date:20021107

Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip?
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-964310.html

Extract
The European Union awarded on Thursday a $249,000 (250,000 euro) contract to 
U.K.-based system-integrator Netproject to study the feasibility of moving 
the information systems of several member countries' governments to the 
Linux operating system from Microsoft's Windows OS.
/Extract

If they pay Netproject $249,000, then how much will Micro$haft pay them?  
$500,000? ... $1,000,000 ... more?  Sure hope money doesn't win out in this 
case.

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Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Kenn Murrah

tried that ... no entries for syslog there  i have
mail, lastlog, messages, sudo, wtmp, etc. ... but no
syslog ..


--- Marty Wedepohl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 Try /var/log/syslog for imapd messages
 
  thanks, derek ...
 
  it occurs several times a day at seemingly random
  times ...
 
  i've looked in /var/log/ and i can't figure out
 where
  imap is writing ... is it messages? or mail? or
  somewhere else?
 
  also, i don't know how to determine which imap is
  running ... it installed by default with
 engardelinux
  ..
 
  thanks for the continued help.
 
 
  --- Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  If you are losing connection to an IMAP client it
 is
  your IMAP server which
  has the issue not Postfix. Which IMAP server are
 you
  using?
 
  Does this happen at the same time every day? If
 so
  your IMAP server may have a
  cron job, or an entry in /etc/logrotate.d  which
 is
  'tidying up' every day
  and restarting the server.
 
  derek
 
 
 
  On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 1:59 pm, Kenn Murrah
 wrote:
   Greetings.
  
  
   I've just set up a postfix mail server on an
  Engarde
   (community) Linux box ... The good news is that
 is
   works ALMOST all the time :-)
  
  
   But periodically (for no reason that I can
 find),
  the
   mail server seems to shut down, giving the
 client
  an
   error like IMAP connection to server has been
  broken
   ... it's not a client issue, because when it
  happens,
   ALL users attempting to access mail get a
 similar
   message, regardless of platform ...
  
  
   Any ideas what's wrong?  I'm wondering if my
 linux
  box
   itself (with only one NIC being used) might  be
  part
   of the problem ... Would the problem go away if
 I
  used
   two NICs, one for my connection to the outside
  world,
   and one for connection to my intranet??? (that
 may
  be
   totally irrelevant, but I'm grasping at straws
  here)
   
  
  
   And course, the answer may lie in the logs ...
 but
  I'm
   far too much of a newbie to know what I'm
 looking
  for
   in them...
  
  
   Any and all help would be appreciated.
  
  
   Thanks,
  
  
   Kenn Murrah
  
  
  
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Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread meteor


Actually if it's a FAT partition you can even use your documents
on the partition. I remember when I still had MS Windows
Linux Mandrake always mounted the windows partition automatically at
/mnt/windows.

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Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Charlie

On Thursday 07 November 2002 09:17 am, Gary Armstrong wrote:
 Couple of questions from a true newbie:

 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a
 particular need?

Depends on the need Gary. While you really don't need to know the names of 
applications in order to need them you do need to identify the process/job 
you want to perform. http://www.google.com/linux or just leave off the /linux 
at the end to search but it's better to start from a linux perspective since 
it's a GNU/Linux requirement that you are trying to fill. Right?

Also; with Mandrake 9.0 using KDE desktop environment you'll have a selection 
option under the K menu (analogous to the Windows Start button and in the 
same position) called What to do. Many every day tasks are listed there 
by group and it may give you an inkling what you're looking for. Remember; 
groups.

 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm trying to
 demo argo(is there a better one?). The home page didn't appear to have
 an rpm. How do I know if there is one out there in the ether? It also
 requires jre which doesn't seem to be installed on my mdk9.0 machine.
 Tried urpmi java and it doesn't appear to be on the CDs either, but not
 knowing what it's called, this could all be a newbie problem.

Is this where you looked? The project's Home Page at freshmeat is often a 
good place to start. As long as the you know the actual project name that is.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/argouml/?topic_id=65 

For RPMs of tools/applications/programs that aren't on your install disks the 
best place to find them is still (probably) Google, but there's also:

http://www.rpmfind.net/ or leave off the 'www' http://rpmfind.net/

which returns this in response to a search for argo:

http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=argosubmit=Search+..

For java support you'll have to be sure you don't have anything installed yet 
then look at:

http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html

but before you do anything about java I'd read the documents listed here:

http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs.html

or a Google search for java docs such as this:

http://www.google.ca/linux?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=java+docsbtnG=Google+Searchmeta=

You can always download the latest java runtime environment direct from Sun 
but you'll have to wade through a lot more to find information specific to 
GNU/Linux and it still won't be specific to Mandrake.

 3) I've been using the Mozilla browser. Its download manager doesn't
 appear capable of restarting. That has already been painful. Can I get
 it to use a different download manager and what would that be? Is there
 some better way?

Every link I posted here was taken from the sites using the Mozilla browser. 
It's my internet browser of preference. If you close the download manager 
dialogue box it's the same as disconnecting and since partial downloads are 
in a temporary directory there's no data to resume from unless you know the 
proper command sequences. It's easier to learn about the ftp clients. The 
distribution has a number of ftp clients shipped with it, I would suggest you 
use one of those for downloads. After you find the data/download you want 
it's fairly easy to copy the link address from Mozilla and download from. In 
a terminal type:

man ftp

and you'll get a list of commands, options and a general idea of how to use an 
ftp client. Then come back here with What the Hell doesmean? and 
someone will usually be able to answer in a way that makes sense. OK? 

 4) I've the seen the command to find rpms on the net go by several
 times, didn't think I'd need it soon. Sorry for the assumption, but
 what's the command to find rpms on the net?

I think we may have (partially) covered that for a specific app but I'm not 
sure whether you installed rpmfind on your machine. I also don't know what 
your connection is so i don't quite know what the answer should be. Yet. 
Sorry.

 5) How much difference is there between linux distributions? As in, does
 the doc for one release apply to all? Is there some kind of enormous
 organized FAQ out there?

Tons. A better question would be; How many developers work on each 
distribution? since that would be closer than my flip answer. We don't want 
to start you out with things like alien etc. That comes later. g

 TIA
 Gary

There should be a contrib directory in your update_source site's listings. 
You'll need to add it manually, since it's not on the disks, either from the 
command line or the GUI. Mandrake Control Center's Software Manager add 
source dialogue I mean.

Hope some of this helps Gary. Good luck.

Regards;
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Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread JM5379

i believe the easiest way will be (as root) to cp all the files
from the windows mount to the desired directory, then 

chown user.group files

in the new location.  you may have to also modify the file
permissions since they may all be r only, and only for the user.


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To: MDK-LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star
Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what
windows
calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have
only one physical drive in my current system.

I have many documents there I would like to transfer to my Linux,
Documents  directory. Is there any way I can conveniently do this?

