Re: [newbie-it] Sostituire una parola...
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:20:33 +0100 Arwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 15:58, giovedì 5 dicembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Sostituire una parola..., Andrea Celli hai scritto: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:27:46 +0100 Nicola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buon giorno alla Ml. mi sono accorto di aver digitato male una parola in un intero documento (tex) e vorrei sostituire tutte le occorrenze in una volta sola sed 's/parola-vecchia/parola-nuova/g' file file-corretto Io pensavo al comendo tr, che differenza c'e' tra i due? Possono andar bene entrambi, con preferenze a seconda dei gusti, o no? sed è un vero editor, puoi compiere tutte le oprazioni che vuoi sul testo. Ha una sintassi simile a quella di vi, anche se non identica. Uno deriva da ED, l'altro da EX. I due primi editor di UNIX. Comunque, se conosci bene i comandi di vi, è lo strumento più naturale da usare. AWK è un ottimo programma per manipolare testi. Rispetto a sed riesce a gestire meglio i campi (la quarta parola) e a compiere calcoli su stringhe numeriche. Per esempio se devi sommare la quarta colonna di tutte le righe che hanno il tuo nome nella prima o sostituire Gigi con Luigi solo se è la terza parola. TR lo uso poco. Però mi sembra sia più adatto a modifiche globali su un carattere o tipo di carattere: da maiuscole a minuscole, togliere ^M nei file dos, ... non credo riesca a gestire una stringa. PERL è in Practical Extraction Report Language. Ci fai tutto quello che fanno gli altri e mooolto di più. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Bug in KDevelop
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:46:00 +0100 Santarella Benedetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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?? Bisognerebbe esaminare il tuo programma. Non trovi? 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??? KDE è arrivato alla versione 3.0.5 e si è in attesa della 3.1, che però sembra sia in ritardo. Mndk-9.0 contiene kde-3.0.3 ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] aggiornamenti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 piccola domanda: se uso gli rpm della 9.0 per aggiornare dei pacchetti( xine,xmms) della 8.2, i programmi dopo funzioneranno o no? chiedo questo perche' su rpmfind la versione 0.9.13 di xine non si trova come rpm ma c'e` solo la versione 0.9.8 che era allegata alla 8.2. che faccio installo? attendo consigli! Grazie! - -- Quando un uomo ti racconta di essere diventato ricco grazie al duro lavoro, chiedigli: Di chi?. Don Marquis chiave pubblica disponibile sul keyserver -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE99HlKJCpKdNyXmKsRAovPAJ9/N71Ra76brIOH4pkPFoQ5xNGRPQCgi66h eg71xlFqrihrfS/I+GCrNF8= =uy41 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] configurazione modem interno
Alle 21:36, domenica 8 dicembre 2002, Roberto C 2 ha scritto: ..ma uno è considerato Winmodem e non era auto riconosciuto (almeno che le nuove release non vedano entrambi) io ricordo che era una rogna. Nessuno dei due viene auto riconosciuto, o meglio, indipendentemente dal modello (HCF o HSF), vengono riconosciuti come HCF winmodem senza possibilità di configurazione. L'unico problema è quello di capire con che bestia si ha a che fare (ma in questo caso win può trovare uno scopo nella vita); dopodichè, dall'installazione del rpm,o dei tar.gz, alla configurazione a prova di mentecatto, è tutta discesa (con prestazioni che, lo ripeto, considero superiori a quelle su piattaforma finestre). -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Sostituire una parola...
On Monday 09 December 2002 08:43, Andrea Celli wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:20:33 +0100 Arwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 15:58, giovedì 5 dicembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Sostituire una parola..., Andrea Celli hai scritto: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:27:46 +0100 Nicola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buon giorno alla Ml. mi sono accorto di aver digitato male una parola in un intero documento (tex) e vorrei sostituire tutte le occorrenze in una volta sola sed 's/parola-vecchia/parola-nuova/g' file file-corretto Io pensavo al comendo tr, che differenza c'e' tra i due? Possono andar bene entrambi, con preferenze a seconda dei gusti, o no? sed è un vero editor, puoi compiere tutte le oprazioni che vuoi sul testo. Ha una sintassi simile a quella di vi, anche se non identica. Uno deriva da ED, l'altro da EX. I due primi editor di UNIX. Comunque, se conosci bene i comandi di vi, è lo strumento più naturale da usare. AWK è un ottimo programma per manipolare testi. Rispetto a sed riesce a gestire meglio i campi (la quarta parola) e a compiere calcoli su stringhe numeriche. Per esempio se devi sommare la quarta colonna di tutte le righe che hanno il tuo nome nella prima o sostituire Gigi con Luigi solo se è la terza parola. TR lo uso poco. Però mi sembra sia più adatto a modifiche globali su un carattere o tipo di carattere: da maiuscole a minuscole, togliere ^M nei file dos, ... non credo riesca a gestire una stringa. PERL è in Practical Extraction Report Language. Ci fai tutto quello che fanno gli altri e mooolto di più. ciao, Andrea Ringrazio tutti per l'interessamento, ma non riesco ad usare sed credo che dipenda dalla stringa che voglio sostituire. sed 's/\backsim/\sim/g' file file-corretto questo e' il comando, ma ovviamente non funziona. Nel Man non ho trovato riferimenti particolari su caratteri non accettati. Qualcuno sa dirmi dove sbaglio? Tra l'altro ho proprio bisogno di usare la \ in quanto nel testo compare un paio di volte la parola backsim Gazie a tutti. Nicola ps Scusate per la data assurda, non e' colpa mia.
Re: [newbie-it] -unknown
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:27:43 +0100 rino favretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Per curiosità sono andato a ripescare il tuo messaggio: Saluti a tutti - ho installato mdk 9.0-non riesco a stampare con galeon,mozilla e opera,mentre con netscape si. Non riesco a capire dove sia il problema. Per risponderti era necessario essersi trovati nella tua _identica_ situazione o avere a disposizione una sfera di cristallo. Purtroppo, la mia l'ho prestata a Harry Potter, che non si decide mai a rendermela :-( Dubito che sulla ML di Debian una domanda di questo tipo possa avere un'accoglienza diversa. Ovviamente, a meno che tu non trovi qualcuno che ha avuto il tuo stesso problema. buona fortuna, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] WGET
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 00:20:02 +0100 francesco manini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sto cercando da diversi giorni di scaricare la seguente directory www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr Tale directory contiene due sotto directory con vari files al loro interno. Purtroppo nonstante i vari tentativi che ho effettuato non riesco a imbroccare il sistema giusto. I tentativi da me fatti sono i seguenti : wget -k -K -E -nH -nd -P prova /indirizzo da scaricare di solito faccio qualcosa del tipo wget -np -r http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr -np per evitare che mi scarichi anche tutto quello che sta sopra -r per scaricare ricorsivamente tutte le sotto-directory ciao, Andrea
Re: Re:[newbie-it]masterizzare audio
Non vorrei dire una banalità, però hai fatto caso se il CD è stato finalizzato ? Questa è una cosa indispensabile. Puoi comunque finalizzare anche dei CD già registrati. Franc - Original Message - From: Arwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 6:24 PM Subject: Re:[newbie-it]masterizzare audio Alle 08:33, domenica 8 dicembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re:[newbie-it]masterizzare audio, gianni piazza hai scritto: è possibile masterizzare di cd audio che si sentano anche sui normali lettori di cd? Certo. Se fai un Cd audio, aloora gli impianti hi-fi (e i lettori normali dei Cd) lo leggono, perche' quello e' il loro formato. Se cio' non avviente, e' soltanto perche' l'incisione del laser in fase di masterizzazione non e' adeguata (Problemi di riflessione del supparto vergine o di velocita' di scrittura, uniti a vetustita' del lettore, che in genere si traduce in una diversa intensita' del raggio laser rispetto ai lettori attuali)
Re: [newbie-it] registrare suoni
Alle 20:53, domenica 8 dicembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] registrare suoni, Giorgio Griffon hai scritto: Non riesco a trovare un programma che consenta di registrare dal microfono connesso alla scheda audio. Suppongo che ci sia qualcosa allegato alla distribuzione (io ho mdk 8.2), ma non so cosa. Hai la soluzione a 16 minuti da casa tua. Vuoi l'installazione servita? ;-) Ci sentiamo dal vivo e ti dico. -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] Formattazione Latex
Vi ringrazio molto per le spiegazioni su Latex che avete dato in lista; qualcuno sa se il codice che usa OpenOffice per formattare le equazioni c'entra qualcosa con Latex? E' un codice molto comodo da usare che permette, se si ha un po' la pazienza di impararlo, di scrivere e di modificare le equazioni molto più rapidamente rispetto al sistema a colpi di mouse di Word. Ciao Giorgio
Re: [newbie-it] linux su cellulare
linux sul cellulare, un progetto cinese http://punto-informatico.it/pi.asp?i=42441 - Original Message - From: Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] linux su cellulare Alle 11:29, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, Roberto C. 2° ha scritto: 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 ... hanno *crackato* la XBOX... per farla *crashare* è più che sufficiente lasciare il software originale Microsoft (Where do you want to crash today? (TM))... ;) Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
Re: [newbie] Updating libraries
