Re: [newbie-it] mplayer
salva a tutta la ml (e scusate OE ma sono al lavoro) ho istallato mplayer dai sorgenti e non andato a buon fine. Forse ho capito anche la causa. Ma ora come si disistalla; non sembra tanto facile come con i pacchetti. Si può istallare sopra ? grazie guido - Original Message - From: gianni piazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:54 PM Subject: [newbie-it] mplayer
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!
Il 19:08, venerdì 06 dicembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata hai scritto: Alle 15:37, giovedì 5 dicembre 2002, Germano ha scritto: Ti rispondo pubblicamente, ma stiamo creando un grande OT che non so quanto sia gradito, possiamo poi parlarne in privato se ti va... credo che linux e gnu siano - l'unica - dico l'unica - forma di scienza/conoscenza esistente totalmente diversa dalle altre per il modo di Mi dispiace ma non penso sia così, anche se ciò che dici è in parte vero. Innanzitutto non è una scienza perchè fare scienza vuol dire tutt'altro: cercare di risolvere un problema posto dalla realtà circostante ( e non da una persona o, in questo caso, da chi ha scritto un programma) e dare una soluzione dimostrabile; infatti non tutte le cose che si studiano all'università sono Scienze ma hanno altri nomi, che sono altrettanto onorevoli ma tendo a distinguere le cose tra di loro (che poi ci siano cose che vengano chiamate scienze e non lo sono è un altro discorso). Permettimi di dissentire dalla tua definizione di scienza: la matematica è una scienza dura, e gli studiosi di matematica, in sede teorica, non hanno come fine quello di risolvere alcun problema posto dalla realtà circostante, i loro problemi sono interni allo sviluppo della matematica stessa, la realtà circostante spesso se la dimenticano o quanto meno è un accessorio secondario, tutto quì. Io intendo per scienze semplicemente quelle discipline che - sono considerate dalla società - scienze, in questo senso ritengo che informatica sia considerata una scienza. Anche se fosse considerata una scienza molle, come le scienze umanistiche, o una pseudoscienza, ciò importerebbe poco perché è pur sempre una forma si conoscenza che si trasmette... Spero con questa di chiudere questo OT o tutt'al + di continuarlo privatamente. La matemetica non è una scienza! E' la base di tutte le scienze ma quando si pone di risolvereproblemi applicativi si chiama Fisica-Matematica. Il fatto che la Matematica non sia una Scienza ( ma penso anche che sia la più bella delle cose che si possano studiare ) fra le altre cose, secondo me, lo dimostra il teorema di Godel ma non c'è di bisogno di scomodare uno dei più grossi genii che la matematica dell'ultimo secolo annoveri. La matematica è il linguaggio della scienza e molte volte crea parole prima che servano, altre volte le deve creare per esprimere ciò la natura mette di fronte. Non per faziosità ma Matematica e Fisica sono la colonna portante di tutte le Scienze (però la fisica è una scienza ma non sarebbe compiuta senza la matematica) e sono un binomio inscindibile (almeno dal punto di vista dei fisici). L'informatica non è una Scienza! Per quanto riguarda la conoscenza, il fatto che noi ci possiamo scambiare delle idee con una certa proficuità dipende da Internet, perchè potrei iscrivermi ad una mailng-list di cucina (anzi prima o poi lo farò ;-) ) e Non dipende solo da internet, ma dallo spirito con il quale lo usi... la collaborazione e la libera diffusione è alla base di Linux e GNU, altrimenti Torwald non avrebbe messo in rete il sistema operativo che aveva creato, poteva tenerselo per sé, un bel copyright e via a Bill Gates 2. Bravo, però lo ha messo in rete. Pensi che GNU/Linux sia l'UNICA cosa buona messa in rete, sei un pò pessimista. Vai alla Mandrake e chiedigli di essere assunto perchè sei uno smanettone di Linux o di partecipare alle loro riunioni riguardo alla sviluppo, dubito che ti assumeranno e/o ammetteranno. sul sito della Mandrake c'è un link che riguarda gli sviluppatori di DiskDrake, se hai delle buone idee su questo software puoi contattarli... Certo che puoi contattarli, non ho mica detto che siano dei massoni. lo stesso vale per qualsiasi altra comunità che produce sapere? Se sono intelligenti e fanno dei Forum sicuramente sì. Ti ricordo pure che c'è la possibilità di fare a meno delle distribuzioni commerciali, tu, io (no io no :-)) e chiunque veramente voglia, con linux from scratch si puà costruire il suo linux, a sua immagine e somiglianza... E come costruirsi da sé una disciplina che viene riconosciuta comunque valida, ho un amico che ha costruito una disciplina, che molti ritengono valida, ma finché non sarà un accademico, se mai lo sarà, quello che ha scritto sarà nulla, non valido... Non so che disciplina si sia costruito il tuo amico ma le idee valide arrivano sempre (soprattutto quando hanno un ritorno economico), Boltzmann si è suicidato tra le risate delle comunità scientifica che lo riteneva un cogl... ma la Meccanica Statistica sta sui libri di tutto il mondo ( e poi quelli erano altri tempi e gli scienziati erano contemporanamente gli aristocratici). La validità delle cose non la danno le riviste la danno i fatti; se una cosa funziona, funziona e basta non ha bisogno di un premio per andare meglio. La bontà dell' Open Source ed affini risiede altrove: Libertà di sapere che fa un
[newbie-it] -unknown
Alcuni giorni fa ho esposto alla lista un mio problema su mdk 9.0 . Non volevo avere la soluzione, ma un consiglio, un prova così,smanetta.! quello che poi dovrebbe essere lo spirito di linux. Ritorno a debian e saluti a tutti: Rino
Re: [newbie-it] linux su cellulare
Non saprei, però tutto può essere, ho letto un articolo che parlava di come alcuni personeggi hanno crashato la XBox di Microsoft montando LINUX e facendola diventare un mini PC - Original Message - From: Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ml newbie-it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] linux su cellulare Il ven, 2002-12-06 alle 19:48, Fabio Cinti ha scritto: scusate la domanda folle, ma... qualcuno di voi ha mai provato a far girare linux sul cellulare? Sarebbe folle volerlo far girare sul tostapane :) Ehm... intendo dire che Linux equipaggia già alcuni cellulari; ma se intendevi prendere un cellulare Pinco Pallino e metterci il Pinco Pinguino al posto del software originale (sensazione di dèja-vu...) la cosa interesserebbe pure me! Però forse si potrebbe lavorarci, sull'idea del tostapane, in fondo... Già fanno comunicare il forno e la lavatrice con internet. OK, scusate, mi ritiro. Due mesi lontano dal pc mi inducono a scrivere troppo :-D Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] mplayer
On Saturday 07 December 2002 9:02 am, guido wrote about Re: [newbie-it] mplayer: salva a tutta la ml (e scusate OE ma sono al lavoro) ho istallato mplayer dai sorgenti e non andato a buon fine. Forse ho capito anche la causa. Ma ora come si disistalla; non sembra tanto facile come con i pacchetti. cioe' hai dato un make install? Si può istallare sopra ? si' ogni volta che dai il make install si installa sopra al vecchio. 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-it] -unknown
rino favretto wrote: Alcuni giorni fa ho esposto alla lista un mio problema su mdk 9.0 . Non volevo avere la soluzione, ma un consiglio, un prova così,smanetta.! quello che poi dovrebbe essere lo spirito di linux. Ritorno a debian e saluti a tutti: Rino domandare e' lecito rispondere e' cortesia... nessuno lavora o guadagna dalle risposte che da' buon ritorno ciao!
[newbie-it] Applicare la patch
Ciao a tutti Vorrei applicare la patch 2.4.20 al kernel ma nella directory /usr/src non ho nessun link al kernel come si fa a crearlo? e quali sono i comando per apllicare la patch? ho una mdk9 con kernel 2.4.19 grazie per eventuali aiuti
[newbie-it] LAN - DHCP - DNS
Potreste spiegarmi quali sono i passi da compiere per configurare una rete LAN. Mi sono arenato all'installazione del server dhcp. Ho installato il server dhcp e sembra funzionare... Non so però come risolvere i nomi dei pc della rete locale, visto che ora il loro IP è dinamico... Prima avevo editato il file /etc/hosts, ora come devo fare? Serve forse un server dns? Grazie, Pollo.
[newbie-it] Bug in KDevelop
Salve,
ho scritto un piccolo programma, che usa l'istruzione fork,
quando lo eseguo competamente, non ho problemi, ma quando eseguo il Debug,
per quello che ho capito, crea un processo figlio, ma vuoto!
Sbaglio io o c'e' un bug in KDevelop??
La mia versione di KDevelop e' 2.1beta su KDE 2.2.2
la struttura del programma e' questa
if ((PID = fork()) == 0)
{ ...
exec(figlio);
}
padre
..
Se e' un bug, dove posso trovare una versione
non bacata Sulla cd della MDK 9.0 sapete se c'e'
l'rpm di KDevelop + recente???
