Re: [newbie-it] [OT] auguri!
Ricambio augurando un felice e prospero 2003! From: Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Mandrake Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie-it] [OT] auguri! Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:08:48 +0100 Ciao a tutti i Linuxari in ascolto, e soprattutto: *** BUON ANNO NUOVO A TUTTI !!! *** (nella speranza che sia migliore del precedente) Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.» _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione e convivenza
Il gio, 2003-01-02 alle 00:31, miKe ha scritto: installare il 2000 su fat32 è troppo limitativo conviene usare una fat32 intermedia, solo per interscambio sarà la 'cartella documenti' per win$ e 'quellochetipare' per GNU/Linux Si lo so, intendevo questo: ridimensionare il disco in due partizioni fat32 installare 2000 o xp su una delle due dicendogli, in sede di installazione, di convertire la partizione dove si posizionerà xp o 2000 in ntfs. Così da avere, comunque pronta, la seconda partizione fat32 da modificare, convertire, ridimensionare per l'utilizzo con linux. Un po' contorto? beh, effettivamente :-)) Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 9.0 on Pentium III - 733 Mhz Linux User # 203143 Linux Machine # 175781
Re: [newbie-it] Consiglio modem via cavo
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:16:48 -0800 Di Fresco Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Se invece è qualcosa di diverso, allora vedi il cable-modem HowTo che trovi nella tua distro o in rete. Visto che sei negli USA e hai un oggetto che non esiste in Italia, l'unico riferimento che ti posso dare è: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html non per niente è uo dei pochissimi HowTo non tradotti in italiano Ok, cerchero' in rete (al momento la MDK 8.2 la ho installata, ma ho appena installato WinXP che ha piallato LILO e so che ci sono delle procedure particolari per riattivarlo con Win2K/XP). Se metti il primo CD della distro, premi subito F1 e avvii in modalità rescue dovresti ripristinare Lilo facilmente. Anch'io ha sentito dire che Xp è un po' ostico. L'alternativa che funziona sicuramente è seguire il mini-howto Linux+NT-loader che trovi sullo stesso sito o, tradotto in italiano, a http://www.pluto.linux.it/ildp/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Aggiungere un nuovo hard disk
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, francesco.melo wrote: in nessun modo mi accettava il secondo hard disk come secondary master spostandolo come secondary slave , invece, tutto è andato liscio... qualcuno mi sa dare una spiegazione in proposito? Mi sembra strano che sia il disco fisso a fare i capricci, e' molto piu' probabile che il responsabile di tutto cio' sia il masterizzatore; AFAIK e' questo che di solito esige di essere messo come master, quindi logicamente l'altra periferica installata sullo stesso canale dovra' assumere la posizione di slave: presumibilmente non l'hai visto a causa dell'emulazione scsi attivata che comporta lo svincolo del nome attuale del dispositivo da quello originario. -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 ** k 2.4.20-acpi+preempt+lowlat+pktwrt Data la perdurante indifferenza di Atlanet nei confronti della sua feccia spammer, tutte le email che ricevo, provenienti da una connessione con quel provider, saranno cestinate. Un consiglio: si cambi provider ;
Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel
Alle 00:46, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, miKe ha scritto: ti incollo un pezzo di lilo.conf *** # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 root = /dev/hda6 label = Slack_2.4.20 read-only image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-2 root = /dev/hda6 label = Slack_2.4.19 read-only image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root = /dev/hda6 label = Slack_2.4.18 read-only image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda6 label = Slack_original read-only Ma quanti Kernel hai nel tuo sistema?? Che ci fai co tutti sti kernel?? :) come vedi devi solo duplicare le chiamate ai vari kernel che metti in /boot chiaramente i nomi devono essere univoci Quindi tu mi dici di ribattezzare il mio bzImage con per esempio vmlinuz-2.4.19-pluto okkio ai moduli, se ricompili un kernel diverso dall'attuale, no prob se è lo stesso, per differenziare devi usare dei nomi differenti per kernel e moduli quindi devi intervenire sul Makefile andando ogni volta a cambiare la variabile extraversion Qui mi sono già perso, il kernel che ho compilato è diverso da quello attuale anche se nasce dagli stessi sorgenti credo... devo intervenire sul Makefile che si trova in /boot? e cambiare di preciso cosa? (se noti il kernel mandrake ha un nome che termina in -xxx.mdk) quel valore è dato proprio dalla variabile in questione, tu potrai chiamarla 'pluto' ed avere quindi un vmlinuz-2.4.20-pluto (nome che darai tu a bzImage) e dei moduli in /lib/modules/2.4.20-pluto automaticamente definiti, con congruenza in modules.dep e System.map (anche nel kernel, lo vedi con uname) Qui non capisco più nulla... in pratica dovrei cambiare delle cose in /lib/modules, modules.dep e System.map, questi ultimi due si trovano in /boot se non sbaglio ... Mah.., Vediamo se ho capito per linee generali il da farsi: 1) copio bzImage in /boot 2) rinomino bzImage con per esempio vmlinuz-2.4.19-pluto 3) modifico lilo.conf inserendo in nuovo kernel 4) modifico Makefile, System.map, modules.dep, /lib/modules in cose che non ho compreso 5) /sbin/lilo Ci sono ancora altre piccole domande: a) Dopo /sbin/lilo e riavvio, come faccio a dire al sistema con quale Kernel partire? a1) Credo che lui parta con il primo kernel che trova in lilo.conf, mettiamo il caso io metta vmlinuz-2.4.19-pluto.. se volessi farlo partire con il secondo, diciamo vmlinuz, come dovrei fare? b) in lilo.conf si fa riferimento oltre che a linux a linux failsafe e ad un'altra voce; anche in queste modalità, che non ho mai usato, devo mettere il nuovo kernel? Credo di no, ma vorrei conferme... Grazie Ciao
[newbie-it] kde 3.0.5
un saluto a tutta la lista ho trovato su una rivista KDE 3.0.5 e volevo (se possibile) installarlo sul Mandrake 8.2 il dubbio è se devo rimuovere il KDE installato da l Mandrake 8.2,oppure vado tranquillo come sempre ,spero di essere stato chiaro grazie mario
Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel
Alle 17:09, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: (se noti il kernel mandrake ha un nome che termina in -xxx.mdk) quel valore è dato proprio dalla variabile in questione, tu potrai chiamarla 'pluto' ed avere quindi un vmlinuz-2.4.20-pluto (nome che darai tu a bzImage) e dei moduli in /lib/modules/2.4.20-pluto automaticamente definiti, con congruenza in modules.dep e System.map (anche nel kernel, lo vedi con uname) Al discorso fatto nella precedente email aggiungerei una cosa che forse è importante, e cioè che il sistema stesso ha ribattezzato il nuovo kernel 2.4.19-16mdkcustom, quindi potrei lasciare tutto come è, perché i due kernel sono assolutamente differenziati, anche in Makefile di /usr/src/linux nel label c'è -16mdkcustom e in /lib/modules c'è la direcotory 2.4.19-16mdkcustom... Potrei forse ribattezzare bzImage e mettere un nome più simpatico Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Aggiungere un nuovo hard disk
LukenShiro wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, francesco.melo wrote: in nessun modo mi accettava il secondo hard disk come secondary master spostandolo come secondary slave , invece, tutto è andato liscio... qualcuno mi sa dare una spiegazione in proposito? Mi sembra strano che sia il disco fisso a fare i capricci, e' molto piu' probabile che il responsabile di tutto cio' sia il masterizzatore; AFAIK e' questo che di solito esige di essere messo come master, quindi logicamente l'altra periferica installata sullo stesso canale dovra' assumere la posizione di slave: presumibilmente non l'hai visto a causa dell'emulazione scsi attivata che comporta lo svincolo del nome attuale del dispositivo da quello originario. potrersti avere ragione , ma , tra le prove da me effettuate c'era anche lo staccare il masterizzatore dal secondary slave per vedere che non fosse lio a disturbare e dopo un riavvio , sparire dal fstab... e dopo questa operaizone che ...per provare, inzialmente , ho poi spostato sullo slave l'hard disk fdisk ed il mount mi dicevano che avevo troppy fs montati o che cmq non potevano aprire il supporto mah francesco
Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel
Alle 17:47, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Al discorso fatto nella precedente email aggiungerei una cosa che forse è importante, e cioè che il sistema stesso ha ribattezzato il nuovo kernel 2.4.19-16mdkcustom, quindi potrei lasciare tutto come è, perché i due kernel sono assolutamente differenziati, anche in Makefile di /usr/src/linux nel label c'è -16mdkcustom e in /lib/modules c'è la direcotory 2.4.19-16mdkcustom... Potrei forse ribattezzare bzImage e mettere un nome più simpatico Tenuto per vero quello che ho scritto ho modificato /etc/lilo.conf e ho chiamato, in lilo, linuxacpi il sistema con il nuovo kernel... Sono ripartito e come credevo, si blocca il boot, dando questo errore /bin/insmode exited abnormally Mi rendo conto che è difficile dire dal di fuori cosa fare, certo è sicuro che ho compilato male il kernel Si può ritentare di ricompilarlo partendo dalla directory /usr/src/linux e creando dunque una nuova immagine?? Grazie mille
[newbie-it] Problemi con supermount
Salve a tutti, ho rimosso il supermount dall'fstab e tutto funziona ottimamante. Purtroppo però quando accedo al sistema mi viene ricreata la cartella Removable Media sul desktop che, non avvalendosi del supermount, è diventata inutile. Come faccio a rimuoverla definitivamente? Grazie Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione e convivenza
veramente l'avevo fatto su una partizione (hda1) da 30 giga con su 2 giga scarsi di dati, ed ho fatto scandisk e defrag, finito il defrag, riavviato, ridimensionato a 20 giga, fregato (tanto già lo sapevo). l'unica cosa che non avevo fatto era mettere a zero la memoria virtuale. ciao. miKe ha scritto: ... per usare diskdrake, in modo da ridimensionare una partizione (fat32 o ntfs non cambia) è necessario spostare tutti i dati di win$ neli primi settori della partizione in quanto l'utilità *non è in grado* di spostare i dati [come GNU/Parted o partition magic] ma solo di ridimensionare la partizione quindi : 1. nella partizione win$ è necessario fare uno scandisk 2. mettere a zero la memoria virtuale 3. riavviare 4. fare un defrag ...
