Re: [newbie-it] danni con kmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:59, giovedì 21 novembre 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] danni con kmail, gigi pinna ha scritto: Ciao! premesso che comunque la cartella non ? vuota, ma con un centinaio di messaggi all'interno, come diamine faccio a renderla nuovamente visibile da kmail in modo da recuperare la mia posta? allora.. premesso che non afferrato appieno che cosa sia successo... cmq.. io nella mia home ho una cartella che si chiama Mail all'interno della quale ci sono tanti file quante cartelle di suddivisione della posta in arrivo.. ho cambiato pc.. ho copiato tutte questi file nella nuova cartella Mail presenta nella mia nuova home.. apro Kmail e mi trovo tutti i miei messaggi.. non so se ti sono stato d'aiuto.. fammi sapere.. bye Gian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE93UqPoD2O62YfgMARAp4gAJ41CWpBM0az/luK0s0V7Qv6nheMYQCfa9xx xyZ0j6xMakz8fkvk85KFMJk= =TIGO -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!
Il 18:18, domenica 17 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata hai scritto: Alle 16:02, domenica 17 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: devi cercare dal pnnello di controllo di kde è artsd il responsabile a mio avviso ho controllato ed è tutto a posto, tra l'altro avevo pure disabilitato artsd nei giorni scorsi... altro responsabile potrebbe essere slocate cioè l'aggiornamento periodico del db che interroghi per ritrovare info sull'ubicazione di librerie, eseguibili ecc.. ricordo che mandrake era piuttosto intrusivo in questo questo non so come controllarlo... Ciao Prova a guardare se in /etc/cron.daily c'è slocate.cron e levalo (oppure gli togli semplicemente i permessi di esecuzione), già che ci sei dai un occhiata a tante altre cose che sono lì e che di solito non servono (oppure servono se hai di averle, come rpm.cron). Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] java e/o flash
Il 15:48, venerdì 15 novembre 2002, francesco.melo hai scritto: tom wrote: Salve alla lista Ieri girando per il web sono incappato nel sito di radio 105 che ha una chatt e web camma il mozzillone non riusciva a visualizzare nullaanzi per dire la verita il sito rimaneva monco(mancavano parecchie parti della pagina). Ora che vimdow e chiuso nella sua piccola partizzione (esiste solo ancora per la mia ragazza) vorrei poter navigare senza intoppi. mi vengono visualizzati 2 avvisi: -- --- This page contains informatio of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in. -- - This page.type (application/x-shockwave-flash) that... .. .... ..Plug-in. -- -- OK dove recupero ste application? Non vorrei dire una c***a..per java ho visto che nella distro (mdk9.0) c'è tra le tante cose anche kaffe! che se non ricordo male aveva a che fare con java!mi puo essere utile? Grazie gia da ora per gli eventuali aiuti. Ciao , Tom per la questione libglcore ti chiedo qualche giorno , devo controllare meglio. per quanto riguarda i plugins di mozilla io ho fatto cosi'. ti scarichi quella sventolona di pacchetto rpm.bin da sito di sun per avere java j2sdk-1_4_0_01-fcs-linux-i386.rpm.bin e lo installi prima eseguendo da consolle il file dopo averlo reso eseguibile, ti leggi tutta e dico tutta la licenza sun , accetti e ti scompatta il tuo bel rpm che andrai ad installare. a questo punto ti ritrovi java installato in file:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610 e ci fai un link alla cartella plugin del tuo mozilla ( io preferisco usare le nightily version ed installarmelo io , non amo i font con anti aliasing che mandrake utilizza) per quanto riguarda kaffe' il consiglio e' di disinstallarlo e poi fare un *cd /usr/bin rm java javac jar ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java java ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/javac javac ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/jar jar* questo ti permette di linkare gli eseguibili di java al posto di quelli fittizi di kaffe. a questo punto hai java installato nella tua linux box ... Ora puoi installare anche limewire per esempio per quanto riguarda flash devi scaricare il tar : flash_linux.tar.gz e poi scompattarlo per poi copiare sempre nella solita cartella plugin di mozilla. et voilà anche il flash e' attivo. un ultimo consiglio : fai provare i giochini di linux alla tua ragazza , se ne appassionerà subito con la mia ha funzionato : Il consiglio è solo di editare i file in questione e non rimuoverli (non sono i programmi veri e propri ma solo degli script che li chiamano) %cosiglio datomi a suo tempo da freefred% Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] Mass storage...
- Original Message - From: CyberPenguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Franco Negri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Mass storage... Ma sulla confezione, non c'e' scritto nessun riferimento ad utopici produttori? Sulla confezione io non ho trovato nulla. Il driver mi parla di una certa scanlogic. Certamente viene percepita come tale :-( Strano che le Compact Flash non ti vengano viste, problemini sull'inserimento della scheda nello slot non dovrebbero esistere dal momento che la periferica e' nuova ... Ma che schede di memoria usi? Entrambe? Come dovrebbe esser il lettore? Uso schede che funzionano perfettamente con lo stesso lettore sotto Win :-( , nella macchina fotografica (SM) e nel mio Psion (CF). Non disperare ;-) Problemi di compatibilita' che oggi sembrano insormontabili sotto Linux magari tra qualche settimana ... ma non e' detto che colui che ha gia' affrontato la tua problematica sia iscritto alla Mdk ML. (...) Spero tu riesca a configurarla al meglio. Sarebbe una bella soddisfazione :-) Ti ringrazio per la cortesia della tua risposta, devo per confessarti una cosa: sono un fervente ammiratore di Linux e sa il cielo quante ore ho speso a comprendere quel poco che so, ma mi sono stancato. Purtroppo con il computer devo lavorare, e non riesco a fare con Linux le cose che mi servono, in quanto il programma di collegamento al mio Psion (vitale!) non compilato per la Mdk 9.0 e quando ho imparato a compilare i sorgenti ho trovato lo scoglio delle librerie Qt installate ma non viste, nemmeno forzando l' ./install (tre giorni persi fra ricerche su Google e tentativi ari), e adesso questa periferica comperata apposta in quanto quella che ho ancora qui assolutamente NON compatibile Linux (ti risparmio il computo del tempo). Mi piange il cuore, ma sono tornato a Windows che quello che sappiamo, ma funziona. Bye Giovanni ;-) Grazie e scusa lo sfogo Franco
Re: [newbie-it] MPlayer
Alle 00:41, venerdì 22 novembre 2002, francesco.melo ha scritto: con --disable-fbdev.Cosè che ho sbagliato?Non siate ermetici per favore perchè-come avrete capito-sono agli inizi ed è già abbastanza dura! Hardware:AthlonXP 1600;256ddr; GeForce 4 MX 400. Ciao, Alessandro posso farti una semplice domanda? ma il tuo accanimento alla compilazione è una scelta masochista o ideologica? io con un urpmi mplaye da console ho risolto tutto basta aggiungere il media di http://plf.zarb.org fammi sapere ciao vete No non è masochismo,più semplicemente mi sono basato su delle istruzioni che ho trovato su internet che consigliavano,appunto,di non usare i binari e di compilare.Bah...aspetterò Ciao, Alessandro -- Vedere un mondo in un granello di sabbia e un cielo in un fiore selvatico. Tenere l'infinito sul palmo della mano e cogliere l'eternita' in un'ora. (William Blake)
[newbie-it] mysql non funziona
Salve a tutti e grazie anticipatamente ho installato la MdK 9 nessun problema nell'installazione ora però, a differenza della versione precedente, mi si presenta questo problema quando digito mysql esce quest'errore: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) premetto che ho installato tutti i software come faccio a risolverlo
Re: [newbie-it] danni con kmail
miracolo!non so come ma dopo che ho tentato di fare una copia del file dell'inboxper importarlo in mozilla mail, PUF! ? apparsa la cartella con tutto ilsuo contenuto! Mah! Misteri di Kmail!grazie a tutti dell'aiuto offertomi!Quando un uomo ti racconta di essere diventato ricco grazie al duro lavoro, chiedigli: "Di chi?". > Don Marquis__Ma quante ne sai? Mettiti alla prova con QuizShow!