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Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:27, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, rino favretto ha scritto: Alcuni giorni fa ho esposto alla lista un mio problema su mdk 9.0 . Non volevo avere la soluzione, ma un consiglio, un prova così,smanetta.! quello che poi dovrebbe essere lo spirito di linux. Ritorno a debian e saluti a tutti: ti ricordo che la ML è gratuita e volontaria e nessuno è in dovere verso nessun'altro, non è detto che qualcuno conoscesse la soluzione al tuo problama, oppure lo stesso era passato in lista e quindi era in archivio, rileggi il regolamento della ML (che hai letto al momento dell'iscrizione in lista, spero) Rino bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE98iC4F/9fksDJ4y0RAryzAKCwLwy+/bjJODmMVWVISHYUni22IgCglR/i WKpw0azS+OSYYTQcS/LmcdY= =Bg6F -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Applicare la patch
Alle 17:02, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Vorrei applicare la patch 2.4.20 al kernel ma nella directory /usr/src non ho nessun link al kernel come si fa a crearlo? Se non hai i sorgenti del kernel in /usr/src vanno messi: o scompatti un file che trovi p.es. su ftp.it.kernel.org (con un nome del tipo linux-2.4.xx.tar.bz2), oppure installi il pacchetto kernel-source-2.4.xx (e verifichi che sia installato kernel-headers-2.4.xx, che e' interdipendente rispetto al primo), che dovresti trovare nei CD. La differenza e' che il primo e' un kernel liscio (senza patch/modifiche personalizzate/assestamenti da parte degli sviluppatori MDK), il secondo e' un kernel non liscio che ha, appunto, quelle personalizzazioni. e quali sono i comando per apllicare la patch? La patch che hai sara' quasi sicuramente compressa (es. patch-2.4.20.bz2). Se e' cosi' bisogna scompattarla p.es. con bunzip2; poi: * leggi le primissime righe del file e verifica l'esistenza della directory a cui si riferisce e crea come simbolico il nome della directory che serve [altrimenti non avra' effetto, non trovando l'oggetto a cui si deve applicare]: es. se serve la directory 'linux.vanilla', bisognera' crearla come link simbolico a 'linux' o 'linux-2.4.19'; * vai nella directory immediatamente superiore a quella a cui andra' applicata la patch e dai patch -p0 _nome-della-patch_ ; ho una mdk9 con kernel 2.4.19 Attenzione, perche' se utilizzi i sorgenti del kernel personalizzati, e' molto probabile che la patch che vuoi applicare _non_ funzioni o addirittura _non_ possa essere applicata. P.S. Senza volermi fare gli affari tuoi, hai ragioni particolari per voler installare la patch di passaggio dal 2.4.19 al 2.4.20? P.S.bis. Per la cronaca ricordo che il 2.4.20 ha un piccolo bug che, in determinate situazioni (improbabili e remote, ma astrattamente verificabili: il montaggio con una determinata opzione), puo' corrompere un filesystem ext3. -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 ** k 2.4.20-acpi+preempt+arrrgghh LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!
Hai scaricato dei file che NON vanno bene per la tua distribuzione!!! Ero convinto che fossero per MDK 9.0 come detto ina email trovata con GOOGLE||| * devi eliminare la roba che hai installato * devi scaricare i due sorgenti _.tar.gz_ (i sorgenti sono gli _unici_ a poter essere utilizzati in qualsiasi ambiente senza doversi preoccupare di dipendenze e bizzarrie del pacchettizzatore .rpm di turno e degli sviluppatori del kernel -mdk) * e li devi scaricare dal sito _ufficiale_ (da siti di incerta provenienza in linea di massima e' meglio diffidare a meno di non avere la matematica certezza che siano attendibili, affidabili e sicuri e che mettano a disposizione quello che serve) * devi compilarli e farli installare secondo le istruzioni (che ti sintetizzo: make install, e gli script richiamati dal comando faranno tutto il necessario). Dopo essermi cosparso il capo di cenere ho downloadaTO I TAR scompattati, maketizati e installati e vuoilà ho il logo NVidia sul mio Toshiba Satellite 6100 Professional Devo ancora trovare il modo di centrare lo schermo (è disassato sulla destrta), e modificare al volo le definizioni (senza passare da XFdrake). GRAZIE
[newbie-it] DVD
Buon giorno a tutta la Ml, vorrei porre una domanda, che mi pare non sia mai passata. Se sbaglio spero di non venir punito troppo duramente. Se ho un filmato digitale (ad esempio un film catturato dalla tele) esiste sotto linux la possibilità di fare l'encoding in divx? Questa possibilità esiste anche per i film in dvd? Ascoltando i discorsi in università tutti usano win2000/xp, ma con linux si deve solo guardare? Tra parentesi io non ho neppure il dvd, quindi non mi interessa ancora, ma un pò di campalinismo Mi piacerebbe proprio trovare dei divx creati con linux con caratteristiche audio/video migliori di quelli creati con win. Ciao Nicola -- Quando si puo' scommettere, si puo' anche barare.
Re: [newbie-it] OT: mi sono laureato
Ciao Germano! On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:44:19 +0100 Germano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ma LaTex funziona su tutte le piattaforme. Io ancora non lo conoscevo che vergogna! Comunque perchè usarlo sotto windows? Io ho fatto la mia scelta... Il windowsiano di solito non si fida [] o dice di non aver tempo di imparare -diciamo la verità: non so fare molto col LaTeX, ma con un bel manuale si impara subito-: il traduttore che non sapeva come comportarsi col .tex (o addirittura aveva il .dvi, non mi ricordo) non ha voluto saperne di usarlo neanche sotto windows. Non lo voleva usare e basta. Il che è male, perchè per chi traduce libri di matematica o cose così -notate la proprietà di linguaggio- dovrebbe essere abituato a ricevere file del genere... Boh? Ci si vede a Roma! Chiara -- Non so dei vostri buoni propositi perchè non mi riguardano. Esiste una sconfitta pari al venire corroso che non ho scelto io ma è dell'epoca in cui vivo. La morte è insopportabile per chi non vuole vivere. - CCCP CHIARA BIANCHI TRANSLATOR EN-HU-RUIT via Piemonte 19 41037 Mirandola (MO) Tel. +39 0535/614355 Mob. +39 338/9464840 Fax 178 226 75 49 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Per te Blu American Express è gratis! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://www.americanexpress.it/land_yahoo
Re: [newbie-it] Applicare la patch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:02, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti Vorrei applicare la patch 2.4.20 al kernel ma nella directory /usr/src non ho nessun link al kernel come si fa a crearlo? in /usr/src devi avere un linux-2.4.19 crea il link con ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.19 /usr/src/linux (ma non hai mai ricompilato? quel link è necessario) la pezza la applichi con patch -p0 patch-2.4.20... (pezza già decompressa) e quali sono i comando per apllicare la patch? ho una mdk9 con kernel 2.4.19 okkio, il 2.4.19 di mandrake non può essere patchato con le serie linus, ha già subito le pezze mandrakiane!! puoi pezzare solo il 2.4.19 liscio!! grazie per eventuali aiuti bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE98lzpF/9fksDJ4y0RAr0RAJ9zHSzYMQyqBjt9/wnif6wqjBC1BQCeI6B1 Q4wxlobi7nWNb9P5eY+/AJ4= =u2jb -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] LAN - DHCP - DNS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:25, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, Pollo ha scritto: Potreste spiegarmi quali sono i passi da compiere per configurare una rete LAN. Mi sono arenato all'installazione del server dhcp. Ho installato il server dhcp e sembra funzionare... Non so però come risolvere i nomi dei pc della rete locale, visto che ora il loro IP è dinamico... per quale motivo dovresti risolvere il nome dei client? il server deve essere risolto dai client, non il contrario, loro non offrono servizi. Grazie, Pollo. bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE98l4mF/9fksDJ4y0RAhO/AJ4ygCjr6uEeajTMevNDf/p+R7KqDQCgui38 PFC7L5q8c3MBCGyE322thW4= =2XpM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] AlcatelSpeedTouchUSB + MDK9 ...in teoria semplice!
Ciao a tutti, le ho provate tutte, sia con il tutorial SpeedtouchItalianHOWTO (eterno!) che con il semplice supporto Mandrake+mgmt.o, nulla!!! ..il problema rimane, durante il boot la connesione fallisce dopo 2 min. dando un errore di comando della riga 150 del file /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh (mi pare .sh). Ho iserito i moduli del kernel e del supporto adsl e pppoe ma nulla! http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/speedtouch/speedto uch/doc-linux/howto/SpeedTouch-HOWTO-it.html?rev=1.3
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!
Alle 21:45, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Devo ancora trovare il modo di centrare lo schermo (è disassato sulla destrta), e modificare al volo le definizioni (senza passare da XFdrake). http://www.freeonline.org/articolo_linux_dtml?id_articolo=51 N.B. estrema attenzione perche' (se usato in modo improprio) xvidtune e' un comando potenzialmente distruttivo (del monitor in particolare). Puo' darsi cmq che sia un problema vero e proprio di frequenza, in tal caso prova a cercare in rete se ci sono le specifiche del display del tuo modello. Per il secondo problema, fai in modo di fare il login testuale (al posto di quello grafico), modifichi a manina XF86Config-4, e avvii con startx [sempre che anche in MDK sia cosi', mi spiace ma su questo punto non ricordo granche' della medesima] Se invece intendi le risoluzioni di schermo ci sono [ALT][CTRL][+] e [ALT][CTRL][-] -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 ** k 2.4.20-acpi+preempt+arrrgghh LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583
Re:[newbie-it]masterizzare audio
Ciao a tutta la ml! Innanzi tutto volevo ringraziare tutti quelli che mi hanno risposto sui miei problemi con xine e mplayer(a proposito.grazie ai vostri consigli funziona tutto a meraviglia!!) e poi tanto per cambiare vi sottopongo una nuova problematica: è possibile masterizzare di cd audio che si sentano anche sui normali lettori di cd?I cd che ho cercato di masterizzare con x cdroast purtroppo sono leggibili solo con il cdrom del computer.Volevo anche sapere se c'è un modo o un programma per convertire gli mp3 in wav. Vi ringrazio in anticipo!Ciao Gianni
Re: [newbie] stopping X?