LTR









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Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Damian

El Jue 07 Nov 2002 13:17, Gary Armstrong escribió:
Couple of questions from a true newbie:

1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a
particular need?

Well, you can always search google, and if that fails.. you ask here ;o)

2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm trying to
demo argo(is there a better one?). The home page didn't appear to have
an rpm. How do I know if there is one out there in the ether? It also
requires jre which doesn't seem to be installed on my mdk9.0 machine.
Tried urpmi java and it doesn't appear to be on the CDs either, but not
knowing what it's called, this could all be a newbie problem.

It is a newbie problem, but you'll learn everything as you go. Soon enough,
you will know where JRE and anything else you might need can be downloaded.

for JRE, (Actually the name you are looking for is J2EE, remember that) go
to http://java.sun.com
JRE is not distributed under a Free Software license -as far as i know-, and
that's why you don't see it included in Mandrake CD's.

to find RPMs you can always search in www.rpmfind.net
Oh, and also, you may want to browse a Mandrake FTP mirror,
the contrib directory may have useful stuff, too. (Contribs
are packages that are not included in the CD's either... )

And there's more interesting stuff at http://plf.zarb.org
(yet more stuff that can't be included for license reasons)

Oh, and last but not least, there's this guy called texstar,
who makes excellent packages for Mandrake and
other distros as well. In his site you will find themes for
KDE, improved Mozilla versions (improved font rendering),
media players, and more.
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/

3) I've been using the Mozilla browser. Its download manager doesn't
appear capable of restarting. That has already been painful. Can I get
it to use a different download manager and what would that be? Is there
some better way?

i don't think there's a way to tell Mozilla which Download manager to use,
but if you want a RELIABLE download manager (which retries automatically
when a download is failed, etc) you can use wget.
wget is a commandline tool. so when you want to download a big file,
open up a terminal window, type wget and paste the URL to the file, then
hit enter.

Also, there are many graphical download managers, i think the best
is called Downloader for X, you can get it here:
www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/

4) I've the seen the command to find rpms on the net go by several
times, didn't think I'd need it soon. Sorry for the assumption, but
what's the command to find rpms on the net?

to find RPMS on the net you are better off using rpmfind.net,
however you can use Mandrake's softwaremanager to add
package sources ( the default is the three CD's, but you can add
some websites as well ) so once you add them, just by
calling urpmi packagename urpmi will download the package
from wherever is needed, and install it at once.

Two of the sites i mentioned earlier can be added to the
softwaremanager. plf.zarb.org (look in the site
for instrucions on doing this ) and ftp.ibiblio.org.

5) How much difference is there between linux distributions?

Depends which distributions but for safety reasons, it's better
to assume there's a lot of difference.

Normally, the only differences between Linux distros are
the programs you use to install/update packages, the OS's installation itself,
hardware detection routines, general config and maintenance tools,
and so on. There are also diferences in the way distros handle
the directory structure. so in one distro you get some programs
inside /opt, while in others you find them in /usr

As in, does
the doc for one release apply to all?

If the doc refers to specific tools (like shell commands, or generic
programs that do not change among distributions, like
web browsers, etc) then it's probably OK to think it applies to you
too. As for the administration of the OS itself (managing services,
compiling programs, and the config tools i mentioned as being different
among distros) you should only go by your own distro's book.

Is there some kind of enormous
organized FAQ out there?

nah. The bad thing about the fastest evolving OS in the
world is that it's very hard to write up-to-date docs for it..

however there are web sites that try to accomplish that,
including a lot of Mandrakesoft websites. You could start
with www.mandrakeuser.org --you'll find links to all
the others from there.

TIA
Gary

HTH

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Re: [newbie] Permissions Problems?

On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 5:36 pm, H. Carter Harris wrote:

snipped all the good stuff

 I would like to tell you that I'm
 smart and I figured those lines out all by myself but I didn't; I copied
 them from one of the tutorials I have been reading (smile).  Under the

If you don't mind my asking, do you have a link for that tutorial?  I 
recently registered a domain for the first time and darned if I can get 
things working.  Can't access my apache server via my domain.  Have been 
dicking around with it for more than a week now.  Very frustrating.

snipped more good stuff

 Now if I was a gambling man (and I may now be since my state passed a
 lottery yesterday), I would guess that the OS doesn't want to give Apache
 access to the root folder.  Have I done this correctly?  And what should
 I do to get Apache to server up this page?

Sorry I can't help here.  I learned a lot from your post!

 The second problem I'm having is with editors.  When I wanted to edit the
 httpd.conf file I had to execute shell, su, copy the file to my home
 directory, open Kate, edit the file and save it, go back to shell, and
 copy the file back to the correct place.  I have read the warnings about
 not logging on as root and I am trying to abide by those warnings but I
 get the feeling that I'm not doing something right.  Any suggestions?

I just su to root and use vim mostly or sometimes kedit when I have to edit 
a file as root.

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Re: [newbie] OT - Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip?

2002-11-07 Thread meteor

To replace one monopoly by another isn't a solution.
Best about Microsoft is perhaps, that it keeps up
the dream to create a whole new OS to replace MS Windows
by playing there own special role.
Have you ever realized that there is a waste amount of
OS out? E.g. BeOS, FreeBSD, AtheOS, to name only my favorite
once.

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Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs

On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 1:31 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote:
 Hi again,
   I have experienced occasional crashes (freezes) in KMail and OO from a
 new LM9 install. Everything went cleanly on install.
   Anyway my question is.

 Is there a way to restart the programs after a freeze? It seems that I
 have to logout then login again before I can restart the affected
 application. I have checked with the 'top' command and I don't see them
 running but perhaps something else is that prevents the restart.

 Anyone experience this one?

I must say that I have found kmail to be very stable in 9.0.  Have you tried 
deleting ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc and starting anew with your kmail 
settings?

No crashes from OO yet either.  Perhaps something else is causing your 
problems, like your chosen style if you're using KDE maybe?  Not that I've 
any problems with styles in MDK9.0 but they caused all sorts of problems 
for me with MDK8.1.  Just a suggestion...

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Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Anthony Abby

Dear ALL,

I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04.  I have not done 
this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake?

Thanks for the help.

Sincerely,


It's really simple.  One way is to download all the rpms that you want to upgrade 
(minus the *-devel-* stuff, unless you WANT to load those) and place them in a 
directory somewhere.  Then from the command line, run the following command in the 
directory you stored the rpms in.

rpm -Fvh --nodeps *.rpm


That's it.
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Re: [newbie] OSS install help

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith

Marcia wrote:


Dear All,

I have been the one trying to get sound working with ALSA and it just has been 
no go, so now I am trying to get my commercial OSS working. I have LM9. OSS 
installs fine but whenever I try the soundtest it starts up for a few seconds 
and I hear it but then abrubtly stops and hangs there doing nothing till I 
kill it. After that if I try to run soundoff I get device busy errors. I then 
go to webmin and see that the processses are stuck, so I kill them. Then I am 
able to start the test again and the same thing happens over and over. 