Re: [newbie-it] LiLo
Alle 23:26, giovedì 21 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 22:35, giovedì 21 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: mandarmi la configuarazione del suo LiLO così ricostruisco la sezione mancante? Ciao Grazie! Anche a Fabio. Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] MPlayer
Alle 00:29, venerdì 22 novembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Salve a tutti! ho installato e compilato mplayer su Mandrake 9 con i comandi: ./configure --enable-gui \ --enable-fbdev --language=it --enable-streaming. Output errori: X11 support required for GUI compilation.Ho tentato di trovare quello che il programma di installazione mi chiede,tramite il centro di controllo,di Mandrake ..ma nisba. [cut] Allora.io ho installato Mplayer la sett scorsa,come te dai sorgenti! per quanto riguarda la GUI.in una delle tre compilazioni mi diceva che mancavano delle librerie GTK,questo lo pui riscontrare anche dalla documentazioni,in cui avvertiva che sarebbero state necessarie delle libgtkpng(se non ricordo male),quindi ho installato librerie gtkdevel un po a caso (le trovi nei cd di installazione), a questo punto tutto era ok o quasi! Ti ricordo che Mplayer non ha interfaccia grafica.quindi devi andare sul sito sceglierti uno skin e sconpattarglielo nell apposita dir. [cut] win dipendente...)quando avvio un filmato con il comando mplayer,sono costretto a passare immediatamente con ctrl-alt-Fn ad una console perchè sullo schermo compaiono delle fastidiose striscie.Ho capito che funziona in framebufferche pensavo di avere disabilitato in fase di compilazione con --disable-fbdev.Cosè che ho sbagliato?Non siate ermetici per favore perchè-come avrete capito-sono agli inizi ed è già abbastanza dura! è un errore di battitura all inizio o ho capito bene? all inizio hai scritto che in /.configure --enable-fbdev!!! cmq ti consiglio di dare come opzione solo --enable-gui! fa tutto da solo. il problema al video era quasi sicuramente imputabile al codec che stavi utilizzando!...un dubbio...hai controllato se c'è qualcosa in particolare su la tua skeda grafica? Quando riuscirai a far funzionare Mplayer potrai goderti i divx al massimo della risoluzione possibile con una fluidita che xine se la sogna! Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] mysql non funziona
Alle 17:53, venerdì 22 novembre 2002, tocqueville ha scritto: Salve a tutti e grazie anticipatamente ho installato la MdK 9 nessun problema nell'installazione ora però, a differenza della versione precedente, mi si presenta questo problema quando digito mysql esce quest'errore: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) premetto che ho installato tutti i software come faccio a risolverlo Ma il server è attivo? Da root digita /etc/init.d/mysql status Se ti comunica che è fermo digita /etc/init.d/mysql start Buon Lavoro
Re: [newbie-it] MPlayer
Allora.io ho installato Mplayer la sett scorsa,come te dai sorgenti! per quanto riguarda la GUI.in una delle tre compilazioni mi diceva che mancavano delle librerie GTK,questo lo pui riscontrare anche dalla documentazioni,in cui avvertiva che sarebbero state necessarie delle libgtkpng(se non ricordo male),quindi ho installato librerie gtkdevel un po a caso (le trovi nei cd di installazione), a questo punto tutto era ok o quasi! Ti ricordo che Mplayer non ha interfaccia grafica.quindi devi andare sul sito sceglierti uno skin e sconpattarglielo nell apposita dir. [cut] win dipendente...)quando avvio un filmato con il comando mplayer,sono costretto a passare immediatamente con ctrl-alt-Fn ad una console perchè sullo schermo compaiono delle fastidiose striscie.Ho capito che funziona in framebufferche pensavo di avere disabilitato in fase di compilazione con --disable-fbdev.Cosè che ho sbagliato?Non siate ermetici per favore perchè-come avrete capito-sono agli inizi ed è già abbastanza dura! è un errore di battitura all inizio o ho capito bene? all inizio hai scritto che in /.configure --enable-fbdev!!! cmq ti consiglio di dare come opzione solo --enable-gui! fa tutto da solo. il problema al video era quasi sicuramente imputabile al codec che stavi utilizzando!...un dubbio...hai controllato se c'è qualcosa in particolare su la tua skeda grafica? Quando riuscirai a far funzionare Mplayer potrai goderti i divx al massimo della risoluzione possibile con una fluidita che xine se la sogna! Ciao , Tom No,hai visto giusto;con quel comando ho-seguendo l'articolo di cui ho parlato- ho attivato il framebuffer giusto?Ricompilerò daccapo seguendo il tuo consiglio. Grazie, Alessandro
Re: [newbie-it] danni con kmail
Alle 00:23, venerdì 22 novembre 2002, luigi pinna ha scritto: [snippo tutto perchè è html] sul client in facoltà imposta l'account in modo che non rimuova la posta dal server, così leggi ma puoi riscaricare da casa. a casa, rimetti a posto la directory Mail e copiaci *dentro* la Mail del pc in uni... aprendo kmail vedrai la posta dentro una folder chiamata 'Mail' e sposterai tutto da kmail stesso bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
[newbie-it] estrarre testo da pdf
ciao a tutti, per visualizzare i file pdf uso kghostview o xpdf, ma non ho capito come estrarne il testo 8tipo copia e incolla in un'altra applicazione) come posso fare? un saluto pigi
[newbie-it] stampante che muore inspiegabilmente
Salve, ho istallato mdk 9.0 e ho regolarmente configurato le stampanti (una su parallela e l'altra su usb) che funzionano abbastanza bene. A volte pero' la stampante usb non funziona inspiegabilmente: secondo www cups è attiva ma non c'e' verso di farla funzionare: finisco con il riavviare il sistema ... e prontamente si mette a stampare! Non ho capito ne' il perche' ne come fare a riattivarla ... ... aiuto! bye pigi
Re: [newbie-it] MPlayer
On Friday 22 November 2002 12:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie-it] MPlayer: Aggiungo i messaggi di mplayer mentre avvio un triler: spero che nessuno si scocci per questo ma potrebbe giovare a qualcuno. Alessandro Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.) questo puoi risolverlo dando chmod +s mplayer == fbdev: using /dev/fb0 == usi il framebuffer in effetti, alla fine del configure dovrebbe dart la lista di cosa ha visto e cosa no, cosa ha abilitato e cosa no. VO: Description: Framebuffer Device vo sta per video output. puo' darsi anche che tu debba darglielo. prova a lanciarlo con mplayer -vo help vedrai la lista delle possibilita' che hai. ma forse dovresti doverlo ricompilare. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
RE: [newbie] Console RPM database tool
rpm -qa |more or rpm -qa |grep packagename to see if a package is installed. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anders Lind Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2002 6:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Console RPM database tool Hello friends, does anybody know if there is a RPM database tool that can be used in console, I can't find any switch to the rpm-command so I can see what apps are installed. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice
Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi All, I had this trouble with 3D shapes. If you have OpenGL turned on and are using an nVidia card (with latest drivers), this will cause the problem you have described. I found by turning off OpenGL in OpenOffice fixed the problem for me. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2002 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 5:55 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Joe Braddock wrote: To insert a picture into an OO document, use the Insert==Graphics==From File menu. Works like a charm. Joeb Then I think there must be something wrong with my settings. I go insert-graphics-from file menu - up comes a window, I direct to .jpeg file, click open and a square with 6 small green markers to the parimiter appears but no photo. Any thoughts ? I think this one is a setting, too, John. There is one somewhere to show or hide graphics - to speed up handling of large documents. Check through all the settings you can find. Anne Ok, yes I too have a Nvidia card , geforce3, I went to tools-options - view -3dview | unticked | use OpenGL Closed app. (just in case it needs to reload) repeat Insert==Graphics==From - File menu. etc still rectangle with 6 green sqare dots. No picture. Is this the same setting as you describe or have I chosen wrong ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KAddressBook
On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 10:27 pm, Serge Hänni wrote: I suppose this means that we're stuck with it for now. I gather KDE3.1 is nearly ready. How hard is it to upgrade kde when it does arrive? You can just upgrade KAdressBook as well.. Just download the CVS from the KAdressBook-Site, compile and install it. Then it should work. You don't have to upgrade the whole KDE, if you only have troubles with one program. Sounds good, but I googled KAddressBook and visited the links listed and could not understand how I can get this upgrade. The page on using cvs is aimed at developers, talking about how to upload. Can you give me a bit more info, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mousemats
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 12:45 am, FemmeFatale wrote: Seriously, ditch the stupid rodent get a trackball. G/f I both had probs with soreness Stuff. Got 2 trackballs, *Poof* no more problems --- Femme I had wondered about trackballs. Are all the well-known brands supported? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE/ATAPI CD-RW
Aaron wrote:
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 00:34, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aaron wrote:
I think this is a case for one of those modprobe commands that I'm not
really
cleaver with, but in a root terminal try modprobe -c and lsmod
and report back and let us see if other list members can help.
{I did the modprobe -c and redirected it to a file which is attached}
Aaron
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# Generated by modprobe -c (2.4.19)
path[boot]=/lib/modules/boot
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdksmp
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4
path[kernel]=/lib/modules/kernel
path[fs]=/lib/modules/fs
path[net]=/lib/modules/net
path[scsi]=/lib/modules/scsi
path[block]=/lib/modules/block
path[cdrom]=/lib/modules/cdrom
path[ipv4]=/lib/modules/ipv4
path[ipv6]=/lib/modules/ipv6
path[sound]=/lib/modules/sound
path[fc4]=/lib/modules/fc4
path[video]=/lib/modules/video
path[misc]=/lib/modules/misc
path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/pcmcia
path[atm]=/lib/modules/atm
path[usb]=/lib/modules/usb
path[ide]=/lib/modules/ide
path[ieee1394]=/lib/modules/ieee1394
path[mtd]=/lib/modules/mtd
# Prune
prune modules.dep
prune modules.description
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prune modules.pcimap
prune modules.isapnpmap
prune modules.usbmap
prune modules.parportmap
prune modules.ieee1394map
prune modules.pnpbiosmap
prune System.map
prune .config
prune build
prune vmlinux
prune vmlinuz
prune bzImage
prune zImage
prune .rhkmvtag
# Above
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above usbmouse hid
above wacom evdev
# Below
below ov518_decomp ov511
# Aliases
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alias block-major-7 loop
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alias block-major-9 md
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alias block-major-13 xd
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alias block-major-18 sjcd
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alias block-major-26 sbpcd
alias block-major-27 sbpcd
alias block-major-29 aztcd
alias block-major-32 cm206
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alias block-major-57 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-58 lvm-mod
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alias block-major-89 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-90 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-91 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-93 nftl
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alias char-major-6 lp
alias char-major-9 st
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alias char-major-10-1 off
alias char-major-10-2 msbusmouse
alias char-major-10-3 atixlmouse
alias char-major-10-130 wdt
alias char-major-10-131 wdt
alias char-major-10-135 rtc
alias char-major-10-139 openprom
alias char-major-10-144 nvram
alias char-major-10-157 applicom
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
alias char-major-10-184 microcode
alias char-major-13 input
alias char-major-13-32 mousedev
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias char-major-19 cyclades
alias char-major-20 cyclades
alias char-major-21 sg
alias char-major-22 pcxx
alias char-major-23 pcxx
alias char-major-27 ftape
alias char-major-34 scc
alias char-major-35 tclmidi
alias char-major-36 netlink
alias char-major-37 ide-tape
alias char-major-48 riscom8
alias char-major-49 riscom8
alias char-major-57 esp
alias char-major-58 esp
alias char-major-63 kdebug
alias char-major-90 mtdchar
alias char-major-96 pt
alias char-major-99 ppdev
alias char-major-107 3dfx
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias char-major-109 lvm-mod
alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
alias char-major-171 raw1394
alias char-major-195 NVdriver
alias char-major-200 vxspec
alias dos msdos
alias dummy0 dummy
alias dummy1 dummy
alias eth0 eepro100
alias iso9660 isofs
alias md-personality-1 linear
alias md-personality-2 raid0
alias md-personality-3 raid1
alias md-personality-4 raid5
alias md-personality-7 multipath
alias net-pf-1 unix
alias net-pf-2 ipv4
alias net-pf-3 off
alias net-pf-4 ipx
alias net-pf-5 appletalk
alias net-pf-6 off
alias net-pf-10 off
alias net-pf-17 af_packet
alias net-pf-19 off
alias netalias-2 ip_alias
alias irlan0 irlan
alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
alias irda-dongle-1 esi
alias irda-dongle-2 actisys
alias irda-dongle-3 actisys
alias irda-dongle-4 girbil
alias irda-dongle-5 litelink
alias irda-dongle-6 airport
alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin
alias plip0 plip
alias plip1
Re: [newbie] PPPoE and FAX