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 15:28, Jerry wrote: OK, I did that and yes, it did what you said it would do. It changed my login from graphical to console which is fine. Now, please bear with me. I'm used to all the graphical interfaces though i still do a LOT in console. However I'm still a beginner, especially with startind Xwindows from a console login. Here's what I tried. logged in as a normal user (jerry) ran startx Xwindows started with a blank desktop (which i suppose is exactly what it's supposed to do) but did not start gnome so I... hit ctrl-alt-backspace which stopped Xwindows I thought Cool! that's what I've been looking for! then I did su to root ran gdm to start gnome xwindows started and the gnome login came up. logged in. gnome started. tested out to see if ctrl-alt-backspace would stop xwindows like it did the first time. instead of stopping xwindows totally, it restarted gdm and I'm stuck back at the same place I was before. I know there's got to be a way to do this. I don't have a problem writing a shell script with the commands to do it the way i want, but i don't know which commands to use. I imagine it has to do with starting Gnome withOUT starting gdm, am I right? Thanks so much for your help on this :) You're very kind. Jerry. You don't need to run GDM, XDM or KDM at all - not from a console. If you want to easily switch between desktops, you can install the rpm for Xtart (on the third CD) or download SelectWM (which is nice, too)Xtart will allow you to run whichever WM/Desktop you wish...FROM the console...instead of doing all the GDM crap. Now, you can do a: ps -Ae | grep gdm then note the number on the far left - then run kill X (the number you noted on the left)...Exit Gnome NORMALLY...and you should be back to a prompt... ...but overall, install the Xtart - it will make you happier... -- Sat Dec 7 19:40:01 EST 2002 7:40pm up 6:56, 5 users, load average: 0.24, 0.27, 0.23 .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 This door is baroquen, please wiggle Handel. (If I wiggle Handel, will it wiggle Bach?) -- Found on a door in the MSU music building Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't compile - Mesa/GLUT problem
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 19:14, Ronald J. Hall wrote: A friend of ours at our LUG wanted to play this chess program called Knightcap but he had troubles with it, so Carl L. and I offered to try it out. He's using Libranet and I'm running v8.2 and 9.0 of Mandrake. Both of use could do a straight/default compile with no X graphics. Whenever I try to compile for graphics I get errors about it not being able to find Mesa and GLUT. I installed everything I could find Mesa/GLUT wise from my 8.2 and 9.0 CD's and still it won't compile. Here is the section from the Makefile: # comment out the following 7 lines if you don't want the rendered # display (or you don't have OpenGL and Glut libraries) # If you do have these libs then make sure the first three # lines point at the right places MESA = /usr/local/Mesa-2.1 GLUT = /usr/local/Mesa-2.1/glut-3.2 X11 = /usr/X11R6 GLUT_LIBS = -L$(GLUT)/lib/glut -lglut MESA_LIBS = -L$(MESA)/lib -lMesaGLU -lMesaGL -lm XLIBS = -L$(X11)/lib -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lXi DISPLAYFLAGS = -I$(MESA)/include -I$(GLUT) -DRENDERED_DISPLAY=1 Okay, when I try to compile I get this: gcc -o KnightCap knightcap.o trackball.o move.o util.o generate.o eval.o movement.o ordering.o hash.o board.o log.o prog.o timer.o ics.o display.o testsuite.o brain.o td.o tactics.o -L/usr/local/Mesa-2.1/glut-3.2/lib/glut -lglut -L/usr/local/Mesa-2.1/lib -lMesaGLU -lMesaGL -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lXi /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lMesaGLU collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [KnightCap] Error 1 Obviously, it can't find the files its looking for. The question is, is it just because I've not been able to set the Makefile to point to the right place OR do I not even have the necessary files installed at all. I did whereis and locate for every variation of Mesa, GLUT, libmesa, libglut, etc, etc, that I could think of. It looks like Mandrake sticks this stuff in /usr/X11R6/lib. I tried pointing the Makefile there but got the same results. Anyone have any experience with this and/or suggestions? Thanks in advance! :-) Here goes again! Dig this - edit your /etc/ld.so.conf and add the following: /usr/lib /usr/local/lib ...save the file, then run: ldconfig ...reboot, then try to recompile WITH FRESH SOURCE code - just delete the directory you unpacked the source into and recreate it - saves heaps of bullshit... Now, if that doesn't work right off the bat, try adding the absolute path to the /etc/ld.so.conf file and rerun ldconfig again... Let's see how that goes... -- Sat Dec 7 19:45:00 EST 2002 7:45pm up 7:01, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.11, 0.16 .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 It's a god-eat-god world. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux meetups anyone?
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 19:15, Lanman wrote: Talk about being a mushroom Stephen! No wonder I've seen so many posts to the list by you! You must have one massive callouse on your typing finger by now! This Meetup thing might be a good opportunity for you to get some vitamin D (a.k.a. sunshine), maybe work on a tan, check out the beach, and/or get a life. It would be nice to see one of us get one! As for me, I'll just stay here by the keyboard. You never know what I might miss. It's satisfaction enough knowing that one of us still has a chance! Seriously though, I have gone to several of these things. You meet up in coffee shops or pubs or whatever, and get to talk to other Linux geeks. The wierd thing is that none of you have a keyboard in front of you. Once you get past that, it's a piece of cake, and usually a lot of fun. Personally, I go just to prove I'm not afraid of being outside. Honest! No, Really,. Lanman Back in the mid-to-late-80's and all through the early 90's, we used to have BBS parties - basically the same thing...now they've evolved (somewhat) - but they're all basically the same. Same people, same type of people - and yes, it is actually fun - and I do actually get out SOMETIMES...c'mon...I moved to Australia to get sunshine (and married)...live 5 minutes from the beach, 2 minutes from the lake, and 15 minutes from the mountains. Before moving to Oz, though, I never went out - NEVER - not unless I absolutely had to (or had to get away from wife-#1). I think that since 1982, I've done about 18 years solid behind this damn keyboard... Besides, I'm going to a lan party on the 21st...nyah! -- Sat Dec 7 19:45:00 EST 2002 7:45pm up 7:01, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.11, 0.16 .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 It's a god-eat-god world. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] stopping X?
You don't need to run GDM, XDM or KDM at all - not from a console. If you want to easily switch between desktops, you can install the rpm for Xtart (on the third CD) or download SelectWM (which is nice, too)Xtart will allow you to run whichever WM/Desktop you wish...FROM the console...instead of doing all the GDM crap. Now, you can do a: ps -Ae | grep gdm then note the number on the far left - then run kill X (the number you noted on the left)...Exit Gnome NORMALLY...and you should be back to a prompt... ...but overall, install the Xtart - it will make you happier... -- Sat Dec 7 19:40:01 EST 2002 7:40pm up 6:56, 5 users, load average: 0.24, 0.27, 0.23 .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 This door is baroquen, please wiggle Handel. (If I wiggle Handel, will it wiggle Bach?) -- Found on a door in the MSU music building OK I installed Xtart... DUH! i should have known that - I've used it before! LOL. It's all working just perfectly now. Might check out SelectWM too, though Xtart is simple enough. Thanks for your time. Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remote DVD over ethernet
On Friday 06 Dec 2002 6:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 02:09, magnet wrote: Hi all, Can you view on a linux box a commercial DVD playing on a DVD player built into a windows laptop across 100Mbit ethernet? I have ogle and libs needed already installed, and have used the MCC to mount the drive to this system. I read somewhere that there might need to be an entry in /dev/ pointing to this device for ogle to be able to access the dvd. Can anyone elaborate more on this or just confirm it is possible. Failing that, I spos I'll have to resort to either converting the CD into a file (illegal and tbh a bit of a pain) or just foot the bill and buy an hardware DVD player which I'd rather avoid for a number of reasons, expense and space to mount it in this stack. regards magnet Why not just use VNC to view the desktop on that system? (WinVNC works like a charm with VNC on linux) Oh no, the dreaded VNC issue again...! :)) VNC has never worked on these machines. As you'll remember Stephen, these machines' have a mind of their own most days. VNC generates X server problems all the time here. I would LOVE to be able to open an X VNC window from the main box to any other box on the lan but so far haven't had any luck. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remote DVD over ethernet
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 20:43, magnet wrote: Oh no, the dreaded VNC issue again...! :)) VNC has never worked on these machines. As you'll remember Stephen, these machines' have a mind of their own most days. VNC generates X server problems all the time here. I would LOVE to be able to open an X VNC window from the main box to any other box on the lan but so far haven't had any luck. regards magnet Ah yeah - now I remember...yeah... ...so can you just map a drive with Sambamambajamba and tease ogle or xine or mplay into reading it? ** after you map/mount a drive, you can cheat by doing like: ln -s /mnt/WORKSTATION/DRIVE/RESOURCE /dev/dvd ...ya reckon? ...just gotta make sure it's a perm mount/map...ya? -- Sat Dec 7 22:10:00 EST 2002 10:10pm up 8 min, 3 users, load average: 0.86, 0.65, 0.32 .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 I used to be a rebel in my youth. This cause... that cause... (chuckle) I backed 'em ALL! But I learned. Rebellion is simply a device used by the immature to hide from his own problems. So I lost interest in politics. Now when I feel aroused by a civil rights case or a passport hearing... I realize it's just a device. I go to my analyst and we work it out. You have no idea how much better I feel these days. -- J. Feiffer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SV: [newbie] imac install
Hi Mark, I found out what the problem was. I made a reinstall of Mandrake (I've made about 5 reinstalls by now) and I chose the older video driver (not the 3D-accellerated one that was offered). Now the system works almost fine. The only thing that doesn't work is Nautilus. I can't seem to uninstall it from gnome so I'm trying to do it the hard way from my terminal. For me that's really a challenge, since I'm usually a mac user. My intention is to uninstall Nautilus and reinstall it. Any suggestions on how to do that are really welcome. As I said, I'm really a newbie. Just finding the correct linux commands to use the terminal, is a big challenge for me Best regards Farid -Ursprungligt meddelande- Fran: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]For Mark Weaver Skickat: den 7 december 2002 06:19 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amne: Re: [newbie] imac install Farid Ghussein wrote: Hi! I'm a real newbie trying to install Mandrake on my iMac 500 DV SE. I've had alot of problems during installation but I'm getting close now. First the installation program couldn't partition the swap section and after trying to reinstall and format a couple of times i did succeed. Now everything seems ok and starting up the system works fine until the GUI is loaded, when everything turns black. I don't know what to do. I've tried to run the installation program but it won't let me make any fine tuning. I'm forced to reformat and reinstall everytime I run the installation program. Any ideas, anyone? Best regards Farid Farid, Your problem sounds vaguely familiar as being something peculiar to the MACs. Its a video problem and as I recall there isn't much that can be done about it. You may want to check the archives on this one. However, I have a feeling that your best bet is going to be to go with OS X for you Imac. That will have the video drivers that your machine will need to operate correctly. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Auto login
Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Thx, Ongkie _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail help needed
Can anyone tell me how I can edit the collected addresses in KMail? They don't appear in the KAddressBook, which is what opens if you click the icon. Inevitably I have collected a couple of incorrect entries, which need to be removed. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gimp
Can someone point me how to correct red-eye from my pics in gimp. Thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Auto login
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 11:49 am, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Thx, Ongkie Mandrake Control Centre Boot Boot Configuration Click on No, I don't want autologin Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Auto login
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 12:49, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Thx, Ongkie _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) - boot - boot-config MfG Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Auto login
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 06:49, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Open MCC Boot Boot Config click No, I don't want autologin. You could also just run drakboot and click No, I don't want autologin. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spamassassinpermsgstatus.pm
Hi everyone,
I upgraded Spamassassin to 2.43 this morning. It complained about not having
a file PerMsgStatus.pm. I found that at CPAN.org and installed it, but it is
complaining still:
Failed to run DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO SpamAssassin test, skipping:
(Can't locate object method check_for_spam_reply_to via package
Mail:
:SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus (perhaps you forgot to load
Mail::SpamAssassin::Pe
rMsgStatus?) at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.p
m line 1822.
