Re: [newbie-it] errata corrige su System.map [was: compilazione delkernel]
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, LukenShiro wrote: cp System.map /boot/System.map-num_ver [..] poi elimini il link simbolico System.map (che punta al System.map del vecchio kernel) e lo ricrei (in modo che punti al nuovo System.map-ecc..) [..] System.map* e' cmq importante, contiene la mappa dei simboli (con relativa posizione) dei moduli del kernel (mi pare che ci fosse un post precedente su questo, pero' non ricordo se qui o nella ML di oltrelinux), senza il quale possono crearsi problemi di simboli irrisolti; Devo, per correttezza, rettificare quanto citato sopra. Nonostante in quasi ogni sito che si occupa di compilazione del kernel appaia un riferimente a System.map, che (si asserisce) debba essere copiato in /boot unitamente al kernel, mi sono accorto (in seguito ad una replica dubitativamente contraria di Paolo Massei, su altra lista) che non e' poi _cosi'_ fondamentale. A livello pratico la non copiatura del file System.map in /boot sembra _non_ avere conseguenze pregiudizievoli di alcun genere (nulla vieta quindi di copiarlo al termine della ricompilazione, ma non e' obbligatorio, avendo detto file AFAIK solo scopi di debugging). -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 ** k 2.4.20-acpi+preempt+lowlat+pktwrt LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 Spammer Burning: le radici dell'odio
Re: [newbie] LM9.0 CDROM Problems
Sevatio wrote: I know of the manual way of doing it in a text environment via superuser login. Is there another more friendly and short way of manually mounting this? I'm thinking in terms of ease of use for the average windows user that I setup linux boxes for. In KDE you can create CDROM icons on desktop and set its properties correctly. Then if you double click on CDROM icon it will automatically mount CDROM and if you right click on icon and select eject it will unmount it and eject it. I'm really surprised that after all these versions, Mandrake still hasn't quite figured this out. We all are. I hope they are working very hard on this one as it's one of the biggest (if not the biggest) problems in Mandrake. -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it etc 1/2 solved
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 10:30 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77 mail and settings into Mozilla Mail. I am however unable to find it. I have tried to install it, just in case it wasn't but the install search proved fruitless. I got the Mdk 9.0 Powerpack with 7 CD's and I'm buggered if I can find a way to install the software off those CD's, that is of course if Mozilla Mail is even on the CD's. I think that the problem is that you have to install the whole Mozilla suite from the cds. It's certainly there - I use the browser regularly, though not the mail, which is installed. Anne mmm, looks like I am going to have to 'upgrade' my system and do individual package selection in order to get the Mail option installed. :(). Do you have to? Have you checked the K Configuration Packaging Install Software, with 'all packages in alphabetical order' selected to see if any mozilla packages are listed there as uninstalled? Anne It would seem I have to as I just tried booting into the part installation and it couldn't find the init file and I got a kernel panic. Before that when I did manage to get in and run the install it complained about being unable to read the partition table and therefore wanted to wipe all my partitions. As I have about 10 years of un-backed up docs there, I figured ti would be a damn good time to invest in another hdd to act as a backup and then I can hopefully low-level format it from fdisk, create the partitions, install Win95(for Quicken) and then use the remaining space for linux. I'll have to come back to this later after I've done a little rearranging. Merry Christmas -- === Hylton Conacher - Registered Linux user # 229959 Licenced Windows user Using Linux Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1 on a 2.4.3-20mdk#1 kernel === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lpr problem
Erik Farnsworth wrote: Robin, I'm not sure this is the definitive answer, but I overcame the problem by adding my user account to the group 'lp' in ConfigOtheruserdrake--erikeditgroups. Now all programs are willing to print for user erik. This didn't do it, but changing from CUPS to PDQ did, so it must be a CUPS problem. Thanks anyway! Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it etc 1/2 solved
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 9:29 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 10:30 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77 mail and settings into Mozilla Mail. I am however unable to find it. I have tried to install it, just in case it wasn't but the install search proved fruitless. I got the Mdk 9.0 Powerpack with 7 CD's and I'm buggered if I can find a way to install the software off those CD's, that is of course if Mozilla Mail is even on the CD's. I think that the problem is that you have to install the whole Mozilla suite from the cds. It's certainly there - I use the browser regularly, though not the mail, which is installed. Anne mmm, looks like I am going to have to 'upgrade' my system and do individual package selection in order to get the Mail option installed. :(). Do you have to? Have you checked the K Configuration Packaging Install Software, with 'all packages in alphabetical order' selected to see if any mozilla packages are listed there as uninstalled? Anne It would seem I have to as I just tried booting into the part installation and it couldn't find the init file and I got a kernel panic. Before that when I did manage to get in and run the install it complained about being unable to read the partition table and therefore wanted to wipe all my partitions. As I have about 10 years of un-backed up docs there, I figured ti would be a damn good time to invest in another hdd to act as a backup and then I can hopefully low-level format it from fdisk, create the partitions, install Win95(for Quicken) and then use the remaining space for linux. I'll have to come back to this later after I've done a little rearranging. Merry Christmas I would suggest that with a new disk you use a windows boot floppy if you have one. Run fdisk, created a partition for your win95 installation, and install Then simply run the linux install, allowing it to deal with the rest of your partitioning. It's not only simpler, it's safer that way. Of course, if you find you have a good stable install, you may wish at a later date to invest in win4lin, which will allow you to run Quicken (on your existing windows license running windows inside linux). It's great to be able to work on a windows program, bobbing backwards and forwards between that and your linux apps. My email client is open all the time I'm working, and I often need Gimp while I'm using PagePlus, which is my main reason for windows. If you choose that path you will be able to get rid of the dual boot altogether and still have the functionality you need. It isn't perfect in running some of the apps that make sneaky calls, but it's surprisingly good. They offer a money-back guarantee, and their support is good. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 10:06, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:27, Jim Dawson wrote: The problem is that CDRecord apparently only supports the DVD-R/-RW formats. While the drive would work under Linux, until CD+R/RW is supported by CDRecord (or an equivalent program) it would work only as a very expensive DVD-ROM. Upgrade cdrecord. But can you under gpl John Yeah - cdrecord is a utility created under GPL - it's what you DO with it afterwards... Certainly cdrecord is gpl, but as I heard it the dvd writer update part of it is not. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9.0 CDROM Problems
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 18:15, Sevatio wrote: I know of the manual way of doing it in a text environment via superuser login. Is there another more friendly and short way of manually mounting this? I'm thinking in terms of ease of use for the average windows user that I setup linux boxes for. I'm really surprised that after all these versions, Mandrake still hasn't quite figured this out. It's a KDE application called KwikDisk - sits in the system tray and allows you to mount/unmount drives without opening a term. Actually rather a time saver when you're slapping disks often. ( /usr/bin/kwikdisk ) -- Thu Dec 26 23:30:01 EST 2002 11:30pm up 1 day, 14:15, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.11 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- One of your most ancient writers, a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: in one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns. The other prisoners watched the thief singing to the horse and laughed. You will not succeed, they told him. No one can. To which the thief replied, I have a year, and who knows what might happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to sing. -- The Mote in God's Eye, Niven and Pournelle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD region killer
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 15:34, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Stephen, Friends, I did delete all file in dvd_disc_2215_css and re-extract the tar file. And then I did below instruction: - [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# l COPYING dvd_disc.c dvd_disc_.o dvd_file.h dvd_udf.h README.dvd_disc RE dvdbackup.c dvd_disc.h dvd_file.c dvd_udf.c Makefile README.dvd_file re [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# ./configure bash: ./configure: No such file or directory [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# make make: *** No rule to make target `../dvd_css', needed by `dvd_udf.o'. Stop. [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# -- Did I do something wrong? Thank you in advance, PDS If you can send me the URL for the code you have, I'll give it a go and figure out what exactly is going on - no worries to give it a shot for ya. Now y'all got me curious. -- Thu Dec 26 23:30:01 EST 2002 11:30pm up 1 day, 14:15, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.11 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- One of your most ancient writers, a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: in one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns. The other prisoners watched the thief singing to the horse and laughed. You will not succeed, they told him. No one can. To which the thief replied, I have a year, and who knows what might happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to sing. -- The Mote in God's Eye, Niven and Pournelle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO
Santa was very generaous. An EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO I never found anything in linux work initially so easy. I just plugged it in the usb2 port powered it up went to MCC - hardwarte scanner- leftmouse clicked , it asked for cd1 , I gave it it, it said thank you, I smiled inwardly, It even gave me a kstartmenu entry, and away it went. So far I've had a go at grey scale and colour in normal scan docment mode(as against photo/transparency) and it worked. I have yet to make the fine adjustments but all looks very encouraging. I also notice the Steppa motor is 24v, as against most of the cheapie scanners being 12v I hope that makes for greater reliability. I'm always cautious to praise too loudly, somehow it seems like tempting fate, but all the thanks goes to those sane project people for their sterling efforts, and, I for one, am profoundly greatful. I just thought I would share this with you.It is always heartening when something works withou a lot of fuss and bother in linux. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to be able to print to PDF from OpenOffice, and when I go to the printer within it I am channelled towards a generic printer under which I can select to print to file as PS or PDF. When I select PDF, the files open in PS and PDF Viewer, but don't open on W4L/Acrobat. Acrobat comes back with a dialogue which says There was an error opening this document - File does not begin with '%PDF-' I would like PDF files which I generate with OO to open on Mac and Win machines at work. Could someone suggest where I'm going wrong, please? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fw: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 11:06, Kenn Murrah wrote: the gimp is powerful, but it has one glaring flaw: it does not work in CMYK. and for professional design work, lab color and CMYK are absolutely, non-negotiable necessities ... and if there is a linux equivalent to freehand or illustrator, or to page layout software such as indesign and quarkxpress, i haven't been able to find it so as much as i'd like to use linux for a professional color design workstation, the software just isn't there ... yet. MYO, kenn Then you'd be a prime candidate for either VMWare, Bochs or WineX. I've gotten WINE to do some things it wasn't supposed to do - and I'm working with Photoshop now...getting close - but it's tricky...just a matter of faking then environment enough... I have to do graphics high end for some projects I'm involved with - and CMYK is imperative...so I just run Photoshop and Illustrator in my VMWare session of XP - easier to deal with et. al. -- Thu Dec 26 23:40:00 EST 2002 11:40pm up 1 day, 14:25, 5 users, load average: 1.03, 0.48, 0.27 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- `You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' `Yeah,' said Zaphod, `but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' `THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' `No, just A Zaphod Bebblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' `But sir,' it squealed, `I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' `Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.' - Zaphod and the Guide's receptionist. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Santa was very generaous. An EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO I never found anything in linux work initially so easy. I just plugged it in the usb2 port powered it up went to MCC - hardwarte scanner- leftmouse clicked , it asked for cd1 , I gave it it, it said thank you, I smiled inwardly, It even gave me a kstartmenu entry, and away it went. So far I've had a go at grey scale and colour in normal scan docment mode(as against photo/transparency) and it worked. I have yet to make the fine adjustments but all looks very encouraging. I also notice the Steppa motor is 24v, as against most of the cheapie scanners being 12v I hope that makes for greater reliability. I'm always cautious to praise too loudly, somehow it seems like tempting fate, but all the thanks goes to those sane project people for their sterling efforts, and, I for one, am profoundly greatful. I just thought I would share this with you.It is always heartening when something works withou a lot of fuss and bother in linux. John The Epson Perfection 1650 was just as trouble-free. Under 8.2 I had to install the downloaded driver. Under 9.0 the driver is included in Mandrake's distro. I've been using it for several months now. Isn't it great when they get it so absolutely right? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Hi Rob, I had the same problem and could not resolve it. But, for whatever it is worth, Kword makes very good PDF files. That's what I have been using since. Good look! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to be able to print to PDF from OpenOffice, and when I go to the printer within it I am channelled towards a generic printer under which I can select to print to file as PS or PDF. When I select PDF, the files open in PS and PDF Viewer, but don't open on W4L/Acrobat. Acrobat comes back with a dialogue which says There was an error opening this document - File does not begin with '%PDF-' I would like PDF files which I generate with OO to open on Mac and Win machines at work. Could someone suggest where I'm going wrong, please? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_addphotos_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux Boot Message
I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 00:42, Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal You can open up /etc/lilo.conf in a text editor, remove the lines for the Windows boot and re-run lilo - then reboot - here's an example: prompt timeout=50 default=Linux boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message vga=1 lba32 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 label=Linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img read-only root=/dev/hda5 append=hdd=ide-scsi idebus=133 other=/dev/hda1 optional label=Windows ^^^ The section starting with other would be the one that you'd want to delete - don't delete the linux one! By re-running lilo, you write this information to the boot map - so after you've modified the file and ran lilo, on your bootup, you won't see ANY Microsloth at all! Peace. -- Fri Dec 27 00:45:00 EST 2002 12:45am up 1 day, 15:30, 5 users, load average: 0.63, 1.42, 1.31 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- You look tired. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message
Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal Is there any particular reason why you choose to boot from floppy. There is a perfectly good bootloader called lilo. Anyway the reason you are getting these messages is because you are booting from a floppy that thinks you still have your w2k/ntfs partitions. The easiest way to rectify this is to boot to desktop go to MCC - boot - boot disk and remake your floppy disk so that it will then know about your changed partition table. This is also true of any alteration whatsoever to your partition table, and very often it will fail to boot at all so next time you remove a partition make sure you make new boot floppies, it makes life easier. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal Is there any particular reason why you choose to boot from floppy. There is a perfectly good bootloader called lilo. Anyway the reason you are getting these messages is because you are booting from a floppy that thinks you still have your w2k/ntfs partitions. The easiest way to rectify this is to boot to desktop go to MCC - boot - boot disk and remake your floppy disk so that it will then know about your changed partition table. This is also true of any alteration whatsoever to your partition table, and very often it will fail to boot at all so next time you remove a partition make sure you make new boot floppies, it makes life easier. John John - since I expect to remove some partitions soon - do I take it that the order is MCC - remove partition Edit lilo - remove partition stanza run lilo re-make boot floppy reboot? I presume that you have to have re-run lilo before you re-make the boot floppy? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Routing has Died
