Re: [newbie-it] JDBC
Il lun, 2003-03-24 alle 11:48, Santarella Benedetto ha scritto: Salve a tutti, quale programma si usa per gestire i database con JDBC?? Sotto winzoz esisteva una icona nel pannello di controllo chiamata tipo controllo ODBC (per ODBC), io cerco l'equivalente linux per JDBC!! Ciao Benedetto, JDBC sta per Java DataBase Connectivity e rappresenta una serie di API presenti nella distribuzione SUN di java che permettono di connettersi ed eseguire query su un db in java, si tratta dunque di classi java. JDBC-ODBC è invece un cosidetto bridge che implementa operazioni JDBC (quindi in java) traducendole in operazioni ODBC. Quando tu usi ODBC in windows non stai necessariamente usando anche java. Se tu vuoi gestire operazioni su un db con JDBC devi avere il driver per il db che stai usando. Il driver altro non è che un filtro tra il db e l'applicazione java che stai costruendo. Senza andare troppo OT ti consiglio il java tutorial in cui viene spiegato come creare e gestire conessioni ad un db con JDBC: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/basics/index.html Ciao Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] installare un mandrake come server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cerco di spiegarmi meglio: la macchina all'università deve funzionarmi da server ftp, web, mail, sql, almeno questi servizi mi servono, grazie alf web = apache mail = postfix, sendmail, qmail, cirus, etc... sql = mysql Per ognuno di questi programmi ci sono disponibili mille mila howto, dipewnde da cosa vuoi fare Bye, Lux
RE: [newbie-it] connessione con modem ADSL
uso alice (adsl) con la mdk 9.0, purtroppo i tecnici telecom non ti possono essere d'aiuto, l'unica cosa che puoi fare è telefonare alla telecom e spiegargli che usi linux per navigare e che quindi hai bisogno di un modem SpeedTousch USB, questo tipo di modem viene riconosciuto senza problema dalla mdk9.0, e configura quasi tutto da sola, una volta in possesso di questo modem posso aiutarti più dettagliatamente a configurare il tutto. ciao. -- Messaggio originale -- From: Paolo Schiavo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:50:10 +0100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie-it] connessione con modem ADSL Chiedo aiuto!! Sono passato recentemente alla connessione con ADSL, pacchetto fornito da ALICE con modem Telindus Arescom ND220. Uso la Mandrake 9.0. Ho un riconoscimento della porta USB a cui è connesso (uno dei due lem del modem si accende), per configurarlo però è tutta un'altra storia. Il riconoscimento automatico mi propone la scelta tra una lista di driver di rete!?Il mio PC non ha nessuna connessione di rete! Come mi devo muovere. Sono un newbie assoluto! Grazie a chi vorrà aiutarmi!
RE: [newbie-it] connessione con modem ADSL
il modem è Speed Touch USB -- Messaggio originale -- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:02:44 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie-it] connessione con modem ADSL To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] uso alice (adsl) con la mdk 9.0, purtroppo i tecnici telecom non ti possono essere d'aiuto, l'unica cosa che puoi fare è telefonare alla telecom e spiegargli che usi linux per navigare e che quindi hai bisogno di un modem SpeedTousch USB, questo tipo di modem viene riconosciuto senza problema dalla mdk9.0, e configura quasi tutto da sola, una volta in possesso di questo modem posso aiutarti più dettagliatamente a configurare il tutto. ciao. -- Messaggio originale -- From: Paolo Schiavo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:50:10 +0100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie-it] connessione con modem ADSL Chiedo aiuto!! Sono passato recentemente alla connessione con ADSL, pacchetto fornito da ALICE con modem Telindus Arescom ND220. Uso la Mandrake 9.0. Ho un riconoscimento della porta USB a cui è connesso (uno dei due lem del modem si accende), per configurarlo però è tutta un'altra storia. Il riconoscimento automatico mi propone la scelta tra una lista di driver di rete!?Il mio PC non ha nessuna connessione di rete! Come mi devo muovere. Sono un newbie assoluto! Grazie a chi vorrà aiutarmi!
Re: [newbie-it] connessione con modem ADSL
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:02:44 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uso alice (adsl) con la mdk 9.0, purtroppo i tecnici telecom non ti possono essere d'aiuto, l'unica cosa che puoi fare è telefonare alla telecom e spiegargli che usi linux per navigare e che quindi hai bisogno di un modem SpeedTousch USB, questo tipo di modem viene riconosciuto senza problema dalla mdk9.0, e configura quasi tutto da sola, una volta in possesso di questo modem posso aiutarti più dettagliatamente a configurare il tutto. ciao. Intanto che telefona a Telecom, gli consiglierei di puntare un po' più in alto e di chiedere un modem ethernet (qualsiasi marca e modello). Si configurano ancor più facilmente, funzionano meglio e, se gli danno un Ericcson HM220dp, potrebbe ritrovarsi con un oggetto che funziona anche da router ;-) ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] la 9.1 out
:))) happy linux a tutti ciao francesco
Re:[newbie-it] la 9.1 è out
Se a qualcuno interessa ne ho fatto una recensione qui: http://www.linuxhelp.it/modules.php?name=Reviewsrop=showcontentid=7 Forza Mandrake! :))) happy linux a tutti ciao francesco *** Silvio Colloca Webmaster ed unico colpevole di http://www.linuxhelp.it Two significant products trace their orgins to Berkley, Unix and LSD. We do not believe this to be a coincidence. ***
R: [newbie-it] Connettersi ad internet
Alle 15:33, sabato 15 marzo 2003, Giaipur ha scritto: Salve a tutti Sono un nuovissimo utente del pinguino Ho appena installato Mandrake 7.1, mm 1999 o giù di li... era meglio la 7.2, mooolto meglio se hai una macchina vecchietta te la consiglio, soprattutto perchè è stata la prima a montare reiserfs (su un 2.2.17 patchato...) o ti confondi con la 9.1 ? ;p No sono sicuro è la 7.1, oppure la scheramta di login a qualche bug. se interroghi il modem con kppp / minicom cosa ti dice? se non si inizializza, Sono molto newbie non capisco cosa mi stai chiedendo non è colpa di ATDT ma dei comandi che lanci subito prima (tipo ATZ o ATFH0 , ecc) 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+dMQWF/9fksDJ4y0RAg40AJwJVfuYVZZhKuVP35agvgFEeEutYACeIWOe iKKR+Eakfa1rj52GZtBDURA= =WaqB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
R: [newbie-it] Connettersi ad internet
Dacci più informazioni: tipo di modem (interno-esterno, marca). Modem esterno 56 Khili x secondo USB Grazie x la pronta collaborazione Spero di poter restare nel mondo linux xchè il pinguino mi piace un casino!