On Monday 09 December 2002 08:55, Ray Henry wrote: Yeah, that's what started all this trouble. Over 8 hours to finally get it installed, after having to figure out that Mandrake was lying to me. And now, more hours to get the modem working again :/ Bummer :/ Here my Quanta worked from day one. Have you installed your dist. from 3 CD's or only the first one? If only the first one, then I'm not surprised that your having problems. Actually, I was dual-booting with W98/RH 7.4, and didn't want to spend time getting all my toys working under RH. They work under MDK just fine. Too bad so much other stuff doesn't. I would probably been better off getting everything working under RH. Nah, Mandrake is better. Many things are easier under MDK as Redhat tend to be a little to MS'ish. Eg. the missing Mp3 support is a big no-no if they wanna survive the battle. MDK is gaining in on the market. It's got a long way to go before it's OS/2, though. At least for the end user. Sure, with server applications, Linux rocks. But to use as a desktop OS, it fails miserably at this point. I have never tried OS/2, so that I can't say, but Linux as a desktop OS would be better IF...the hardware manufactures would go support it! Somehow MS is the only one exisiting in their universe, and it's a pitty. But the way it is now, desktop with Linux could be easier, but it aint impossible :-) After a day of MDK'ing, I've experienced more frustration than I have since someone slipped a disk with the stoned.empire.monkey virus into my W95 machine about 5 years ago I didn't give up then, either. That's the problem: 1 day only. I said the same thing as you did the first week, I nearly cried myself to sleep (well not exactly, but you get the point), then I started hanging out at freenode and all my greefs became burried one after the other. Help in this universe isn't so far away. Although the experts told me after 48 hours I'd done everything possible, and that the only resolution was to buy a new HD. hmm. Yes, I am a bitter man. I miss my OS/2, and I want it back, dammit! :| :-) Smile The Linux community would be a better place for newbies if, as said before, the manufactures would recognise Linux as an option, and the same with the software developers. If MSI/nVidia made a driverset equals the Windows ones, I wouldn't have to use Windows for TV-Out (I know it's possible under Linux, but last time I tried my X setup went to the basement, and I haven't tried since). And if the game producers made Linux ports the way UT 2003 is for eg., then I wouldn't have to boot MS. But it's coming! It takes time though. MS has it's place in the world, but 3500DKK (that's app. 430USD) for a Windows XP Pro.. that's way to much when MDK9 comes for free and does the same, if not better. -- 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] change package source
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 08:18:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wonder, is it possible to use a ftp source for installing packages after you've installed mandrake with cd's? thanks in advance.. Marc Bannink it is. if you're using 8.2 just open rpmdrake and click on the Define Sources button. You'll need the path to rpms and the path to the hdlist.cz (or comperable file) If you're on 9.0 i'm not sure how you do it, but I'm sure someone here knows how. HTH Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating libraries
On 08 Dec 2002 17:00:55 -0600 Ray Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this is EXTREMELY frustrating, an annoying time-consuming process the RedHat has been kind enough to deal with through their auto-updating. Regardless, Mandrake 8.2 comes with support for a number of devices that RedHat doesn't. Here's my problem: All I want to do is install an HTML editor. I'm informed the C++ compiler can't create executables. Search the 'Net, learn that I should update GCC. OK, no problem. rpmfind.net has what I need. gcc-3.2-1mdk.i586.rpm. Try to install it. Get message: binutils = 2.12.90.0.7-1mdk is needed by gcc-3.2-1mdk gcc-cpp = 3.2-1mdk is needed by gcc-3.2-1mdk libgcc = 3.2-1mdk is needed by gcc-3.2-1mdk So, I get binutils-2.12-90.0.15-1mdk.i586.rpm. Try to install that, get: libbfd-2.12.90.0.15.so is needed binutil* libopcodes-2.12.90.0.15.so is needed by binutil* Now, I could go on and on here, but you get the idea. There simply has to be a better way of doing this. I've got hours into attempting to install an HTML editor, more than enough time to FDSIK, install W98, and install 2 -3 GIGs of the applications to go what I need. :/ ack yes.. i've tried to upgrade myself and i get the same thing. there's a few progs out there i'd like but it needs a newer version of gcc but, having tried mandrake 9.0, i'm loathe to update. (don't like 9.0 one bit.) If you figure out how, let me know too. Jerry :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
O.K. ALL some good developments here. I have set up my modem to a static setup. This obviously meant that my windows xp and red hat systems would not connect to the internet after setting it. This was o.k., all I did was go in, change the settings from dhcp assigning, to a static address. This gave me a chance to check the details that I have been giving mandrake to access the internet. In both wind/rh an ip of 10.0.0.1, gateway of 10.0.0.138 and dns of 10.0.0.138, with the netmask set to 255.0.0.0, got them working again no problems. Now, in Mandrake, I set up the system with static as well. Setting all the details as above, it now activates the eth0 device normally at boot. This means it was only failing before due to the dhcp allocation failing, not the device itself. So now eth0 is up when I boot into mandrake. BUT, it still didn't connect to the net. I re-ran the wizard, and re-set the details again, and it connected! It was accessing web sites no worries, and I received a couple of emails as well. I re-booted the computer, and tried to access again. It didn't connect, so I ran the wizard again, and again it connected o.k. On the third re-boot, the same happened, and I re-ran the wizard, but this time, and all attempts thereafter, it just won't connect to the net at all again. So what is happening here? I now know everything is correct in regards to details, the eth0 device is coming up o.k., and windows and red hat work o.k. with the static settings. Mandrake definately has a bug in it somewhere. Forgetting about the wizard, as I think it is buggered, where can I manually set all the details in the appropriate config files for networking and internet. If I new exactly the initialisation process of mandrake, I could just go in and set it myself, and hopefully this would work. Surprising that it actually connected two times, and now it won't at all, hey!! At least I know I am nearer to the solution than I was this morning, thanks to you guys. Joeb, you mentioned the other day something about you having an idea what may be the problem. Something about modifying the net.conf file to remove the GATEWAY= line, and possibly something else. Did you have a chance to follow up on this by any chance mate? thanks Greg Mon, 2002-12-09 at 18:26, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 04:52, Joseph Braddock wrote: PCI is funny that way. Your plug and play bios and/or OS have to pick some order in which to initialize the cards. If one of the cards has a limited number of IRQs it can use and a different card grabs that IRQ first, then the limited card is stuck. Once the card is assigned an IRQ by the bios, the bios won't change it as long as that card is put in the original slot. I've usually have had this problem with various Winmodems that require a specific IRQ, but another adapter has grabbed it (doesn't matter whether running Linux or Windows). Rearranging the cards usually does the trick. Yeah, but fynny thing for me, is that in Windows it worked, and in Linux it didn't. Hmm, strange. -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating libraries
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 18:55, Ray Henry wrote: Yes, I am a bitter man. I miss my OS/2, and I want it back, dammit! :| OS/2 running Felix, hacked OS/2Win applications (when really really needed) - mwith 2 x 16 port digiboards w/ octopus' to a modem per line...64mb of RAM, three 540mb Seagates - swap file on the secondary drive, temp on the data drive...flew like the dickens... ...gosh, those were great days...was even better when I had 24 SIMULTANEOUS users online all either downloading or chatting...wow...those were the days... -- Mon Dec 9 20:35:00 EST 2002 8:35pm up 1 day, 20 min, 5 users, load average: 0.23, 1.30, 2.56 .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'm growing older, but not up. -- Jimmy Buffett Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:09, greg wrote: Instead of depending on the MCC Wizards, why not just open up a nice terminal window, and type: netconfig ...put in all the proper information that you need to put in, save the configuration - linuxconf will direct you to what services need to be restarted and etc etc etcdouble check your /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, your /etc/sysconfig folder for other networking scripts (making sure they're setup properly)...then, after all that jazz, get back to a terminal window and type: service network --full-restart ...you should be back in biz...and after you're satisfied that you're back in biz, reboot for giggles and grins. JUST TO BE SURE...but I think that you'll be right if you ditch the MCC stuff altogether and stick with the linuxconf suite of utils...they're easier to get to, easier to configure/muck with, and more dependable than that GUI stuff has shown to be... (I'm sure I'll get flamed over this...but what the hec...they're on the other side of the world...) Cheers! -- Mon Dec 9 20:45:00 EST 2002 8:45pm up 1 day, 30 min, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.21, 1.35 .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 Hildebrant's Principle: If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] question about log files
On Monday 09 Dec 2002 2:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, another newbie question. :-) This is something I have been wondering about for awhile. Is there a program on my Mdk system that looks after log files? To keep them from getting too large? Or is there a ceiling on how big these files can get? Seems like wasted space after a while. My /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog are 4.5 and 4.8mb respectively. They have messages going back to my install date on Oct 4. Will these files just continue to grow? I know, dumb question. But, inquiring minds want to know. TIA for any feedback. :-) --Angus There is a cap on the logs, yes. The cap is directly determined by the amount of free space that you have left on your drive. Once the logfiles grow to such an extent as to compromise the available free space, the syslog daemon will then begin to delete unwanted binaries from your system, along with other unused and unproductive things like bookmarks, mp3 files, avi's, mpeg's, wallpapers, gif's, jpg's, user accounts and etc. There does come a time when the log files have grown so large that the actual OS itself, if it can't be compressed and run in RAM, is thence deleted itself, and upon next boot, you are notified that you should have maintained your log files from the very beginning by deleting the unwanted logfiles, or out of date log files. At that point, you have to completely reinstall and then configure your log files properly. There is a daemon that will look after logfiles. It is called logrotate and will run as a cron job. When the log files reach a certain age or size they are compressed as a .gz compressed file. The system will keep up to 4 compressed log files, and then discard the oldest. Every time an RPM is installed which creates logs the logrotate config file is updated to manage the log files. So long as logrote is running you will never suffer an issue with log files. See man logrotate derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