And more of that.
Now I found that the PerMsgStatus.pm file contains stuff that I don't think
should in there, for example:
=head1 NAME
Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus - per-message status (spam or not-spam)
=head1 SYNOPSIS
my $spamtest = new Mail::SpamAssassin ({
'rules_filename' = '/etc/spamassassin.rules',
'userprefs_filename' = $ENV{HOME}.'/.spamassassin.cf'
});
my $mail = Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit-new();
my $status = $spamtest-check ($mail);
if ($status-is_spam()) {
$status-rewrite_mail ();
$mail-accept(caught_spam);
}
...
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The Mail::SpamAssassin Ccheck() method returns an object of this
class. This object encapsulates all the per-message state.
=head1 METHODS
I am not at all proficient in Perl, so is there someone here that can tell
me if this code is correct? I don't like all these plain english comments...
(All occurences of the file I could find have the same stuff in it)
Paul
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[newbie] rpms descriptions
Buenas: In MCC, Software manager, I have added this source: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS ./synthesis.hdlist2.cz but all rpms are listed without description. So, is there any way to fix this? Gracias -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 10:31am up 1:58, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
* John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021207 06:12]: Can someone point me how to correct red-eye from my pics in gimp. http://carol.gimp.org/other/sloth/diary/redeye.html LOTS of good stuff on gimp.org! -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT? LBA and CHS
Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition Magic rescue disk to boot from. This is the message I got: Partition Magic has detected an error 116 on the partition starting at sector 25912845 on disk 2. The starting LBA value is 25912845 and the CHS value is 16450559. The LBA and CHS values must be equal Partition Magic has verified that the LBA value is correct and can fix the CHS value Would you like Partition Magic to fix this error? Although I know what LBA is, I don't know what CHS is. My hard drives are labelled by linux hde, hdf and hdg. Dolphin is on hdf, which I take to be disk 2. Should I allow PM to do this, or is it being confused by the ext3 partitions? I would feel a whole lot safer if I could get my windows installation going again. It is increasingly rare for me to need it, but it covers emergency use. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Anyone writing DVDs with Mandrake?
Hi I am considering purchasing the new Sony DRU 500 DVD writer and was wondering if anyone has had experience using the drive in Mandrake 9.0? I would like to create DVDs from home videos taken with a Sony digital video camera. Many thanks in advance!! Jim Snyder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KAddressBook
On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA, /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab Don't forget you will need to 'show hidden files' Anne That is not it, at least not for me. That directory (/home/gui/.kde/share/apps/kab) is completely empty here even though I have lots of entries under KAddressBook. Does anybody know where else the entries could be stored? -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0
Hello Folks, I thought I'd give you an update on my final decision, How it worked out, and my opinions. Having purchased a new harddrive yesterday, I partitioned it and loaded Win2000 for any unsupported devices ( such as the HP 315 camera ), And also so that I could download Mandrake 9.0, ( Having decided to give it a try, If it didn't work out I could always reload 8.2 ). Having burned the 3 discs last night I proceeded to load Mandrake this A.M. Here are 2 words to describe my experiences thus far : OH YEAHH. This is slick, cool , groovy, fantastic, awesome... uhhh, ok more than 2 words, Anyway All went well. There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola. Here is my general opinion:. It isn't that Linux isn't ready for PrimeTime, It's that PrimeTime isn't ready for Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks, I thought I'd give you an update on my final decision, How it worked out, and my opinions. Having purchased a new harddrive yesterday, I partitioned it and loaded Win2000 for any unsupported devices ( such as the HP 315 camera ), And also so that I could download Mandrake 9.0, ( Having decided to give it a try, If it didn't work out I could always reload 8.2 ). Having burned the 3 discs last night I proceeded to load Mandrake this A.M. Here are 2 words to describe my experiences thus far : OH YEAHH. This is slick, cool , groovy, fantastic, awesome... uhhh, ok more than 2 words, Anyway All went well. There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola. LM9.0 doesn't configure ISA soundcards, you have to run sndconfig as root. Here is my general opinion:. It isn't that Linux isn't ready for PrimeTime, It's that PrimeTime isn't ready for Linux. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KAddressBook
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 1:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA, /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab Don't forget you will need to 'show hidden files' Anne That is not it, at least not for me. That directory (/home/gui/.kde/share/apps/kab) is completely empty here even though I have lots of entries under KAddressBook. Does anybody know where else the entries could be stored? I think we may be talking at cross-purposes. The path I gave you holds the addressbook that you get if you do K Office Addressbooks. This is also what you see if you click on the addressbook icon - at least it is on mine - but I think there's another somewhere with collected addresses in it. The reason I think this, is that I have a couple of mis-typed addresses that are always offered to me when composing a new email, and they do not seem to be in the addressbook that is offered me. I'm sorry I can't help further - I hope you solve it. And I'll benefit, too ;-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0
On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola. LM9.0 doesn't configure ISA soundcards, you have to run sndconfig as root. -Frans Yeah, I tried that, To no avail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KAddressBook
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 H:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA, /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab Don't forget you will need to 'show hidden files' Anne That is not it, at least not for me. That directory (/home/gui/.kde/share/apps/kab) is completely empty here even though I have lots of entries under KAddressBook. Does anybody know where else the entries could be stored? Have a look in /home/put yourname in here /.kde/share/apps/kabc note the c on the end if they are there they will show as std.vcf, you can open it with kaddressbook but if it's anything like mine it will have a load of blank lines before the first entry -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux meetups anyone?
On Saturday 07 December 2002 03:15 am, Lanman wrote: Talk about being a mushroom Stephen! No wonder I've seen so many posts to the list by you! You must have one massive callouse on your typing finger by now! This Meetup thing might be a good opportunity for you to get some vitamin D (a.k.a. sunshine), maybe work on a tan, check out the beach, and/or get a life. It would be nice to see one of us get one! I heard a rumour that Ron Hall had a life... might have been his BS tho As for me, I'll just stay here by the keyboard. You never know what I might miss. It's satisfaction enough knowing that one of us still has a chance! Seriously though, I have gone to several of these things. You meet up in coffee shops or pubs or whatever, and get to talk to other Linux geeks. The wierd thing is that none of you have a keyboard in front of you. Once you get past that, it's a piece of cake, and usually a lot of fun. Personally, I go just to prove I'm not afraid of being outside. Honest! No, Really,. Lanman On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 01:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:56, Lanman wrote: Just a quick note for your attention folks, but have any of you attended a Linux Meetup yet? Meetups are social gatherings of people in your community who have something in common, in this case Linux. LINUX + GETTING SOCIAL --- H...strange combo...is it light outside? I can't go out in the light... If you're curious, check out http://linux.meetup.com/ for details. There is no fee or obligation, and they can be a lot of fun.Very easy to establish your own circle of Linux Guru's as we call them here in Montreal, and a very good way to start a LUG (Linux Users Group). Just thought I'd toss that into the mix. Lanman -- Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joking - kinda) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KAddressBook
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 3:38 pm, Poogle wrote: On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 H:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA, /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab Don't forget you will need to 'show hidden files' Anne That is not it, at least not for me. That directory (/home/gui/.kde/share/apps/kab) is completely empty here even though I have lots of entries under KAddressBook. Does anybody know where else the entries could be stored? Have a look in /home/put yourname in here /.kde/share/apps/kabc note the c on the end if they are there they will show as std.vcf, you can open it with kaddressbook but if it's anything like mine it will have a load of blank lines before the first entry I've found this one since I last posted. It contains the same set of entries as I found in the other one, but in .vcf format. The interesting thing is that it can be opened with GnomeCard, to give a good, easily written display, and unlike the version in 8.2 GnomeCard manages to save modifications without damaging the file. Unfortunately, it still does not have those faulty addresses that I need to trace. There has to be another one somewhere for those collected addresses. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KAddressBook
On December 7, 2002 07:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 1:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA, /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab Don't forget you will need to 'show hidden files' Anne That is not it, at least not for me. That directory (/home/gui/.kde/share/apps/kab) is completely empty here even though I have lots of entries under KAddressBook. Does anybody know where else the entries could be stored? I think we may be talking at cross-purposes. The path I gave you holds the addressbook that you get if you do K Office Addressbooks. This is also what you see if you click on the addressbook icon - at least it is on mine - but I think there's another somewhere with collected addresses in it. The reason I think this, is that I have a couple of mis-typed addresses that are always offered to me when composing a new email, and they do not seem to be in the addressbook that is offered me. I'm sorry I can't help further - I hope you solve it. And I'll benefit, too ;-) Anne Have a look under /home/user/.kde/share/apps/kabc. There should be a file called _std.vcf_, This is where my addresses live. Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms descriptions
On Saturday December 7 2002 07:37 am, Pilagá wrote: Buenas: In MCC, Software manager, I have added this source: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPM S ./synthesis.hdlist2.cz but all rpms are listed without description. So, is there any way to fix this? Gracias synthesis.hdlist.cz is without descriptions hdlist.cz is with descriptions The hdlist will be a very large file compared to the synthesis version. You might decide to do without descriptions ;) It's academic anyhow, at that ftp site there is no hdlist, only synthesis. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] stopping X?