Re: [newbie-it] Connettersi ad internet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:53, martedì 25 marzo 2003, Giaipur ha scritto: Sono un nuovissimo utente del pinguino Ho appena installato Mandrake 7.1, o ti confondi con la 9.1 ? No sono sicuro è la 7.1, oppure la scheramta di login a qualche bug. beh, se hai scelto di usare quella distribuzione, spero dipenda da un hardware non recentissimo, perchè è piuttosto vecchia... è comunque solida e abbastanza stabile (e standard, contrariamente a certe distribuzioni recenti, che riempono il filesystem di link) e per imparare andrà bene (certo cordati il supporto a dispositivi recenti, però..) se interroghi il modem con kppp / minicom cosa ti dice? se non si inizializza, Sono molto newbie non capisco cosa mi stai chiedendo allora, con quale programma provi a connetterti a internet? che modem hai? (tipo modello, magari anche chipset, più info hai meglio è) come è collegato? tramite quale interfaccia? (seriale, usb, pci, ecc..) 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+gOsdF/9fksDJ4y0RAgZvAJ0bUbkIEmRu0fs4v9g3AoqT3/1MlACdHhnu BLjYWBryujqjL3YpjPYqUfM= =9rOq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself
Have a look at /etc/passwd on both distributions and synchronize them - at least for the users. It would seem to me that one distribution uses different user numbers for the users; for instance, mandrake starts at 500, the other distro might start at 100. Naah, it started at 501 ;-) Case closed. Thanks! Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
I have those files for you now...hope they help!! Cheers Jason Mungandi, Fred wrote: Jason, Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file. Thanks, Fred Mungandi -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email them to you now. Basically you need to use the send core events argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse. I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW, they are found in /etc/X11/ Cheers Jason Greenwood Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX # Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF... FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic #FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi #FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi # True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig! FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western FontPath /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives # FontPath /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard AutoRepeat 500 5 LeftAltMeta RightAltMeta ScrollLock Compose RightCtlControl # This is just the default keymap for X. # May be changed with the KDE international keyboard tool. XkbModelpc104 XkbLayout us # XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps # XkbKeycodes xfree86 # XkbTypesdefault # XkbCompat default # XkbSymbols us(pc101) # XkbGeometry pc # XkbRulesxfree86 # XkbModelpc101 # XkbLayout us EndSection Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/mouse Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout70 EndSection # Auto-generated by mkxf86config Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 # Wish we could use some probed settings here, too, but XFree4 cannot do this yet. # HorizSync28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors HorizSync28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 # Very conservative. May flicker. # These are some Modelines that happen to work on many systems # Especially the 1024x768 has been thoroughly tested, even on Laptops Modeline 640x480 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 #60Hz Modeline 800x600 40.12 800 848 968 1056 600 601 605 628 #60Hz Modeline 1024x768851024 1056 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Modeline 1152x864921152 1208 1368 1474 864 865 875 895 Modeline 1152x864 1101152 1240 1324 1552 864 864 876 908 Modeline
RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Thanks Jason, I will take a look Fred -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop I have those files for you now...hope they help!! Cheers Jason Mungandi, Fred wrote: Jason, Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file. Thanks, Fred Mungandi -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email them to you now. Basically you need to use the send core events argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse. I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW, they are found in /etc/X11/ Cheers Jason Greenwood Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!
I Checked and 'apmd' is installed. In the process monitor it shows as sleeping. Maybe if as a user I had rights to this process? But I tried to shut the computer off when I was actually logged in as root. It still didn't work. Oren -Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 13:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off! You could also try installing apmd, which handles power management. It's also possible that it's installed, but not running. Check to see if it's activated in your services (Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices) to see if it's activated at boot. If you don't find it in the list of services, it's probably not installed. APMD will usually manage your power-off function by communicating with acpi, but it may also shut your monitor down into standby mode after 15 minutes or so. However, if you don't like that feature, you can edit your XF86Config-4 file found in /etc/X11, and comment out the Option line regarding DPMS. Then restart your X server. Lanman On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 07:54, Anne Wilson wrote: Recompiling the kernel is not trivial. Most of us can shut down without having to do this, so it should be left until you have no other option. I'm not sure where you can check your power settings - it's not where it used to be - but I'm sure someone will tell you. You may have said it already, but anyway, please tell us what your power settings in bios are. Anne On Monday 24 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Tsur, Oren wrote: Adolfo, For the newbies who are still not very conversant with Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, please can you show (or refer us to a place which will show this) how this is done? With all respect to Linux, it would be nice to use the computer as we all did under M$ Window$. Meaning when you ask your computer to shut down, it actually does it. ;o) Many thanks, Oren -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 12:06 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swith off! On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:13, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: After the upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9.0 the shutdown or halt commands are not switching off the computer anymore! The screen holds on: Power down And then I have to switch off mannually. Any help? TIA Ricardo I also had this kind of problem. What I did was to recompile the kernel turning ACPI on. (a few days ago somebody said that it has nothing to do with it. But it worked for me) Saludos Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
I apologize for the possibly naive (stupid...) question, but - despite all the search that I have done - I cannot find how to create a CD from an ISO image that I have downloaded from the Internet. I am using GNOME-toaster and KreateCD programs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer, Registered Linux User #305894, Ximian Evolution (1.2.2) on Mandrake Linux (8.2), Athens, GREECE, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PostgreSQL
Forgive my silly question, but I'm trying to experiment with PostgreSQL (all I've used till now is MySQL...) on Mandrake 9.0, but I have know idea what the default username/password is. Is it kind of like MySQL, with a root user? Thanks, Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] vnc startup
Hello All, I have managed to get vnc running between Linux and Windows. I start vncserver in the Linux box and then switch to Windows where I start up a vnc client. How do I get the desktop to be kde (or the Mandrake equivalent) instead of what seems to be wm? -- Regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] On USB ports
Thanks to HarM and Derek. I must confess I didn't try Dereck's advise, so, I do not know whether it might have worked or not. I'm sorry about this, it is just that my system got highly unstable due to my election of loading an NFS server on boot. The problem was that for some obscure reason, the system hanged when booting off, and the only thing left to do was to shut the power off. That caused a lot of problems and when I found the cure, and also I consulted the experts on the USB isssue and nothing worked, the system was in a very bad shape, so I decided to clean everything and do a fresh install. That gave me the opportunity to give some more space to the Linux patition which was already a bit tight. Anyway, thanks. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] On USB ports
Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) Digitally Damned, WhiteLion @-,-}-- - Original Message - From: Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: [newbie] On USB ports Thanks to HarM and Derek. I must confess I didn't try Dereck's advise, so, I do not know whether it might have worked or not. I'm sorry about this, it is just that my system got highly unstable due to my election of loading an NFS server on boot. The problem was that for some obscure reason, the system hanged when booting off, and the only thing left to do was to shut the power off. That caused a lot of problems and when I found the cure, and also I consulted the experts on the USB isssue and nothing worked, the system was in a very bad shape, so I decided to clean everything and do a fresh install. That gave me the opportunity to give some more space to the Linux patition which was already a bit tight. Anyway, thanks. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? 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] Creating CD's from ISO images.
Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) Digitally Damned, WhiteLion @-,-}-- - Original Message - From: Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images. On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: I apologize for the possibly naive (stupid...) question, but - despite all the search that I have done - I cannot find how to create a CD from an ISO image that I have downloaded from the Internet. I am using GNOME-toaster and KreateCD programs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, I generally don't use a gui for this. cdrecord -v -pad speed=4 dev=0,0,0 yourimage.iso You can change the speed if you've got a newer burner than mine, and you can do cdrecord -scanbus to see the dev settings for your burner. HTH, Todd 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] vnc startup
Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) Digitally Damned, WhiteLion @-,-}-- - Original Message - From: David Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:48 AM Subject: [newbie] vnc startup Hello All, I have managed to get vnc running between Linux and Windows. I start vncserver in the Linux box and then switch to Windows where I start up a vnc client. How do I get the desktop to be kde (or the Mandrake equivalent) instead of what seems to be wm? -- Regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] shutdown is not swath off!
Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) Digitally Damned, WhiteLion @-,-}-- - Original Message - From: Tsur, Oren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:22 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off! I Checked and 'apmd' is installed. In the process monitor it shows as sleeping. Maybe if as a user I had rights to this process? But I tried to shut the computer off when I was actually logged in as root. It still didn't work. Oren -Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 13:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off! You could also try installing apmd, which handles power management. It's also possible that it's installed, but not running. Check to see if it's activated in your services (Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices) to see if it's activated at boot. If you don't find it in the list of services, it's probably not installed. APMD will usually manage your power-off function by communicating with acpi, but it may also shut your monitor down into standby mode after 15 minutes or so. However, if you don't like that feature, you can edit your XF86Config-4 file found in /etc/X11, and comment out the Option line regarding DPMS. Then restart your X server. Lanman On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 07:54, Anne Wilson wrote: Recompiling the kernel is not trivial. Most of us can shut down without having to do this, so it should be left until you have no other option. I'm not sure where you can check your power settings - it's not where it used to be - but I'm sure someone will tell you. You may have said it already, but anyway, please tell us what your power settings in bios are. Anne On Monday 24 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Tsur, Oren wrote: Adolfo, For the newbies who are still not very conversant with Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, please can you show (or refer us to a place which will show this) how this is done? With all respect to Linux, it would be nice to use the computer as we all did under M$ Window$. Meaning when you ask your computer to shut down, it actually does it. ;o) Many thanks, Oren -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 12:06 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swith off! On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:13, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: After the upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9.0 the shutdown or halt commands are not switching off the computer anymore! The screen holds on: Power down And then I have to switch off mannually. Any help? TIA Ricardo I also had this kind of problem. What I did was to recompile the kernel turning ACPI on. (a few days ago somebody said that it has nothing to do with it. But it worked for me) Saludos Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. 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] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) Digitally Damned, WhiteLion @-,-}-- - Original Message - From: Mungandi, Fred To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:04 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Thanks Jason, I will take a look Fred -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop I have those files for you now...hope they help!! Cheers Jason Mungandi, Fred wrote: Jason, Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file. Thanks, Fred Mungandi -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email them to you now. Basically you need to use the "send core events" argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse. I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW, they are found in /etc/X11/ Cheers Jason Greenwood Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) Digitally Damned, WhiteLion @-,-}-- - Original Message - From: Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop I have those files for you now...hope they help!! Cheers Jason Mungandi, Fred wrote: Jason, Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file. Thanks, Fred Mungandi -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email them to you now. Basically you need to use the send core events argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse. I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW, they are found in /etc/X11/ Cheers Jason Greenwood Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX # Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF... FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic #FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi #FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi # True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig! FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western FontPath /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives # FontPath /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard AutoRepeat 500 5 LeftAltMeta RightAltMeta ScrollLock Compose RightCtlControl # This is just the default keymap for X. # May be changed with the KDE international keyboard tool. XkbModelpc104 XkbLayout us # XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps # XkbKeycodes xfree86 # XkbTypesdefault # XkbCompat default # XkbSymbols us(pc101) # XkbGeometry pc # XkbRulesxfree86 # XkbModelpc101 # XkbLayout us EndSection Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/mouse Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout70 EndSection # Auto-generated by mkxf86config Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 # Wish we could use some probed settings here, too, but XFree4 cannot do this yet. # HorizSync28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors HorizSync28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 # Very
Re: [newbie] vnc startup
On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 2:48 pm, David Anderson wrote: Hello All, I have managed to get vnc running between Linux and Windows. I start vncserver in the Linux box and then switch to Windows where I start up a vnc client. How do I get the desktop to be kde (or the Mandrake equivalent) instead of what seems to be wm? Simple. In the home directory of the user running the vncserver is a hidden directory called .vnc Inside that is a file xstartup Just put in that file the name of the WM you wish to run #!/bin/bash startkde #fluxbox You must remember to make the permission of the file 755 or else it will not work. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 1:58 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: I apologize for the possibly naive (stupid...) question, but - despite all the search that I have done - I cannot find how to create a CD from an ISO image that I have downloaded from the Internet. I am using GNOME-toaster and KreateCD programs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, I generally don't use a gui for this. cdrecord -v -pad speed=4 dev=0,0,0 yourimage.iso You can change the speed if you've got a newer burner than mine, and you can do cdrecord -scanbus to see the dev settings for your burner. If you want a gui, K3b does it easily. Do not, however, let it alter your fstab when installing - you will be asked, just say no. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