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 09:38 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 20:35, Barry Premeaux wrote: I gave that a shot, but it didn't make a difference. Although, it seems to be a mute point for now. In tinkering with LILO (I also boot RH8.0 and SuSE8.0 from this machine), I hosed the boot loader. Had difficulty getting CD1's rescue mode to see the reiserfs of my 9.0 load, so I simply went back to a fresh install. (No, I didn't make a boot floppy the first time, but I did this time. Lesson learned.) Everything is back up and running again for now. I'll have to watch it as I begin retracing my steps with the firewall and updates again. Thanks for responding. Barry Sometimes Kppp will not route like it is supposed to. I had this problem some ages ago when I was on a dialup, but it's been quite a while. Try the following. When kppp connects, note the ip address. Then from a root command prompt do route add default gw your.isp.dynamic.ip ppp0 In my case (in case you're interested) the final qualifier on my workstation here is eth0 instead of ppp0. If you were on a local lan attempting to connect to a gateway, you'd use the same route command line as above but just changing the device. This is a manual fix, a way to test. You should be able to ping out after you do this. --LX Thank you for the info. I had just completed some KDE updates prior to the routing problem. It may be that one of the packages didn't set well with Kppp. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MNF INSTALL
I am trying to install MNF Mandrake on a AMD k6-2 450 processor. The cd booted and installation appeared to go smoothly until reboot. The computer hangs at: Detected 451.834 MHZ Processor Console: Colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating Delay loop...897.84 BogoMIPS This is a Epox Motherboard with AGP video Card. I successfully installed MNF on another test machine with the same motherboard but a amd k62 500 processor in it. Any suggestions? Thanks
Re: [newbie] MNF INSTALL
Don't quote me on this, but I think a K6/2-450 falls below the minimum architecture requirements for MNF. Lanman On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 09:49, Tom wrote: I am trying to install MNF Mandrake on a AMD k6-2 450 processor. The cd booted and installation appeared to go smoothly until reboot. The computer hangs at: Detected 451.834 MHZ Processor Console: Colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating Delay loop...897.84 BogoMIPS This is a Epox Motherboard with AGP video Card. I successfully installed MNF on another test machine with the same motherboard but a amd k62 500 processor in it. Any suggestions? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal Is there any particular reason why you choose to boot from floppy. There is a perfectly good bootloader called lilo. Anyway the reason you are getting these messages is because you are booting from a floppy that thinks you still have your w2k/ntfs partitions. The easiest way to rectify this is to boot to desktop go to MCC - boot - boot disk and remake your floppy disk so that it will then know about your changed partition table. This is also true of any alteration whatsoever to your partition table, and very often it will fail to boot at all so next time you remove a partition make sure you make new boot floppies, it makes life easier. John John - since I expect to remove some partitions soon - do I take it that the order is MCC - remove partition Edit lilo - remove partition stanza run lilo re-make boot floppy reboot? I presume that you have to have re-run lilo before you re-make the boot floppy? Anne From memory, yes, I think I did mine on the command line , but yes, Once you have removed the partition, remake lilo.conf, not forgetting /sbin/lilo, remake boor floppy, and reboot. Then if you messed up in lilo.conf, no matter the floppy will get you back in. Otherwise it's an f1 job . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MNF INSTALL
I'm running MNF on a Pentium 100 with 56 megs of RAM. Slow, but it works. Can you boot the failsafe kernel? You may need to pass a parameter to the default kernel to get it to work with your particular mb/chipset/processor/video/ram combination. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Rockingham County Linux Users Group www.rock.lug.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MNF INSTALL Don't quote me on this, but I think a K6/2-450 falls below the minimum architecture requirements for MNF. Lanman On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 09:49, Tom wrote: I am trying to install MNF Mandrake on a AMD k6-2 450 processor. The cd booted and installation appeared to go smoothly until reboot. The computer hangs at: Detected 451.834 MHZ Processor Console: Colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating Delay loop...897.84 BogoMIPS This is a Epox Motherboard with AGP video Card. I successfully installed MNF on another test machine with the same motherboard but a amd k62 500 processor in it. Any suggestions? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Networking questions
Hi. I just installed Mandrake 9. Everything seems to be working except The only way to get the dial up connection to work is to first disable the network card. This is a plain Internet dial up to SBC, using a Creative 56k ModemBlaster. I assume it is possible to have both working at the same time since you even do it with Windows! Second, I want to be able to able to browse my Windows 2000 network from the Linux box. Is Samba the way to do this? I have looked at the instructions and it seems quite confusing. Is there any easier way? I just want to be able to retrieve video, mp3s and docs. Thanks!Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
Re: [newbie] Networking questions
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 02:44, Anthony wrote: Hi. I just installed Mandrake 9. Everything seems to be working except The only way to get the dial up connection to work is to first disable the network card. This is a plain Internet dial up to SBC, using a Creative 56k ModemBlaster. I assume it is possible to have both working at the same time since you even do it with Windows! ...someone can catch the one above - I do it manually and have hacked the scripts to do so because mine did the same and well, I can't have that... Second, I want to be able to able to browse my Windows 2000 network from the Linux box. Is Samba the way to do this? I have looked at the instructions and it seems quite confusing. Is there any easier way? I just want to be able to retrieve video, mp3s and docs. You can edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, and change the workgroup name there - that will allow you AS A CLIENT to browse your Windows network - now, on the other hand, when you want to use the linux box as a server/peer to the Windows network, there are some other modifications that need to be made in Samba...but for client browsing, that will do you. -- Fri Dec 27 02:50:00 EST 2002 2:50am up 1 day, 17:35, 5 users, load average: 0.67, 0.39, 0.34 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- That boy's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver -- Foghorn Leghorn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