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 3:31 am, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Qua 20 Nov 2002 12:28, Anne Wilson escreveu: On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 10:40 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Hi, there! I use adsl thru PPPoE and I was able to set the faxmodem up, but I don't know how to send to fax from Kmail Can you give some directions? There should be a virtual printer called Print to Fax on your printer list. Selecting that and Print brings up a dialogue for inputting fax no. etc. Be warned, though, that it does not like spaces in the number. If the fax does not go, open up the log (you can open it while it is sending, if you like, from an icon on the dialogue page) where you will see what happened. A log file is written to your home directory called Tfaxnumber (T123456789 etc). When using it at first there may be permissions issues to sort out. I was able to send it thru command line (fax, efax), but not receive! I haven't tried it recently, but I think it was impossible on the last release that I had (Mdk 8.2 bundled). My isp offeres a fax receive by email service, which makes it unnecessary. I don't want to have to keep the modem active all the time for the incoming faxes - about 1 every 2 or 3 months. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] First suspect - me
As I said recently, when things don't work properly I always wonder if I didn't set it up properly - and it often proves to be the case. Like many people I was having problems with supermount. Through MCC I checked out all the settings, then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings. In essence, supermount can't work properly if 'user' is in the fstab line. I removed it, and (fingers crossed) everything seems to be working well now. I wonder if others have found the same? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] More package installation woes
I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0. Installation went very well; then the problem started. I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install from the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the Commercial Disks. But not from the Supplementary Disk. The packages are listed, and can be selected. But not installed. When I try to install from the Supplementary Disk, I get the error message:- Everything is already installed. (Is this supposed to happen at all?) Everything is definitely NOT installed. I have tried every combination of disk selection in Package Manager. I have tried updating. Using urpmi package (as root) gives an error message that the package cannot be found. I suppose that I could install single packages by clicking on them and using GURPMI, but that would be just a work round. It would not fix the problem I am having with the Package Manager. The source is given as:- removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 ../base/hdlist7.cz The other Supplementary source is 8 instead of 7. These sources compare with the other sources, so do not appear to be incorrect. I have looked in the archives, and can find thisproblem mentioned with respect to a DVD, but not CDs. Please can someone shed some light on the problem and tell me how to install packages from the Supplementary Disk? Many thanks. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KAddressBook
On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 10:27 pm, Serge Hänni wrote: I suppose this means that we're stuck with it for now. I gather KDE3.1 is nearly ready. How hard is it to upgrade kde when it does arrive? You can just upgrade KAdressBook as well.. Just download the CVS from the KAdressBook-Site, compile and install it. Then it should work. You don't have to upgrade the whole KDE, if you only have troubles with one program. I asked about this on the KAddressBook mailing list. The reply may be of interest to others, so I'll quote it here: version of Qt, so I guess you'll need at least qt-copy, kdelibs, kdepim and maybe kdebase. How do I get it? Anything else I need to know? You can get the current sources from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/kde-3.1-rc3/src Download the qt-x11-free, arts, kdelibs, (kdebase) and kdepim packages from there and install them concerning the INSTALL file inside. Maybe it's better to wait for the official release of KDE3.1 (should be on Monday) and get the binary packages from your ditributor. Thanks for your help Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Warnings (was First suspect - me)
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: (Small quote) then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings. Anne, do I take it that somewhere on the Mandrake site are Warnings and Work arounds regarding problems with 9.0? I can't find this, but there are so many links on their site that I may have missed it. I am a very recent convert to Mandrake and am still finding my way round the distro (and the site). Please could you tell me where these warnings are? There may be others which would be of use to me. Very many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mousemats
About 2 weeks ago my employer moved from a package which was about 90% keyboard based to a new package which requires almost complete mouse useage. As I am now pointing clicking for 8 hours a day my mouse side shoulder is getting quite sore. Now to the question, I have seen thigh mounted mouse pads advertised and wondered if any of you have any experience of them, if so do they help ease the problems caused by repetitive mouse useage ? Another possibility is alternating between right/left hand useage, again do any of you do this or does the action which is alien to the wrong hand create the same problem on that side? -- Thanks to all who replied, you've given me some ideas to put to the management. At the moment I am stuck with the basic setup that I am given as I work in a 24/7 control room and never sit at the same workstation for 2 days running, this means that I can't customise my position other than correctly position myself and my equipment (not easy to arrange monitor,kb,mouse,radio,mini-switchboard,notepad and of course coffee coaster) because when I leave at the end of the shift someone else takes my place. This means that anything requiring driver installation or reconfiguration of the mouse, no matter how simple, is out of the question (I am in a user rather than a tech environment and some people find such things as swapping a broken keyboard frightening) I like the cordless option but I need to convince the management that everyone needs it. Temporary term solution - I'm taking in a mouse that fits my hand and is ambidextrous so that I can swap hands (right handed ms mouse supplied as standard - how short sighted can you get ?) . -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More package installation woes
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0. Installation went very well; then the problem started. I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install from the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the Commercial Disks. But not from the Supplementary Disk. The packages are listed, and can be selected. But not installed. When I try to install from the Supplementary Disk, I get the error message:- Everything is already installed. (Is this supposed to happen at all?) Everything is definitely NOT installed. I have tried every combination of disk selection in Package Manager. I have tried updating. Using urpmi package (as root) gives an error message that the package cannot be found. I suppose that I could install single packages by clicking on them and using GURPMI, but that would be just a work round. It would not fix the problem I am having with the Package Manager. The source is given as:- removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 ../base/hdlist7.cz The other Supplementary source is 8 instead of 7. These sources compare with the other sources, so do not appear to be incorrect. I have looked in the archives, and can find thisproblem mentioned with respect to a DVD, but not CDs. Please can someone shed some light on the problem and tell me how to install packages from the Supplementary Disk? Many thanks. Keith Keith Is this a fresh install of the Powerpack or are you laying it over your original download installation? If the latter, then you need to delete the download CD source and add the powerpack CD source. There is a special command to use when adding an entire CD set as a source which is :- Insert CD1 and then in a root terminal urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom It will read the source lists for all the other CDs from CD1 If it is a new install, then I would check that /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 is indeed the path to the RPMs folder, and that the folder above is called 'base' and contains a file called hdlist7.cz derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More package installation woes
On Friday 22 November 2002 5:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0. Installation went very well; then the problem started. I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install from the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the Commercial Disks. But not from the Supplementary Disk. The packages are listed, and can be selected. But not installed. When I try to install from the Supplementary Disk, I get the error message:- Everything is already installed. (Is this supposed to happen at all?) Everything is definitely NOT installed. I have tried every combination of disk selection in Package Manager. I have tried updating. Using urpmi package (as root) gives an error message that the package cannot be found. I suppose that I could install single packages by clicking on them and using GURPMI, but that would be just a work round. It would not fix the problem I am having with the Package Manager. The source is given as:- removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 ../base/hdlist7.cz The other Supplementary source is 8 instead of 7. These sources compare with the other sources, so do not appear to be incorrect. I have looked in the archives, and can find thisproblem mentioned with respect to a DVD, but not CDs. Please can someone shed some light on the problem and tell me how to install packages from the Supplementary Disk? Many thanks. Keith Keith, have you checked to see how much disk space you have left? Good luck, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Friday, November 22, 2002 Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Warnings (was First suspect - me)
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:57 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: (Small quote) then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings. Anne, do I take it that somewhere on the Mandrake site are Warnings and Work arounds regarding problems with 9.0? No - I mean there may be, but that isn't where I found it. In the MCC, select Mount Points, then one of your removeable media devices, options, and there you will see the option to set or unset 'user' with the warning that I mentioned. I guess users who dislike graphical tools may never know this exists. I had set 'user' because I had used that in the past. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
Anne Wilson wrote: As I said recently, when things don't work properly I always wonder if I didn't set it up properly - and it often proves to be the case. Like many people I was having problems with supermount. Through MCC I checked out all the settings, then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings. In essence, supermount can't work properly if 'user' is in the fstab line. I removed it, and (fingers crossed) everything seems to be working well now. I wonder if others have found the same? Anne Out of interest does your altered supermount work in all respects with scsi-emulated devices ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More package installation woes
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:25, Keith Powell wrote: I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0. Installation went very well; then the problem started. I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install from the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the Commercial Disks. But not from the Supplementary Disk. The packages are listed, and can be selected. But not installed. When I try to install from the Supplementary Disk, I get the error message:- Everything is already installed. (Is this supposed to happen at all?) Everything is definitely NOT installed. I have tried every combination of disk selection in Package Manager. I have tried updating. Using urpmi package (as root) gives an error message that the package cannot be found. I suppose that I could install single packages by clicking on them and using GURPMI, but that would be just a work round. It would not fix the problem I am having with the Package Manager. The source is given as:- removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 ../base/hdlist7.cz The other Supplementary source is 8 instead of 7. These sources compare with the other sources, so do not appear to be incorrect. I have looked in the archives, and can find thisproblem mentioned with respect to a DVD, but not CDs. Please can someone shed some light on the problem and tell me how to install packages from the Supplementary Disk? Many thanks. Keith Not sure if I can help, but I have previously had the Everything is already installed (is this supposed to happeh at all ) error when I was using the wrong path to the hdlist, maybe you could check that out. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Warnings (was First suspect - me)
Thanks, Anne. I like graphical tools. I can never remember all those commands!! Keith On Friday 22 Nov 2002 11:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:57 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: (Small quote) then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings. Anne, do I take it that somewhere on the Mandrake site are Warnings and Work arounds regarding problems with 9.0? No - I mean there may be, but that isn't where I found it. In the MCC, select Mount Points, then one of your removeable media devices, options, and there you will see the option to set or unset 'user' with the warning that I mentioned. I guess users who dislike graphical tools may never know this exists. I had set 'user' because I had used that in the past. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another OT...Sort Of
