Re: [[newbie-it] Per installare MDK 9.1]
le immagini le devi marterizzare sui cd sono in formato iso ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Per installare MDK 9.1
oppure servono anche le immagini ISO? solo quelle In tal caso, a cosa servono queste immagini? a preparare i CD di installazione Una volta scaricati i file, è possibili masterizzarli su Cd Rom ed usare il Cd Rom allo stesso modo di quelli allegati alle riviste, quindi procedere all'installazione settando il boot da Cd Rom? Si, segui le istruzioni nel README che trovi sul mirror o su http://www.mandrakelinux.com/howtos/iso/howtoisoen.html Se lavori da Linux fai prima un controllo md5sum per controllare l'integrità dei file scaricati. Ti metti nella directory dove hai le immagini iso, scarichi anche md5sums.91.asc e dai md5sum -c md5sums.91.asc Se sei in windows, devi recuperare un programma md5sum per lui. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] Informazione
Cari ragazzi, mi chiamo Vincenzo. Sul mio portatile ho installato Mandrake 8.1, ma l'unico problema che ho avuto è stato la configurazione della scheda grafica (GeForce 4 420), avendo problemi di sfarfallamento. Volevo sapere se queti problemi sono stati risolti. Ciao a tutti. Vincenzo.
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:04:52 +0100 Vincenzo Scaccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cari ragazzi, mi chiamo Vincenzo. Sul mio portatile ho installato Mandrake 8.1, ma l'unico problema che ho avuto è stato la configurazione della scheda grafica (GeForce 4 420), avendo problemi di sfarfallamento. Volevo sapere se queti problemi sono stati risolti. Hai provato a installare i driver NVIDIA (www.nvdia.com)? ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione
Ciao Andrea, sinceramente è molto poco che smanetto con Linux. Ho seguito le istruzioni che mi sono state fornite dal sito della NVIDIA, ma per evitare casini ho lasciato perdere. e adesso uso una scheda normale con una risoluzione 800 x 600. Tu puoi aiutarmi? Ciao Vincenzo - Original Message - From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Informazione On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:04:52 +0100 Vincenzo Scaccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cari ragazzi, mi chiamo Vincenzo. Sul mio portatile ho installato Mandrake 8.1, ma l'unico problema che ho avuto è stato la configurazione della scheda grafica (GeForce 4 420), avendo problemi di sfarfallamento. Volevo sapere se queti problemi sono stati risolti. Hai provato a installare i driver NVIDIA (www.nvdia.com)? ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] stampante lexmark z24
problemi con stampante lexmark z24 per mandrake 8.0 - dopo aver installato i driver non funziona ugualmente. Grazie _ Invia messaggi istantanei gratuitamente! http://www.msn.it/messenger/
[newbie-it] Informazione 2
Cari ragazzi, volevo sapere se qualcuno sa la differenza sostanziale la tra la versione Red Hat 9.0 e la versione Mandrake 9.1. Sapevo una vecchia storia che poi non se è ancora valida. Le differenze principali tra le versioni di Mandrake e Red Hat è una maggior stabilità di Mandrake e una maggior facilità di Installazione di Mandrake. Me le confermate? Scusate se faccio tutte queste domande che posso sembrare stupide, ma purtroppo vengo dal mondo Microsoft e mi piacerebbe conoscere altre cose. Ciao a tutti
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:17:45 +0100 Vincenzo Scaccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao Andrea, sinceramente è molto poco che smanetto con Linux. Ho seguito le istruzioni che mi sono state fornite dal sito della NVIDIA, ma per evitare casini ho lasciato perdere. e adesso uso una scheda normale con una risoluzione 800 x 600. Tu puoi aiutarmi? Hai provato a installare i driver NVIDIA (www.nvdia.com)? Niente di particolare. Da quello che dici, non credo che tu abbia ricompilato il kernel. Quindi preleva dal sito nvidia i due file NVIDIA-kernelrpm e NVIDIA-glx...rpm Attento solo che il primo deve essere quello giusto per la tua distribuzione. Nel dubbio puoi scaricare un piccolo script che, lanciato sulla tua macchina, ti dice esattamente quale prendere. Poi, li installi con un urpmi NVIDIA*rpm e modifichi il file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 come spiegato nel README che trovi sul sito Nvidia.. In pratica devi sostituire nv con nvidia e aggiungere il supporto glx. Volendo, puoi anche togliere il logo, aggiungere l'ombra al puntatore del mouse, ... ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Il 03:48, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, Paolo Pivari ha scritto: ciao a tutti, mi sono appena iscritto e spero di utilizzare il formato di testo giusto. Vorrei installare Linux Mandrake sul mio computer Macintosch con processore G3 400 e 512 MB di ram fisica. Il problema è che ho scaricato (credo) la versione ) 9.1 che, quando vado ad installare, dopo le prime schermate nere di boot, mi presenta una grafica talmente poco definita e confusa da rendere impossibile il proseguimento dell'installazione. Sospetto di avere scaricato la versione sbagliata. Non credo sia un problema di macchina perché si comporta così tentando l'installazione anche su un power mac G4 400. Non sono assolutamente pratico di Linux e non so che fare. Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie Paolo Forse ti chiedo un'ovvietà ma la 9.1 c'è anche per Mac? A me sembra che ci sia solo la versione per Intel compatibili Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione 2
Il 11:50, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, Vincenzo Scaccia ha scritto: Cari ragazzi, volevo sapere se qualcuno sa la differenza sostanziale la tra la versione Red Hat 9.0 e la versione Mandrake 9.1. Sapevo una vecchia storia che poi non se è ancora valida. Le differenze principali tra le versioni di Mandrake e Red Hat è una maggior stabilità di Mandrake e una maggior facilità di Installazione di Mandrake. Me le confermate? Scusate se faccio tutte queste domande che posso sembrare stupide, ma purtroppo vengo dal mondo Microsoft e mi piacerebbe conoscere altre cose. Ciao a tutti A me risulta che RedHat sia più stabile ma Mandrake è sicuramente più Amichevole. Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Paolo Pivari wrote: ciao a tutti, mi sono appena iscritto e spero di utilizzare il formato di testo giusto. Vorrei installare Linux Mandrake sul mio computer Macintosch con processore G3 400 e 512 MB di ram fisica. Il problema è che ho scaricato (credo) la versione ) 9.1 che, quando vado ad installare, dopo le prime schermate nere di boot, mi presenta una grafica talmente poco definita e confusa da rendere impossibile il proseguimento dell'installazione. Sospetto di avere scaricato la versione sbagliata. Non credo sia un problema di macchina perché si comporta così tentando l'installazione anche su un power mac G4 400. Non sono assolutamente pratico di Linux e non so che fare. Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie Paolo sei sicuro di aver scaricato la versione per ppc e non quella per i586? controlla ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione
Vincenzo Scaccia wrote: Ciao Andrea, sinceramente è molto poco che smanetto con Linux. Ho seguito le istruzioni che mi sono state fornite dal sito della NVIDIA, ma per evitare casini ho lasciato perdere. e adesso uso una scheda normale con una risoluzione 800 x 600. Tu puoi aiutarmi? Ciao Vincenzo - Original Message - From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Informazione On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:04:52 +0100 Vincenzo Scaccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cari ragazzi, mi chiamo Vincenzo. Sul mio portatile ho installato Mandrake 8.1, ma l'unico problema che ho avuto è stato la configurazione della scheda grafica (GeForce 4 420), avendo problemi di sfarfallamento. Volevo sapere se queti problemi sono stati risolti. Hai provato a installare i driver NVIDIA (www.nvdia.com)? ciao, Andrea sicuramente si! quando è uscita la mdk 8.1 non esisteva ancora la geforce 4 ma la gf2 aggiorna la distro alla 9.1 che ha XFree 4.3 ti supporta anche una discreta accelerazione 3d nel caso metti i driver nvidia... ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione 2
Germano wrote: Il 11:50, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, Vincenzo Scaccia ha scritto: Cari ragazzi, volevo sapere se qualcuno sa la differenza sostanziale la tra la versione Red Hat 9.0 e la versione Mandrake 9.1. Sapevo una vecchia storia che poi non se è ancora valida. Le differenze principali tra le versioni di Mandrake e Red Hat è una maggior stabilità di Mandrake e una maggior facilità di Installazione di Mandrake. Me le confermate? Scusate se faccio tutte queste domande che posso sembrare stupide, ma purtroppo vengo dal mondo Microsoft e mi piacerebbe conoscere altre cose. Ciao a tutti A me risulta che RedHat sia più stabile ma Mandrake è sicuramente più Amichevole. Ciao, Germano ho seguito lo sviluppo della 9.1 e ti posso dire che la uso addirittura su un piccolo server senza alcun problema, a casa e sul portatile è stabilissima, bellissima da usare anch eper i nuovi tool ora fatti con gtk2 .. red hat io la trovo triste e non mi piace, mdk senza dubbi :) ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Giovedì, 27 Mar 2003, alle 14:24 Europe/Rome, Germano ha scrittontando l'installazione anche su un power mac G4 400. Non sono assolutamente pratico di Linux e non so che fare. Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie Paolo Forse ti chiedo un'ovvietà ma la 9.1 c'è anche per Mac? A me sembra che ci sia solo la versione per Intel compatibili Ciao, Germano ..ma, sono veramente inesperto. Sul Mirror ho visto sia la versione 9.1 (3cd) che la versione 8.2 (2cd). Per non saper ne leggere ne scrivere, ho scaricato la versione più aggiornata. Però sullo Store ho visto che vendono i cd della 8.2, quindi forse la 9.1 che ho scaricato è in via di sviluppo. Non saprei. Di fatto la versione scaricata non si installa perchè dopo le 2 schermate nere di boot iniziali, compare un'interfaccia grafica di installazione (lingua,ecc...) che risulta illeggibile. Non so cosa fare. Grazie. Paolo