Do I need to get rid of alsa completely to get OSS working right? If I do, how 
do I do that? I read somewhere that one has to recompile their kernel without 
sound support in order to get OSS working. Is this true?

Thanks for any help.

Sincerely,

Marcia

 


 

We share the same via 8233 sound chip and AC97 codec, I have M9.0 on and
still have alsa with aRts enabled with the one exception of xcdroast
where I have to disable aRts in order to have sound in xcdroast, but
then have to reenable aRts to have system and most other things
I'm not saying you need the same, just that this is my experience.

John

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Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith

Derek Jennings wrote:

On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 2:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:


Derek Jennings wrote:


On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote:


Where does Grip store it's disc data base.
I don't mean /home/.grip , which is a hidden config file.

John


~/.cddb


Thanks,
Question,   Is it possible that grip goes on the net passively,
that is in the background , while you are on the net for some
other reason, retrieves db and stores it, because until today,
I don't consciously remember ever going on the net for db 
retrieval, yet
cddb is full of data files.They got there somehow. John



Every time grip (or kscd or xmms) reads a CD it compares the CD 
id number with
the local database. (Unfortunately despite the databases being 
the same, all
three products use a different database location)

If the number is not in the database, and the computer is 
online, then they
will (if configured) look up the CD number in the freedb online 
database, and
automatically save it in the local database. They do not read 
the inter-track
data to get the track info since they would need the cdrdao 
library (I think)
to do that, and none of them use that library.

derek






It seems then, that is the answer to it, what I thought was clever 
old
Grip reading
my cd for db and storing it, was nothing of the sort it's a cleaver
little number
that stores a new  cd 's disc recognition signature  and as you 
say if
you happen
to be on the net it looks it up and if your not, it waits for some 
other
time and passivly
does the job for you while your doing something else on the net. 
That is
just
fine by me. Hell why should I object.That's what  I want and  it 
explains
why my new M9.0 doesn't want to display db , that is until I update
~/.cddb.

Thanks for your help, nothing wrong ,
I just non't like mysteries.

John

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[newbie] [OT] Maple 5.0 on mandrake 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread g. sanders



Has anyone out there been able to get this working? 

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Re: [newbie] Window halts loading...

2002-11-07 Thread James R. McKenzie

Have yoy tried doing an over-istall of Win98se.  The Install routine
shouldn't mess with your X stuff and might fix the boot-hang-thing.  I don't
know anything about laptops (don't have one) but in my desktop stuff that
usually fixed a host of problems.  Anything from Outlook Express not working
or even loading to the browser not doing a damn thing after it loaded.  It
can also fix alot of startup problems.

To all list subscribers/readers, please excuse this momentary lapse of
proper lopgic that resulted in my having to use references to the 800lbs.
Redmond Gorilla's Ubiquitous Digital Brain-Fart, I appoligize for this evil
nessessity but it was somewhat unavoidable.



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trying.   8-{




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- Original Message -
From: .oO -Francisco S. -Oo.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: [newbie] Window halts loading...


Hi guys,

I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.0 in my system, as a dual OS with
Windows 98 SE, in the same hard drive, different partitions. The problem I'm
having is that after I reboot my system directly from Mandrake and into
Windows, it stops loading at the logo. I have to power off my computer, then
power it back on in order for windows to load up properly. Does anyone know
why this is happenning? and what's more important, :) how this can be fixed?

Thanks in advance,
Francisco Sambade

P.S: I'm running a Sony Vaio PCG-520 laptop with Pentium III 500MHZ, 192
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Re: [newbie] OSS install help

2002-11-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:51:44 -0600
Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dear All,
 
 I have been the one trying to get sound working with ALSA and it just has been 
 no go, so now I am trying to get my commercial OSS working. I have LM9. OSS 
 installs fine but whenever I try the soundtest it starts up for a few seconds 
 and I hear it but then abrubtly stops and hangs there doing nothing till I 
 kill it. After that if I try to run soundoff I get device busy errors. I then 
 go to webmin and see that the processses are stuck, so I kill them. Then I am 
 able to start the test again and the same thing happens over and over. 
 
 Do I need to get rid of alsa completely to get OSS working right? If I do, how 
 do I do that? I read somewhere that one has to recompile their kernel without 
 sound support in order to get OSS working. Is this true?

 Thanks for any help.
 
 Sincerely,
 
 Marcia

What mainboard are you using?

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Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories

2002-11-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:15 pm, you wrote:
 I was wondering about /tmp directories and the directories and files they
 contain. Is it necessary or a good idea to delete these once in a while?
 Any other stuff that needs deleting?

 I like to keep things clean ;-)

 TIA's for any thoughts.



 --Angus

Hi Angus. Whenever I install a version of Mandrake, during the installation, 
I always pick the option that cleans /tmp at each bootup. In one of the 
earlier versions of Mandrake, KDE had some problems with a loaded tmp 
directory. I don't know if its been fixed now or not, but I've checked that 
option ever since. :-)

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Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron

Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny
thing is when I checked my .bashrc it had no path info. In MD 9.0 is
this stored somewhere else or what???
what should I put in my .bashrc do I need a JAVAHOME or something like
it, I vaguely remember with an earlier dist I had to set it or maybe
java did it as part of the install script.
Thanks 
Aaron

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:42, Terry Sheltra wrote:
 Miark,
 
 Have you checked to make sure that Kaffe wasn't installed as well, and 
 that in your ~/.bash_profile, you have the path to your j2re java 
 executable?  I had a similar problem to this, and for me, it turned out 
 to be Kaffe.  As soon as I uninstalled Kaffe, I was able to install 
 Limewire.  Let me know if you get it working.  I have another problem 
 with Limewire that I am unable to figure out.
 
 Thanks!
 
 Terry
 
 Miark wrote:
 
 Anybody been able to do install Limewire 2.7 successfully?
 I get a bunch of errors. I'm running j2re 1.4 from Mandrake
 Club. The error:
 
 Preparing to install...
 Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
 Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
 
 Launching installer...
 
 Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx100331648'.
 Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'.
 Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This 
application will now exit. (LAX)
 
 Stack Trace:
 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGd9
 at ZeroGed.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x864382a)
 at ZeroGee.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86c5d73)
 at ZeroGed.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8224452)
 at ZeroGdv.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x85f3717)
 at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 
0x868f8f1)
 at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.c(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 
0x86701ac)
 at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 
0x8333ac2)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke0(Method.java:native)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:256)
 at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82ba9d6)
 at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82623ed)
 
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Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

2002-11-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall

On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:52 pm, you wrote:
 Hi

 can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files.

 thanks
 Kristjan

Mencoder, part of Mplayer will do a single pass to extract audio only. I 
believe the command line syntax is:

mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr:vol=6 -ovc frameno 
-o frameno.avi

I think you can pick whether to use MP3 or OGG as your audio format, 
(probably have to check the docs on that one).