On Thursday 05 December 2002 11:28 pm, Jerry wrote:
tested out to see if ctrl-alt-backspace would stop xwindows like it did the
first time. instead of stopping xwindows totally, it restarted gdm and I'm
stuck back at the same place I was before. I know there's got to be a way
to do this. I don't have a problem writing a shell script with the
commands to do it the way i want, but i don't know which commands to use.
I imagine it has to do with starting Gnome withOUT starting gdm, am I
right? Thanks so much for your help on this :) You're very kind.
Jerry.
I'm a newbie too. Here's how I found to stop xdm/kdm/gdm:
CTRL-ALT-F1
ps -A
kill -9 {whatever the process number is for gdm}
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Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me
Lanman wrote: I Gotta agree with Mark on this one! It's AMD or nothing. Every single sytem I have and every system I've sold has been armed with AMD, and I've had absolutely no disappointments. Period. As a matter of actual fact, my dual Athlon MP based servers have consistently out-performed IBM X-Series servers! Don't take it from me. Take it from the chief Kernel Guru at MandrakeSoft. He personally tested mine against an Intel-based IBM X-Server. The 32 hour test was run at maximum kernel load, and the IBM server crashed 6 - count'em, 6 times during the test, while mine came back for more. It exceeded max load by 4 percent for 3 hours before coughing up a hairball,(Kinda proud of that one!), and that was AFTER the test was complete. Nya Nya Na Na Na ! Intel Pooh! Yuck! Ptewey! Intel, you got there first, but AMD had a chance to learn from your mistakes! Flamers can now start screamin' all you want, but this isn't opinion, this is fact. Mark? You Da Man! Lanman Question; How many Microsoft Engineers does it take to set up a stable print server? Answer: None! They don't know Linux! Lanman, Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack there of for the Linux printserver, but the native support when comparing the Linux server to the Novell server, at least for the present is astonishingly different. That being said, all things being equal, if I had to bet my paycheck on the print server I'd have to use the Novell server. Two reasons: 1. I personally don't yet feel I have enough experience with serving printers on a Linux platform. I have/am working with both 2. I've experienced day-to-day dependability of the Novell print server in it's native environment. This does make me curious though. Do you know if there is a way to server printers from a Linux machine apart from doing it with Samba? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me
On Saturday 07 December 2002 16:09, Mark Weaver wrote: Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack there of for the Linux printserver, but the native support when comparing the Linux server to the Novell server, at least for the present is astonishingly different. I work at a Novell shop - it is very reliable, a good product in many ways, even if it is closed. Two Novell facts: 1. There's a story about a lost Netware 2 or 3 server - they could see it on the lan, but didn't know where it was. They eventually discovered it bricked up in an old cupboard, still running... 2. There is a Novell engineer whose actual real name is Randy Bender. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS
Anne Wilson wrote: Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition Magic rescue disk to boot from. This is the message I got: Partition Magic has detected an error 116 on the partition starting at sector 25912845 on disk 2. Look in the help file of PM , top righthand corner of main window, in there somewhere at the end as I recall is a error log message file section, where you can look up the definition of this error log 116. The starting LBA value is 25912845 and the CHS value is 16450559. The LBA and CHS values must be equal Partition Magic has verified that the LBA value is correct and can fix the CHS value Would you like Partition Magic to fix this error? In my experience this arrises out of using more than one partition tool, and is mainly caused by the industry not having uniform standards.It's rather like sending two sets of surveyors to measure the areas of a football pitch one armed with a meter rule the other with a yard stick, they both will be correct but they will not have the same numbers. On the whole you can safely ignore this error message it will always go on saying it because it doesn't like the way the other partition tool has done it's work.Sometimes OS's will baulk at formatting these various scrambled up partition tables, and that is why I do all my partitioning on any harddrive with just one partition tool. It doesn't matter which formatting tool you use, but partition Magic has a very good check for bad areas and will mark them for you so that data is not loaded over any bad areas. Although I know what LBA is, I don't know what CHS is. My hard drives are labelled by linux hde, hdf and hdg. Dolphin is on hdf, which I take to be disk 2. Should I allow PM to do this, or is it being confused by the ext3 partitions? I would feel a whole lot safer if I could get my windows installation going again. It is increasingly rare for me to need it, but it covers emergency use. Anne Just to prove me wrong I guess you will now tell me you didn't use more than one partition tool. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0
Dennis Sue wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola. LM9.0 doesn't configure ISA soundcards, you have to run sndconfig as root. -Frans Yeah, I tried that, To no avail. Well, Dennis Sue, Nice to see you got there, but it would help in your excitement at knowing something about your sound card / chip, and mobo setup. By the way if you don't want your old hard drive. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:34:47 -0500 Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola. LM9.0 doesn't configure ISA soundcards, you have to run sndconfig as root. -Frans Yeah, I tried that, To no avail. Well, I guess you can always buy a supported soundcard, but to get your current sound hardware working I think you should supply a few more details like what card do you have, what happened when you tried to configure the card from Mandrake Control Centre and with sndconfig :) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition Magic rescue disk to boot from. This is the message I got: Partition Magic has detected an error 116 on the partition starting at sector 25912845 on disk 2. Look in the help file of PM , top righthand corner of main window, in there somewhere at the end as I recall is a error log message file section, where you can look up the definition of this error log 116. I'll do that - but probably not until I get back next weekend. The starting LBA value is 25912845 and the CHS value is 16450559. The LBA and CHS values must be equal Partition Magic has verified that the LBA value is correct and can fix the CHS value Would you like Partition Magic to fix this error? In my experience this arrises out of using more than one partition tool, and is mainly caused by the industry not having uniform standards.It's rather like sending two sets of surveyors to measure the areas of a football pitch one armed with a meter rule the other with a yard stick, they both will be correct but they will not have the same numbers. On the whole you can safely ignore this error message it will always go on saying it because it doesn't like the way the other partition tool has done it's work.Sometimes OS's will baulk at formatting these various scrambled up partition tables, and that is why I do all my partitioning on any harddrive with just one partition tool. It doesn't matter which formatting tool you use, but partition Magic has a very good check for bad areas and will mark them for you so that data is not loaded over any bad areas. Problem is I now appear to have a partition table that can't be read properly either by Windows, PM, or Linux Although I know what LBA is, I don't know what CHS is. My hard drives are labelled by linux hde, hdf and hdg. Dolphin is on hdf, which I take to be disk 2. Should I allow PM to do this, or is it being confused by the ext3 partitions? I would feel a whole lot safer if I could get my windows installation going again. It is increasingly rare for me to need it, but it covers emergency use. Anne Just to prove me wrong I guess you will now tell me you didn't use more than one partition tool. John Originally the drive was partitioned by PM, but of course Mandrake then reformatted some of the partitions. So far as I'm aware no moving or re-sizing was done. I'm getting a sinking feeling about all of this. If I let PM do its work it may recover windows, but I'm afraid of it banjoing my linux installations. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me
Franki wrote: hmmm,, Normally I'd agree with that, I wouldn't buy a P4 CPU unless hell froze over sometime soon... However, my boss is about to supply me with a Dell Inspiron 8200 fully kitted for me at no cost to myself.. Its got a 2 or 2.2gig CPU in it. (dunno which yet) and its a P4 :-( but I'll love it anyway... If AMD made comparable laptop CPU's... (the tests I have seen thus far on AMD mobile CPU's have not been inspiring to say the least..) but even if a 2.2 P4 CPU is only as fast as my AMD 1800XP.. then I will be happy because I am currently writing this email on a Overclocked Celeron 300A (464mhz totally stable, uptime 3 weeks.) but not overly inspiring on speed either. :-) As long as Mandrake runs on it, I will be happy. rgds Frank Frank, The thing is: Does one really notice a real difference above say 1.5Ghz if the machine is endowed with the proper amount of RAM for the OS and apps being run on the machine? ( proper amount of RAM = 256 minimum ). I know I haven't. Most of what I do on my machines and those at work are coding. I can imagine it would be a different story all together if one were doing a lot of heavy graphics work. Then I believe one would notice the difference. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail help needed
On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:50, Anne Wilson wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can edit the collected addresses in KMail? They don't appear in the KAddressBook, which is what opens if you click the icon. Inevitably I have collected a couple of incorrect entries, which need to be removed. Anne I was wondering too. Recent KMail email addresses must be in a text file somewhere in ~ so I tried this: $ cat `ls -R` | grep searchterm It didn't work :-( Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:50, Anne Wilson wrote: Partition Magic has detected an error 116 on the partition starting at sector 25912845 on disk 2. The starting LBA value is 25912845 and the CHS value is 16450559. The LBA and CHS values must be equal Partition Magic has verified that the LBA value is correct and can fix the CHS value Would you like Partition Magic to fix this error? I've not seen all of this thread but, having used Partition Magic a lot in the past, I've come across this error message several times: basically it seems that PM doesn't like the partition table written by some linux installers. The only one I've come across that doesn't lead to this message is SuSE.I've always just allowed PM to go ahead and fix the errors and have not suffered any dire consequences to my linux installation.Conversely, not fixing the errors doesn't seem to upset Windows. I get the impression that fdisk (linux version as well as dos version) and parted don't like each other. As a matter of interest, I've now given up on PM and use Paragon's Hard Disk Manager: it doesn't seem to give rise to these errors and also has the ability to read ext2 and 3 filesystems from within Windows, so you can still access/read files from both systems. Its cheaper too! Mind you, if the rest of my family would convert to Linux, I wouldn't need to worry about this and could stop dual-booting! David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail help needed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have a look in: .kde/share/config/kmailrc search for the line: 'Recent Addresses=' I am however using cooker (kde 3.1 rc3), so your mileage may vary P.S. Richard, don't set 'reply-to' in your email client, it messes up the mailing list threading. Good luck, Sascha Noyes On Saturday 07 December 2002 05:20 pm, RichardA wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:50, Anne Wilson wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can edit the collected addresses in KMail? They don't appear in the KAddressBook, which is what opens if you click the icon. Inevitably I have collected a couple of incorrect entries, which need to be removed. Anne I was wondering too. Recent KMail email addresses must be in a text file somewhere in ~ so I tried this: $ cat `ls -R` | grep searchterm It didn't work :-( Richard - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE980AZgzJdfX+cTW8RAiL8AKCuuWTvVB3rik+/75FVNsEZ9qcfyQCcCsrO lAMB0GV37Q0DQvD4JV2cWHY= =WCDC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition Magic rescue disk to boot from. This is the message I got: Partition Magic has detected an error 116 on the partition starting at sector 25912845 on disk 2. Look in the help file of PM , top righthand corner of main window, in there somewhere at the end as I recall is a error log message file section, where you can look up the definition of this error log 116. I'll do that - but probably not until I get back next weekend. The starting LBA value is 25912845 and the CHS value is 16450559. The LBA and CHS values must be equal Partition Magic has verified that the LBA value is correct and can fix the CHS value Would you like Partition Magic to fix this error? In my experience this arrises out of using more than one partition tool, and is mainly caused by the industry not having uniform standards.It's rather like sending two sets of surveyors to measure the areas of a football pitch one armed with a meter rule the other with a yard stick, they both will be correct but they will not have the same numbers. On the whole you can safely ignore this error message it will always go on saying it because it doesn't like the way the other partition tool has done it's work.Sometimes OS's will baulk at formatting these various scrambled up partition tables, and that is why I do all my partitioning on any harddrive with just one partition tool. It doesn't matter which formatting tool you use, but partition Magic has a very good check for bad areas and will mark them for you so that data is not loaded over any bad areas. Problem is I now appear to have a partition table that can't be read properly either by Windows, PM, or Linux Although I know what LBA is, I don't know what CHS is. My hard drives are labelled by linux hde, hdf and hdg. Dolphin is on hdf, which I take to be disk 2. Should I allow PM to do this, or is it being confused by the ext3 partitions? I would feel a whole lot safer if I could get my windows installation going again. It is increasingly rare for me to need it, but it covers emergency use. Anne Just to prove me wrong I guess you will now tell me you didn't use more than one partition tool. John Originally the drive was partitioned by PM, but of course Mandrake then reformatted some of the partitions. So far as I'm aware no moving or re-sizing was done. Then I don't think the partition table is effected, merely formatting doesn't hurt. I'm getting a sinking feeling about all of this. If I let PM do its work it may recover windows, but I'm afraid of it banjoing my linux installations. Anne So on the whole , I would leave it, and just tell PM each time it asks not to do anything. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me
Lanman wrote: Can't argue with you Franki, if you intend to make sense! There goes a whole string of smartass remarks I had for Flamers! Took the fun out of my whole day. I guess I'll just grin and bear it! LOL ! Lanman not to worry Lanman...I'm sure an opportunity will present itself here directly. Lord knows there's enough good bait lying around here. ;) Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 05:00, Mark Weaver wrote: David Robertson wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:41, Mark Weaver wrote: David, How is it that you're configuring your network and dialup settings? I've got two Mandrake 8.2 servers running. Setup network once and haven't had to touch it since. One Mandrake 9.0 server running - same thing there. My workstation at home is Mandrake 9.0 on my home LAN and again, set the Network settings when I installed the system and haven't had to reconfigure once. I dare say there's got to be something drastically different in the you and I are doing it and not something wrong with the software. Mark I have LM9.0 installed on an Asus laptop which I use between home and the office so, to be honest, it's not completely straightforward. Home connection is simple as I have ADSL through a small LAN protected by a router, so no problem there. I have that set up as my default profile in the control center. I set up a work profile with a fixed IP to my office LAN and internet connection by dial-up through a pcmcia modem.This profile just gets forgotten each time I start up and when I'm at work I have to reconfigure all the settings each time. Even after that, on trying to dial out, a connection seems to be made and then the ppp daemon dies. This happens trying control centre, kppp or gnome-ppp to connect. I have always had that particular problem with LM, even going back to 7.something when I first tried it. So I now just use wvdial and it works. I'm quite sure it is me and not the software. I just find that network settings are more difficult to configure and maintain in LM than in other distros. I also would like to be able to dial out as user and not as root each time.I have added myself to pppusers. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail help needed
On Sunday 08 December 2002 12:50, Sascha Noyes wrote: Have a look in: .kde/share/config/kmailrc search for the line: 'Recent Addresses=' Thanks P.S. Richard, don't set 'reply-to' in your email client, it messes up the mailing list threading. OK Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down
Shutdown ends up in the same place using KDE or terminal shutdown. The system will reboot. In fact I reboot into Windows and then shutdown from there. It was suggested in one reply that it might be my MB is not supported. In the shutdown the script reaches Power down. general protection fault: f000, cpu: 0, EIP: then a bunch of what appears to be memory addresses finally ending with Code: Bad EIP value, /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: line 1 2829 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p. The last part of the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file is: HALTARGS=-i -d -p if [ -f /halt ]; then HALTARGS=i -d fi eval $Command $HALTARGS I have tried various combinations in the HALTARGS segment with no success. Suggestions please. Gary Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 14:08, Gary Montalbine wrote: I was thinking RAM. However I ran a memtest on it twice with no errors and I reseated the RAM. CPU temperature appeared normal but may need to check it under a load. I am dual booting with WIN 98. Netscape 7 has not been stable in Windows. May be a common problem. Gary Ray Henry wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 19:53, Gary Montalbine wrote: When shutting down M8.2 I get the following error msg: /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: Line 1: 9361 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p How can I correct it? I've seen similar errors twice (can't recall exactly), once was bad RAM, the other was poor CPU cooling. Might want to start with those. Have you tried doing a halt from the console instead of the GUI? You might be able to figure out a bit more quickly if you change the runlevel to 3 instead of 5 (graphical) - then ya should be able to view exactly everything that's happening while the halt is happening...BTW, have you seen similar while doing a restart, or is this just when you're doing a halt ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Squirrelmail
Anders Lind wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:25:07 + Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can use http or https to acces my apache server - I should have been more specific. I do not get anything when trying http://localhost/squirrelmail (or https://blah blah). All that is displayed is 404 error - Not Found - the reqiested URL/squirrelmail was not found on this server. Ahh. Try move squirrelmail to /var/www/html that should do the trick /Anders actually, if you installed from an RPM or tarball the directory holding the files is already where it oughta be. to get to your SM installation from a browser you call it this-a way: http://your.host.com/webmail If you look inside /var/www/html you'll notice this item @webmail. It's a symlink to the actual files for the app. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 02:34, Dennis Sue wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola. LM9.0 doesn't configure ISA soundcards, you have to run sndconfig as root. -Frans Yeah, I tried that, To no avail. What about removing the card, doing a shutdown then a reboot, then re-installing the card? -- Sun Dec 8 06:20:01 EST 2002 6:20am up 8:18, 3 users, load average: 0.98, 0.43, 0.41 .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 On the fifth day the Governor of the town called all the tribal chieftains to an audience in the market square, to hear their grievances. He didn't always do anything about them, but at least they got *heard*, and he nodded a lot, and everyone felt better about it at least until they got home. This is politics. -- Carpet politics are very similar to Discworld politics (Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down
On Saturday 07 December 2002 12:19 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: Shutdown ends up in the same place using KDE or terminal shutdown. The system will reboot. In fact I reboot into Windows and then shutdown from there. It was suggested in one reply that it might be my MB is not supported. In the shutdown the script reaches Power down. general protection fault: f000, cpu: 0, EIP: then a bunch of what appears to be memory addresses finally ending with Code: Bad EIP value, /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: line 1 2829 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p. The last part of the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file is: HALTARGS=-i -d -p In the above delete the space after -d and delete -p and save. This stops the script but you still have to manually shut down the computer. This is the best solution found that I know of over the last 2 years. HTH if [ -f /halt ]; then HALTARGS=i -d fi eval $Command $HALTARGS I have tried various combinations in the HALTARGS segment with no success. Suggestions please. Gary snip -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassinpermsgstatus.pm