Hello. On Sat 2002-12-07 at 17:17:19 +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:00, Mark Weaver wrote: [...] AND, dig this - those installations are going on the SAME machine - nothing changed. Nothing. Nada. The first five times I installed MDK on this workstation, I changed some things here and there just so that I could get the feel of the install. After that, though, the installations were by the book as I wanted them - and as stated, two of the five installations would NOT hold the settings properly. That sounds like a hardware problem. Programs are deterministic (except if randomness is explicitly implemented), i.e. given the same inputs, you will get the same execution path and the same output. If the output changes (your installation sometimes has problems and sometimes not), the input (in the widest sense) must have changed. Maybe the machine changed them indirectly, e.g. because the RAM is faulty. Maybe you gave different inputs, by changing the configuration, but I doubt that. There is one option left: Changing inputs due to operations that depend on timing, but usually that is accounted for in the programs. I have installed Mandrake 9.0 about 10 times and never observed any changes that looked abitrary or randomly. My experience is, that such random changes are most often caused by hardware problems. Even if they are only observed with one OS. That simply means, that it does something different, so that it triggers that behaviour. (I even had that with faulty RAM. X under Debian 2.2 was unstable, but Microsoft Windows 98 run fine, a memtest showed the RAM was broken - only with certain storage patterns). So, instead of all of us that know something about something throwing blame back at those less experienced, there are some things that have to be realized - there ARE problems with the MDK 9 distro and they HAVE to be fixed. The best way to get them fixed is to find a reliable way to reproduce them and post the recipe. [...23 lines of signature deleted...] Btw, would you please trim that down when posting to the list. Thanks. HTH, Benjamin. msg111099/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] gimpprint / libgimpprint M9.0
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 09:24, John Richard Smith wrote: Need some pointers on how to break them again, or you reckon you can do that easily enough on your own? (g) Perhaps you can explain yourself. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I reckon that since it's printing now, you're NOT going to update/upgrade the drivers anytime soon...but if you're wanting to - you can do the trick that I did on my RH box - which was to accidentally delete the drivers AND the external program for the drivesr (ESP by the CUPS people), then spend hours and hours trying to hack the system to re-install the drivers for either lpr or cupswhich broke even more things...even printing to file...THEN, to top THAT off, I re-installed the RPMS for the core printing functionality and ended up fragging my kernel in the process...which led to a re-installation of the entire system after a careful back of the important bits (scripts and email)...that was several days down - just due to a simple muck up THINKING that I could improve what was already working...hehehehe... Well there is always that possibility, hell we are all just newbies groping our way dimly in the darkness, looking for small beads of insight and wisdom as they come our way.In the process it's inevitable that we will muck things up, but as someone once said you cant make scrambled eggs without breaking them. ...and NOW I'm faced with trying to get a Mac to print on our network (not fun)...which I think I'll pass off for as long as I possibly can until I can figure out how to get it to print to a pdf, then use a script to copy it to the spool locally and THEN print... (..and no, I haven't been smoking or drinking anything strange) Do you know I have never in my life seem an Applemac, occassionally I wonder what they might look like, seems to be one of those machines that history circumvented , perhaps unwisely, but with no practicle knowledge to go by I'm unable to judge. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] question about log files
Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, another newbie question. :-) This is something I have been wondering about for awhile. Is there a program on my Mdk system that looks after log files? To keep them from getting too large? Or is there a ceiling on how big these files can get? Seems like wasted space after a while. SNIP The program is called logrotate. If you leave your computer on overnight Mandrake has automatically set cron to do the rotate once a week at 4am. The config files are in /etc/logrotate.d/. For more info open your terminal and man logrotate. Someone else my have already answered this but i have been horsing with my kmail threading and don't know whic list mails i have glanced at and deleted. -- Michael ** Thanks ppl for all the valuable info. All stuff I didn't knowwasn't such a dumb question after all. ;-) I'll leave my comp on overnight and let logrotate do it's thing. All the best. --Angus You can always change the time logrotate runs. Either use Webmin, or directly edit /etc/crontab. Logrotate runs daily, so all you have to do is modify the entry for cron.daily. 56 10 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily This entry means run at 10:56 am, every day, every week derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio
Dennis Sue wrote: Hello Peoples, I would like to convert, and record mp3's to a cdr so that they can be played on a regular cd player. I've made 3 coasters trying. this is one of two reasons why windows still resides on this harddrive. Slightly confusing question, do you mean, take mp3 files convert to wav files and write to cd so that they play in just about any CD player. or do you mean , take mp3 files and write to CD so that you can play them on a computer with an mp3 player. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating libraries
On Monday 09 Dec 2002 3:09 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:47:49 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to discover urpmi The command urpmi gcc (as root) will do all you need. Then read up about urpmi at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3558 http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3460 derek Not related to gcc but gtk2+, pango, and a few other packages--would urpmi work for that, too? If I have apps compiled using the older gtk (1.2), is an upgrade going to mess them up? I hosed my system once trying to upgrade these packages, and am debating about whether to move to 9.0 or wait for the next release. I just want to run the new ROX, but I can't! Todd No. because the 8.2 sources do not have gtk2.0 in them. To run Rox 1.3 you will need gtk2.0, and in order to get that installed you will have to update an awful lot of packages. I would recommend going to 9.0 There is always a better release just around the corner. In my experience 9.0 is just great. Rox 1.3 is very nice, but if you run Fluxbox/Blackbox there is a conflict between the Right mouse button between them that means that running the Rox pinboard is more trouble than it is worth IMO. So now I run Rox with the panel instead. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake
Hi. On Fri 2002-12-06 at 09:00:09 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday December 6 2002 07:17 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: If this person is burning copies off a set of disks and then selling them, isn't that illegal though? I mean I will (and have) burned a set of disks from my copy, then GAVE it to a friend is ok, but selling the high number of sets of disks this person is doing is wrong, **unless** endorsed by Mandrake somehow. Just my 2 cents worth, thus the reason for the first post - I have no idea if this person is legit or not. It is legit, tho slightly expensive. This person is doin nothin different (or illegal) than the many websites like cheapbytes do. The software is still free. The packaging and SH is what's being charged for. I do not believe that it is legit. Of course, copying and selling Mandrake CDs is perfectly legal, as that is explicitly allowed by the GPL. But the page makes it look like it were the official package I would get. It is at least in the legal questionable. http://www.opensoars.com/?page=shop/flypageproduct_id=73 is sellin Mdk 9.0, 3 CD sets for $2.99 But those make quite clear, that you only get the CDs and not support or whatever else may be contained in the official packages. They also mention where you can download it for free (well, except your online costs, of course ;-). Bye, Benjamin. msg04/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] asf (?) audiostream file
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:36, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I was trying to listen to a radio station on-line (which I could do without any problems using MS Explorer 5 under MS W98) but neither Galeon, nor Mozilla nor Konqueror could directly play it. All I could was download the file to my HD after which I tried to use xmms to listen to it, but this did not work either. The file is in an (unkown to to) *.asf file format. Can anyone help me either listen to it online or, at least, after downloading it? Thanks, Andrei Have you installed RealPlayer for linux yet? If not, install it, and the plugins will be installed for your browsers as well, mate. Stephen, Do you happen to know if there is a real good easy to install, not difficult to configure realplayer for mozilla. last time I tried it was less that stable and caused problems for me, and so I took it off, not wishing to spend much time working it all out. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ?? RPM bug
Can anybody help? I have used Abiword on another Linux distribution and wanted to use it after changing to Mandrake 9.0.but seem to have encountered a bug?? in Mandrake RPM 1. Find File for abiword showed no files present on my installation 2. Mandrake Control Centre = Software Management = Install Software = All packages alphabetical= displayed abiword-1.0.2-1.mdk and various other abiword packages which I selected for installation 3. Install gave the following message - Everything already installed (is this supposed to happen at all?) 4.Remove Software confirms that abiword is NOT present:- When I check with Remove Software= Find = Search for abiword the result is Search results (none) Where do I go from here? -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ?? RPM bug
