/sec (hdparm -t). 'Course that's for harddrives. Enabling DMA for Cd drives won't be near as much, but it's still better than without it if your hardware is capable. From 'info hdparm' Using DMA nearly always gives the best performance, with fast I/O throughput and low CPU usage. But there are at least a few configurations of chipsets and drives for which DMA does not make much of a difference, or may even slow things down (on really messed up hardware!). Your mileage may vary. I dual boot W98 (rarely ;), it sets all my drives including my CD drives to DMA. I can't remember any Windoze version or combo of hardware I've used in the past that didn't enable DMA. I do remember some Winsux burning software that disabled DMA, but that's a software deficiency. As to How is it different in the Linux O/S. Memory access, management and VM in Linux is much different than in Windoze. It's also a moving target, with newer Linux kernels striving to constantly improve it. Google linux memory management, or search the kernel mailing list. This might be a good place to start http://linux-mm.org/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Sorry for the technical question, but I can't help but ask now that you have mentioned this. :-) T Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday September 29 2002 08:59 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Should hdparm be run for a cdrom device say /dev/hdd after it is mounted? I have HP 9100c cd writer. Enabling dma for it is worthwhile or not? Yes, if it doesn't cause problems. Somewhere during the 9.0 beta process, dma ceased to be automatically enabled for both my cdrom and cd-rw. I added these lines to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local and now all is well, no dma problems. hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd (Then run rc.local to make the changes happen, eg, './rc.local' On subsequent boots, dma will be enabled automatically) So if hdparm doesn't show dma enabled, you may need to do the same rc.local edit. For example, (hdc is my cdrom) tom$ su Password: tom# hdparm -v /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 1 (on) readahead= 8 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument The failed mesgs are normal for a CD drive, they apply to harddrives. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Image file conversion
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 30 Sep 2002 2:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: How can I convert a montage created in kword into a file that could be opened by almost everybody, eg. .jpeg, or something, not just another fellow kword user. John Print to pdf derek Well, My first thought , yes good idea, but the execution has not proved that easy. Of course, I can just go print to pdf file as one of the drop down list of options in the printer list, but in reality the quality is not so good,as most of the pics in the montage are missing in each file.when displayed. I don't know what to do to remedy it. In theory this would be OK if I could accomplish it sucessfully. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is going wrong here. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive
et wrote: snip really? my DVD wants DMA to work at all in winders cause it is much faster snip Yes, *really*. :-) How about some real life examples? Machine #1: XP Pro 2nd IDE Channel - Primary - Liteon DVD-ROM LTD163 Secondary - Philips PCRW404 (32/16X/4X) XP auto selects off for DVD drive CD-RW drive auto selects DMA on and its works fine. Machine #2: Win 98 SE 2nd IDE Channel - Primary - Philips PCRW2412/17 (40X/24X/12X) Secondary - nada DMA off in Device Manager. Checking it off to be on not only doesn't work, but also make the entire Secondary IDE Channel unusable. Machine #3: Win 95 2nd IDE Channel - Primary - Goldstar GCD-R542B (4X) Secondary - nada Win 95 refuses to allow the enabling of DMA for this CD-ROM drive. Machine #4: Win 2000 Pro 2nd IDE Channel - Primary - Matshita UTDA310 (CD-RW drive in laptop - hot-swap module) Win 2K auto selects DMA off. Machine #5: MDK 8.2 2nd IDE Channel - Primary - Acer CR6202A (6X/2X/2X) I have yet to check what MDK is doing with it, however I know that under every Windows version I have run it in, it either will fail under DMA or not allowed access to its use. These aren't even all of my working machines, but I think that you can see where I am coming from. And, I haven't even thought about those of my clients over the last 15 years... Not all O/S's, hardware configurations or drives (regardless of type) will allow CD/DVR/DVDR/CDR/CDRW to use DMA. Not necessarily all newer drives, either. Consequently, I just haven't thought about going there. Tom's comment about its use in Linux intrigued me and made me wonder if this particular OS can get drives to use it where Windows won't/can't. I'd like to hear from anyone using the Philips-brand CD-RWs, or an older Acer 6202A CD-RW drive with DMA access enabled under Linux. If Linux will drive these drives reliably (very important) faster with DMA enabled, I am all for it! TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install freeze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 September 2002 9:15 pm, The Antiwesley did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I just joined the group in the hopes that someone will have an answer for me... I'm installing 9.0 and every time I try, it freezes somewhere in the install process, just before it's time to pick out my root password. It's done this 10 or so times, from everywhere from 15 minutes to 10 seconds complete. if you have an old cd drive you are doing the install with, it may not be reading the final few packages. in the install hit ctr-alt-f3 (maybe f4, not sure) and see what packages it is trying. for me it was xwpic, xmovie, ytalk and yudit. start the install again but be sure those are not selected. zsh and xmms may also be problems, might want to uncheck them. install should proceed fine. now here is the kicker, once installed and booted i was able to install the failed packages. guess the generic install driver is not as good as the real running driver. ;-) you might also try reburning cd 2 on a slower speed. - -- ...so Mr. Gates, in short, the reason I am not using your software is that I have upped my standards. So up yours. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mIJTBwq+ZwvIN/oRArKUAJ9VO4pUuwHtAF83irvaZEJLBMe3kACfWSwq YKxN/O3+i0NFNtNQ7wY1Kxo= =FfrL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 1:43 am, Alastair Scott did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: * interestingly, the test results in moving the pointer round a box and the 'cursor going nuts' for a few seconds until it behaves itself. i have gotten that with my mouse for 3 versions now, but it just works after the freak out. odd. - -- The universe is a figment of its own imagination. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mIL1Bwq+ZwvIN/oRAjAQAJsGlgr2sL80hKjeggRIDc1LJhLebwCffj1F aK1zPhVymbOW0pQbgV+hmag= =jLUD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Image file conversion
On Monday 30 Sep 2002 5:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 30 Sep 2002 2:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: How can I convert a montage created in kword into a file that could be opened by almost everybody, eg. .jpeg, or something, not just another fellow kword user. John Print to pdf derek Well, My first thought , yes good idea, but the execution has not proved that easy. Of course, I can just go print to pdf file as one of the drop down list of options in the printer list, but in reality the quality is not so good,as most of the pics in the montage are missing in each file.when displayed. I don't know what to do to remedy it. In theory this would be OK if I could accomplish it sucessfully. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is going wrong here. John What version of ghostscript are you using ? My experience is that ghostscript 7.0x is better at creating pdf pages than the 6.5x version. Mandrake 8.2 ships with ghostscript 6.53 because it is GPL while 7.0x had the non free Aladdin license. However Aladdin have now released 7.05 under the GPL license, and that version is on Mandrake 9.0 You can download a RedHat RPM from here http://www.ghostscript.com/ which will work fine in Mandrake 8.2 derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive
Thanks Tom! You answered my questions. Thanks! Please see my other post as to what some of my machines are doing. As for your comment on never having a problem with using DMA access on CD-ROMs before, under any version of Windows, I have to wonder how I could have been working with the wrong systems and system makers in the past. ;-) I never could get Win 95-98 to accept this setting as of up to a few years ago, when I was actively providing close systems for sale. Now, I see on my XP machine that it allowed one of my CD-RWs to go that way, but not the newer DVD. Maybe its really all a matter of the mobo's I have been using recently, and the fact that much of my stuff has long since been called state of the art. My reference to just using an IRQ to gain the attention of the CPU? is just my slang description for what an IRQ does. Interrupts are nothing more than exclusive (most of the time) doorways to speaking to the CPU. However, using DMA is not always possible, even if allowed to do so. Windows 98 SE has an aversion to disabling the use of an IRQ in your BIOS for your video card. It will word, but also become unstable and sometimes not allow the system to properly shut-down. This is most obviously a Windows-problem, not a hardware one, but this is my past and where I am coming from. I probably should have helped you some by being more specific on asking what DMA will do for a CD-ROM-like device. I am aware of the speed increase and the by-passing the CPU. I really wasn't asking for the definition of the terms, but the results and reliability of doing this. My mistake. I should have been more clear. As for the Linux info, thanks a lot! That's really helpful stuff. I will also check the on-line docs and do some research on it. I will have to play with my Linux box to see if DMA access is enabled for the slower, older CD-RW drive it has in it and if it performs properly. I am really looking forward to all the neat things that I can do in Linux that Windows always hid from me. ;-) Thanks again for response. T Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday September 30 2002 09:26 am, Technoslick wrote: Tom, Your comments bring up a question... In Windows, enabling DMA for CD-ROMs (and it variants) is considered a 'no-no' and will cause problems most every time. In many cases, Windows will automatically deactivate it if you set it on. How is it different in the Linux O/S, and what advantages are received by using Direct Memory Access in Linux over just using an IRQ to gain the attention of the CPU? DMA has to do with faster disk IO. I don't know what you mean by just using an IRQ to gain the attention of the CPU? On my mobo, as with most all of 'em, the ide1 (second ide) is on IRQ 15. Enabling or disabling DMA doesn't change this. IO improvement such as DMA is very important since all drives, ide or scsi run on the 33 mhz PCI bus. Also PIO modes (no DMA) go thru the cpu, DMA bypasses the cpu and does data tranfers directly to memory. The various types of DMA, eg, for my CD drive, (hdparm -i) UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2, employ some gimmicks to improve goin thru the 33 mhz PCI bus. Much the same as AGP compared to PCI for video. Therorectically AGP doubles it from 33 to 66 mhz, actually it provides less than 10% boost. It's more important for disk IO tho. While udma2 might get 12mb/sec, udma5 will get around 40mb/sec (hdparm -t). 'Course that's for harddrives. Enabling DMA for Cd drives won't be near as much, but it's still better than without it if your hardware is capable. From 'info hdparm' Using DMA nearly always gives the best performance, with fast I/O throughput and low CPU usage. But there are at least a few configurations of chipsets and drives for which DMA does not make much of a difference, or may even slow things down (on really messed up hardware!). Your mileage may vary. I dual boot W98 (rarely ;), it sets all my drives including my CD drives to DMA. I can't remember any Windoze version or combo of hardware I've used in the past that didn't enable DMA. I do remember some Winsux burning software that disabled DMA, but that's a software deficiency. As to How is it different in the Linux O/S. Memory access, management and VM in Linux is much different than in Windoze. It's also a moving target, with newer Linux kernels striving to constantly improve it. Google linux memory management, or search the kernel mailing list. This might be a good place to start http://linux-mm.org/ 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: Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
If I remember correctly, ReiserFS was incompatible with NFS. Does anyone know if this issue has been resolved yet? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:24 pm, Mark Berkwitt did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: 2) Whether I select cable or network my browser won't work. If I start with 2 nics and later try to reconfig with just one in the box it still won't access the internet. are you sure it is set right? i had that problem in 8.0 for days. realized i set the DNS server wrong. ;-) And I don't know what will happen next. well, just an observation, but .0 releases tend to have a lot of it wasn't ready for release comments, and .2 releases seem to get what is this new crap? comments. maybe .1 is the way to go. still, i have 9.0 since release date, and no trouble yet, though i wish the contribs were there. redhat for me has been 5 versions i have tested, and 5 versions that failed to run in some way. the good news is that we have choice. - -- It is no measure of your health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mIQpBwq+ZwvIN/oRApYSAJ4ocMrWdOeU1mJn7UIbS0xLCxvn6QCfVF1A xupLBc1k06/XtHunCdD7whw= =LWPK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm and cd drive
On Monday September 30 2002 11:19 am, s wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 09:55 am, et wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 10:26 am, you wrote: Tom, Your comments bring up a question... In Windows, enabling DMA for CD-ROMs (and it variants) is considered a 'no-no' and will cause problems most every time. really? my DVD wants DMA to work at all in winders cause it is much faster I've tried to check mine a couple of times (when this topic comes up) and hdparm always says it's not support on my drives if I use /dev/scdX and if I use /dev/hdx I get input output errors. Could this be because I have them set up under scsi emulation? Any other thoughts? thanks, -s I believe so, but you should still be able to enable dma. (my ide burner which has scsi emulation and is dev/scd0 or hdd, dma enabled) tom# hdparm -t /dev/scd0 /dev/scd0 not supported by hdparm tom# hdparm -t /dev/hdd tom# hdparm -t /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: Timing buffered disk reads: read() hit EOF - device too small (my ide cdrom, no scsi emulation) tom# hdparm -t /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 23.96 seconds = 2.67 MB/sec tom# hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc (turn off dma) /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) tom# hdparm -t /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 32.68 seconds = 1.96 MB/sec I used the same data CD for all the tests, ran 'em several times, included results above that were about average. So for the ide cdrom w/no scsi emulation, dma increases IO by ~36%. While hdparm doesn't support testing scsi drives (only ide), I suspect the performance increase with dma enabled is similar for scsi emulated drives. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't install Mandrake under Windows??
