RE: [newbie-it] Seti@Home: prestazioni e programmi correlati
si può ed è consigliabile installare anche rpm per altre distro come redhat, suse o debian? Io personalmente lo sconsiglio Anche per redhat, che non è la distro dalla quale deriva la mandrake? Non so se tutta la distro deriva da RedHat, l'unica cosa che so e' che deriva il formato RPM per la distribuzione dei pacchetti, ma e' sempre meglio prendere gli RPM specifici per MDK piuttosto che quelli per RH (anche se qualche volta mi e' capitato di provare con quelli di RH [non ricordo il programma] e' non ho avuto particolari problemi, mostrando cosi una certa compatibilita'). Di Fresco Marco ICQ #51985192 |--| | Spock (Court Martial - TOS): If I let go a hammer on a planet having a | | positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has, in fact, | | fallen. | |--|
Re: [newbie-it] Cad
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Alessandro Piaser wrote: qualcuno potrebbe consigliarmi qualche programma di CAD tipo il famoso Autocad, ma che giri su Linux e sia completamente gratuito. Dai un'occhiata nei messaggi qui: http://www.freelists.org/archives/cad-linux/ (dovrebbero esserci dei riferimenti ai vari programmi CAD disponibili) -- GNU/Linux Slackware current *** 2.4.20
[newbie-it] visualizzazione filmati
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciao a tutti, non capisco perche' su un nuovo computer (un athlon 2000xp con ati radeon 9000 da 64 MByte) sia mplayer che xine non funzionino bene. ine mi visualizzi qualsiasi filmato in bianco e nero anche disinstallandolo e reinstallandolo; mplayer invece non mi permette di vedere i filmati in fullscreen, o meglio lui conserva le dimensioni originali dell'immagine (ho un monitor che va a 1600x1200) impedendo anche di godere dei dvd a pieno! Per favore aiutatemi (questo computer mi sta facendo impazzire nella configurazione!) Grazie a tutti, qualsiasi suggerimento e` piu` che gradito! - -- Le ballerine sono coraggiosissime! Quante donne conoscete in grado di gettarsi tra le braccia di un omossessuale sperando che lui le afferri? Rita Rüdner -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZphkTvJtVxCNwP4RAtn/AKC7/W0PphBB4cZbfj2Z3KhE1YuxiQCgkfM7 QltJMXILddZeX2irpBJ5sPs= =BLIh -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
Len Lawrence wrote: The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. There must be somebody here who understands how CUPS references Type1 fonts. I have a problem which has resisted solution for well over two years now. No help from the CUPS documentation, which comes in eleven volumes, nor from www.linuxprinting.org, or from any other source. Linux Format Magazine has refused to respond to two enquiries about this, nor has anybody on this list responded to previous pleas for help. I post this in the hope that some expert might be browsing the list and willing to shine a little light on this shadowy corner of the UNIX world. Any answer needs to be useful in the context of Mandrake and portable from 8.2 to 9.* - I gather that there has been a recent change in the way that CUPS and Ghostscript interact. My specific problem is adding more typefaces to PostScript files generated from one of my home grown applications; i.e. the file might reference Andale Mono, Verdana, Tahoma, Densmore or whatever. Yes, I do have a Window$ licence, OS not installed. These are all available to X and to OpenOffice.org but not apparently to CUPS, and CUPS does not appear to have a regular mechanism for importing fonts. Presumably everything has to be done by hand. I have converted the TrueType fonts to Type1 .pfb files and placed these in the /usr/share/cups/fonts directory under the names, for example Verdana, AndaleMono, Verdana-Bold, etc, in imitation of the existing font names (and restarted CUPS) but they still print as the default Courier typeface. The default set of fonts are listed in the PPD file in /etc/cups/ppd but it is not clear how font information should be added to this file. The meaning of the various fields is not documented. This may all be nonsense. Maybe the font files should go somewhere in the Ghostscript font path together with fonts.dir, fonts.scale and fonts.alias files. I really don't have a clue. Before I sign off, this is my impression of how CUPS works: lpr - CUPS - GS filter PPD || || pstoraster - driver | | spooler? - printer This again may be wrong. Please correct me somebody. In words; a postscript file, for instance, is given to lpr aka lpr-cups which passes it on to Ghostscript for filtering (if it were raw text it would be converted to PostScript format). If the printer is not PostScript capable, the file is fed to the rasterization section which generates a bitmap of the printed page. This then goes to a printer specific driver which converts it into a series of graphics commands native to the printer. The driver may consult the PPD file for defined or allowed options as well and the result is delivered to the spooler which stores it on disk for a while before it, or some other daemon, dumps it to the printer. Somewhere in there the system must try to locate the font resource specified in the PostScript file, but where exactly, and what form does the resource take? All this has taken up far more than the 3.5 minutes I have to spare each day (and I am not kidding) so help would be appreciated and would surely be of interest to other members of the list. Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, The natural output of Linux print commands is in Printer Control Language 5 (PCL5) , while most dos inkjet printers rastorize the image files in Printer Control Language 3 (PCL3) to accomodate this problem Ghostscript converts PCL5 to PCL3. To speak of ghostscript as drivers is something of a misnomer, as it's a conversion programme. Your dos inkjet printer has a rastor image processor chip in PCL3 and a certain amount of buffer as well but as I understand it the control of the page setup is what PPD does. LPD is the local printer daemon and generates the PCL5 image file , I think? and the image file is processed through to ghostscript where the conversion to PCL3 is accomplished, using so called backend filters. Somewhere in all this is Foomatic , which I have never yet come across an explanation of. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel panic : No init found