Anne, is that from a compile or an rpm? If I istall the rpm will it still ask? Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 1:58 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: I apologize for the possibly naive (stupid...) question, but - despite all the search that I have done - I cannot find how to create a CD from an ISO image that I have downloaded from the Internet. I am using GNOME-toaster and KreateCD programs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, I generally don't use a gui for this. cdrecord -v -pad speed=4 dev=0,0,0 yourimage.iso You can change the speed if you've got a newer burner than mine, and you can do cdrecord -scanbus to see the dev settings for your burner. If you want a gui, K3b does it easily. Do not, however, let it alter your fstab when installing - you will be asked, just say no. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA == Dual booting 98lite;MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 acqua / Keramik Theme == If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] On my silly question
Thanks to Anne and Thorsten. Thorsten, you got me in the right path this time, I could install, but I guess I would have to pay attention to Ann and find out what to do when I have an installer with an extension. Very indebted to both. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
and every mirror i know is absolutely bombed out. i'm getting trickles of 1-2kb/s. lol, i wonder if there're any internet traffic monitors out there that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. :) - Original Message - From: Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 01:38 Subject: RE: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released It on the main site as well now. -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:31 PM To: MDK Newbie list Subject: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released The Mandrake mirrors have received e-mail announcing the availability of 9.1 final. Miark -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
and every mirror i know is absolutely bombed out. i'm getting trickles of 1-2kb/s. lol, i wonder if there're any internet traffic monitors out there that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. :) Nah...ftp.sunet.se gives me 40 kb/s approx /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
I'm getting 108.75KB/s from spheniscus.uninett.no using gftp no prob bob ;-) Anders Lind wrote: and every mirror i know is absolutely bombed out. i'm getting trickles of 1-2kb/s. lol, i wonder if there're any internet traffic monitors out there that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. :) Nah...ftp.sunet.se gives me 40 kb/s approx /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA == Dual booting 98lite;MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 acqua / Keramik Theme == 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] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Tuesday March 25 2003 10:44 am, mycal62 wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 1:58 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: I apologize for the possibly naive (stupid...) question, but - despite all the search that I have done - I cannot find how to create a CD from an ISO image that I have downloaded from the Internet. I am using GNOME-toaster and KreateCD programs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, I generally don't use a gui for this. cdrecord -v -pad speed=4 dev=0,0,0 yourimage.iso -the -pad switch and lack of a -dao switch ruins md5sums. Burning at 4x is a good idea no matter what higher speed the media and burner are capable of, or claim. You can change the speed if you've got a newer burner than mine, and you can do cdrecord -scanbus to see the dev settings for your burner. If you want a gui, K3b does it easily. Do not, however, let it alter your fstab when installing - you will be asked, just say no. Anne Iso's burned from the CL with... cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -dao name_of_the.iso ...will provide a CD that will still give a true and valid md5sum. IOW's you can easily check the integrity of the burned CD with 'md5sum /dev/scd0' and it will exactly match the one obtained with 'md5sum name_of_the.iso' . I've yet to see a GUI frontend for cdrecord or cdrdao, no matter the point'n click settings used, that doesn't produce altered images where the md5sum will still match reliably. Hence, checking actual integrity of the burned CD is impossible. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 05:37, Anders Lind wrote: So I reckon I'll just wait for MDK 10 to come out now... *grins* You can perhaps take a stab at 9.1 in the meantime ;o) /Anders (Downloading 9.1 atm) Well, I was reckoning, since RedHat just did a major jump from 8.0 (bypassing 8.1) to RedHat 9, that Mandrake might follow suit and jump from 9.1 straight to 10... -- Wed Mar 26 06:00:00 EST 2003 06:00:00 up 4 days, 16:47, 4 users, load average: 0.33, 0.83, 0.90 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat. -- John McNulty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 06:42, Miark wrote: While I agree that it's far more effective to burn at slower speeds, I disagree with limiting the speed to any number. My rule of thumb is the lower of half the speed of either the drive or the media. Drive is 42X and media is 40X, I burn at 20X. Drive is 32X and media is 40X, I burn at 16X. I think this is a fair balance between speed and safety. I have a cool rule of thumb that works like a charm: * If someone's impatiently waiting for you to burn a CD for them, set the burning speed to x1. Show them the progress. Hopefully, they will leave and come back later. If you truly despise them, accidentally burn the Reader Rabbit ISO image instead of the data they're really wanting. * If a really beautiful woman is waiting for you to burn a CD for them, set the speed to x1, make them snacks, give them wine or champagne, explain that you're burning it slowly so the data integrity is perfect, like they are, woo them with mystical command-line utilities, let them play with the webcam a bit - and do whatever comes naturally. * If you're apathetic, stick in the blank, make the fs on the disk, take it out, label it, and say - Oh, yeah, my drive is x100 - it's really fast - here ya go, see ya later! -- Wed Mar 26 06:50:00 EST 2003 06:50:00 up 4 days, 17:37, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.08 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Professor: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Well, I was reckoning, since RedHat just did a major jump from 8.0 (bypassing 8.1) to RedHat 9, that Mandrake might follow suit and jump from 9.1 straight to 10... They just didn't like Mandrake being ahead of them. :) -- Paul pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 07:21, Paul Cox wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Well, I was reckoning, since RedHat just did a major jump from 8.0 (bypassing 8.1) to RedHat 9, that Mandrake might follow suit and jump from 9.1 straight to 10... They just didn't like Mandrake being ahead of them. :) But Mandrake IS ahead of them! RedHat's going to version 9 - and Mandrake is already at 9.1 !!! So they're ahead by a whole .1 !!! On another note, bear in mind that RedHat 8.0 thru 9 - both (or all three if you take into account the 8.1 beta code-named Phoebe) do not have the ability to either play a DVD or play an MP3 - you have to get that stuff from ELSEWHERE and install it yourself. Bloody Oath! At least WINDOWS has the ability to play an MP3 right outtada box! How lame, how lame... I've watched in the past year how things moved from RH 7.2 to 7.3, then directly to 8.0 - momentarily to 8.1beta, and now to 9. That certainly does not solidify my faith in a stable OS/distro. They're playing marketing games and blowing off the end users. This certainly denotes a change in their overall attitude about the people that helped to build them up and bring them to the forefront of all the linux distros. Sad. Almost Microsoft-ish in some means... -- Wed Mar 26 07:25:00 EST 2003 07:25:00 up 4 days, 18:12, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.04 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Today is the last day of your life so far. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slighty OT: Strange Computer Noises/Cold Boot Issues