In reply to Franki's mail, d.d. Sun, 8 Dec 2002 02:42:07 +0800: All properly written perl modules contain their own documentation.. its called pod and the perl inturpreter ignores it when its called.. so don't worry about it.. Okay, thanks for the reassurance. are you sure its the right version of the module? It is the latest and greatest that I can find, directly from CPAN in the section for Spamassassin 2.43... Very interesting... *grin* I'm going to look further a bit, or downgrade to the previous version. Thanks!! Paul -- A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C) http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 03:09, Mark Weaver wrote: Lanman, Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack there of for the Linux printserver, but the native support when comparing the Linux server to the Novell server, at least for the present is astonishingly different. That being said, all things being equal, if I had to bet my paycheck on the print server I'd have to use the Novell server. Two reasons: 1. I personally don't yet feel I have enough experience with serving printers on a Linux platform. I have/am working with both 2. I've experienced day-to-day dependability of the Novell print server in it's native environment. This does make me curious though. Do you know if there is a way to server printers from a Linux machine apart from doing it with Samba? Mark As IP based printers. Just like on any other UNIX/*NIX. UNIX shares it's printers with anyone on the network as default. Just a matter of setting them up properly in the first place. -- Sun Dec 8 06:25:00 EST 2002 6:25am up 8:23, 3 users, load average: 0.41, 0.24, 0.31 .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 An air of FRENCH FRIES permeates my nostrils!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 03:13, Mark Weaver wrote: Frank, The thing is: Does one really notice a real difference above say 1.5Ghz if the machine is endowed with the proper amount of RAM for the OS and apps being run on the machine? ( proper amount of RAM = 256 minimum ). I know I haven't. Most of what I do on my machines and those at work are coding. I can imagine it would be a different story all together if one were doing a lot of heavy graphics work. Then I believe one would notice the difference. Mark Or porn... -- Sun Dec 8 06:25:00 EST 2002 6:25am up 8:23, 3 users, load average: 0.41, 0.24, 0.31 .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 An air of FRENCH FRIES permeates my nostrils!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 05:49, Franki wrote: I imagine compiling big apps, like a linux kernel would be alot faster on a 3 gig then a 1.5... the question is, is the difference worth the extra bucks? I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an XP2800, but I can't see any reason to upgrade my XP1800 yet... but I can't wait for my inspiron... i've wanted to upgade my piece of crap compaq m700 for ages.. (I am gonna try and turn the m700 into an in-car MP3/DVD player... should be pretty cool if it works.. taking the screen off and mounting it so it folds down above the rear vision mirror.. have to work something out for keyboard/mouse control... its an interesting project anyway.. :-) rgds Frank Y'all oughta check out the article on Overclockers Australia - there's a bloke there that's slowly building a car-pc... ...and fast is as fast does...I'm hoping to score on a multi-cpu AMD based board shortly (PRAYING) - so I can slap two AMD's in it, 1gb of RAM, strip all the stuff outta my current modified box...the reason? Cuz I want to be able to play Blackgammon at light speed...(nah, not really...more for going to lan parties and also serving up here at home...and actually, I'd love to see Quake running on it...unless I can finally figure out how to get HL to run under WHINE (not a misspelling)...(also to serve remote Xwindows to the wife...but she doesn't know that yet) -- Sun Dec 8 06:50:01 EST 2002 6:50am up 8:48, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.33, 0.32 .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 Gomme's Laws: (1) A backscratcher will always find new itches. (2) Time accelerates. (3) The weather at home improves as soon as you go away. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down
On Saturday 07 December 2002 08:27 am, you wrote: In the above delete the space after -d and delete -p and save. This stops the script but you still have to manually shut down the computer. This is the best solution found that I know of over the last 2 years. HTH I have to add my recent experience with 9.0 here. My 9 year olds computer uses a Gigabyte motherboard, about 2-3 years old that has never shutdown correctly with Mandrake from v7.0 up. I just installed v9.0 and had the same problem as usual - so I edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and dropped the -p in the line near the end of the file. Here, this makes no difference whatsoever, I get the same error. In the past this always resulted in a clean halt, with the message System halted, even though it did not power down. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 06:58, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 08:27 am, you wrote: In the above delete the space after -d and delete -p and save. This stops the script but you still have to manually shut down the computer. This is the best solution found that I know of over the last 2 years. HTH I have to add my recent experience with 9.0 here. My 9 year olds computer uses a Gigabyte motherboard, about 2-3 years old that has never shutdown correctly with Mandrake from v7.0 up. I just installed v9.0 and had the same problem as usual - so I edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and dropped the -p in the line near the end of the file. Here, this makes no difference whatsoever, I get the same error. In the past this always resulted in a clean halt, with the message System halted, even though it did not power down. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Here's a great resolution to the issue: (mind you, it's Sunday morning and I'm full of piss and vinegar) 1.) When the computer user wants to completely shut down the worksation, server, it is advisable that the computer user protect themselves from further carpal tunnel damage by merely removing the black power cable from the back of the computer. 2.) Somewhat easier is for the computer user to physically kick the plug-strip away from the wall - which greatly reduces the risk of electric shock. 3.) Remove the fuse in the fuse box for that particular power point. Kill switches are also good, but require at least some electronic knowledge. 4.) Not paying your electric utilities bill will result in a clean shutdown of you computer - as well as any other electronic devices within you home or abode. -- Sun Dec 8 07:10:01 EST 2002 7:10am up 9:08, 3 users, load average: 0.35, 0.38, 0.36 .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 Mulder: If my Miss Manners served me right, that protrusion from his left cornea is a salad fork. The X-Files: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0
On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:47 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:34:47 -0500 Well, I guess you can always buy a supported soundcard, but to get your current sound hardware working I think you should supply a few more details like what card do you have, what happened when you tried to configure the card from Mandrake Control Centre and with sndconfig :) HTH, -Frans Well, In Root, It tried to configure it, But would not allow me to modify the value to accomodate the card. In user as superuser, It wouldn't even find it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] solution to that pesky NS/moz/phoenix profile
If netscape/mozilla/phoenix is already running, clicking a link in my mail client wanted to start a new instance of ns/moz/phoenix. If I told it to open a url in a new tab, it would, but only if ns/moz/phoenix was running. I guess you get the idea. This little script will just test to see if the browser is running, and if it isn't it starts it and loads the url; if the browser is already running, it opens the url in a new tab. In the mail client I just specify what to do with urls: /path/to/script '%s' The example here is just for phoenix, because that's what I use now. Change it to reflect the path to your mozilla or netscape. Todd #/bin/bash url=$@ /home/todd/phoenix/phoenix -remote ping() if [ $? = 0 ] ; then /home/todd/phoenix/phoenix -remote openURL($url,new-tab) else /home/todd/phoenix/phoenix $url fi exit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms descriptions
El Sáb 07 Dic 2002 13:04, Tom Brinkman escribió: On Saturday December 7 2002 07:37 am, Pilagá wrote: Buenas: In MCC, Software manager, I have added this source: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPM S ./synthesis.hdlist2.cz but all rpms are listed without description. So, is there any way to fix this? Gracias synthesis.hdlist.cz is without descriptions hdlist.cz is with descriptions The hdlist will be a very large file compared to the synthesis version. You might decide to do without descriptions ;) It's academic anyhow, at that ftp site there is no hdlist, only synthesis. Muchas gracias, Tom. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 6:31pm up 15 min, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 22:59, John Richard Smith wrote: Can someone point me how to correct red-eye from my pics in gimp. Thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried to isolate the color and then select color range and then replace color ? Well I don't know if it's the correct way but I did it like this, Put up gimp main window, put up Brush selections Put up picture to be worked upon, Zoom in until the eyesight area is large and easy to work upon Double click forground colour selection from main window choose a colour click on Paint fuzzy brush strokes from main window click on dot size from brush stroke selection window proceed to click on area around eye , taking care to grade colour selection and then add pupil to eye colour,when finished , save and exit. definately an improvement when finished. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)
Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette: I was given an old Quantex N30W-15 (on which Mandrake 9 runs without any problems, by the way - except for the Winmodem which one can easily fix with the RPMs available on the Linmodem.org site). It runs on a BAT30WL Lithium Ion Battery (rated 11.1V-4800mAh). I used my laptop at home 99% of the time so I do not need to run it on batteries. How should I best use this battery? Should I keep it plugged in and constanting charging, should I always use it on battery and thereby empty the battery daily, or is there anything else I should do to maximize my battery's life? Thanks in advance for your advice and sorry for the off-topic question, Andrei _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 11:02, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette: I was given an old Quantex N30W-15 (on which Mandrake 9 runs without any problems, by the way - except for the Winmodem which one can easily fix with the RPMs available on the Linmodem.org site). It runs on a BAT30WL Lithium Ion Battery (rated 11.1V-4800mAh). I used my laptop at home 99% of the time so I do not need to run it on batteries. How should I best use this battery? Should I keep it plugged in and constanting charging, should I always use it on battery and thereby empty the battery daily, or is there anything else I should do to maximize my battery's life? Thanks in advance for your advice and sorry for the off-topic question, Andrei Just about once a month, discharge the batter completely and let it recharge - that should keep it alive for longer...(at least that's what we used to do at MCI) -- Sun Dec 8 11:10:00 EST 2002 11:10am up 13:08, 4 users, load average: 1.04, 0.82, 0.74 .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 Remind me not to fix mtrr.c after half a litre of wine in future. - Alan Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing - SUPER EASY
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Though in principle it is not as unlikely as all that. Our family lan (3 generations) entails 5 macines, accessing through a router/adsl. The router has its own firewall, and we made a choice to stick with static IP addresses. I would not want that changing without a very good reason, nor do I see why I would want a firewall on my personal machine. I think there should be an information screen that says something like 'If you have any of the following situations... then you should say 'yes' to installing the firewall. Anne Hello, I've missed most of this thread so excuse me if I repeat anything etc. I have 2 computers at home, and I use GuardDog as a firewall for when I go olnine. To share the internet, I do a X -query tux350 (name of comp) to connect to the internet-comp's X server. That way, not only do I share the internet hassle-free, but I can use the same KMail settings, Konqueror favorites/bookmarks and settings et al. It's easy to set up, and I've found my PII/350 can support 2 KDE seesions quite well (just hold the loopback filesystems though). Hope this helps! REgards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] editing .avi files