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Giovedì, 27 Mar 2003, alle 14:57 Europe/Rome, francesco.melo ha scritto: Paolo Pivari wrote: ciao a tutti, mi sono appena iscritto e spero di utilizzare il formato di testo giusto. Vorrei installare Linux Mandrake sul mio computer Macintosch con processore G3 400 e 512 MB di ram fisica. Il problema è che ho scaricato (credo) la versione ) 9.1 che, quando vado ad installare, dopo le prime schermate nere di boot, mi presenta una grafica talmente poco definita e confusa da rendere impossibile il proseguimento dell'installazione. Sospetto di avere scaricato la versione sbagliata. Non credo sia un problema di macchina perché si comporta così tentando l'installazione anche su un power mac G4 400. Non sono assolutamente pratico di Linux e non so che fare. Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie Paolo sei sicuro di aver scaricato la versione per ppc e non quella per i586? controlla ciao francesco si, ne sono sicuro. Il guaio è che si tratta di un argomento di cui so poco o niente. Voi che fareste (oltre a rinunciare ovviamente). Grazie. Paolo
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Paolo Pivari wrote: Giovedì, 27 Mar 2003, alle 14:24 Europe/Rome, Germano ha scrittontando l'installazione anche su un power mac G4 400. Non sono assolutamente pratico di Linux e non so che fare. Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie Paolo Forse ti chiedo un'ovvietà ma la 9.1 c'è anche per Mac? A me sembra che ci sia solo la versione per Intel compatibili Ciao, Germano ..ma, sono veramente inesperto. Sul Mirror ho visto sia la versione 9.1 (3cd) che la versione 8.2 (2cd). Per non saper ne leggere ne scrivere, ho scaricato la versione più aggiornata. Però sullo Store ho visto che vendono i cd della 8.2, quindi forse la 9.1 che ho scaricato è in via di sviluppo. Non saprei. Di fatto la versione scaricata non si installa perchè dopo le 2 schermate nere di boot iniziali, compare un'interfaccia grafica di installazione (lingua,ecc...) che risulta illeggibile. Non so cosa fare. Grazie. Paolo Mandrake Linux 8.2 ISO image for PPC. ho verificato la 9.1 per pcc non esiste devi scaricare la 8.2 ma non credo che segua la stessa numerazione delle i586 ... riciao
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Grazie. Paolo Mandrake Linux 8.2 ISO image for PPC. ho verificato la 9.1 per pcc non esiste devi scaricare la 8.2 ma non credo che segua la stessa numerazione delle i586 ... riciao Grazie, adesso ci provo. Ciao Paolo
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Giovedì, 27 Mar 2003, alle 15:17 Europe/Rome, francesco.melo ha scritto: Mandrake Linux 8.2 ISO image for PPC. ho verificato la 9.1 per pcc non esiste devi scaricare la 8.2 ma non credo che segua la stessa numerazione delle i586 ... riciao ma scusa un attimo, allora cosa sono quei 3 file ISO con scritto Mandrake 9 PPC presenti sul mirror tedesco e spagnolo? Paolo
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Paolo Pivari wrote: Giovedì, 27 Mar 2003, alle 15:17 Europe/Rome, francesco.melo ha scritto: Mandrake Linux 8.2 ISO image for PPC. ho verificato la 9.1 per pcc non esiste devi scaricare la 8.2 ma non credo che segua la stessa numerazione delle i586 ... riciao ma scusa un attimo, allora cosa sono quei 3 file ISO con scritto Mandrake 9 PPC presenti sul mirror tedesco e spagnolo? Paolo non lo so ma potrebbero essere una versione cooker (di sviluppo)
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione 2
Il 15:04, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, francesco.melo ha scritto: Germano wrote: Il 11:50, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, Vincenzo Scaccia ha scritto: Cari ragazzi, volevo sapere se qualcuno sa la differenza sostanziale la tra la versione Red Hat 9.0 e la versione Mandrake 9.1. Sapevo una vecchia storia che poi non se è ancora valida. Le differenze principali tra le versioni di Mandrake e Red Hat è una maggior stabilità di Mandrake e una maggior facilità di Installazione di Mandrake. Me le confermate? Scusate se faccio tutte queste domande che posso sembrare stupide, ma purtroppo vengo dal mondo Microsoft e mi piacerebbe conoscere altre cose. Ciao a tutti A me risulta che RedHat sia più stabile ma Mandrake è sicuramente più Amichevole. Ciao, Germano ho seguito lo sviluppo della 9.1 e ti posso dire che la uso addirittura su un piccolo server senza alcun problema, a casa e sul portatile è stabilissima, bellissima da usare anch eper i nuovi tool ora fatti con gtk2 .. red hat io la trovo triste e non mi piace, mdk senza dubbi :) ciao francesco Anche a me non piace la RedHat (altrimenti non userei Mandrake) ma questo non vuol dire che bisogna non essere obiettivi: tutti i miei amici che usano RedHat non hanno mai avuto problemi, ad esempio, con l'upgrading cosa che Mandrake è riuscita ,forse, a risolvere da non molte versoni fa. Sono contento che la 9.1 sia eccezionale ( e non sei il primo a dirmelo) ma allora il confronto andrebbe fatto con la futura RedHat. Cmq anch'io se devo consigliare uno distro consiglio Mandrake ma solo perchè è la più user-friendly. Ciao, Germano
[newbie-it] Configurazione Kernel Linux
Ho una mdk 9.0 e quando sotto kde vado al modulo configurazione modulo kernel mi da in risposta: Impossibile leggere la configurazione del kernel a causa del seguente errore: impossibile aprire in lettura il file /usr/src/linux/arch//config.inI sorgenti del tuo kernel contengono regole di configurazione non valide oppure hai appena trovato un bug nel Configuratore del kernel di KDE. Qualcuno mi sa dire se posso risolvere e come?? Grazie a tutti
Re: [newbie-it] installazione su Mac
Giovedì, 27 Mar 2003, alle 15:53 Europe/Rome, francesco.melo ha scritto: ma scusa un attimo, allora cosa sono quei 3 file ISO con scritto Mandrake 9 PPC presenti sul mirror tedesco e spagnolo? Paolo non lo so ma potrebbero essere una versione cooker (di sviluppo) Allora forse ho beccato una versione sbagliatapotrebbero almeno scrivercelo però che si tratta di una versione in via di sviluppodopo un download di quasi 2 GB.mi viene da piangere. Grazie di tutto. Ciao Paolo
Re: [newbie-it] Per installare MDK 9.1
--- Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: oppure servono anche le immagini ISO? solo quelle In tal caso, a cosa servono queste immagini? a preparare i CD di installazione Una volta scaricati i file, è possibili masterizzarli su Cd Rom ed usare il Cd Rom allo stesso modo di quelli allegati alle riviste, quindi procedere all'installazione settando il boot da Cd Rom? Grazie, vi chiedo ancora: - i file da scaricare sono solo tre corrispondenti ai tre cd rom oppure anche i file compresi nelle cartelle segnati con . e ..? - masterizzando i file su Cd Rom, bisogna creare il file system per usarli all'avvio del PC o i file system sono già compresi nei file scaricati? __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione Kernel Linux
* Gianfranco wrote: Impossibile leggere la configurazione del kernel a causa del seguente errore: impossibile aprire in lettura il file /usr/src/linux/arch//config.inI sorgenti del tuo kernel contengono regole di configurazione non valide oppure hai appena trovato un bug nel Configuratore del kernel di KDE. 1) E' questa la risposta che ti restituisce? Voglio dire.. non e' che ne hai tagliata una parte per postarla in lista? Ti dico questo perche' una volta anche io provai a lanciare la configurazione del kernel con l'utility di kde e mi restituiva un errore simile al tuo ma piu' _completo_, indicandomi proprio il numero della riga che secondo lui non andava. Mi fu sufficiente applicare a manina una semplice correzione e tutto filo' liscio. Nel caso ci avessi azzeccato posta il messaggio completo che ti viene restituito. 2) Lanciando _make menuconfig_ hai problemi? -- syd LU 285930 * LM 167646 - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione 2
Vincenzo Scaccia wrote: Cari ragazzi, volevo sapere se qualcuno sa la differenza sostanziale la tra la versione Red Hat 9.0 e la versione Mandrake 9.1. snip IMHO Sono due distro simili. Sono basate entrambe su pacchetti .rpm. RH e' una softwarehose americana, mentre MDK e' europea (come SuSE) per la precisone e' una distro francese. Differenze macroscopiche (non me ne vogliano i puristi) non ne ho notate. Sono entrambe due valide distro :-) Se poi le utilizzi tramite la gui, ti accorgi della differenza solo dalla diversa organizzazione dei programmi sul pulsante K (se usi Kde). Per quanto riguarda l'installazione, anche RH e' estremamente semplice e non dovrebbe creare alcun problema. Per la stabilita' poi, a parte qualche applicativo che ogni tanto crasha *su entrambe*, tutte e due le ritengo, IMHO, stabili ed affidabili :-)) Tieni presente pero' che adottando, o l'una o l'altra, avrai un SO *decisamente* piu' affidabile e sicuro dell'ormai inflazionato e buggato mondo win. Molto sinteticamente, e' tutto :-) Bye ;-) Giovanni P.S. Se vuoi seminar zizzania, in qualsiasi ambiente Linuxiano, chiedi pure ... Qual'e' la distro migliore di tutte? :-@ ... e si scatenera' il putiferio :-p -- (o //\Membro del FoLug - http://folug.linux.it V_/_Red Hat 8.0 GNU/Linux Powered --- There is no system other than GNU. And Linux is one of its kernels.