I have never compiled anything in Linux beyond that of the kernel, and that was many years ago. Yes, I would like to try that. However, I am at a loss as to what actually has to be done. I am also not sure that just changing the X-server is going to be enough in RH, because of the way the distro has made all WMs follow their prescribed look. I might have to install a generic version of KDE or Gnome, too. I have read where some RH users have not accepted the new look and had to do this. It seems daunting to a newbie, and the amount of time that I have to 'play' in my learning has to be weighed against the fact that I am not making any money in my business when I do. It really sucks to have to work for a living! :-) If you have done something like this before, and can briefly outline the steps, I would appreciate it. I have been to the XFree86 site, but not spent a lot of time there, as yet. Any other references on-line? BTW, I did post this concern on RH's 'install' listserv. There wasn't any usefull help. I posted it OT here because the solution leads me to being able to handle Mandrake related issues as well. Learning Linux is still learning Mandrake, INHO. I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Is it worth my time as a newbie, or should be left for a future project when I am a little more experienced and capable? T - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:28 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Another OT...Sort Of why don't you compile xfree 3.3.6 yourself and see if that gets you what you want... just cos redhat don't offer that choise doesn't mean you can't use it... (maybe you could even rebuild the mdk src rpm on redhat??) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Technoslick Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2002 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Another OT...Sort Of I didn't transfer from the CD over to a local folder. I had thought about that when I first started the project, but then in the end, just went from the CD. The whole process kept choking on libc differences, so I forced then anyway. heh-heh I can be very persuasive when I have had enough and the consequences don't matter anymore. Xconfigurator did work, mostly. The screen was really funky looking, probably from the mixed libraries and dependency issues. It didn't matter in the long run. I had placed some hope that this configuration tool would get me in where xf86config couldn't. The issue is still the X-server. It won't run a lot of these older cards that are listed as supported. I tried some really high-freq monitors, too. It's the X-server, nothing more. I will wipe it out and start over, once I get a new video card; the forced RPM installs most likely caused some issues for the future. RH has made some rather starting changes in this newest release. They have decided in version 8 to really push the GUI as the place to be for maintaining the system as well as being productive. I certainly want to see a more 'friendly' and graphical work environment, but not at the expense of time-tested tools. I think it is rather bass-ackward that they should leave you with your best config tool in X-windows for when X-windows doesn't work right. Have I missed something here? ;-) T - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Another OT...Sort Of On Wednesday 20 November 2002 08:31 am, Technoslick wrote: You people are just so-o-o-o-o smart, I can't help but ask: If I want to install Xconfigurator on an RH 8.0 system, and I have all the RPMs I need on a CD, could I install them all like this: rpm -ivh --force --nodeps /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm Or am I going to have to install each RPM individually; maybe libraries first, and maybe with the --nodeps switch to keep them from complaining about dependencies? Xconfigurator was dropped in version 8 (%#%%$^!!) and it's my last hope of trying to get a supported card to actually work in XFree86 4.2.0. I know that I could make my own package from source, but I really don't have the time and inclination right now. Thanks for putting up with the OT question! T It should work, I have done it several times using a folder with the .rpm packages I want to install. To bad RH doesn't have urpmi command. What I would do though is transfer the CD packages to a single folder on your HD and then cd to that folder and install with rpm -ivh --force --nodeps *.rpm less chance of errors that way. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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
Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice
Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi All, I had this trouble with 3D shapes. If you have OpenGL turned on and are using an nVidia card (with latest drivers), this will cause the problem you have described. I found by turning off OpenGL in OpenOffice fixed the problem for me. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2002 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 5:55 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Joe Braddock wrote: To insert a picture into an OO document, use the Insert==Graphics==From File menu. Works like a charm. Joeb Then I think there must be something wrong with my settings. I go insert-graphics-from file menu - up comes a window, I direct to .jpeg file, click open and a square with 6 small green markers to the parimiter appears but no photo. Any thoughts ? I think this one is a setting, too, John. There is one somewhere to show or hide graphics - to speed up handling of large documents. Check through all the settings you can find. Anne I found the problem, It's toots - options - view - display | tick | graphics + Objects Now pictures display, cannot think why that is not the default. So as far as I can tell to date, remember I've only been around OOword a few days, the only function it does not seem to have is the chapter,paragraph, sub paragraph etc numbering feature that kword has. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As I said recently, when things don't work properly I always wonder if I didn't set it up properly - and it often proves to be the case. Like many people I was having problems with supermount. Through MCC I checked out all the settings, then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings. In essence, supermount can't work properly if 'user' is in the fstab line. I removed it, and (fingers crossed) everything seems to be working well now. I wonder if others have found the same? Anne Out of interest does your altered supermount work in all respects with scsi-emulated devices ? John John, I only found it a couple of days ago. So far, my observations are: It is best to use the desktop icon labelled Removable Media to mount the drives. Closing the window allows the eject to work. It is not impossible to upset it, but the couple of times I managed it I know it was my mistake that caused it. On those occasions the eject button on the drive didn't work, so I re-opened the window and used the drive eject option. You have to be smart, though, as it opens the drawer and shuts it very quickly! A quick snatch of the disk closed it empty, and all functioned normally after. It's too early to say there are no problems, but everything seems OK. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE/ATAPI CD-RW
Aaron wrote: It works find in windoze. But I think that the setup from before I removed it is still in place but when I reinstalled it something changed. harddrake doesn't find it at all. Which may mean that it has a different name and that liloconf points to the wrong device. Or that I need to do something to install it??? Aaron maybe running kudzu might help, I cannot find any man kudzu, doesn't seem to be one. so again it might not help, but kudzu is supposed to be a hardware detection and installation programme, if you know how to get it to work. Otherwise I think I would try MCC - hardware - hardware list and check if the scsi device is showing up, then MCC - hardware - mount points to check if it is mounted, then MCC - system - sevices to see if there is anything in there that might need to be activated/deactivated to assist with scsi detection and configuration, then kde CC - info - SCSI , check whether all your scsi and scsi-emulated devices show up in there properly, At the end of the day most of these gui's are only front ends to programmes like modprobe, lsmod, kudzu, sensors, etc, and it's a case of getting your system to recognise the changed config of your scsi writer device since you removed and replaced it. There has to be some way to kick it into life. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
Anne, In trying to show my wife how to use my MDK 9.0 to do her homework for school, last night, I realized how beneficial supermount can be for someone who has no interest in the workings, just wants to get work done. ;-) It worked fine for her, as long as she followed its 'rules of engagement'. I found that as long as I removed the focus on the CD-ROM drive, I could remove the CD...most of the time. However, I now try to eject it first, whenever the program focusing on it will give me that option (like Konqueror, for instance.) Whichever way I pick, it usually works. It isn't perfect, but as long as I work within its limitations, I really have very little problems with it. Using 'Refresh' in whatever program am in always makes sure that a switched media is properly read. Overall, I still would prefer to work with it enabled then to have to deal with thinking about mounting and unmounting. Floppy, Zip or CDs, I still find it works fine for me as long as I either eject from the program or close the program or its focus on the drive. Heck, M$ Windows isn't that much better, especially in Win 98. ;-) From what I can see in all that has been said here, this is an option that pleases everyone in that you can either use it, or disable itand you are right whatever choice you make! Mandrake may perfect this someday. For now, it works OK for me. T - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me On Friday 22 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As I said recently, when things don't work properly I always wonder if I didn't set it up properly - and it often proves to be the case. Like many people I was having problems with supermount. Through MCC I checked out all the settings, then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings. In essence, supermount can't work properly if 'user' is in the fstab line. I removed it, and (fingers crossed) everything seems to be working well now. I wonder if others have found the same? Anne Out of interest does your altered supermount work in all respects with scsi-emulated devices ? John John, I only found it a couple of days ago. So far, my observations are: It is best to use the desktop icon labelled Removable Media to mount the drives. Closing the window allows the eject to work. It is not impossible to upset it, but the couple of times I managed it I know it was my mistake that caused it. On those occasions the eject button on the drive didn't work, so I re-opened the window and used the drive eject option. You have to be smart, though, as it opens the drawer and shuts it very quickly! A quick snatch of the disk closed it empty, and all functioned normally after. It's too early to say there are no problems, but everything seems OK. 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
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mousemats
On November 22, 2002 04:14 am, Poogle wrote: About 2 weeks ago my employer moved from a package which was about 90% keyboard based to a new package which requires almost complete mouse useage. As I am now pointing clicking for 8 hours a day my mouse side shoulder is getting quite sore. Now to the question, I have seen thigh mounted mouse pads advertised and wondered if any of you have any experience of them, if so do they help ease the problems caused by repetitive mouse useage ? Another possibility is alternating between right/left hand useage, again do any of you do this or does the action which is alien to the wrong hand create the same problem on that side? I started using a Logitech Marble Mouse about 4 years ago for similar reasons. The repetitive strain concern is gone; and being a marble mouse helps since the marble is centered instead of off to the side as with the track-balls. Picture a mouse flipped over with the roller on top. With proper positioning of the desk-pad (and you) the only thing moving usually is your fingers. I've always had a hard time with track-balls because most are built in a right handed orientation. Left hand models used to be available as special order items; read expensive. The only shortcoming of the marble mouse is a lack of a third button/scroll wheel but I can live with that. I use the keyboard more than the mouse anyway. It's also considerably less expensive than a track-ball. Thanks to all who replied, you've given me some ideas to put to the management. At the moment I am stuck with the basic setup that I am given as I work in a 24/7 control room and never sit at the same workstation for 2 days running, this means that I can't customise my position other than correctly position myself and my equipment (not easy to arrange monitor,kb,mouse,radio,mini-switchboard,notepad and of course coffee coaster) because when I leave at the end of the shift someone else takes my place. This means that anything requiring driver installation or reconfiguration of the mouse, no matter how simple, is out of the question (I am in a user rather than a tech environment and some people find such things as swapping a broken keyboard frightening) I like the cordless option but I need to convince the management that everyone needs it. Temporary term solution - I'm taking in a mouse that fits my hand and is ambidextrous so that I can swap hands (right handed ms mouse supplied as standard - how short sighted can you get ?) . Very shortsighted, but maybe not in this case. The majority of the populace is other than dexter. Employers (and manufacturers) play the percentages. I'm ambidextrous, but still find it easier to use my left hand for anything that requires fine movements or control. The Logitech (and probably the MS version as well) marble uses 'generic' mouse drivers so there's no driver issues in Mandrake. More options under Winders with the available drivers, but nothing that's really necessary. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org QOTD: Oh, no, no... I'm not beautiful. Just very, very pretty. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Program removal
Title: Message If you use the Mandrake program management software to remove a program does it delete all files and directories also?
Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
John, I use Supermount and have two scsi-emulated drives. Never had a single problem, and I don't baby it in any way, shape, or form. Miark On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:57:35 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of interest does your altered supermount work in all respects with scsi-emulated devices ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems with GeForce2 MX400 - Mandrake 9.0
Hello everyone, I'm having some problems with my video board, a GeForce2 MX400 and Mandrake 9.0 I used Mandrake 8.2 and everything was OK but now it doesn't recognize my video I can work greatly in the console mode but I can't go to the graphic mode at all. I've alredy tried to find drivers on the net but it didn't work at all either... Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Francisco Dalla Rosa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mouse versus Trackballs
Em Sex 22 Nov 2002 07:35, Anne Wilson escreveu: Trackball are just perfect!! I have two A4tech (ps2, but they also work on com ports)! They are much cheaper than other brand$. A4tech has two models (to my knowledge) the best is a 'weird' looking one with 'ears' on both side! Just rest your hand over the trackball and you will understand! They fit perfectly! There is no need for 'extra' moves! I will never come back to 'plain vanilla' mouses! TouchPad also works but I much prefer a trackball! Support?? As far as you know there is no way for your computer to tell the difference! Ricardo On Friday 22 Nov 2002 12:45 am, FemmeFatale wrote: Seriously, ditch the stupid rodent get a trackball. G/f I both had probs with soreness Stuff. Got 2 trackballs, *Poof* no more problems --- Femme I had wondered about trackballs. Are all the well-known brands supported? Anne Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra. Scan engine: VirusScan / Atualizado em 20/11/2002 / Versão: 1.3.13 Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://www.emailprotegido.terra.com.br/ -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Console RPM database tool
Even better: rpm -qa | grep -i packagename because many packages use capital letters. There are about 113 of them on my system. Miark On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:41:13 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rpm -qa |more or rpm -qa |grep packagename to see if a package is installed. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anders Lind Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2002 6:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Console RPM database tool Hello friends, does anybody know if there is a RPM database tool that can be used in console, I can't find any switch to the rpm-command so I can see what apps are installed. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Supermount and scsi-emulated devices
John, I use Supermount and have two scsi-emulated drives. Never had a single problem, and I don't baby it in any way, shape, or form. Miark Miark, Could you let me have your fstab entry for the cdrom devices, Thanks -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program removal
Carter Harris wrote: If you use the Mandrake program management software to remove a program does it delete all files and directories also? Yes, unless they were created later. For example, if you installed some LaTeX style files and then deleted LaTeX, I'm pretty sure your new styles would survive. that's only pretty sure, though ;-) Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program removal
Carter Harris wrote: If you use the Mandrake program management software to remove a program does it delete all files and directories also? Yes it does. Except for user files which were created for each user by the program operation. Example: When each user of your system runs xmms for the first time, a .xmms hidden folder is created in a user's home. These folders will not be removed when you use the Mandrake program management software to remove xmms. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with GeForce2 MX400 - Mandrake 9.0
I'm using nvidia 1.0.-3123 and all is OK. Check last version on http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_archive Install and make ldconfig. Petr Francisco Dalla Rosa Soares wrote: Hello everyone, I'm having some problems with my video board, a GeForce2 MX400 and Mandrake 9.0 I used Mandrake 8.2 and everything was OK but now it doesn't recognize my video I can work greatly in the console mode but I can't go to the graphic mode at all. I've alredy tried to find drivers on the net but it didn't work at all either... Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Francisco Dalla Rosa 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] Program removal
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Re: [newbie] More package installation woes
On Friday 22 November 2002 03:59 am, Peter Watson wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:25, Keith Powell wrote: I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0. Installation went very well; then the problem started. I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install from the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the Commercial Disks. But not from the Supplementary Disk. The packages are listed, and can be selected. But not installed. When I try to install from the Supplementary Disk, I get the error message:- Everything is already installed. (Is this supposed to happen at all?) Everything is definitely NOT installed. I have tried every combination of disk selection in Package Manager. I have tried updating. Using urpmi package (as root) gives an error message that the package cannot be found. I suppose that I could install single packages by clicking on them and using GURPMI, but that would be just a work round. It would not fix the problem I am having with the Package Manager. The source is given as:- removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 ../base/hdlist7.cz The other Supplementary source is 8 instead of 7. These sources compare with the other sources, so do not appear to be incorrect. I have looked in the archives, and can find thisproblem mentioned with respect to a DVD, but not CDs. Please can someone shed some light on the problem and tell me how to install packages from the Supplementary Disk? Many thanks. Keith Not sure if I can help, but I have previously had the Everything is already installed (is this supposed to happeh at all ) error when I was using the wrong path to the hdlist, maybe you could check that out. HTH Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Hi: I have done a fresh install from the Mandrake DVD for version 9.0 and I am seeing simular problems. I am thinking this is a supermount problem, as I have noticed that data cd's that are mounted seem to loose files when transfering them to HD. I have plenty of disk space. If I unmount the disk and remount it then transfer the files it works. This seems to work for installs also. -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.19-16mdk Current Linux uptime: 3 days 5 hours 51 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 5:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer driver/spooling in M9.0 as me but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and nothing I do to correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation and brightness makes any difference . Since M8.0 my Z52 's and Z53 all ran on a choice of 2 ghostscript and one generic driver all of which worked right up to M8.2. The generic drive was hard to set up,and I gave up on it but the two ghostscript drivers worked , one was better at low resolution dpi setting and the other was better with higher resolution, dpi 600 and above. Now nothing works in colour. I've spent hours trying to correct the situation , wasted an entire cartridge , enless paper, but I cannot correct it. I think the problem is not in the driver as such, and in any case the pictures display well enough on screen so the files are not currepted. It seems to be in the spooling something overrides and currupts any corrections to colour ba;lance, hue, saturation and brightness, the result is awful and quite useless. I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it.Whatever is wrong is in the software and uncorrectable. I just wondered whether anyone else has had the same problem. John John - have you tried setting up a new printer from MCC, forcing MCC to identify the printer? It seems to do a much better job at find the right driver than you can do by hand. I have one printer set up on four different configurations or different jobs - and all of them work fine. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] First suspect - me
Title: RE: [newbie] First suspect - me -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 6:18 pm, mike wrote: Franki wrote: as a result of this, I think mdk7.2 is still their best ever release.. anyone else agree with me?? rgds Frank I agree wholeheartedly ! I have stuck with 8.0 only for the newer kde, however I really liked 7.2 as well. 8.2 was ok, but I can't get a number of things working in 9.0 to save my life. and the supermount issue is a big one for me, though I have used linux ever since RH 5.2. I only use Mandrake now and will stick with it, but I'd also like to see many of the features of older versions remain, instead of being forced to upgrade hardware, etc. just my 2 cents It's funny, after all the problems I had read I expected huge problems with my 9.0 installation, particularly with supermount and USB printer, scanner, LS120 drive. I have had none of those problems. I went to a good deal of trouble to ensure that I could have 8.2 working in case 9.0 was no good for me. Now I think I wasted my time. In fact I can't believe how many things gave me grief in 8.2 that are just fine in 9.0 - except that AisleRiot frequently bombs out on me at lunchtime, and KAddressBook is knackered, which you can't blame Mandrake for. Ah well - nothing's perfect. But this one nearly is. Anne I agree with Anne, I tweak and prod and fiddle with things and the 9.0 just keeps chuggin. I used to break 8.2 on a monthly basis with all my fooling around. I have no problems with supermount and have been able to use my flash card reader as a hardtype drive. Now I am looking at changing the webserver over to 9.0 also. And so the YMMV seems to be a truism in all areas of computing. Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
Its wrong for mandrake to expect poeple to just wait for the next version to fix such a huge bug.. particularly when supermount was one of the touted benefits of mandrake over tbe others.. I agree 100% I'm using autofs because supermount does not work reliably. I'm a former RedHat user. I used RedHat 5.2, 6.2 and 7.1 as desktop systems. This is my first Mandrake. Mandrake is good, but supermount needs fixing ASAP. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
Milos, Thanks for bringing this up. I have been wanting to ask someone about the differences between autofs and supermount, whether they rely on each other or compete. I am sure that I have loaded both at the same time in the past, and maybe have gotten quirky result because of this. Can you explain to me the true differences in the way they operate, if any, and if the end result looks any different between them? (when supermount is working, of course) TIA T - Original Message - From: Milos Prudek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me Its wrong for mandrake to expect poeple to just wait for the next version to fix such a huge bug.. particularly when supermount was one of the touted benefits of mandrake over tbe others.. I agree 100% I'm using autofs because supermount does not work reliably. I'm a former RedHat user. I used RedHat 5.2, 6.2 and 7.1 as desktop systems. This is my first Mandrake. Mandrake is good, but supermount needs fixing ASAP. -- Milos Prudek 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] First suspect - me
Hold it! Rephrase in order! What I meant is compare autofs to supermount, without the obvious fact that supermount doesn't always work out of the picture. Phew! Thank goodness I am not an ambassador for the middle east. Ouch! T - Original Message - From: Milos Prudek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me Its wrong for mandrake to expect poeple to just wait for the next version to fix such a huge bug.. particularly when supermount was one of the touted benefits of mandrake over tbe others.. I agree 100% I'm using autofs because supermount does not work reliably. I'm a former RedHat user. I used RedHat 5.2, 6.2 and 7.1 as desktop systems. This is my first Mandrake. Mandrake is good, but supermount needs fixing ASAP. -- Milos Prudek 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] First suspect - me
Technoslick wrote: Hold it! Rephrase in order! What I meant is compare autofs to supermount, without the obvious fact that supermount doesn't always work out of the picture. autofs is somewhat more diffcult to set up. You create a directory other than /mnt, for instance I use /media. You leave it empty. Then you enter floppy and burner and cdrom lines in your autofs config files. Then you start the autofs daemon. When you try to access the actually nonexistent /media/cdrom, autofs creates the /media/cdrom folder for you, and mounts the cdrom drive there. When you back out of the /media/cdrom and certain timeout expires, autofs unmounts cdrom, and /media/cdrom directory disappears. More details can be found in autofs man pages. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount and scsi-emulated devices
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:22:35 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark, Could you let me have your fstab entry for the cdrom devices, Thanks Sure: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Hello, Thank you for your mail interest. I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell Checker. 1.Go to Mandrake Control Centre and click on Add Software. 2.Click Workstation and then openoffice. You will see myspell for different languages, I chose myspell-en_GB. 3.Click install Software and close Mandrake Control Centre. 4.Open openoffice writer. Click Tools options Language Setting Writing Aids Select Language Edit tick myspell spelling, then ok. This works well for me. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:47, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Hello Spence, I found the 'myspell' rpm in the Mandrake Control Centre Add Software section. After adding, it works well, but did not install originally as you seem to have found. Thank you for your kind interest. Malcolm Candlish. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:14, Spencer wrote: On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not do, please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such as; file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm All spellchecking is enabled with installation of this rpm. Please ensure that myspell is also installed. For some reason, these are not installed automatically when OO is originally installed. I included this rpm when I did the first install and spellchecking has worked properly since. Spence Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). 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] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Hello Paul, Yes thank you, the myspell was in the installation set and having installed it separately, it now works well. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 16:54, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I had a similar problem getting extra language dictionaries. The folks in #openoffice.org at irc.openprojects.org were very helpful. In Mandrake, we just need the appropriate myspell packages to be installed, so make sure that the corresponding myspell package for the language you are looking for (presumably English) is installed. For example: myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk.noarch.rpm I find that if I have a program the should be working but isn't, sometimes a forced upgrade of that programs helps if the program was improperly installed without my knowledge. Running rpm -Uvh --force myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk.noarch.rpm from a console as root (assuming that file is in my local directory) has resolved problems like this for me. I hope this helps. Also, make sure that you have the proper dictionary chosen in Tools-Options-Language Settings-Languages Hope this helps. - Paul On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Hello Joseph, I did as you suggested and it now works well. However, why does the myspell file not load with openoffice as a dependency? Does seem strange, but apart from that I must say I am very pleased with OO. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 02:37, Joseph Braddock wrote: You need to go back and install myspell and the appropriate dictionary for you language. Joeb On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] MySQL