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione e convivenza
Alle 23:51, martedì 31 dicembre 2002, Corrado ha scritto: Il mar, 2002-12-31 alle 09:43, Sandro Porrazzini ha scritto: Il lun, 2002-12-30 alle 23:23, Corrado ha scritto: Il consiglio su come procedere: - ridimensionare la partizione ntfs con l'utility di xp Però l'altro os in questione è Windows 2000; se esiste tle funzione anche in questo caso, sarebbe ciò che cerchiamo :) Come si chiama l'utility cui ti riferisci? Corrado Per partizionare l'hd con winxp devi andare in pannello di controllo/strumenti di amministrazione/computer/gestione disco..l'unico problema è che xp non ti consente di ridimensionare la partizione in cui è allocato, cioè se hai un solo hd non puoi creare un'altra partizione.Comunque il programma di partizionamento di mdk9 non ha problemi a ridimensionare una partizione ntfs e a formattare la partizione di linux con filesystem linux-native senza dare problemi a win che potrai avviare tranquillamente, basta inserirlo in lilo durante l'installazione. Ciao Gianni
Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel
Sorpresa!! in /usr/src/arch/boot/ non c'è bzImage che cosa può essere accaduto?? Ulp, un caso ancora più disperato del mio! Possibile che non siano stati segnalati errori durante la compilazione? Per un di più ti scrivo il contenuto della mia cartella: bbootsect* bbootsect.o bbootsect.s bootsect.S bsetup* bsetup.o bsetup.s bzImage compressed/ install.sh Makefile setup.S tools/ video.S Ciao Giorgio
Re: [newbie-it] Help Grip
salve, ho installato grip (su mandrake 8.2) ed ho gia' dei problemi... un'altra domanda: avendo gia' un file wav su hd, come convertirlo in mp3? prova con lame da terminale e digiti la seguente riga di comando: lame file.wav file.mp3 invio dove file.wav è il tuo file da trasformare in file.mp3 puoi iniziare così poi leggendo il man lame potrai utilizzare le varie opzioni. se non hai il lame lo trovi su: http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/#lame (dove troverai l'ultima versione) oppure puoi scaricare la variante notlame che ha solo la differenza di non avere il man lame: http://www.idiap.ch/~sanders/not_lame/ per registrare i tuoi wav (per esempio dal tuo microfono) sempre da riga di comando puoi usare rec con le varie opzioni e per riprodurre la tua registrazione puoi usare il comando play che sono resi disponibili nel pachetto sox già presente in mdk, poi potrai trasformare la tua registrazione personale in mp3 con lame. Per riprodurre poi il file mp3 puoi usare da terminale: mpg123 file.mp3 come vedi da riga di comando si va subito al sodo e non si perde tempo a sfogliare le varie interfaccie grafiche. = Luigi Beltramini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.iol.it/citazioni http://digilander.iol.it/citazioni ciao da Giuseppe.
Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:47, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata , in merito a Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel, ha scritto: (se noti il kernel mandrake ha un nome che termina in -xxx.mdk) quel valore è dato proprio dalla variabile in questione, tu potrai chiamarla 'pluto' Al discorso fatto nella precedente email aggiungerei una cosa che forse è importante, e cioè che il sistema stesso ha ribattezzato il nuovo kernel 2.4.19-16mdkcustom ha usato proprio extraversion (è una variabile che modifichi in Makefile *prima* della ricompilazione, proprio per differenziare kernel e moduli) Ciao bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+FLSIF/9fksDJ4y0RAgkzAJ4pkVRLJE7QPqCf0Aj6/eYxXsD5bwCgh846 8TNq6/b8cH3Xb/srHFJpWaA= =V5dU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:09, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata , in merito a Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel, ha scritto: Ma quanti Kernel hai nel tuo sistema?? Che ci fai co tutti sti kernel?? :) l'ultimo lo affianco al penultimo per almeno un paio di mesi, per essere sicuro che non faccia scherzi quello standard lo conservo sempre, come vedi ne resta solo uno in più... ..pigrizia come vedi devi solo duplicare le chiamate ai vari kernel che metti in /boot chiaramente i nomi devono essere univoci Quindi tu mi dici di ribattezzare il mio bzImage con per esempio vmlinuz-2.4.19-pluto come ti pare, basta che in lilo lo indichi correttamente okkio ai moduli, se ricompili un kernel diverso dall'attuale, no prob se è lo stesso, per differenziare devi usare dei nomi differenti per kernel e moduli quindi devi intervenire sul Makefile andando ogni volta a cambiare la variabile extraversion Qui mi sono già perso, il kernel che ho compilato è diverso da quello attuale anche se nasce dagli stessi sorgenti credo... devo intervenire sul Makefile che si trova in /boot? e cambiare di preciso cosa? root@mdk:/var/log/packages# less /usr/src/linux/Makefile VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 20 EXTRAVERSION = KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) ... chiaro? Qui non capisco più nulla... in pratica dovrei cambiare delle cose in /lib/modules, modules.dep e System.map, questi ultimi due si trovano in /boot se non sbaglio ... tu devi solo valorizzare extraversion il resto è automatico Mah.., Vediamo se ho capito per linee generali il da farsi: 1) copio bzImage in /boot 2) rinomino bzImage con per esempio vmlinuz-2.4.19-pluto 3) modifico lilo.conf inserendo in nuovo kernel ok 4) modifico Makefile, System.map, modules.dep, /lib/modules in cose che non ho compreso solo makefile 5) /sbin/lilo Ci sono ancora altre piccole domande: a) Dopo /sbin/lilo e riavvio, come faccio a dire al sistema con quale Kernel partire? hai una serie di scelte, no? esattamente come lin/win premendo [tab] all'avvio dovresti averle elencate tutte a1) Credo che lui parta con il primo kernel che trova in lilo.conf, si, a meno che tu non indichi il default b) in lilo.conf si fa riferimento oltre che a linux a linux failsafe e ad un'altra voce; anche in queste modalità, che non ho mai usato, devo mettere il nuovo kernel? Credo di no, ma vorrei conferme... il nuovo lo indichi nudo e crudo le modalità 'failsafe' e 'nofb' puoi tenerle col kernel standard, le userai solo in caso di problemi NBNBNB metti monolitico almeno il supporto al filesystem che usi, e ai dispositivi che devono essere disponibili subito, es il controller altrimenti devi generare un initrd.img (che per me è inutile a meno di server dove non serve *nulla* e si vuole risparmiare il mezzo kb.. per caricare solo quello che si deve usare quando serve) Grazie Ciao bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+FLeIF/9fksDJ4y0RAk6oAKCePZsXGvFpCTVyr5PX2DLWu2b85wCfb7Gh tr7/Pd+AMFfrvPiyjdhjCgM= =AX+t -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel
Alle 19:55, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Si può ritentare di ricompilarlo partendo dalla directory /usr/src/linux e creando dunque una nuova immagine?? Sto provando a riconfigurare il Kernel e appena esco dal menù xconfig c'è questo messaggio di errore: ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_MOD_DVB) Cosa è MOD DVB?? Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Usb storage
Scusate,ho lo stesso problema con uba piccola macchina fotografica da bambino... non riesco a vederla perchè quando monto /dev/sda1 mi dice che lo special device /dev/sda1 doesn't exist. Ho mdk 9.0 su di un portatile, e non ho dispositivi scsi...come fare? Grazie e buon anno a tutti! = Giovanni A. Coan Medico chirurgo V. Aldo Moro,5 40036 Monzuno (BO) [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Cellulari: scarica i loghi e le suonerie per le tue feste! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
Re: [newbie] Which file records info about previous sessions?