HTHs! :-)

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Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Terry Sheltra

Aaron,

The file that contains the path isn't the ~/.bashrc .. it's the 
~/.bash_profile file.  Add the path to the java executable, and you 
should be all set.

Terry

Aaron wrote:

Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny
thing is when I checked my .bashrc it had no path info. In MD 9.0 is
this stored somewhere else or what???
what should I put in my .bashrc do I need a JAVAHOME or something like
it, I vaguely remember with an earlier dist I had to set it or maybe
java did it as part of the install script.
Thanks 
Aaron

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:42, Terry Sheltra wrote:
 

Miark,

Have you checked to make sure that Kaffe wasn't installed as well, and 
that in your ~/.bash_profile, you have the path to your j2re java 
executable?  I had a similar problem to this, and for me, it turned out 
to be Kaffe.  As soon as I uninstalled Kaffe, I was able to install 
Limewire.  Let me know if you get it working.  I have another problem 
with Limewire that I am unable to figure out.

Thanks!

Terry

Miark wrote:

   

Anybody been able to do install Limewire 2.7 successfully?
I get a bunch of errors. I'm running j2re 1.4 from Mandrake
Club. The error:

Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

Launching installer...

Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx100331648'.
Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'.
Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

Stack Trace:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGd9
  at ZeroGed.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x864382a)
  at ZeroGee.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86c5d73)
  at ZeroGed.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8224452)
  at ZeroGdv.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x85f3717)
  at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x868f8f1)
  at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.c(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86701ac)
  at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8333ac2)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke0(Method.java:native)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:256)
  at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82ba9d6)
  at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82623ed)

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Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Miark

I have the following in my PATH: /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin
and the following env variable: JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01

Miark



On 08 Nov 2002 01:29:50 +0200
Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny
 thing is when I checked my .bashrc it had no path info. In MD 9.0 is
 this stored somewhere else or what???
 what should I put in my .bashrc do I need a JAVAHOME or something like
 it, I vaguely remember with an earlier dist I had to set it or maybe
 java did it as part of the install script.
 Thanks 
 Aaron
 
 On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:42, Terry Sheltra wrote:
  Miark,
  
  Have you checked to make sure that Kaffe wasn't installed as well, and 
  that in your ~/.bash_profile, you have the path to your j2re java 
  executable?  I had a similar problem to this, and for me, it turned out 
  to be Kaffe.  As soon as I uninstalled Kaffe, I was able to install 
  Limewire.  Let me know if you get it working.  I have another problem 
  with Limewire that I am unable to figure out.
  
  Thanks!
  
  Terry



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[newbie] Galeon unstable

ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable?  Happen to know
when an update will come out?

- Paul





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[newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor)

Hi Linux Gurus,

I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop.  I have a Logitech Corded 
Optical Wheel Mouse attached to the laptop through USB port. The mouse is not at all 
working. 

I am absolutely clueless. Please help me out how to configure the mouse.


Thanks for your help in advance.

Regards
Ram





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Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
 ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable?  Happen to know
 when an update will come out?
 
 - Paul
What exactly do you mean by unstable? Does it crash often? Hang?
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Re: [newbie] Adding music in ERoaster

2002-11-07 Thread Robin Ballantine

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 5:02 am, Miark wrote:
 I'm trying to burn an audio CD with ERoaster. When
 I bring up the dialog to add ogg or mp3 files, they
 just won't get get into the list.

 Any ideas?

 Miark

Hi Miark, I had the same problem and fixed it by recompiling the source. Can't 
remember though whether I did it from the original source (ie a tar.gz 
package) or the src.rpm. You could try rebuilding from the source rpm first 
as this might be the easiest. As root;

rpm --rebuild /path to /eroaster...src.rpm

You might have to install some extra devel packages to get it to build.
This should, if successful, put the rebuilt rpm in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/ (if 
you've got a 686 processor...or one of the other folders under RPMS if you've 
something else..it will tell you near the end of the output in the 
console). Then just force a reinstall using that package;

rpm -ivh --force /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/eroaster*rpm

Hope this works for you. 

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Re: [newbie] Window halts loading...

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 07:27, James R. McKenzie wrote:
 Have yoy tried doing an over-istall of Win98se.  The Install routine
 shouldn't mess with your X stuff and might fix the boot-hang-thing.  I don't
 know anything about laptops (don't have one) but in my desktop stuff that
 usually fixed a host of problems.  Anything from Outlook Express not working
 or even loading to the browser not doing a damn thing after it loaded.  It
 can also fix alot of startup problems.
 
  T H A N KY O U
  James R. McKenzie
What could be done to FIND what is causing Win98SE's hang is to do this:
After POST, hit the SHIFT-F5 and hold it. this will take you directly to
the command prompt. Then do ATTRIB -R -S -A -H MSDOS.SYS and then EDIT
MSDOS.SYS - find the part that starts GUI=1 and change it to GUI=0 -
this will do a normal startup and process the CONFIG.SYS and the
AUTOEXEC.BAT but will drop you directly to MS-DOS. That is part one.
Part two is this: Edit the CONFIG.SYS file to be EXACTLY like this:
CONFIG.SYS:

switches=/e:288
device=c:\windows\himem.sys /testmem:off
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems notr d=64
dos=umb
buffers=25,0
files=100
shell=c:\windows\command.com c:\windows /p /e:2048
dos=high

THEN, edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT to be:

@echo off
set path=c:\windows;c:\windows\command
set temp=c:\windows\temp
set tmp=c:\windows\temp
set dircmd=/o/l/a

THEN Reboot. This will give you a CLEAN environment in which to start
troubleshooting. At this point, if you type WIN at the command line and
Windows starts nicely, you've resolved the issue and you can change the
GUI=0 back to GUI=1 in the MSDOS.SYS.

...and I know that y'all are going to beat me up for giving out Windoze
advice in a Mandrake Linux group, but hec, help is help by any label,
ain't it? (g)

Cheers!
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Re: [newbie] X shutting down when in console

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:56, Christian Goldstein wrote:
 Hiya!
 
 Strange things happen in my Linux installation No matter what 
 WindowManager I use, whenever I dare go to the console via Alt+Ctrl+F1 (or 2, 
 or 3...) my WM shuts down for some odd reason. 
 
 Anyone have a clue whats going on?
 
- Christian
When was the last time you've seen it working properly? (aside from
being in Solaris/HPUX/AIX/IRIX)
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Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:39, Langsley T Russell wrote:
 Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star
 Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows
 calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have
 only one physical drive in my current system.
 
 I have many documents there I would like to transfer to my Linux,
 Documents  directory. Is there any way I can conveniently do this?
 