At boot-up I get the following message :- Kenel panic : No init found Try passing init = option to kernel after which nothing happens except that the caps lock and scroll lock keep flashing. I arrived at this situation after attempting to change users when the machine seemed to have become locked in wait mode. Any suggestions as to how to get the machine to boot will be gratefully received - or should I just wait to upgrade to 9.1 - which, I assume, will fix the problem. Regards John ___ Confidentiality Notice This email (and any attachment) is intended only for the attention of the addressee. Its unauthorised use, disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all copies and inform the sender by return email. Thank you This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT switch
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:47, Todd Slater wrote: I don't know if this has been posted before, so here goes. I came across this a couple of weeks ago and about busted a gut. http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ Todd Shit. Y'all busted me. -- Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:00:01 +1100 10:00pm up 11:38, 4 users, load average: 0.98, 0.72, 0.87 -- |____ | 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- COBOL: An exercise in Artificial Inelegance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fonts in 9.1
I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font treatment in 9.1, or is there something special that has to be done for XFT2? (http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/screenshots/Mandrake-XFT2/) On another subject, if you're using a recent Mozilla, how do you like the automatic image resizing? I haven't made up my mind yet. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:18:55PM -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 02:20 pm, Technoslick wrote: Isn't it true on the newer inkjets that you need to apply a software 'patch' to reset the chip, or fool it, into thinking that the refill is brand new? A friend who refills her own told me she had to do this to get her own refils to work. This was in Windows, BTW. T Hmm, hadn't ever heard that but I guess its possible. Of course, I don't use Windows on my main comp... A month or two ago I bought a refill for the cartridges on an Epson 777i. It came with a floppy disk of software to install in WIndows to reset the chip so the printer would accept the refilled cartridge. I returned the entir package because (1) Rebooting to WIndows every time the printer runs out of ink is not acceptable (2) Without a floppy drive on my computer, installation was a dubious prospect. -- hendrik -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT switch
On Tuesday March 4 2003 10:47 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I don't know if this has been posted before, so here goes. I came across this a couple of weeks ago and about busted a gut. http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ Todd The 'switch to MAC' is pretty good too ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:23 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: A month or two ago I bought a refill for the cartridges on an Epson 777i. It came with a floppy disk of software to install in WIndows to reset the chip so the printer would accept the refilled cartridge. I returned the entir package because (1) Rebooting to WIndows every time the printer runs out of ink is not acceptable (2) Without a floppy drive on my computer, installation was a dubious prospect. -- hendrik I understand. I think (re)booting to Windows *anytime* is unacceptable! grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:23, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:18:55PM -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 02:20 pm, Technoslick wrote: Isn't it true on the newer inkjets that you need to apply a software 'patch' to reset the chip, or fool it, into thinking that the refill is brand new? A friend who refills her own told me she had to do this to get her own refils to work. This was in Windows, BTW. T Hmm, hadn't ever heard that but I guess its possible. Of course, I don't use Windows on my main comp... A month or two ago I bought a refill for the cartridges on an Epson 777i. It came with a floppy disk of software to install in WIndows to reset the chip so the printer would accept the refilled cartridge. I returned the entir package because (1) Rebooting to WIndows every time the printer runs out of ink is not acceptable (2) Without a floppy drive on my computer, installation was a dubious prospect. After the previous discussions about which printers have chips in their cartridges I checked the Epson C62 manual and it only has the usual Caution about refilling the carts because of the quality problems that could ensue. It also warns against drinking the ink! Has this been a problem in the past? g Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kenel panic : No init found