Thanks, Hopefully I can find a supported card at a good price. -Original Message- From: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:33:29 -0200 Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD? On Ter 24 Dez 2002 15:34, Jim Dawson wrote: Can someone tell me where I may find a list of supported TV capture boards? TV capture cards seem to be missing from the Mandrake supported hardware web page. Prolink Pixelview Pro! (mine is a 878+w/FM) 848 and 878 family! Since they are Conexant! And Pilips! No problems so far! I've never tried to capture but just watch Ricardo -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:15:44 + Subject: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD? Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in is working properly and turned up. I can record plain audio from the line-in, just not audio as part of a video capture. May Iask whether your Haupauge Win tv card can handle digital tv ? Is it analogue only / HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. I've promised my better half I will not be here tomorrow, but I suspect a certain gentleman form a faraway place may just bring me something that needs some of your help, so who knows. John -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO
Did you try iscan from epson? It uses all the scanner capabilities, lot better for most epson scanners than xsane El Jueves, 26 de Diciembre de 2002 13:46, John Richard Smith escribió: Santa was very generaous. An EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO I never found anything in linux work initially so easy. I just plugged it in the usb2 port powered it up went to MCC - hardwarte scanner- leftmouse clicked , it asked for cd1 , I gave it it, it said thank you, I smiled inwardly, It even gave me a kstartmenu entry, and away it went. So far I've had a go at grey scale and colour in normal scan docment mode(as against photo/transparency) and it worked. I have yet to make the fine adjustments but all looks very encouraging. I also notice the Steppa motor is 24v, as against most of the cheapie scanners being 12v I hope that makes for greater reliability. I'm always cautious to praise too loudly, somehow it seems like tempting fate, but all the thanks goes to those sane project people for their sterling efforts, and, I for one, am profoundly greatful. I just thought I would share this with you.It is always heartening when something works withou a lot of fuss and bother in linux. John -- 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
Re: [newbie] linux office suite comparison?
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:52:13 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:57 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: What does StarOffice6 offer which OpenOffice 1.0.1 cannot do? Not a lot. There are a few extra modules, which I haven't explored yet, but look as though they are things like a quick access to label templates, etc. I understood that Adibas database was part of SO6, but it hasn't loaded as part of the install, so I'll have to explore the disks to see if it's there. Anne Does anyone know if StarOffice6 will import/export Wordperfect 6.0 and later documents (OOo doesn't)? I'm trying to move a non-profit from their Windows environment, and they are willing, but they are heavily invested in Wordperfect. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:51:22 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Where is it written that Mandrake has to turn out a new release every six months? We've always done it that way and Everyone else does it that way are not acceptable responses. There was some talk this summer about extending the release interval and, IIRC, the response was largely favorable. As a boss of mine once said, Right now we have to deal with the alligators that are biting us in the ass; we'll get back to draining the swamp later. An added benefit to a longer development cycle is that it would encourage more users to participate in beta testing. It's my understanding that Mandrakesoft was under contract (with McMillan?) to produce a new release every six months (regardless of stability). I don't know if that is one of the contracts that the new capital increase refers to or if it's already expired. I do know that there has been talk of it on this list and the Club boards a while back and the general consensus was to slow down the release cycle, assuming they could get out of the contract. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Rob Lindsay wrote: Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to be able to print to PDF from OpenOffice, and when I go to the printer within it I am channelled towards a generic printer under which I can select to print to file as PS or PDF. When I select PDF, the files open in PS and PDF Viewer, but don't open on W4L/Acrobat. Acrobat comes back with a dialogue which says There was an error opening this document - File does not begin with '%PDF-' I would like PDF files which I generate with OO to open on Mac and Win machines at work. Could someone suggest where I'm going wrong, please? You need to go into spadmin. Click Add New Printer then click on PDF converter to create a PDF pseudoprinter. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fw: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