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 5:43 pm, Douglas B. wrote: Can anybody help? I have used Abiword on another Linux distribution and wanted to use it after changing to Mandrake 9.0.but seem to have encountered a bug?? in Mandrake RPM 1. Find File for abiword showed no files present on my installation 2. Mandrake Control Centre = Software Management = Install Software = All packages alphabetical= displayed abiword-1.0.2-1.mdk and various other abiword packages which I selected for installation 3. Install gave the following message - Everything already installed (is this supposed to happen at all?) 4.Remove Software confirms that abiword is NOT present:- When I check with Remove Software= Find = Search for abiword the result is Search results (none) Where do I go from here? You can get the All packages Installed message when there is something wrong with the communication to the source. You will get a better indication of the problem if you run it from the command line. First do urpmi.update -a to make sure your source lists are up to date, then urpmi abiword If there is a problem you should be able to work out from the text what it is. If you wish to remove abiword urpme abiword If you wish to check which version is currently installed rpm -q abiword BTW: Since Abiword is not on the download edition CDs I assume you have defined a source for Contribs for 9.0, or else have the Powerpack? HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] asf (?) audiostream file
Realplayer rpms are available on texstar's ftp: ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms However, I believe asf files are Win mediaplayer. To install mediaplayer on linux you can install the Crossover plugin: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/ cheers, Huub On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:51, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:36, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I was trying to listen to a radio station on-line (which I could do without any problems using MS Explorer 5 under MS W98) but neither Galeon, nor Mozilla nor Konqueror could directly play it. All I could was download the file to my HD after which I tried to use xmms to listen to it, but this did not work either. The file is in an (unkown to to) *.asf file format. Can anyone help me either listen to it online or, at least, after downloading it? Thanks, Andrei Have you installed RealPlayer for linux yet? If not, install it, and the plugins will be installed for your browsers as well, mate. Stephen, Do you happen to know if there is a real good easy to install, not difficult to configure realplayer for mozilla. last time I tried it was less that stable and caused problems for me, and so I took it off, not wishing to spend much time working it all out. John -- Huub van den Heuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms descriptions
Yo lo he intentado y funcionan mejor las fuentes francesas. Olvídate de Rediris. James Beam --- Pilagá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:09, greg wrote: O.K. ALL some good developments here. Excellent! Just what I like to hear :) I have set up my modem to a static setup. This obviously meant that my windows xp and red hat systems would not connect to the internet after setting it. This was o.k., all I did was go in, change the settings from dhcp assigning, to a static address. This gave me a chance to check the details that I have been giving mandrake to access the internet. In both wind/rh an ip of 10.0.0.1, gateway of 10.0.0.138 and dns of 10.0.0.138, with the netmask set to 255.0.0.0, got them working again no problems. Now, in Mandrake, I set up the system with static as well. Setting all the details as above, it now activates the eth0 device normally at boot. This means it was only failing before due to the dhcp allocation failing, not the device itself. So now eth0 is up when I boot into mandrake. BUT, it still didn't connect to the net. I re-ran the wizard, and re-set the details again, and it connected! It was accessing web sites no worries, and I received a couple of emails as well. I re-booted the computer, and tried to access again. It didn't connect, so I ran the wizard again, and again it connected o.k. On the third re-boot, the same happened, and I re-ran the wizard, but this time, and all attempts thereafter, it just won't connect to the net at all again. So what is happening here? I now know everything is correct in regards to details, the eth0 device is coming up o.k., and windows and red hat work o.k. with the static settings. Mandrake definately has a bug in it somewhere. You have a triple boot system here right? Only one nic? With one address? Otherwise, it sounds a bit like an IP address conflict. If not, we need to look at the config files... Forgetting about the wizard, as I think it is buggered, where can I manually set all the details in the appropriate config files for networking and internet. If I new exactly the initialisation process of mandrake, I could just go in and set it myself, and hopefully this would work. Surprising that it actually connected two times, and now it won't at all, hey!! At least I know I am nearer to the solution than I was this morning, thanks to you guys. Can you please post /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/network? Joeb, you mentioned the other day something about you having an idea what may be the problem. Something about modifying the net.conf file to remove the GATEWAY= line, and possibly something else. Did you have a chance to follow up on this by any chance mate? In your case, Greg, you need the GATEWAY= line, as your Mandrake box is not the gateway, the router is. You need to tell Mandrake where to send all packets addressed to unknown destinations (to the default gateway). Getting close... Kind regards, John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] asf (?) audiostream file
Huub van den Heuvel wrote: Realplayer rpms are available on texstar's ftp: ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms However, I believe asf files are Win mediaplayer. To install mediaplayer on linux you can install the Crossover plugin: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/ cheers, Huub Help me a bit, can you, there appear to be 3 packages, mozilla-realplayer-8.0-1tex.i586.rpm mozilla-xft-realplayer-1.2.1-2tex.i586.rpm realplayer-8.0-2tex.i586.rpm The mozilla packages seem quite small , so I'm guessing these are mozilla pluggins of some sort, so do I install all 3 apps. Also, any idea what the xft denotes ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mail formatted incorrectly in newbie archives
Sorry if a copy of this went through blank. :-( I was just looking through mail in the list achives, and discovered that my postings are not word wrapped in a sensible manner, and that you must scroll horizontally to read them! :-( I hate it when that happens! Is there some way that I can avoid that happening, or do I need to use non-web mail, or what? TIA for any suggestions. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] screen oddity?
Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. thx, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Sunday 08 December 2002 16:44, Jerry wrote: Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy -- 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] Write to windows partition?
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:32, Dale Kosan wrote: Well, he states he can read the files so it is not NTFS. --snip-- With the appropriate kernel support, you can read a NTFS partition: its just not a good idea to try to write to it (tho' I've never tried, I must admit). David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] question about log files
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:29:53 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, another newbie question. :-) This is something I have been wondering about for awhile. Is there a program on my Mdk system that looks after log files? To keep them from getting too large? Or is there a ceiling on how big these files can get? Seems like wasted space after a while. SNIP The program is called logrotate. If you leave your computer on overnight Mandrake has automatically set cron to do the rotate once a week at 4am. The config files are in /etc/logrotate.d/. For more info open your terminal and man logrotate. Someone else my have already answered this but i have been horsing with my kmail threading and don't know whic list mails i have glanced at and deleted. -- Michael ** Thanks ppl for all the valuable info. All stuff I didn't knowwasn't such a dumb question after all. ;-) I'll leave my comp on overnight and let logrotate do it's thing. All the best. --Angus You can always change the time logrotate runs. Either use Webmin, or directly edit /etc/crontab. Logrotate runs daily, so all you have to do is modify the entry for cron.daily. 56 10 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily This entry means run at 10:56 am, every day, every week derek *** Thanks for that explanation Derek! I learned a ton of things by asking a question that I felt was maybe a bit lame. I wanted to know, and now I'm very glad I asked. I left my comp on last night, and I see that everything has been tidied up in /var/log. Super! I may change the runtime of cron.daily like you suggest. Am I right to assume that the time is indicated in a 24hr manner? (8pm would be 00 20?) I'm not in the habit of leaving my computer on continously, so I wonder if if it would be a good idea to change the runtime of cron.weekly and cron.monthly too? Thanks again. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:45:35 +0100 Martin L. Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 December 2002 16:44, Jerry wrote: Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those options on it. Thx Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
On Monday 09 December 2002 15:50, David Robertson wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:32, Dale Kosan wrote: Well, he states he can read the files so it is not NTFS. --snip-- With the appropriate kernel support, you can read a NTFS partition: its just not a good idea to try to write to it (tho' I've never tried, I must admit). I've tried. Nothing else but cannot write as it's readonly. -- 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
[newbie] mail formatted incorrectly in newbie archives
-- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Sunday 08 December 2002 17:08, Jerry wrote: Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those options on it. Just what I thought. Hmm, I wouldn't know then. I always turn off my monitors when I don't use'em, so I cannot say if it's the same by me. The reason I thought it would be so, is that mine's disabled too by default, so I guessed yours was too, but wanted you to check the option. Anyone else? -- 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] Write to windows partition?