At boot-up I get the following message :- Kenel panic : No init found Try passing init = option to kernel after which nothing happens except that the caps lock and scroll lock keep flashing. I arrived at this situation after attempting to change users when the machine seemed to have become locked in wait mode. Any suggestions as to how to get the machine to boot will be gratefully received - or should I just wait to upgrade to 9.1 - which, I assume, will fix the problem. Regards John ___ Confidentiality Notice This email (and any attachment) is intended only for the attention of the addressee. Its unauthorised use, disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all copies and inform the sender by return email. Thank you This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font treatment in 9.1, or is there something special that has to be done for XFT2? (http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/screenshots /Mandrake-XFT2/) On another subject, if you're using a recent Mozilla, how do you like the automatic image resizing? I haven't made up my mind yet. Todd Yep. 9.1 looks much like that :-) Nice isn't it? There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail or Evo Mail program doesn't do what I like... POPmail and Delete
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 5:14 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: hello... In M$ Outlook, when i have my email moved to deleted folder and expunge them, it will tell the server to remove from the system and I wont be able to see it via WEB if I am traveling. Since I am now using Evolution with POP service, I am not able to get the mail deleted as I did with Microsoft Outlook. What can I do to make it sync, so when I am traveling, It wont be THAT much mail to display... and run out of my server space. YPK That sounds like IMAP to me. Are you using POP and telling your client to leave messages on the server? Certainly KMail can be configured either to leave messages on the server or delete from the server when downloaded. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail or Evo Mail program doesn't do what I like... POPmail and Delete
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:34 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Certainly KMail can be configured either to leave messages on the server or delete from the server when downloaded. I think he is talking about only deleting on the server when deleted in the client. OE can do this, but I don't know if Kmail can. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Mirrors Down?
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake Mirrors Down? That's all it is I'm sure. I did some updates late last night and it worked like a charm. The mirrors are closing now and then due to full capacities on the rc2 download. My $.02 Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Kelley Jernigan Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Mirrors Down? I hope that's all it is. On Tuesday 04 March 2003 08:09 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:46 pm, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Are the mirrors down? All of them fail when I try to do Mandrake Update. They worked yesterday. J. Kelley Jernigan --- They are probably just swamped with people downloading rc2 of 9.1.
Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 12:09, Todd Slater wrote: Not if you cut it with vodka. However, it will scare the hell out of your It's funny that you should mention him, I had an appointment with him this morning in preparation for a colonoscopy. I'll lay off the ink for a few days before the procedure. Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Careful Rich--a friend went in last week for a colonoscopy and shortly thereafter came down with a terrible fever and intestinal distress. He returned home Monday after emergency surgery to remove 12 inches of his perforated large intestine. It was nearly fatal. So, good luck with that! Thanks Todd. This Dr. did a colonoscopy on me 2 1/2 years ago and I know he's good, but I guess that sort of thing can happen anytime. Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] rar arc
I just get an error either not supported or rar is not in your PATH Are they supported at all ? or how can i get them opened Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail or Evo Mail program doesn't do what I like... POPmail and Delete
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 5:56 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:34 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Certainly KMail can be configured either to leave messages on the server or delete from the server when downloaded. I think he is talking about only deleting on the server when deleted in the client. OE can do this, but I don't know if Kmail can. This rings bells - could it be that the option is only available on imap accounts? I used to have an imap account, and Netscape used to offer that option. I'm guessing that his is an imap account, and that Mozilla will allow him to do that. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to list sources for urpmi
man urpmi. man 8 urpmi.update. I cant see where to output the list of sources to read. Reason, For a mate I wish to delete an update mirror urpmi.removemedia so i can set a new one. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail or Evo Mail program doesn't do what I like... POPmail and Delete
Todd: Its not IMAP as M$ Outlook has that options to act like an IMAP but in a POP's protocol. My ISP wont enable IMAP for me, IF I am not able to do this with any linux based mail program, I will have to install vmware and run M$ Outlook in that method. YPK On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:14 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: hello... In M$ Outlook, when i have my email moved to deleted folder and expunge them, it will tell the server to remove from the system and I wont be able to see it via WEB if I am traveling. Since I am now using Evolution with POP service, I am not able to get the mail deleted as I did with Microsoft Outlook. What can I do to make it sync, so when I am traveling, It wont be THAT much mail to display... and run out of my server space. YPK That sounds like IMAP to me. Are you using POP and telling your client to leave messages on the server? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] how to list sources for urpmi