 LTR
 
I always automount my VFAT/FAT partitions or create a script to do so -
so that I can store/use stuff on those partitions. You need to know the
partitions, though, in order to do that...my script goes like this:

mount /dev/hda1 /c-drive
mount /dev/hdb1 /d-drive

...although your partitions may vary. By doing that, you're saving
yourself from having to copy stuff all over the place and create more
garbage than most of us already have...

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Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 03:17, Gary Armstrong wrote:
 Couple of questions from a true newbie:
 
 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a
 particular need?

If you KNOW your need, you can check through heaps of different linux
archives...
http://sourceforge.net
http://freshmeat.net
http://www.icewalk.com
http://www.linuxapps.com
...for a start...
 
 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm trying to
 demo argo(is there a better one?). The home page didn't appear to have
 an rpm. How do I know if there is one out there in the ether? It also
 requires jre which doesn't seem to be installed on my mdk9.0 machine.
 Tried urpmi java and it doesn't appear to be on the CDs either, but not
 knowing what it's called, this could all be a newbie problem.
 
Do you really need the RPM's or maybe you should get the source and
compile them yourself? It's almost easier to set your system up to do
the proper compiling and to do exactly that - you have more control over
where programs are placed (you can create sub-dirs just for your test
programs - like /usr/testing or whathaveyou) - the java stuff you should
be able to download and install without a hitch as well.

 3) I've been using the Mozilla browser. Its download manager doesn't
 appear capable of restarting. That has already been painful. Can I get
 it to use a different download manager and what would that be? Is there
 some better way?
 
There are several download managers for Gnome and KDE - you can check at
http://apps.kde.com
http://www.gnome.org

 4) I've the seen the command to find rpms on the net go by several
 times, didn't think I'd need it soon. Sorry for the assumption, but
 what's the command to find rpms on the net?
 
Open up a terminal window and type rpmfind - or better yet, man rpmfind
- that will give you all the instructions necessary...!!

 5) How much difference is there between linux distributions? As in, does
 the doc for one release apply to all? Is there some kind of enormous
 organized FAQ out there?
Differences between distros are like differences between coffees at a
coffee shop...in distros, the basic file structures are the same, but
each distro places things in different places...for instance...in
RedHat, my DEFAULT Enlightenment dirs were /usr/share/enlightenment and
that was it. In Mandrake v9, they are /usr/share/enlightenment,
/usr/X11R6/share/enlightenment and /etc/X11/enlightenment - each distro
puts things where the logical mind behind the distro deems it
necessary...mind you - you can change that as well...each distro has
different routines for installation, hardware detection, default setups,
application, game, multimedia and utility setups...the list goes
on...overall, though, you can change them to suit YOUR needs in the end.
 
 TIA
 Gary
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Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:19, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote:
 Hi Linux Gurus,
 I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop.  I have a Logitech Corded 
Optical Wheel Mouse attached to the laptop through USB port. The mouse is not at all 
working. 
 I am absolutely clueless. Please help me out how to configure the mouse.
 Thanks for your help in advance.
 
 Regards
 Ram
Are you able to see the mouse in the hardware browser?
What about running mouseconfig from the console?

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RE: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor)

Hi Steve ,

how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from browser..

Could you please tell me what steps i have to do..

Thanks in advance.
Ram
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:stephen.kuhn;gmx.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0


On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:19, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote:
 Hi Linux Gurus,
 I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop.  I have a Logitech Corded 
Optical Wheel Mouse attached to the laptop through USB port. The mouse is not at all 
working. 
 I am absolutely clueless. Please help me out how to configure the mouse.
 Thanks for your help in advance.
 
 Regards
 Ram
Are you able to see the mouse in the hardware browser?
What about running mouseconfig from the console?

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Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs

2002-11-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich

On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:31 am, Bill Winegarden 
wrote:
 Hi again,
   I have experienced occasional crashes (freezes) in
 KMail and OO from a new LM9 install. Everything went
 cleanly on install. Anyway my question is.

 Is there a way to restart the programs after a freeze?
 It seems that I have to logout then login again before I
 can restart the affected application. I have checked
 with the 'top' command and I don't see them running but
 perhaps something else is that prevents the restart.

 Anyone experience this one?

 tia,
 Bill W.

Hmm.. I'm not sure what you mean, Bill. However, when an 
application freezes in KDE I usually just press :
CtrlAltEsc , then point the cursor (now a skull) to 
the frozen application and left-click to kill it.
Then launch it anew.
That's all.
HTH
Kaj Haulrich


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Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich

On Thursday 07 November 2002 05:39 pm, Langsley T Russell 
wrote:
 Is there some easy to access the my documents files from
 within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all
 these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe
 that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one
 physical drive in my current system.

 I have many documents there I would like to transfer to
 my Linux, Documents  directory. Is there any way I can
 conveniently do this?

 LTR

Langsley, you actually do not need to transfer anything. 
You can make this D-drive of yours accessible to linux in 
read-write-mode by editing (as root) your /etc/fstab.

In that file, there's a stanza for your hda5. Edit it to 
contain the option umask=0 like this :

iso8859-15,codepage=850,rw,nosuid,umask=0,nodev 0 0...

Save the file and you can use this D-drive from within 
linux. Cool,... eh ?

HTH

Kaj Haulrich


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RE: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:56, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote:
 Hi Steve ,
 
 how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from browser..
 
 Could you please tell me what steps i have to do..
 
 Thanks in advance.
 Ram
Mate, here's something a quick solution:
Boot into your linux system. If you have a graphical login, hit
CONTROL-ALT-F2 or CONTROL-ALT-BACKSPACE - you'll get to a text login.
Now, login. After login, type mouseconfig (if that doesn't bring up the
config util, you can try either /sbin/mouseconfig or
/usr/sbin/mouseconfig)

Follow the steps as presented - making SURE you're choosing either the
Logitech mouse that matches the one yer using, or the closest match to
the USB version you've got.

After that - unless you get errors - either restart by typing reboot, or
power off by typing poweroff...THAT should do ya...lemme know what
happens Ram!
Cheers!
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[newbie] Radeon 9000, xwindows and Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Marty McFly

I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my computer, which has a Radeon 9000 agp 
card in it.  During the install, when the installer came to the point of 
configuring the video settings, that process failed with some error message, 
something like invalid configuration.  I tried to select Radeon several 
times, all with the same effect.  (One would think I'd learn that if a 
computer does something one way once, most likely it will do it the same way 
again.)

I ended up clicking through that process, thinking it was configuring the 
usage of vesa video.  When Mandrake boots it boots just fine up until it 
tries to start xwindows, and that process exits, so no xwindows.

I tried running xf86config.  That said something like there is a correct 
configuration, but there is information missing in the xf86PciInfo.h file

I checked the ATI site, and couldn't find any driver for the 9000 cards.  
Only 8500 and below.