I downloaded Mandrake 8.2. In the install.htm at point 2 there is explained how to install Linux into a Windows folder! When i press F1 and type in lnx4win (at the command promt) it says: Can not load Kernel image or not present! What's wrong? Have i downloaded the wrong version or something? Plz help me! WFG
Re: [newbie] USB Scanner
On Monday 30 Sep 2002 H:06 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: This is probably a long shot. I'm trying to get a Primax Colorado 9600 USB scanner working with Mandrake 8.2. Hardrake detects it, it shows up under dmesg output, but Scanimage can't find it and Xsane reports that no devices have been found. Has anyone been down this road before. If so, how did you do it? I think you are out of luck, a quick glance at the sane compatibility page shows that it is not yet supported. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound in MDK9.0 with ESS1688 ISA card
On Monday 30 September 2002 12:53 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 03:38 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have an old ISA ESS1688-based sound card. That same audio card worked fine in MDK8.2. After MDK9.0 installations, I see that: - kernel detects an ISA PnP card, but does not seem to load the sound modules (at least, I do no see any specific message in /var/log/info or warnings) - there is no /dev/sound directory - Mandrake Control Center does not display any sound card. Any suggestions for what to look for? thanks, raffaele If sndconfig is not installed, then install it and just run sndconfig. I just did a from scratch Mandrake 9 install and that's what I wound up doing. Cheers, I have the same problem with my sound card. I issued the sndconfig command and it looks like it went into the probing stage and never came out of it. I had to kill the KDE window in order to get it to stop. My sound is still not configured. LM8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 configured the same sound card automatically during the install without any intervention. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] burning ISOs
Hi, T. It may be the drive, but if so, I'm not sure if getting a new one from Dell will fix it. To clarify my problem: * My Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop will not read the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs I have created. * The same CDs work fine on other machines (like my desktop). * My laptop has not had any issues with previous Mandrake ISOs, only 9.0. * My laptop can read most 80min cd's (e.g. if I burn a cd with some data files), just not the Mandrake ISOs. Some troubleshooting attempts I have made: Different 80min media (Iomega, etc.) Using Gtoaster and cdrecord at different speeds Using the '-dao' option in cdrecord If, as may be the case, my laptop drive simply can not read an 80 min cd loaded as full as the Mandrake ones are, what can I do? I have already requested a replacement drive from Dell. It should be arriving shortly (my hope is that a newer drive version will have more compatability). If that doesn't work, then what? I would very much prefer not to install from the hard drive. I feel a little frustrated having recently paid my Mandrake dues for a product I can't use. In the early beta phase I suggested a different ISO be made available for people having trouble, and I still think this is a good idea. I'm sure I'll work this out with the help of the list, and I appreciate your reply, T. - Paul On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 19:05, Technoslick wrote: I see that your Dell Inspiron 7500 either has a CD-ROM/Floppy Drive or DVD-ROM/Floppy Dive unit in the Media Bay. Assuming that I understand correctly: 1) your CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM) drive is able to read commercially produced CDs flawlessly; 2) you aren't specifically speaking of being able to boot off those CD-Rs when you say not readable; 3) and you can read CD-Rs produced on other than your Linux PC --- It sounds like the problem lies exclusively in your Dell. Older CD-ROMs could not read the surfaces of CD-Rs due to the lighter burn temp and impressions made with a CD-R drive. That was pre-12X days. I have a 24X Toshiba that will sit there and churn for the better part of a minute trying to make sense of a CD-R, then quit. It would be an unexpected surprise for a modern laptop to have a CD-ROM drive (I won't even entertain a DVD-ROM drive incapable of seeing a CD-R!) that was blind in this area. I think the key to understanding what's happening is in having you better define what it is that your Dell's ROM drive *can* and *cannot do*. If you can say that you have tried burns off of other PCs (owned or unowned), and commercial CDs, too, and they all work in your Dell, PLUS...the burns off your Linux box are readable in other PCs (non-Linux ones, too)...as a professional troubleshooter, I would start to look at your Dell as the sole source of the problem. If your laptop is still under warranty, call Dell and ask them if there is a known issue with the particular combo drive that you have on your computer. Check their support site (http://support.dell.com/), login with your account (if you have one), create one, or use your computers Service Tag number to get to the info specific to your machine. Then look in the downloads area for patches or driver upgrades. You could have an earlier production combo unit with a sensitivity to CD-Rs produced by certain CD-RWs, or its plain buggy and needs a TLC patch. :-) Please remember that all this I have said here is under the assumption that you are only speaking about the inability to *read* any CDs on your Dell laptop that were burned exclusively on your Linux box. Good Luck, Paul. I hope you find your answer... T Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have attempted to burn the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs several times. In all occasions, the CD was not readable on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. The CD did, however, work on my desktop. When I put the CD in the laptop tray, it seeks for approximately 15 seconds before giving up. I have tried different CD media. I have tried using Gtoaster and cdrecord. I have tried changing the writing speed. I have tried using the -dao option in cdrecord. But nothing seems to make these CDs readable on my laptop. Please help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] *.Iso check up
Hello All, I downloaded all MDK *.iso files, and burned 3 cds. What can I do to check the integrity of this Iso files? My second Cd have corrupted files or something like this. Tks All. = []'s Lúcio Costa Linux user #204519 We do what we can, we give what we have Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art. ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tudo para criar o seu site: ferramentas fáceis de usar, espaço de sobra e acessórios. http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:56:06 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 9.0 and skipped the network setup. I then booted into mandrake and placed mgmt.o into /usr/share/speedtouch Then I went to configure network settings. I tried to configure alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. It requested cd 1 and installed files, and then completed. However the connection wouldn't work. Now as mandrake has a specific option to install the alcatel speedtouch adsl modem, I assume that this works fairly well.. and that therefore it is something I am missing. What should I do to get my adsl connection working? Did the appropriate piece in the Mandrake Configuration Centre ask you for username, password, country etc.? Skipped the network setup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...
Hi All! My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to loose any data because of winblows. Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I don't know if that would be alright for that configuration. Please share with me experiences of such machines + Mandrake, and tell me which word processor shoul I us (it has to be able to export in word97 format.) Thanks, BAT Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:56:06 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 9.0 and skipped the network setup. I then booted into mandrake and placed mgmt.o into /usr/share/speedtouch Then I went to configure network settings. I tried to configure alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. It requested cd 1 and installed files, and then completed. However the connection wouldn't work. Now as mandrake has a specific option to install the alcatel speedtouch adsl modem, I assume that this works fairly well.. and that therefore it is something I am missing. What should I do to get my adsl connection working? whoops - slip and Send was pressed too soon! Did the appropriate piece in the Mandrake Configuration Centre ask you for username, password, country etc.? If all that's been entered the best thing to do is just to ignore all the Mandrake flapdoodle and do two things: i. put mgmt.o in your home directory ii. make a 2-line script, say adsl, there thus: modem_run -m -f mgmt.o pppd call adsl iii. make it executable (chmod a+x adsl) then run it (./adsl). After about 20 seconds the beans will be in a row and the connection will be live. As you can guess from the way this was written I've never bothered with the Control Centre stuff; this method is much more direct. (If the username, password etc. haven't been entered the best thing to do is to run drakconnect as root, which will run a wizard similar to that during installation which will - eventually - prompt for them. Then go back to 'put mgmt.o ...' and continue from there). Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 12:56 pm, Linux Maniac did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I don't know if that would be alright for that configuration. abiword should work on that machine, i can't say how good the export to MSWord is, but it does list word as a format when you select save as. a few test files shouldn't be too difficult. - -- We know what we are, but not what we may become -William Shakespeare shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mLIlBwq+ZwvIN/oRAniNAJ9d9zg8JeioMjsas2bPC/NH3Sj+xACeJJUl t9gn7kcrytZuBPBpsS7t4bM= =opjX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *.Iso check up
Also download the mdsum.90 file, then run md5sum filename.iso to produce it's checksum, then compare the results to the lines in the mdsum.90 file. You should do this before burning the iso's so you do not waste time and media on a bad iso file. Jim F On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:10, Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: Hello All, I downloaded all MDK *.iso files, and burned 3 cds. What can I do to check the integrity of this Iso files? My second Cd have corrupted files or something like this. Tks All. = []'s Lúcio Costa Linux user #204519 We do what we can, we give what we have Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art. ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tudo para criar o seu site: ferramentas fáceis de usar, espaço de sobra e acessórios. http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading
Chris wrote: I ordered the 9.0 Power Pack the other night, when it comes in what is the best way to upgrade? Install over the old 8.2 or backup my /home partition, clean off the drive, install 9.0 and then restore my home partiton. On my office box I did a clean sweep because I wanted to change the filesystem, but if you've got /home on a separate partition, you may as well keep it - even if you do an install rather than an upgrade, you should find the settings in /home work OK once it's been upgraded (I leapfrogged from 8.1 to 9.0 on this box, and the only things I had to alter were some of the icons, which pointed to the wrong places for Mozilla and OpenOffice). Also, does anyone know if 9.0 supports the HP Scanjet 4400c or will I still have to keep my windows drive active for scanning. Dunno - check the HP website. Linux support for scanning is much better these days. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *.Iso check up
In reply to Lúcio's mail, d.d. Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:10:50 -0300 (ART): Find out the checksums on the download site (separate file) and do a md5sum on the files... Paul Hello All, I downloaded all MDK *.iso files, and burned 3 cds. What can I do to check the integrity of this Iso files? My second Cd have corrupted files or something like this. -- The wise teacher knows that fifty-five minutes of work plus five minutes' laughter are worth twice as much as sixty minutes of unvaried work. -Gilbert Highet http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.3 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
Alastair Scott wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:56:06 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 9.0 and skipped the network setup. I then booted into mandrake and placed mgmt.o into /usr/share/speedtouch Then I went to configure network settings. I tried to configure alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. It requested cd 1 and installed files, and then completed. However the connection wouldn't work. Now as mandrake has a specific option to install the alcatel speedtouch adsl modem, I assume that this works fairly well.. and that therefore it is something I am missing. What should I do to get my adsl connection working? whoops - slip and Send was pressed too soon! Did the appropriate piece in the Mandrake Configuration Centre ask you for username, password, country etc.? If all that's been entered the best thing to do is just to ignore all the Mandrake flapdoodle and do two things: i. put mgmt.o in your home directory ii. make a 2-line script, say adsl, there thus: modem_run -m -f mgmt.o pppd call adsl iii. make it executable (chmod a+x adsl) then run it (./adsl). After about 20 seconds the beans will be in a row and the connection will be live. As you can guess from the way this was written I've never bothered with the Control Centre stuff; this method is much more direct. (If the username, password etc. haven't been entered the best thing to do is to run drakconnect as root, which will run a wizard similar to that during installation which will - eventually - prompt for them. Then go back to 'put mgmt.o ...' and continue from there). Alastair I tried doing what you suggest, but upon running the 'adsl' file I get a message saying that it couldn't find my adsl modem, and to try to see if it is shown under '/proc/something or other/devices' (can't recall the exact path) and that location doesn't exist for me to check under. The speedtouch was recognised under mdk8.2 so I am wondering why it isn't recognised in 9.0 (if indeed that is what the problem is..). advice always welcome :) answers even more welcomed :) -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] burning ISOs
Hmmm Your 7500 can't be very old, so unless it is a buggy drive (or model edition) it should have no problems reading a full 80 Min./700 MB CD-R. (I would think!) However, keep in mind that a 700 MD CD-R does not pose a problem to an older 650 MB max. drive *until* you exceed the old drives ability to read. If your earlier burns have been under the 650 MB mark (which I believe 8.2's were), a 650 MB CD-ROm drive would never let you know that it can't go further, even when using the higher capacity medium. Shane mentioned it best on that matter. See his post shortly after yours. It could be that your combo drive really is limited to 650 MB. Did you ask tech support about its read capacity, and did you check the documentation that came with your laptop? This could be your answer. As long as you have a replacement drive coming in, wait until it does and see if anything changes. You may get a newer drive with an increased read capacity. Meanwhile, I am going to stick my recently burned MDK 9 CDs into a CD-ROM drive that I know cannot read beyond 650 MBs and see if I can reproduce your problem. Catch you afterward... T Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, T. It may be the drive, but if so, I'm not sure if getting a new one from Dell will fix it. To clarify my problem: * My Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop will not read the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs I have created. * The same CDs work fine on other machines (like my desktop). * My laptop has not had any issues with previous Mandrake ISOs, only 9.0. * My laptop can read most 80min cd's (e.g. if I burn a cd with some data files), just not the Mandrake ISOs. Some troubleshooting attempts I have made: Different 80min media (Iomega, etc.) Using Gtoaster and cdrecord at different speeds Using the '-dao' option in cdrecord If, as may be the case, my laptop drive simply can not read an 80 min cd loaded as full as the Mandrake ones are, what can I do? I have already requested a replacement drive from Dell. It should be arriving shortly (my hope is that a newer drive version will have more compatability). If that doesn't work, then what? I would very much prefer not to install from the hard drive. I feel a little frustrated having recently paid my Mandrake dues for a product I can't use. In the early beta phase I suggested a different ISO be made available for people having trouble, and I still think this is a good idea. I'm sure I'll work this out with the help of the list, and I appreciate your reply, T. - Paul On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 19:05, Technoslick wrote: I see that your Dell Inspiron 7500 either has a CD-ROM/Floppy Drive or DVD-ROM/Floppy Dive unit in the Media Bay. Assuming that I understand correctly: 1) your CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM) drive is able to read commercially produced CDs flawlessly; 2) you aren't specifically speaking of being able to boot off those CD-Rs when you say not readable; 3) and you can read CD-Rs produced on other than your Linux PC --- It sounds like the problem lies exclusively in your Dell. Older CD-ROMs could not read the surfaces of CD-Rs due to the lighter burn temp and impressions made with a CD-R drive. That was pre-12X days. I have a 24X Toshiba that will sit there and churn for the better part of a minute trying to make sense of a CD-R, then quit. It would be an unexpected surprise for a modern laptop to have a CD-ROM drive (I won't even entertain a DVD-ROM drive incapable of seeing a CD-R!) that was blind in this area. I think the key to understanding what's happening is in having you better define what it is that your Dell's ROM drive *can* and *cannot do*. If you can say that you have tried burns off of other PCs (owned or unowned), and commercial CDs, too, and they all work in your Dell, PLUS...the burns off your Linux box are readable in other PCs (non-Linux ones, too)...as a professional troubleshooter, I would start to look at your Dell as the sole source of the problem. If your laptop is still under warranty, call Dell and ask them if there is a known issue with the particular combo drive that you have on your computer. Check their support site (http://support.dell.com/), login with your account (if you have one), create one, or use your computers Service Tag number to get to the info specific to your machine. Then look in the downloads area for patches or driver upgrades. You could have an earlier production combo unit with a sensitivity to CD-Rs produced by certain CD-RWs, or its plain buggy and needs a TLC patch. :-) Please remember that all this I have said here is under the assumption that you are only speaking about the inability to *read* any CDs on your Dell laptop that were burned exclusively on your Linux box. Good Luck, Paul. I hope you find your answer... T Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have attempted to burn the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs several times. In all occasions, the CD was not readable on my Dell Inspiron
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0200 Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to loose any data because of winblows. Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I don't know if that would be alright for that configuration. Please share with me experiences of such machines + Mandrake, and tell me which word processor shoul I us (it has to be able to export in word97 format.) Alas the current Mandrake installation will not work with that hardware; according to the 9.0 details page* 64MB is minimal and 128MB recommended. There seem to be two choices: If you can, somehow, add more memory (preferably up to 192MB or 256MB - there is no such thing as too much memory), use Mandrake 9.0 and OOo, which will input and output in Word format. If you can't, the best solution is probably Mandrake 7.0 (still on the mirrors) and AbiWord, which is not bad and has as minimum requirement a 486 with 16MB (!), but has two big disadvantages; i. no support for tables (probably fatal for a thesis); ii. no Word output (but it can do Rich Text Format [RTF], which any version of Word can interpret without losing formatting). As it turns out I managed to get an old IBM Thinkpad, with a Pentium 233 and 160MB memory, and OOo working quite well with Mandrake 8.2 for thesis-writing. Alastair * http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/90 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] resizing photos
Is there a way to resize a bunch of photos at the same time? I have a folder with 42 photos from my digital camera and would like to make them 1/3 the size to put on the web in as few strokes as possible. Ok, at least in an easy and reproducable way. - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:52 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried doing what you suggest, but upon running the 'adsl' file I get a message saying that it couldn't find my adsl modem, and to try to see if it is shown under '/proc/something or other/devices' (can't recall the exact path) and that location doesn't exist for me to check under. The speedtouch was recognised under mdk8.2 so I am wondering why it isn't recognised in 9.0 (if indeed that is what the problem is..). Very odd, as I had no problems (and never had any with any of the betas or RCs). Next three suggestions: i. do lspcidrake -v as root. Do you see a line like [root@localhost thebrix]# unknown: Alcatel|USB ADSL Modem (Speed Touch) [] (vendor:06b9 device:4061) anywhere in the output? (Paste the output here so that everyone can crawl over it!) ii. run harddrake2 as root; this will re-detect all the hardware (and not show the ST in the popup window - this is a known bug :) iii. if i turns up nothing, or the ./adsl script, run as root, still doesn't work after ii, what is the ST connected to? A hub? If so, move things around so that it's connected to a main motherboard port then run harddrake2 then the ./adsl script as root and see what happens. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...