man urpmi. man 8 urpmi.update. I cant see where to output the list of sources to read. Reason, For a mate I wish to delete an update mirror urpmi.removemedia so i can set a new one. See the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file to see the media sites/locations. Or just check the Sources Manager and click edit on the one you want to delete and you will see what it is named there. If you get that far you might as well delete it from there as well instead of clicking edit just click delete. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail or Evo Mail program doesn't do what I like... POPmail and Delete
Anne: This wont work for me, as I do access to my mailbox on the road and I want to be able to check from anywhere Thanks for trying! My ears are still open! YPK On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:34 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 5:14 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: hello... In M$ Outlook, when i have my email moved to deleted folder and expunge them, it will tell the server to remove from the system and I wont be able to see it via WEB if I am traveling. Since I am now using Evolution with POP service, I am not able to get the mail deleted as I did with Microsoft Outlook. What can I do to make it sync, so when I am traveling, It wont be THAT much mail to display... and run out of my server space. YPK That sounds like IMAP to me. Are you using POP and telling your client to leave messages on the server? Certainly KMail can be configured either to leave messages on the server or delete from the server when downloaded. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rar arc
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:38:19PM +0200, Kristjan wrote: I just get an error either not supported or rar is not in your PATH Are they supported at all ? or how can i get them opened Rar is not open source, so not in the distrib. Here's a link to an .rpm of it though (v2.8): http://www.rpmhelp.net/rpmlist.php?distrib=mdk82rid=343 -- Paul pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation
Many thanks for helping. I tried the first choice but when I come up with the partitioning stage, the partition with Mandrake on it was not mounted. (I mounted one partition as / and the other as linux swap). Now they are not mounted at all. If I mount them, would I lose the data on it? Should I proceed by mounting them at / and linux swap? If I do proceed, should I just manually DESELECT all the packages that are selected in default installation? As for the second approach, I've come to the stage where in /mnt/mnt I could see the windows partitions. (No linux partition can be seen either here). I couldn't find the lilo.conf file. Should it be in the first partition which is win_c in my case? Or it's somewhere else? Please help! I am writing my final year project and I have all my coding there without a backup(I know it's a mistake not backup them). Many thanks, Wei - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 1:38 pm, Wei Wang wrote: I have Mandrake 9.0 and just recompiled the kernel. The compilation gave out some kind of kernel panic error. After I rebooted the machine, I get: Linux Loading . with either the linux boot or the custom2419 boot. It looks like grub or lilo is messed up. I don't have a floppy driver in my laptop so can't boot from there. Actually someone asked this about a year ago but he got this error after upgrading the kernel while I was simply compiling the kernel. But the answers to that were contradictory: One suggestion is to do a MOCK INSTALL and NOT an upgrade with the installation CDs. The other suggestion is to do an UPDATE and NOT an install. What should I do? Use the installation CDs to do a MOCK INSTALL or UPGRADE? Many thanks, Wei Installing again without selecting any packages will recover your system again, and involves minimal effort. Another way of recovering is to boot from your install CD and at the first screen hit F1 then type 'rescue' at the prompt. You will be presented with a short menu. One of which is to mount your partitions. You can then find your hard disc files under /mnt and you can have a go at repairing your lilo.conf. (Use 'vim-minimal' as an editor) It is likely that the symlinks for 'initrd' and 'vmlinuz' have become broken when you compiled your kernel. The command lilo -v -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf will rewrite lilo to your bootsector HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net 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] Kmail or Evo Mail program doesn't do what I like... POPmail and Delete
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:52 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Todd: Its not IMAP as M$ Outlook has that options to act like an IMAP but in a POP's protocol. My ISP wont enable IMAP for me, IF I am not able to do this with any linux based mail program, I will have to install vmware and run M$ Outlook in that method. In Kmail, when you set up the pop server (under the network tab) there's an option you can select that says, Leave message on server Same with Evolution. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot problems
At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: Hi, I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes up when I try to boot from the hard drive. It gets as far as the message INIT: Loading version 2.83 (just before the interactive mode message would normally appear) and then it dies. Booting failsafe I get the same problem, but my boot disk works fine. I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at it) with 128M of RAM. Any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks, Ian Kelly Could this be anobiospnp problem, if so add it to the append= line, between the , ensuring there is a space between each seperate command. John Thanks, but this didn't help. I don't think my bios is the problem because I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just fine. (And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with the problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.) Ian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation
If rescue was unable to mount your partitions for you, it means it could not find a valid fstab file on any of the partitons which is not a good sign. Also if the installer was not able to guess where the partitions mount, it is a sign that the file system may be damaged :-( Mounting the partitions manually in the installer should not lose any data so long as you are *very* careful not to allow the partitions to be formatted. Then as you say 'deselect' all the default packages and continue with the install. Did you not define a separate /home partition ? A separate home makes life a lot easier if/when you trash your system. You can just do a reinstall and leave /home unformatted. Perhaps the first thing you ought to try doing is to mount the partitions by hand from the rescue CD The commands mkdir /mnt/rescue mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/rescue will mount the first partition of the Primary master IDE on the mount point /mnt/rescue as an ext3 filesystem. Naturally you will have to select the correct partition numbers and file system type for your installation. If you can successfully mount your partitions you could copy your essential data files over to your Windows partition as a backup before attempting a reinstall. Good luck derek On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 7:51 pm, Wei Wang wrote: Many thanks for helping. I tried the first choice but when I come up with the partitioning stage, the partition with Mandrake on it was not mounted. (I mounted one partition as / and the other as linux swap). Now they are not mounted at all. If I mount them, would I lose the data on it? Should I proceed by mounting them at / and linux swap? If I do proceed, should I just manually DESELECT all the packages that are selected in default installation? As for the second approach, I've come to the stage where in /mnt/mnt I could see the windows partitions. (No linux partition can be seen either here). I couldn't find the lilo.conf file. Should it be in the first partition which is win_c in my case? Or it's somewhere else? Please help! I am writing my final year project and I have all my coding there without a backup(I know it's a mistake not backup them). Many thanks, Wei - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 1:38 pm, Wei Wang wrote: I have Mandrake 9.0 and just recompiled the kernel. The compilation gave out some kind of kernel panic error. After I rebooted the machine, I get: Linux Loading . with either the linux boot or the custom2419 boot. It looks like grub or lilo is messed up. I don't have a floppy driver in my laptop so can't boot from there. Actually someone asked this about a year ago but he got this error after upgrading the kernel while I was simply compiling the kernel. But the answers to that were contradictory: One suggestion is to do a MOCK INSTALL and NOT an upgrade with the installation CDs. The other suggestion is to do an UPDATE and NOT an install. What should I do? Use the installation CDs to do a MOCK INSTALL or UPGRADE? Many thanks, Wei Installing again without selecting any packages will recover your system again, and involves minimal effort. Another way of recovering is to boot from your install CD and at the first screen hit F1 then type 'rescue' at the prompt. You will be presented with a short menu. One of which is to mount your partitions. You can then find your hard disc files under /mnt and you can have a go at repairing your lilo.conf. (Use 'vim-minimal' as an editor) It is likely that the symlinks for 'initrd' and 'vmlinuz' have become broken when you compiled your kernel. The command lilo -v -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf will rewrite lilo to your bootsector HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net --- - 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
Re: [newbie] server confiuration wizards
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:52, brett dunkley wrote: I am VERY new to all of this and am about to run home to NT. However if you all think I should keep going then I will try. This is the first time I have posted a question and I am not sure if I'm even doing this right! here goes: The Mandrake quick configuration server guide tells me that the server configuration menu will appear when the wizdrake package is installed. I can not find any mention of this in the install software / rpmdrake tool how do I install wizdrake? please don't laugh Brett Ain't not a one of us is going to laugh, man. Been there done that. Don't reckon anyone here is got the hide to turn on ya. Meanwhile, all the Drakes are already on the system - if you've done the installation correctly (or rather, hit NEXT over and over again). Most of what you can do, will do and will ever want to do is through the Mandrake Control Center (yeah, it's ME saying that - the only person on this list that ever tells people to look elsewhere to configure something) - but really - dude, that's where it's at. From the time MDK is configured from the get go, it's a server. Literally. Just a matter of tweaking and tuning it to your specs. What do you want to do with it all? Make a mail server? Network file server? Porn server? Streaming video/streaming audio? -- Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:05:00 +1100 10:05pm up 11:43, 4 users, load average: 0.78, 0.82, 0.89 -- |____ | 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 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Just close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and think to yourself, `There's no place like home.' -- Glynda the Good Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drakefirewall assessment sought