snip Am running LM8.1 and have tried to get KwikDisk to run. All that happens is that it tries to launch and appears to fail. snip Mea Culpa - I didn't have a System Tray on the Panel so couldn't see the KD icons - there were 9! The question above still stands. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux W2000
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 12:05 am, Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:30:02 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiley: Don't even think about resizing your win2k partition with diskdrake. It can mess up your win2k. I didn't :) I bought PM6, which is already unsupported by PowerQuest. I'm not certain, but I think it caused a number of problems for me. I would be very careful. The current version is 8.0, I understand. Get a total backup before you try anything like this. Good luck Anne I used partition magic 7 and all worked fine. I was reported PM 6 could mess all things up; if 7 is okay, good :-) Now I.m going to ask my friend if that's okay, so any other hint is welcome! Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:12, Robin Turner wrote: Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:18:50 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't if anyone posted this question before: Is there anyway that i can put my linux box to write on my win2k (NTFS) partitions? Till now, i'm using a small fat partition to put my linux files that i want to open in windows but the process is quite boring.. Since I have a problem related to your, the reply is: last time I heard, the feature was in development, it seems $MS$ is not so happy 'bout that and tried to stop the work... Sounds juicy - tell more! I'm happy because I just squelched a proposal to get XP on our department's computers. Sir Robin In my (not so thorough) understanding, NTFS support for W2K is pretty good. The later NTFS used with XP is really scratchy though. The best compromise solution may be to make a small FAT32 partition that both can read and write to without hitches (other than permission problems of win files imported into /home). A method would be: - Remove/Backup all files from NTFS partition using winders. - Reboot in Linux. - Use Diskdrake to rewrite reformat the NTFS partition as FAT32. - Restore any files required (in winders). - Check the partition is mounted ok under linux. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:08, Anders Lind wrote: 1. Make a bootable floppy (You will need 'fdisk' in there.) 2. Boot from that floppy, and at prompt, type: 'fdisk /mbr' (without quottes) This will remove lilo. 3. Then, run 'fdisk' and just delete linux partitions. It might work if fdisk finds them, anyway I would suggest that you start up like you would install Mandrake again, then remove the partitions in partition setup program and after that boot up as suggested in step 1 and then type fdisk /mbr /Anders I agree with Anders. Windows FDISK isn't happy removing linux partitions but diskdrake will do it from the CD. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Problem
I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no sound at all not even startup sounds for KDE Does anyone have suggestions as to what I should try next. Thanks in advance Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Installing running Programs/Scripts/Code
I've been downloading tar.gz files from the net, but for the life of me I can't get them to work.I've run the tar -x command but it doesn't work, and I've tried quite a few others, but they don't work. It's not just the tar.gz files either, I'm having trouble running any program. My name is graham and I can place the files in my home/graham dir OK, but that's it. I can't do anything from there. The only program that I seem to be having a bit of success with is nmap. It was a simple as typing nmap as a root command and off I went.If anyone has some useful information, I would appreciate it.(What would we do without newbies?)LOL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problem
Ühel kenal päeval (neljapäev, 2. jaanuar 2003 14:21) kirjutasid sa: I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no sound at all not even startup sounds for KDE Now first thing to check is always whether you have unmuted channels :-)) This is by far the most widespread sound problem in Linux. KMix is good for that. Other than that - I have the same sound chip. 9.0 got it recognized and it also worked except for some games. You could try latest alsa drivers - www.alsa-project.org. Look for instructions specific to your chip. They have very good step-by-step instructions that are suitable for complete newb with standard intelligence and some time at hand :-) This will require downloading and compiling three files, modifying your modules.conf and editing or creating .asoundrc file in your home directory. Given the quality of instructions you can do it fast and it is also great educational experiment. Conclusion - it seems VT8233 is not best-supported piece of hardware and requires extra work but will work for most purposes. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java plugin for Mozilla
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:42, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi there, I wish I had a dollar, (accounting for the current rate of inflation), for every time I've seen this need addressed in these lists. Doesn't anyone read the archives any more? ;) with this thought in mind I've saved this message as a template on my system and will send it to the list probably once a week so in case anyone misses the post it will show up again and again and again on the list for those poor souls that missed it the previous time it was posted. Almost as many times as the question, where can I get the Java plugins for Mozilla/Netscape...etc... anyway...if you're needing the java plugin for Netscape, or Mozilla go follow the link below and you'll be able to download and install the java plugin. And by the way...this does not require the download and install of Sun's JDK or JRE packages. This is a seperate browser plugin. IMPORTANT NOTE: you Must be root user when you do this or the plugin will NOT install. http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/pi_moreinfo.cgi?PID=10048 Still no joy, Netscape also refuses to recognize this version of java and, although Mozilla an Galeon recognize the updated version, they still crash instantly when encountering a page with an applet. Rich Rich, Then it would appear that there's something wrong with your installation of Netscape/Mozilla, because this plugin has been working flawlessly for myself and others, which is why I post this message about once a week on the list. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux W2000
Smiley wrote: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... I know diskdrake can't do that... So, any suggestion about Partition Magic or everything else? Smiley Patition Magic versions 7 and 8 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which file records info about previous sessions?
Hi , While this is good advise and works , I too would like to know where the info is actually stored so I can if I choose manually remove redundant entries that I have. Specificly , I have done this proceedure to remove redundant error messages coming from Firestarter, however they continue to reappear. I even uninstalled firestarter, and removed it's folders and files, rebooted and reinstalled firestarter, and the same three versions of error messages came back. Where is that stored ??? the save session tool is great but not completely fool proof. telling us how to manually edit this function would be great, and Might actually solve my problem, but this proceedure did not. thanks in advance 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! Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 6:34 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: Hello all. Happy New Year. Am running LM8.1 and have tried to get KwikDisk to run. All that happens is that it tries to launch and appears to fail. However when I logout and restart X I appear to have 9? instances of KwikDisk trying to start. I'd like to purge this activity from the startup process. I have KDiskFree working OK. TIA, Rob Kill all the unmwanted instances of KwikDisk, get your desktop how you like it, with any applets you want, and then log out with the 'save session' box checked. Log back in again and your desktop should be just right with no unwanted instances of KwikDisk. Log out *without* the save session box, and then whenever you log in in the future your desktop will always be the same. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 19:08, Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:18:50 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't if anyone posted this question before: Is there anyway that i can put my linux box to write on my win2k (NTFS) partitions? Till now, i'm using a small fat partition to put my linux files that i want to open in windows but the process is quite boring.. Since I have a problem related to your, the reply is: last time I heard, the feature was in development, it seems $MS$ is not so happy 'bout that and tried to stop the work... Smiley You can write to NTFS with smbfs. I use mount -t smbfs to write my nightly backup on my laptop and my servers to my XP desktop. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: Because if you change to 'vga=normal' you're still usin fb (frame buffer). Just remove the vga= line and you should get 'plain text'. BTW, if you want to keep the fb =788 is 800x600, =791 is 1024x 768. I don't recall what the number would be for 640x480, but I sort'a think it's =785. That lower resolution would get you bigger text with fb. Maybe someone else knows, or you can refer to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-2mdk/Documentation/svga.txt /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-2mdk/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt I know there use to be a doc file that listed the various codes, but I can't find it, or even remember where/what it was ;( The codes are listed in hexidecimal, you'll need to convert to decimal. Most calculators will do that for you. Besides, I never need to fool with this cause I like the bootsplash ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas The file is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. In order to get the video mode number of the Linux kernel, you take the hexadecimal VESA mode number, then add 0x200. Then of course you convert to decimal. Hex Vesa mode chart: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +- 256 | 0x1010x1030x1050x107 32k | 0x1100x1130x1160x119 64k | 0x1110x1140x1170x11A 16M | 0x1120x1150x1180x11B Hex adjusted Kernel mode numbers: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +- 256 | 0x3010x3030x3050x307 32k | 0x3100x3130x3160x319 64k | 0x3110x3140x3170x31A 16M | 0x3120x3150x3180x31B --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] Which file records info about previous sessions?
Many applications save information in hidden files or folders in your ~ (home) directory. KDE applications will generally put their files in ~/.kde/share/config/ To view hidden files in konqueror just select ViewShowHidden ~/.kde/Autostart contains scripts and applications to be run when you start KDE This is *not* where save sessions stores its info. It is a separate feature. To make an application run at start using Autostart, make a 'Link to application' by right clicking on the desktop and selecting 'new', and then drag and drop the link created into the ~.kde/Autostart directory. I am not sure where the 'save session' info is stored I would expect it to be ~/.kde/share/config/session but I see stuff in there which is not present on my desktop. derek On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 3:08 am, mycal62 wrote: Hi , While this is good advise and works , I too would like to know where the info is actually stored so I can if I choose manually remove redundant entries that I have. Specificly , I have done this proceedure to remove redundant error messages coming from Firestarter, however they continue to reappear. I even uninstalled firestarter, and removed it's folders and files, rebooted and reinstalled firestarter, and the same three versions of error messages came back. Where is that stored ??? the save session tool is great but not completely fool proof. telling us how to manually edit this function would be great, and Might actually solve my problem, but this proceedure did not. thanks in advance 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! Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 6:34 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: Hello all. Happy New Year. Am running LM8.1 and have tried to get KwikDisk to run. All that happens is that it tries to launch and appears to fail. However when I logout and restart X I appear to have 9? instances of KwikDisk trying to start. I'd like to purge this activity from the startup process. I have KDiskFree working OK. TIA, Rob Kill all the unmwanted instances of KwikDisk, get your desktop how you like it, with any applets you want, and then log out with the 'save session' box checked. Log back in again and your desktop should be just right with no unwanted instances of KwikDisk. Log out *without* the save session box, and then whenever you log in in the future your desktop will always be the same. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xcdroast-0.98alpha11 on LM8.1
I would like to update the xcdroast frontend from xcdroast-0.98alpha9 to alpha11 so that I can write multisession CDs. Believe that I need cdrtools-2.0 for the application to work. Is there anything else I need to update. How do I go about the change? Any advice would be much appreciated. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which file records info about previous sessions?