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione Kernel Linux
Gianfranco wrote: Ho una mdk 9.0 e quando sotto kde vado al modulo configurazione modulo kernel mi da in risposta: Impossibile leggere la configurazione del kernel a causa del seguente errore: impossibile aprire in lettura il file /usr/src/linux/arch//config.inI sorgenti del tuo kernel contengono regole di configurazione non valide oppure hai appena trovato un bug nel Configuratore del kernel di KDE. Qualcuno mi sa dire se posso risolvere e come?? Grazie a tutti quell'errore lo dava quando non avevo i src installati sei sicuro di avere il kernel-source rpm installato? di default non viene nstallato lo devi mettere tu con rpmdrake ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] Per installare MDK 9.1
Alle 17:35, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, max ha scritto: Grazie, vi chiedo ancora: - i file da scaricare sono solo tre corrispondenti ai tre cd rom oppure anche i file compresi nelle cartelle segnati con . e ..? Solo i file contenenti le immagini dei tre CD: non devi scaricare altro; le cartelle ./ e ../ puntano, riuspettivamente, alla cartella in cui già sei ed alla cartella immediatamente superiore. - masterizzando i file su Cd Rom, bisogna creare il file system per usarli all'avvio del PC o i file system sono già compresi nei file scaricati? I file .ISO sono immagini dei CD (pensa a delle fotocopie): masterizzandoli su disco automaticamente crei un CD già pronto all'uso. Comunque dovresti trovare tutte le informazioni che ti servono nel file README che di solito viene pubblicato nello stesso sito FTP... Ciao... Daniele PS: io scaricherò la Mdk9.1 (probabilmente) sabato o domenica: mi piacerebbe, intanto, sentire i pareri di chi la sta già provando... -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione Kernel Linux
On Thursday 27 March 2003 22:32, Gianfranco wrote: quell'errore lo dava quando non avevo i src installati sei sicuro di avere il kernel-source rpm installato? di default non viene installato lo devi mettere tu con rpmdrake ciao francesco Come devo fare?, da dove lo prendo? e per controllare se c'è?? Scusa ma non sono molto pratico. Ciao mdk control center -gestione software-softblabla installabile- -kernel-source(o simile) tutto qui.. Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ nel dubbio coricati majaSlack 8.1-2.4.20 Linux user Tattari_manna
[newbie-it] mplayer e i font
Ave lista, anche oggi ho avviato mplayer , o meglio gmplayer, e mi è uscita sta cosa qui: ERRORE impossibile caricare i font: /usr/local/share/mplayer/front/front.desc ma che vuole?? prima d'ora nn mi era mai capitatoe lo uso un giorno si e l'altro pure opss.. mentre srivevo ho controllato il font.desc.è vuoto :) come risolvo? come glieli faccio ricaricare? qualcuno ha qualche idea? Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ nel dubbio coricati majaSlack 8.1-2.4.20 Linux user Tattari_manna
Re: [newbie-it] la 9.1 è out
Alle 01:16, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, francesco.melo ha scritto: che acpi non mi parte, non l'ha installato di default l'ho aggiunto ma non parte rilascia un errore nel /proc/acpi/event dice che non trova il file o la directory Ahi, ahi ahi ahi, caro Francesco, nulla di buono mi racconti riguardo l'acpi, e dire che Mandrake sostiene che in questa 9.1 l'acpi viene riconosciuto in sede di istallazione. ma ti sarei grato se mi potessi raccontare la tua faticata :) ciao Per farla breve con la 9.0 sul laptop ho dovuto ricompilare il kernel per attivare l'acpi... Per farla lunga ti riporto di seguito e per intero il resoconto della faticata che ho postato in lista tempo fa... scusa la lunghezza... Fammi per favore sapere se riesci a risolvere il problema con la 9.1 Salve a tutti, Su consiglio di miKe riassumo il problema che mi ha afflitto per mesi, nel caso qualcun altro si dovesse trovare nella stessa situazione. Sul Notebook Acer Aspire 1300 avevo notato che il supporto APM non rilevava la batteria e segnava il pc sempre attaccato alla corrente. Questo creava un eccessivo surriscaldamento degli elementi e la continua attivazione della ventola di raffredamento. In http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9725694/laptop/linuxaspire1300.html, ho trovato la testimonianza di un linuxuser che aveva installato Debian sul notebook in questione. Aveva dovuto ricompilare il kernel per attivare il supporto ACPI. Ho trovato inoltre nell'archivio della mailing list di Oltrelinux, http://archive.oltrelinux.com/, una interessante discussione su questo argomento. La riassumo: nei laptop Acer Aspire serie 1300, e si pensa in tutta la serie Aspire, non c'è l'APM! Questi laptop regolano il funzionamento della batteria e connessi solo con ACPI. Il kernel 2.4.19-16mdk della Mandrake 9.0 ha attivato il supporto APM; e dunque di questo supporto non sappiamo cosa farcene sui laptop in questione. Per il corretto funzionamento del nostro laptop abbiamo bisogno dunque di disattivare il supporto APM, ed attivare il supporto ACPI. Per questo dobbiamo agire sul kernel. Ci sono due possibilità a riguardo: 1) Scaricare da http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela/acpi/, il kernel mdk con supporto ACPI ed installarlo. 2) Ricompilare il kernel 2.4.19-16mdk. Ho optato per la seconda soluzione. Nella distribuzione standard, e in tutte le altre naturalmente, si trova il pacchetto rpm con il kernel-source, si installa e poi si passa alla configurazione del nuovo kernel; in general setup si -disattivano- le voci che riguardano APM e si -attivano- quelle relative ad ACPI. Se si lasciano attivate le voci che riguardano il supporto APM e si attivano inoltre le voci che riguardano ACPI, come ho fatto durante i tentativi, il sistema non funzionarà poiché per motivi inspiegabili viene attivato solo il supporto APM di cui, come detto, non sappiamo che farcene.