One time I had problems to write windows FAT32 partitions because the partition had problems; I had to do an scandisk from windows, errors were repaired and again I could be able to write the windows partition from linux. Have you passed and scandisk from windows? Hope this could help El Lun 09 Dic 2002 16:11, Martin L. Johansen escribió: On Monday 09 December 2002 15:50, David Robertson wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:32, Dale Kosan wrote: Well, he states he can read the files so it is not NTFS. --snip-- With the appropriate kernel support, you can read a NTFS partition: its just not a good idea to try to write to it (tho' I've never tried, I must admit). I've tried. Nothing else but cannot write as it's readonly. -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
Title: ML9 boots only in text mode I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
On Monday 09 December 2002 16:19, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: One time I had problems to write windows FAT32 partitions because the partition had problems; I had to do an scandisk from windows, errors were repaired and again I could be able to write the windows partition from linux. Have you passed and scandisk from windows? Hope this could help It's still NTFS, so scandisk wont help a bit :-) But you're right, if an error persists on a FAT32 part, then scandisk must be run. But regarding NTFS, it's simply not possible/allowed at all to write. Only read. -- 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] mail formatted incorrectly in newbie archives
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:24, Angus Auld wrote: Sorry if a copy of this went through blank. :-( I was just looking through mail in the list achives, and discovered that my postings are not word wrapped in a sensible manner, and that you must scroll horizontally to read them! :-( I hate it when that happens! Is there some way that I can avoid that happening, or do I need to use non-web mail, or what? TIA for any suggestions. To solve the problem for your posts only, perhaps in future you can use hard returns after a reasonable number of characters. Of course, this doesn't mean that you won't have to scroll to see other people's posts. Just an idea. Meliton. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
Jerry wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:45:35 +0100 Martin L. Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 December 2002 16:44, Jerry wrote: Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those options on it. Thx Jerry. MCC-System-Services-apmd is running as default, can be changed to not be running. apmd means automatic power management daemon, I think, The default position on install is running, see whether you can have it not running, I think this is supposed to stop black screen after,the default, and not adjustable, 20 minutes. Only whenever I have ever tried it, it didn't work, but I believe it should, it's there amoungst other things to give your screen a rest, but also for laptop computers batteries to last longer. On the whole though it does no harm leaving it in place. It doesn't interfere with anything running, like downloads etc, so why not leave it be. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 01:28, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I did a netstat and it does not appear that 6346 is open. Also, I went to MCC and checked firewallit asked me to install smoothwall so I think there is no firewall installed. Is there a file where I can open a single port like this? tia, Bill W. On Sunday 08 December 2002 10:11 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 08 December 2002 05:45 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: hI, When I run gtk-gnutella, there is an icon that shows that the prog thinks I'm firewalled. I run a stock LM9 installation and I did not set up any firewall when first installed. This prog runs on port 6346. Is there a way to check if the port is open/closed? tia, Bill W. Actually a stock installation may have installed the smoothwall firewall. Have you checked to see if iptables are running or smoothwall. Look in MCC and security, click on firewall and see what it says? I couldn't get gtk-gnutella to connect either, even if I disabled the firewall in MCC.Netstat did show port 6346 to be open. In the advanced options for MCC, I added 6346/tcp and that seems to have solved the problem. HTH David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating libraries
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:42:05AM +, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 09 Dec 2002 3:09 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip Not related to gcc but gtk2+, pango, and a few other packages--would urpmi work for that, too? If I have apps compiled using the older gtk (1.2), is an upgrade going to mess them up? I hosed my system once trying to upgrade these packages, and am debating about whether to move to 9.0 or wait for the next release. I just want to run the new ROX, but I can't! Todd No. because the 8.2 sources do not have gtk2.0 in them. To run Rox 1.3 you will need gtk2.0, and in order to get that installed you will have to update an awful lot of packages. I would recommend going to 9.0 There is always a better release just around the corner. In my experience 9.0 is just great. Rox 1.3 is very nice, but if you run Fluxbox/Blackbox there is a conflict between the Right mouse button between them that means that running the Rox pinboard is more trouble than it is worth IMO. So now I run Rox with the panel instead. derek Thanks for the info, Derek. I just want ROX for the filer. I do use it as a desktop/session manager for my daughter, but to use certain window managers (like Metacity and fvwm4) I need GTK2.0 for those, too. For my purposes, my current setup is functional. But I will upgrade soon because I have really been bit by the customization bug! I hated the look of that ROX panel when I used it. Have you looked at idesk? Several people on the ROX list have mentioned. Some have said it's a pain to set up, but great once you've got it going properly. http://linuxhelp.hn.org/idesk.php Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord files to PDF files with print to PLF
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 09 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Someone told me a little time ago that my kword colour montages can be converted to pdf with Print to File (PDF/Acrobat) in the printer option list. Mine just seem to contain 0 bytes. I wonder what I haven't configured right ? John check you have ghostscript installed. Then try printing to a postscript file and run ps2pdf file_name The resulting file should be a pdf . If that all works then the KDE printer should work as well. derek Derek, Something very odd has occured. Everything I told you above is precisely true, but when I came back to have another look at the same 3 previously created PDF files , this time they were all there with some Mb's each of data in each and now display normally when I leftmouseclick on them in a viewer. So I repeated the event again , and again the files are empty on first visit, but normal on second. Now what on earth could cause that. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mpg123 coredumps
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My Inbox Happily Received This From Ralph Slooten @ Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:34:58 +0100 (CET) but if there is one annoying thing that irritates the hell out of me it's something so small causing all the problems. What's that problem ? for me, i still prefer running apps. from en xterm, since i'm a console lover ;) - -- - - -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast Brian Kernighan. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE99NoMy2aOKaP9DfcRAqbFAJ9Bdh1rVFI822fNcMLq+TPcKqmlgQCghcc5 OqaOj2oOy94rFzYgPxlY5ME= =+Ut9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mpg123 coredumps
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:59:40 +0200 Mohammed Sameer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but if there is one annoying thing that irritates the hell out of me it's something so small causing all the problems. What's that problem ? for me, i still prefer running apps. from en xterm, since i'm a console lover ;) If you followed the thread you'd know :-) mpg123 is coredumping with mandrake 9.0 when invoked by a program not started via the console (In my cases PSI and Nautilus) mpg321 fixes this it appears. -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On December 9, 2002 10:52 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 18:39, Charlie wrote: But that isn't what you posted is it? You said MCC and Mandrake Control Center and the correct place to look is the _KDE Control Center_. They _are not the same animal at all_. My mistake. But the -- Powercontrol -- Energy where correct, and I think he got the hint alright :-) I had them both open and looked at the title on the wrong window :-) I thought I was the only one to do that kind of thing. :-) No harm, no foul. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Q: Why should you always serve a Southern Carolina football man soup in a plate? A: 'Cause if you give him a bowl, he'll throw it away. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
On Monday 09 December 2002 10:23 am, Jones, Robert wrote: I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert it is not the p4, but the video chipset, and the MOBO chipset. try running XFdrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
Title: RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode XFDrake? I'm a brand-new-to-this-newbie... where the heck do I find XFDrake? Robert -- From: ET Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2002 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode File: message.footer On Monday 09 December 2002 10:23 am, Jones, Robert wrote: I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert it is not the p4, but the video chipset, and the MOBO chipset. try running XFdrake.
Re: RE: [newbie] palm pilot
J-pilot was pretty easy to set up, I gave it the path to my serial port and I was able to sync. Evolution on the other hand was a b*tch to set up, in fact I still don't know what I did that made it work. In either case you may need to add yourself to the appropriate group for access to the serial port. -Original Message- From: Dan Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:43:45 -0500 Subject: RE: [newbie] palm pilot Did you have to do much additional configuring? I have tried with Mandrake 8 and gave up! Dan Butler Chancellor Virginia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Dawson Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] palm pilot On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:46 am, walt wrote: Anyone manage to get a palm pilot to sync in mandrake 9.0? Walt I've manged to get my palm to sync using both j-pilot and evolution under Mandrake 9.0. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
login as root, (in a text console since you don't want to have X running (and you cann't get X to run)), without the quotes, type XFdrake On Monday 09 December 2002 03:02 pm, Jones, Robert wrote: XFDrake? I'm a brand-new-to-this-newbie... where the heck do I find XFDrake? Robert -- From: ET Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2002 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode File: message.footer On Monday 09 December 2002 10:23 am, Jones, Robert wrote: I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert it is not the p4, but the video chipset, and the MOBO chipset. try running XFdrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
On Monday 09 December 2002 03:02 pm, Jones, Robert wrote: XFDrake? I'm a brand-new-to-this-newbie... where the heck do I find XFDrake? Note the cap letters; XFdrake Robert -- From: ET Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2002 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode File: message.footer On Monday 09 December 2002 10:23 am, Jones, Robert wrote: I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert it is not the p4, but the video chipset, and the MOBO chipset. try running XFdrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
Title: RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode Thanks... I'll give it a whirl and hopefully you won't hear from me tomorrow! Robert -- From: ET Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2002 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode File: message.footer login as root, (in a text console since you don't want to have X running (and you cann't get X to run)), without the quotes, type XFdrake On Monday 09 December 2002 03:02 pm, Jones, Robert wrote: XFDrake? I'm a brand-new-to-this-newbie... where the heck do I find XFDrake? Robert -- From: ET Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2002 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode File: message.footer On Monday 09 December 2002 10:23 am, Jones, Robert wrote: I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert it is not the p4, but the video chipset, and the MOBO chipset. try running XFdrake.