Anyway, I'm wondering if:
  1. Radeon 9000 cards work with Mandrake
  2. Do I need to reinstall (run through the installation process again), 
or is there some configuration I can do in the text files?  or just wait for 
a while

My computer (just put together):
Asus KT400 mb
Athlon 1.667 Ghz
Radeon 9000 agp card

Thanks,
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Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

On Friday 08 Nov 2002 12:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:56, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote:
  Hi Steve ,
 
  how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from
  browser..
 
  Could you please tell me what steps i have to do..
 
  Thanks in advance.
  Ram

 Mate, here's something a quick solution:
 Boot into your linux system. If you have a graphical login, hit
 CONTROL-ALT-F2 or CONTROL-ALT-BACKSPACE - you'll get to a text login.
 Now, login. After login, type mouseconfig (if that doesn't bring up the
 config util, you can try either /sbin/mouseconfig or
 /usr/sbin/mouseconfig)

 Follow the steps as presented - making SURE you're choosing either the
 Logitech mouse that matches the one yer using, or the closest match to
 the USB version you've got.

 After that - unless you get errors - either restart by typing reboot, or
 power off by typing poweroff...THAT should do ya...lemme know what
 happens Ram!
 Cheers!

I think mouseconfig is for RH, in MDK its called mousedrake and you need to 
su to root which means in a terminal type:
su enter
enter_root_password enter

now you can run mousedrake, just type
mousedrake enter

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Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

It crashes several times during use.  (of the just disappears variety) 
This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth
between them.

- Paul


On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
  ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable?  Happen to know
  when an update will come out?
  
  - Paul
 What exactly do you mean by unstable? Does it crash often? Hang?
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Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

Also, with the new version, it no longer will take me to the .com
address of a site that I type in.  For example, if I type in mandrake
it does not take me to mandrake.com.  Know how to fix this?

- Paul



On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
  ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable?  Happen to know
  when an update will come out?
  
  - Paul
 What exactly do you mean by unstable? Does it crash often? Hang?
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RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

I hadn't thought of that, Sephen.  I assumed since I upgraded from a
system with sawfish, sawfish would remain.  I see no option in any of
the gnome menus to change window manager, or anything that mentions
metacity.  There is a sawfish folder, though.  How do I find out which
wm i am using?

- Paul


On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 17:21, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: 
  So does that make this an official bug?  Anybody know how to file it?
  
  - Paul
  
  On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 13:41, Sharrea wrote:
  On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 4:34 am, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
  Has anybody gotten sawfish configuration to work in 9.0?  Anytime I
  click on any of the sawfish config programs in the gnome config
  menu, none of the programs open.
  
  - Paul Rodriguez
  
  Same here.  Been wondering 'bout that myself...
  
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 I think that part of the issue is to ask whether or not you changed the
 actual window manager from MetaCity to Sawfish in the first place...if
 you didn't change the window manager, then nothing Sawfish will work.
 I'm working on getting rid of MetaCity right now as I just don't like
 it...rather have Sawfish...and having problems with installing it via
 RPM as well as source...digging up the necessary libs and getting them
 linked properly is a pain...then again, if I could only get Gnome2
 removed and go back to the old-faithful Gnome 1.4 - had a lot more
 features and was a tad more configurable...
 
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Re: [newbie] mdk 9 with tamil

A related question...
(not an answer, unfortunately)

Is it possible to switch on-the-fly from roman letters to devanagari
when writing a file in openoffice (or any other word processor)?  Is it
just a question of switching fonts usually?

- Paul



On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:15, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
 I installed mdk 9 with tamil language support.
 As user, in control center selecting various keyboards didn't allow me to type 
 in tamil. As root I changed the keyboard in hardware. Then I could type tamil 
 letters. But unfortunately, by trial and error also I couldn't find all tamil 
 letters. ie tha or dha and also . above letters(mei ezhuththukkal). Can I get 
 tscii keyboard layout used in mdk9 and how to get various combinations. I 
 tried http://www.tamil.net/tscii/. I couldn't find. Can I get correct url for 
 the same.
 
 -- 
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Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:57, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
 It crashes several times during use.  (of the just disappears variety) 
 This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth
 between them.
 
 - Paul
Does the same thing happen when you're using Galeon in a different WM or
desktop? If you're currently using it inside of GNOME2, does the same
thing happen when you're using KDE3 or any other WM?

Also, you can try this: Open up a term, do an su, then run:

galeon-config-tool --clean
galeon-config-tool --clean-schemas
galeon-config-tool --fix-gconf-permissions

...then restart Galeon and see if the issues are resolved or not.

You can also delete the .galeon directory from your home directory which
will cause Galeon to have to reconfigure itself for you...

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[newbie] Another breakthrough for Linux!

Not exactly OT, Mandrake now comes pre-installed in New Zealand!

Yet another breakthrough for Linux.  From 
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/0611226mode=thread :

Vik Olliver writes Here in New Zealand, the area's major Australia/NZ 
electronics retailer Dick Smiths Electronics (DSE) is now selling PCs with 
Mandrake Linux  OpenOffice pre-installed for roughly 2/3 the price of 
Microsoft-encumbered boxes; NZ$1099 or about US$540. That price includes a 
17 monitor and tax...

Apparently someone from nzlug phoned DSE to enquire about these PCs and they 
have already sold out and are getting more.  They were surprised at how 
fast they went.  AFAIK they have only been available from the start of the 
week!

This is excellent news indeed!!

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RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:03, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
 I hadn't thought of that, Sephen.  I assumed since I upgraded from a
 system with sawfish, sawfish would remain.  I see no option in any of
 the gnome menus to change window manager, or anything that mentions
 metacity.  There is a sawfish folder, though.  How do I find out which
 wm i am using?
 
I think it's rather safe to say that you're using MetaCity as the WM for
Gnome2 - even though you STILL have the /usr/share/sawfish folders after
your upgrade.

I'm currently trying to figure out a nice way to make Sawfish (or
Enlightenment for that matter) my WM for Gnome2 as I really don't like
MetaCity and it's lack of luster or themes...once I have it kicked,
I'll tell ya more on how I did it...(else I'm going to knock out Gnome2
and go back to trusty and faithful Gnome 1.4!)
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Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

Grr.. I've been selling stuff on ebay and it crashes ALL the time.

- Paul

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 18:57, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
 It crashes several times during use.  (of the just disappears variety) 
 This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth
 between them.
 
 - Paul
 
 
 On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
  On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
   ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable?  Happen to know
   when an update will come out?
   
   - Paul
  What exactly do you mean by unstable? Does it crash often? Hang?
  -- 
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  Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take
  the time to take the dirt out of them?
  
  
  
 
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Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:22, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
 Grr.. I've been selling stuff on ebay and it crashes ALL the time.
 
 - Paul
Maybe that's a FEATURE and not a BUG? (grin)
Have you tried the galeon-config-tool in the previous messages?

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RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

Any way to check which wm is running, though?

- P

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:03, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
  I hadn't thought of that, Sephen.  I assumed since I upgraded from a
  system with sawfish, sawfish would remain.  I see no option in any of
  the gnome menus to change window manager, or anything that mentions
  metacity.  There is a sawfish folder, though.  How do I find out which
  wm i am using?
  