On Tuesday March 25 2003 11:43 am, Jordan Elver wrote: Lately, I've found that my pc won't start the first time I press the on switch. If I press reset it starts up fine. Also, the pc generally sounds more noisy. I'm wondering if this is a hard drive issue? There have been no recent hardware changes so I can't think why this would be happening. The machine is about 3 years old. Generally cold starts where you hear whining and buzzing are from cheap fans that use sleeve bearings instead of ball bearings. OTOH, these don't prevent bootup other than if the fans are so impaired as to cause overheating before the system can complete the bootstrap process. Harddrives (and CD drives) can also produce similar sounds when cold, and it's not a good sign. Same deal, bearings. You can check by placing a rod of some sort (heck, I've used a spoon), in contact with the drives side and the other end against the bone just by your outer ear opening. This greatly amplifies the sound you hear from the insides of the drive, and pinpoints which drive. You might get away with it for a while, but it's a sure sign of pending mechanical failure of the device. I lost an important 30g, 8 month old, IBM, 7200rpm to this symptom ;( In that case, the drive was run 24/7, till I went out of town for a week. It would never spin up again, system wouldn't boot. Lost whatever I didn't have already backup'd to CDr's. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PostgreSQL
it's probably postgres. If there is a password allocated as well and you don't know what it is, (blowed if I can remember) try su root then su postgres :o) As postgres you are the main postgresql user and can create other users - including yourself. There are huge volumes of notes available with the package and from the site. regards Daryl On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 1:40 pm, Christopher Shaffer wrote: Forgive my silly question, but I'm trying to experiment with PostgreSQL (all I've used till now is MySQL...) on Mandrake 9.0, but I have know idea what the default username/password is. Is it kind of like MySQL, with a root user? Thanks, Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- It's NO USE ... I've gone to CLUB MED!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:57:46 -0600
mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi.
I installed the 4191 driver in 9.0 and they work fine but you have to
do it properly or it will mess up your install. :-(
you will have to remove and uninstall any NVIDIA drivers which you
have tried. I had to reinstall to fix my first attempt. ;-{
But , It can be done ! so Take heart !
First you must have the right source rpm installed so you will need to
correct this.
you can find the right sources here :
ftp://at.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/
I use the kernel-headers-2.4.18-41 so you should be fine with that
one.
the kernel-doc doesn't matter
I followed this tutorial which is very nice :
http://www.icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/?c=ttrls/nvidiacli
It directs you to rebuild the src rpms for your pc which is a good
idea. it also tells you where you can get them ( but this is
incorrect, get them from the Nvidia site itself , and make sure they
are the src.rpms )
If I remember , you will find the rebuild rpms here
:/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586
follow the rest of the tutorial carefully and it will work fine.
always remember to do alot of this from the command line in runlevel 3
If you need help write me back and I can tell you how to use mcedit
to edit the files you need to edit if you don't know how to do that
from the command line.
mcedit is much easier to use than vi which he suggests using to edit
the files. ( just let me know ) ;-)
hope this helps .
oh yeah, this is what I get when I use glxgears to test the speed of
the card with the Nvidia drivers :
944 frames in 5.0 seconds = 188.800 FPS
1115 frames in 5.0 seconds = 223.000 FPS
1131 frames in 5.0 seconds = 226.200 FPS
1133 frames in 5.0 seconds = 226.600 FPS
Not bad eh?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please forgive me if this post comes across with html formatting, I
am accessing my email account thru AT$T's web site and I cannot find
anywhere to change the settings.
I finally decided to upgrade my nvidia drivers (again - seems to
happen as often as Mandrake releases!) but this time I am receiving
alot of unresolved symbol errors.
Mandrake 9.0
GeForce2 MMX w/64 ram
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.tar.gz
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.tar.gz
From what I can find, it appears that my kernel does not match my
kernel-header version:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk
kernel-source-2.4.19-24mdk
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up
kernel-doc-2.4.19-24mdk
I tried this as well (but not too sure the path was correct)
make install SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-24mdk
with no luck.
What advise would anybody have? remove the
kernel-source-2.4.19-24mdk and install kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk?
Wait till 9.1 is out? (without startx till then...)
Thanks for any help and or advise
Steve
Thank you for the advise,
I have installed nvidia drivers a few times and had no problems up until
now.
src's wouldn't work, premade mdk rpm's would not work (at least the
one I believe was the correct one) what ended up working was using
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up.rpm
Still received an error saying that it might break my system - but I am
in Xwindows now and all is well!
Now on to find a decent mirror for 9.1!
Thanks again
Steve
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Re: [newbie] Slighty OT: Strange Computer Noises/Cold Boot Issues
Hi Tom, Generally cold starts where you hear whining and buzzing are from cheap fans that use sleeve bearings instead of ball bearings. OTOH, these don't prevent bootup other than if the fans are so impaired as to cause overheating before the system can complete the bootstrap process. Harddrives (and CD drives) can also produce similar sounds when cold, and it's not a good sign. Same deal, bearings. You can check by placing a rod of some sort (heck, I've used a spoon), in contact with the drives side and the other end against the bone just by your outer ear opening. This greatly amplifies the sound you hear from the insides of the drive, and pinpoints which drive. You might get away with it for a while, but it's a sure sign of pending mechanical failure of the device. Right, that settles it. Definately doing a major backup soon! I've been telling myself I should of by now for ages :) I lost an important 30g, 8 month old, IBM, 7200rpm to this symptom ;( In that case, the drive was run 24/7, till I went out of town for a week. It would never spin up again, system wouldn't boot. Lost whatever I didn't have already backup'd to CDr's. Thanks for everyones help. I shall now sit and wait for it to fail! Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] modem/browser/genl flakiness on ONE machine
I have a general question: if I get the Mandrake 9.0 installer to reformat/erase the drive, would that get rid of any possible virus, that might be causing wierd Mozilla behavior? I've installed another PCI modem, and the flaky connections continue Also, this ISA modem is doing great under Mandrake 9.0 ... been online 20 hours ... so I looked at Control Panel/Information/Network interfaces ... on both of these machines .. This isa machine has one for PPP0 and LO ... while the PCI modem machine that's acting wierd only has LO ... is that significant? Also, is it significant that on the PCI machine, IRQ 11 is what is designated for both the modem and the video? Any solutions? Rita __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:02:17 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday March 25 2003 10:44 am, mycal62 wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 1:58 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: I apologize for the possibly naive (stupid...) question, but - despite all the search that I have done - I cannot find how to create a CD from an ISO image that I have downloaded from the Internet. I am using GNOME-toaster and KreateCD programs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, I generally don't use a gui for this. cdrecord -v -pad speed=4 dev=0,0,0 yourimage.iso -the -pad switch and lack of a -dao switch ruins md5sums. Burning at 4x is a good idea no matter what higher speed the media and burner are capable of, or claim. Thanks for this tip, Tom. I've never had to worry about md5sums until now--just finished d/l'ing 9.1 and I'm ready to burn! But my writer doesn't support -dao. I'll burn one and see if the md5sum checks out. snip Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released (Did they do it again?)