Re: [newbie] question about log files
On Monday 09 December 2002 05:02, Angus Auld wrote: I'll leave my comp on overnight and let logrotate do it's thing. All the best. --Angus When you boot, anacron starts, works out which cron jobs have been missed, and runs them. So logrotate should happen for you the day after the cron job was scheduled. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error
At 09:57 PM 12/8/2002 -0300, you wrote: Thanks for the replies...I'm pretty certain there is a loose nut between the mouse and the chair here Stephen, but I was hoping for some other explanation. LOL :-) I do have gpm running in runlevel 5, I wasn't sure whether I needed it or not, so I just left it on. I could probably shut it down then could I? Or is it better to just leave it be and ignore the occasional error? It's a minor glitch really. And now I know I'm not the only one who has it occurring. I feel better. ;-) All the best. --Angus - I know this is old but try using it as a USB Mouse or is that not possible? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ?? RPM bug
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 04:43, Douglas B. wrote: Can anybody help? I have used Abiword on another Linux distribution and wanted to use it after changing to Mandrake 9.0.but seem to have encountered a bug?? in Mandrake RPM 1. Find File for abiword showed no files present on my installation 2. Mandrake Control Centre = Software Management = Install Software = All packages alphabetical= displayed abiword-1.0.2-1.mdk and various other abiword packages which I selected for installation 3. Install gave the following message - Everything already installed (is this supposed to happen at all?) 4.Remove Software confirms that abiword is NOT present:- When I check with Remove Software= Find = Search for abiword the result is Search results (none) Where do I go from here? -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried searching for AbiWord (case sensitive) ?? Meanwhile, if anything, you can download the latest version and install it: http://www.abiword.org/ Or, have you tried re-installing the RPM's either via the MCC Software installer or by manually doing it? -- Tue Dec 10 09:05:00 EST 2002 9:05am up 1 day, 12:50, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.07, 0.11 .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 request a weekend in Havana with Phil Silvers! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Shutdown error/old motherboards (revisited)
Just thought I'd mention that on my 9 yr olds Gigabyte motherboard (itself about 3 yrs old), I went back into: /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and changed it some more. Near the end of the file there were not 1 but 2 -p commands. Removing *both* of them got rid of the shutdown errors I was seeing under v9.0 of Mandrake. The last text now is System Halted, as it should be (short of a complete powerdown). Hope this helps others who were having the same problem with older motherboards and v9.0... :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mail formatted incorrectly in newbie archives
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 22:24, Angus Auld wrote: Sorry if a copy of this went through blank. :-( I was just looking through mail in the list achives, and discovered that my postings are not word wrapped in a sensible manner, and that you must scroll horizontally to read them! :-( I hate it when that happens! Is there some way that I can avoid that happening, or do I need to use non-web mail, or what? TIA for any suggestions. --Angus Webmailers aren't always text friendly... -- Tue Dec 10 09:30:01 EST 2002 9:30am up 1 day, 13:15, 3 users, load average: 0.21, 0.28, 0.21 .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 thought dwarfs didn't believe in devils and demons and stuff like that.' 'That's true, but... we're not sure if they know.' (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My apollogies
On Monday 09 December 2002 10:43 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: I wish to apologize for any bounced mail that any may have received from my account. I was 1 of the 1.2 mil households in NC that was affected by last Weds ice storm. Power was restored to my home less than 30 min ago. Hopefully the remaining 500,000 will have theirs restored shortly. Again to all my apologies. Charles You will remember something that you should not have forgotten. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No need to apologize, You can't control the weather. We been there and done that here in Nebraska too, so good luck with the clean up. By the way, it is amazing what kind of damage a tree will recover from. I lost 6 30 to 40 foot trees on my property when we had our last Ice storm, couple of years ago, and the others looked really bad, but they are all doing quit well today. Endevour to percervere.. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mystery character sneaks into typed text
when typing in many programs I often have this ' character appear in texts. Why? It seems it may have somthing to do with typing, backspace, or arrow to move the cursor, space and or then typing again. For some reason that ' character is inserted randomly in typed text??? -- 2:33pm up 1 day, 2:32, 7 users, load average: 2.03, 2.04, 2.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio
Here is what I do. Convert your mp3 files to .wav files using a program such as mpg123. mpg123 with -w option works quite well for this. Then using any CD burner software like xcdroast or koncd etc. create an audio cd giving these .wav files as the individual tracks. The CD thus created can be used in any standard CD player. HTH, Nikunj. --- Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Peoples, I would like to convert, and record mp3's to a cdr so that they can be played on a regular cd player. I've made 3 coasters trying. this is one of two reasons why windows still resides on this harddrive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 09:38, Nikunj Bansal wrote: Here is what I do. Convert your mp3 files to .wav files using a program such as mpg123. mpg123 with -w option works quite well for this. Then using any CD burner software like xcdroast or koncd etc. create an audio cd giving these .wav files as the individual tracks. The CD thus created can be used in any standard CD player. HTH, Nikunj. I've been tasked by the wife and wife's friends to burn more weird CD's for them - ripping as well - so I've gotten entrenched with Arson now...it rips, it burns...all without leaving the proggie...which, of course, makes them all the more happy (and confuses the ones that thought that Windoze was the only OS that burnt/ripped)... -- Tue Dec 10 09:45:01 EST 2002 9:45am up 1 day, 13:30, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.18, 0.18 .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 Dave I can produce equivalently valid microbenchmarks showing Linux works much better with the scheduler disabled. They are worth about as much as your benchmarks for that optimisation and they likewise ignore a slightly important object known as the big picture - Alan Cox on linux-kernel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio
On Monday 09 December 2002 04:52 am, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:01, Dennis Sue wrote: For some reason, xroast does not recognize the .mp3 format.. gnome toaster / cdrecord seems to default to tao, rather than dao. Even when I set it for dao. I don't think it's closing the session. And I know it isn't converting the mp3's to cdda, or wav files before burning them. ...and eRoaster? (it's in your distro)... ...then there's CDBackOven, KonCD, K3b, BurnIT, FireBurner, Arson (my fave)... eRoaster seems to have done it, However occasionally I the track is playing, Then suddenly quits / Stops. Restarting it solves the problem though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
Well here we are guys, this is an email coming from my mandrake system! But I have been in this pos before, but when re-boot, loose it all and no connection again! I am not going to re-boot at this point in time. To get it connected this time, it did not automatically connect on boot, I had to use the wizard again, and then select connect. John, tripple boot system yes. Booting through a program called system commander. Only one nic, only need the one to connect the router/modem. Here is the ifcfg-eth0 file:- DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=10.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=10.0.0.0 BROADCAST=10.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes and here is the network file NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain DOMAINNAME=localdomain GATEWAY=10.0.0.138 to me, everything looks good. What do you reckon, re-boot and see what happens? Maybe not be able to get back on again! I like living life on the edge though, so I think I will later today, when I have done a bit more investigating, and some advice from the list. Also, what is the latest kernel for mandrake? I am running the one that came with the distro, 2.4.19-16mdk. If there is a later mdk kernel, I wouldn't mind loading it in, just incase this is a bug in the current one. I went into the mandrake control centre, and used the update software, but it doesn't appear to update kernels, none were listed. This is unless this one is the most current?? The update seems to be a bit buggy as well, it kept on dropping out on the downloads, even though the connection was up and working well. I checked by doing a bit of browsing. Maybe the mirror was a little overloaded at the time, will try later. Just want to make sure I have all updates installed before re-booting. regards Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My apollogies
Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 10:43 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: I wish to apologize for any bounced mail that any may have received from my account. I was 1 of the 1.2 mil households in NC that was affected by last Weds ice storm. Power was restored to my home less than 30 min ago. Hopefully the remaining 500,000 will have theirs restored shortly. Again to all my apologies. Charles You will remember something that you should not have forgotten. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No need to apologize, You can't control the weather. We been there and done that here in Nebraska too, so good luck with the clean up. By the way, it is amazing what kind of damage a tree will recover from. I lost 6 30 to 40 foot trees on my property when we had our last Ice storm, couple of years ago, and the others looked really bad, but they are all doing quit well today. Endevour to percervere.. How bad is the weather of there, my mother always said we(in England) always get it a fortnight after America, and she wasn't often wrong. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Monday 09 December 2002 05:04 pm, gklofa wrote: Well here we are guys, this is an email coming from my mandrake system! But I have been in this pos before, but when re-boot, loose it all and no connection again! I am not going to re-boot at this point in time. To get it connected this time, it did not automatically connect on boot, I had to use the wizard again, and then select connect. John, tripple boot system yes. Booting through a program called system commander. Only one nic, only need the one to connect the router/modem. Here is the ifcfg-eth0 file:- DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=10.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=10.0.0.0 BROADCAST=10.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes and here is the network file NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain DOMAINNAME=localdomain GATEWAY=10.0.0.138 to me, everything looks good. What do you reckon, re-boot and see what happens? Maybe not be able to get back on again! I like living life on the edge though, so I think I will later today, when I have done a bit more investigating, and some advice from the list. Also, what is the latest kernel for mandrake? I am running the one that came with the distro, 2.4.19-16mdk. If there is a later mdk kernel, I wouldn't mind loading it in, just incase this is a bug in the current one. I went into the mandrake control centre, and used the update software, but it doesn't appear to update kernels, none were listed. This is unless this one is the most current?? The update seems to be a bit buggy as well, it kept on dropping out on the downloads, even though the connection was up and working well. I checked by doing a bit of browsing. Maybe the mirror was a little overloaded at the time, will try later. Just want to make sure I have all updates installed before re-booting. regards Greg Are you sure that is the right broadcast and netmask? here is my ifcfg-eth0; DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp IPADDR=192.168.0.5 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 ONBOOT=yes Sorry, I am not a network guru but the relationships seem funny on yours. Course I can only get the higher speed downloads using dhcp, if I use static like you I get speeds equivalent to a phone modem and I have cable modem. Anyway, thought this was curious and maybe one of the network guys can enlighten us. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cron problem
I have the following /etc/crontab [root@localhost lvgandhi]# cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly But for hourly cron, rest are not working now. In my previous installation mandrake 9, with same crontab, all used to work irrespective whether PC was on at 4:40 am or not. What can be the problem. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
At 04:31 PM 12/9/2002 +0100, you wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 16:19, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: One time I had problems to write windows FAT32 partitions because the partition had problems; I had to do an scandisk from windows, errors were repaired and again I could be able to write the windows partition from linux. Have you passed and scandisk from windows? Hope this could help It's still NTFS, so scandisk wont help a bit :-) But you're right, if an error persists on a FAT32 part, then scandisk must be run. But regarding NTFS, it's simply not possible/allowed at all to write. Only read. Perfectly possible to write ... there is a module/rpm in existence IIRC that allows this. Ed Tharp or Civilme pointed it out once. Now, do you want to ? That depends... how much do you value your data? It is extremely experimental ATM. so beware --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?