Kenn Murrah wrote: and if there is a linux equivalent to freehand or illustrator, or to page layout software such as indesign and quarkxpress, i haven't been able to find it Scribus looks like it will eventually do the job, though it was pretty alpha-ish the last time I looked. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Hi Andrei, My experience with Kword and PDF files is that the font are not reliable. This may be because I am relying on a limited set. I don't think I've got any TT fonts loaded. I have found that Scribus produces much more reliable font performance in PDF output. Am looking into putting a more up-to-date version of this application to work. Have downloaded the scribus-0.8.tar.gz but it looks as though I will have to get hold of QT 3.03 or higher to make this work. Can I get this from the Mandrake site? When I try to ./configure at present the whole thing crashes out complaining about gcc. The version of Scribus which came with the MD 8.1 3 CD download set is 0.3 and is a bit limited, but very promising! Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Sir Robin wrote: snip You need to go into spadmin. Click Add New Printer then click on PDF converter to create a PDF pseudoprinter. endsnip Thanks for the solution, but how do I go into spadmin and do what you suggest. I have found the spadmin link in the OpenOffice.org folder but have no idea how to follow your instructions. Please could you spell it out for me. I'm a rank-newbie just keeping my head above water! Thanks, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Dual Booting
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:09:00 CST Steve Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grettings: Was wondering if anyone had a good site that explains dual booting Mandrake 9.0 and 8.2. I have 9.0 installed and want to dual boot 8.2 that is on a different drive. Basics: 9.0 on one drive, want to add another drive to same machine and load 8.2 on the new drive. Any links or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve Steve, here's the short version : it's piece of cake. Just install Mandrake 8.2 upon your new drive. For what I know, the installation program will automatically detect the presence of another OS and - along the way - offer you the choice to boot one or the other as default. In your case - having two discs - it's not even necessary to re-partition anything. Eventually you can use the Mandrake Control Center (as root) to adjust things later on. Most problems with dual-booting stems from another scenario : installing a real OS alongside a bogus one. Enjoy ! - But why on earth do you want two real OS's ? HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark -- == Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user #214073 at http://counter.li.org This is a 100 % Microsoft-free computer. == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Default Browser
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 10:37, Rich wrote: I recently upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to version 9.0 and everything went smoothly. My problem is that Evolution 1.2.1 doesn't load a browser when a link is clicked. The problem may be that I can't find anyplace in Mandrake to assign a default browser. Is it possible that I missed it, or has it been removed as an option? You need to change the default browser in GNOME. gnome-control-center Go to 'Advanced' - 'Preferred Applications' then select 'Custom Web Browser' and enter the command line for your preferred browser. Mine is currently 'mozilla %s'. Regards John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web browsers and e-mail quit connecting
On Thursday 26 December 2002 05:38 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello I had the strangest problem just surface in my Mandrake 9.0. It happened just after a reboot and error message about a mounting error on my NT partition. I have seen this error once or twice before when trying to load Windows fonts and the attempt failed and just hung there. I use Galeon and KDE Mail primarily but Mozilla and Evolution will not connect either. Is there a lock file that may have been created somewhere? My KDE dialer works and connects to my ISP just fine. Many thanks in advance. Jim Snyder I had the same problem, came after doing the latest updates from the mandrake control center. I can't be sure that that is what caused it, could be a post hoc ergo propter hoc kind of thing. But what solved it for me was to go to my /home/dennis directory and delete the .mozilla file. This loses all of your bookmarks and stuff so you might want to back them up. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 16:29, Charlie wrote: I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y... Howdy Seth; It's looking for the 1st install CD. Put it (CD1) in the drive and you won't have such slow responses. I have no idea why but mine does the same thing and fills the logs with 'error accessing cdrom previous message repeated umpteen times' type of fluff. I ignore them of course. It's a supermount thing. Supermount is still not quite all things to all hardware configurations or all people for that matter. Just run update with the CD in the drive and grit your teeth. Regards; I was unable to reply immediately when I got this advice, but God bless you, because it did the trick. It would seem to be a fairly significant bug that they should have issued a patch for. However, your advice worked, and has saved me a lot of grief. Thanks very much. Seth Williamson Floyd, VA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Dual Booting
Kaj, I triple boot to test OS's other just like to play, some even keep the old fully funtional one around untill they get the new one running. I have found it quite useful . Kaj Haulrich wrote: - But why on earth do you want two real OS's ? HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ° Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 8.0 kernel 2.4.3-20; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Registered Linux User #248955 ° If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Truetype fonts
Good evening (at least here in portugal)! First of all let me thank this great list! You guys should be awared for all your help you gave here! :) I've learned a lot with this list. Thanks. I'm looking to move all my Truetype fonts from my windows partition to my linux. I suppose that they are compatible. Or am i wrong? I've been searching the net for a replacement program for my Bitstream Font Navigator. Do you know about any? I just want to calalog all my 7500fonts. Cheers, Filipe p.s - I have other problems that are bugging me but i'll post them later. For all the newbies like me that are giving their firsts steps in linux here's a URL that helped me and now maybe you: www.linuxfree.net
Re: [newbie] Re: Dual Booting
On Thursday 26 December 2002 01:25 pm, mycal62 wrote: Kaj, I triple boot to test OS's other just like to play, some even keep the old fully funtional one around untill they get the new one running. I have found it quite useful . Well mycal62, playing is what keeps a man young, right ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] first message