Thanks Derek, however it's still doesn't answer the question. I've looked around there too and know it's not there. thanks for trying though. Derek Jennings wrote: Many applications save information in hidden files or folders in your ~ (home) directory. KDE applications will generally put their files in ~/.kde/share/config/ To view hidden files in konqueror just select ViewShowHidden ~/.kde/Autostart contains scripts and applications to be run when you start KDE This is *not* where save sessions stores its info. It is a separate feature. To make an application run at start using Autostart, make a 'Link to application' by right clicking on the desktop and selecting 'new', and then drag and drop the link created into the ~.kde/Autostart directory. I am not sure where the 'save session' info is stored I would expect it to be ~/.kde/share/config/session but I see stuff in there which is not present on my desktop. derek On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 3:08 am, mycal62 wrote: Hi , While this is good advise and works , I too would like to know where the info is actually stored so I can if I choose manually remove redundant entries that I have. Specificly , I have done this proceedure to remove redundant error messages coming from Firestarter, however they continue to reappear. I even uninstalled firestarter, and removed it's folders and files, rebooted and reinstalled firestarter, and the same three versions of error messages came back. Where is that stored ??? the save session tool is great but not completely fool proof. telling us how to manually edit this function would be great, and Might actually solve my problem, but this proceedure did not. thanks in advance 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! Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 6:34 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: Hello all. Happy New Year. Am running LM8.1 and have tried to get KwikDisk to run. All that happens is that it tries to launch and appears to fail. However when I logout and restart X I appear to have 9? instances of KwikDisk trying to start. I'd like to purge this activity from the startup process. I have KDiskFree working OK. TIA, Rob Kill all the unmwanted instances of KwikDisk, get your desktop how you like it, with any applets you want, and then log out with the 'save session' box checked. Log back in again and your desktop should be just right with no unwanted instances of KwikDisk. Log out *without* the save session box, and then whenever you log in in the future your desktop will always be the same. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- 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
Re: [newbie] DVD region killer
Dear Stephen, Friends, I'm sorry for my late reply. I did download the tar file (in www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_2215_css.tar.gz) and extract the files. Thank you in advance, PDS *Happy New Year 2003* From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sasongko Pribadi Djoko [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD region killer Date: 26 Dec 2002 23:33:13 +1100 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 _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux W2000
Acronis It comes with the power pack 9.0 El Mié 01 Ene 2003 23:38, Smiley escribió: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... I know diskdrake can't do that... So, any suggestion about Partition Magic or everything else? Smiley -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0
On Thursday January 2 2003 09:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The file is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. In order to get the video mode number of the Linux kernel, you take the hexadecimal VESA mode number, then add 0x200. Then of course you convert to decimal. Hex adjusted Kernel mode numbers: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +- 256 | 0x3010x3030x3050x307 32k | 0x3100x3130x3160x319 64k | 0x3110x3140x3170x31A 16M | 0x3120x3150x3180x31B --LX Thanks LX, I'll try'n remember ;) Seems my foggy old brain was right, 'cause vga=785 works out to 640x480 at 64k (0x311). Probly a good setting for those that want bigger text on a 17 monitor. One thing I should'a mentioned before, none of this will work unless the video card supports framebuffering. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Installing running Programs/Scripts/Code
Graham, I had the same problem.. but via this group, I learned to download these files into my tmp file first, open them with Ark, transfer ALL the files to /usr/local or /usr/local/bin... not sure which one. (I'm sure someone will correct me!!) after you transfered the files they should make their own folder. goto that folder look for the readmedoc and follow the directions. What other type of programs have you downloaded?? RPM'S?? if so I find them to be much easier.. but its best to learn both ways. Graham, its a long learning process but the fruit is so sweet once you get it! if you happen to see a post from lanman ask him your question.. he has and still is helping me with my system and I have a mini lab setup in my home... hope this helped a bit.. holla back soon. Gavin aka Grasshopper On Friday 03 January 2003 08:21 am, Graham Pohle wrote: I've been downloading tar.gz files from the net, but for the life of me I can't get them to work.I've run the tar -x command but it doesn't work, and I've tried quite a few others, but they don't work. It's not just the tar.gz files either, I'm having trouble running any program. My name is graham and I can place the files in my home/graham dir OK, but that's it. I can't do anything from there. The only program that I seem to be having a bit of success with is nmap. It was a simple as typing nmap as a root command and off I went.If anyone has some useful information, I would appreciate it.(What would we do without newbies?)LOL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions
Tis a very, very bad idea to write to your NTFS partition from Linux. It WILL hose your NTFS system. So, if you enable RW access to your Win2K partition be prepared to reload your system. NTFS access from Linux should me RO (read only). I've done it for a very long time without any problem what so ever. And I've never had to reload either my Windows 2000 system, or my Windows XP system, that I do this with. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Installing running Programs/Scripts/Code
On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:30 am, Gavin Rollins wrote: Graham, I had the same problem.. but via this group, I learned to download these files into my tmp file first, open them with Ark, transfer ALL the files to /usr/local or /usr/local/bin... not sure which one. (I'm sure someone will correct me!!) after you transfered the files they should make their own folder. goto that folder look for the readmedoc and follow the directions. What other type of programs have you downloaded?? RPM'S?? if so I find them to be much easier.. but its best to learn both ways. Graham, its a long learning process but the fruit is so sweet once you get it! if you happen to see a post from lanman ask him your question.. he has and still is helping me with my system and I have a mini lab setup in my home... hope this helped a bit.. holla back soon. Gavin aka Grasshopper On Friday 03 January 2003 08:21 am, Graham Pohle wrote: I've been downloading tar.gz files from the net, but for the life of me I can't get them to work.I've run the tar -x command but it doesn't work, and I've tried quite a few others, but they don't work. It's not just the tar.gz files either, I'm having trouble running any program. My name is graham and I can place the files in my home/graham dir OK, but that's it. I can't do anything from there. The only program that I seem to be having a bit of success with is nmap. It was a simple as typing nmap as a root command and off I went.If anyone has some useful information, I would appreciate it.(What would we do without newbies?)LOL If you are using KDE and in most cases from Konqueror, you can just double click into the tar.gz file and then do a drag and drop of the files from there into the temp directory. I generally use the superuser version so that I have the terminal line available for anything else that I do. David -- -- ( )_( ) ( OO ) ( ) o Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions
Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:12, Robin Turner wrote: Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:18:50 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't if anyone posted this question before: Is there anyway that i can put my linux box to write on my win2k (NTFS) partitions? Till now, i'm using a small fat partition to put my linux files that i want to open in windows but the process is quite boring.. Since I have a problem related to your, the reply is: last time I heard, the feature was in development, it seems $MS$ is not so happy 'bout that and tried to stop the work... Sounds juicy - tell more! I'm happy because I just squelched a proposal to get XP on our department's computers. Sir Robin In my (not so thorough) understanding, NTFS support for W2K is pretty good. The later NTFS used with XP is really scratchy though. The best compromise solution may be to make a small FAT32 partition that both can read and write to without hitches (other than permission problems of win files imported into /home). A method would be: - Remove/Backup all files from NTFS partition using winders. - Reboot in Linux. - Use Diskdrake to rewrite reformat the NTFS partition as FAT32. - Restore any files required (in winders). - Check the partition is mounted ok under linux. Tis a very, very bad idea to write to your NTFS partition from Linux. It WILL hose your NTFS system. So, if you enable RW access to your Win2K partition be prepared to reload your system. NTFS access from Linux should me RO (read only). -- Mark --- I had 49 days uptime until my wife brought the servers down when she ran the vacuum cleaner. --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java - lost it
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 2:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday January 1 2003 01:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Looking again at what you wrote originally, I get the same output as you for the command ll /usr/bin/java Including rwx permissions for users (lrwxrwxrwx) ? . Yes - it's all OK ^^^ However, it looks to me as though it has not been added to the path, since what I get from the next command is: [root@anne-linux anne]# echo $PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/lo cal/sbin [root@anne-linux anne]# Mea culpa. When I first replied I had Mandrake's j2re 1.4.0 installed, and that rpm does add jre to your path. Since then I've upgraded to Mandrake's j2re 1.4.1. It _doesn't_ add jre to the path. (MOF, the upgrade removed it from mine). and this removed it from mine - and the java.sh from /etc/profile.d It shouldn't matter tho since it does create the link '/usr/bin/java - /etc/alternatives/java*' and '/usr/bin' should be in your path. BTW, run 'echo $PATH' as user, since you'll need java as user. [anne@anne-linux anne]$ echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/anne/bin [anne@anne-linux anne]$ Why are there two // in /usr//bin? Does /usr/bin include all subdirectories? I suspect the problem is with your Mozilla install. Tho I have no idea what is maybe wrong (and I'm now usin the newer 9.1 cooker version 1.3-0.alpha.1mdk). It's the standard install from 9.0's discs. I don't feel confident at using cooker versions yet. I could uninstall and re-install I suppose. I think the next thing to try is to check for suitable links in the Mozilla directory. Any other ideas gratefully welcomed. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Java -halfway there
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 2:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I've got both Mozilla and Galeon listing Java plugins, now. The rpm had put the .so file into Netscape plugins, so I copied it into the Mozilla plugin directory and sure enough it's recognised. However - Amazon.co.uk's site still has no navigation links or tabs. It has to be connected to this issue, since the working java in Galeon was lost when I installed the upgrade rpm. Has anyone any idea why it should be listed in the plugins but doesn't seem to be working? My Moz preferences file has Enable JavaScript for Navigator but not for Mail Newsgroups. Nor is Enable Plugins for Mail Newsgroups checked. I can't think what else I should look for. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IRQ conflict help