On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 11:10 pm, Dennis Sue wrote: Hello Peoples, I would like to convert, and record mp3's to a cdr so that they can be played on a regular cd player. I've made 3 coasters trying. this is one of two reasons why windows still resides on this harddrive. Hi all, Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? Slightly off the original topic, but relevant as I need to convert these to mp3/wav format for an audio CD as these tapes are vulnerable to damage. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde options ide-cd ignore='hdd' alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 8139too #pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi #pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi #pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd fstab Description: application/java-vm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Rights problem with mandrake 9.0
I have recently upgraded/installed Mandrake 9.0 on a 700Mhz Duron, 512 of memory and a 40 Gig drive. It was a fresh install with formating etc. Attached are my Fstab and pci output. The problem I am having is that the system thinks root has no rights to things such as drives and various configuration files. This is logging in as root or su'ing a terminal window. I have looked at various setting such as security etc but everything seems ok. The security level is standard/normal as I am on a dialup. Thanks in advance, any help appreciated. Roly -- The box said to install windows 2000 or better! So I installed Linux!! Linux Counter #241069 PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] System Controller (rev 37). Master Capable. Latency=120. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe800 [0xebff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed9fe000 [0xed9fefff]. I/O at 0xd600 [0xd603]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] AGP Bridge (rev 1). Master Capable. Latency=120. Min Gnt=10. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ISA (rev 1). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev 7). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ACPI (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=120. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB (rev 6). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=16. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffe000 [0xefffefff]. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 0). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xefff]. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 8). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. Bus 0, device 9, function 1: Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 8). Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xde00 [0xde07]. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 1). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed9ff000 [0xed9f]. I/O at 0xda00 [0xda1f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefe0 [0xefef]. Bus 1, device 5, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX) (rev 178). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee00 [0xeeff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xdfff]. /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom3 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows ext2 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /var/www ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 12:44, Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my lili,modules and fstab files. If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd be really happy :) Are you able to mount it via: mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom ?? -- Tue Dec 10 12:55:01 EST 2002 12:55pm up 1 day, 16:40, 4 users, load average: 1.45, 1.77, 1.33 .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 All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars. -- Kirk, The Gamesters of Triskelion, stardate 3259.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] question about log files
- Original Message - From: RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:06:45 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files On Monday 09 December 2002 05:02, Angus Auld wrote: I'll leave my comp on overnight and let logrotate do it's thing. All the best. --Angus When you boot, anacron starts, works out which cron jobs have been missed, and runs them. So logrotate should happen for you the day after the cron job was scheduled. Richard ** Richard, does anacron need to be configured to do that, or is that default behaviour? It didn't seem to be happening in my case. Last night was the first time I can see that logrotate did anything in /var/log. I use my computer daily almost w/o exception. I had compressed log files and nice clean replacement ones this morning. First time since install on Oct 4. Thanks for your reply. All the best to you. :-) --Angus We give thanks to the Creator for the fruits of life. May the world we leave our children be a better one than was left to us.--Native American Philosophy -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:24:54 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 9, 2002 10:52 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 18:39, Charlie wrote: But that isn't what you posted is it? You said MCC and Mandrake Control Center and the correct place to look is the _KDE Control Center_. They _are not the same animal at all_. My mistake. But the -- Powercontrol -- Energy where correct, and I think he got the hint alright :-) I had them both open and looked at the title on the wrong window :-) I thought I was the only one to do that kind of thing. :-) No harm, no foul. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Q:Why should you always serve a Southern Carolina football man soup in a plate? A:'Cause if you give him a bowl, he'll throw it away. I fixed it! I had to remove/reinstall the apm packages to do it, but when I did, I found the settings for Powercontrol. They must not have installed correctly the first time or something. Worked on both machines. No more flashing D! :-) Thanks again! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord files to PDF files with print to PLF
El Lun 09 Dic 2002 15:32, John Richard Smith escribió: Something very odd has occured. Everything I told you above is precisely true, but when I came back to have another look at the same 3 previously created PDF files , this time they were all there with some Mb's each of data in each and now display normally when I leftmouseclick on them in a viewer. So I repeated the event again , and again the files are empty on first visit, but normal on second. Now what on earth could cause that. John Hola, John. If you are trying to look this 'fresh' files from inside Konq, just pres F5 and the info will be updated correctly. Suerte. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 10:37pm up 28 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?
El Lun 09 Dic 2002 21:49, magnet escribió: Hi all, Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? Slightly off the original topic, but relevant as I need to convert these to mp3/wav format for an audio CD as these tapes are vulnerable to damage. regards magnet Hola, magnet. I'm testing 'audacity', and work great here (generic SbLive + MDk 9.0). If you have 'contrib' source defined, just open a console, log as root, and type: urpmi audacity. Suerte. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 10:54pm up 45 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:23:02 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error At 09:57 PM 12/8/2002 -0300, you wrote: Thanks for the replies...I'm pretty certain there is a loose nut between the mouse and the chair here Stephen, but I was hoping for some other explanation. LOL :-) I do have gpm running in runlevel 5, I wasn't sure whether I needed it or not, so I just left it on. I could probably shut it down then could I? Or is it better to just leave it be and ignore the occasional error? It's a minor glitch really. And now I know I'm not the only one who has it occurring. I feel better. ;-) All the best. --Angus - I know this is old but try using it as a USB Mouse or is that not possible? Femme * Thanks for the reply Femme, I was actually under the impression that it would easier to use the MS Intellimouse as a PS/2. I haven't tried it as USB. It's working OK really, just the occasional error comes up. I am dual-booting an MS system too...no probs with the mouse there. Shouldn't be either...after all it's an MS mouse! I do have a free USB port. You think it would be better to try that? Mdk 9.0 hasn't been the most USB friendly system. I had quite a battle to get my Epson USB printer up and printing! :-( I did get it working though, after a scrap. Works OK now. Thanks for the help. All the best. --Angus Success is the art of being who you are. *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:44:52 -0600 Daniel Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot=/dev/hde5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 append=hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi mage=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hda=-scsi hdd=scsi read-only other=/dev/hde2 label=dos table=/dev/hde other=/dev/hde3 label=dos2 table=/dev/hde On my system, the cd burner entry in dev is not /dev/cdrom, but /dev/scd0 You may want to see if yours may have that entry. Perhaps that will help? Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xft-2 and OpenOffice
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 00:24, Damian Gatabria wrote: El Lun 09 Dic 2002 03:08, Huub van den Heuvel escribió: I installed the texstar Xft packages but now my user interface font in OpenOffice is gone, the menus and dialogs are empty. In documents all my fonts are available. Mozilla-xft works fine (and looks great), I seem to have no other font issues. Adding other paths fonts in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf didn't fix it and neither did font replacement in OO (Arial for Andale Sans UI). I am using gnome-2. Anyone had this problem? Suggestions for a fix very welcome! Thanks, Huub yes, this is a known problem and the only rollution is rolling back your Xft packages a version or two. Regards. Damian Is it a problem with xft or with openoffice? I think I would prefer to wait for an xft update, rather than go through a rollback dependency hassle..? regards, Huub http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xft-2 and OpenOffice
Is it a problem with xft or with openoffice? I think I would prefer to wait for an xft update, rather than go through a rollback dependency hassle..? regards, Huub it's an XFT problem. (it's not that the fonts and menus in OO have dissapeared. It's just that it can't render anything in font size 8 or smaller, and the GUI elements use font size 8) if you do not want to change your XFT package, try this, it might work for you: Open up oowrite. go to the sixth drop-down menu in the main toolbar. (that's counting from left to right) select the last option in that menu. A dialog window will pop up. expand the first tree. go to the 9th branch of that tree. you will see two drop-down lists. just type lucida on the second. push the first button at the bottom of the dialogue. if that doesn't work, repeat the same steps but this time type lucida on both the drop-down lists. You may also want to try to select the first line in the listbox that appears under the drop-downs. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla 1.2.1
Installed mozilla 1.2.1 from Mandrake cooker. Lost my spellchecker and crossover plugins. I think I will wait awhile next time. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ardour
Is there anybody out there using 'ardour' (a multitrack, multichannel audio recorder/non-linear editor). I need it, a lot. But the list of failed dependencies is frustrating. http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ Gracias. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 11:30pm up 1:22, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.06, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ardour
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:27:05 -0300 Pilagá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anybody out there using 'ardour' (a multitrack, multichannel audio recorder/non-linear editor). I need it, a lot. But the list of failed dependencies is frustrating. http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ Gracias. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 11:30pm up 1:22, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.06, 0.01 what are the failed dependancies that you're getting? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ardour
try this http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/ it has ardour On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:27, Pilagá wrote: Is there anybody out there using 'ardour' (a multitrack, multichannel audio recorder/non-linear editor). I need it, a lot. But the list of failed dependencies is frustrating. http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ Gracias. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 11:30pm up 1:22, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.06, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?