Linux Maniac wrote: Hi All! My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to loose any data because of winblows. Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I don't know if that would be alright for that configuration. Please share with me experiences of such machines + Mandrake, and tell me which word processor shoul I us (it has to be able to export in word97 format.) Unfortunately, OpenOffice won't work with that hardware - processor speed isn't such a problem, but OO gobbles RAM (64MB is an absolute minimum, and it's still slow to load on 128MB). Abiword might do the job - maybe they've finally got round to supporting tables ;-) For a thesis, though, LyX is ideal, since it's essentailly a front-end to LaTeX, which was designed with academic writing in mind (I first used it just after finishing my MA dissertation, and my first thought was God, I wish I'd had that earlier!). It's a bit weird at first, but you start to appreciate its eccentricities after a while, and for a thesis, the citation facilities are a godsend (use BibTeX with a frontend like Pybliographic). It produces beautiful PostScript or PDF output, or if her school are the sort of morons who insist on having a copy in Word format as well as the printed version, you can always export as HTML then read it through OpenOffice or Word (funnily enough, a lot of schools/publishers who ask for Word documents then convert them into PDF anyway). Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 1:59 pm, Robin Turner did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: well, just an observation, but .0 releases tend to have a lot of it wasn't ready for release comments, and .2 releases seem to get what is this new crap? comments. maybe .1 is the way to go. Not in the case of Mandrake - 7.1 and 8.1 were problematic, especially the latter. 7.2 was a release to proud of, as was 8.0, IMO. I'm reserving judgement on 9.0 - seems to work fine on my office box, but I'm waiting to see how it will do at home (8.2 wouldn't work, but I managed a kludge by installing it over 8.0 and using the old kernel). well your observation flys in the face of claims from all my linux using friends! ;-) for me everything since 7.2 has just worked except the scanner. 9.0 is wonderful so far here... - -- For more than 4 generations the IT Professionals were the guardians of quality and stability in software. Before the dark times. Before Microsoft.. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mMEqBwq+ZwvIN/oRArXPAJ4lmDQQDiQcdO2WDJcGvtf7avuddACfaiNU /DRKiqEsCKkAAxkUW42Csuc= =99Py -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *.Iso check up
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 12:10 pm, Lúcio Costa de Almeida did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My second Cd have corrupted files or something like this. quoting myself here: if you have an old cd drive you are doing the install with, it may not be reading the final few packages. in the install hit ctr-alt-f3 (maybe f4, not sure) and see what packages it is trying. for me it was xwpic, xmovie, ytalk and yudit. start the install again but be sure those are not selected. zsh and xmms may also be problems, might want to uncheck them. install should proceed fine. now here is the kicker, once installed and booted i was able to install the failed packages. guess the generic install driver is not as good as the real running driver. ;-) you might also try reburning cd 2 on a slower speed. i say cause this error has occured and solution worked for me and 3 friends on a total of 6 different machines now. - -- I used to be confused, but now I am not that sure anymore.. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mMHnBwq+ZwvIN/oRAq3IAJ40YtQyMOb4YEQGkTpWx829jUvqAQCeN1e4 +xFQ5L/dRYaDbokpAnjnM0w= =NPDg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 1:16 pm, Alastair Scott did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. Alas the current Mandrake installation will not work with that hardware; according to the 9.0 details page* 64MB is minimal and 128MB recommended. ack! i was not aware we were up to 64 min. this sounds like a job for mandrake 8.x! ;-) - -- One of the surest signs of intelligent in outer space is that it hasn't contacted us yet. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mMKHBwq+ZwvIN/oRAluEAJ9Q7qU562YxFyfK0n8+nIk1xB9h0wCeNQFG QSfun+ul9MaMfIGbx0KCIFo= =VorO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0200, Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to loose any data because of winblows. Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. Hello BAT, If her thesis is close, you might do better not to change her setup. (Old married man.) OOorg needs more resources to run well. Fact of life. Check out Abiword and Koffice as possibilities. No real experience with either. But I've written miles of words on a P-166 w/ 32MB in Word97. [Save whenever you pause and keep incremental backups on at least 3 diskettes.] I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I don't know if that would be alright for that configuration. I'm a believer in IceWM. It does exactly what I want and gets out of the way. I've read that Mdk9 has a minimal install that might be handy if it will then let you install, only what you really must have. Looking forward to trying it on my P-166,32MB box. More on your P-166, 32MB for Linux: If you can bring the RAM to a minimum of 64 MB if will do much better. If you can get 192 or 256 MB it will run very well. Problem is memory, assuming you have plenty of disk space. OOorg needs about 250 MB to install. Suggested apps: IceWM: I'd suggest that you use IceWM though you should install KDE for the apps if you have the space; otherwise, you'll need to look at XFce, that will work without KDE. IceWM works a lot like the win9x menu system (remember: Gates spent millions studying computer users) and it is much, much faster than Kde. Kde will be slow if you do need to use it. There are others such as but I like IceWM. Depends how much disk space you have. I don't know if IceWM will run under Xfce but it should. Sylpheed: email client is smaller, faster, and more flexible than Kmail. Krusader: Much smaller footprint than the Konqueror, faster, and more fit for it's purpose of file handling, zips/tgzs are simpler. Opera 6.03 or 6.10: smaller and faster. Simpler with the static version. Korganizer, Kaddressbook, Kjots for PIM purposes. Take some care in partitioning. For the basic system, these will be fine: /boot (7MB), swap (125MB), and / (root file system 250MB) regardless of the disk size, for a workstation type install. Try it, to see how much free space you have, then adjust if necessary. It works for me in Mdk8.1. Spread the balance out: /home (at least 400MB for data), /opt (250MB for OOorg), and /usr (all the rest of the disk space). This is what I'm running Mdk8.1 on a 3.1 GB disk. Try it out first. If you have a smaller disk you'll have to adjust. I do like the CPU and the network graphic indicators on the task bar in IceWM. Hope this helps. Your mileage may vary. You'll learn a lot from installing linux several times with different layouts. regards, Richard at openoffice.org en español. Please share with me experiences of such machines + Mandrake, and tell me which word processor shoul I us (it has to be able to export in word97 format.) Thanks, BAT Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing photos
On 30 Sep 2002 17:16:24 -0400 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to resize a bunch of photos at the same time? I have a folder with 42 photos from my digital camera and would like to make them 1/3 the size to put on the web in as few strokes as possible. Ok, at least in an easy and reproducable way. ImageMagick - the mogrify command therein - will do it: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html Something like mogrify -resize 33%x33% *.jpg would appear to work. (Of course this will _replace_ all the existing .jpg files with their smaller mogrifications, so back them up first!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?