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione Kernel Linux
Alle 16:56, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, Gianfranco ha scritto: Ho una mdk 9.0 e quando sotto kde vado al modulo configurazione modulo kernel mi da in risposta: Impossibile leggere la configurazione del kernel a causa del seguente errore: impossibile aprire in lettura il file /usr/src/linux/arch//config.inI sorgenti del tuo kernel contengono regole di configurazione non valide oppure hai appena trovato un bug nel Configuratore del kernel di KDE. perché vuoi utilizzare kde per agire sul kernel? credo sia più semplice caricare l'rpm kernel source e poi entrare in /usr/src/linux e lanciare make menuconfig così come ti consigliano syd e francesco... Ciao
[newbie-it] Kylix
Non mi sembra il posto adatto ma dato che non so a chi rivolgermi chiedo... qlcno sa smanettare un pò con Kylix ? Avrei un paio di domandine da porgli. Grazie ciao Davide
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione 2
Vincenzo Scaccia wrote: Cari ragazzi, volevo sapere se qualcuno sa la differenza sostanziale la tra la versione Red Hat 9.0 e la versione Mandrake 9.1. Sapevo una vecchia storia che poi non se è ancora valida. Le differenze principali tra le versioni di Mandrake e Red Hat è una maggior stabilità di Mandrake e una maggior facilità di Installazione di Mandrake. Me le confermate? Scusate se faccio tutte queste domande che posso sembrare stupide, ma purtroppo vengo dal mondo Microsoft e mi piacerebbe conoscere altre cose. Ciao a tutti A me piacciono entrambe anche se ci sono alcuni pregi e difetti che ho personalmente riscontrato... La Mdk è più user-friendly della RH e mi riconosce meglio le periferiche, oddio, con quel meglio intendo al primo colpo. ES: Il modem la RH non lo riconosce di botto la MDK si, la rotellina del mouse sotto RH non mi funziona, la Stampante non me la prende sub, etc...etc... insomma piccole cosucce. La RH invece, penso che abbia una miglior gestione della memoria! Ovvero, fermatemi se dico stronz... però ho installato la MDK 9.0 e 9.1 sul portatile AMD 1G, 128M RAM e a dire che è lenta è poco!!! Al contrario, la RH 8.0 si comporta benissimo, sia con Gnome che con KDE, sembra quasi di aver fatto un upgrade dell'hardware!! Infatti sul portatile tengo la RH mentre sul desktop ho la MDK. Tirando le somme cmq sono molto simili, forse anche perchè una è un distaccamento dell'altra ?? ;) Forse per un utente alle prime armi (come me) ti consiglio MDK, ovverò come inizio scegliamo la strada semplice... poi sta a te! ;) byebye by Davide
[newbie-it] manutenzione
sotto winzoz la normale manutenzione la facevo cancellando file tmp, chk, cache internet, pulizia di regedit con appositi programmi, e gli immancabili scandisk e defrag. sotto linux ho settato il boot d'avvio in modo che cancelli i file tmp e poi regolarmente quando Mandrake Linux Security Team me lo segnala aggiorno il sistema. è sufficiente questo ad avere un sistema in ordine oppure ci sono altri accorgimenti da adottare? grazie a tutti coloro mi vorranno rispondere. ciao. keph.
Re: [newbie-it] Kylix
Alle 23:39, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, kua79 ha scritto: Non mi sembra il posto adatto ma dato che non so a chi rivolgermi chiedo... qlcno sa smanettare un pò con Kylix ? Avrei un paio di domandine da porgli. Grazie ciao Davide Io utilizzo Kylix 3 (versione open source) sulla mia Mandrake 9.0.
Re: [newbie-it] manutenzione
Alle 23:55, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: sotto winzoz la normale manutenzione la facevo cancellando file tmp, chk, cache internet, pulizia di regedit con appositi programmi, e gli immancabili scandisk e defrag. sotto linux ho settato il boot d'avvio in modo che cancelli i file tmp e poi regolarmente quando Mandrake Linux Security Team me lo segnala aggiorno il sistema. è sufficiente questo ad avere un sistema in ordine oppure ci sono altri accorgimenti da adottare? grazie a tutti coloro mi vorranno rispondere. ciao. keph. Per quanto attiene il defrag, in Linux non è necessario proprio per la struttura del filesystem. Esiste uno scandisk e si chiama fsck, è tanto utile quanto pericoloso (non deve essere usato su filesystem montati..); utilizzalo solo quanto all'avvio di Linux te lo chiede (accade se spegni il computer senza eseguite il shutdown) con la frase premi Y per avviare il controllo dei filesystem (o qualcosa del genere, è da un po 'di tempo che non mi accade più ;-) ). Per la cache internet e cookie, devi utilizzare il tuo browser: in konqueror Impostazioni - configura konqueror - ci sono le voci cookie e cache. Se infine ti interessa anche un antivirus gratis, potresti provare f-prot v3.12d. bye.
Re: [newbie-it] mplayer e i font
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 March 2003 23:29, tom wrote about [newbie-it] mplayer e i font: Ave lista, anche oggi ho avviato mplayer , o meglio gmplayer, e mi è uscita sta cosa qui: ERRORE impossibile caricare i font: /usr/local/share/mplayer/front/front.desc come glieli faccio ricaricare? qualcuno ha qualche idea? forse non li hai mai avuti. se e' cosi', puoi scaricarli dal sito. Fonts symbols packages for OSD (ISO 8859-1,2,7) (for all languages, except below) (in 4 sizes) bye - -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://www.marcob.org/go.asp?~freefred/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+g4pgJoljSvtxdFkRAlaPAKCVqVw5uYrHC/WIJvqRy2hBRavwkwCfZxZF /gbqhrnxP7ID8W9LCosFpcQ= =McE/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione Kernel Linux
Alle 23:05, giovedì 27 marzo 2003, tom ha scritto: On Thursday 27 March 2003 22:32, Gianfranco wrote: quell'errore lo dava quando non avevo i src installati sei sicuro di avere il kernel-source rpm installato? di default non viene installato lo devi mettere tu con rpmdrake ciao francesco Risolto...grazie a tutti. -- jackgianjack
Re: [newbie-it] mplayer e i font
On Friday 28 March 2003 00:33, freefred wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 March 2003 23:29, tom wrote about [newbie-it] mplayer e i font: Ave lista, anche oggi ho avviato mplayer , o meglio gmplayer, e mi è uscita sta cosa qui: ERRORE impossibile caricare i font: /usr/local/share/mplayer/front/front.desc come glieli faccio ricaricare? qualcuno ha qualche idea? forse non li hai mai avuti. se e' cosi', puoi scaricarli dal sito. Fonts symbols packages for OSD (ISO 8859-1,2,7) (for all languages, except below) (in 4 sizes) bye fatto e come glieli faccio caricare a mplayer? tnx Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ nel dubbio coricati majaSlack 8.1-2.4.20 Linux user Tattari_manna
[newbie-it] Installazione GeForce 4 420 (HELP ME!!!!)
Cari amici, innanzittutto vi ringrazio per avermi spiegato le differenze tra la versione RH e MDK. Penso che terrò sul mio portatile la MDK, purtroppo però la versione 8.1, perchè la 9.1 avevo mandato in download un server e non ha funzionato (che p!!!). Vi scrivo per segnalarvi un problema che mi sta dando il tormento. Non riesco ad installare in modo corretto la scheda grafica in oggetto. Ho trovato una guida e ho seguito passo per passo tutte le istruzioni ma il problema è rimasto. Spero che qualcuno mi possa aiutare perchè sono disperato Aspetto un vostro riscontro. Grazie a tutti e buona giornata.
Re: [newbie-it] Informazione 2
kua79 wrote: snip La Mdk è più user-friendly della RH snip Anche RH 8.0 e' molto intuitiva ... snip la rotellina del mouse sotto RH non mi funziona, snip Devi modificare il file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 nella sezione inputDevice da così: Option ProtocolPS/2 a così: Option ProtocolIMPS/2 e riavviare X. Bye ;-) Giovanni -- (o //\Membro del FoLug - http://folug.linux.it V_/_Red Hat 8.0 GNU/Linux Powered --- There is no system other than GNU. And Linux is one of its kernels.
Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 12:29 pm, Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community, This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW and DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to include append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, in terminal typed lilo to load changes, changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone. when I go to the configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Am I going mad? or is my Linux trying to tell me something? If I told the OS where and how I want my drives to be mounted why is it not doing it? :o() Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! Love the tag, Oren. It does strike a bell g Give us your fstab - you may need to tweak a line. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can you see disk partitions on your kde desktop? (in 9.1)
I can't, though they should be there (that option is checked (by default) in kde control center) __ 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] downloading and temporary file
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:32:08 +0100 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A browser is probably not the best way to download big files. I use a command line ftp front end, quite flexible once you get familiar with the options I use opera all the tome to dl ISOs. It for me is faster than straight ftp, allows for multiple dls, dl directory is easily configurable and it doesn't make use of /tmp as do mozilla and galeon. Charles -- You cannot have a science without measurement. -- R. W. Hamming - Mandrake Linux 9.1 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.13mdk - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community, This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW and DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to include append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, in terminal typed lilo to load changes, changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone. when I go to the configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
That's brilliant John. Any chance of 'walking' me through this? Thanks, Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community, This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW and DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to include append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, in terminal typed lilo to load changes, changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone. when I go to the configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update
In the last couple of days, I have noticed a peculiar difficulty in using Mandrake Update. I get the following error message on nearly all packages that I select for updating: Error during download There was an error downloading package: ftp://name of site Error: ftp weird server reply Do you want to continue (Skipping this package) Yes No This had never happened in the past. Is this due to a change on the mirror site I have been using, due to the release of 9.1? Or is it a matter of corruption on my system? TIA T -- Procrastination is not a disease! It is a way of life... -- Technoslick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Wednesday March 26 2003 08:57 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I've got no vendor info, it just says IDE-CD. The label is HP CD Writer Plus, but I don't know who makes it? I look into firmware updates. Thanks for your help, Todd Hewlitt Packard makes it if it is a HP CD Writer Plus, but it ought to have a model number too Investigation reveals it's an 8250i. Further investigation yielded this from the web: A wider search revealed that there are at least three versions of the 8250i, two made by Philips and one by Sony. I have the (C4463) model made in Hungary. After some examination, I concluded that it is equivalent to a Philips CDD4201. I have the C4463 model, too, so I'll see about the firmware issue. Todd I suspected it was a rebadge. Now that you know who made it you'll still need to do careful research. What I've read is that while many rebadges can use the actual manufacturer's firmware flashes, some can't. Been a long time since I was involved in this, but if IIRC, there's a few 'cdrom' websites that list reliable info on this. You might wanna also try asking HP directly. I wouldn't upgrade the firmware unless you're absolutely positive that it'll work with your HP/Phillips. Actually all this is why the prevailing advice has always been to avoid rebadges in the first place... but that doesn't help you now ;) Also check that an upgrade actually fixes some bugs pertinent to your usage or adds capability, specially -dao (SAO). It might not be worth risking a flash anyhow. But I reckon you've already figured that ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update
I got messages like that too.. I rather suspect is due to the massive amount of 9.1 downloading that is going on.. servers not accepting new requests... stuff like that.. see if its still happening next week before you go messing with your setup.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Technoslick Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update In the last couple of days, I have noticed a peculiar difficulty in using Mandrake Update. I get the following error message on nearly all packages that I select for updating: Error during download There was an error downloading package: ftp://name of site Error: ftp weird server reply Do you want to continue (Skipping this package) Yes No This had never happened in the past. Is this due to a change on the mirror site I have been using, due to the release of 9.1? Or is it a matter of corruption on my system? TIA T -- Procrastination is not a disease! It is a way of life... -- Technoslick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:55, Frankie wrote: I got messages like that too.. I rather suspect is due to the massive amount of 9.1 downloading that is going on.. servers not accepting new requests... stuff like that.. see if its still happening next week before you go messing with your setup.. rgds Franki I suspected as much, but wanted the warm fuzzies of someone else's opinion. ...weird server reply has got to be almost as cryptic as some of the M$ error messages I use to get. It would be nice if there was one extra error trap that said something like Go away! Too much traffic! Leave me alone for a while! I could handle that. Thanks, Franki. I can wait. T :-) -- Procrastination is not a disease! It is a way of life... -- Technoslick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on M787CL+ mainboard
On Wednesday March 26 2003 11:27 pm, Irfan Khan wrote: based on what i read at http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2002-09/msg05544.php my understanding is that the M787CL+ reports itself to be a i686 class machine and Mandrake puts in glibc package optimized for i686. only if there is a way to stop this and let Mandrake use glibc for i586. i guess that Mandrake 9.1 may have corrected this, but i cannot download 690+ MB ISOs at the moment. is there some way that Mandrake 9.0 is forced to use glibc for i586? irfan Actually Via-Cyrix cpu's are an i586/i486 combo. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 and click on the link Problems installing on VIA C3 processor -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on M787CL+ mainboard
On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 3:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday March 26 2003 11:27 pm, Irfan Khan wrote: based on what i read at http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2002-09/msg05544.php my understanding is that the M787CL+ reports itself to be a i686 class machine and Mandrake puts in glibc package optimized for i686. only if there is a way to stop this and let Mandrake use glibc for i586. i guess that Mandrake 9.1 may have corrected this, but i cannot download 690+ MB ISOs at the moment. is there some way that Mandrake 9.0 is forced to use glibc for i586? irfan Actually Via-Cyrix cpu's are an i586/i486 combo. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 and click on the link Problems installing on VIA C3 processor I just tested it today. Mandrake 9.1 installs on a Via C3 OK The i686 libraries are installed, so I suppose it must install a version compiled to not use the offending 'CMOV' instruction. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
Tsur, Oren wrote: That's brilliant John. Any chance of 'walking' me through this? Thanks, Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community, This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW and DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to include append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, in terminal typed lilo to load changes, changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone. when I go to the configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. John try, /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0in /etc/fstab I cannot remember if you have both devices scsi-emulated but this way round makes dvd = scd0 = cdrom, writer = scd1 = cdrom2, always provided that you have dvd/writer master and slave in that order, because the master slave determins scd0 or scd1 , and your fstab entry determins which is cdrom, and cdrom2. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.1- how to upgrade??
Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 19:05, Kou Shan Shan wrote: Hi To be frank, it took me a few months to set up some of the good stuff in my three-month old mdk 9.0, like Exceed XDMCP remote login, Samba, hardware, network... etc. Basically I just finished making it a handy workstation and started to enjoy it. Right now I am getting excited with the new features and upgraded performance from the latest Mdk 9.1. But I am really not sure - is there a way to upgrade without affecting all my previous configuration? I am not a guru in linux, and I know I am going to be mad if I have to go through the painstaking process again! :p I heard that by default mdk 9.1 installation does not change the original /home directory. But how about things I mentioned above? Shall I choose the option upgrade when installing? I really want to know - how you experts upgrade? ( I am sure you have done much more than me on your mdk 9.0!) Thanks, Shan Not an expert, but I have installed 9.1 over 9.0 twice as an upgrade (one yesterday, and one today) and twice as a fresh install (both today). I usually prefer to do a fresh install, leaving my /home partition intact, but upgrading didn't touch it during any of these installs. My settings were preserved for all applications. FWIW, the first install (work computer, upgrade 9.0 to 9.1) went well. The only issues were losing network settings, and having to run drakconf after the install to get X to start. (Screen resolution) Other than that, it's exactly like it was before, but with newer stuff. My home machine was another story. After one upgrade attempt and two fresh installs, I'm back to 9.0. do u have an idea where the problem with your home machine was?? i also intent to upgrade my desktop machine and you scaried me a bit.. thx -- joe Your /home should be safe, but I would (and did) back it up just in case. 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] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
wow excellent reply John. For the life of me I can not remember which was slave and which was master. Is there an easy way of finding out without opening the paperweight again? By the way both drives are scsi emulated. Oren -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 16:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: That's brilliant John. Any chance of 'walking' me through this? Thanks, Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community, This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW and DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to include append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, in terminal typed lilo to load changes, changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone. when I go to the configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. John try, /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0in /etc/fstab I cannot remember if you have both devices scsi-emulated but this way round makes dvd = scd0 = cdrom, writer = scd1 = cdrom2, always provided that you have dvd/writer master and slave in that order, because the master slave determins scd0 or scd1 , and your fstab entry determins which is cdrom, and cdrom2. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
The only way I know is to reboot the pc and watch the bios boot up. -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:56 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems wow excellent reply John. For the life of me I can not remember which was slave and which was master. Is there an easy way of finding out without opening the paperweight again? By the way both drives are scsi emulated. Oren -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 16:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: That's brilliant John. Any chance of 'walking' me through this? Thanks, Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community, This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW and DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to include append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, in terminal typed lilo to load changes, changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone. when I go to the configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. John try, /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0in /etc/fstab I cannot remember if you have both devices scsi-emulated but this way round makes dvd = scd0 = cdrom, writer = scd1 = cdrom2, always provided that you have dvd/writer master and slave in that order, because the master slave determins scd0 or scd1 , and your fstab entry determins which is cdrom, and cdrom2. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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
RE: [newbie] PostgreSQL
