Re: [newbie-it] KREATECD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:10, venerdì 8 novembre 2002, hai scritto: puoi usare gnome toaster e non hai bisogno di emulare in scsi e' sufficiente aggiungere la periferica /dev/hdb :) ciao Beh anche con k3b, se vogliamo dirla tutta. :- Ciao Sandro - -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - A.I.P. n° 2075 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 8.2 on PIII 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9zMKY/ayi1TbZzlQRAhIsAKCZfuf9ZovtSd8XtTqt68/7CG3tPACdH6H7 m3H49mcypcC7uJoCr5bPDC8= =Wl9+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] backup
Ciao a tutti, finalmente la MDK 9.0 è arrivata nei negozi! Prima di procedere all'installazione, vorrei però alcune informazioni... (GRAZIE!) Per imparare una cosa nuova, vorrei stavolta eseguire il backup dei dati della mia partizione /home da linea di comando. Ho letto le pagine man dei comandi di masterizzazione, ma preferirei avere un consiglio dagli utenti più esperti di me... qualcuno saprebbe indicarmi i comandi attraverso cui copiare su CD *tutto* il contenuto della cartella /home? Buon fine settimana a tutti... Daniele
[newbie-it] star office o open office?
Ultima email, prometto! ;) Avendo acquistato il PowerPack, nei CD c'è anche StarOffice 6... qualcuno lo ha già provato? Sa dirmi se ci sono differenze rilevanti rispetto ad OpenOffice? La compatibilità tra i due programmi? (posso scambiare tranquillamente documenti tra SO ed OO?) Grazie a chi vorrà rispondermi... Daniele ** Fine delle domande **
Re: [newbie-it] Alice, ericsson b-quick mandrake 9.0
- Original Message - From: legioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 12:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Alice, ericsson b-quick mandrake 9.0 è supportato intanto? ti dico questo perchè quando ho sottoscritto la dsl con telecom; all'epoca si chiamava ancora BBB, l'ericsson non era supportato e me ne sono comprato uno mio. raffaele Ho mandato un' e-mail direttamente a Telecom e sai cosa mi hanno risposto? Che di Linux se ne strasbattono. AGH!
Re: [newbie-it] Alice, ericsson b-quick mandrake 9.0
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:47:42 +0100, Roberto Briano wrote: > >- Original Message - >From: "legioni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 12:09 AM >Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Alice, ericsson b-quick mandrake 9.0 > > >> è supportato intanto? >> ti dico questo perchè quando ho sottoscritto la dsl con telecom; all'epoca >> si chiamava ancora BBB, l'ericsson non era supportato e me ne sono >comprato >> uno mio. >> >> raffaele >> >Ho mandato un' e-mail direttamente a Telecom e sai cosa mi hanno risposto? >Che di Linux se ne strasbattono. >AGH! > Prova a guardare in http://www.hctechnews.org/modules.php?name=Downloads alla voce globespan adsl
Re: [newbie-it] cartella home
Daniele Micci wrote: Nuovamente ciao a tutti... Seconda parte della richiesta di informazioni (ho diviso i problemi in email separate per non mischiare argomenti diversi, e garantire l'efficacia della ricerca futura nell'archivio della ML). Nella futura installazione, vorrei mettere la cartella /home su una partizione tutta sua (così da non dover necessariamente, la prossima volta, copiare i file per non perderli). Quindi mi chiedo: * non c'è il rischio, all'installazione di una futura versione, che i file di configurazione di KDE, GNOME, e dei vari programmi che uso creino qualche problema alla nuova installazione? * quanto spazio mi conviene lasciare (considerando che in /home ci sono due utenti)? Grazie ancora a tutti... Daniele Ottima intuizione , io faccio sempre cosi' e mi sono concesso il lusso di passare attraverso 9 diverse installazioni di mandrake 9 dalla prima cooker in poi. Le dimensioni delle partizioni sono cmq soggettive e dipendenti dallo spazio che hai a disposizione. Una mandrake per uso workstation con un po' di tool di sviluppo , un bel po' di librerie, magari con un uso anche sporadico come server samba e ftp , unito a java sono all'incirca a 2gb per esperienza ti dico che 3 gb per la root sono sufficienti ma, come sempre lo spazio piu' è meglio è. discorso diverso invece per /home : considera che qui ci vanno a finire tutti gli mp3 , tutte le foto i filmati che ti scarichi con limewire o qtella, ci vanno tutte le email , tutti i log della chat insomma questa si gonfia di dati soprattutto se hai una adsl poi per quel che rigarda il fastidio dei .kde o .gnome direi che e' pressochè nullo ed al limite si risolve con un'aggiustatina ai menù. direi che per questa domanda sia tutto ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] star office o open office?
Daniele Micci wrote: Ultima email, prometto! ;) Avendo acquistato il PowerPack, nei CD c'è anche StarOffice 6... qualcuno lo ha già provato? Sa dirmi se ci sono differenze rilevanti rispetto ad OpenOffice? La compatibilità tra i due programmi? (posso scambiare tranquillamente documenti tra SO ed OO?) Grazie a chi vorrà rispondermi... Daniele ** Fine delle domande ** qui non parlo per esperienza ma per letto sul web la compatibilità tra i diversi formati è sicura certa e stabile credo che tra staroffice e opnoffice intercorra la differenza che passa tra mozilla e netscape , cioè non sono altro che versioni con l'aggiunta di qualche tools proprietario, magari di java, di qualche template in più e magari ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] KREATECD
Grazie Andrea,(anche per il buon fine settimana) ma dovresti spiegarmi come fare a mettere in emulazione scasi il cdrom.mi rendo conto di essere molto ignorante! grazie ancora mario Fare l'emulazione SCSI del cdrom è molto facile (anche considerato che possiedi già un kernel compilato ad hoc...): cerca dentro lilo.conf la linea (che troverai nella parte che riguarda il kernel che usi abitualmente) append seguita da una serie di opzioni tra apici separate da spazi. Aggiungi in fondo alle altre opzioni l'istruzione: hdX=ide-scsi dove X è la lettera del tuo dispositivo. Riavvia il computer. Il sistema adesso riconoscerà il tuo cdrom non più come /dev/hdX ma come /dev/scd1 (verifica che tale device sia effettivamente il cdrom provando ad esempio a montarlo specificando il device (leggiti man mount)). Per il corretto funzionamento devi allora fare in modo che il link /dev/cdrom punti adesso a /dev/scd1 (leggiti man ln). Il gioco è fatto. Ciao, Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] star office o open office?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:23, sabato 9 novembre 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] star office o open office?, francesco.melo ha scritto: [¢ut] qualche tools proprietario, magari di java, di qualche template in più e magari e magari qualche soldino.. ;-) bye! - - jv - ~~~ mdk 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 l.u. # 245448 l.m # 126972 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9zVmdoD2O62YfgMARAvVpAJ4kxJ66+wuvAeQrQApvl6B83I/2FwCfbvE3 5E7Av5QVo8+x3v+8ASEGdOU= =8a+l -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] star office o open office?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rispondo al tuo post news:20021109105600.8064C1428C5;yavin.mandrax.org del 09 nov 2002 su newbie-it.linux-mandrake.com : Avendo acquistato il PowerPack, nei CD c'è anche StarOffice 6... qualcuno lo ha già provato? Sa dirmi se ci sono differenze rilevanti rispetto ad OpenOffice? La compatibilità tra i due programmi? (posso scambiare tranquillamente documenti tra SO ed OO?) Grazie a chi vorrà rispondermi... Dovrebbero essere pienamente compatibili. Di Star Office 6 pero' ho gia' sentito dire tutto il male possibile, del genere beta instabile rilasciata per soldi, assistenza (pagata) inesistente e anche di peggio. Io uso OpenOffice.org sia su Linux che su Windows, e devo ammettere di trovarvi benissimo. - -- Io vivo in un sogno dal quale non riesco a destarmi. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.5.13 iD8DBQE9zVslwjmv7BGDxqcRAsDEAJ9saO5FAWLzZ3bWkfzsI6KS4hOgugCfRZC1 oU8vdu5KKECTDTaEZoWXcdA= =OH3F -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto
Ho notato che spegnendo il PC ( e non resettando), l'installazione della MDK 8.2, installa x correttamente Ma continuo a chiedermi perche'? Alle 17:46, venerdì 8 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutti, Dopo aver provato la Mandrake 8.2, ho pensato di fare un aggiornamento alla 9.0. Le prime volte il server X ha funzionato benissimo, ad un certo punto, ha smesso di lavorare. Quando avvio kde, si pianta il mouse al centro della schermata nera, e sono costretto a fare un reboot Allora o pensato di reinstallare Mandrake 9.0 formattando tutte le partizioni il risultato e' rimasto sempre lo stesso (Strano!), allora ho reinstallato la 8.2, ma niente Ora mi chiedo ho formattato tutte le partizioni Linux, ho effettuato un fdisk/mbr, i settaggi impostati durante l'installazione sono giusti ALLORA PERCHE' NON FUNZIONA??? Grazie a tutti!