At 12:31 PM 3/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: The Mandrake mirrors have received e-mail announcing the availability of 9.1 final. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com comparing the sums posted on the web to the sums from .rc3 I get then exactly the same? did they do it again? 6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD1.i586.iso 6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD2.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f Mandrake91-cd2-exte.i586.iso ff187c7a552722f42790b5726fdb62b3 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD3.i586.iso ff187c7a552722f42790b5726fdb62b3 Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] startx/Xtart?
Angus, They're both scripts..startx is at /usr/X11R6/bin and Xtart at /usr.bin.. so you can view them with 'less' or any editor. Although they both do the same job the code is somewhat different. Xtart (written by Civileme) seems pretty straightforward and will start X (xinit) according to the session scripts stored in wmsession.d. startx reads a number of initialization files including xinitrc before invoking xinit. In any case follow the code through to see how they differ with respect to starting up kde. Terry Smith On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 21:21, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I have a question regarding something quite mysterious, and I wonder if anyone out there can help me to understand what is going on here. I have been using Mdk Linux for several months now, and I have always had it configured to boot into X at start...a runlevel 5. Well, just today I thought I would change that and set it to start a runlevel 3. I am not quite so afraid of the cl now as I once was. :-) Anyway, what I have noted is that if I start x with the command Xtart, and then choose my default KDE, when KDE starts I get a black screen with the KDE3 graphic centered and then my familiar KDE desktop. What is different though is my fonts. They are very nice and crisp, and the same typeface as previous...except smaller. If I start x with the command startx, when KDE starts I get the familiar blue default background with the KDE3 graphic centered, and once more my familiar KDE desktop. This time however my fonts are larger. What is causing this? I actually increased the size of the fonts after the first start using Xtart. Is this being caused by differing screen refresh rates, or what? Where can I look to find my current refresh rate? (etc/X11/XF86Config-4 I can't fathom) I would truly appreciate any insight into this differing behaviour from Xtart to startx. TIA. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released (Did they do it again?)
Yes, they did. RC3=9.1Final. Cheers Jason Mudder wrote: At 12:31 PM 3/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: The Mandrake mirrors have received e-mail announcing the availability of 9.1 final. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com comparing the sums posted on the web to the sums from .rc3 I get then exactly the same? did they do it again? 6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD1.i586.iso 6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD2.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f Mandrake91-cd2-exte.i586.iso ff187c7a552722f42790b5726fdb62b3 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD3.i586.iso ff187c7a552722f42790b5726fdb62b3 Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso 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] 9.1 final has been released
Thanks for the address mycal! I cannot believe this, during rush hour on the Internet I have been receiving at 206.+KB/s from that same sight. In approx. 5 mins I will have d/led all three iso's in just over 3 hours! And yet on the first day of public notice of the new release. Swet I'm getting 108.75KB/s from spheniscus.uninett.no using gftp no prob bob ;-) Anders Lind wrote: and every mirror i know is absolutely bombed out. i'm getting trickles of 1-2kb/s. lol, i wonder if there're any internet traffic monitors out there that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. :) Nah...ftp.sunet.se gives me 40 kb/s approx /Anders -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slighty OT: Strange Computer Noises/Cold Boot Issues
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:18:18PM +, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi Tom, Generally cold starts where you hear whining and buzzing are from cheap fans that use sleeve bearings instead of ball bearings. OTOH, these don't prevent bootup other than if the fans are so impaired as to cause overheating before the system can complete the bootstrap process. Harddrives (and CD drives) can also produce similar sounds when cold, and it's not a good sign. Same deal, bearings. You can check by placing a rod of some sort (heck, I've used a spoon), in contact with the drives side and the other end against the bone just by your outer ear opening. This greatly amplifies the sound you hear from the insides of the drive, and pinpoints which drive. You might get away with it for a while, but it's a sure sign of pending mechanical failure of the device. Right, that settles it. Definately doing a major backup soon! I've been telling myself I should of by now for ages :) I lost an important 30g, 8 month old, IBM, 7200rpm to this symptom ;( In that case, the drive was run 24/7, till I went out of town for a week. It would never spin up again, system wouldn't boot. Lost whatever I didn't have already backup'd to CDr's. Thanks for everyones help. I shall now sit and wait for it to fail! One of the easiest ways I have found to make a backup is to get another hard disk, plug it into your machine (assuming you still have a spare IDE socket or whatever), partition it, make a file system, mount it, and copy everything. Then take it out of your machine and put it on a shelf, so it's not clobbered when everything else is. I got one of these special HD caddies that let you slide the HD in and out easily when the power is off. They're designed for people whose data are so precious that they take them home with them so that if their local burglar coms to call at the office, they may lose the computer but keep the data. I'm planning on getting *another* HD like this in case disaster strikes while I am making a backup! A university I worked at decades ago were backing up an IBM 360 by copying from one disk drive to another) when, unbeknownst to them, there was a thunderstorm raging outside. A lighning strike caused a power surge when both disks were seeking at the same time - complete wipeout! They had to get new original software from IBM. Normally one might think a new hard disk is too expensive, but there's a chance that you'll nedd a new one soon anyway. Anyway, if you already have a workable backup system, use it before it is too late! Start with the most important data, and then the rest. Don't wait until you have the ideal backup system. I once had a HD start to go wonky, and it died completely in the three days it took be so set up a backup system. I lost a lot of stuff. I had to recreate a bunch of financial information from original documents and get an extension on my tax filing date -- the people at the tax department were very understanding about suddenly dead computers! -- hendrik Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work. -- David Brent (The Office) 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] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 02:56 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 06:42, Miark wrote: While I agree that it's far more effective to burn at slower speeds, I disagree with limiting the speed to any number. My rule of thumb is the lower of half the speed of either the drive or the media. Drive is 42X and media is 40X, I burn at 20X. Drive is 32X and media is 40X, I burn at 16X. I think this is a fair balance between speed and safety. I have a cool rule of thumb that works like a charm: * If someone's impatiently waiting for you to burn a CD for