 I think it's rather safe to say that you're using MetaCity as the WM for
 Gnome2 - even though you STILL have the /usr/share/sawfish folders after
 your upgrade.
 
 I'm currently trying to figure out a nice way to make Sawfish (or
 Enlightenment for that matter) my WM for Gnome2 as I really don't like
 MetaCity and it's lack of luster or themes...once I have it kicked,
 I'll tell ya more on how I did it...(else I'm going to knock out Gnome2
 and go back to trusty and faithful Gnome 1.4!)
 -- 
 Fri Nov  8 11:10:00 EST 2002
 
 
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Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable


 You can also delete the .galeon directory from your home directory which
 will cause Galeon to have to reconfigure itself for you...

I wanted to try this from the beginning, but am not sure what file needs
to stay to keep the bookmarks.  I'll try the other commands first.

tHnaks.

- paul



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[newbie] TOTAL MESS! [was: switching video cads (what do i need to do?)]

Yikes!  I took out my ATI card and put in the nvidia card.  Would not
startx at all.  Kudzu did not recognize the change.  I then ran xfdrake,
told it I was using a generic Nvidia Geforce4.  Wouldn't startx.

I downloaded the nvidia drivers, installed them, edited my XFree config
file, and voilá!  X and 3D acceleration!  Sweet!  glxgears and that 3d
lightcycle game ran great.  Then I did 3 things:

1)  Changed the driver/module that dealt with the sound card to emuk101
or whatever in hardrake for my creative live! sound card.

2) Changed the shorewall settings to allow SSH access.

3) Then, when I was done with that, I tried to run Chromium.  This
locked my system up.  I could not do anything but wait (5 min) then
reset the computer.

The computer was totally messed up and would not startx, connect to the
internet at all (I have a cable modem and it said something about not
being able to initialize IPv6), and I also noticed that it would not
save my bash history when I restart my computer.

I think the only thing I can do is try a fresh reinstall.

But no clue what happened.

- Paul


On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:04, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
 Hi, I just swapped my incompatible ATI 8500 for a more compatible
 GeForce4 on recommendation of the list.  Is there any prepping I need to
 do to my system before I switch cards?  Can I just swap out the cards
 first and then install the drivers?  Or do I need to edit inittab to
 start are runlevel 3, switch cards, and install nvidia drivers, then
 switch back to runlevel 5?
 
 - Paul Rodriguez
 
 
 
 
 
 

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[newbie] .NET under Linux ?

2002-11-07 Thread Jester DEV

I heard a while back that C# was going to be ported
to linux. Or atleast the .NET framework. Anyone have
some links with info? Searching brings up nothing...



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RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:36, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
 Any way to check which wm is running, though?
 
 - P
What about opening up a term and typing:
pstree -nal | more
or
ps -aux
...that should show you what's running...(or gtop - if you have that)

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The smallness of it is what's attractive.  It's weird, 'cause it's so
intellectually lame.  It's hard to see me doing that for the rest of
my life.  But at the same time, it's what I do best.
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Re: [newbie] Another breakthrough for Linux!

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:20, Sharrea wrote:
 Not exactly OT, Mandrake now comes pre-installed in New Zealand!
 
 Yet another breakthrough for Linux.  From 
 http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/0611226mode=thread :
 
 Vik Olliver writes Here in New Zealand, the area's major Australia/NZ 
 electronics retailer Dick Smiths Electronics (DSE) is now selling PCs with 
 Mandrake Linux  OpenOffice pre-installed for roughly 2/3 the price of 
 Microsoft-encumbered boxes; NZ$1099 or about US$540. That price includes a 
 17 monitor and tax...
 
 Apparently someone from nzlug phoned DSE to enquire about these PCs and they 
 have already sold out and are getting more.  They were surprised at how 
 fast they went.  AFAIK they have only been available from the start of the 
 week!
 
 This is excellent news indeed!!
 
 Sharrea
Yet another reason why I try to steer customers into purchasing
computers with linux pre-installed - and if they're UNSURE, I do a
dual-boot for 'em...gives'em the impetus to at least give it a go when
they're sick of Windoze...

-S
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|  ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|  smk  ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389
|  '  `-`'   |


A lot of the stuff I do is so minimal, and it's designed to be minimal.
The smallness of it is what's attractive.  It's weird, 'cause it's so
intellectually lame.  It's hard to see me doing that for the rest of
my life.  But at the same time, it's what I do best.
- Chris Elliot, writer and performer on Late Night with David
Letterman


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Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Anthony Abby

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:
 
 shouldn't that cd be bootable itself?

Yes, generally unless his hardware doesn't support it, or unless he
actually burned the .iso file to the cd itself.

Anthony



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Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:43, Sharrea wrote:
 I think mouseconfig is for RH, in MDK its called mousedrake and you need to 
 su to root which means in a terminal type:
 su enter
 enter_root_password enter
 
 now you can run mousedrake, just type
 mousedrake enter
 
 Sharrea
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(g) Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware...keep forgetting which one I'm in...my
bad...
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Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:44, Anthony Abby wrote:
 On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:
  
  shouldn't that cd be bootable itself?
 
 Yes, generally unless his hardware doesn't support it, or unless he
 actually burned the .iso file to the cd itself.
 
 Anthony
The CD MIGHT be a bootable CD - but what I'd really like to know is how
is the boot disk being created, what are the errors (if any) and what
color is the other side of the moon in June...

Meanwhile, if a bootable diskette can't be made properly from the ISO
that he downloaded, maybe a MDKv9 bootdisk could be put up on someone's
ftp site for download for the poor guy?

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Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev

I guess, I forget to think like a tech.  Sorry.  Anyways 
good luck with 9.0 
I enjoy it at work as my desktop system very much.  KDE 3 
rocks


On 07 Nov 2002 20:44:53 -0500
 Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:


shouldn't that cd be bootable itself?


Yes, generally unless his hardware doesn't support it, or 
unless he
actually burned the .iso file to the cd itself.

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RE: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Werner

I ran the dosutils/rawwrite.exe program to create my boot floppy under
windows.  When you run that program, you have to point to the
images/cdrom.img file to create the floppy.  Is that what you did?