To access postgresql (assuming everything has been set up correctly).. 1. $su postgres from su. 2. createuser -e --pwprompt user (where user is the name your using) Enter password for user user:* Enter it again: Shall the new user be allowed to create database? (y/n) Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n)n CREATE USER user . Since I don't like using postgres as my standard user this does the ticket for creating a semi Postgresql admin. Also make sure in your in your pg_hba.conf file that you add the following line. host all (ip address optional)(mask optional) ident sameuser If you have configured your postgresql.conf file correctly you can access the db from other computers with pgadmin or another pgsql session. cheers neenja -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Shaffer Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [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
RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
Many thanks, helpful community (and John and Tony...) ;oD Oren -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 17:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Importance: High The only way I know is to reboot the pc and watch the bios boot up. -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:56 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems wow excellent reply John. For the life of me I can not remember which was slave and which was master. Is there an easy way of finding out without opening the paperweight again? By the way both drives are scsi emulated. Oren -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 16:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: That's brilliant John. Any chance of 'walking' me through this? Thanks, Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community, This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW and DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to include append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, in terminal typed lilo to load changes, changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone. when I go to the configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. John try, /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0in /etc/fstab I cannot remember if you have both devices scsi-emulated but this way round makes dvd = scd0 = cdrom, writer = scd1 = cdrom2, always provided that you have dvd/writer master and slave in that order, because the master slave determins scd0 or scd1 , and your fstab entry determins which is cdrom, and cdrom2. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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
Re: [newbie] MCC suddenly fails/large file problem again
In reply to Stephen's mail, d.d. 27 Mar 2003 09:41:26 +1100: Hi Stephen, Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Gtk/Gdk/ImlibImage/ImlibIm a ge.so' for module Gtk::Gdk::ImlibImage: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Gtk/Gdk/ImlibImage/ImlibIma g e.so: undefined symbol: pgtk_did_we_init_gtk at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 206. at Seems like there are some issues with your library path statements; you can directly edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and include stuff in it to point properly to your lib path dirs - such as what mine is like: I stuck most things I could locate in ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig, but the result is the same. The thing that I suspect (but can't do anything else with) is that the message talks about an undefined symbol pgtk_did_we_init_gtk in ImLibImage.so. When I 'less' that file, there is indeed a reference to that pgtk... etc. So it is in there and seems to generate an error for some reason. Should I try to get a 'new' ImLibImage.so ? This file is dated Jan 15, 2002 where most others are from March 15, 2002. Paul -- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on M787CL+ mainboard
--- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually Via-Cyrix cpu's are an i586/i486 combo. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 and click on the link Problems installing on VIA C3 processor -- tom, thanks for writing. i had already tried the method (floppy boot + remove i686 directory) without any success :-( irfan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] downloading and temporary file
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:43, Vahur Lokk wrote: Trying to download 9.1 isos. It does not work because it appears my / is almost full. I have plenty of room on some other partitions where I am actually saving the isos. Problem is probably that it attempts to create some temporary file and there is not enough room for that. Is it possible to make it create this temp-file on some other partition? I use Galeon for downloading. Question related to this - how can I find out what is filling my / ? I checked /var/log and it seems to be mostly OK there but checking it file by file is not my idea of getting fast and reliable results :-) Wahur What you might consider doing is to ftp from a terminal - just cd yourself to where you're wanting to save the files (on a different partition) and run ftp from there - that way, you're not utilising a cache - which EVERY browser does - and being that you can't necessarily change the place where the browser caches it's persistent data, you're bypassing that crap in the first place. Either do it from a terminal console, or use an FTP client like gftp - you'll fare much better... HTH -- Fri Mar 28 05:35:00 EST 2003 05:35:00 up 6 days, 16:22, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.16, 0.11 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * 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 ** I don't want to live on in my work, I want to live on in my apartment. -- Woody Allen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] downloading and temporary file
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 00:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: I use opera all the tome to dl ISOs. It for me is faster than straight ftp, allows for multiple dls, dl directory is easily configurable and it doesn't make use of /tmp as do mozilla and galeon. Charles FASTER THAN FTP? Hmmm...something there doesn't sound quite right...ya reckon? -- Fri Mar 28 05:40:00 EST 2003 05:40:00 up 6 days, 16:27, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.26, 0.15 -- |____ | 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 ** 'You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!' (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 03:55, Tsur, Oren wrote: wow excellent reply John. For the life of me I can not remember which was slave and which was master. Is there an easy way of finding out without opening the paperweight again? By the way both drives are scsi emulated. Oren You should be able to get into BIOS and be able to determine which is which - most BIOS with autodetect will tell you that a DVDROM is listed as DVDROM and every other CD/CDR is just CDROM - at least on the BIOS of the machines I've worked on for the past few years... -- Fri Mar 28 05:45:00 EST 2003 05:45:00 up 6 days, 16:32, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.15, 0.12 -- |____ | 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 ** Would I turn on the gas if my pal Mugsy were in there? You might, rabbit, you might! -- Looney Tunes, Bugs and Thugs (1954, Friz Freleng) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MCC suddenly fails/large file problem again
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 05:11, Paul wrote: In reply to Stephen's mail, d.d. 27 Mar 2003 09:41:26 +1100: Hi Stephen, I stuck most things I could locate in ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig, but the result is the same. The thing that I suspect (but can't do anything else with) is that the message talks about an undefined symbol pgtk_did_we_init_gtk in ImLibImage.so. When I 'less' that file, there is indeed a reference to that pgtk... etc. So it is in there and seems to generate an error for some reason. Should I try to get a 'new' ImLibImage.so ? This file is dated Jan 15, 2002 where most others are from March 15, 2002. Paul Either that, or you can try to re-install the packages for pygtk and perl - have you tried running rpmdrake and checking to see if there's any inconsistency in the package structure - or missing packages that are necessary for gtk and python and perl? -- Fri Mar 28 05:45:00 EST 2003 05:45:00 up 6 days, 16:32, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.15, 0.12 -- |____ | 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 ** Would I turn on the gas if my pal Mugsy were in there? You might, rabbit, you might! -- Looney Tunes, Bugs and Thugs (1954, Friz Freleng) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gnome Talk (Mdk9.0)
My menu says I have Gnome Talk installed, but when I select it a widget whirrs for a moment on the kicker bar, then it goes away. I can't find any information anywhere, either in docs or on the web about this app. Can anyone a) suggest what may be wrong - should I uninstall and re-install Gnome Talk? b) point me to information - any information - about this app Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ISO naming convention and no MD5 for 9.1
I was curious of the naming convention for the isos? I have seen two types of isos, some that have rcX something like Mandrake91-rc2-cd1.i586.iso (this is just from memory, so there might/will be a typo). Does the rc, stand for release/revison number? I tried looking for it on google with no results. The other type of iso's ( from ftp.phys.ttu.edu, for example) have the filenames as Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso, Mandrake91-cd2-ext.i586.iso, Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso. I understand these names (CD1 - instalation CD, CD2 - Extras Modules) but the last one doesn't make sense to me. When looking at it I just see more rpms (modules). Also, the ftp sites that do have 9.1 Mandrake don't have a checkum file for non-rcX 9.1 isos, however they do have one for 9.0. I thought checksum files should are created the same time isos are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where is E16 and BlackBox on MDK 9.1??
Hi everyone! In the MDK 9.1 features, it lists Englightenment 16 and BlackBox are installed along with other Window Managers. I took note to install these with the main install, so I know they are available. However, I only have the option to choose from KDE, GNOME, Window Maker, and IceWM. How do I add E16 and BB to the list? Thanks for your help! -O __ 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] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
Tsur, Oren wrote: wow excellent reply John. For the life of me I can not remember which was slave and which was master. Is there an easy way of finding out without opening the paperweight again? By the way both drives are scsi emulated. Oren -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 16:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: That's brilliant John. Any chance of 'walking' me through this? Thanks, Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community, This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW and DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to include append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi, in terminal typed lilo to load changes, changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone. when I go to the configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. John try, /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0in /etc/fstab I cannot remember if you have both devices scsi-emulated but this way round makes dvd = scd0 = cdrom, writer = scd1 = cdrom2, always provided that you have dvd/writer master and slave in that order, because the master slave determins scd0 or scd1 , and your fstab entry determins which is cdrom, and cdrom2. John As they say look in bios, but it's simple really, if you do it the same as mine and all is ok then your've got dvd/writer , master/slave, if it comes out , dvd=scd1=cdrom2, writer=scd0=cdrom, then you're master/slave is the opposite way round. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote: what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say is DNS runnig? named? ypserv? Thanks. You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply. /etc/hosts: 10.0.0.10 topoi.pooq.com topoi 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi This looks strange to me. I would have thought that it was being told to look in two places for topoi, which would certainly confuse it. FWIW I had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this sort of problems, so stick with it. I understand. I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs. What IP did you give for your nic? Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to 10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1. The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194, but of course that's only valid after the link is up. Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet. Do you know of any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on the LAN and users fron the rest of the world? Or dous routing somehow automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface? Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194, although local users can use 172.25.1.1 -- hendrik /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 204.101.251.1 nameserver 209.226.175.223 I don't recognise these nameservers. Could they be your isp's dns? No. They aren't. I wonder where they came from. Mind you, one of them may have been my ISP's DNS a long while ago; they have recently suffered a merger, and they DNSes they tell me about now are different from anything I've got configures anywhere on any OS. So this is definitely something to change. I'll probably have some time tomorrow to try out all this stuff. -- hendrik Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 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] md5sums for 9.1 for those that need it
6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD1.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD2.i586.iso ff187c7a552722f42790b5726fdb62b3 MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD3.i586.iso Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where is E16 and BlackBox on MDK 9.1??