[newbie-it] Informazione tecnica
Qualcuno sa' dirmi se c'e un limite al valore del PID??? Ovvero il PID e' un numero progressivo, che aumenta ad ogni processo creato, ma ad un certo punto dovra' pur reiniziare da 1, altrimenti se per assurdo ho infiniti processi, avrei un PID infinito. Grazie a tutti!!! \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://www.santarella.too.it Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] backup
Alle 11:52, sabato 9 novembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] backup, Daniele Micci hai scritto: Rispondo e domando a mia volta, sempre a proposito di backup. finalmente la MDK 9.0 è arrivata nei negozi! Prima di procedere all'installazione, vorrei però alcune informazioni... (GRAZIE!) Ma durante l'installazione non puoi semplicemente fare l'upgrade, senza perdere le tue configurazioni? Credo di si', ma vorrei conferma dai piu' esperti. Per imparare una cosa nuova, vorrei stavolta eseguire il backup dei dati della mia partizione /home da linea di comando. Ho letto le pagine man dei comandi di masterizzazione, ma preferirei avere un consiglio dagli utenti più esperti di me... qualcuno saprebbe indicarmi i comandi attraverso cui copiare su CD *tutto* il contenuto della cartella /home? Oddio, con tutto penso tu intenda anche i file nascosti... io, fossi in te, proverei (anzi, appena ho un attimo provo, mi hai stuzzicato) a fare un'immagine con mkisofs della cartella suddetta e poi, invece di masterizzarla, la monterei per vedere se ha messo tutto. Credo comunque ci sia un'ozione per comprendere tutti i file, guarda nel man. -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto
- Original Message - From: Benedetto Santarella [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto Ho notato che spegnendo il PC ( e non resettando), l'installazione della MDK 8.2, installa x correttamente Ma continuo a chiedermi perche'? ad un pc di un amico con scheda sis 3236(non sono sicuro del numero) c'era un problema: ogni volta che si resettava, x non partiva; quando si andava ad accendere il pc si avviava correttamente; dopo avere sbattuto la testa ci siamo accorti che ciò accadeva in quanto nel driver di winzozz c'era un file che aggiornava virtualmente il firmware della scheda tramite un comando nel config.sys e se non si spegneva il pc sto file restava in memoria (eliminando la riga non partiva winzozz). potrebbe essere un problema simile al tuo? Alle 17:46, venerdì 8 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutti, Dopo aver provato la Mandrake 8.2, ho pensato di fare un aggiornamento alla 9.0. Le prime volte il server X ha funzionato benissimo, ad un certo punto, ha smesso di lavorare. Quando avvio kde, si pianta il mouse al centro della schermata nera, e sono costretto a fare un reboot Allora o pensato di reinstallare Mandrake 9.0 formattando tutte le partizioni il risultato e' rimasto sempre lo stesso (Strano!), allora ho reinstallato la 8.2, ma niente Ora mi chiedo ho formattato tutte le partizioni Linux, ho effettuato un fdisk/mbr, i settaggi impostati durante l'installazione sono giusti ALLORA PERCHE' NON FUNZIONA??? Grazie a tutti!
[newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities
My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some disks run without problems, but others crash the system. This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else met it? Are there any solutions? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking advice
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 18:12, Erik Farnsworth wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:45, teddy wl wrote: 1.for connecting all your PC you need ethernet card for every PC. configuring the IP address ex. 192.168.1.0/24 if you do not understand the IP you must read the basic of TCP/IP or i sugestion to you, to enter this address for your PC's : PC 1 : 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 PC 2: 192.168.1.2 netmask same above PC 3:192.168.1.3 netmask same above PC 4: 192.168.1.4 netmask same above I'm a little confused here. with the example above (and I admit that I have never worked with a home network that included Windows machines)... I would expect to see: network base address:192.168.1.0/29 or 192.168.1.0 netmask: 255.255.255.248 PC 1:192.168.1.1 PC 2:192.168.1.2 PC 3:192.168.1.3 PC 4:192.168.1.4 broadcast address: 192.168.1.5 I have seen several examples of networking as stated above by Teddy...but don't understand how that setup would be 'legal' (in the networking sense) and would work properly. I would expect a netmask of 255.255.255.0 for each of the machines would indicate that each machine was authoritative for an entire Class C network. I plan to set up my own home network soon (no windows machines, but several linux PCs and a mandrake iMac and an OS X iBook)...and I want to do it correctly, but without 'overkill'. Could someone with networking experience add a few cents to this, please? There is no reason why you can't use an entire class C network at home for your 2,3 or 4 host network, besides, the private address range in use here is actually a class B (192.168.0.0/16) and there would be no problem using that either. It would just mean that you have one network and shit loads (256^2-2) of unique host addresses available. By using CIDR (Classless Inter Domain Routing) you ignore the native class of the network and adjust the mask to suit your requirements of unique networks/unique hosts. The tighter you make your mask (adding bits to the default class mask), the more unique networks you have available, while limiting the amount of unique hosts that you can have per network. By the way, your example is incorrect. A 29 bit mask (255.255.255.248) will give you 6 possible hosts with 0 being the network address, 6 hosts, and 7 being the broadcast address. The way I like to think of it is in lots of 256. 256-248=8, minus 2 for your network and broadcast addresses and you are left with 6 possible hosts. 256/8=32, so you would be able to have 32 separate networks with 6 hosts each. There is really no need to go to the trouble of subnetting to this extent, however, unless you have need for multiple networks. I hope that my explanation has been understandable :) Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:12, Anne Wilson wrote: My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some disks run without problems, but others crash the system. This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else met it? Are there any solutions? Anne If you do a RIGHT-CLICK on MY COMPUTER, choose PROPERTIES, then choose DEVICE MANAGER, then highlight the DVD drive in the CDROM/DVDROM drives section, you should be able to set the actual settings to USE DMA - which you'll have to reboot the box...but that is the general fix for that issue. As well, make sure the DVD's are clean - meaning no fingerprints, scratches and the likes... -- Sat Nov 9 19:55:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | I was working on a case. It had to be a case, because I couldn't afford a desk. Then I saw her. This tall blond lady. She must have been tall because I was on the third floor. She rolled her deep blue eyes towards me. I picked them up and rolled them back. We kissed. She screamed. I took the cigarette from my mouth and kissed her again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...
I downloaded the NVIDIA drivers for a test machine - not hard to do. Got the GLX driver and the source for the NVIDIA driver proper. Not hard to do. Started to compile the driver and found : I DON'T HAVE THE DAMN KERNEL SOURCES for 2.4.29-16mdk ! Mad mad mad I am now. Searched high and low through the file structures - even found that there is a softlink in the /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk directory called BUILD which is broken. Gads! Being that I ONLY have the two installation CD's from a magazine promo, am I missing that ONE BLOODY VITAL SOURCE RPM that probably lives on the THIRD CD - ?? I don't want to download the frigging kernel source...and I have a mate that's currently gone for the weekend that has the third VITAL CD - or am I chasing ghosts here? And that really does irk me - because I like to recompile my kernels...(as well as have proper video drivers for my X system...) Any insights, y'all? -- Sat Nov 9 20:00:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Second Law of Final Exams: In your toughest final -- for the first time all year -- the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...