shane wrote: And I don't know what will happen next. well, just an observation, but .0 releases tend to have a lot of it wasn't ready for release comments, and .2 releases seem to get what is this new crap? comments. maybe .1 is the way to go. Not in the case of Mandrake - 7.1 and 8.1 were problematic, especially the latter. 7.2 was a release to proud of, as was 8.0, IMO. I'm reserving judgement on 9.0 - seems to work fine on my office box, but I'm waiting to see how it will do at home (8.2 wouldn't work, but I managed a kludge by installing it over 8.0 and using the old kernel). Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
Alastair Scott wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:52 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried doing what you suggest, but upon running the 'adsl' file I get a message saying that it couldn't find my adsl modem, and to try to see if it is shown under '/proc/something or other/devices' (can't recall the exact path) and that location doesn't exist for me to check under. The speedtouch was recognised under mdk8.2 so I am wondering why it isn't recognised in 9.0 (if indeed that is what the problem is..). Very odd, as I had no problems (and never had any with any of the betas or RCs). Next three suggestions: i. do lspcidrake -v as root. Do you see a line like [root@localhost thebrix]# unknown: Alcatel|USB ADSL Modem (Speed Touch) [] (vendor:06b9 device:4061) anywhere in the output? (Paste the output here so that everyone can crawl over it!) I did not see such a line, and am unable to copy files across to an ntfs partition.. and the only floppy I have is the boot floppy for safety.. but I checked the output over very carefully, and that lines doesn't show. And I think I have an idea why. ii. run harddrake2 as root; this will re-detect all the hardware (and not show the ST in the popup window - this is a known bug :) I ran harddrake2 and the speedtouch didn't show up in it. I also ran usbview - on a hunch, and it said that it oculdn't find /proc/bus/usb/devices and suggested I make sure I had usb support compiled into my kernel. I'm using the default mdk9.0 kernel, so it's probably just that usb modules or something haven't been loaded. Not sure how to do this. Once I can get the speedtouch actually recognised, I'll try the ideas to get it working.. as to how to get it recognised... seems I need help still :) iii. if i turns up nothing, or the ./adsl script, run as root, still doesn't work after ii, what is the ST connected to? A hub? If so, move things around so that it's connected to a main motherboard port then run harddrake2 then the ./adsl script as root and see what happens. Alastair thanks for the help Alastair :) -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware acceleration support for GeForce 4
Hmm. Athlon runs fine here. I added the line mem=nopentium to my lilo.conf just in case anyway. Running GeForce Ti 4400 here and it is fine, albeit under 8.2 for now [damn these servers are slow 9.0] ;-) You need 4.2 version for the latest nvidia drivers to work. Im unsure if 9.0 supports this card still in the gfx card install section. Just choose as unknown card and carry on but do not set the system to startx automatically for you. This allows you to boot into a command line which makes installing the gfx drivers a lot easier. I had to manually install the nvidia drivers after setting up the system using std vga modes supported on this gfx card. You are correct about needing to alter XF86Config-4. This is a painless thing using vi at the startup console tho and should take 10 minutes max to complete. visit http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/index.html and have a read making notes where needed and get the latest nvidia drivers and store them on your system. make a note of the full path to aid you later. Just follow the instructions and welcome to linux running a top quality fast gfx card running in beautiful 1280x1024 24bit technicolour :) Hope this helps you out. regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake 8.2 and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! On Sunday 29 Sep 2002 3:51 pm, you wrote: It's great to be using Mandrake again - 8.x had issues with the Athlon processor. Anyway, in 9.0, when loading I'm given a choice of which XFree86 to choose - 4.2.x, 3.3.6 or 3.3.6 with experimental hardware acceleration support. I thought 4.2.x had this (I can use HW accel support in 4.2.x in SuSE), so I went with 4.2.x. In Mandrake's config util, is there a place to select HW accel that I'm missing? If not, then I need some help activating this (I'm guessing a modification of the XF86Config-4 file). Any help or insight that can be provided will be greatly appreciated... Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:24:48 -0700, shane wrote well your observation flys in the face of claims from all my linux using friends! ;-) for me everything since 7.2 has just worked except the scanner. 9.0 is wonderful so far here... I would have to agree with that statement and I have used Mandrake at home and now converting an ISP from FreeBSD to Mandrake 8.2. I have the occassional problem (never got mod_log_mysql to work), but 98% of the time everything just works. I am putting 9.0 on a machine tonight :) -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...
Richard Holt wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0200, Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to loose any data because of winblows. Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. Hello BAT, If her thesis is close, you might do better not to change her setup. (Old married man.) OOorg needs more resources to run well. Fact of life. Check out Abiword and Koffice as possibilities. No real experience with either. But I've written miles of words on a P-166 w/ 32MB in Word97. [Save whenever you pause and keep incremental backups on at least 3 diskettes.] I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I don't know if that would be alright for that configuration. I'm a believer in IceWM. It does exactly what I want and gets out of the way. I've read that Mdk9 has a minimal install that might be handy if it will then let you install, only what you really must have. Looking forward to trying it on my P-166,32MB box. More on your P-166, 32MB for Linux: If you can bring the RAM to a minimum of 64 MB if will do much better. If you can get 192 or 256 MB it will run very well. Problem is memory, assuming you have plenty of disk space. OOorg needs about 250 MB to install. Suggested apps: IceWM: I'd suggest that you use IceWM though you should install KDE for the apps if you have the space; otherwise, you'll need to look at XFce, that will work without KDE. IceWM works a lot like the win9x menu system (remember: Gates spent millions studying computer users) and it is much, much faster than Kde. Kde will be slow if you do need to use it. There are others such as but I like IceWM. Depends how much disk space you have. I don't know if IceWM will run under Xfce but it should. Sylpheed: email client is smaller, faster, and more flexible than Kmail. Krusader: Much smaller footprint than the Konqueror, faster, and more fit for it's purpose of file handling, zips/tgzs are simpler. Opera 6.03 or 6.10: smaller and faster. Simpler with the static version. Korganizer, Kaddressbook, Kjots for PIM purposes. Take some care in partitioning. For the basic system, these will be fine: /boot (7MB), swap (125MB), and / (root file system 250MB) regardless of the disk size, for a workstation type install. Try it, to see how much free space you have, then adjust if necessary. It works for me in Mdk8.1. Spread the balance out: /home (at least 400MB for data), /opt (250MB for OOorg), and /usr (all the rest of the disk space). This is what I'm running Mdk8.1 on a 3.1 GB disk. Try it out first. If you have a smaller disk you'll have to adjust. I do like the CPU and the network graphic indicators on the task bar in IceWM. Hope this helps. Your mileage may vary. You'll learn a lot from installing linux several times with different layouts. regards, Richard at openoffice.org en español. Agree with pretty much all of this. IceWM is not pretty but goes like greased lightning - I installed it on on of the boxes at work when Windows was terminally screwed and the poor suckahs in the office just had to use Linux ;-). Worked on a Celeron with 32MB RAM faster than KDE/GNOME did on much higher-spec boxes. OTOH, if you really love your girlfriend, I'd say get her a 128MB RAM chip - we're talking the price of a meal for two in a restaurant here. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Scanner