Hello ! Needless to say, I am new to Mandake Linux and have just installed it (LM 9). I am trying to set things up so I can have everything working fine. I'd like to ask you how I can get the shockwave plugin to work in Mozilla. I have also tried to play .kar files in Kmid but no sound comes out. My sound card is a Sound Blaster Live. Any help appreciated Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] first message
Josenildo Marques schrieb: I'd like to ask you how I can get the shockwave plugin to work in Mozilla. Hi, have a look here: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html Regards, Niels Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 03:01 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 10:46 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Just got home from work! Add Me! Me! Me!big grin Yeah, but Ron are you sure you have the necessary enthusiasm to do this? bg Sometimes I might just have a wee bit too much of it, methinks! :-))) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Networking questions
On Thursday 26 December 2002 10:44 am, you wrote: Hi. I just installed Mandrake 9. Everything seems to be working except The only way to get the dial up connection to work is to first disable the network card. This is a plain Internet dial up to SBC, using a Creative 56k ModemBlaster. I assume it is possible to have both working at the same time since you even do it with Windows! Second, I want to be able to able to browse my Windows 2000 network from the Linux box. Is Samba the way to do this? I have looked at the instructions and it seems quite confusing. Is there any easier way? I just want to be able to retrieve video, mp3s and docs. Thanks! Hi Anthony. I have a Modemblaster as well, with a NIC...works fine here under Mandrake 8.2, but I did have to make some modifications. As root/su I had to go into /etc/sysconfig and edit network Mine looks like this: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true HOSTNAME=darkforce.com DOMAINNAME=com GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 This was what my old /etc/sysconfig/network file looked like: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=darkforce.com DOMAINNAME=com I can't remember if I had to do a: service network restart or not. Hope this helps! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Truetype fonts
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:22:08 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening (at least here in portugal)! First of all let me thank this great list! You guys should be awared for all your help you gave here! :) I've learned a lot with this list. Thanks. I'm looking to move all my Truetype fonts from my windows partition to my linux. I suppose that they are compatible. Or am i wrong? I've been searching the net for a replacement program for my Bitstream Font Navigator. Do you know about any? I just want to calalog all my 7500fonts. Cheers, Filipe p.s - I have other problems that are bugging me but i'll post them later. For all the newbies like me that are giving their firsts steps in linux here's a URL that helped me and now maybe you: www.linuxfree.net AFAIK, all Truetype fonts should be compatible. But, I don't think you want to move 7500 of them to your Linux partition. Maybe you do, but any application that's going to use them is going to have to load the entire list each time and that will slow things down. My recommendation would be to move only the ones you really plan on using. If you need one of the other ones, you can always install it at a later date. BTW, the slow down due to a lot of fonts isn't just a Linux thing. Windows and Macs suffer from the same thing. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Truetype fonts
Use Fontdrake in Mandrake Control Centre, it works perfectly to import TTF's... Cheers Jason Joeb wrote: On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:22:08 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening (at least here in portugal)! First of all let me thank this great list! You guys should be awared for all your help you gave here! :) I've learned a lot with this list. Thanks. I'm looking to move all my Truetype fonts from my windows partition to my linux. I suppose that they are compatible. Or am i wrong? I've been searching the net for a replacement program for my Bitstream Font Navigator. Do you know about any? I just want to calalog all my 7500fonts. Cheers, Filipe p.s - I have other problems that are bugging me but i'll post them later. For all the newbies like me that are giving their firsts steps in linux here's a URL that helped me and now maybe you: www.linuxfree.net AFAIK, all Truetype fonts should be compatible. But, I don't think you want to move 7500 of them to your Linux partition. Maybe you do, but any application that's going to use them is going to have to load the entire list each time and that will slow things down. My recommendation would be to move only the ones you really plan on using. If you need one of the other ones, you can always install it at a later date. BTW, the slow down due to a lot of fonts isn't just a Linux thing. Windows and Macs suffer from the same thing. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Informal poll
I'm just wondering, if I could see a show of hands so to speak - how many SCSI users have actually gotten their setups to work with Mandrake 9.0 (download edition). I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI card with: Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, and an Astra Umax scanner. If you do actually have it working, can you please post what card/setup and if you had to do anything special to get it to work I'm finding it impossible here; installs fine, locks up so hard the caps (and others) key won't work on the keyboard and requires a manual reset/power off/on. Locks up at finding module dependencies My gut instinct is that if I yanked the SCSI setup, inserted a bare IDE CDROM that it would install fine. (has installed just perfectly on 2 other IDE based comps here). This same setup works *rock-solid* with v8.2 of Mandrake. Thanks everyone. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Informal poll