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to remove the MySQL rpms without KDE disapearing with it? When trying to remove, it also wants to remove the various KDE rpms? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Warnings (was First suspect - me)
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:57 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: (Small quote) then re-read Mandrake's warnings about supermount and user settings. Anne, do I take it that somewhere on the Mandrake site are Warnings and Work arounds regarding problems with 9.0? I can't find this, but there are so many links on their site that I may have missed it. I am a very recent convert to Mandrake and am still finding my way round the distro (and the site). Please could you tell me where these warnings are? There may be others which would be of use to me. Very many thanks Keith Errata page http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3 Security Warnings http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ Useful Forums/tips/tricks http://www.mandrakeforum.com/ http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ http://www.mandrakeusers.org/ http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/ (might as well slip my own in) http://www.pythonzero.org/work/test/yawps.cgi?action=topicsviewcat=HOWTO News/Info http://www.pclinuxonline.com/ Mandrake RPMS http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/ http://plf.zarb.org/ http://ranger.dnsalias.com/ and plenty more :) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATI support
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:06, Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone had a chance to test the new ATI drivers shown on the following URL? http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.112102/223252168ticker=ATYTticker=ATY.TO I am looking for a new vid card and am hesitant to go ATI. Let me know what luck yall have had. Thanks, -- I was actually excited about this article, until I read that it doesn't pertain to any of the ati mobility chipsets! I'm running Mandrake 9 on a Compaq Presario 2710US (ati Rage Mobility LY). I have to use the generic VESA drivers for x. Sucks! Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 5:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer driver/spooling in M9.0 as me but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and nothing I do to correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation and brightness makes any difference . Since M8.0 my Z52 's and Z53 all ran on a choice of 2 ghostscript and one generic driver all of which worked right up to M8.2. The generic drive was hard to set up,and I gave up on it but the two ghostscript drivers worked , one was better at low resolution dpi setting and the other was better with higher resolution, dpi 600 and above. Now nothing works in colour. I've spent hours trying to correct the situation , wasted an entire cartridge , enless paper, but I cannot correct it. I think the problem is not in the driver as such, and in any case the pictures display well enough on screen so the files are not currepted. It seems to be in the spooling something overrides and currupts any corrections to colour ba;lance, hue, saturation and brightness, the result is awful and quite useless. I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it.Whatever is wrong is in the software and uncorrectable. I just wondered whether anyone else has had the same problem. John John - have you tried setting up a new printer from MCC, forcing MCC to identify the printer? It seems to do a much better job at find the right driver than you can do by hand. I have one printer set up on four different configurations or different jobs - and all of them work fine. Anne I think the problem is more complicated than just mere tinkering with the choice of driver. As a matter of fact the test pages are quite good though a little pale in colour. No, the problem is with whatever really controls the spooling. I've been to kde -system -print manager to tweek the controlls, ever so many times. I've used MCC hardware - printer to remove , add and generally tried every available driver many times , I've wasted days on this now. As far as adjusting colour is concerned it's not difficult to see, that of the 3 primary colours, it's red that is missing, so you go to adjust the magenta levels , but doubling and trebling the level makes marginal difference. I don't think whatever is really controlling the colour balance has been set right. Maybe a complete new install is called for. John Anyway just in case you think it's the cartridge let me assure you reverting back to M8.2( one of the advantages of dual booting) and putting the same files though a print cycle produces perfect output. Seems to suggest someone has changed something and now it don't work right. No problems with black and white though. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53
Joe Braddock wrote: ---Original Message--- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/22/02 11:47 AM To: NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53 I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer driver/spooling in M9.0 as me but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and nothing I do to correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation and brightness makes any difference . Since M8.0 my Z52 's and Z53 all ran on a choice of 2 ghostscript and one generic driver all of which worked right up to M8.2. The generic drive was hard to set up,and I gave up on it but the two ghostscript drivers worked , one was better at low resolution dpi setting and the other was better with higher resolution, dpi 600 and above. Now nothing works in colour. I've spent hours trying to correct the situation , wasted an entire cartridge , enless paper, but I cannot correct it. I think the problem is not in the driver as such, and in any case the pictures display well enough on screen so the files are not currepted. It seems to be in the spooling something overrides and currupts any corrections to colour ba;lance, hue, saturation and brightness, the result is awful and quite useless. I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it.Whatever is wrong is in the software and uncorrectable. I just wondered whether anyone else has had the same problem. John I'm not going to be much help, but I'm using a Z53 with Mandrake Linux 9.0 and don't have any of problems you mention. Have you installed or updated anything that might affect CUPS or GIMP or the Z53 drivers? Joeb Well that is encouraging , seems like there is hope then. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kppp help required - SOLVED
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:24, John McQuillen wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:50, Michael Adams wrote: First off GATEWAYDEV=xxx did not exist. So i removed the line stating GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, this made it worse. kppp on-screen log showed as an ATZ once the dialup had completed on the same line as the ATDTO. then it cycled and redialed. So i added GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 and this took me back to the original problem. Most recent /var/log/syslog entries after above changes are as follows. Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost pppd[7776]: pppd 2.4.1 started by gaeil, uid 1001 Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost pppd[7776]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost pppd[7776]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ham Nov 21 07:48:43 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up Nov 21 07:48:46 localhost kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered Nov 21 07:48:46 localhost kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered Nov 21 07:48:46 localhost pppd[7776]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [192.168.0.1] You still have a default route set via eth0, hence the above message. /etc/ppp/options has an option 'defaultroute', you appear to have this option set, as pppd is attempting to add a default route via ppp0. So, try this: remove the GATEWAYDEV line altogether from /etc/sysconfig/network make sure you don't have a file /etc/default-route (you probably don't) as root do 'service network restart' also as root 'route -n' will show you a routing table which should not include a line beginning with '0.0.0.0' (default route). Now when you connect to the Internet, pppd should give you a default route via ppp0. btw, I have GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 in my /etc/sysconfig/network, and it works OK. Perhaps you didn't restart the network? Hope this works for you. Regards, John... I hadn't restarted the network. Egg on face. When i got the computer back with the floppy replaced it worked fine as the network was restarted by the fresh boot. Thanks for your help John. To recap for those following this thread... The computer on 56k MoDem connected ok to the net but web pages were not fetching. I guess this was because the IP request was not sending the correct IP address for my computer but was sending a default address (0.0.0.0). (Correct me if this is wrong John). Konq hummed for a minute then reported unknown host www.xxx.com (irrespective of which site i was attemping to fetch from). The error in /var/log/syslog read Nov 21 07:48:46 localhost pppd[7776]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [192.168.0.1] The fix was to add the line GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 remove the line GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx both in /etc/sysconfig/network. Then to do a service network restart as root. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Quick chmod question
I need to chmod a whole bunch of files (under a directory), rather than go thru them all one by one is there a quicker way to chmod them all Thanx Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mousemats
At 09:35 AM 11/22/2002 +, you wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 12:45 am, FemmeFatale wrote: Seriously, ditch the stupid rodent get a trackball. G/f I both had probs with soreness Stuff. Got 2 trackballs, *Poof* no more problems --- Femme I had wondered about trackballs. Are all the well-known brands supported? Anne well i use a M$ one (I know I know, flog me later) with a M$ Keyboard too. Logitech has good ones, this one well... I had to send back my g/f's after a year cause the steel wheels inside it wore down *flat!* I was appalled. Anyway I think the next one I'll get will be from Kensington. They have one with a blue ball in it, its huge! like 6 or 7 buttons but not optical I don't think... :) I want it ;p Very good for carpal tunnel so i hear. And my lovers tendonitis isn't so bad now either :) Up to you I suppose but they are worth trying for a week I think. If you hate them return it get a mouse. Mandrake supports them well enough I found. --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount and scsi-emulated devices
Miark wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:22:35 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark, Could you let me have your fstab entry for the cdrom devices, Thanks Sure: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Miark I see, that is what my M9.0 installer created for me.However it does not work well for me with my scsi-emulated drivers. Perhaps that suggests it's hardware related. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mousemats
I have only one thing to say about trackballs: CARPEL-TUNNEL SYNDROME FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:35 AM 11/22/2002 +, you wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 12:45 am, FemmeFatale wrote: Seriously, ditch the stupid rodent get a trackball. G/f I both had probs with soreness Stuff. Got 2 trackballs, *Poof* no more problems --- Femme I had wondered about trackballs. Are all the well-known brands supported? Anne well i use a M$ one (I know I know, flog me later) with a M$ Keyboard too. Logitech has good ones, this one well... I had to send back my g/f's after a year cause the steel wheels inside it wore down *flat!* I was appalled. Anyway I think the next one I'll get will be from Kensington. They have one with a blue ball in it, its huge! like 6 or 7 buttons but not optical I don't think... :) I want it ;p Very good for carpal tunnel so i hear. And my lovers tendonitis isn't so bad now either :) Up to you I suppose but they are worth trying for a week I think. If you hate them return it get a mouse. Mandrake supports them well enough I found. --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mousemats
At 07:45 AM 11/22/2002 -0700, you wrote: On November 22, 2002 04:14 am, Poogle wrote: About 2 weeks ago my employer moved from a package which was about 90% keyboard based to a new package which requires almost complete mouse useage. As I am now pointing clicking for 8 hours a day my mouse side shoulder is getting quite sore. Now to the question, I have seen thigh mounted mouse pads advertised and wondered if any of you have any experience of them, if so do they help ease the problems caused by repetitive mouse useage ? Another possibility is alternating between right/left hand useage, again do any of you do this or does the action which is alien to the wrong hand create the same problem on that side? I started using a Logitech Marble Mouse about 4 years ago for similar reasons. The repetitive strain concern is gone; and being a marble mouse helps since the marble is centered instead of off to the side as with the track-balls. http://www.kensington.com/html/1436.html Try that site for ambidextrous trackballs :) --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mousemats