On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 7:35 pm, olive nepredofsk wrote: Hi everyone! In the MDK 9.1 features, it lists Englightenment 16 and BlackBox are installed along with other Window Managers. I took note to install these with the main install, so I know they are available. However, I only have the option to choose from KDE, GNOME, Window Maker, and IceWM. How do I add E16 and BB to the list? Thanks for your help! -O Well it works for me.. If Blackbox for example is installed there should be a file /etc/X11/wmsession.d/05blackbox containing the text NAME=BlackBox ICON=blackbox.png EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox DESC=A Light but nice looking window manager SCRIPT: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startblackbox If your logon Manager is KDM, then the file /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc should contain a line SessionTypes=KDE,BlackBox,IceWM,failsafe,default HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine
On Thursday 27 March 2003 04:31 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote: what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say is DNS runnig? named? ypserv? Thanks. You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply. /etc/hosts: 10.0.0.10 topoi.pooq.com topoi 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi This looks strange to me. I would have thought that it was being told to look in two places for topoi, which would certainly confuse it. FWIW I had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this sort of problems, so stick with it. I understand. I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs. in linux, you are really looking in the entire world to see if a file is available. you are not looking in for /home/document/bigone.fish/icons/trout, as the rest of the root is implied as localhost.localdomain/home/document/bigone.fish/icons/trout, but, it looks in the hosts file aftere looking up the name of the computer, since you don't really have to have localhost.localdomain localhost, since the alias of localhost can be defined elsewhere. real problem here is why would you want the world as an open door? bottom line is that a correct host file is needed to get your computer to look in the correct places, adn to close the outside INternet OUT. remove the line 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi save the file, and restart the network,,, right now What IP did you give for your nic? Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to 10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1. The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194, but of course that's only valid after the link is up. Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet. Do you know of any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on the LAN and users fron the rest of the world? Or dous routing somehow automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface? Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194, although local users can use 172.25.1.1 -- hendrik /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 204.101.251.1 nameserver 209.226.175.223 I don't recognise these nameservers. Could they be your isp's dns? No. They aren't. I wonder where they came from. Mind you, one of them may have been my ISP's DNS a long while ago; they have recently suffered a merger, and they DNSes they tell me about now are different from anything I've got configures anywhere on any OS. So this is definitely something to change. I'll probably have some time tomorrow to try out all this stuff. -- hendrik Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine
On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 9:31 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote: what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say is DNS runnig? named? ypserv? Thanks. You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply. /etc/hosts: 10.0.0.10 topoi.pooq.com topoi 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi This looks strange to me. I would have thought that it was being told to look in two places for topoi, which would certainly confuse it. FWIW I had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this sort of problems, so stick with it. I understand. I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs. I think that it's because whenever your system tries to read anything, it quickly checks all its references, to see which ones are relevant. In my case it was a hostname error that was causing the problem, but the result was a boot up that took 3-4 minutes, and every click on any icon or file manager entry took over a minute to activate. Resolving the hostname problem cleared the speed problem immediately. What IP did you give for your nic? Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to 10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1. The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194, but of course that's only valid after the link is up. Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet. Do you know of any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on the LAN and users fron the rest of the world? Or dous routing somehow automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface? Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194, although local users can use 172.25.1.1 I'm out of my depth here, Hendrik, because I don't have this kind of setup. As I read it, 216.138.195.194 is your outward facing ip address, and the router then redirects the packets to the appropriate lan address according to the table it keeps, so I'm not sure what the second nic is doing. I don't know how a dsl modem works, but in my router I have the choice of enabling a block of ip numbers for the router to allocate as a dns server, or maintaining a static nat table for lan ip numbers. Perhaps someone with a dsl modem could chip in here? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine
On Thursday 27 March 2003 05:15 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 27 March 2003 04:31 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote: what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say is DNS runnig? named? ypserv? Thanks. You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply. /etc/hosts: 10.0.0.10 topoi.pooq.com topoi 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi This looks strange to me. I would have thought that it was being told to look in two places for topoi, which would certainly confuse it. FWIW I had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this sort of problems, so stick with it. I understand. I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs. in linux, you are really looking in the entire world to see if a file is available. you are not looking in for /home/document/bigone.fish/icons/trout, as the rest of the root is implied as localhost.localdomain/home/document/bigone.fish/icons/trout, but, it looks in the hosts file aftere looking up the name of the computer, since you don't really have to have localhost.localdomain localhost, since the alias of localhost can be defined elsewhere. real problem here is why would you want the world as an open door? bottom line is that a correct host file is needed to get your computer to look in the correct places, adn to close the outside INternet OUT. remove the line 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi save the file, and restart the network,,, right now OOOPS shut up ed till you read the whole post that is wrong DONT DO IT What IP did you give for your nic? Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to 10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1. The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194, but of course that's only valid after the link is up. Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet. Do you know of any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on the LAN and users fron the rest of the world? Or dous routing somehow automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface? Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194, although local users can use 172.25.1.1 -- hendrik /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 204.101.251.1 nameserver 209.226.175.223 I don't recognise these nameservers. Could they be your isp's dns? No. They aren't. I wonder where they came from. Mind you, one of them may have been my ISP's DNS a long while ago; they have recently suffered a merger, and they DNSes they tell me about now are different from anything I've got configures anywhere on any OS. So this is definitely something to change. I'll probably have some time tomorrow to try out all this stuff. -- hendrik Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Just got 9.0 in the mail...
This is funny: i ordered 9.0 (a few days before 9.1 final was announced) only to find out that the US mandrake office is ~1 mile from my house. I don't think you can walk in and shop, though. Today, my package came 2nd Day Air! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.1 install problems
I've dug myself into a hole and hope someone here can guide me out. 1st try: Upgrade (from 9.0) install seemed to work ok, but after rebooting, couldn't start graphical desktop and reverted to command line. 2nd try: Guessed there was a problem with my video driver. Reran same upgradel, but tried to fiddle with display settings in final config screen. Whatever I tried (several re-upgrades since my keyboard did not respond after the error), got An error occurred: could not open font 'fixed' Try to change some parameters. After extensive searching on Web, tried commenting (the only) fontpath line (had unix:1 in it in the XF86Config file. 3rd try: upgrade ran OK, but when I logged in as (non-root) user, got an error re. not enough room in /tmp/ and KDE couldn't start. Logged in as root, KDE started. So tried to remove some packages to free up some space for /tmp/ Big mistake: marked other desktops (not KDE/Gnome) for deletion, after I hit OK, noticed KDE and Gnome had checkmarks next to them (set by Mandrake?). Tried to cancel... 4th try: re-upgrade, only get command line logon. 5th try: Full (not upgrade) install, still only get command line logon. 6th try: Rescue, rebuild Linux boot, get error: fatal open /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk No such file or directory So now, whatever I choose from the boot menu (BTW, I'm dual-booting with Win2k), I get command line only with (I believe) a ...-19mdk kernel. Sorry if this post is too long, but I thought it would help to be as specific as I could be. Can anybody help?! -- Mike mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] glib install problem
Having look around for a gxine-mdk rpm and finding none, i decided to compile from the source tarball, but the ./configure insist on finding glib-2.0. I understand this glib-2.0 is the same as glib-gettextize which ship with Mdk (stands to be corrected). Can someone kindly put me thru on how to overcome this? Thanks. Kolade _ Get your free email address --- http://www.GodsPeople.com _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 install problems
What is the graphic card in your system e.g. Matrox G450 On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 10:54 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: I've dug myself into a hole and hope someone here can guide me out. 1st try: Upgrade (from 9.0) install seemed to work ok, but after rebooting, couldn't start graphical desktop and reverted to command line. 2nd try: Guessed there was a problem with my video driver. Reran same upgradel, but tried to fiddle with display settings in final config screen. Whatever I tried (several re-upgrades since my keyboard did not respond after the error), got An error occurred: could not open font 'fixed' Try to change some parameters. After extensive searching on Web, tried commenting (the only) fontpath line (had unix:1 in it in the XF86Config file. 3rd try: upgrade ran OK, but when I logged in as (non-root) user, got an error re. not enough room in /tmp/ and KDE couldn't start. Logged in as root, KDE started. So tried to remove some packages to free up some space for /tmp/ Big mistake: marked other desktops (not KDE/Gnome) for deletion, after I hit OK, noticed KDE and Gnome had checkmarks next to them (set by Mandrake?). Tried to cancel... 4th try: re-upgrade, only get command line logon. 5th try: Full (not upgrade) install, still only get command line logon. 6th try: Rescue, rebuild Linux boot, get error: fatal open /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk No such file or directory So now, whatever I choose from the boot menu (BTW, I'm dual-booting with Win2k), I get command line only with (I believe) a ...-19mdk kernel. Sorry if this post is too long, but I thought it would help to be as specific as I could be. Can anybody help?! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 install problems