I'm just wondering, if I could see a show of hands so to speak - how many SCSI users have actually gotten their setups to work with Mandrake 9.0 (download edition). I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI card with: Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, and an Astra Umax scanner. If you do actually have it working, can you please post what card/setup and if you had to do anything special to get it to work I'm finding it impossible here; installs fine, locks up so hard the caps (and others) key won't work on the keyboard and requires a manual reset/power off/on. Locks up at finding module dependencies My gut instinct is that if I yanked the SCSI setup, inserted a bare IDE CDROM that it would install fine. (has installed just perfectly on 2 other IDE based comps here). This same setup works *rock-solid* with v8.2 of Mandrake. Thanks everyone. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO
Is that setup listed on the mandrake site for supported scanners?? perhaps someone should add it if not.. that site is out of date for the most part.. we should all work together to get a more solid picture of supported hardware.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Friday, 27 December 2002 5:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO No, I have never heard of iscan, does it come from the epsom website ? John Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Did you try iscan from epson? It uses all the scanner capabilities, lot better for most epson scanners than xsane El Jueves, 26 de Diciembre de 2002 13:46, John Richard Smith escribió: Santa was very generaous. An EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO I never found anything in linux work initially so easy. I just plugged it in the usb2 port powered it up went to MCC - hardwarte scanner- leftmouse clicked , it asked for cd1 , I gave it it, it said thank you, I smiled inwardly, It even gave me a kstartmenu entry, and away it went. So far I've had a go at grey scale and colour in normal scan docment mode(as against photo/transparency) and it worked. I have yet to make the fine adjustments but all looks very encouraging. I also notice the Steppa motor is 24v, as against most of the cheapie scanners being 12v I hope that makes for greater reliability. I'm always cautious to praise too loudly, somehow it seems like tempting fate, but all the thanks goes to those sane project people for their sterling efforts, and, I for one, am profoundly greatful. I just thought I would share this with you.It is always heartening when something works withou a lot of fuss and bother in linux. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Routing has Died
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 09:19, Barry Premeaux wrote: On Wednesday 25 December 2002 09:38 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Try the following. When kppp connects, note the ip address. Then from a root command prompt do route add default gw your.isp.dynamic.ip ppp0 In my case (in case you're interested) the final qualifier on my workstation here is eth0 instead of ppp0. If you were on a local lan attempting to connect to a gateway, you'd use the same route command line as above but just changing the device. Thank you for the info. I had just completed some KDE updates prior to the routing problem. It may be that one of the packages didn't set well with Kppp. Barry So did the command work or no? :) Still waiting to hear about the result. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Informal poll
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 22:13, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I'm just wondering, if I could see a show of hands so to speak - how many SCSI users have actually gotten their setups to work with Mandrake 9.0 (download edition). I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI card with: Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, and an Astra Umax scanner. I've been planning to do a test install here on my primary workstation, which has an Adaptec 3940U dual channel SCSI host adapter, Pioneer SCSI CDROM, IDE Toshiba DVD-CDRW Combo, KT7-Raid mobo. Also has an Iomega Zip on the SCSI bus. Two Deskstars are running off of the RAID buses. Would that be interesting to you? If you do actually have it working, can you please post what card/setup and if you had to do anything special to get it to work Are your boot drives SCSI or IDE. ? I'm finding it impossible here; installs fine, locks up so hard the caps (and others) key won't work on the keyboard and requires a manual reset/power off/on. Locks up at finding module dependencies My gut instinct is that if I yanked the SCSI setup, inserted a bare IDE CDROM that it would install fine. (has installed just perfectly on 2 other IDE based comps here). Have you tried disconnecting all devices from the SCSI host adapter, and then installing? I'm assuming here that your boot drive is IDE. This same setup works *rock-solid* with v8.2 of Mandrake. Thanks everyone. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Informal poll
On Thursday 26 December 2002 07:13 pm, you wrote: I'm just wondering, if I could see a show of hands so to speak - how many SCSI users have actually gotten their setups to work with Mandrake 9.0 (download edition). I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI card with: Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, and an Astra Umax scanner. You actually got that to work with 8.2 Right out of the box??? I think your card uses the adaptec AIC 7xxx_old driver, but version 8.2 shipped with Adaptec's new version as the default install. The fix was to install the AIC 7xxx_old version of the driver from an expert install. Unfortunately, with my setup (onboard adaptec 2940, not PCI add-on) I couldn't get the old scsi driver to take with 8.2. So, with that machine, I installed 8.0, and lived happily ever after. Another machine with a 2940 clone pci (Advansys), works flawlessly in 8.2 without the old driver. Anyway, I'm sure 9.0 also installs the AIC 7xxx driver by default, so have you tried installing the AIC 7xxx_old driver for your card? Anyway, even with 8.2, the documentation about this problem was sorely lacking. RedHat published the fix how-to for their distro, but the only thing I found from Mandrake was in the Mandrake Forum, and it didn't work for me, probably because of the scsi being on-board. I know that doesn't help from the standpoint of your poll, but I thought some history about the Adaptec driver might be in order for some of the newer users. I also would like to know how many people with the older Adaptec cards have had problems with 9.0. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