On Monday 30 September 2002 01:30 pm, Poogle wrote: On Monday 30 Sep 2002 H:06 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: This is probably a long shot. I'm trying to get a Primax Colorado 9600 USB scanner working with Mandrake 8.2. Hardrake detects it, it shows up under dmesg output, but Scanimage can't find it and Xsane reports that no devices have been found. Has anyone been down this road before. If so, how did you do it? I think you are out of luck, a quick glance at the sane compatibility page shows that it is not yet supported. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. try looking at these sites: http://orbita.starmedia.com/~neofpo/yaprimaxgui.html http://primax.sourceforge.net/ They may shed some light on your problem. I remember that my acer usb scanner needed to have it's firmware uploaded using a perl script and a modification of the sane backend. Be prepared for a lot of trial and error and an equal amount of frustration. Regards, Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *.Iso check up
On Monday 30 September 2002 05:28 pm, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 12:10 pm, Lúcio Costa de Almeida did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My second Cd have corrupted files or something like this. quoting myself here: if you have an old cd drive you are doing the install with, it may not be reading the final few packages. in the install hit ctr-alt-f3 (maybe f4, not sure) and see what packages it is trying. for me it was xwpic, xmovie, ytalk and yudit. start the install again but be sure those are not selected. zsh and xmms may also be problems, might want to uncheck them. install should proceed fine. now here is the kicker, once installed and booted i was able to install the failed packages. guess the generic install driver is not as good as the real running driver. ;-) you might also try reburning cd 2 on a slower speed. i say cause this error has occured and solution worked for me and 3 friends on a total of 6 different machines now. - -- I used to be confused, but now I am not that sure anymore.. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mMHnBwq+ZwvIN/oRAq3IAJ40YtQyMOb4YEQGkTpWx829jUvqAQCeN1e4 +xFQ5L/dRYaDbokpAnjnM0w= =NPDg -END PGP SIGNATURE- I have had the same problem, I checked the MD5 sum and that seemed ok, Burned the second cd at 4x speed and tried again and had the same files fail. These were as follows. rpm-devel-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm rpm-python-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm rpm-build-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm rpmlint-0.47-1mdk.noarch.rpm rocksndiamonds-2.0.0-10mdk.i586.rpm I extracted the files from the .iso image and tried to install them from the command line and was told that a checksum did not match (it was late and I was bleary eyed, so this may not be 100% correct) I was, however able to get the packages from www.rpmfind.net and install them from a terminal window.(reminds me of the old days in DOS and CP/M)(Yes, I'm so old I give my age in hex to feel better ;-) ) Regards, Mudder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cable modem.
I'm a complete neophyte so take this with a grain of salt but I configured eth0 as a lan connection and could not connect to the Internet unless the host name was left blank. - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Berkwitt Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 10:59 PM To: Newbie-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cable modem. I know this should be so simple, but Mandrake just doesn't get it. eth0 using tulip is connected to my cable modem. I have it set to dhcp as it should. On installation I have 2 nics. eth1 is for a nic I plan to use in the future, but it's not connected for now. During install I specified to use eth0 with a 'cable' connection. I gave mandrake some bogus host name mypc.myserver.me.com just to move on. There is no reason this didn't config itself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Recombining backup files fails
This is not exactly a Mandrake question, but since that is what I'm running, I thought I would ask here. [Mandrake 8.1, by the way.] I am making backup files (using a script that calls afio) and then putting them on CD-R disks. Since some of the backup files are greater than 640MB, I have to split the big file into pieces. I have used both dd and split to do this, apparently successfully. But now when I cat those partial files back into one big one, they seem to have errors according to 'cmp'. For example, using split, I end up with files backupaa and backupab. Do a 'cat backupaa backupab backuptest' and compare the original backup with backuptest and get backup backuptest differ: char 351289345, line 1341543 If I try the backuptest file with 'afio -T backuptest backtest.txt' I get errors, though not at the same place as cmp found. Is this enough information for someone to give me a clue what I'm doing wrong? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] resizing partitions
anyone have any advice on how to resize linux partitions? thinking about upgrading to partitionMagic8.0, which apparently has support for linux ext3 partitions... thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Yeah Just a test
Ignore just testing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
I downloaded from one of the mandrake mirrors late Friday night. 2.5 hours later, they were freshly burned to cd and ready to roll... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shane Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 7:42 pm, Henry Oliver did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I guess that I should count myself very lucky. After two days of not being able to connect to a d/l server I went to google and entered 'Mandrake Mirrors'. The third one I tried worked and it took me 7 hours to download all three iso's of Mdk 9.0. Md5sums checked and I burned them. This is my first d/l with dsl and I am quite pleased with it. try joiniung the mandrakeclub. first day, late in the afternoon, used the club mirror list, got all 3 in just over 4 hours. :-) - -- When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mREKBwq+ZwvIN/oRAkKQAJ48fkAxHR0UuwpjDeHESQdYz2NdgwCdFfrG HS2tS07IAD9JNRdHpF9fOik= =15P+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hoto use tab browsing in Konqueror
List, I thought that I had read that the new Konqueror was going to have tabbed browsing in fact I have seen a picture in the Konqueror manual that shows that the CVS is capable of tabbed browsing, but nowhere can I see how to use it. My question: How do you use tabs in Konqueror? (i.e. not open a new window, but open in a new tab) TIA, Jim F. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Broadcast 2000/Cinelerra
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:23, Todd Slater wrote: For slideshows, you just can't beat SMIL. SMIL can be played in RealPlayer, QuickTime, or you can download and use a java applet to play them on the web. SMIL presentations are super easy to create (they look a lot like basic HTML). Google for smil tutorial. I could tell you more, but I'm not sure if you have to use that software for the project or if you even want to use SMIL. Todd Hello, (Sorry, haven't checked email for a week!) I don't need something too complex, so I'll try SMIL. Once i find my Mandrake CDs!!! Thanks, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Unable to connect to ip address
you don't mention what you are trying to connect to from that address on the server.. but places I'd start looking are the hosts.deny file in /etc and your iptables/chains rules try this in a console: iptables -L or if you have ipchains, substitute it accordingly.. you could even run the result through grep to see if it contains a specific reference to the problematic IP address. One other option, is servers IP in the hosts file of the client of the problem IP? if so, is the entry correct??? if its not, the client might be looking for the server in the wrong place. (assuming you are using a domain name to access the server and not a direct IP address... just some places to start from.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shannon Doyle Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Unable to connect to ip address Hi People, I have a weird situation here. A static ip address is attempting to access a server and is unable to conenct to that particular ip address. However it is able to connect to the same server on the servers alternate ip address. Every other ip address can connect to both server ip's only this one static cant connect to the one server ip address. The server is running mandrake 8.2 I have been searching through as many files as I can to find a reference to the ip address being denied but am unable to find anything. Can anyone give me a heads up as to where I would be able to find a reference to this ip address and remove it. Cheers, Shannon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screensavers
On Monday 30 September 2002 10:29 pm, john drouard wrote: Hello. I have Mandrake 9.0 installed on my system. I use KDE, and I can't seem to figure out how to install more screensavers. I have installed many, and they are all in /usr/share/apps/kscreensaver/ScreenSavers/ -should I be installing them into a different directory so I can use them in KDE Control Center? Thanks for your help. - John Drouhard John, go to rpmfind.net and download the latest version of kdeartwork. It has all those other screensavers and they will show up in your control center. The file is about 9 megs, just so you know. Cheers, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Tuesday, October 01, 2002 California raisins murdered: Cereal Killer suspected Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install freeze