them, set the burning speed to x1. Show them the progress. Hopefully, they will leave and come back later. If you truly despise them, accidentally burn the Reader Rabbit ISO image instead of the data they're really wanting. * If a really beautiful woman is waiting for you to burn a CD for them, set the speed to x1, make them snacks, give them wine or champagne, explain that you're burning it slowly so the data integrity is perfect, like they are, woo them with mystical command-line utilities, let them play with the webcam a bit - and do whatever comes naturally. * If you're apathetic, stick in the blank, make the fs on the disk, take it out, label it, and say - Oh, yeah, my drive is x100 - it's really fast - here ya go, see ya later! This just in: BOFH clone confirmed in Australia. Film at 11 -- or whatever time/day it is there. (Do clocks go counterclockwise in the Southern hemisphere?) -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 13:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: This just in: BOFH clone confirmed in Australia. Film at 11 -- or whatever time/day it is there. (Do clocks go counterclockwise in the Southern hemisphere?) -- cmg All Australian IT support reflects the BOFH mentality. Always remember that Australia is at least half a day ahead of the US. Our clocks DO go round counter-clockwise - but here, counter-clockwise is the way that y'all's clocks go. In the Southern Hemisphere, we have 10% more daylight per annum than does the inferior Northern Hemisphere, hence the breakdown in most of Western Culture because most of Western Culture, at least the inferior side of it, lives in the Northern Hemisphere. Due to the North Pole's wobble effect, those living in the Northern Hemisphere experience more blond moments than do those living in the Southern Hemisphere. Having immigrated to Australia from, of all nasty places, Texas, my eyes are now truly opened to the truth and the light. You'll understand this more fully tomorrow around noon time. -- Wed Mar 26 13:15:00 EST 2003 13:15:00 up 5 days, 2 min, 3 users, load average: 0.73, 0.41, 0.26 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1048616959-1281-2324 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit and every mirror i know is absolutely bombed out. i'm getting trickles of 1-2kb/s. lol, i wonder if there're any internet traffic monitors out there that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. :) Nah...ftp.sunet.se gives me 40 kb/s approx I was getting rather good performance last week (and before) from ftp.nluug.nl. I'm in California BTW, but was pulling 150kb/s on my DSL line. Who knows what it might be now that final is out... /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
can't find mirror list (WAS:Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released)
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:31:09PM -0500, Miark wrote: The Mandrake mirrors have received e-mail announcing the availability of 9.1 final. Miark I found the Mandrake Club page where they announce Mandrake 9.1 It is so nice as to confirm that I am an alumni member. But when I follow the link MandrakeClub Mirrors script, it just brings me back to the same Mandrake Club page where they announce Mandrake 9.1, which does not contain a mirrors list. Is this a bug in the web site, or is there something I should know? -- hendrik 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] 9.1 final has been released
that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. Probably lots of spammers complaining :). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:08:55 -0600 Stephen Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the address mycal! I cannot believe this, during rush hour on the Internet I have been receiving at 206.+KB/s from that same sight. In approx. 5 mins I will have d/led all three iso's in just over 3 hours! And yet on the first day of public notice of the new release. Swet I second that, I was pulling 240 KB/s from the same site. Todd I'm getting 108.75KB/s from spheniscus.uninett.no using gftp no prob bob ;-) Anders Lind wrote: and every mirror i know is absolutely bombed out. i'm getting trickles of 1-2kb/s. lol, i wonder if there're any internet traffic monitors out there that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. :) Nah...ftp.sunet.se gives me 40 kb/s approx /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) Perhaps you joined the mailing list. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vnc startup
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) What did you expect to happen when you joined the list? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released
I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are needed. I searched around, but too many hits... Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD and have it reformat the drive? Shouldn't there be a way to have a boot cd that would then use info from another cd to install? The reason i ask is that i have seen people having issues burning the cd properly from an ISO image... thanks for any insight, huff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 'Everybuddy'
I found the problem but not a solution. Everybuddy v0.4.3 cannot render the IM text while running under XFree 3.3.6. It worked fine with XFree 4.2.1 (unfortunately this version of XFree doesn't work well with my video card). thanks... Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 10:58, Walt wrote: I use Everybuddy for my IM program. Today it started to act up. I see everyone that is on my contact list and when I go to send a message to someone, it leaves the window blank. I found out that the message is sent but I can't see it or the response from the other person. I have removed the program and reinstalled it. I am running the latest stable version. Anyone else have the same problem or have a solution? Although you've done a reinstallation of the program, have you rebooted since this issue started to arise? 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] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released
The 1st CD is always bootable. Just set your BIOS to look at your CD-ROM first and off you go. It'll pull the installer, some packages, etc. off of there. - Original Message - From: eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:18 PM Subject: [newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are needed. I searched around, but too many hits... Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD and have it reformat the drive? Shouldn't there be a way to have a boot cd that would then use info from another cd to install? The reason i ask is that i have seen people having issues burning the cd properly from an ISO image... thanks for any insight, huff 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] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released
Eric, While the ISO images do allow you to boot from the CD (assuming your computer allows it), the purpose of the ISO images is to keep from having to download all the individual files to some directory somewhere and then installing across a network or worse yet, from installing from the download site across the internet! Basically, the ISO images are direct copies of the CDs so you can duplicate the original. Once the CDs are burned, the ISO images are no longer needed. Most of the problems with burning the ISO images were with the 9.0 images that used 700MB CDs (80 minute). Older CD burners couldn't write them. Mandrake 9.1 went back to the 650MB images because of this (who says they don't listen to users). Joeb On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:18:27 -0800 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are needed. I searched around, but too many hits... Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD and have it reformat the drive? Shouldn't there be a way to have a boot cd that would then use info from another cd to install? The reason i ask is that i have seen people having issues burning the cd properly from an ISO image... thanks for any insight, huff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 'Everybuddy'