On Monday 09 December 2002 19:49, magnet wrote: Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? At a command prompt type rec -s w -c 2 -r 44100 myfile.wav Learn more with man rec. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ardour
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 14:27, Pilagá wrote: Is there anybody out there using 'ardour' (a multitrack, multichannel audio recorder/non-linear editor). I need it, a lot. But the list of failed dependencies is frustrating. http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ Gracias. I'm trying to get all the bits and pieces to test it out...both for RH and for Mandrake - hoping it goes well... -- Tue Dec 10 15:40:01 EST 2002 3:40pm up 1 day, 19:25, 5 users, load average: 0.07, 0.40, 0.62 .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 Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. -- Samuel Butler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ardour
On 09 Dec 2002 22:10:38 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/ That just refers you back to the sourceforge site... hmm. I tried installing it from the CVS snapshot... had to: d/l and compile: autoconf 2.52 automake 1.6.2 gettext-0.11.5 (all available from ftp.gnu.org) d/l and compile jackit from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jackit/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.34.0.tar.gz you need alsa 0.9 for jackit... available at alsa-project.org (kernel source needed to compile-- which you can install by doing urpmi kernel-source if you don't have it already) cd to the ardour directory run ./autogen.sh but still getting errors: Making all in ardour make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/ardour/libs/ardour' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/ardour/libs/ardour' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/ardour/libs' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 [jerry@c327911-b ardour]$ so I don't know what's wrong. I'll keep working on it and see if i can get it to work and let you know how, if i do. Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ardour
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 15:10, Jason Guidry wrote: try this http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/ it has ardour On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:27, Pilagá wrote: Is there anybody out there using 'ardour' (a multitrack, multichannel audio recorder/non-linear editor). I need it, a lot. But the list of failed dependencies is frustrating. http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ Gracias. Much better than digging - this is worth a test! -- Tue Dec 10 15:45:01 EST 2002 3:45pm up 1 day, 19:30, 5 users, load average: 1.22, 0.69, 0.65 .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 ...all the good computer designs are bootlegged; the formally planned products, if they are built at all, are dogs! -- David E. Lundstrom, A Few Good Men From Univac, MIT Press, 1987 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ardour
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:48, Jerry wrote: On 09 Dec 2002 22:10:38 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/ That just refers you back to the sourceforge site... hmm. I tried installing it from the CVS snapshot... had to: d/l and compile: autoconf 2.52 automake 1.6.2 gettext-0.11.5 (all available from ftp.gnu.org) d/l and compile jackit from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jackit/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.34.0.tar.gz you need alsa 0.9 for jackit... available at alsa-project.org (kernel source needed to compile-- which you can install by doing urpmi kernel-source if you don't have it already) cd to the ardour directory run ./autogen.sh but still getting errors: Making all in ardour make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/ardour/libs/ardour' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/ardour/libs/ardour' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/ardour/libs' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 [jerry@c327911-b ardour]$ so I don't know what's wrong. I'll keep working on it and see if i can get it to work and let you know how, if i do. Jerry. Double check that you've installed and rebuilt the lib paths; check your /etc/ld.so.conf for: /usr/lib /usr/local/lib - run ldconfig . Also, make SURE that you don't have symlinks to your OLD autoconf, automake, autom4te, aclocal, autoreconf sitting in your /usr/bin directory - that will screw ya up as well... -- Tue Dec 10 15:50:01 EST 2002 3:50pm up 1 day, 19:35, 5 users, load average: 0.19, 0.49, 0.58 .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 Sheriff Chameleotoptor sighed with an air of weary sadness, and then turned to Doppelgutt and said 'The Senator must really have been on a bender this time -- he left a party in Cleveland, Ohio, at 11:30 last night, and they found his car this morning in the smokestack of a British aircraft carrier in the Formosa Straits.' -- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xft-2 and OpenOffice (resolved)
Excellent, that worked.. Thanks a lot, Huub PS and thanx to all the others on this list who have through the archive fixed a lot of my mdk issues On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 14:15, Damian Gatabria wrote: Is it a problem with xft or with openoffice? I think I would prefer to wait for an xft update, rather than go through a rollback dependency hassle..? regards, Huub it's an XFT problem. (it's not that the fonts and menus in OO have dissapeared. It's just that it can't render anything in font size 8 or smaller, and the GUI elements use font size 8) if you do not want to change your XFT package, try this, it might work for you: Open up oowrite. go to the sixth drop-down menu in the main toolbar. (that's counting from left to right) select the last option in that menu. A dialog window will pop up. expand the first tree. go to the 9th branch of that tree. you will see two drop-down lists. just type lucida on the second. push the first button at the bottom of the dialogue. if that doesn't work, repeat the same steps but this time type lucida on both the drop-down lists. You may also want to try to select the first line in the listbox that appears under the drop-downs. HTH Damian __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com http://www.sold.com.au - SOLD.com.au - Find yourself a bargain! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ardour
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 18:48, Jerry wrote: On 09 Dec 2002 22:10:38 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/ That just refers you back to the sourceforge site... hmm. yes, yes it does, UNTIL YOU READ THE WEBSITE!!! sorry, it's the middle of finals and i'm on edge. but seriously, just download the turn-key package, untar it and ./install.sh. you're done. read, kids... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?
Cheers Bryan, this was what I was looking for, a nice simple command which worked perfectly. I dropped the rate down from 44100 to 8000 as these tapes are only speech and do not contain music. Quality seems very acceptable, although I think I will have to compress to mp3 format as even these .wav files are still rather large. regards magnet On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:22 am, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 19:49, magnet wrote: Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? At a command prompt type rec -s w -c 2 -r 44100 myfile.wav Learn more with man rec. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Difference between 8.0, 8.2, 9.x
Hi What is the difference between ver 8.0, 8.2, 9.x? _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Difference between 8.0, 8.2, 9.x
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 23:18, Fish Fash wrote: What is the difference between ver 8.0, 8.2, 9.x? 8.2 works. use it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
Greg, Sorry this is late getting back to you (I lost a hard drive so was out of commission for a bit (well, intermittantly it was going bad till it died totally)). Anyway, I'm glad you got your problem resolved. The GATEWAY issue I was referring to applied to having an ethernet card and using a modem for dial-up to the internet (particularly if you had the Mandrake install program auto-configure your network). Anyway, the errata from the Mandrake 9.0 page states: Error scenario: You have an ethernet card for the local LAN and a modem for internet access and you can't reach the internet. Why: Drakconnect wrongly asks for a gateway, and ppp can't set your modem connection as the default route. Solution: As root, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and manually remove the GATEWAY entry. Since you are using a cable modem, it wouldn't have applied to your situation, but I wanted to post this anyway, in case anyone else was waiting on the info. Joeb On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 17:04, gklofa wrote: Well here we are guys, this is an email coming from my mandrake system! But I have been in this pos before, but when re-boot, loose it all and no connection again! I am not going to re-boot at this point in time. To get it connected this time, it did not automatically connect on boot, I had to use the wizard again, and then select connect. John, tripple boot system yes. Booting through a program called system commander. Only one nic, only need the one to connect the router/modem. Here is the ifcfg-eth0 file:- DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=10.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=10.0.0.0 BROADCAST=10.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes and here is the network file NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain DOMAINNAME=localdomain GATEWAY=10.0.0.138 to me, everything looks good. What do you reckon, re-boot and see what happens? Maybe not be able to get back on again! I like living life on the edge though, so I think I will later today, when I have done a bit more investigating, and some advice from the list. Also, what is the latest kernel for mandrake? I am running the one that came with the distro, 2.4.19-16mdk. If there is a later mdk kernel, I wouldn't mind loading it in, just incase this is a bug in the current one. I went into the mandrake control centre, and used the update software, but it doesn't appear to update kernels, none were listed. This is unless this one is the most current?? The update seems to be a bit buggy as well, it kept on dropping out on the downloads, even though the connection was up and working well. I checked by doing a bit of browsing. Maybe the mirror was a little overloaded at the time, will try later. Just want to make sure I have all updates installed before re-booting. regards Greg __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