Sorry, mate. CD3 33.1 MB On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 03:05, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I downloaded the NVIDIA drivers for a test machine - not hard to do. Got the GLX driver and the source for the NVIDIA driver proper. Not hard to do. Started to compile the driver and found : I DON'T HAVE THE DAMN KERNEL SOURCES for 2.4.29-16mdk ! Mad mad mad I am now. Searched high and low through the file structures - even found that there is a softlink in the /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk directory called BUILD which is broken. Gads! Being that I ONLY have the two installation CD's from a magazine promo, am I missing that ONE BLOODY VITAL SOURCE RPM that probably lives on the THIRD CD - ?? I don't want to download the frigging kernel source...and I have a mate that's currently gone for the weekend that has the third VITAL CD - or am I chasing ghosts here? And that really does irk me - because I like to recompile my kernels...(as well as have proper video drivers for my X system...) Any insights, y'all? -- Sat Nov 9 20:00:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Second Law of Final Exams: In your toughest final -- for the first time all year -- the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:25, Erik Farnsworth wrote: Sorry, mate. CD3 33.1 MB 33.1mb for the whole ISO, or just the kernel? ...if that's the kernel, I might actually attempt to download it tonight... -- Sat Nov 9 20:45:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it a little. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compiling KDE apps
Hi, Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. I have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the ./configure saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from texstar and have both packages installed. So why can't the includes be found? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities
On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 9:00 am, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:12, Anne Wilson wrote: My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some disks run without problems, but others crash the system. This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else met it? Are there any solutions? Anne If you do a RIGHT-CLICK on MY COMPUTER, choose PROPERTIES, then choose DEVICE MANAGER, then highlight the DVD drive in the CDROM/DVDROM drives section, you should be able to set the actual settings to USE DMA - which you'll have to reboot the box...but that is the general fix for that issue. As well, make sure the DVD's are clean - meaning no fingerprints, scratches and the likes... Thanks, Stephen. I've forwarded your reply to her, but I think she is away for the weekend, so I'll talk her through it after that - she has no confidence at all. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...
33.1MB is the properties listing for the kernel source file. HTH. Erik On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 03:51, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:25, Erik Farnsworth wrote: Sorry, mate. CD3 33.1 MB 33.1mb for the whole ISO, or just the kernel? ...if that's the kernel, I might actually attempt to download it tonight... -- Sat Nov 9 20:45:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it a little. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb external modems
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Friday 08 Nov 2002 1:02 PM, John Richard Smith wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: Whether all USB external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? I tired a few USB modems which were sold to me as hardware controlled, I returned them, none of the USB dialup modems are hardware controlled they all need software.TI don't think the situation has changed. In any case what's wrong with a nice serial port hardware controlled dialup modem. You don't need to be plugging modems in and out all the time. I am thinking of going for pIV. Most MBs have only one serial port. I need that serial port for my handheld connection. Hence I am thinking of USB modems. Further whether 56Kbps USB modem will be better than its serial counterpart? OK, that's a good reason, do you have a parallel port spare, as many hardware controlled modems can plug in both. As for USB , in my experience , admitedly that is limited , all the hype about faster speed from usb ports is just that, hype, it's just that so much is going USB , one cannot be out of it. For instance, I have a usb printer that can also be parallel port, and just for a simple test on my own behalf , I sent the same print job on the same computer via both ports to that printer , and I could not detect any difference at all. I wonder what if anything is other people's experiences. I believe , by all means correct me if I'm wrong, that there isn't in everyday ordinary user terms much if any difference between serial, parallel,and usb the only exception in my limited experience is scsi devices which are better at handling data. So right now I doubt if you would notice any difference between a usb modem, and any other connection type. Of course I don't have ADSL, maybe things a different there. What are other peoples experiences , I for one would be interested. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo nopnpbios
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 08 Nov 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to put into lilo this line linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset and Mandrake 9. Is this true and exactly how and where does one do this? Thanks. Marcia No , I don't think that is right , Marcia, least it was not right for me. I needed that addition to the append line because of not wanting the boot to hang on Plug and play detection, hense nobiospnp, it was something to do with not wanting the os to look at bios settings in regard to pnp detection.Anyway it had nothing to do with the via soundchip situation. Though you too may need that same line for the same reasons as I did. For the record:- append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp John John, I have to have bios pnp enabled for win98 boots, and have wondered if that is the cause of some of my problems. If I try this append, do I simply add it for the cd-rw and for the cd-dvd (the one that isn't scsi configured for some reason)? I presume that for the second one it would be ...hdx=ide nobiospnp? Anne The addition of nobiospnp is just that nothing to do with the scsi-em additions, it has to go somewhere in the append line, needn't be at the end but within the quote marks. I guess the append line is basically there for the purpose of adding corrections to the boot process, so other things can go there to, like memory limitations and such like. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wwwoffle error
On Friday 08 November 2002 1:36 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have wwwoffle proxy server for enabling offline browsing. I get all pages ok. But when I try to access yahoo groups, I get following error. Found a cyclic link in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tamilinix/files/keyboard/typewriterkbd.png How to see these pages with wwwoffle on? I have also had that problem with various sites (www.nytimes.com has been one) and have not ever found the root of the problem or any mention of it in the wwwoffle documentation. The only way round it I have found is to set the browser (I use konqueror) so as not to use the proxy for those particular sites; Settings tab--Configure konqueror--Proxy button--Manual setup and then enter the address in the exceptions box (without the http:// bit). For you it would be just groups.yahoo.com you would enter. You might have to restart konqueror. Unfortunately this would leave groups.yahoo.com out of your proxy cache for offline browsing (although it might still be available in the konqueror cache). I use the latest version of wwwoffle 2.7f, but it has been the same problem with earlier versions also (and also with earlier konqueror versions -I'm on 3.0.4). If anyone has a real solution, I'd love to hear it. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SV: [newbie] Compiling KDE apps
Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. I have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the ./configure saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from texstar and have both packages installed. So why can't the includes be found? Without being sure but hope to be able to give some pointers, but I think to compile KDE-apps you might also need to have the QT-devel-files installed, but as I said I am not completly sure, also make sure that the QT is installed to the directory that the app wants it to be /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb external modems
In reply to John's mail, d.d. Sat, 09 Nov 2002 10:22:03 +: As for USB , in my experience , admitedly that is limited , all the hype about faster speed from usb ports is just that, hype, it's just that so much is going USB , one cannot be out of it. I believe , by all means correct me if I'm wrong, that there isn't in everyday ordinary user terms much if any difference between serial, parallel,and usb the only exception in my limited experience is scsi devices which are better at handling data. The point is that a chain is as strong as its weakest link. When you hook up a modem that can, at best, throughput 10Kb/sec, and the connect from PC to that modem is capable of 3Mb/sec, your will still face 10Kb/sec. Sheesh, is that all the fast bus can do? No. It is the phone line, the internals of the modem and what not. Same thing with printers. No matter how fast the bus to the printer is, the printer will still need its time to process and produce the page that it receives. My cable modem can do 500Kb/sec and sometimes I download things at 20Kb/sec. Not the modem's fault. It is what is in between the modem and the file I am getting. Paul -- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. -Thornton Wilder 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] lm_sensors GUI
On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:48 am, Pilagá wrote: Is there any app to monitor lm_sensors from inside KDE 3.0.3? Gracias. gkrellm will monitor with the gkrellm-plugins d/l'd from rpmfind.net. Don't know how accurate it may be in reality but the sensor readings show up. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday November 8 2002 07:46 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: If it's from lm_sensors, it's comin from a probe (thermistor) that either reads one of the cpu's pins, or is in contact with the die. From a pin is slightly better, I know this has been covered here before, but I can't find it in the archives (I can never find anything in those damn archives!). How does one set up lm_sensors, once installed? First, not all motherboards support hardware monitoring. If you see temps, voltages, etc. in bios the board does. If you don't it most likely doesn't. If it does, then run (as root) 'sensors-detect' You'll go thru a list of questions, in most all cases just hit Enter, eg, take the default answer to all of 'em. The script will then generate a few lines and tell you which to put in /etc/modules.conf or at the very end of rc.local. Back in sensors-detect there's one more question, write a config file? Say yes, and you're done. Then run rc.local, eg, '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'. Then typing 'sensors' as root or user should display your voltages, fan speeds and temps. Tom, I downloaded lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk.i586.rpm, It wanted CD2 , I gave it, but still it reported , libpng12.so.0=s is needed by lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk.i586.rpm, with no clue as to where to find it. Do you think it's worth chasing this dependency or is it not much hope. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't start a program at boot