Hi everybody, Does anyone have experience with drakefirewall (the firewall shipped with Mandrake 9)? How does it compare to other products (such as firestarter)? Also, When I try to launch it it says Make sure you have configured your Network/Internet access with drakconnect before going any further. I manually installed kppp for dial-up, does that mean that I cannot use it? thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot problems
Ian Kelly wrote: At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: Hi, I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes up when I try to boot from the hard drive. It gets as far as the message INIT: Loading version 2.83 (just before the interactive mode message would normally appear) and then it dies. Booting failsafe I get the same problem, but my boot disk works fine. I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at it) with 128M of RAM. Any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks, Ian Kelly Could this be anobiospnp problem, if so add it to the append= line, between the , ensuring there is a space between each seperate command. John Thanks, but this didn't help. I don't think my bios is the problem because I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just fine. (And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with the problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.) Ian fair enough. So the boot floppy works fine but the normal lilo boot does not. Odd. Is there anyway you could look into the floppy with a text editor to see if it passes anything to the kernel for booting ? Did you change anything, maybe a bios setting , a piece of hardware, or something between M7.1 and M9.0 ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] registration
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Re: [newbie] rar arc
Here's the tarball from RAR themselves: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.1.1.tar.gz It's a much newer version. Miark On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:51:32 -0600 Paul Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:38:19PM +0200, Kristjan wrote: I just get an error either not supported or rar is not in your PATH Are they supported at all ? or how can i get them opened Rar is not open source, so not in the distrib. Here's a link to an .rpm of it though (v2.8): http://www.rpmhelp.net/rpmlist.php?distrib=mdk82rid=343 -- Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail or Evo Mail program doesn't do what I like...POPmail and Delete
When i leave that mail on the server, when i decide to delete the mail, that copy of that mail is on the server regardless!! I just checked Mozilla and it does do what I was looking for... Will be trying that out soon! YPK cervixcouch wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:52 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Todd: Its not IMAP as M$ Outlook has that options to act like an IMAP but in a POP's protocol. My ISP wont enable IMAP for me, IF I am not able to do this with any linux based mail program, I will have to install vmware and run M$ Outlook in that method. In Kmail, when you set up the pop server (under the network tab) there's an option you can select that says, Leave message on server Same with Evolution. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing RC2, never asked for CD2 or CD3
During the installation of RC2, I am never prompted for CDs 2 or 3. Why is that?! Am I supposed to add the other two CDs with urpmi? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing RC2, never asked for CD2 or CD3
On Wed 2003-03-05 at 17:38:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the installation of RC2, I am never prompted for CDs 2 or 3. Why is that?! Am I supposed to add the other two CDs with urpmi? No. You should be asked for CD2/CD3 during the package install (the part that takes most time :-). Did you sucessfully pass this step? If so, apparently you managed to only select programs that are on CD1.[1] HTH, Benjamin. [1] Although it is unusual, it is not too hard to accomplish... the packages are distributed on the CDs in a way that makes CD2 and CD3 less needed (e.g. CD3 mainly contains translations). pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] how to list sources for urpmi
Just type urpmi.removemedia by itself and it will list your choices. Miark On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:35:09 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reason, For a mate I wish to delete an update mirror urpmi.removemedia so i can set a new one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] registration
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Re: [newbie] registration
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[newbie] 9.0rc2
Just installed the new rc2 and find that as long as shorewall is installed I can not connect to the internet. I know one other ML afficianado with the same problem. Anyone else? Bug report time. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0rc2
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:55 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Just installed the new rc2 and find that as long as shorewall is installed I can not connect to the internet. I know one other ML afficianado with the same problem. Anyone else? Bug report time. Make sure you give a lot of info about this, including the order in which you ran the draktools, meaning, did you run ICS before shorewall or shorewall beofre ICS, along with exacly what connection you set to allow. This seemingly extraneous info is important, because I cannot reproduce the problem here, Shorewall works as advertised for me. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: colonoscopy (was: Epson printer warning!)