In addition, get a hold of a copy of Knoppix. Boot it, if it works fine then copy its XF86Config/-4 files in /etc/X11 over the Mandrake ones and then reboot and let us know how it goes. Cheers Jason Benjamin Jeeves wrote: What is the graphic card in your system e.g. Matrox G450 On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 10:54 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: I've dug myself into a hole and hope someone here can guide me out. 1st try: Upgrade (from 9.0) install seemed to work ok, but after rebooting, couldn't start graphical desktop and reverted to command line. 2nd try: Guessed there was a problem with my video driver. Reran same upgradel, but tried to fiddle with display settings in final config screen. Whatever I tried (several re-upgrades since my keyboard did not respond after the error), got An error occurred: could not open font 'fixed' Try to change some parameters. After extensive searching on Web, tried commenting (the only) fontpath line (had unix:1 in it in the XF86Config file. 3rd try: upgrade ran OK, but when I logged in as (non-root) user, got an error re. not enough room in /tmp/ and KDE couldn't start. Logged in as root, KDE started. So tried to remove some packages to free up some space for /tmp/ Big mistake: marked other desktops (not KDE/Gnome) for deletion, after I hit OK, noticed KDE and Gnome had checkmarks next to them (set by Mandrake?). Tried to cancel... 4th try: re-upgrade, only get command line logon. 5th try: Full (not upgrade) install, still only get command line logon. 6th try: Rescue, rebuild Linux boot, get error: fatal open /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk No such file or directory So now, whatever I choose from the boot menu (BTW, I'm dual-booting with Win2k), I get command line only with (I believe) a ...-19mdk kernel. Sorry if this post is too long, but I thought it would help to be as specific as I could be. Can anybody help?! 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] First Impression Mdk 9.1
I have been running Cooker on my laptop for a few weeks, but yesterday I did a clean install of 9.1 on a desktop (Via C3). First impression is that the whole package is very nice. The installer is clean and simple, KDE3.1 is very pretty, and the Mandrake tools are a lot more responsive than previously. The fonts are great, even without importing the Windows fonts. Naturally it would not be Linux if there were not a few little niggles. So here are a few I found which may help others. The Samba browsing app komba2 (on Contrib) is broken. When you close it, it uses 100% CPU. Have to use LinNeighborhood or Gnomba instead. This time Mdk installed the Alsa sound driver instead of the usual OSS driver. It took me a while to realise that you have to use two mixers. Aumix has to be set before Kmix has any effect. Both Aumix and Kmix default to 'mute' (Perhaps one day someone will do something about that) There is a nice new app called 'drakclub' to set up your Mandrake Club urpmi sources for you. However there does not seem to be anywhere for you to learn about its existance. Similarly there is a nice app called urpmi.setup to help you define other urpmi sources, but again no menu entry for it. Once you set up your urpmi Mandrake Club source any downloads started from rpmdrake fail. This is because of the way the club servers are set up, and the fact that rpmdrake uses curl for downloading. The solution is to use urpmi from the command line with the --wget switch. Deno from Mandrake Club says they are working on that problem. At present any urpmi installs are flaky due to the load on the servers. Just keep hitting retry, and they will work eventually. Overall the experience so far is delightful. Good job Mandrake :-) -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linuxmachine
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 17:31, Hendrik Boom wrote: Thanks. You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply. /etc/hosts: 10.0.0.10 topoi.pooq.com topoi -- 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi -- This looks strange to me. I would have thought that it was being told to look in two places for topoi, which would certainly confuse it. FWIW I had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this sort of problems, so stick with it. The file /etc/hosts is a way of avoiding name lookups for hosts that you already know their IP's. In this case the entry with the IP 10.0.0.10 seems absolutely irrelevant given that you know that topoi.pooq.com is associated with IP 172.25.1.1. I would take it out. Unless you have those two IP lan addresses hooked to topoi. In any case, you just need one local IP address in your box /etc/hosts to access topoi. I understand. I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs. What IP did you give for your nic? Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to 10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1. I don't think it is set by any Mandrake agent.I think it is either a left over of some previous tests or configuration changes or the external DSL router is translating (NAT) the external IP to a non routable one, which is just fine. The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194, but of course that's only valid after the link is up. Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet. Do you know of any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on the LAN and users fron the rest of the world? If your LAN is small enough all you have to do is to add the following line to every box /etc/hosts: 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi (if you have Windows machines, the hosts file is located in \WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\) If your LAN is not small, you better set an internal DNS server for the pooq.com zone. Or dous routing somehow automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface? Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194, although local users can use 172.25.1.1 -- hendrik /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 204.101.251.1 nameserver 209.226.175.223 I don't recognise these nameservers. It doesn't matter, as long as they work. To check that they do enter: host any-external-host-like-www.google.com 204.101.251.1 If it is working you should see a line saying something like: the-external-host-you-entered has address x.y.z.t HTH -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 install problems
ATI Radeon 8500. I'm guessing that this is not the problem because 1. It's worked fine with Mandake 9.0 and 2. I got to a graphical desktop (as root only) after I modified the XF86Config file (see 3rd try). Of course, you may know something tha I don't. Benjamin Jeeves wrote: What is the graphic card in your system e.g. Matrox G450 On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 10:54 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: I've dug myself into a hole and hope someone here can guide me out. 1st try: Upgrade (from 9.0) install seemed to work ok, but after rebooting, couldn't start graphical desktop and reverted to command line. 2nd try: Guessed there was a problem with my video driver. Reran same upgradel, but tried to fiddle with display settings in final config screen. Whatever I tried (several re-upgrades since my keyboard did not respond after the error), got An error occurred: could not open font 'fixed' Try to change some parameters. After extensive searching on Web, tried commenting (the only) fontpath line (had unix:1 in it in the XF86Config file. 3rd try: upgrade ran OK, but when I logged in as (non-root) user, got an error re. not enough room in /tmp/ and KDE couldn't start. Logged in as root, KDE started. So tried to remove some packages to free up some space for /tmp/ Big mistake: marked other desktops (not KDE/Gnome) for deletion, after I hit OK, noticed KDE and Gnome had checkmarks next to them (set by Mandrake?). Tried to cancel... 4th try: re-upgrade, only get command line logon. 5th try: Full (not upgrade) install, still only get command line logon. 6th try: Rescue, rebuild Linux boot, get error: fatal open /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk No such file or directory So now, whatever I choose from the boot menu (BTW, I'm dual-booting with Win2k), I get command line only with (I believe) a ...-19mdk kernel. Sorry if this post is too long, but I thought it would help to be as specific as I could be. Can anybody help?! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation: the best of the best!!
I have installed 9.1 in two computers (one of them a laptop) and the experience has been the best I have ever had. A) Pentium III 800, 256Mb Ram, Nvidia Geforce4 Ti4200, Avermedia Tv, dvd, cdrw, scanner epson Perfection 1200U (usb), printer epson stylus 760 (usb), printer hp laserjet 4L parallel, creative 128b sound card, cable-modem 128 kb/s, Logitech wireless mouse. Ip masquering to conect the laptop (eth0 and eth1 presents). Results: everythin instaled (even the scanner). Applications runing faster than under 9.0. Fonts fantastic!, OpenOffice looks great with antialising even on the menu text! B) Toshiba Satellite 4090XCDT, 191Mb Ram, Cyber 9525 video card, sound card maestro 2, eth0 pcmcia. Results: everything installed but not the included windomed (detected but, of course, not module). Video card well installed, but screen as one Toshiba pp and not full screen avalaible (changed by one generic SVGA and full screen now runing ant 1024x728 16bpi). Internet installed, cups remote printers accesible. Great the video driver, for the first time in this laptop I can play Clanbomber without givin a white screen, moreover: I can run xine and watch video cds and avi films without problems (this never happened before!, thanks XFree86 4.3! :-)). Fonts wonderfulls! great appareance under gnome and under kde. More applications run faster than under 9.0. Just acpi I don't know if it is possible activate in this laptop; also I had some problems with supermount after a bad lecture of a cdrw, but after restart I haven't had any problem. Conclusions: How could I wait until today to install 9.1 in the laptop?; I have several classes to give using the laptop and presentations wit OpenOffice and I was afraid about the results, so this afternoon, after finishing my last clase, I started the installation. Is, without doubt, the best linux distributions avalaible!! Note for windows user: every time a new windows release appears, you need a best computer to run it; every time a Mandrake release appears, your old computer run faster and better; I was thinking about a new laptop to watch vcd and avi movies, but now I don't need a new one. Belive me, install 9.1, it worth :-) -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation: the best of the best!!
I agree. The only thing I've found broken thus far is a menu entry for licq (kde) without the qt plugin being installed. By far the best Linux install I've seen. Great job, coders! :) -jm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lime Wire Java VM Problem
Just recently I tried installing Lime Wire, and when I executed the bin (which it came as) it gave me this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ./LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. I know for certain that I have java, and it works fine with Konqueror. I have no clue what this thing is talking about. Can anybody please help me? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Movie making.
Hello, This project called 'operation get cinelerra to run' has raised several questions. The two separate Cinelerra's I downloaded insisted that I have 'libpng.so.2' (and possibly 'libstdc++.so.3' as well). I have 'libpng.so.3' and 'libstdc++.so.5.' I tried to download some rpms of these older (I assume, since the numbers are lower) libraries, I ran into questions about my architecture. Since reading the kernel HOWTO (which is quite excellent, I must say), I've wondered what exactly this means. The default value in Xconfig was '586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86 MX' which works just fine as far as I can see. I have however, an 'ADM Socket Athlon 1.1GHz.' When I recompiled with the 'Athon/Duron/K7' option in Xconfig, things seemed just as they were (taking into account I don't know much, and don't use many processor hungry apps). At any rate, the rpms that I got from the web 'http://rpmfind...' would not unpack, and I'm not even sure that they would work since I could only find '586' and 'ppc' rpms and the Cinelerra rpm has 'i386' in the filename. I'm sorry if this is a bit confused (I wrote it, how could it be otherwise?) but any information on any of these topics, architectures and places to find libraries that unpack, will be greately appreciated. With an advance of thanks, Jim M. On Sunday 23 March 2003 07:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: -- Cinelerra. You can get it at PLF! (Very cool editing stuff...like really really cool) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] email showing up as attachments
Hello folks, Does anyone know why some emails from the list are blank, with the text of the message in an attachment? Right now i am using lookout express, so if that's the problem, it'll be fixxed as soon as i get my installation done... thanks, huff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