I have been trying unsuccessfully to launch XMMS automatically on boot, or alternatively whenever any user logs in. I use several different windows managers so a wm-specific solution such as using ~/Desktop/Autostart won't work for me. I've searched this list for ideas, and have tried: * xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in /etc/rc.local. I've tried it both as the last line and as the next to last line. Fails silently. * exec xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in ~/.xinitrc. Fails silently. * xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in ~/.bashrc. Works, but annoyingly restarts XMMS ever time I open a terminal, which is often. Yes, the command xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u given manually in a terminal does work. What else might I try? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows CE device
Do I assume correctly that you are looking to synchronize data between your handheld Win CE device and a Linux computer, not just copy files back and forth with Linux? I, too, hope to find that someone has created a conduit for this purpose. I would like to be able to do the same in Evolution as I can with my Palm device. Actually, I would love to convert my Win CE device to running Linux, but I haven't found anyone that has done this to give me advice, nor has my research given me any warm fuzzies that once done there's any practical application (where are the apps?) If you hear of anything, or find anything that helps, please feel free to let me know. I'll do the same for you (conduit/synchronization). T - Original Message - From: Noah Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Windows CE device Hey all Is there any way to do any sort of data transfer between a Windows CE device and a linux computer? I was just hoping to be able to transfer text files from one device to the other. I have a hunch that I'm talking about the impossible, but I thought I would ask. -Noah 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] Totally OT - dvd oddities
On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 1:29 pm, you wrote: When I had my DVD drive on a Win 98 SE box, I found performance to be mediocre, at best. There's a need for a lot of processing power to run commercial DVDs with any semblance of enjoyment in mind. I can barely do it with my 500 MHz machines. My daughter both have Dells with 1.2 GHz processors and Win XP; they just approach a decent frame rate throughput. The more memory the better. At least 128 MBs, 256 MBs wouldn't hurt. She has 1.2 GHz and 256 Mb RAM, so that should be OK. Adding DMA support to the drive will make a big difference, as long as Win 98 and the motherboard will allow it to happen. It's a brand new motherboard, so I would think so. I don't remember checking that DMA was enabled, so I'll get her to do that. Lastly, she must make sure that there aren't any programs or applets running in the background and as little as possible in her System Tray. Antivirus programs, office suite pre-start applets, anything in the System Tray is taking up valuable resources that may be need to run DVDs, and may actually conflict with the program. Fair enough, I'll tell her to shut down everything she can. What program is she running to view her DVDs? PowerDVD? WinDVD? WinDVD Make sure that when she goes into Control Panel | Device Manager, she sees at least 75% free on resources. 80-85% is heavenly for Win 98! Crashes will begin to occur as you approach 70% or less. Assuming she has all of the above going for her, it could be that her computer needs a lot of tweaking. There's a lot to be done on Win 98 to get high-performance apps to run right. Keeping the system lean and mean (not commonly so with a new computer) is critical. All that convenience and tech support junk that they preload reminds me of the emission controls we had on our cars in the States back in the 70's. You had to add more horsepower to make up for the choking emission controls. Utlimately, the engine just lost its umph and never ran well. Whenever I get my hands on a client's machine, or reload from scratch, I won't load that stuff back on. When the client gets the computer back, they are always excited about the snappiness of the system and how they can do stuff they couldn't before. That might be all that your daughter needs -- a little system tweaking. Are you up to muddling through a Windows system? ;-) OK - next time I can get to her machine, I'll see what I can do. Any specific advice always welcome :-) Just remember to bring the Tylenol. :-D Don't know Tylenol - but my guess is headache pills? BTW, my grandson is nibbling at the edges of interest in installing Linux. It will be a good while before either daughter does, but with any luck I'll have one convert soon. Thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD-RW OPC Failures
Hi all, I am using Mandrake 9.0 with a Samsung 232B burner. I cannot make this work. I get various errors that started with OPC Failure. In my attempts at figuring this out, I think I messed up the permissions. Now I can access the burner as root only. Even in root I get errors. I've tried CLI cdrecord, Gcombust, Gtoaster, X-CDRoast. Following is the latest log from Gcombust as I tried a fast blank of a CD-RW. I tried to blang the CD twice and got different errors? **first try Cdrecord 1.11a36 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'SAMSUNG ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW SW-232B ' Revision : 'R300' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 5554176 = 5424 KB scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead out: 1166730 (03:18/30) Blocks total: 1166730 Blocks current: 1166730 Blocks remaining: 1166880 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 10 in dummy BLANK mode for single session. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: A1 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 9600s /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. **second try** Cdrecord 1.11a36 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'SAMSUNG ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW SW-232B ' Revision : 'R300' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 5554176 = 5424 KB Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead out: 1166730 (03:18/30) Blocks total: 1166730 Blocks current: 1166730 Blocks remaining: 1166880 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 10 in real BLANK mode for single session. scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Performing OPC... /usr/bin/cdrecord: OPC failed. This burner works fine under Windows. I *hate* having to boot Windows to burn a disk. Please, someone tell me what might be wrong. I'll worry about the permission problem later, right now I just want the darned thing to work at all. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 09:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday November 8 2002 07:46 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: If it's from lm_sensors, it's comin from a probe (thermistor) that either reads one of the cpu's pins, or is in contact with the die. From a pin is slightly better, I know this has been covered here before, but I can't find it in the archives (I can never find anything in those damn archives!). How does one set up lm_sensors, once installed? First, not all motherboards support hardware monitoring. If you see temps, voltages, etc. in bios the board does. If you don't it most likely doesn't. If it does, then run (as root) 'sensors-detect' You'll go thru a list of questions, in most all cases just hit Enter, eg, take the default answer to all of 'em. The script will then generate a few lines and tell you which to put in /etc/modules.conf or at the very end of rc.local. Back in sensors-detect there's one more question, write a config file? Say yes, and you're done. Then run rc.local, eg, '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'. Then typing 'sensors' as root or user should display your voltages, fan speeds and temps. Tom, I downloaded lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk.i586.rpm, It wanted CD2 , I gave it, but still it reported , libpng12.so.0=s is needed by lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk.i586.rpm, with no clue as to where to find it. Do you think it's worth chasing this dependency or is it not much hope. John John if you go to rpmfind.net and type the libpng12.so.0 in the find box, it will give you the actual rpm that that file is in. You can download the file or see if it is on you CDs and install. HTH Well I did that but yet again I get libpng3 =s1.2.1-6mdk is needed by libpng3-devel-1.2.1-6mdk I checked the install discs previously and all libpng rpm's listed are installed except for something on CD1 /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/lib/libpng.so.3 which is not an rpm file and seems to be something to aid the mandrake installer. This is turning into a chase my tail job. I think I will leave it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities
Tylenol = Acetaminophen. Yes, definitely a pain killer! :-) I prefer Ibuprofen, myself. ;-) I have WinDVD on my XP Pro/MDK 9.0 box. I'll take a look at it and see if I can find any settings that she could experiment with, or that make a noticable difference in the way it plays DVDs. Of course, we use NTSC here, not PAL, so hopefully I won't suggest something that wouldn't make sense for you... As for the daughters? Well, I have two, one 18 in college and the other 22 just out of college and on her own. Both are aware of Linux (they are forced to use it when they are home! MDK 8.2 on an old box...), but both are also too into their own lives to care about putting any effort into learning a new Operating System (XP was enough of a shock for them.) Somehow, I always thought that having a techie father in the computer business would have rubbed off onto them. (sigh) There's always time, I suppose... :-( T P.S. I am still trying to get my Hauppage video capture card to work with the appropriate program and it looks like my Earthlink freebie digital camera is not compatible. If I come up with anything that's worth mentioning, I will pass it on here. Haven't forgotten you. :-) - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 1:29 pm, you wrote: When I had my DVD drive on a Win 98 SE box, I found performance to be mediocre, at best. There's a need for a lot of processing power to run commercial DVDs with any semblance of enjoyment in mind. I can barely do it with my 500 MHz machines. My daughter both have Dells with 1.2 GHz processors and Win XP; they just approach a decent frame rate throughput. The more memory the better. At least 128 MBs, 256 MBs wouldn't hurt. She has 1.2 GHz and 256 Mb RAM, so that should be OK. Adding DMA support to the drive will make a big difference, as long as Win 98 and the motherboard will allow it to happen. It's a brand new motherboard, so I would think so. I don't remember checking that DMA was enabled, so I'll get her to do that. Lastly, she must make sure that there aren't any programs or applets running in the background and as little as possible in her System Tray. Antivirus programs, office suite pre-start applets, anything in the System Tray is taking up valuable resources that may be need to run DVDs, and may actually conflict with the program. Fair enough, I'll tell her to shut down everything she can. What program is she running to view her DVDs? PowerDVD? WinDVD? WinDVD Make sure that when she goes into Control Panel | Device Manager, she sees at least 75% free on resources. 