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:10:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 12:09, Todd Slater wrote: Not if you cut it with vodka. However, it will scare the hell out of your It's funny that you should mention him, I had an appointment with him this morning in preparation for a colonoscopy. I'll lay off the ink for a few days before the procedure. Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Careful Rich--a friend went in last week for a colonoscopy and shortly thereafter came down with a terrible fever and intestinal distress. He returned home Monday after emergency surgery to remove 12 inches of his perforated large intestine. It was nearly fatal. So, good luck with that! Thanks Todd. This Dr. did a colonoscopy on me 2 1/2 years ago and I know he's good, but I guess that sort of thing can happen anytime. Rich Maybe a pleasant tale will help! I had a colonoscpy. Before they started the procedure, they informed me of all the things that could go wrong. I asked what the odds were. They told me numbers, which I forget. I remember doing a bit of mental calulation, and realized that my odds of surviving the colonoscopy were better than my odds of surviving one day of commuting to work. Yes, accidents happen, but not often. Incidentally, they had the fibre optic camera inside me connected to a big monitor that I could see. It was kind of fun, like exploring a cave, but without the claustrophobic fear of a rockslide. I even got to see where my appendix started, from the inside! -- hendrik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dumb and Stupid me! Leave mail was not ticked!
Hello... Hopefully soemone can help me out? I would like to know how I can get all of my email that was on the server, that is now in my mailbox, back on the server so that I can access to it from the web. This is a POP access email system, Can't do it with IMAP protocal that I can just cut/paste and presto its back on the server... How can I proceed? Thanks for help in advance! YPK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dumb and Stupid me! Leave mail was not ticked!
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:17 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello... Hopefully soemone can help me out? I would like to know how I can get all of my email that was on the server, that is now in my mailbox, back on the server so that I can access to it from the web. This is a POP access email system, Can't do it with IMAP protocal that I can just cut/paste and presto its back on the server... How can I proceed? Thanks for help in advance! YPK The only way I know of is to forward all the mails to yourself. POP3 does not allow folder management. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dumb and Stupid me! Leave mail was not ticked!
I can't really foward this to myself as I wont know wht's in the body of the message! Aw Shucks! Hope someone can come up with a better idea... YPK Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:17 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello... Hopefully soemone can help me out? I would like to know how I can get all of my email that was on the server, that is now in my mailbox, back on the server so that I can access to it from the web. This is a POP access email system, Can't do it with IMAP protocal that I can just cut/paste and presto its back on the server... How can I proceed? Thanks for help in advance! YPK The only way I know of is to forward all the mails to yourself. POP3 does not allow folder management. 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] Installing RC2, never asked for CD2 or CD3
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:37:09AM +0100, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Wed 2003-03-05 at 17:38:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the installation of RC2, I am never prompted for CDs 2 or 3. Why is that?! Am I supposed to add the other two CDs with urpmi? No. You should be asked for CD2/CD3 during the package install (the part that takes most time :-). Did you sucessfully pass this step? If so, apparently you managed to only select programs that are on CD1.[1] HTH, Benjamin. I had the same problem with Mandrake 9.0. -- hendrik [1] Although it is unusual, it is not too hard to accomplish... the packages are distributed on the CDs in a way that makes CD2 and CD3 less needed (e.g. CD3 mainly contains translations). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing RC2, never asked for CD2 or CD3
No, I installed it _twice_ and was never asked for the other CDs. I was expecting right around the time you select packages, but I'm certain I was never asked. That's why I installed the second time--just to make sure I wasn't asleep the first time. Miark On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 00:37:09 +0100 Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 2003-03-05 at 17:38:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the installation of RC2, I am never prompted for CDs 2 or 3. Why is that?! Am I supposed to add the other two CDs with urpmi? No. You should be asked for CD2/CD3 during the package install (the part that takes most time :-). Did you sucessfully pass this step? If so, apparently you managed to only select programs that are on CD1.[1] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rar arc
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:33:47PM -0500, Miark wrote: Here's the tarball from RAR themselves: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.1.1.tar.gz It's a much newer version. True. I updated the rpmhelp.net rpm (well, once Vincent uploads it). In the meantime you can get it from ftp.coxcentral.com/pub/rpms if you want it. -- Paul pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Boot problems