Have you tried amsn or kopete? They both work amazingly well. I believe you can find both at http://fr2.rpmfind.net; , so happy IM'ing! Lanman On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 23:20, Sevatio wrote: I found the problem but not a solution. Everybuddy v0.4.3 cannot render the IM text while running under XFree 3.3.6. It worked fine with XFree 4.2.1 (unfortunately this version of XFree doesn't work well with my video card). thanks... Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 10:58, Walt wrote: I use Everybuddy for my IM program. Today it started to act up. I see everyone that is on my contact list and when I go to send a message to someone, it leaves the window blank. I found out that the message is sent but I can't see it or the response from the other person. I have removed the program and reinstalled it. I am running the latest stable version. Anyone else have the same problem or have a solution? Although you've done a reinstallation of the program, have you rebooted since this issue started to arise? 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ML9.1rc3 Install
Okay, I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the pack, but I thought I knew the difference between an install and an upgrade. I attempted to upgrade 8.2 to 9.1rc3 (I know, everyone said don't do it) but that's just me. Then I booted and stalled on kernel panic. Since I had no idea what to do next I rebooted on the CD and chose install, thinking I could look forward to a couple of months of rebuilding all of my 'stuff'. When I rebooted, everything I had done over the past 2 years was there, but better. I am totally amazed. Question is, What did I do right? Why was I not stuck putting mail addresses and everything else back together again? Lee -- Registered Linux user #223705 Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ML9.1rc3 Install
Lee wrote: Okay, I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the pack, but I thought I knew the difference between an install and an upgrade. I attempted to upgrade 8.2 to 9.1rc3 (I know, everyone said don't do it) but that's just me. Then I booted and stalled on kernel panic. Since I had no idea what to do next I rebooted on the CD and chose install, thinking I could look forward to a couple of months of rebuilding all of my 'stuff'. When I rebooted, everything I had done over the past 2 years was there, but better. I am totally amazed. Question is, What did I do right? Why was I not stuck putting mail addresses and everything else back together again? Lee 9.1 defaults to leaving /home alone and formatting the rest, preserving your settings and personal data. Handy, isn't it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released
wow. thanks to Anders Linds, bob, and David E Fox for all the ftp sources. never expected to recieve such helpful replies for an offhand remark on how slow my download was. anyway, now dl'ing at 10-15kb/s. nothing to rave about, but compare to the original 1-2kb/s. :) thank - Original Message - From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:37 Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1048616959-1281-2324 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit and every mirror i know is absolutely bombed out. i'm getting trickles of 1-2kb/s. lol, i wonder if there're any internet traffic monitors out there that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. :) Nah...ftp.sunet.se gives me 40 kb/s approx I was getting rather good performance last week (and before) from ftp.nluug.nl. I'm in California BTW, but was pulling 150kb/s on my DSL line. Who knows what it might be now that final is out... /Anders 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] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:18, eric huff wrote: I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are needed. I searched around, but too many hits... Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD and have it reformat the drive? Shouldn't there be a way to have a boot cd that would then use info from another cd to install? The reason i ask is that i have seen people having issues burning the cd properly from an ISO image... thanks for any insight, huff ISO images are basically a standard for creating an image of an operating system's bootable disk, or other cd based media that requires extra filesystem information or whatnot. ISO images ARE quite easy and nice to work with - for instance - I can create ISO images of Mac OS System CD's from my workstation - as well as creating ISO images of any Windows OS System CD's - or what have you. Most of the time, you CAN create a boot disk which will then read the installation CD, but overall, it's a very nice convenience to have a bootable CD for your OS - whether it be OS/2, BeOS, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Macintosh - even Windows. -- Wed Mar 26 16:50:00 EST 2003 16:50:00 up 5 days, 3:37, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.07, 0.08 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 'Everybuddy'
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:55, Lanman wrote: Have you tried amsn or kopete? They both work amazingly well. I believe you can find both at http://fr2.rpmfind.net; , so happy IM'ing! Lanman Kopete rocks, KMess is quite good for MSN crap, GnomeICU ain't all that bad, neither... I prefer Kopete though - and KMess - mainly because they integrate into the KDE system tray and the others suck at docking... -- Wed Mar 26 16:55:00 EST 2003 16:55:00 up 5 days, 3:42, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.08 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** So guys, does it make you nervous to be in America? There are a lot of organizations that want you arrested for destroying children. Oh they'd have to find us first. You're right... NOW! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML9.1rc3 Install
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:16, Lee wrote: Okay, I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the pack, but I thought I knew the difference between an install and an upgrade. I attempted to upgrade 8.2 to 9.1rc3 (I know, everyone said don't do it) but that's just me. Then I booted and stalled on kernel panic. Since I had no idea what to do next I rebooted on the CD and chose install, thinking I could look forward to a couple of months of rebuilding all of my 'stuff'. When I rebooted, everything I had done over the past 2 years was there, but better. I am totally amazed. Question is, What did I do right? Why was I not stuck putting mail addresses and everything else back together again? Lee I think you stumbled onto the secret special upgrade then - so being that it all runs so unbelievably well and cool and looks so great and everything's basically hunkey-dorey - BACK UP YOUR DATA AND YOUR MAIL AND YOUR EMAIL ADDIES. Because I reckon that if it went TOO well, something bad's coming down the pike... Just IMHO...but I'm dain bramaged. -- Wed Mar 26 17:00:01 EST 2003 17:00:01 up 5 days, 3:47, 3 users, load average: 0.33, 0.14, 0.10 -- |____ | 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 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Trespassers, eh? -farmer No, sir. We're amusement park patrons. -Fry Oooh, that's a wicked sinful place. Tilt-a-whirl's okay, but the rest is mighty wicked. -farmer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ML9.1rc3 Install
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:41, Eileen Lopp wrote: 9.1 defaults to leaving home alone Wow...that's rather frightening, ya reckon? -- Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kuhn Media Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] broken fonts display
sometimes when i scroll with PgUp/Dn often fonts in OpenOffice get broken (see the attachment). is it known OOo bug or is there an error in configuration (matrox g550 with manufacturer's driver). thx. cheers, -- joe inline: brokenfonts.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