80-85% is heavenly for Win 98! Crashes will begin to occur as you approach 70% or less. Assuming she has all of the above going for her, it could be that her computer needs a lot of tweaking. There's a lot to be done on Win 98 to get high-performance apps to run right. Keeping the system lean and mean (not commonly so with a new computer) is critical. All that convenience and tech support junk that they preload reminds me of the emission controls we had on our cars in the States back in the 70's. You had to add more horsepower to make up for the choking emission controls. Utlimately, the engine just lost its umph and never ran well. Whenever I get my hands on a client's machine, or reload from scratch, I won't load that stuff back on. When the client gets the computer back, they are always excited about the snappiness of the system and how they can do stuff they couldn't before. That might be all that your daughter needs -- a little system tweaking. Are you up to muddling through a Windows system? ;-) OK - next time I can get to her machine, I'll see what I can do. Any specific advice always welcome :-) Just remember to bring the Tylenol. :-D Don't know Tylenol - but my guess is headache pills? BTW, my grandson is nibbling at the edges of interest in installing Linux. It will be a good while before either daughter does, but with any luck I'll have one convert soon. Thanks Anne 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] Viewing XML in Konqueror (or any other Linux browser)
Anyone know why Konqueror and Mozilla and Netscape 7 would all refuse to interpret XML through an XSL stylesheet? The page in question is http://www.gaiacommunity.org/fun/mishmash.xml - I'd like to know if the flaw is on my computer's settings, or the setup of the XSL. It works perfectly well in IE 5.x Thanks in advance, David -- Three things with which everything is possible, and without which nothing can be: strength of body and mind; knowledge; love of intuitive wisdom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail/Konqueror
On Friday 08 November 2002 05:41 pm, Owen Berio wrote: Thanks Charlie, Thats all it took, Plus getting the right menu bar. You're welcome Owen. I wish everything could be that easy. g One request; I don't speak for the list, but I had to try to figure out what I was being thanked for. When I made the reply to your question I just clicked reply (in the directory that holds this mailing list on my machine) and didn't even look at the To: line. I see now that the reply went directly to you, which is fine but the rest of the list didn't see it. I'm adding the newbie list in the CC: line for this one. My request is simply this; please remove the Reply To in KMail, Settings, Configure KMail, Identity, Advanced Tab, so that the replies automatically go to the list? If I (and probably some others that save our own archives of list posts) am in a hurry I often don't check the address I'm sending the reply to. The reason? I have filtered newbie list mail (and expert and cooker and a few others) to it's own dedicated directory and have it threaded for convenience and easier follow-up. Any directory replies are set for automatic reply to the list, but the Reply To will over-ride that. Thank you. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org If you are too busy to read, then you are too busy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities
On Saturday 09 November 2002 01:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some disks run without problems, but others crash the system. This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else met it? Are there any solutions? Anne Hi Anne; When I'm forced to install any version of Windows on a system for anyone I always include a copy of the utility Neil Rubenking of PC Magazine wrote because of this problem. It's called Startup Cop and you can use it to make profiles that allow you to switch from (for instance) work and play. Why use it? Simple. You may not want to permanently stop anti-virus, firewall, time synchronisation, instant messenger, etc apps from running in the background. Other times (if you have an always on high speed connection for example) you may not even want to be connected to the 'net while you run a game or video that firewalls or AV programs will crash. Right? That would probably mean a work profile would include these but play (gaming, watching videos and so on) wouldn't. Profiles, remember? I used the program when I ran Windows 'cause I was to lazy to do the msconfig thing every time I wanted to do something that required more resources than Windows default boot left available. Three clicks (to switch profiles) was preferable to typing and reading a list and having to fight Windows for control. If you know what I mean. You can read about it and download the free app at the link below. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2173,00.asp Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon, Beautiful Boy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 10:26 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 09:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday November 8 2002 07:46 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: If it's from lm_sensors, it's comin from a probe (thermistor) that either reads one of the cpu's pins, or is in contact with the die. From a pin is slightly better, I know this has been covered here before, but I can't find it in the archives (I can never find anything in those damn archives!). How does one set up lm_sensors, once installed? First, not all motherboards support hardware monitoring. If you see temps, voltages, etc. in bios the board does. If you don't it most likely doesn't. If it does, then run (as root) 'sensors-detect' You'll go thru a list of questions, in most all cases just hit Enter, eg, take the default answer to all of 'em. The script will then generate a few lines and tell you which to put in /etc/modules.conf or at the very end of rc.local. Back in sensors-detect there's one more question, write a config file? Say yes, and you're done. Then run rc.local, eg, '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'. Then typing 'sensors' as root or user should display your voltages, fan speeds and temps. Tom, I downloaded lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk.i586.rpm, It wanted CD2 , I gave it, but still it reported , libpng12.so.0=s is needed by lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk.i586.rpm, with no clue as to where to find it. Do you think it's worth chasing this dependency or is it not much hope. John John if you go to rpmfind.net and type the libpng12.so.0 in the find box, it will give you the actual rpm that that file is in. You can download the file or see if it is on you CDs and install. HTH Well I did that but yet again I get libpng3 =s1.2.1-6mdk is needed by libpng3-devel-1.2.1-6mdk I checked the install discs previously and all libpng rpm's listed are installed except for something on CD1 /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/lib/libpng.so.3 which is not an rpm file and seems to be something to aid the mandrake installer. This is turning into a chase my tail job. I think I will leave it. John John check and see if you have liblm_sensors1-2.6.4-4mdk installed, it looks like what you d/l'd may be different versions and they aren't compatible. My system has lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk installed and the above liblm and works dandy. HTH Yes, that's the key to it,first find and install from cd1 :- liblm_sensors1-2.6.2-4mdk.i586.rpm liblm_sensors1-devel-2.6.2-4mdk.rpm then cd2:- liblm_sensors1-static-devel-2.6.2-4mdk.1586.rpm lm_sensors-2.6.2-4mdk.i586.rpm all goes on sweetly, now to configure it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:58 pm, you wrote: can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files. I think mplayer is able to do that, but I haven't tried it, and the mplayer docs can be convoluted sometimes. thanks Kristjan I already posted a reply on how to do this? I guess the original poster didn't get my reply? If not: 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! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo nopnpbios
On Friday 08 November 2002 03:58 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Dear All, I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to put into lilo this line linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset and Mandrake 9. Is this true and exactly how and where does one do this? Thanks. Marcia I have a VIA chipset and don't have to do that! not everyone should, only if it helps with random lockups. But if you're going to have to edit your lilo.conf, you will find it in the /etc directory - just make a backup copy of it. I'm not sure where exactly you're going to put that line, but after you have finished editing, and saving the file, you type lilo again to write it to the system...then reboot... 11 09 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! Why is there such a controversy about ! ! drug testing? I know plenty of guys ! !who'd be willing to test any drug ! ! they can come up with. --George Carlin ! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities
On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 6:14 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 01:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some disks run without problems, but others crash the system. This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else met it? Are there any solutions? Anne Hi Anne; When I'm forced to install any version of Windows on a system for anyone I always include a copy of the utility Neil Rubenking of PC Magazine wrote because of this problem. It's called Startup Cop and you can use it to make profiles that allow you to switch from (for instance) work and play. Why use it? Simple. You may not want to permanently stop anti-virus, firewall, time synchronisation, instant messenger, etc apps from running in the background. Other times (if you have an always on high speed connection for example) you may not even want to be connected to the 'net while you run a game or video that firewalls or AV programs will crash. Right? That would probably mean a work profile would include these but play (gaming, watching videos and so on) wouldn't. Profiles, remember? I used the program when I ran Windows 'cause I was to lazy to do the msconfig thing every time I wanted to do something that required more resources than Windows default boot left available. Three clicks (to switch profiles) was preferable to typing and reading a list and having to fight Windows for control. If you know what I mean. You can read about it and download the free app at the link below. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2173,00.asp Regards; Thanks, Charlie. Duly downloaded, it will go into my 'toolkit'. It sounds a great saver of effort. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD-RW problem