John Richard Smith wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: Hi, I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes up when I try to boot from the hard drive. It gets as far as the message INIT: Loading version 2.83 (just before the interactive mode message would normally appear) and then it dies. Booting failsafe I get the same problem, but my boot disk works fine. I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at it) with 128M of RAM. Any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks, Ian Kelly Could this be anobiospnp problem, if so add it to the append= line, between the , ensuring there is a space between each seperate command. John Thanks, but this didn't help. I don't think my bios is the problem because I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just fine. (And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with the problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.) Ian fair enough. So the boot floppy works fine but the normal lilo boot does not. Odd. Is there anyway you could look into the floppy with a text editor to see if it passes anything to the kernel for booting ? Did you change anything, maybe a bios setting , a piece of hardware, or something between M7.1 and M9.0 ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] The boot disk's syslinux.cfg file reads: default linux prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 100 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount mem=128M This doesn't contain anything extraordinary and doesn't differ significantly from my lilo settings. The kernel in /boot and the one on the floppy also have the same size and md5sum, so I don't think that's the problem. I haven't changed anything else between 7.1 and 9.0. It's starting to look like this problem is going to be very difficult to diagnose, and I'm going to have to either live with the boot disk or just switch to a different distro. But first I'm going to try reinstalling, and maybe I'll try out 9.1rc2. Ian Kelly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rar arc
Excellent! Thanks, Paul. Miark On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:03:29 -0600 Paul Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:33:47PM -0500, Miark wrote: Here's the tarball from RAR themselves: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.1.1.tar.gz It's a much newer version. True. I updated the rpmhelp.net rpm (well, once Vincent uploads it). In the meantime you can get it from ftp.coxcentral.com/pub/rpms if you want it. -- Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Low volume sound
Hi, I have a sound blaster card that Mandrake 9.0 has detected. Whilst the sound is coming through the volume level is very low. How can this be changed? Thanks. Jon.
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. --- big snip Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, The natural output of Linux print commands is in Printer Control Language 5 (PCL5) , while most dos inkjet printers rastorize the image files in Printer Control Language 3 (PCL3) to accomodate this problem Ghostscript converts PCL5 to PCL3. To speak of ghostscript as drivers is something of a misnomer, as it's a conversion programme. Your dos inkjet printer has a rastor image processor chip in PCL3 and a certain amount of buffer as well but as I understand it the control of the page setup is what PPD does. LPD is the local printer daemon and generates the PCL5 image file , I think? and the image file is processed through to ghostscript where the conversion to PCL3 is accomplished, using so called backend filters. Somewhere in all this is Foomatic , which I have never yet come across an explanation of. Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years research I have not been able to find an explanation of how CUPS deals with PostScript fonts then they probably cannot afford the time to follow up my query. It is obviously not something anybody can answer off the top of their head. So I will continue poking around. Let's see, at 3.5 minutes a day, I might be getting somewhere by 2025. You can all look forward to my article on printing and font handling in LX Format then g. Thanks also for the information re PCL5 and PCL3. I had not come across that. The printer is an HP Deskjet 940C by the way. The PPD file contains a list of default fonts which is reflected in a set of .pfb files in /usr/share/cups/fonts. It should be possible to use these two resources to add new fonts - not clear how though. Any changes seem to be ignored by CUPS. It is not even possible to get it to accept a change in the default typeface, say from Courier to Helvetica. Cheers mate -- Len Lawrence -- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.0rc2
I have not checked shorewall on mine, but using dhcp did not work (I turned off acpi as well Greg) had to move to static ip address again. Will check shorewall tonight and change back to dhcp. I also as a precaution installed all programs which had something to do with dhcp even the server just to be on the safe side. Tony. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0rc2 On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:55 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Just installed the new rc2 and find that as long as shorewall is installed I can not connect to the internet. I know one other ML afficianado with the same problem. Anyone else? Bug report time. Make sure you give a lot of info about this, including the order in which you ran the draktools, meaning, did you run ICS before shorewall or shorewall beofre ICS, along with exacly what connection you set to allow. This seemingly extraneous info is important, because I cannot reproduce the problem here, Shorewall works as advertised for me. -- Greg -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