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Greg
 Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:34 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [newbie] Installing 9.0

   Hi every one   I ordered 9.0  from Mandrakes web site but have
 no word on when they will get here   So I figured I would
 download it and burn my own from the download  I downloaded 9.0
 and burned a cd  but when I try to make a boot disk to a floppy
 the is nothing on the floppyI never had any trouble  before
 with the disks that I bought  Any ideas   Thanks  Greg

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Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi

On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 10:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
 These are _real_ cheap generic CDR's from OfficeMax, $11 for a 50
 spindle.  I can always write successfully to 'em a 8x (max for my
 burner). I suspect 'Indicated writing power: 5' (below) doesn't refer
 to max writing speed as (IRRC) the label on the spindle said they were
 good for 16x. FWIW tho, anything important to me I burn at 4x.

 tom$ cdrecord -atip dev=0,3,0
 Cdrecord 1.11a36 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
 Schilling
 scsidev: '0,3,0'
 scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0
 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
 Device type: Removable CD-ROM
 Version: 0
 Response Format: 1
 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR '
 Identifikation : 'CD-R   PX-W8432T'
 Revision   : '1.09'
 Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
 Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
 Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO
 Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P
 RAW/R96R
 ATIP info from disk:
   Indicated writing power: 5
   Is not unrestricted
   Is not erasable
   Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2)
   ATIP start of lead in:  -11634 (97:26/66)
   ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
 Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
 Manuf. index: 3
 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
I have checked for one Sony cdr and mits cdrw.
I see speed in rw not r any explanation?
cdr
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 5
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3)
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11839 (97:24/11)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type:Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
Manuf. index: 24
Manufacturer: SONY Corporation

cdrw
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 6
  Reference speed: 2
  Is not unrestricted
  Is erasable
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11078 (97:34/22)
  ATIP start of lead out: 336075 (74:43/00)
  speed low: 0 speed high: 4
  power mult factor: 3 5
  recommended erase/write power: 3
  A2 values: 5C C6 26
Disk type:Phase change
Manuf. index: 11
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

what is Reference speed? how is connected to Indicated writing power. Then
what is recommended erase/write power? there is no recommended erase/write
power for cdr. why?

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[newbie] usb external modems

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi

Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also 
winmodem?

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[newbie] networking advice

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi

I have 4 PCs.
3 on dual boot with linux and windows(98 or me)and one win98se.
one has built in 8139 lan card. How should I go for networking these?
1)what is the optimum ways if I have to include a few more PCs. Dual boot ones 
can be made only linux ones.
2)what should I get in hardware?
3)How to go about in configuring software so that peripherals like printer, 
modem attached one can be used by other and files can be shared?
As a newbie in networking i need initiation and advice

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[newbie] Connecting to Internet

2002-11-07 Thread Antonio R.

Hi everybody:

I’ve just installed Mandrake Linux on my computer and it looks really cool, but I 
don’t know how to connect to the internet, and my IP doesn’t give help to linux 
users and the worst problem is that I use my computer as the server of my house and 
there are two other computers connected to mine, so…

I need someone to help me, step by step, on how to configure my internet connection 
and who do I set up my computer as a server, or at least, can anybody tell me where 
can I read in the internet information concerning about this?

OK, I have and DSL connection with external modem and I don’t know where to find my 
Domain Name and my DNS servers nor nothing, so I need to find all the information to 
connect either.

And by the way, can anybody tell me how to configure my keyboard because it has an 
English configuration and I need to configure it to Spanish.

Well, that is all. Please, help me with this ☺!

TIA

Antonio R.
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ICQ: 18319148
 
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Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

On Friday 08 Nov 2002 11:11 am, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
 ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable?  Happen to know
 when an update will come out?

Sounds like you _may_ have a package missing... but I wouldn't have a clue 
which one...?  I use galeon ALL the time and haven't had a crash yet (in 
KDE, MDK9.0).  Hopefully someone will have an answer for you.

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Re: [newbie] usb external modems

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:50, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
 Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also 
 winmodem?
 
I've gotten several WinModems to work under linux - it's just a matter
of finding out the chipset and finding the proper source code to compile
(which can be a puzzling game in itself) - but overall, there is:
http://www.linmodems.org
...which is a great help for getting WinModems to be LinModems...
(Same basic idea applies to USB modems - because USB modems can still be
WinModems - which means they are dependent upon the OS to make them
work!)

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[newbie] OT - bit of a laugh

This, from a RH Ask Shadowman website 
(http://www.redhat.com/advice/ask_shadowman.html), made me laugh:

Senthil K hung out with some drunken sailors and heckled:
i thot linux was some [Expletive deleted] alternative to windows. but after 
using it for more than a [Expletive deleted] year, linux cant even come to 
touch the [Vulgar euphemism deleted] of windows. if windows is user 
frendly, linux is [Expletive deleted] user unfrendly. i wish linux 
completely dies out from this world.

Shadowman says:
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Shadowman hates to lose users to 
The Dark SideTM, but in this case; don't let the door hit ya where the good 
lord split ya and learn to [Expletive deleted] spell.

Thought someone else here might enjoy it too.
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Re: [newbie] networking advice

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:50, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
 I have 4 PCs.
 3 on dual boot with linux and windows(98 or me)and one win98se.
 one has built in 8139 lan card. How should I go for networking these?
 1)what is the optimum ways if I have to include a few more PCs. Dual boot ones 
 can be made only linux ones.
If you install/configure SAMBA (SMB) on the linux machines, and use
regular Windows networking on the Windoze machines, you should be good
to go. As long as you configure them all for the same workgroup...

 2)what should I get in hardware?
As long as your network cards are compatible cards - linux should pick
them up right off the bat. The only hardware you'll need is either a hub
or a switch...and how many machines would dictate how many ports you
need...

 3)How to go about in configuring software so that peripherals like printer, 
 modem attached one can be used by other and files can be shared?
 As a newbie in networking i need initiation and advice

Modem sharing is a wide area - but if you're talking about sharing your
internet connection, you can do that from either linux or
Windoze...sharing other devices - printers and hard drives - is rather
easy in Windoze - but once again, you have to make sure to
install/configure SAMBA in order to share with the Windoze machines...
 
 -- 
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Re: [newbie] Connecting to Internet

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:21, Antonio R. wrote:
 Hi everybody:
 
 I’ve just installed Mandrake Linux on my computer and it looks really cool, but I 
don’t know how to connect to the internet, and my IP doesn’t give help to linux 
users and the worst problem is that I use my computer as the server of my house and 
there are two other computers connected to mine, so…
 
 I need someone to help me, step by step, on how to configure my internet connection 
and who do I set up my computer as a server, or at least, can anybody tell me where 
can I read in the internet information concerning about this?
 
 OK, I have and DSL connection with external modem and I don’t know where to find 
my Domain Name and my DNS servers nor nothing, so I need to find all the information 
to connect either.
 
 And by the way, can anybody tell me how to configure my keyboard because it has an 
English configuration and I need to configure it to Spanish.
 
 Well, that is all. Please, help me with this ☺!
 
 TIA
 
 Antonio R.
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 ICQ: 18319148
  
 Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
 James Dean (1931-1955)
1.) You're going to need to get the DNS/DHCP information from your ISP
for your DSL/ADSL connection along with username and password - unless
it's got a static IP - you might want to call your ISP or surf to their
website to see if there's info about it.
2.), 3.) and the rest - all dependent on what you can get from 1.) !!!

Via con Dios!

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VII:
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Re: [newbie] OT - bit of a laugh