you might consider if there is a place in the BIOS to move the onboard sound . My cat /proc/interrupts lists a few sharing IRQs and so far, while I cna say I can create plenty of problems, I ain't chased any down to these particulre sharings (wintv and Nvidia gf4 ti4200 on 10;, usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ohci1394, eth0 on 11. cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 622827 623739IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 1882 1859IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 204877 208292IO-APIC-edge serial 5: 160473 160270 IO-APIC-level Audigy 8: 1 0IO-APIC-edge rtc 10: 533363 532150 IO-APIC-level bttv, nvidia 11:649655 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ohci1394, eth0 12: 121114 123355IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse 14: 23882 22327IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 4213 3657IO-APIC-edge ide1 NMI: 0 0 LOC:12466851246607 On Wednesday 01 January 2003 05:20 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, got my new Soyo Dragon Plus MB installed - 9.0 seems to work on it just fine. Only problem seems to be IRQ conflicts. I've got more than a few PCI cards - WinTV tuner, Adaptec SCSI, Linksys network, and an Nvidia AGP card. Here is the results from cat /proc/interrupts: [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 50064 XT-PIC timer 1: 1063 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 3203 XT-PIC serial 5: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 34150 XT-PIC CMI8738-MC6, nvidia 11: 61 XT-PIC aic7xxx 12: 14140 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 11026 XT-PIC ide0 15: 40 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 50023 ERR: 16 MIS: 0 This is with the Linksys network card, the WinTV card, pulled from the system. Only 2 cards are in, the Nvidia AGP card, and the Adaptec PCI card. 4 PCI slots are open. I'm not using slot 1 next to the AGP slot (they are supposed to be shared right?). CM18738-MC6 is the onboard sound and I'm using the onboard LAN as well. There is a conflict between the SCSI card and the Nvidia stuff. I can put the SCSI card in any of the slots - still conflicts. If I add the WinTV tuner card back in, I usually get 3 things using one IRQ. This can't be good. :-) PNP is turned off in BIOS and the PCI stuff is set to AUTO. I can set it to manual but all that does is let you pick PCI DEVICE or LEGACY for each IRQ. Any ideas on how to use more than 2 cards with 6 slots and 16 IRQs without something conflicting. Software with the cards suggests using Device manager to switch IRQs (heh)...as ifNo Windows here :-) Thanks all. PS I did search Google for help but I found nothing immediately useful. PSS I've got my HD on as master, IDE1 and my Zip as master, IDE2. If I put the Zip as a slave on IDE1, can I turn IDE2 off and gain an IRQ back? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java - lost it
On Thursday January 2 2003 11:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I suspect the problem is with your Mozilla install. Tho I have no idea what is maybe wrong (and I'm now usin the newer 9.1 cooker version 1.3-0.alpha.1mdk). It's the standard install from 9.0's discs. I don't feel confident at using cooker versions yet. ... and you can't either, except on a full cooker install of 9.1. I only mentioned that to imply I don't have 9.0's older Mozilla anymore. Anne, I'm out'a ideas with your Mozilla install. But as I ranted about in a previous reply, they're are no guarantees as soon as you taint a system with closed source stuff, ie, Sun's java. It may or may not work. Lobby Sun to release OSS java. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse
To answer your question, the installer didn't recognize the mouse throught the KVM switch. Do you know how to drive the Mandrake Control Center when the mouse doesn't work? I tried tabbing within the fields but this doesn't seem to work. I can keep switching the plugs, but I was hoping to try something easier. Thanks, Ross From: Brandon Vanderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:38:16 -0800 I've got the same setup and haven't noticed any issues. Did you install linux with the kvm attached? If so, could the os see the mouse during install? If you didn't, you might wanna go into the control center and see if you can try different mouse types/settings. HTH ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ross Bleakney Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse I recently attached a KVM switch between my Linux box and Windows box. The monitor switches just fine. However, the mouse doesn't work. I looked on the XFree-Newbie archives, and is common for people to have trouble with their mice through a KVM switch. However, people have skittery mice. I have no mouse input at all. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks, Ross P.S. I don't see anyway of searching the Mandrake-Newbie list archives, short of searching the entire Mandrake site (www.mandrakelinux.com). Does anyone know of a way to search the archives? _ The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java - lost it
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 6:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday January 2 2003 11:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I suspect the problem is with your Mozilla install. Tho I have no idea what is maybe wrong (and I'm now usin the newer 9.1 cooker version 1.3-0.alpha.1mdk). It's the standard install from 9.0's discs. I don't feel confident at using cooker versions yet. ... and you can't either, except on a full cooker install of 9.1. I only mentioned that to imply I don't have 9.0's older Mozilla anymore. Anne, I'm out'a ideas with your Mozilla install. But as I ranted about in a previous reply, they're are no guarantees as soon as you taint a system with closed source stuff, ie, Sun's java. It may or may not work. Lobby Sun to release OSS java. OK - thanks for all your efforts. I am nearer than I was, but we'll see what happens. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 scanner problem
I half way remember a thing about a typo that prevented scanners using an snapscan interface from working. the scanner I need to get running again is an Acer Prisa 340U (usb) after doing a fresh install of 9.0 since I had been running with the download version and now loaded up the Powerpack (many nice new toys to play with) I had it running before in 9.0, just lost my notes as to where this capital A had to be changed to a small a (or something like that) I also guess i did not install enough utilitys for supermount either since; mount /mnt/cdrom [root@dads sane.d]# cd /mnt/cdrom bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error [root@dads sane.d]# cd /mnt/cdrom2 bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom2: Input/output error [root@dads sane.d]# mount /mnt/cdrom2 [root@dads sane.d]# cd /mnt/cdrom2 bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom2: Input/output error But I will take care of that as soon as I get done downloading updates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse
Check out http://www.cinlug.org/forums/web_board/1014471387/index_html. Looks like some ppl are able to get it working with either of two workarounds. Both involved re-initializing the mouse by going to text and back. One was restarting x, which doesn't sound like it would help you, but the other sounded interesting. CTRL ALT F1, then CTRL ALT F7. I don't know if that applies to install mode, but maybe. I do know that from the install screen you can get to the text stuff, perhaps with different key combinations. I'm wondering if beginning installation in text mode might also help. Hope some of this might get you going. p.s. I don't know how to navigate through the install screens on keyboard alone, sorry. ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ross Bleakney Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse To answer your question, the installer didn't recognize the mouse throught the KVM switch. Do you know how to drive the Mandrake Control Center when the mouse doesn't work? I tried tabbing within the fields but this doesn't seem to work. I can keep switching the plugs, but I was hoping to try something easier. Thanks, Ross From: Brandon Vanderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:38:16 -0800 I've got the same setup and haven't noticed any issues. Did you install linux with the kvm attached? If so, could the os see the mouse during install? If you didn't, you might wanna go into the control center and see if you can try different mouse types/settings. HTH ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ross Bleakney Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse I recently attached a KVM switch between my Linux box and Windows box. The monitor switches just fine. However, the mouse doesn't work. I looked on the XFree-Newbie archives, and is common for people to have trouble with their mice through a KVM switch. However, people have skittery mice. I have no mouse input at all. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks, Ross P.S. I don't see anyway of searching the Mandrake-Newbie list archives, short of searching the entire Mandrake site (www.mandrakelinux.com). Does anyone know of a way to search the archives? _ The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Integrity
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Not to worry, it will always have some of that, but it does not ever get very large. Linux takes care of itself. HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Harrison Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] System Integrity This may be a big newbie question, but when I have to, on the rare occasion (like with Tux Racer), shut down my system due to lockup. I always have it run the system integrity check, but my question is, when it tells me that my system is (Insert % here) noncontiguous, how do I make it contiguous again? Thanks. Matt Harrison To clarify what Dennis said, non-contiguous is Penguinese for fragmented. Linux defragments itself as a matter of course. 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] Linux W2000
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 PM6 is no good for partitioning where the windblows made partitions will be remade for the purpose of linux installs, don't use it. John I just use PM5 to do exactly that and it worked fine. Had a large NTFS partition. Used PM5 to resize it down, then used PM5 to also create a Linux partition in the newly freed up space. Just lucky, I guess. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Failed install
I've run Redhat up till now, and at a coworker's urging, decided to give Mandrake 9 a try. I have pretty old equipment at home, including a 2x CD-ROM, so the install took quite awhile (I recently purchased a higher-speed rewriteable off eBay - hasn't arrived yet.) Turns out this old CD-ROM apparently had trouble reading the CD-Rs my coworker supplied. At a couple points on disks 2 and 3, I got a popup dialog telling me it was unable to read a package, continue? I figured no big deal, I can live without those packages - the whole first CD went without error, so I thought all the system files would be okay. Well, after install took 2 hrs to go through all 3 CDs, it then popped up a message saying Errors detected in one or more packages (approximate wording - I didn't write it down). It then jumped back to the start of the installation process!!! Didn't configure root or additional user, etc, so the 2-hr process it just went through was useless. I then went back through install and told it to ignore disks 2 and 3, and got a working system. But I'd like to suggest to Mandrake if they lurk here to either (1) abort the install as soon as they know it is unrecoverable, or (2) finish configuration if errors are detected only in non-essential packages. This was a very frustrating intro to Mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake
My technique of choice is: download the HDD manuf low level format utility format the MBR and rest of the drive while at it, perform a full check format in DOS (a few Linux installs have failed with a virgin drive) reinstall OS of choice A. Contreras My CR website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake Pilagá wrote: El Jue 02 Ene 2003 00:17, Steve Mendizabal escribió: Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O 1. Make a bootable floppy (You will need 'fdisk' in there.) 2. Boot from that floppy, and at prompt, type: 'fdisk /mbr' (without quottes) This will remove lilo. 3. Then, run 'fdisk' and just delete linux partitions. Suerte. Pilagá Dos fdisk will not even read your linux partitions, so either, use linux fdisk, mandrake diskdrake, or Partition Magic V7 or 8 , to remove partitions, then use windblows bootdisk to remove lilo. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? copies can often be defective or at least less than perfect, and RH disks that are not perfect can also do much the same. also if the cd drive isn't perfect, or misreads data , any OS would give you problems either immediately, or in time. I've always liked that fact that Mandrake installs require good equiptment ( and I don't mean new, just properly working ) to continue, because it has helped me find problem equiptment quickly. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). Mike Guy Rouillier wrote: I've run Redhat up till now, and at a coworker's urging, decided to give Mandrake 9 a try. I have pretty old equipment at home, including a 2x CD-ROM, so the install took quite awhile (I recently purchased a higher-speed rewriteable off eBay - hasn't arrived yet.) Turns out this old CD-ROM apparently had trouble reading the CD-Rs my coworker supplied. At a couple points on disks 2 and 3, I got a popup dialog telling me it was unable to read a package, continue? I figured no big deal, I can live without those packages - the whole first CD went without error, so I thought all the system files would be okay. Well, after install took 2 hrs to go through all 3 CDs, it then popped up a message saying Errors detected in one or more packages (approximate wording - I didn't write it down). It then jumped back to the start of the installation process!!! Didn't configure root or additional user, etc, so the 2-hr process it just went through was useless. I then went back through install and told it to ignore disks 2 and 3, and got a working system. But I'd like to suggest to Mandrake if they lurk here to either (1) abort the install as soon as they know it is unrecoverable, or (2) finish configuration if errors are detected only in non-essential packages. This was a very frustrating intro to Mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- 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
Re: [newbie] Java - lost it
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 12:25, Anne Wilson wrote: I suspect the problem is with your Mozilla install. Tho I have no idea what is maybe wrong (and I'm now usin the newer 9.1 cooker version 1.3-0.alpha.1mdk). It's the standard install from 9.0's discs. I don't feel confident at using cooker versions yet. I could uninstall and re-install I suppose. I think the next thing to try is to check for suitable links in the Mozilla directory. My installation is also from the discs and uninstalling and re-installing didn't work for me. Mozilla and Galeon crash when encountering applets; Konqueror doesn't crash, but the applet freezes when it's 29% loaded; Netscape still refuses to even acknowledge that java is loaded. Where to next?? Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Kernel-2.4.18-8.1mdk Linux user #298896 Thu Jan 2 15:45:41 EST 2003 3:45pm up 1 day, 17:54, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.51, 0.40 Homepage: http://micronuke.tripod.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Loud burping while walking around the airport is prohibited in Halstead, Kansas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problem
On Thursday 02 January 2003 04:21 am, you wrote: I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no sound at all not even startup sounds for KDE Does anyone have suggestions as to what I should try next. Thanks in advance Marc if you do a #cat /etc/modules.conf What do you get for alias sound? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java
On Thursday 02 January 2003 05:26 am, you wrote: Erylon - the rpm that Tom recommended has screwed up my system as regards java. I think the links and path are wrong. Can you please list the files that I may need to check/edit? Thanks Anne I've never used that rpm, so I defer to Tom on that. I can speculate that the rpm didn't remake the java link to the moz plugin directory, though (I am assuming you only use java for your web browsers. Other than for that, most people don't even need java). If you know where the rpm made the java directory, you can manually re-make the link correctly. As an aside, I've found that #ln -s /usr/javaplugindirectory/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins when done globally, can cause the plugin directory to be hosed when mozilla is upgraded, forcing a delete and re-install of moz. This is a minor irritation, and its probably a good idea to delete the old mozilla first anyway--just my experience ymmv. If you don't actually need a jvm on your machine for running a 3rd party program, Kaffee is o.k. to keep. Do a #java -version and see if you still get a return for Kaffee. If you get a return for Sun's java, the rpm did re-make the $PATH. If not, it didn't, so that's not the problem. If you get a no java found type error, then there is no java in your path and you'll have to find where it is and add it. A #which javanormally points to /usr/bin/java. This may or may not be correct for you, depending on the behavior of the rpm (I again defer to Tom). I've removed Kaffee and with it the /usr/bin/java, so the path to the new /java_directory/bin/java may need to be added. I know this isn't much help, but the problem must be identified before it can be corrected. I repeat, I haven't used that rpm (I'm a tarball kinda guy), so I do not know its behavior. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 02 Gener 2003 21:45, en mike va escriure: I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? AFAIK both can run the apps made for the other (their necessary libraries are installed). Maybe things like bar docking applets won't work. - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FKQIok8j9RhtetwRAphSAJ4rnb23fqIggqHJeyicV7/NHX3EngCdG3iE EesnjMNiKvq+kPqPruKGJgk= =sGcE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] script help
MG wrote: Hey Mark, I was just using ./HW as in: [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW What I gathered was if the script was in a directory, that was in my PATH, I could just use the name of the script instead of the whole path. I looked in my /home/mike/.bash_profile file and it said: [mike@avatar mike]$ cat .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin Perhaps /home/mike/bin is not in the path of PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin ? Mike Hi Mike, Thats correct. When you're in your home dir and you're calling an executable file you'll need to include the path to that executable in order for it to be executed. Your other option would be to place the file somewhere in your path such as /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. -- Mark --- I had 49 days uptime until my wife brought the servers down when she ran the vacuum cleaner. --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:45:50 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? Fluxbox ;-) Hehe, no but seriously, fluxbox utilizes both when it comes to running and docking. I'm sure it's the same with both Gnome and KDE, except for the docking part (I believe). I would just like to add off before this turns into a 500 e-mail war here, but asking users their opinions between the 2 is like asking which is better: Democrat or Republican, Christian or Moslem, Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. -- George H. W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problem
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:51 pm, erylon hines wrote: On Thursday 02 January 2003 04:21 am, you wrote: I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no sound at all not even startup sounds for KDE Does anyone have suggestions as to what I should try next. Thanks in advance Marc if you do a #cat /etc/modules.conf What do you get for alias sound? also, open a mixer (say, type, without the quotes, in a text console kmix) and see if the vol. is all the way down, or muted Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Thursday 02 January 2003 04:18 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:45:50 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? Fluxbox ;-) Hehe, no but seriously, fluxbox utilizes both when it comes to running and docking. I'm sure it's the same with both Gnome and KDE, except for the docking part (I believe). I would just like to add off before this turns into a 500 e-mail war here, but asking users their opinions between the 2 is like asking which is better: Democrat or Republican, Christian or Moslem, Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) Greetings Ralph I think I was more interested in the cross compatibility of Gnome and KDE programs than a personal opinion of which one is better.I know I get much better printing performance with GEdit than with any standard KDE editors even though I am using KDE.Happy Computing. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Kernel-2.4.18-8.1mdk Linux user #298896 Thu Jan 2 16:35:11 EST 2003 4:35pm up 1 day, 18:44, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.03 Homepage: http://micronuke.tripod.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mark's Dental-Chair Discovery: Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:18:34 +0100 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) Same reply as in Gnome-KDE: no better, no worse, they're just *different* :-) Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java - lost it
On Thursday 02 January 2003 12:44 pm, you wrote: My installation is also from the discs and uninstalling and re-installing didn't work for me. Mozilla and Galeon crash when encountering applets; Konqueror doesn't crash, but the applet freezes when it's 29% loaded; Netscape still refuses to even acknowledge that java is loaded. Where to next?? Rich There is a fairly high probablility that you have two java's installed, and a bad link to the *.so going (or, maybe no link at all). Note that this must be a link to the javaplugin_oji.so, copying the *.so to the /usr/lib/netscape/plugins directory will NOT work--same for mozilla. MozillaHelpAbout plug-ins shows the java that you have installed?? (should be the Sun version) #java -version returns what? (Kaffee should be o.k., but you can uninstall it using the package manager and re-make your path to the Sun version as a last resort--since this is only for web browsers that shouldn't be necessary). I'm trying to determine just what mods the rpm installer made to your directories and links. Everyone else reading this--I recommend that you use the version from Blackdown if you must have a JVM because it is a bzipped tarball and not a *.bin or rpm. If you use tarballs you can have more control of the install. Installing java ain't really hard--honest. 1. Download the bz2 tarball and put it in /usr/local then cd to /usr/local 2. Unpack it with the command tar -xvvIf name_of_tarball (note that is an eye not an ell -- a directory /usr/local/java_version_directory will be created) 3. ln -s /usr/local/java_version_directory/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla plugins 4. Repeat for netscape (note to use the proper plugin directory--moz and netscape are different) I don't use Galeon--you are on your own for that If you must have a real JVM for some 3rd party program (not very likely, but possible) remove Kaffee from your system. 1. open /etc/profile with your favorite editor 2. Add the line: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java_version_directory/bin (this sets the variable PATH to the previous PATH and adds the new line to it) 3. Add the line: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java_version_directory 4. Reload /etc/profile If none of this works for you, I've exhausted my suggestions, but I assure you, it has worked for me. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:35:28 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I was more interested in the cross compatibility of Gnome and KDE programs than a personal opinion of which one is better.I know I get much better printing performance with GEdit than with any standard KDE editors even though I am using KDE.Happy Computing. Dame here, with kppp; I use Gnome, but gnome ppp is not my choice... Till now, I had no trouble at all using KDE apps in Gnome; opposite wasn't going so smooth, at least with KDE 2... Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
- Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome? I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? I agree with Ralph, neither is absolutely preferable as preference is a personal matter. Programs will run under either as long as the required libraries are present - most distributions will install libraries for both. I'm no expert in the subject, but technically I don't think either Gnome or KDE are window managers; they are desktop environments, into which you can plug window managers of your choosing. For example, Sawfish is (was?) the default window manager for Gnome. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Failed install
Aha! same thing happened on my linux 9.0 install marathon. A piece of advice (which I knew before I started but somehow ignored) is to only select the strict minimum number of packages during an install. Makes sense, everything else can pretty much be installed after you have set up a functional system with the basics. So, OS first, software later. A. Contreras My CR website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Rouillier Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Failed install I've run Redhat up till now, and at a coworker's urging, decided to give Mandrake 9 a try. I have pretty old equipment at home, including a 2x CD-ROM, so the install took quite awhile (I recently purchased a higher-speed rewriteable off eBay - hasn't arrived yet.) Turns out this old CD-ROM apparently had trouble reading the CD-Rs my coworker supplied. At a couple points on disks 2 and 3, I got a popup dialog telling me it was unable to read a package, continue? I figured no big deal, I can live without those packages - the whole first CD went without error, so I thought all the system files would be okay. Well, after install took 2 hrs to go through all 3 CDs, it then popped up a message saying Errors detected in one or more packages (approximate wording - I didn't write it down). It then jumped back to the start of the installation process!!! Didn't configure root or additional user, etc, so the 2-hr process it just went through was useless. I then went back through install and told it to ignore disks 2 and 3, and got a working system. But I'd like to suggest to Mandrake if they lurk here to either (1) abort the install as soon as they know it is unrecoverable, or (2) finish configuration if errors are detected only in non-essential packages. This was a very frustrating intro to Mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
- Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? The CD-R's given to me were burned from downloaded ISO images. The guy at work claimed he used them already numerous times, so I'm sure the problem is with my old 2x CD-ROM. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). I'll definitely reinstall when the rewriteable gets here. I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konqueror and javascripts
Hi I might be stupid But I don't get the javascripts run in Konqueror, they do in Mozilla I have selected the java and javascript in Konqueror browser settings. Also I jave JRE installed. Any hints maybe thanks Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 8:50 pm, erylon hines wrote: On Thursday 02 January 2003 05:26 am, you wrote: Erylon - the rpm that Tom recommended has screwed up my system as regards java. I think the links and path are wrong. Can you please list the files that I may need to check/edit? Thanks Anne I've never used that rpm, so I defer to Tom on that. I can speculate that the rpm didn't remake the java link to the moz plugin directory, though (I am assuming you only use java for your web browsers. Other than for that, most people don't even need java). If you know where the rpm made the java directory, you can manually re-make the link correctly. As an aside, I've found that #ln -s /usr/javaplugindirectory/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins when done globally, can cause the plugin directory to be hosed when mozilla is upgraded, forcing a delete and re-install of moz. This is a minor irritation, and its probably a good idea to delete the old mozilla first anyway--just my experience ymmv. If you don't actually need a jvm on your machine for running a 3rd party program, Kaffee is o.k. to keep. Do a #java -version and see if you still get a return for Kaffee. If you get a return for Sun's java, the rpm did re-make the $PATH. If not, it didn't, so that's not the problem. If you get a no java found type error, then there is no java in your path and you'll have to find where it is and add it. A #which javanormally points to /usr/bin/java. This may or may not be correct for you, depending on the behavior of the rpm (I again defer to Tom). I've removed Kaffee and with it the /usr/bin/java, so the path to the new /java_directory/bin/java may need to be added. I know this isn't much help, but the problem must be identified before it can be corrected. I repeat, I haven't used that rpm (I'm a tarball kinda guy), so I do not know its behavior. e. Thanks - it gives me a few more pointers to explore. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux W2000
Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 PM6 is no good for partitioning where the windblows made partitions will be remade for the purpose of linux installs, don't use it. John I just use PM5 to do exactly that and it worked fine. Had a large NTFS partition. Used PM5 to resize it down, then used PM5 to also create a Linux partition in the newly freed up space. Just lucky, I guess. Yes, I've done as much myself, two things though, one, I think you will have problems later with the nature of the new partitions, and two, once a linux os is installed it doesn't properly recognise them for what they are, it recognises them as partitions but not as proper linux partitions. I remember V7 was the first to cope freely with ext2. I believe, perhaps someone can confirm it , that v8 can cope freely with the other file systems. I've been a PM user since v5 to 6 and now 7, and hope to obtain V8 sometime. It's still the best, and always provided that all partitioning is done with it, it works the best.It's friendly with windblows and linux. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to surf and do e-mail
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: You may have to go in and disable smoothwall to begin with. I found that on some installs it starts up automatically and unless you use MCC (Mandrake Control Center) and do a run through of the configuration, you don't even have to change anything, just run through it, it will block internet access. So open it for configuration or turn it off and see if you can then connect. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Dunaway Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Unable to surf and do e-mail Hello, I have Mandrake 9.0 Power Pack (boxed set) It installed without a hitch. I was able to connect to my ISP and surf and do e-mail. When I was done, I disconnected from my ISP. When I went back on-line, nothing. Mandrake would connect to my ISP, but that's all. I can't surf or do e-mail. I did not change any settings or anything. Now I am using SuSE to write this message. I would really like to go back to Mandrake, but not if I can't use the web or e-mail. Anybody have a solution?? I had the same problem which I fixed by downloading the 'one-interface' file from smoothwall web site and decompress the archive into a tmp directory. Then you have change to that directory and edit the 'interface' file. I had to change the line at the bottom of the file to define the internet connection as using ppp0 and not eth0. Then I copied all of the files from the download archive to /etc/shorewall. Worked like a charm with no further problems. HTH Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:25, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday January 2 2003 09:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The file is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. In order to get the video mode number of the Linux kernel, you take the hexadecimal VESA mode number, then add 0x200. Then of course you convert to decimal. Hex adjusted Kernel mode numbers: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +- 256 | 0x3010x3030x3050x307 32k | 0x3100x3130x3160x319 64k | 0x3110x3140x3170x31A 16M | 0x3120x3150x3180x31B --LX Thanks LX, I'll try'n remember ;) Seems my foggy old brain was right, 'cause vga=785 works out to 640x480 at 64k (0x311). Probly a good setting for those that want bigger text on a 17 monitor. One thing I should'a mentioned before, none of this will work unless the video card supports framebuffering. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas The numbers you guys were throwing around were interesting. 788 converts to 314 hex, which of course as you said represents 800x600 at 64k colors. 791 is also 64k colors but at 1024x768 resolution. Ron has an Nvidia card very similar to mine, which probably does support the needed VESA standards. After searching my manual here for this Elsa Gladiac Ultra, the best info I've been able to come up with on my card is that it conforms to the VESA DDC2B. This is tits on a boar hog cause what I need is a chart; DDC2B is a specification that defines bidirectional communication between a graphics host adapter and it's display. Hopefully the kernel knows what DDC2B is, in which case telling it 788 or whatever will result in success, since the kernel in effect will be talking to the display through the graphics adapter. Essentially that would mean we really don't need the nice comfortable chart. But I haven't confirmed this. --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] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Thursday January 2 2003 03:18 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: I would just like to add off before this turns into a 500 e-mail war here, but asking users their opinions between the 2 is like asking which is better: Democrat or Republican, Christian or Moslem, Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) Star Trek and KDE -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:46 pm, Ross Bleakney wrote: I recently attached a KVM switch between my Linux box and Windows box. The monitor switches just fine. However, the mouse doesn't work. I looked on the XFree-Newbie archives, and is common for people to have trouble with their mice through a KVM switch. However, people have skittery mice. I have no mouse input at all. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks, Ross P.S. I don't see anyway of searching the Mandrake-Newbie list archives, short of searching the entire Mandrake site (www.mandrakelinux.com). Does anyone know of a way to search the archives? Ross: In answer to your second question, you can search the list archives here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2 (There's a way of doing it from the mandrake site, too, but it's much more clumsy.) BTW, going to the site entrance at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ will lead you to the archives of just about any mail list that exists. HTH. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 10:06 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? The CD-R's given to me were burned from downloaded ISO images. The guy at work claimed he used them already numerous times, so I'm sure the problem is with my old 2x CD-ROM. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). I'll definitely reinstall when the rewriteable gets here. I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. If your CD drive is old, it may not be able to read the 700MB CDs Mandrake 9.0 requires. A lot of people have reported trouble with older CD drives. A set of 650 Mb images is available for Mandrake Club members if you are desperate, but it is easier to just do a network install from an FTP site. (So long as you have broadband) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake
On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:56 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Steve Mendizabal wrote: Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O Good God man! thats blasphemy! REPENT!!! Apart from just wiping out the partition there isn't any more to it then starting your comp with a windows boot floppy, booting to an A:\ prompt and typing fdisk /mbr. At that point you'll want to enter fdisk and wipe out the Non-dos partition, but for the life of me I can't think of one good reason for doing such a hanious thing! Mark Mark: Does fdisk /mbr still work with the newer versions of windows (2000, XP)? Not that I'd know -- win98SE is as far as I ever got. And further than I should have gone. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how do I sync my Handspring Treo 180 USB ?