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:29 pm, joe wrote: I am looking for something like virtualdub(nandub) that I can use to split an avi. Does anyone have a recommendation because my searches have been fruitless so far. Hello, Cinelerra (successor to BCast2000) from www.heroinevirtual.com comes in a nice, all features included 10MB package. No installation problems, it might just be your (free) cup of tea. I got it on dial-up and it was well worth the wait. In my experience, it's not a user-friendly as something like Premiere, and it doesn't have many export formats. I found it hard to play MPEG-4 movies using anything other than it's own player (windows/mac doesn't like it). The only problem is if you have dialup, it may be overkill to split a file. However, it does have a whole dearth of features that you might need later. Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install fails
I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system This happens almost immediately after I hot enter at the Press enter to install Mandrake screen.I've tried using different disks thinking maybe the disk was scratched and also tried a text install with the same results.Any help is appreciated. Dan Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install fails
On Sunday 08 December 2002 01:38, Dan Cox wrote: This happens almost immediately after I hot enter at the Press enter to install Mandrake screen.I've tried using different disks thinking maybe the disk was scratched and also tried a text install with the same results.Any help is appreciated. Have you checked that the checksum match? Have you tried another drive? -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install fails
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 11:38, Dan Cox wrote: I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system This happens almost immediately after I hot enter at the Press enter to install Mandrake screen.I've tried using different disks thinking maybe the disk was scratched and also tried a text install with the same results.Any help is appreciated. Dan Cox Dirty CD or dirty CDROM - try cleaning both (clean the CDROM really well - especially the laser) and then do it all again... -- Sun Dec 8 11:40:01 EST 2002 11:40am up 13:38, 4 users, load average: 2.06, 1.29, 0.85 .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 Mulder: Imagine if you could come back and take out five people who'd caused you to suffer. Who would they be? Scully: I only get five? Mulder: I remembered your birthday this year Scully, didn't I? The X-Files: The List Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install fails
I just tried a network install and recieved the same error message. Dan Cox On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 17:38, Dan Cox wrote: I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system This happens almost immediately after I hot enter at the Press enter to install Mandrake screen.I've tried using different disks thinking maybe the disk was scratched and also tried a text install with the same results.Any help is appreciated. Dan Cox 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] adding window manager
I use KDM for my window manager login. I have recently installed FVWM and am wondering how to add this executable to the list - /usr/bin/fvwm2. Do I have to edit the Xsession file, and if so, how? Thanks, John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Getting VNC to use KDE
Hi all, I have installed VNC server on machine #2 and have started it up as root. On machine #1 I ran 'vncviewer linux2.name:1', entered my password set up for vnc and it started up into a very boring grey background with a white shell opened on it. Now... many times I have read you can have KDE running as WM but I cannot work out what needs to be added to where in the /root/.vnc/xstart file. I tried commenting out 'twm ' and adding 'startkde ' but it made no difference. Does anyone have vnc working that shows and uses a KDE environment and if so, can they share the black art of getting mine working? regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install fails
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 12:14, Dan Cox wrote: I just tried a network install and recieved the same error message. Ehmmm...have you formatted / partitioned the drive that's your target? Or is there an existing installation of SOMETHING there? -- Sun Dec 8 12:20:01 EST 2002 12:20pm up 14:18, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.25, 0.44 .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 La technique du geste en mouvement : En mouvement, c'est complétement pareil, t'allonges le bras, tu respectes la diagonale. Et la demarche a suivre est simple: c'est un pied devant l'autre et tu recommences! Si tu fais confiance à la gravité ca devrait passer! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting VNC to use KDE
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 02:45, Frank Mertens wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 02:25, magnet wrote: Hi all, I have installed VNC server on machine #2 and have started it up as root. On machine #1 I ran 'vncviewer linux2.name:1', entered my password set up for vnc and it started up into a very boring grey background with a white shell opened on it. Now... many times I have read you can have KDE running as WM but I cannot work out what needs to be added to where in the /root/.vnc/xstart file. I tried commenting out 'twm ' and adding 'startkde ' but it made no difference. Does anyone have vnc working that shows and uses a KDE environment and if so, can they share the black art of getting mine working? regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com twm replaced by startkde? I think twm is a window manager like kdm and startkde the script for starting the desktop environment KDE. So on my machine KDE works also via VNC. You tried to start KDE via startkde from your white shell? MfG Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Install fails
It could be that mandrake 9.0 is not compatible with your machine. I had to put mandrake 8.2 on my computer, which works beautifully, make a boot disk using an older kernel image, boot to that disk and then was able to do an update to 8.2. If I tried a clean install, it wouldn't work. Everything is working fine right now and I am hoping that when a newer kernel comes out I will be able to use it and that my computer will work with it. It is the chipset that is causing problems for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Cox Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 7:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install fails I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet connection sharing with Windows?
Got a 3 comp LAN. My main computer is running Linux - 56k connection and both the other comps do sharing under Mandrake v8.2 just fine. Yeah, its slow, but I let my sons browse to find school articles sometimes (with me right over their shoulders!). Anyways, my 12 year old picked up this Windows game, Earth Beyond. Not a bad looking game but its Windows only, won't run under WineX and is *online* only. So he asked me to set it up so he could play it under Windows on his machine - with my main Linux comp as gateway. So...I normally have static ip addressess assigned to our machines - like this: darkforce 192.168.0.1 (my main comp) darkforce2 192.168.0.2 (12 yr olds) darkforce3 192.168.0.3 (9 yr olds) I didn't have to do hardly anything for the Linux side of things to work like this. Windows won't find the 'Net like this though. I finally did the right-click Network Neighborhood/properties routine, added my IP address as gateway, and I had to pick automatically assign number. This worked. However, when I do this, I can't use Samba from my machine to access his anymore (or even ping each other). Change his settings back to a static IP - Samba works again, and we can ping each other - and he can't accesss the 'Net again. I can just change this everytime I want to use one or the other, but its a bit of a hassle (and besides that - Windows always asks for a freaking reboot everytime!) I'm sure there is a way to share connections with Windows 98SE and still use an assigned IP address with Samba? Does anyone else have a setup like this and can help? Thanks much! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr]
Toshiba Tecra 9000... have you tried Mandrake 9 on a laptop of that model? From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr] Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:16:14 -0500 A. A. wrote: Me too... Regrettably I could not get Mandrake 9.0 to work successfully on my laptop, and the problem is in the IDE detection code. I have already posted some information about the symptoms I saw, perhaps they will be useful to the folks at Mandrake. It seems that the kernel they built does not properly support the ICH3M chipset: I would love to see the exact errors the rest of you are getting. What kind of laptop cause it runs wonderfully on the Toshiba Portege I'm using at work. Most painless install I've ever experienced. including a few of the many windows installs I've done over the years. Win2K Professional being the easiest for that platform. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection sharing with Windows?
Hi, Right, just been here with this problem. Set a specific IP addy as you had for the PC and use netmask 255.255.255.0 Disable the WINS Configuration. Add gateway to point to your linux box. Here is the part I had to change for some reason. Enable DNS Configuration. My linux hostname is linux1.local.net. For host add the first part of your machines hostname [linux1] then add the last part as the domain [local.net]. Add your gateway 192.168.0.1 into the DNS Server Search Order. Add your last part of your domain [local.net] into the DNS Suffix Search Order. This got my winME laptop to connect using the linux gateway and it has no effect on samba here, and retains your choice of static IP addresses you use. Hope this can help you. regards magnet On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 5:23 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Got a 3 comp LAN. My main computer is running Linux - 56k connection and both the other comps do sharing under Mandrake v8.2 just fine. Yeah, its slow, but I let my sons browse to find school articles sometimes (with me right over their shoulders!). Anyways, my 12 year old picked up this Windows game, Earth Beyond. Not a bad looking game but its Windows only, won't run under WineX and is *online* only. So he asked me to set it up so he could play it under Windows on his machine - with my main Linux comp as gateway. So...I normally have static ip addressess assigned to our machines - like this: darkforce 192.168.0.1 (my main comp) darkforce2 192.168.0.2 (12 yr olds) darkforce3 192.168.0.3 (9 yr olds) I didn't have to do hardly anything for the Linux side of things to work like this. Windows won't find the 'Net like this though. I finally did the right-click Network Neighborhood/properties routine, added my IP address as gateway, and I had to pick automatically assign number. This worked. However, when I do this, I can't use Samba from my machine to access his anymore (or even ping each other). Change his settings back to a static IP - Samba works again, and we can ping each other - and he can't accesss the 'Net again. I can just change this everytime I want to use one or the other, but its a bit of a hassle (and besides that - Windows always asks for a freaking reboot everytime!) I'm sure there is a way to share connections with Windows 98SE and still use an assigned IP address with Samba? Does anyone else have a setup like this and can help? Thanks much! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