During a time of great evil, 09:56 AM 30-9-02 -0700, shane was arrested for treason by saying: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 September 2002 9:15 pm, The Antiwesley did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I just joined the group in the hopes that someone will have an answer for me... I'm installing 9.0 and every time I try, it freezes somewhere in the install process, just before it's time to pick out my root password. It's done this 10 or so times, from everywhere from 15 minutes to 10 seconds complete. if you have an old cd drive you are doing the install with, it may not be reading the final few packages. in the install hit ctr-alt-f3 (maybe f4, not sure) and see what packages it is trying. for me it was xwpic, xmovie, ytalk and yudit. start the install again but be sure those are not selected. zsh and xmms may also be problems, might want to uncheck them. install should proceed fine. now here is the kicker, once installed and booted i was able to install the failed packages. guess the generic install driver is not as good as the real running driver. ;-) you might also try reburning cd 2 on a slower speed. This did the trick. It was choking on ytalk for sure, as xmovie installed fine. It's up and running beautifully now, thanks, Shane! :) -Kris What utter dangerous rubbish. Dangerous because this person has mastered the tricks of the liberal muck-raker trade; Al Sharpton would be proud of him. - Bob Bernstein, CrackMonkey, 1/27/02 - Get Warped! High Quality Web Hosting starting at $5/Month www.warped.com - http://www.antiwesley.comICQ:24746540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - A Geek for all ages! - Dave Adler, PMEB mailing list, 3/14/99 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MD 9.0 installed without a hitch!!!
Sorry for wasting bandwidth, but just wanted to yell from the tallest building around...NO PROBS installing MD 9.0! And that was on a computer which I built from scratch a few yrs back (which I might add, I tried RH back then and could not get that working) It is a P2, 400Mhz, 128 megs - and will be doing time as a file server, 24/7/365. I am impressed! First time installing Linux (any type) without a hitch! Went out and bought a 60 gig hard drive, the salesman at Best Buy came up and asked me if I needed any help (and quite frankly, I knew what I was looking for) so I asked him what do you have that is Linux compatible Any guesses as to his reply? And the amount of time it took him to come up with an answer? LMAO That shut him up - and chased him away! So, that makes 4 systems currently running Mandrake in the house, (out of 7) of which two are dual-boot (wife's computer is one, the other is the Internet server... only reason for the net server dual-booting is because of the possibility of tech support from our ISP) Half way there to a $!ken Micro$oft-free home network! Do you Yahooo -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Unable to connect to ip address
Hi Frank, I am trying with ftp, ssh, telnet, http, even ping. All of which are enabled and were working just fine yesterday. Basically the server does not exist on that ip address to this client, but it does on the other server ip addy. hosts.deny is empty Iptables/ipchains are also empty The client doesn't have the server listed in a hosts file. I have tried many machines on this ip address to access that server. Trying to connect to the server with direct ip address, so there is no hostname lookup failure happening here. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2002 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Unable to connect to ip address you don't mention what you are trying to connect to from that address on the server.. but places I'd start looking are the hosts.deny file in /etc and your iptables/chains rules try this in a console: iptables -L or if you have ipchains, substitute it accordingly.. you could even run the result through grep to see if it contains a specific reference to the problematic IP address. One other option, is servers IP in the hosts file of the client of the problem IP? if so, is the entry correct??? if its not, the client might be looking for the server in the wrong place. (assuming you are using a domain name to access the server and not a direct IP address... just some places to start from.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shannon Doyle Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Unable to connect to ip address Hi People, I have a weird situation here. A static ip address is attempting to access a server and is unable to conenct to that particular ip address. However it is able to connect to the same server on the servers alternate ip address. Every other ip address can connect to both server ip's only this one static cant connect to the one server ip address. The server is running mandrake 8.2 I have been searching through as many files as I can to find a reference to the ip address being denied but am unable to find anything. Can anyone give me a heads up as to where I would be able to find a reference to this ip address and remove it. Cheers, Shannon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] supermount
Hi all, I have heard that there is a problem with supermount in mdk9.0 I installed it on my home machine with few probs. (cd and floppy work, but not zip drive) Installed from the same cd's on a hp netserver at school today, and although the install went ok, when I try to access the cd drive, I get 'insufficient access' or similar error. Also the dat tape, while recognized by harddrake, insists that a tape has not been loaded (it has) I can't get into work (physically) but I cab ssh in. Anyone have a fix? :) -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install freeze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 9:28 pm, The Antiwesley did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: This did the trick. It was choking on ytalk for sure, as xmovie installed fine. It's up and running beautifully now, thanks, Shane! not a problem, i know very little except what i learn by screwing up. that i know very well... ;-) - -- Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. - Lao Tzu shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mTIMBwq+ZwvIN/oRAuhYAJ99vY4XhVuzhQoDhYWif1B7e6th7QCeKC4K PRM2ys8KU79sqqLL4HtvLJY= =n0e9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing VNC Server
Hello, extra problem I get the linux screen on a windows workstation, but : only a kind of initial screen, not the full Xwindows, only a X-mouse cursur witch i can move, and notthing to do. ( no icons, no prompt ... ) please Thanks Ronny Schepens -Original Message- From: Ralph M. Los [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: dinsdag 1 oktober 2002 3:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing VNC Server I got it installed OK, and get weird errors about locking the .Xauthority file(s), but apparently the server starts up OK. How do I get to a diff window mgr rather than the default one? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralphatboundariezdotcom | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Terry Sheltra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 9:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing VNC Server Hi all, On a related note to this, is there a way to be able to use vncviewer to connect to a computer using its NetBIOS name, rather than its IP address? We run a mixed environment here where I work (Window$, Mac, Linux), and I've found that window$ PCs can connect to any computer using its NetBIOS name, but the Linux and Macs won't .. :-( Terry Jamie Kerwick wrote: Thanks for the tip. I have managed to install a version of tightVNC (vnc3.3.3r2_tight1.2.6-1.rpm) that i downloaded in rpm form from their web-site, that works great now. It seems to be more responsive connecting to a Linux session than a windows session! Thanks Jamie From: Tenchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing VNC Server Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:11:33 +0200 go to console, su to root then type urpmi vnc-server just did that 2 hours ago :-) to start it, type in a console as a user (not root!!!) vncserver :-) Bat -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jamie Kerwick Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing VNC Server I have a MDK 8.2 box onto which i would like to install VNC Server. What VNC variant is the best / easiest to install? Ta Jamie _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.384 / Virus Database: 216 - Release Date: 2002.08.21. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.384 / Virus Database: 216 - Release Date: 2002.08.21. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Composed on a 100% Micro$soft-free PC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