Hello, My mobile phone/personal organizer is a phone/PDA hybrid Handspring Treo 180 (Palm OS 3.5H) with USB cradle. I would like to be able to sync it on my Mandrake 9.0 box with some equivalent software to the Palm Desktop or even better with Evolution. Of course Handspring's website was no help since they do not officially support the OS and the HOWTO they link to leaves a lot to be desired. Can someone tell me how I can go about syncing this palm handheld device? Thanks, T.P. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:26, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yes, at least my GeF2 does support fb, most all cards do, but there's some, mostly ready made non standard ones that don't. So Ron, just change to vga=0x311, you'll eliminate the bootsplash an get bigger text ; 'Course thru all this discussion I've been remiss to mention that 'rpm -e bootsplash' will also get rid of it ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Since all three of us have basically the same card, I did a little legwork and compiled a chart of working VESA modes for our chipset. There should not be much variance between our cards, I wouldn't think; except for memory. Mine's got 64 megs. I noticed right away that *none* of the 32k color modes were working. But here is what I found Kernel VESA mode numbers: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +- 256 | 0x3010x3030x3050x307 32k | ---- 64k | 0x3110x3140x3170x31A 16M | 0x3120x3150x318- These numbers should be valid for a GeForce2. I find it strange that 1280x1024@16M doesn't work. I didn't see much console speed difference between the modes. Since I've got a 20 monitor, I just left mine in 0x31A. ;) Now I can go to vc/1, then cd to /usr/bin and halfway see a respectable amount all at once with an ls. g It's the bomb! --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] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
Straight, hot coffee and a command line. ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pilagá Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome? El Jue 02 Ene 2003 21:49, Todd Slater escribió: I'm too poor to run those hogs, so I use Fluxbox, too. Star Trek, and Coca-Cola. Todd Here Star Trek and some well tempered and ancient cabernet sauvignon ;-) Pilagá Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Failed install
I'm curious (and please, if this is covered in a FAQ, point me in the right direction). Say you have a machine with 9.0 installed, and on your network you have another machine that you can't get to install it and you suspect the CDROM is to blame. Short of taking a CDROM from one into the other, , can you use one to install the other? A. Contreras My CR website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 10:06 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? The CD-R's given to me were burned from downloaded ISO images. The guy at work claimed he used them already numerous times, so I'm sure the problem is with my old 2x CD-ROM. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). I'll definitely reinstall when the rewriteable gets here. I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. If your CD drive is old, it may not be able to read the 700MB CDs Mandrake 9.0 requires. A lot of people have reported trouble with older CD drives. A set of 650 Mb images is available for Mandrake Club members if you are desperate, but it is easier to just do a network install from an FTP site. (So long as you have broadband) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data - Mark Keith wrote: Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark
Re: [newbie] Lilo graphical
HI Anne, Thank you for responding to this post. Sorry for the delay in responding. It sort of slipped through the cracks (long story, I won't bore you with the facts). Anyway, I checked that file and it did say 5 on that line. I did know about the problem with exiting without saving so that wasn't the problem either. It did work in grub mode but I like eye candy (KDE vs GNOME? I was all for gnome till kde3 - no contest now) so I refused to just accept the situation. I did figure it out though. Here is the answer in case someone else has a similar problem. The problem was Trends ChipAway virus detector in my BIOS. While in GRUB mode the boot process slipped right though without a hitch. When in Graphical mode Trend would pop up telling me there was a boot virus and I had to tell it to continue before it would move on then it gave me the text screen. When I disabled Trend it worked perfectly. Thanks Russ - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 01 Jan 2003 7:05 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, can anyone tell me how to change lilo to graphical instead of text? I am using MD9 download and I have messed with the setting in Mandrake Control Center - Boot Config. No matter what I do in there it doesn't seem to change anything. Thanks Russ In the file :/etc/inittab there is a line id:5:initdefault: In your case the 5 will have been set to 3, I think. As far as I know, altering the boot in MCC will simply change this, so it should be safe to do that. Just make sure that you have a boot disk handy, in case I'm wrong !! The problem with MCC is that it is too easy to exit without saving changes, so I guess this happened with you - you saved the first time, but not subsequent ones. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Msec security configuration
Hello I want to customize my msec level 3 security settings.Specifically I want to enable PROMISC_CHECK=yes in /etc/security/msec/security.conf.How do I make these changes take hold after editing the file?Do I need to use mseclib? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Kernel-2.4.18-8.1mdk Linux user #298896 Thu Jan 2 23:05:37 EST 2003 11:05pm up 2 days, 1:14, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Homepage: http://micronuke.tripod.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Last week's pet, this week's special. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:18, Ralph Slooten wrote: I would just like to add off before this turns into a 500 e-mail war here, but asking users their opinions between the 2 is like asking which is better: Democrat or Republican, Christian or Moslem, Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) KDE has a superior architecture, and Republicans are far superior to Democrats. I'll stop at that point. ;) --LX Greetings Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. -- George H. W. Bush -- °°° 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] Linux W2000
El mié, 01-01-2003 a las 16:38, Smiley escribió: What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... FAT32 or NTFS? If the latter, I can't help you. But if the Win2K partition is FAT32, then try parted, available at Freshmeat or at: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted I used parted to shrink my Win95 partition and grow my Linux EXT2 partitions several times as I weaned myself from Windows. If you use the boot disk version, you can resize partions that are normally in use, like root and /home. It works, and the documentation is very newbie friendly. Highly recommended. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Font problem in Kword
I am running Mandrake 9.0 with Koffice 1.2.1. I imported MS fonts from windows partition. When I try to print using any of those fonts it prints incorrectly, even though it shows on screen correctly. When I use Open office the fonts view and print correctly. How can I get Kword to print those fonts correctly? Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Msec security configuration
hehe, I was just attempting to do something like this, but from what I was reading tonight, you need to create /etc/security/msec/level.local which would contain PROMISC_CHECK=yes then restart msec by typing msec in a terminal I may be wrong in that level.local might be for a higher security level...anyone care to comment? On a side note (sorry for including my problem) I am using msec level 4, and want to disable password_aging. I have tried adding password_aging(-1) password_aging-1 password_aging=-1 to my level.local file, but none of those seem to be working - the way I am checking is cd'ing into /var/log and running grep msec messages which reports password_aging is still set to 60/30 (60 days for current, 30 for new user) Hopefully Mike, we can solve both of these questions the same manner. On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:05:52 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I want to customize my msec level 3 security settings.Specifically I want to enable PROMISC_CHECK=yes in /etc/security/msec/security.conf.How do I make these changes take hold after editing the file?Do I need to use mseclib?=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Kernel-2.4.18-8.1mdk Linux user #298896 Thu Jan 2 23:05:37 EST 2003 11:05pm up 2 days, 1:14, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Homepage: http://micronuke.tripod.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Last week's pet, this week's special. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ML 9.0 update mirrors don't work
Greetings, I am trying to run Mandrake Update in ML 9.0 and get the dialog box (in Gnome) which asks if I am connected to the Internet and would like to select a mirror. I am and I would so I click ok. The list of mirrors appears without a problem but none of them can be added successfully. I have been through every mirror on the list and none work. I know it isn't my Internet connection since I can surf and get email. Where else can I check to begin troubleshooting this problem. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IceWM themes don't stay
Greetings, I have recently tried IceWM and I like the clean interface. I also like the themes that installed with it but when I logout the theme I have chosen is lost and IceWM returns to it's default. Is this normal behavior? Also, is there a way to change just the wallpaper without changing to a new theme? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:45:50 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? Fluxbox ;-) Hehe, no but seriously, fluxbox utilizes both when it comes to running and docking. I'm sure it's the same with both Gnome and KDE, except for the docking part (I believe). I would just like to add off before this turns into a 500 e-mail war here, but asking users their opinions between the 2 is like asking which is better: Democrat or Republican, Christian or Moslem, Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) Greetings Ralph Good God Ralph!!! everyone knows Star Trek is better. Thats a no brainer!! :) Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
I haven't had any troublesinstalling Mandrake on a disk with an existingWindows 2000 NTFS partition. It wasvery clean.Obviously, you want to take your time and be very careful. On a side note, Iwould never have tried it even once without my important data backed up. I'dseriously think about finding some way to save that data.You say you have no way of backing up that much data right after you say that you can't afford to lose it. Can you afford 30 bucks and some timefor a burner and a stack of cds?A second HD wouldn't be too much, and you'd have some quick and easy insurance. And a tape backup unit would be even better, but they'repretty pricey. So it's like the mechanic said, "Good, Fast, Cheap -Pick two." On a side note to a side note, I know some people are right now have figured that it would take about80 650MB CDs to do this, and then figuring out that how much time that would take. Butthat answerdoesn't mean anything until it's comparedto the time of recreating that 50GB worth of data from scratch. Anyway, hope it goes well for you. .02 ~Brandon -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark MitchellSent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data- MarkKeith wrote: Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark
Re: [newbie] IceWM themes don't stay
* Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030102 23:43]: I have recently tried IceWM and I like the clean interface. I also like the themes that installed with it but when I logout the theme I have chosen is lost and IceWM returns to it's default. Is this normal behavior? Also, is there a way to change just the wallpaper without changing to a new theme? One of the many things I like about IceWM is that everything is configurable in a few text files. In $HOME/.icewm/preferences: DesktopBackgroundImage=/path_to/wallpaper_image_here.png and Theme=theme_directory/default.theme If you used a GUI program to change the theme (there are several, including IcePref) there may have been one button that says Save, another that says Apply, and yet another that says Restart. Save will save the config files, but do nothing to this session. If you press Apply I think it will make certain changes to this session, but not save any. Restart will make IceWm read its configuration files and begin again. It somehow does this without closing your programs that are running! Windows would have to completely reboot, right? ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
- Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. Guy: That's an interesting idea, but it's probably not practical to implement. Your definition of non-critical is probably quite different than mine. My bet is that the new drive solves your problems. Well, they could use a hammer approach and then refine it over time. For example, if Disk 1 was okay but errors occurred on Disk 2 or 3, then the installation can start up, so finish the install. If errors occurred on Disk 1, then likely the installation is fubar and won't be able to start up in any clean configuration, so just abort the install. Of course, the installer can always prompt (in the first case) I encountered some errors but the installation will boot up - would you like to abort or finish? What could be more irksome than the current approach of taking two hours to finish, not saying anything until the end, then dumping the user back at the start of the installation again? At the very least, abort the whole process when you encounter the first read error, because you know at that point you are not going to let the installation finish anyway. (And of course, I don't mean you Carroll, I mean you the Mandrake installation process.) Yes, I'm sure the new CD-RW will take care of all this. Thanks to all for taking the time to reply. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help needed for triple-booting
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] help needed for triple-booting Vahur Lokk wrote: OK, after many adventures I finally managed to install working Mdk8.2. Installed latest alsa drivers OK, as well as Nvidia drivers. Sound and 3d all work flawlessly as they used to. This time I reserved extra partition for testing new systems so that I have following partitions now: hda1-win98, hda5-swap, hda6-root for stable system (Mdk8.2), hda7-root for test system, hda8-home, hda9-/mp3. Dont ask me where are hda2-4. Never saw them. hda2-4 would be additional primary partitions if you had them. You don't, so you don't see them. (Well, actually I think the extended partition is a primary partition, so technically that is hda4. But you can't do anything with the extended partition directly, only the logical drives within it, which are hda5+.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WINE Questions
HI All, I have MD9 up and running. Is WINE installed by default? How can I tell if it is installed on this machine? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Guest OS in vmware
vmdk files are virtual disk files. You must have them. You'll need one for each guest OS. Are you attempting to use your existing Win2K inside a virtual machine, or have you installed a new instance of Win2k inside a new virtual machine? The VMWare site has specific instructions on how to do both. If you are trying to do the former, see here: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_disks4.html#1009344 - Original Message - From: Aurélio Diniz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Guest OS in vmware I've sucessfully installed vmware in my MDK 9which is in dual boot with my win2k. I wish to use it for running FREEHAND and PHOTOSHOP installed in my win2k but i can'tsetup vmware to recognize my actual win2k. The vmware wizards keeps asking me some .vmdk files... I searched vmware site and itsays that .vmdk aredone onlywhen vmwarefor the first time (i think i cancel this...). Any advise? Stephen? Thanks i advance, Filipe
RE: [newbie] WINE Questions
rpm -qa |grep wine in a console will tell you if its installed.. but its easier to just use rpmdrake if you are in the GUI.. or you can open a console terminal.. and enter: urpmi wine rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Sent: Friday, 3 January 2003 2:51 PM To: Linux Newbie Subject: [newbie] WINE Questions HI All, I have MD9 up and running. Is WINE installed by default? How can I tell if it is installed on this machine? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