My grandson has a M$ one that I bought some years back. At that time the design was what has been described in this thread as a marble mouse - in other words with a large ball on top, and two buttons by the thumb. The whole thing is considerably bigger than a conventional mouse, and the hand seems to fit over it much better, better supported. With the conventional mouse I find that I swivel on the heel of my hand to move the mouse. I would say that the risk was greater there, not to mention the fact that I have a very sore place there on my right hand now. Anne On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:37 pm, Todd Franklin wrote: I have only one thing to say about trackballs: CARPEL-TUNNEL SYNDROME FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:35 AM 11/22/2002 +, you wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 12:45 am, FemmeFatale wrote: Seriously, ditch the stupid rodent get a trackball. G/f I both had probs with soreness Stuff. Got 2 trackballs, *Poof* no more problems --- Femme I had wondered about trackballs. Are all the well-known brands supported? Anne well i use a M$ one (I know I know, flog me later) with a M$ Keyboard too. Logitech has good ones, this one well... I had to send back my g/f's after a year cause the steel wheels inside it wore down *flat!* I was appalled. Anyway I think the next one I'll get will be from Kensington. They have one with a blue ball in it, its huge! like 6 or 7 buttons but not optical I don't think... :) I want it ;p Very good for carpal tunnel so i hear. And my lovers tendonitis isn't so bad now either :) Up to you I suppose but they are worth trying for a week I think. If you hate them return it get a mouse. Mandrake supports them well enough I found. --- Femme 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] urpmi Mandrake Club
I'm having trouble adding Mandrake Club as a urpmi source to one of my machines. I get the following message: Connecting to www.mandrakeclub.com[63.209.80.244]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 16:32:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden. ...retrieving failed: wget failed: exited with 1 or signal 0 But I've double-checked the name and password and they're both correct. Anybody else having this trouble? I'm using urpmi.addmedia club http://blah:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads2/comm/9.0/i586 with ./hdlist.cz but with the proper user and pass, of course. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyway just in case you think it's the cartridge let me assure you reverting back to M8.2( one of the advantages of dual booting) and putting the same files though a print cycle produces perfect output. Seems to suggest someone has changed something and now it don't work right. No problems with black and white though. I suppose it's difficult to be certain that every printer is properly supported. No-one here has admitted to having the same model, so there's not much progress, I'm afraid. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quick chmod question
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 00:30, AndrewD wrote: I need to chmod a whole bunch of files (under a directory), rather than go thru them all one by one is there a quicker way to chmod them all Thanx Andrew chmod 700 * (or similar) -- Sat Nov 23 09:05:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Telecommunications is downshifting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quick chmod question
chmod 644 * or whatever premissions you want. The point is, cd into the directory and us an asterisk instead of a filename. Miark On 23 Nov 2002 08:30:50 -0500 AndrewD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to chmod a whole bunch of files (under a directory), rather than go thru them all one by one is there a quicker way to chmod them all Thanx Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:18 am, you wrote: Franki wrote: as a result of this, I think mdk7.2 is still their best ever release.. anyone else agree with me?? rgds Frank 7.2 was good--but I like 8.0 and 8.2 also. More than 7.2, I guess, because I still run both but retired 7.2. I never got 8.1 working right on my developmental box, so I never really used it, but my experience was that supermount was broken and not worth messing with. I'm not moving to 9.0 because, at this time, everything I have works, and I don't have any need to do so, and I really do like the convenience of supermount (without it, I doubt that my wife would have ditched Windows so easily). I have installed 8.0 and 8.2 systems on friends computers and now they only use Windows for games--both distros must be pretty good because they've worked on every machine I've ever loaded them onto with a minimum of config file editing. And, 8.0 and 8.2 have plenty of eye candy, too. Of the two, although hard to quantify, I think I give a slight edge to 8.2 for device support (8.2 has installed faster and has been better at identifying hardware than W2K on several machines where I've done dual-boot configurations). I've done maybe 30 systems with 8.0 and 8.2, so I feel I'm entitled to an opinion on this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] streaming on Mozilla
Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on Mozilla. When I tried to watch something on www.fabchannel.com, I get this message: this page contains information type (application/x-mplayer2)... thanks ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mousemats
On November 22, 2002 02:45 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: snip http://www.kensington.com/html/1436.html Try that site for ambidextrous trackballs :) --- Femme Thanks neighbor! :-) I'll have to see what's available at the local stores Monday as well. My son is building himself a new toy a piece (pay check) at a time, and that's when he's picking up the next parts. Somehow I'm starting to feel that I need a new toy! feeling as well. My poor wallet. ;-) Later; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the seashore. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quick chmod question
chmod your_mod -R your_directory AndrewD wrote: I need to chmod a whole bunch of files (under a directory), rather than go thru them all one by one is there a quicker way to chmod them all Thanx Andrew 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] streaming on Mozilla
villoing wrote: Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on Mozilla. When I tried to watch something on www.fabchannel.com, I get this message: this page contains information type (application/x-mplayer2)... Looks like you just answered your own question: mplayer. There are Mandrake RPMs available. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] localhost?
I know I should know this, but, what do I need to do if localhost isn't being resolved correctly by my web browser? I'm running LM 9.0. I can't seem to use any of the browser based admin tools because Netscape 7.0 can't resolve localhost and dumps me into search.netscape.com which is of little use to me. Thanks for any help you can give me, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quick chmod question
That will chmod any sub-directories as well -- not just the files within
those directories -- which may not be what you want. You might want to
use the find command to be a little more selective:
find your_directory -type f -exec chmod your_mod {} \;
villoing wrote:
chmod your_mod -R your_directory
AndrewD wrote:
I need to chmod a whole bunch of files (under a directory), rather than
go thru them all one by one is there a quicker way to chmod them all
Thanx
Andrew
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] streaming on Mozilla
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:38 pm, villoing wrote: Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on Mozilla. When I tried to watch something on www.fabchannel.com, I get this message: this page contains information type (application/x-mplayer2)... thanks ... That is Windows Media Player format. The only app I know which will play it streaming is Windows Media Player. But do not despair. go to www.codeweavers.com and you can download Crossover plugin which allows you to run Windows media player 6.5 The bad news is that the demo version is free, but the full version is not. The alternative is try to set up Wine to run WMP, which is possible, but not easy. For other streaming media sources there is RealPlayer8 for Linux, buried very deep on the Real.com site. Apple Quicktime also works under Codeweavers plugin. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] streaming on Mozilla
I download the cross over plugin and when I lounch sh install-crossover-plugin-1.1.3-demo.sh I get : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 12: : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 14: : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 15: } install-crossover-plugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 65: syntax error near unexpected to'en `do 'nstall-crossover-plugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 65: ` for a in $GUESS_MD5_PATH; do in my xterm could sombody help to install this plugin ? Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:38 pm, villoing wrote: Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on Mozilla. When I tried to watch something on www.fabchannel.com, I get this message: this page contains information type (application/x-mplayer2)... thanks ... That is Windows Media Player format. The only app I know which will play it streaming is Windows Media Player. But do not despair. go to www.codeweavers.com and you can download Crossover plugin which allows you to run Windows media player 6.5 The bad news is that the demo version is free, but the full version is not. The alternative is try to set up Wine to run WMP, which is possible, but not easy. For other streaming media sources there is RealPlayer8 for Linux, buried very deep on the Real.com site. Apple Quicktime also works under Codeweavers plugin. derek 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] gtelnet help
hi since there is no ktelnet for mandrake 9.0 i am forced to use gtelnet instead, however unlike ktelnet that has always worked straight out the box as it were gtelnet just fails to connect no matter what permitation i set in the prefs for ssh.everything seems ok untill the passy has been entered then it just stops.. ??? does anyone know what it is i am missing with gtelnet LtCdData Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kppp help required - SOLVED
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 08:20, Michael Adams wrote: The computer on 56k MoDem connected ok to the net but web pages were not fetching. I guess this was because the IP request was not sending the correct IP address for my computer but was sending a default address (0.0.0.0). (Correct me if this is wrong John). Not quite. It wasn't that you were sending a default address. The routing table is specific to your computer and network. Without getting too technical, it works something like this: If you wished to send a message to another computer on your network, say from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.2, your computer begins reading the routing table from top to bottom and stops once it sees that the network 192.168.0.0/24 is on interface eth0. After a further process of finding the specific machine to send to (which I won't go into here), it sends the message through eth0 to the destination. But what happens when you want to communicate with someone outside your network? In the case of the Internet, you can't have listings in your routing table for all the networks out there, so you have a default gateway defined in your routing table, which says, 'if you don't know where this network is, send it here'. The route to the default gateway is the default route, and the default route is notated as 0.0.0.0. It is always the last route in your routing table. All the computers on your network that are not connected to the Internet require a default route that points to the computer that is connected to the Internet. On the computer that is connected to the Internet, you require a default route that points to the Interface that is connected directly to the Internet. In your case, you had a default route and gateway defined in /etc/sysconfig/network pointing to eth0 and kppp was refusing to replace it with a default route pointing to the Internet when it came up. By getting rid of the previous default route, kppp was able to give you a default route (0.0.0.0) to the Internet on interface ppp0. I hope that helps, Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi Mandrake Club
Just guessing...but ../hdlist.cz instead of ./hdlist.cz ?? On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:53, Miark wrote: I'm having trouble adding Mandrake Club as a urpmi source to one of my machines. I get the following message: Connecting to www.mandrakeclub.com[63.209.80.244]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 16:32:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden. ...retrieving failed: wget failed: exited with 1 or signal 0 But I've double-checked the name and password and they're both correct. Anybody else having this trouble? I'm using urpmi.addmedia club http://blah:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads2/comm/9.0/i586 with ./hdlist.cz but with the proper user and pass, of course. Miark 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] streaming on Mozilla
You might find something in Codeweavers support system http://www.codeweavers.com/support/crossover/email_support.php derek On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 12:06 am, villoing wrote: I download the cross over plugin and when I lounch sh install-crossover-plugin-1.1.3-demo.sh I get : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 12: : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 14: : command not foundlugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 15: } install-crossover-plugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 65: syntax error near unexpected to'en `do 'nstall-crossover-plugin-1.1.3-demo.sh: line 65: ` for a in $GUESS_MD5_PATH; do in my xterm could sombody help to install this plugin ? Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:38 pm, villoing wrote: Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on Mozilla. When I tried to watch something on www.fabchannel.com, I get this message: this page contains information type (application/x-mplayer2)... thanks ... That is Windows Media Player format. The only app I know which will play it streaming is Windows Media Player. But do not despair. go to www.codeweavers.com and you can download Crossover plugin which allows you to run Windows media player 6.5 The bad news is that the demo version is free, but the full version is not. The alternative is try to set up Wine to run WMP, which is possible, but not easy. For other streaming media sources there is RealPlayer8 for Linux, buried very deep on the Real.com site. Apple Quicktime also works under Codeweavers plugin. derek 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] Problems with GeForce2 MX400 - Mandrake 9.0
On Friday 22 November 2002 10:10 am, Francisco Dalla Rosa Soares wrote: Hello everyone, I'm having some problems with my video board, a GeForce2 MX400 and Mandrake 9.0 I used Mandrake 8.2 and everything was OK but now it doesn't recognize my video I can work greatly in the console mode but I can't go to the graphic mode at all. I've alredy tried to find drivers on the net but it didn't work at all either... Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Francisco Dalla Rosa Francisco, if you are using the 9.0 download of 3 disks then I would get the NVidia source files for the GLX and kernel and install from source, this worked well for me with the same card. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake PowerPack 9.0 at BestBuy
I was in Best Buy here in Indiana and saw Mandrake PowerPack 9.0(3 copies) on the shelf for sale. It put a smile on my face and made my day. I just thought I'd let people here know that it is beginning to proliferate throughout the US. They also have RH 8.0 and SuSE 8.1 as well as StarOffice 6.0. Jim -- 7:01pm up 1 day, 32 min, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.04 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:57, Chris wrote:
On Friday 22 November 2002 12:25 am, you said, and I quote:
I believe this should fix your problem. (If anyone out there spots an
error, please correct as soon as possible for Chris!)