I want to back up some directories of photos, using XCDRoast, but am getting the following error: mkisofs: Error: '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card2/pic00027.bmp' and '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card1/pic00027.bmp' have the same Rock Ridge name 'pic00027.bmp'. mkisofs: Unable to sort directory What can I do about this? The whole reason for using separate directories is that both SM cards would have numbered the pics in the same way. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen resolution
Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 12:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: John check and see if you have liblm_sensors1-2.6.4-4mdk installed, it looks like what you d/l'd may be different versions and they aren't compatible. My system has lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk installed and the above liblm and works dandy. HTH Yes, that's the key to it,first find and install from cd1 :- liblm_sensors1-2.6.2-4mdk.i586.rpm liblm_sensors1-devel-2.6.2-4mdk.rpm then cd2:- liblm_sensors1-static-devel-2.6.2-4mdk.1586.rpm lm_sensors-2.6.2-4mdk.i586.rpm all goes on sweetly, now to configure it. John That's great, glad you got it. One thing though, in a lot of cases the devel packages are not needed, unless you do development work on that particular package which by what I see of your posts you might. (run on sentence). Anyway, it works for me without the devel packages so I don't install them just to keep things neat and tidy. Cheers, Now the config, seems there's more to it than meets the eye,this is how it went, [root@localhost root]# sensors-detect This program will help you to determine which I2C/SMBus modules you need to snip We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters. You do not need any special privileges for this. Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): Probing for PCI bus adapters... Use driver `i2c-viapro' for device 00:11.0: VIA Technologies VT8233 VLink South Bridge Probe succesfully concluded. We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. Load `i2c-viapro' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): NO I think I should of said yes here, can I run the prog again. Do you now want to be prompted for non-detectable adapters? (yes/NO): yes Load `i2c-elektor' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elektor.o.gz: init_module: No su ch device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including inva lid IO or IRQ parameters modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elektor.o.gz fa iled modprobe: insmod i2c-elektor failed Loading failed ()... skipping. Load `i2c-elv' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elv.o.gz: init_module: No such d evice Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including inva lid IO or IRQ parameters modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elv.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod i2c-elv failed Loading failed ()... skipping. Load `i2c-philips-par' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes Module loaded succesfully. Load `i2c-velleman' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-velleman.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-velleman.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod i2c-velleman failed Loading failed ()... skipping. To continue, we need module `i2c-dev' to be loaded. If it is built-in into your kernel, you can safely skip this. i2c-dev is not loaded. Do you want to load it now? (YES/no): yes Module loaded succesfully. We are now going to do the adapter probings. Some adapters may hang halfway through; we can't really help that. Also, some chips will be double detected; we choose the one with the highest confidence value in that case. If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address, you can specify that address to remain unprobed. That often includes address 0x69 (clock chip). Some chips are also accessible through the ISA bus. ISA probes are typically a bit more dangerous, as we have to write to I/O ports to do this. Do you want to scan the ISA bus? (YES/no): yes Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83781D' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83782D' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83627HF' Trying address 0x0290... Success! (confidence 8, driver `w83781d') Probing for `Winbond W83697HF' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595' Trying general detect... Failed! Probing for `VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Integrated Sensors' Trying general detect... Failed! Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: Driver `w83781d' (should be inserted): Detects correctly: * ISA bus address 0x0290 (Busdriver `i2c-isa') Chip `Winbond W83627HF' (confidence: 8) I will now generate the commands needed to load the I2C modules. Sometimes, a chip is available both through the ISA bus
Re: [newbie] CD-RW problem
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021109 13:52]: I want to back up some directories of photos, using XCDRoast, but am getting the following error: mkisofs: Error: '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card2/pic00027.bmp' and '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card1/pic00027.bmp' have the same Rock Ridge name 'pic00027.bmp'. mkisofs: Unable to sort directory What can I do about this? The whole reason for using separate directories is that both SM cards would have numbered the pics in the same way. I think what you're seeing here is a limitation in the CD directory format. A path can only be something like 30 characters long, so the Rock Ridge extension truncates the path, but then saves the whole path name in a separate file, something like what Windows does with long filenames. However, if the only difference in those directories is after that breaking point, it has no way to resolve the ambiguity, so it stops to let you fix it. You could simply change 'Card1' to 'C1' and/or 'Card2' to 'C2' and it should work OK. This may be an oversimplification, but I bet it will work. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-RW problem
On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 7:23 pm, you wrote: I want to back up some directories of photos, using XCDRoast, but am getting the following error: mkisofs: Error: '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card2/pic00027.bmp' and '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card1/pic00027.bmp' have the same Rock Ridge name 'pic00027.bmp'. mkisofs: Unable to sort directory What can I do about this? The whole reason for using separate directories is that both SM cards would have numbered the pics in the same way. Anne Ignore me - I'm just being stupid. I had told XCDRoast to add the data at root directory level on the disk, so it had no directory information to separate the files. Set it up add with path and the problem disappears. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows CE device
Techno Your absolutely right. However, I presumed that actually being able to utilize what ever protocols M$ has put in WinCE to do things like mail/contact syncing was part if their intilectual property. So I was just hoping that some kind of simple work around, maybe a quasi ftp, had been thought up. I certainly don't have the skills to do this but it seems to me that someone would have done this. -Noah On Saturday 09 November 2002 09:37, Technoslick wrote: Do I assume correctly that you are looking to synchronize data between your handheld Win CE device and a Linux computer, not just copy files back and forth with Linux? I, too, hope to find that someone has created a conduit for this purpose. I would like to be able to do the same in Evolution as I can with my Palm device. Actually, I would love to convert my Win CE device to running Linux, but I haven't found anyone that has done this to give me advice, nor has my research given me any warm fuzzies that once done there's any practical application (where are the apps?) If you hear of anything, or find anything that helps, please feel free to let me know. I'll do the same for you (conduit/synchronization). T - Original Message - From: Noah Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Windows CE device Hey all Is there any way to do any sort of data transfer between a Windows CE device and a linux computer? I was just hoping to be able to transfer text files from one device to the other. I have a hunch that I'm talking about the impossible, but I thought I would ask. -Noah --- - 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] CD labelling
Kover seems to do a perfectly adequate job in preparing CD inserts, but is there any way to produce CD labels? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 10:53 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:38 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when working with images, but have come across a real puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm working with, two directories contain .jpg and .bmp images. Some of the .bmps were written by a windows program, and some by gPhoto. The .jpgs display as thumbnails, but the .bmps don't. Well, surprising as it may seem, the size does appear to be the governing factor. I took a 2.4 Mb. file, halved it, and the resulting 1.2Mb file still did not display. I trimmed a little more, to 920Kb, and hey presto - there it is! Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi
Thank for your input Besides to mencoder I found also avidemuxer that does the job easily. Kristjan On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:38:50 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 08 November 2002 11:58 pm, you wrote: can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files. I think mplayer is able to do that, but I haven't tried it, and the mplayer docs can be convoluted sometimes. thanks Kristjan I already posted a reply on how to do this? I guess the original poster didn't get my reply? If not: 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! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD labelling
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 15:23, Anne Wilson wrote: Kover seems to do a perfectly adequate job in preparing CD inserts, but is there any way to produce CD labels? Anne Glabels is a pretty nice program, just about any label including CD labels. Look for in MDK contributions on any server. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities
On Saturday 09 November 2002 12:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip Thanks, Charlie. Duly downloaded, it will go into my 'toolkit'. It sounds a great saver of effort. Anne Greetings Anne; Just 'cause I won't use Windows doesn't mean I don't have relatives and friends, and an ex's hubby that's *really* good at breaking things, that do. Maybe that's why I feel your pain? Since I'm too lazy to walk these people through the crash prevention/recovery sequences every time they need help (every time they boot Windows in other words g) my 'personal toolkit' contains many such handy applications and utilities. Usually installed on their machines in a partition they often aren't aware of. Makes things a bit easier when I get a 'panic call' late at night. You know; Click on ... then click ... type ... tell me what you see now, do ..., click accept, reboot, or use the quick restore disk I left you. Or; Reboot and use the operating system on a disk (Knoppix disk) I left you 'til I get there tomorrow. Do you know what _time_ it is? Don't bother me; people (usually doctors) tell me I don't sleep enough at the best of times! Like that. :-) Strangely enough most of the kids of these families (where applicable) all boot to Mandrake on the same machines. They never call me except to yack. LMAO Relatives! Can't live with them; illegal to kill them. ;-) Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Antonio Antonio Was tired of living alonio He thought he would woo Antonio Antonio Miss Lucamy Lu, Rode of on his polo ponio Miss Lucamy Lucy Molonio. And found the maid In a bowery shade, Sitting and knitting alonio. Antonio Antonio Said if you will be my ownio I'll love tou true Oh nonio Antonio And buy for you You're far too bleak and bonio An icery creamry conio. And all that I wish You singular fish Is that you will quickly begonio. Antonio Antonio Uttered a dismal moanio And went off and hid Or I'm told that he did In the Antartical Zonio. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trash can icon
Why would you want to do this? Not deleting the icon thusly not needing some other way of recovering files you delete by accident makes infinately more sense than having to find that proverbial other way. T H A N KY O U James R. McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Randy Donohoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 3:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Trash can icon Is there a way to delete the trash can icon in KDE on 9.0? If there is, how would I recover files I decide not to delete? TIA, Randy Donohoe 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] rescue
Hi Paul, Unfortunately the cd rom is not bootable. I booted from the floppy and typed rescue at the prompt but none of the available options seem to be of any help I can list the file systems on each hd but that just confirms what I already know. - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] rescue In reply to Patrick's mail, d.d. Sat, 9 Nov 2002 22:37:00 +1100: Boot from the first setup cd, hit ESC at the graphics screen and type rescue. That will boot you into linux. From there you are root and you can fix things up. Paul Hi All, I'M running mandrake 8.2 and have just installed squid and set it up to cache on my second hd. All was going well then the hd crashed and now the system won't boot it says that sdb5 does not contain a valid ext2 file system. How do I repair this I have another hd replkacement but the same problem exists. help please -- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. -Thornton Wilder 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Trash can icon
Is there a way to delete the trash can icon in KDE on 9.0? If there is, how would I recover files I decide not to delete? TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI
El Sáb 09 Nov 2002 12:18, Dennis Myers escribió: On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:48 am, Pilagá wrote: Is there any app to monitor lm_sensors from inside KDE 3.0.3? Gracias. gkrellm will monitor with the gkrellm-plugins d/l'd from rpmfind.net. Don't know how accurate it may be in reality but the sensor readings show up. HTH Thanks, Dennis. I just have installed gkrellm+plugs. With some fine tune from inside gkrellm, everything (temp, rpm, volt, etc.) match values of Bios. Gracias. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 6:23pm up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.26, 0.10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Compiling KDE apps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. I have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the ./configure saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from texstar and have both packages installed. So why can't the includes be found? TIA, Jord I had to edit my /etc/ld.so.conf file to include /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, then run ldconfig to rebuild the cache - as well, I had to edit the system profile (/etc/profile) to have KDEDIR=/usr and in the export section export KDEDIR before applications started to compile properly...I also had to upgrade my automake to automake-1.5 and autoconf to autoconf-2.54. I'm still trying to work through some compilation issues as well, but mostly, that works... 11 10 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! If it was easy, the hardware people ! ! would take care of it. ! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] [OT- mostly] For Networking Gurus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: My partner's company is about to upgrade their system from 2 PC peer to peer to 4 PCs. All they run is an Accounting/Inventory application and the usual wordprocessing/spreadsheet applications. (They access the internet for e mail etc on a standalone MD 8.2 PC and will continue to do so - I like 8ft air-gap firewalls) The questions:- 1) the first quote includes a monitor, keyboard and mouse for the server, are these necessary or can the server be controlled (properly and easily) from one of the PCs? You don't need a montitor, mouse or keyboard for the server. You can setup and run VNCSERVER on it and VNCVIEWER on the workstations. That way, each person that accesses the server will have their own desktop, and they don't have to leave the comfort of their own snuggly chair. 2) the same quote includes a 16 port dlink switch, do they need this and a server ? I thought (probably incorrectly) that for a small network that either a server or switch was needed but not both. A 10/100 switch or hub is all you need. You don't need anything special to have a network - just computers, ethernet cables, a hub/switch and the properly networking configurations. 3) they have also been quoted about £1200 for Win2000 SBS 5 seat license, obviously I don't like this idea so would it be a practical propostion to have a Linux server which would communicate with Windows desktops which are necessary to run the accounting package which would also need to be installed on the server. You don't need the WindowsSBS - if you have the linux server setup to share files with SAMBA, share the printer(s), you have no need for any version or form of Windows server. If there are backend programs that need to run on the server - those can be emulated with either WINE or with VMWare. 4) I kept referring to the accounting package because at the moment they use Pastel but this is also under review and is likely to be replaced in the near future and at the moment they have no idea which way they will go but it is likely to be one of the mainstream packages. So if 3) is a viable solution it must also present few, preferably no, problems when a new package is installed. Final request - don't spend too much time thinking about 3) 4) because I can't really see them being persuaded in this direction :-( Thanks 11 10 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! To find out a girl's faults, praise ! !her to her girl friends.! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screen resolution
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie You can run XF86Config from a console login, or you can manually edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config.4 file (make a backup). 11 10 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! If you can read this, you're in range. ! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trash can icon
On Saturday 09 November 2002 03:59 pm, James R. McKenzie wrote: Why would you want to do this? Not deleting the icon thusly not needing some other way of recovering files you delete by accident makes infinately more sense than having to find that proverbial other way. It conflicts with my background. Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Im Sensors
I installed as listed and got this. Do I really have a problem? eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 eeprom-i2c-0-51 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 via686a-isa-6000 Adapter: ISA adapter Algorithm: ISA algorithm CPU core: +1.68 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.03 V) +2.5V: +0.96 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V) ALARM I/O: +3.06 V (min = +2.95 V, max = +3.62 V) +5V: +4.77 V (min = +4.47 V, max = +5.49 V) +12V: +12.22 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.18 V) CPU Fan: 5400 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) P/S Fan: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) SYS Temp: +73.6°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) ALARM CPU Temp: +38.1°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) SBr Temp: +22.9°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI
On Saturday 09 November 2002 03:39 pm, Pilagá wrote: El Sáb 09 Nov 2002 12:18, Dennis Myers escribió: On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:48 am, Pilagá wrote: Is there any app to monitor lm_sensors from inside KDE 3.0.3? Gracias. gkrellm will monitor with the gkrellm-plugins d/l'd from rpmfind.net. Don't know how accurate it may be in reality but the sensor readings show up. HTH Thanks, Dennis. I just have installed gkrellm+plugs. With some fine tune from inside gkrellm, everything (temp, rpm, volt, etc.) match values of Bios. Gracias. Danada. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Im Sensors
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 11:03, Trevor Rhodes wrote: I installed as listed and got this. Do I really have a problem? eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 eeprom-i2c-0-51 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 via686a-isa-6000 Adapter: ISA adapter Algorithm: ISA algorithm CPU core: +1.68 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.03 V) +2.5V: +0.96 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V) ALARM I/O: +3.06 V (min = +2.95 V, max = +3.62 V) +5V: +4.77 V (min = +4.47 V, max = +5.49 V) +12V: +12.22 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.18 V) CPU Fan: 5400 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) P/S Fan: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) SYS Temp: +73.6°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) ALARM CPU Temp: +38.1°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) SBr Temp: +22.9°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) Regards Trevor Well yes, but only with sensors I would suspect. If these readings were correct, your system wouldn't function and you wouldn't need heating for your home - just only the system case. Now, as to why - perhaps you could post the output of sensors-detect as a starting point. cheers Brians Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] restarting X disables winmodem
Hi all Recently started with mdk 9.0 on a stand-alone home desktop. Had to obtain a driver courtesy of the good people at MBSI to work my winmodem. The documentation says this enables access to the modem as ttySHCF0. Kppp was using /dev/modem as a symlink to ttyS0, so I changed that to ttySHCF0, and everything worked fine. Except that after I restart X (been installing fonts) by init 1 then init 5 as root, kppp simply says 'sorry the modem doesn't respond', which was what it said before the driver was loaded and before /dev/modem was pointed to the right place. /dev/modem still points to ttySHCF0. Rebooting fixes the problem, but is inelegantly reminiscent of the reasons I've come to Linux in the first place. Can anyone explain this admittedly minor irritation and advise how to correct it? Thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rescue