In /etc/profile, add:
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
QT-INCLUDES_PATH=$QTDIR/include:$QT-INCLUDES_PATH
QT-LIBRARIES_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
export QTDIR PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
reboot
Erik, I guess I'm just not smart :( attached is my /etc/profile file. I
added what you suggested as you can see, however, now when I reboot I'm
getting some postgresyl error, it goes by fast and I have no idea how to
pause the boot, another newbie problem. Anyway, could you please be so kind
as to point me in the right direction. I really appreciate it.
--
Regards
Chris
Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org
5:54pm up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.29, 0.18
# /etc/profile -*- Mode: shell-script -*-
# (c) MandrakeSoft, Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Since we're invocated as a login shell set loginsh
# so that we can avoid sourcing some files twice.
loginsh=1
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files
[ $UID = 0 ] ulimit -S -c 100 /dev/null 21
if ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/X11R6/bin ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
fi
if [ $UID -ge 500 ] ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/games ; then
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
fi
umask 022
USER=`id -un`
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
if [ -z $INPUTRC -a ! -f $HOME/.inputrc ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
# some old programs still use it (eg: man), and it is also
# required for level1 compliance for LI18NUX2000
NLSPATH=/usr/share/locale/%l/%N
export PATH PS1 USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME INPUTRC NLSPATH
export HISTCONTROL HISTSIZE
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
QT-INCLUDES_PATH=$QTDIR/include:$QT-INCLUDES_PATH
QT-LIBRARIES_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
export QTDIR PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
--
Erik
Linux User 288105
=
Bill who? Micro what?
# /etc/profile -*- Mode: shell-script -*-
# (c) MandrakeSoft, Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Since we're invocated as a login shell set loginsh
# so that we can avoid sourcing some files twice.
loginsh=1
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files
[ $UID = 0 ] ulimit -S -c 100 /dev/null 21
if ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/X11R6/bin ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
fi
if [ $UID -ge 500 ] ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/games ; then
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
fi
umask 022
USER=`id -un`
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
if [ -z $INPUTRC -a ! -f $HOME/.inputrc ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
# some old programs still use it (eg: man), and it is also
# required for level1 compliance for LI18NUX2000
NLSPATH=/usr/share/locale/%l/%N
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
QT-INCLUDES_PATH=$QTDIR/include:$QT-INCLUDES_PATH
QT-LIBRARIES_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
export PATH PS1 USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME INPUTRC NLSPATH
export HISTCONTROL HISTSIZE
export QTDIR PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
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Re: [newbie] streaming on Mozilla
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:38 pm, villoing wrote: Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on Mozilla. When I tried to watch something on www.fabchannel.com, I get this message: this page contains information type (application/x-mplayer2)... thanks ... That is Windows Media Player format. The only app I know which will play it streaming is Windows Media Player. But do not despair. go to www.codeweavers.com and you can download Crossover plugin which allows you to run Windows media player 6.5 Alternatively, mail the site and give them hell. With other perfectly good formats around, any site that only offers media player format is simply being perverse. There are also security issues involved (though not, I hear, with version 6.5 - it's 7.0 that has all the evil stuff). Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake PowerPack 9.0 at BestBuy
James Conner wrote: I was in Best Buy here in Indiana and saw Mandrake PowerPack 9.0(3 copies) on the shelf for sale. It put a smile on my face and made my day. I just thought I'd let people here know that it is beginning to proliferate throughout the US. They also have RH 8.0 and SuSE 8.1 as well as StarOffice 6.0. Cool. Here in Turkey I've only seen it sold by street vendors amongst the pirated Windows software and VCDs. I felt like going up and saying Do you realise you're actually selling something legal here? Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program
To the group: I may get the hang of this com-poo-ter yet :( I managed to send the appropriate 'mea culpa' to Chris, but not to the group. Now I have egg on my face--twice.[you can find me on the breakfast menu: two eggs on ham bg] Here is the missing beginning of the above reply: Chris, Mybad! You get the props for all the effort...I get all the ghost-cheers for failing to give you sufficient information! Additional information that I needed to supply was that the new entries to your /etc/profile file needed to be made 'inside' the file (before the 'unset i' ... and inside the same 'if-fi' set as the other PATH definitions. To make sure that I have not mucked up this explanation, I've attached a corrected file. I've used your file and have done two cut-n-paste changes. Try this again, with the new file (if you actually use my file version, don't forget to rename it 'profile'--without the quotes). In addition, as pointed out by Stormjumper, you apparently don't need to reboot--just log out of your user account and log back in. (Maybe I spent too many years adminning an RH Linux ISP Internet server system from a Winblows desktop?) As always, if I've made a goof, I'm sure one of our listmates will kindly supply a correction. Erik complete snip -- 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] Problem installing a program
On Friday 22 November 2002 06:49 pm, you said, and I quote: On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:57, Chris wrote: On Friday 22 November 2002 12:25 am, you said, and I quote: I believe this should fix your problem. (If anyone out there spots an error, please correct as soon as possible for Chris!) In /etc/profile, add: QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2 PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH=$QTDIR/include:$QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$QT-LIBRARIES_PATH export QTDIR PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH reboot I'm getting a little peeved here. I typed it in exactly as you have it on the file you sent. Rebooted, and still get some kind of postgrysql error at the end of the boot. I looked through all the files in /var/log to see if I could find it to no avail. Needless to say, it still gives me the QT libraries not found error when I try to compile. If I type echo $QTDIR on the command line as root, I get nothing, shouldn't this show me where libqt2 is installed? The error at the end of boot is a bash error something about bad path or file name not found. Like I was saying, if I could find it in a .log file somewhere I'd know for sure what it says. Thanks again for offering your help, I'm sure its something I'm doing or not doing here. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org 7:47pm up 11 min, 1 user, load average: 0.44, 0.18, 0.10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake PowerPack 9.0 at BestBuy
Actually, Best Buy in Texas has been carrying various RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE versions for at least 3 or 4 years. I've been here for a little over 5 years and it wasn't too long after I moved down here that I noticed they were actually carrying Linux! Most people would think Texas is pretty backward compared to Indiana. ;-) Carl James Conner wrote: I was in Best Buy here in Indiana and saw Mandrake PowerPack 9.0(3 copies) on the shelf for sale. It put a smile on my face and made my day. I just thought I'd let people here know that it is beginning to proliferate throughout the US. They also have RH 8.0 and SuSE 8.1 as well as StarOffice 6.0. Jim 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] [OT] Mousemats
At 03:40 PM 11/22/2002 -0700, you wrote: On November 22, 2002 02:45 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: snip http://www.kensington.com/html/1436.html Try that site for ambidextrous trackballs :) --- Femme Thanks neighbor! :-) I'll have to see what's available at the local stores Monday as well. My son is building himself a new toy a piece (pay check) at a time, and that's when he's picking up the next parts. Somehow I'm starting to feel that I need a new toy! feeling as well. My poor wallet. ;-) Later; -- Charlie NP. I found bigger trackballs seem to eliminate CTS Much better than the small, thumb ball ones you can get. So buyer beware. Just MHO Though as some ppl still get CTS with em. Might I suggest a jack in the back of the head for those ppl? Eliminates all problems :P --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake PowerPack 9.0 at BestBuy
I am from Texas and actually it is a pretty progressive place in many ways.The only Linux you can buy in stores where I live is Red Hat. I ordered my Mandrake Cds from an online discounter. Alfalfa On Friday 22 November 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: Actually, Best Buy in Texas has been carrying various RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE versions for at least 3 or 4 years. I've been here for a little over 5 years and it wasn't too long after I moved down here that I noticed they were actually carrying Linux! Most people would think Texas is pretty backward compared to Indiana. ;-) Carl James Conner wrote: I was in Best Buy here in Indiana and saw Mandrake PowerPack 9.0(3 copies) on the shelf for sale. It put a smile on my face and made my day. I just thought I'd let people here know that it is beginning to proliferate throughout the US. They also have RH 8.0 and SuSE 8.1 as well as StarOffice 6.0. Jim 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