Patrick, You are not going to find a menu option to fix things for you unfortunately, but you should be able to get back to a bootable system. The menu from rescue will include mounting all your filesystems under /mnt. Do that. Then select the console option so you get a command prompt. From there you probably need to edit /etc/fstab, only now it will be /mnt/etc/fstab. Take out the line which is trying to mount the offending partition (assuming it's one that the system can function without). Now you should be able to boot and hopefully resolve whatever screwed up. This is still not really step by step advice I guess, so post again with specific questions if you come up against a brick wall. HTH Brian On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 08:26, Patrick Griffin wrote: Hi Paul, Unfortunately the cd rom is not bootable. I booted from the floppy and typed rescue at the prompt but none of the available options seem to be of any help I can list the file systems on each hd but that just confirms what I already know. - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] rescue In reply to Patrick's mail, d.d. Sat, 9 Nov 2002 22:37:00 +1100: Boot from the first setup cd, hit ESC at the graphics screen and type rescue. That will boot you into linux. From there you are root and you can fix things up. Paul Hi All, I'M running mandrake 8.2 and have just installed squid and set it up to cache on my second hd. All was going well then the hd crashed and now the system won't boot it says that sdb5 does not contain a valid ext2 file system. How do I repair this I have another hd replkacement but the same problem exists. help please -- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. -Thornton Wilder 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Click Now Consulting 0414 325 521 This e-mail and any attachments were prepared without the use of any Microsoft products and can therefore be reliably assumed to be free of viruses. Nevertheless, the use of current virus detection software is highly recommended if you are using any version of Windows to read this message. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] restarting X disables winmodem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Hi all Recently started with mdk 9.0 on a stand-alone home desktop. Had to obtain a driver courtesy of the good people at MBSI to work my winmodem. The documentation says this enables access to the modem as ttySHCF0. Kppp was using /dev/modem as a symlink to ttyS0, so I changed that to ttySHCF0, and everything worked fine. Except that after I restart X (been installing fonts) by init 1 then init 5 as root, kppp simply says 'sorry the modem doesn't respond', which was what it said before the driver was loaded and before /dev/modem was pointed to the right place. /dev/modem still points to ttySHCF0. Rebooting fixes the problem, but is inelegantly reminiscent of the reasons I've come to Linux in the first place. Can anyone explain this admittedly minor irritation and advise how to correct it? Thanks Richard Almost sounds as though there might be an IRQ conflict...have you tried a different driver for the modem yet? http://www.linmodems.org I had a problem with an HCF modem - got the driver from the dev team (PcTel), but ended up getting a hand rolled driver through LinModems that ended up working much betta! 11 10 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! 'How to Catch Worms' by Earl E. Bird ! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Im Sensors
On Sunday 10 Nov 2002 12:55 pm, Brian Parish wrote: CPU core: +1.68 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.03 V) +2.5V: +0.96 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V) ALARM I/O: +3.06 V (min = +2.95 V, max = +3.62 V) +5V: +4.77 V (min = +4.47 V, max = +5.49 V) +12V: +12.22 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.18 V) CPU Fan: 5400 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) P/S Fan: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) SYS Temp: +73.6°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) ALARM CPU Temp: +38.1°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) SBr Temp: +22.9°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) Here 'tis. Thanks Trevor = Regards This program will help you to determine which I2C/SMBus modules you need to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. You need to have done a `make install', issued a `depmod -a' and made sure `/etc/conf.modules' (or `/etc/modules.conf') contains the appropriate module path before you can use some functions of this utility. Read doc/modules for more information. Also, you need to be `root', or at least have access to the /dev/i2c[-/]* files for some things. You can use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create these /dev files if you do not have them already. If you have patched your kernel and have some drivers built-in you can safely answer NO if asked to load some modules. In this case, things may seem a bit confusing, but they will still work. IF THIS IS AN IBM THINKPAD, PRESS CTRL-C NOW! IBM Thinkpads have a severely broken i2c/SMBus implementation, just scanning the bus will break your thinkpad forever! We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters. You do not need any special privileges for this. Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): yes Probing for PCI bus adapters... Use driver `i2c-viapro' for device 00:07.4: VIA Technologies VT82C686 Apollo ACPI Use driver `i2c-riva' for device 01:05.0: GeForce2 MX Probe succesfully concluded. We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. Module `i2c-viapro' already loaded. Load `i2c-riva' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes modprobe: Can't locate module i2c-riva Loading failed ()... skipping. ** Note: i2c-riva module is available at ** http://drama.obuda.kando.hu/~fero/cgi-bin/rivatv.shtml Do you now want to be prompted for non-detectable adapters? (yes/NO): yes Load `i2c-elektor' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elektor.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elektor.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod i2c-elektor failed Loading failed ()... skipping. Load `i2c-elv' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elv.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elv.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod i2c-elv failed Loading failed ()... skipping. Load `i2c-philips-par' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes Module loaded succesfully. Load `i2c-velleman' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): yes /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-velleman.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-velleman.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod i2c-velleman failed Loading failed ()... skipping. To continue, we need module `i2c-dev' to be loaded. If it is built-in into your kernel, you can safely skip this. i2c-dev is already loaded. We are now going to do the adapter probings. Some adapters may hang halfway through; we can't really help that. Also, some chips will be double detected; we choose the one with the highest confidence value in that case. If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address, you can specify that address to remain unprobed. That often includes address 0x69 (clock chip). Next adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): yes Client found at address 0x2d Probing for `Myson MTP008'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM80'... Success! (confidence 3, driver `lm80') Probing for `National Semiconductor LM85'... Failed! Probing for `National
Re: [newbie] Im Sensors
Funny thing, once I did the last sensor-detect the ouput changed to this. Trevor = eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 eeprom-i2c-0-51 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 via686a-isa-6000 Adapter: ISA adapter Algorithm: ISA algorithm CPU core: +1.70 V (min = +2.49 V, max = +2.14 V) ALARM +2.5V: +0.96 V (min = +2.36 V, max = +2.25 V) ALARM I/O: +3.03 V (min = +2.14 V, max = +2.86 V) ALARM +5V: +4.77 V (min = +4.92 V, max = +3.01 V) ALARM +12V: +12.22 V (min = +14.44 V, max = +10.79 V) ALARM CPU Fan: 5357 RPM (min = 135000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM P/S Fan: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) SYS Temp: +71.3°C (limit = +45°C, hysteresis = +40°C) CPU Temp: +38.6°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +55°C) SBr Temp: +22.9°C (limit = +65°C, hysteresis = +60°C) lm80-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter +5V: +5.58 V (min = +4.74 V, max = +0.00 V) VTT: +1.61 V (min = +1.90 V, max = +2.10 V) +3.3V: +2.48 V (min = +3.13 V, max = +3.46 V) +Vcore:+1.19 V (min = +1.80 V, max = +1.99 V) +12V: +12.06 V (min = +11.37 V, max = +12.57 V) -12V: -14.43 V (min = -13.01 V, max = -11.80 V) -5V: -5.80 V (min = -5.44 V, max = -4.93 V) fan1: 10546 RPM (min = 6000 RPM, div = 1) fan2: 10714 RPM (min = 6783 RPM, div = 1) temp: -128.00 °C (hot:limit = +6°C, hysteresis = -82°C) (os: limit = -92°C, hysteresis = +5°C) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trash can icon
On Saturday 09 November 2002 05:51 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 03:59 pm, James R. McKenzie wrote: Why would you want to do this? Not deleting the icon thusly not needing some other way of recovering files you delete by accident makes infinately more sense than having to find that proverbial other way. It conflicts with my background. Randy Under 8.2, on my setup - if you right-click, delete is not an option. However, if you move the desktop trash icon to another directory, like /home/yourusername/tmp, you can then right-click on it, and delete is available (although I didn't actually delete mine). Hope this helps! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen resolution
On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 19:42:46 + Ongkie Singgih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie If you want to change it in an easy GUI way, go to the configuration menu and run the Mandrake Control Center (it's also on the menu bar if your running KDE). Once it loads, select the hardware icon and then select the resolution icon. Make your changes and you're done. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.0 Nvidia
Is there any way to get nvidia rpms working in MDK 9.0? The path: 2960 or 3123, plus load glx, plus nvnvidia,don't work at all. A search with google, report: type the following commands after logging in as root: #cd /usr/X11R6/lib #ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so libGL.so.1.2 ln -s libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so #/sbin/ldconfig #reboot Is this correct, and safe? (I know how to uninstall GLX and kernel nvidia's, but, and if something go wrong, I don't know how to undo all that ln -s... stuff.) Gracias. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 12:46am up 6 min, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.14, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font
What is the font and where did you get it from? Joeb On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 18:46:28 +1100 Trevor Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm in need of a font. I used a font from 8.2 to create a rather large document that I need to have remain the same. How would I get that font back from 8.2 into 9.0? Any ideas? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
